2009-06-28: I meant to post this over a month ago!
Malcolm Gladwell has a really fascinating article about underdogs using full-court pressing to win in basketball: Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath. He looks at the larger question of underdogs beating better supplied, prepared – whatever – opponents and how it is often because the former don’t respect the (unwritten) rules and are willing to just work a lot harder.
It’s not the same thing, but I think you could make a connection with Total Football.
While I’ve been focusing a lot on web mashups recently, even closer to my heart are music mashups. I introduced friends to bunch of my favorite tracks last night and I figure I should share them here. Here are my favorite mashups and remixes from across the web. Enjoy!
One of my all time favorite tracks, period, is Soulwax’s remix of Six Days. There are a lot of great versions of this song, which I’ve discussed earlier.
Pheugoo makes some fantastic mashups. I’m particularly into Dip It Joe. La Naughty Femme and Robot Wars (Release the Beast) are also classics.
However, you should go beyond that track and check out Fedde Le Freak, Brazilian Diamonds and Got to Give Up the Dancefloor.
World Famous Audio Hacker has some fun tunes: 1520 Sedgwick (Part 2) has some real bounce to it while What’s That Sound? gets pretty crazy. L.E.S. Artistes (Pause Button Mix) is also good.
DJ Z-Trip is incredible. His Live in LA album is so much fun and his remix of I Want You Back is TIGHT!
Gangstagrass is a majestic mashup of just that, gangsta rap and bluegrass:
The Summer of Love 2008 mashup album is lots of fun. Get your glow sticks out!
If you like David Bowie you’ll love Ziggy Stardush Remixed:
The Music Remixed project has done some great remixes of albums, specifically The Chemical Brother’s Push the Button and Prodigy’s Always Outsiders, Never Outdone
Speaking of The Chemical Brothers, Brother’s Gonna Work It Out is a fantastic mix album. Check out Makin’ A Living/Hot Wheels:
Continuing the theme of more mainstream remixes, Everybody Hertz is a fantastic remix album of Air’s 10000 Hertz. I’m particularly partial to Don’t Be Light (Malibu Remix). Blippy, bouncy, sleazy!
The Chant Down Babylon album has some OK Bob Marley remixes, except for Survival AKA Black Survivors with Chuck D, which is fantastic:
For the M.I.A. fans out there, check this DFA remix of Paper Planes:
And to make things even easier for you to dive into the wonderful work of mashups and remixes, I’ve created a Mashups and Remixes set in my Twones library. Email me if you would like a Twones invite.
The Crystal Method also has a great album of remixes of other artists they’ve done. I’m particularly partial to their Smashing Pumpkins, 1979 (New Originals 1799 Remix). On the same Community Service II album you can find a good Reign remix.
I bet other Presidents have seen pirates killed on their watch – in fact, all of them may have. In addition, Jefferson and several of the early Presidents can surely be said to have killed many pirates.
