With Archbishops of Blount Street, kicking around ideas for songs to remake in our own reggae/ska image - "You may have heard it before, but you never heard it like this..." It's what we do... We stumbled upon a KISS song; as I recall, feeling kind of punchy, we thought to shoehorn the lyrics from "Beth" into "I Shot the Sheriff" (a song we were already regularly performing) to make "I Shot Beth". That lead to suggestions of a few more KISS titles that seemed to lend themselves to our thang. Then: "What if we did a whole set like that?... Or a whole *show*, even?" After *lot* of work, and even more make-up - enough for 10 guys, in fact -

Dreads To Kill [ http://dreadstokill.com ] - the music of KISS inna Ska stylee... a performance art/meta-tribute band was born.

It's notoriety has grew almost as quickly. So, for the first time in a decade or so, I found myself composing and arranging for a full, live horn section. Alas, Dreads To Kill already booked and performed a bunch of Halloween-related shows before we were able to work up my arrangement of this certain KISS song into the set. I was disappointed, but it also provided an opportunity to expound and improve upon a neat idea. Over the past year, I've since discovered Reaper, helping me to further hone my composition chops. I started with this Dance Hall-style mash-up that I look to drop (live!) into the middle of that certain song, for the latest iteration of the Dreads To Kill project.

So, what's the title of that song? You tell me. What about those other elements forming the mash-up section? Take you best guesses... Post them on Soundcloud (above), which provides a near-perfect platform for this kind of thing. Look at it like an updated, interactive version of "Name That Tune".

Deconstruct This: Spin Down My Mash-Up

Tracklist:
Siti Muharam - Machozi ya Huba [On the Corner]
Collocutor - Pause [On the Corner]
Asher Gamedze - Interegnum [On the Corner]
The Diabolical Liberties - Pyschadelic Consiousness [On the Corner]
Uffe - City’s Dead [On the Corner]
Dengue Dengue Dengue - WIP [On the Corner]
Mosam - WIP [Tom Blip's Slingdub]
Planet Battagon - WIP  [On the Corner]
Penya ft Msafiri Zawose - Heyyeh [Tom Blip Remix]
Guedra Guedra -  Juke Lockstep [On the Corner]
Sunken Cages - Song for the Zanzi
Max at Masonic - Dave Aju [Accidental Jnr]
Je Ka Jo - Joe Claussell -  [Ibadan]
Kike Navarro - La Cosa [BBE]
Felipe Gordon - Los Bareteros [Razor n’ Tape]                  
Janine Tavi + Jerome Sydenham - Street Jazz  [Ibadan]
Natural High -  Mike Dunn  [Glitterbox]                                      
Omar S - Another Man [FXPE]                
Laroye - Colombia 26a [Tiff’s Joint’s]                                                                                                
Alma Negra - Tsavo [On the Corner]
Rhythm - Joe Claussell + Jerome Sydenham {Ibadan]
Uffe - I care for you  [Tartelet]

Pete On the Corner Worldwide Family Mixtape

Gilles Peterson sits down with Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based emcee, drummer and composer Kassa Overall to discuss his unique musical and lyrical vision. They explore a shared love of cult jazz singer Carmen Lundy, his development studying at Oberlin Conservatory, his collaborative rap project Kool and Kass, as well as his newest material.

Deconstruct This: Spin Down My Mash-Up

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