The Ultimate Protest Song.  As the world collapses under Covid-19 and people question the role of two Governments, this is High on Life’s Nu Disco version of the Streisand/Summer classic.  High on Life is the remix and production name of Alan Coulthard, who has completed remixes and/or megamixes for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson and many others.

Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand ‘Enough Is Enough/I Feel Love’ (mashup) remixed by High on Life

A cover of the classic song, first recorded by Frankie Valli and, as a result, featured in the amazing musical, Jersey Boys. It has been covered many times, with the most famous version being by Andy Williams. Here is SCAR’s treatment.

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A clever mashup by HIGH ON LIFE of the classic Motown song  ‘Tears of a Clown’ from 1970 and the house/rave classic, ‘Sweet Harmony’, from 1991. One that shouldn’t work but it DOES!!!

HIGH ON LIFE ‘Tears of a Clown/Sweet Harmony’ (mashup)

A clever mashup of the number 1 selling ‘Tears of a Clown’ from 1970 and the number 1 selling, Mr Vain’ by Culture Beat from 1993.

HIGH ON LIFE ‘Tears Of A Clown/Mr Vain’ (mashup)

The first DMC floorfiller from February 1983 created by Alan (The Judge) Coulthard.

The Judge - D.M.C. Floorfiller February 1983

A mix from the Judge from 1988 but utilising the tracks from the halcyon disco period, in particular, from 1978-81.  In those days, few tracks were of a consistent tempo and, even in I988, there was no technology which helped with key co-ordination.  It was all done by ear.  The tracks chosen represent some of his favourite dance tracks ever.

The Judge - A Taste of Funk (DMC February 1988 issue)

SCAR-He’s Out Of My League.mp3

SCAR’s dance cover of the classic song from ‘The Greatest Showman’, a film which obsessed the nation exactly 3 years ago.

SCAR ‘This is me’ dance mix.mp3

Alan (The Judge) Coulthard is widely regard as one of the pioneering DJ/mixers from the wonderful disco era of the late seventies/early eighties.  He invented the Megamix (now called Mashup) 40 years ago in 1981 and has done Megamixes for Michael Jackson (B side to the number 1, Earth Song in 1995), Janet Jackson (B side to her ‘Black Cat’ classic (number 1 USA in 1990)) and Wham ‘Club Fantastic Megamix’ (Number 15, UK pop charts as an ‘A’ side in 1983). He also started a ‘Megamix craze’ in France in 1989 with his ‘Boney M’ Megamix, which reached number 1 in the pop charts as the ‘A side’ in 1989 and this was followed by a Village People Megamix, which reached number 4 in the pop chart. Subsequently, he completed the well known Mel and Kim Megamix, which was successful in Europe,  He also did many remixes for legendary artists such as Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin and Sister Sledge.  His most well-known remixes are probably his remixes of Amii Stewart ‘Knock On Wood’ and ‘Light My Fire’ in 1985 and his remix of DNA featuring Suzanne Vega ‘Tom’s Diner’ in 1990, a remix which attracted the interest of Simon Cowell before he became famous, and led to Simon commissioning Alan to do a remix of Sinitta’s ‘Love and Affection’.  After a period away from the music industry, he returned a few years ago with the charity record Living Without Prejudice, ‘Stronger Together’, a cover of the classic song written by Pete Waterman and Mike Stock and first recorded by Sybil in 1993.  The cause was to raise money for LGBTI people in Chechnya who were and still are being persecuted because of their sexual orientation.  The cover reached number 1 on I tunes in November 2017 and is still played today. Alan has also had a number 1 on I Tunes with SCAR ‘The Message’ (summer 2016 - SCAR is Alan plus Rob Sainsbury).  And his SCAR remix with Rob of Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand ‘Enough is Enough’ reached number 3 in the US Bilboard Dance charts in early 2017.  Alan does remixes/mashups under the names High On Life and The Judge, and he is currently working on a High On Life album.  Some old mixes which he completed some years ago will be found here also, under the name The Judge.  Alan also recently combined with well known Dutch house DJ, DJ Sies (Naipal) to complete various projects under he name SNAC (rhyming with ‘SNAP’).  These project will usually reflect their mutual passion for the ‘disco era’ and the 80s although that may not always be the case.

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