Listening to some of The Beach Boys today and there was something about their song 'Disney Girls (1957)' that felt perfect to be sampled (kinda like a Disclosure song).

Threw this together after working on it for an hour and a bit, and now it is another entry to the "quickmix" series xx

The Beach Boys - Disney Girls (1957) [Heyes Quickmix]

This was fun!

The first thing I ever made on a DAW was this mash-up of Taylor Swift's 'Wildest Dreams' and Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' under the group name DEFRAxION. This mash-up was supposedly intended to establish ourselves as DJs so we could go to parties in Year 10/11. The project failed pretty bad, the mash-up was not very good, and we ended up calling quits soon after.

Many years later, I decided to revisit this mash-up to see if I could actually make these two songs work together. What came from this reminded me of some of the stuff death's dynamic shroud were putting out last year, notably their 'Faith in Persona' record.

Hope you enjoy this one!

Taylor Swift x Coldplay - Wildest Dreams x Viva La Vida [DEFRAxION Mashup] (Heyes Remix)

Miles Davis - Honky Tonk (Heyes Quickmix)

Made this up at the Gold Coast in the beautiful pre-summer weather. Came together nice and quick xx

Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (Heyes Quickmix)

Bringing the two forces of Shannon Noll and Guy Sebastian together for their debut unofficial collaboration (ignoring their 'Spirit of the Anzacs' collab from 2015).

Shannon Noll x Guy Sebastian - Shine x Don't Worry Be Happy (Heyes Quickmix)

I was always an enormous fan of Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure on the PS2, the soundtrack in particular was just killer: Smash Mouth, Simon and Milo, Allister, Audiovent, Jump5, and of course, TRUSTcompany.

In memory of that game and its music, here's a lil quickmix of TRUSTcompany's emo-rock masterpiece, 'Downfall'.

TRUSTcompany - Downfall (Heyes Quickmix)

Drake & Josh - Theme Song (Heyes Quickmix)

The boyband of all time.

Here's to living it BIG TIME!

Big Time Rush - Theme Song (Heyes Quickmix)

LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It x Party Rock Anthem (Heyes Quickmix)

Facebook post, Sunday, February 5, 2023, at 11:38am:
"please mix gimme gimme and untouched for the ultimate banger"

The Veronicas x ABBA - Untouched x Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) [Heyes Quickmix]

Facebook message, Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at 5:51pm:
"Hello Lachlan
I’ve made a decision
For your party I would like All Too Well by Taylor Swift
And by that I mean the 10 minute version"

Taylor Swift - All Too Well (10 Minute Version) [Heyes 10 Minute Quickmix]

SMS message, Monday, February 13, 2023, at 9:48pm:
"i've got it, the track i want remixed by the ever-impressive heyes [insert Spotify link to Stephanie McIntosh's 'Mistake'] only because i think you'd absolutely kill it"

Stephanie McIntosh - Mistake (Heyes Quickmix)

Facebook comment, Sunday, February 5, 2023, at 11:48am:
"Pocketful of sunshine"

Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine (Heyes Quickmix)

Facebook comment, Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 10:47pm:
"Everybody loves Raymond themesong"

Everybody Loves Raymond - Theme Song (Heyes Quickmix) [feat. YL]

Facebook comment, Sunday, February 12, 2023, at 10:26pm:
"Beethoven's 9th, pretty please."

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 (Heyes Quickmix)

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ another mixtape made on headphones + for the headphones

another mixtape unmixed + unmastered (◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)

another mixtape w/ tracklist timestamped in comments ♥

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contains samples of:
All Saints - Pure Shores
Big Thief - Terminal Paradise
Enrique Iglesias - Heartbeat (feat. Nicole Scherzinger)
Hans Zimmer - Time
Kelly Clarkson - Because of You
Pharoah Sanders - Easy to Remember
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Alexander Boldachev Cover)
Shithouse [Film] 2020
Zoe Badwi - Free Fallin'

mixtape of music i made in the last 7 months not on my other 2 mixtapes from the last 7 months

Contains a sample from 'Mon Niye [Film]' (1967).

31052023_09:05

Contains a sample from 'ARC' by Enzo Carniel, Hermon Mehari & Stéphane Adsuar.

25062023_08:47

Contains samples from 'When She Loved Me' by Sarah McLachlan and 'Toy Story 2 [Film]' (1999).

21062023_09:01

Contains a sample from 'All Star' by Smash Mouth.

13062023_08:37

Rest In Peace: Steve Harwell (January 9, 1967 – September 4, 2023)

Smash Mouth - Pacific Coast Party (Heyes Rest.In.Peace SH Mix)

On Saturday, March 9, 2024 (specifically, at 10:40pm AEST), I took to the DDJ-400 and attempted to mix together some old and new tracks I've made as part of a music night I hosted and organised (me being one of eight acts that night).

This set, titled 'The Mix', was loads of fun to play; especially those moments where I managed to test some new material I've been working on with the crowd - and from the verbally expressed reports I received, the Men At Work 'Down Under' remix has been selected as a fan favourite (I'll drop that one sometime this year, ideally!). 

So yes, for those interested, here's what went down, live at the Swouse on March 9, 2024. 

Back soon with a mixtape or something...

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Setlist:
1 - August 22nd, 2023 [edit]
2 - Murphy (highlights in time) [edit] 
3 - Clanton (tears for fears – everybody wants to rule the world [heyes quickmix]) 
4 - ID
5 - Keonico x Death Grips - Talkin' Rough (feat. Flxgod) x No Love [Heyes Mashup]
6 - ID
7 - ID 
8 - ID 
9 - ID 
10 - ID 
11 - ID 
12 - ID 
13 - ID
14 - ID 
15 - ID 
16 - Drake & Josh - Theme Song (Heyes Quickmix)
17 - Spongebob Squarepants - Theme Song (Heyes Quickmix)
18 - Big Time Rush - Theme Song (Heyes Quickmix)
19 - Alexis Jordan - Happiness (Heyes Quickmix)
20 - Metro Boomin x Scent of a Woman - Trance x I'll Show You Out of Order (Heyes Quickmix)
21 - Shannon Noll x Guy Sebastian - Shine x Don't Worry Be Happy (Heyes Quickmix) 
22 - ID 
23 - Owl City - Firelies (Heyes Quickmix)
24 - Flume - Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape) [Heyes Tribute]
25 - Pat Carroll - Augur (Heyes Remix) 
26 - Yancey (flo rida – low (feat. t-pain) [heyes quickmix]) 
26 - KICK ME. DESTORY ME
27 - Pitbull – Timber (feat. Ke$ha) [Heyes dPunkMix]
28 - LMFAO – Sexy and I Know It x Party Rock Anthem (Heyes Quickmix)

Heyes - The Mix (Live at Swouse, March 9, 2024)

((made for headphones / tracklist->comments))

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On Monday, 20 August 2018, my grandma, Elizabeth, passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. I don't remember much about her - what food she liked, what clothes she wore, what sports she enjoyed, what she thought of this weird old world - although I do remember one thing: Her Music. She didn't make this music, she merely transmitted it, using her voice; the songs of Andy Williams, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong. Yet, even so, it was undeniably all Her Music, irrespective of those who initially brought it to life. It was imprinted on her.

Music, it was one of the few parts of my grandma that held on, clung to life, up until the very end. Names, places, stories, faces, all faded overtime in her memory, whilst the music, it survived. Music survives. 

My grandma isn't the only person who I remember thanks to music. In fact, it's tied into the fabric of knowledge associated with countless people I know, and love, and care for - those I follow through life. It's like a ringtone customised to someone you know very well. You hear a song, and you swear they've just magically appeared. Their appearance could be translated into this imaginary conversation with/in your brain: hello, hello; just coming over to remind you of you-know-who (aka. me); now, as you were. It's a strange phenomenon. 

If you ask me, music is never "finished", nor is it "owned" by any person/people. It continues being made, remixed and re-heard, like a memory of a person, spoken about in countless ways by countless different people, each having something slightly distinct to note, something to add to the concept of a human-being. Maybe one day, as Don McLean famously said, the music will die. It'll cease being heard. Spoken about. Abandoned. Forgotten. But, until that day comes, let music live. Let it breathe! Let it wander, let it ponder! Let it be hummed, whistled by people like my grandma; be resampled, reworked through album's like this. Who knows, maybe it continues Up There, after our days are over (I guess, one day we'll all find out). I, for one, hope Don McLean was mistaken: there will be no day when the music dies. Music will exist forever; a song with no fade out; infinitely growing as time moves ahead, forever and ever. Music, it survives. Music will survive! 
 
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𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚆𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 :: this is dedicated to the family I love (blood-related or not); the one's I follow, now and onwards. 

To those people :: thank you for sharing these songs which I've gone and sampled on this record. This is Your Music. This album: it's as much yours as it is mine.  

To my grandma, Elizabeth :: this, I dedicate to You. Wherever you are, I hope you're still humming away, singing those songs. One day, we might be able to sing them together. 

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contains samples of: 
(01) AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long | Midnight Oil - Back On The Borderline | U2 - All I Want Is You 
(02) ABBA - The Winner Takes It All | Elton John - Your Song | Rod Stewart - Maggie May 
(03) Julie Andrews - My Favorite Things | Madonna - Vogue | Olivia Newton-John 
(04) Carousel (Ending Song) [Film] 1956 | John Lennon - Imagine  | Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All 
(05) Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love | Lionel Ritche - Truly | Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline 
(06) Cole Porter - I Get a Kick Out of You | Cole Porter - I've Got You Under My Skin | Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust 
(07) Andy Williams - Moon River (From Breakfast at Tiffany's) | The Beatles - All You Need Is Love | Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World 
(08) Andy Williams - Moon River (From Breakfast at Tiffany's) | Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
(09) Elvis Presley - It's Now or Never | Glen Campbell - Galveston | John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
(10) Colbie Caillat - Bubbly | Declan McKenna - Brazil | Harry Styles - Golden
(11) Crowded House - Weather With You | KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See | Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚆𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠

Heyes x carlos serone :: a collaboration :: created 1500-1730-16/06/2024

(made on headphones for headphones)

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contains samples of:
Shalamar - Closer
Shalamar - Dead Giveaway (12" Version)
Shalamar - You Can Count On Me
Shalamar - Right Here

heye/s\erone: citrus_1500-1730-16062024.wav

Heyes x carlos serone :: a collaboration :: created 1545-1815-17/08/2024

(made on headphones for headphones)

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contains samples of:
Ben Frost - A Single Point Of Blinding Light
Ben Frost - Nolan
Ben Frost - No Sorrowing
Ben Frost - Secant
Ben Frost - The Teeth Behind The Kisses
Ben Frost - Venter
Cool Runnings [Film] (1993)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas [Film] (2000)

heye/s\erone: frost_1545-1815-17082024.wav

I packed bags and travelled to Singapore + Japan at the very end of August for three-ish weeks. 

A friend leaving, a few days to spend together with my girlfriend, a general thrill for adventure: those were the reasons I went. 

A phone, Koala Sampler, a beat-a-day challenge: that’s where my creativity went.

Creating music on the phone sounds, in theory, fairly different to making beats on my laptop, but it’s actually more-or-less the same. Each of the beats on this tape were created on my now retired Samsung Galaxy S10+ (this tape’s almost a farewell to that phone, which lived a good five years [R.I.P.]). On my return to Sydney, these beats were compiled together in the order they were made - and tweaked ever-so-slightly with some ambience I recorded whilst away, along with the usual Ableton Live seamless-transitions that were just too hard to do on the phone - to create this tape.

Creating in new environments and using new tools, for me, is incredibly enjoyable => now, the question is: is it enjoyable to the ears of the listener? (Spoiler: that’s for you to decide!).

ideas in transit: Singapore to Japan, Aug 28 - Sep 18

(some spur of the moment words on a spur of the moment song) 

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Grief: it can be incredibly lonely. No one understands you. How do you cope, get through it, accept life's forward momentum, prevent yourself from being stuck in a gaze that is directed backwards (or rather, inwards to memories of what's no longer)? How do you make sense of your predicament, ready yourself from the endless train of sorrow awaiting you as you tread through life? Saying goodbye to someone you've known, loved, walked alongside for 14 years is hard; flash forward, you're 60, and you're about to say goodbye to someone you've known your whole life - how do you do it? How do you not sink below, become submerged by the weight of pain, loss, sadness?

On October 3, 2024, I lost a great friend, a family member, a companion who was there - seemingly all the time - as I navigated the (at times confusing) walk between childhood and adulthood.

The last few years have seen us become somewhat distant (he lived with my parents, I lived away from them), however, there was a strange feeling of calm which came with remembering that he was here; that he was still living, breathing somewhere not so far away; that he was able to be cuddled, snuggled, patted along the head; that my fingers could caress those soft, brown ears; that as I'd enter home, swing open those doors, I'd receive the warmest of greetings ("Where's my good boy!?"); before you know it, he'd be under me, half his body between my legs, his tail waging, left and right. Each time this happened, I'd remember: he hasn't gone anywhere. I'd remember: my love for him has never faded. 

Reflecting on it, saying goodbye to Oscar - the dread of seeing him leave the house for the last time; to watch him exchange his last glance at our home before the boot of the car closed in front of him; to wonder what's going on inside the head of his fluffy, confused, tail-wagging friend as the car leaves with him inside of it, etc. - was an experience that made me feel like a child. My parents became those big, all-knowing adults which I remembered from back when I was much younger. I looked to them to get me through this predicament, to explain what's happening, console me through this heavy weight of grief (do they have the answers? can they fix me?). 

Oddly, as much as this grief of farewelling a loved one brought my family pain, it also brought us all together: us, as a collective unit; connected by a feeling, a need to cling together, to remain strong, to soldier ahead; arms interlocked, like we'd never been separated by time or physical distance; like we were one; a family; a family that needed to be there for Oscar as he spent his last moments, keeping him calm, comfortable and at peace. 

To remember Oscar - the beautiful, loving mate of mine - here's a song I made for him. 

To Oscar: thank you for the memories.  I hope you're up there running around with all the other dogs who are missed by loved ones. I'll never forget you, nor will your family. 

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contains a sample of:
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

Oscar (a song for you)

Heyes x carlos serone :: a collaboration :: created 1130-1330-20/10/2024

(made on headphones for headphones)

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contains samples of:
80s' Japanese Advertisements

heye/s\erone: atari_1130-1330-20102024.wav

(made on headphones + for the headphones) /\ (unmixed + unmastered)

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Inspired by the likes of Daniel Kim and Girl Talk, this record/mashup is my tribute to the '00s; a decade which I spent most of my youth in, mucking around, soaking up that youthful innocence that is now, looking back, smooshed in a murky pool with all the other memories of my early childhood life. 

If you were alive then, you'll likely know a fair amount of the samples used in this mashup - a chronological compilation (loosely following a month-by-month progression) of media circulating around during that time in Australian "popular culture". If you weren't alive, hopefully this inspires you to investigate the decade, uncover it's madness, as well as its truly glorious moments (as there were many!). 

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contains samples of:

the list can be found by searching up the number one singles and box office successes of each year in Australia on Wikipedia (most of the samples, at least).

note: there are tonnes and tonnes of copyright violations to be found in this record - my defense (as it always is): fair use; fair use (!!). 

Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)

*★  🎀 a short mixtape, made on headphones + for the headphones

unmixed + unmastered //\\ tracklist timestamped in comments *★  🎀

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contains samples of:
Alexander O'Neal - Intro
Alexander O'Neal - Criticize 
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay
Alexander O'Neal - Never Knew Love Like This
Alexander O'Neal - The Lovers
Alexander O'Neal - [What Can I Say] To Make You Love Me
Four Tet - Insect Near Piha Beach
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

mixtape of music i made last year that i've now more-or-less finished

Heyes x carlos serone :: a collaboration :: created 1630-1730-26/01/2025

(made on headphones for headphones)

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contains samples of:
The Shining [Film] (1980)

heye/s\erone: shining_1630-1730-26012025.wav

Heyes x carlos serone :: a collaboration :: created 1600-1845-22/03/2025

(made on headphones for headphones)

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contains samples of:
Alexis Jordan - Good Girl
Alexis Jordan - Happiness
Alexis Jordan - Say That
Alexis Jordan - Shout Shout

heye/s\erone: jordan_1600-1845-22032025.wav

Heyes x carlos serone :: a collaboration :: created 1100-1245-01/06/2025

(made on headphones for headphones)

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contains samples of:
Babe: Pig in the City [Film] 1998
Happy Feet [Film] 2006
Mad Max [Film] 1979
Mad Max 2 [Film] 1981

heye/s\erone: miller_1100-1245-01062025.wav

On Saturday, June 7, 2025, at 8:00pm, I decided it was time to reimagine last year's "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)", and take the opportunity to attempt singing one of the songs off that Lochie Withano side-project I put out earlier in the year, doing so in a DJ set with songs from that '00s album and from other pop artists (both remixes and originals), sharing it to an audience of friends out in the wilderness of Sydney's Terrey Hills. 

I forgot to hit "Record" on Rekordbox, so the only recording of the set was taken via my smartphone. I guess there's a special quality to smartphone recordings that make them feel more intimate and close than polished live recordings - as Adrianne Lenker's recent "Live at Revolution Hall" cleverly demonstrated. Many of us have videos, or have watched videos, taken on smartphones of live concerts that we shared with friends and/or family, and when we watch them it's easy to feel transported there, to that moment, when everything was vivid, alive and highly sensory.

Anyway, for archive purposes at least, here's it is: "Club '00s (Dance Version) [Live at Terrey Hills, June 7, 2025]"

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Setlist:
1. Lochie Withano - hey dj (play that old shit)
2. Effiel 65 - Blue (KNY Factory Remix)
3. NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye (Teddy Riley Club Remix)
4. Excerpt from "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)"
5. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out
6. LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight (Graham Stack Radio Edit)
7. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head (Discodena Remix)
8. Excerpt from "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)"
9. DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh) [Gabriel Wittner x Slenderino Remix)
10. Avril Lavigne - Complicated (Night Habits Remix)
11. Eminem - Lose Yourself
12. Excerpt from "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)"
13. Jamelia - Superstar
14. Jesse McCartney - Beautiful Soul
15. Excerpt from "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)"
16. Axel F - Crazy Frog (Kova & Voxell Remix)
17. Kanye West x The Reactivitz - Gold Digger (Ruby J Edit)
18. Bob Sinclar - Love Generation (feat. Gary Nesta Pina)
19. Rihanna - SOS
20. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
21. Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
22. Silverchair - Straight Lines (Sgt Slick ReCut)
23. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (DJ Yves Remix)
24. The Veronicas - Untouched
25. Timbaland - The Way I Are (CYRIL Remix)
26. Flo Rida - Low (feat. T-Pain) [Lumasi Flip]
27. Excerpt from "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)"
28. Lady Gaga - Poker Face
29. Taylor Swift - Love Story (Four Tet Remix)
30. Excerpt from "Club '00s: The Ultimate Decade Mashup (Australian Version)"

Heyes - Club '00s (Dance Version) [Live at Terrey Hills, June 7, 2025]

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ｄｍ ｍｅ ｔｏ ｊｏｉｎ ｅｍａｉｌ ｍａｉｌｉｎｇ ｌｉｓｔ

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