Acknowledgements: Tony, Tara, Dina Duley, DJ Pete, Frank & Noel from TOA, countries that put space cats on their postage stamps.

Next mix out 1 Dec, just in time to count down to the end of b'ak'tun 13.

Miss Piggy - Stereau Warmup
Technomader - Muskelfrau
David Bowie - 剎那天地 (A Fleeting Moment)
Jodie Foster - La Vie C'est Chouette (version française)
Harvey Sid Fisher - I Want My Mommy
L'il Markie - Diary Of An Unborn Child
Amy Borkowsky - Mom's Food Chain
d-Wizz - GSM (Part I)
Lucas Santtana - Super Violão Mashup
Thighpaulsandra - The Angelica Declaration
The Tisroc Gang - Lenny Lotion
Tom Hooker - Real Men (Radio Version)
Steven Seagal feat. Lady Saw - Strut
Jero (ジェロ) - 海雪
Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - That's Thanks To The Leader's Care
Girls With Attitude - There's Nothing In My Dreams
New Order - Face Up
The Outside Agency - Backpack Wisdom
Jan Turkenburg & His Pupils Of The Geert Grote School - In My Spaceship
Amy Borkowsky - Don't Get A Cat
Grain - Ralphy!

Bus Replacement Service #4

Doing this project has been like a gigantic sonic jigsaw. Trying to find the right thing to do to the right song and making the dessions at a very fast pace. Along the way i have found numbers one singles which sound great through a ring modulator effect. Others times sampling various number ones have provided me with sounds for a  drum kit. Sometimes what the song sounds like or what it contains are irrelevant and they get used in the name of plain and simple experimental music making.  There's ones that are made to make a social statement like 'Demon Guetta' and 'Music for Simon Cowell's funeral' and 'Fuck the goverment' .. But one of the most popular styles that i have done is infact the most obvious and simple. The pairing of two well known tracks togther. Belive me when i say that i have tried hundreds of combinations. Rage Against the machine & When the going gets tough, the tough get going, Vengaboys & Beetles, So solid crew & engelbert humperdinck, Captain sensible & doris day. These are ones did not work but many did work and they a lot of the time they bring out the best in each other, just like a good couple.

I was really worried that by the end of this project i would be left with the worst stuff to work with, the dregs (see mash hit #285 - The dregs) and i was. This was in fact the last true mashup track/megamix i did. It used up all the best track for mashup music i'd saved to use near the end. I felt like a greedy bastard who goes to the fridge and cupboards and gobbles all the nice food and leaves just the celery, oxo cubes and tinned sweetcorn. Some nice pairings on this one, my favourite being Bobby Darin's 'Mack the Knife' with Sonique's 'It Feels So Go' .. Ps. some tracks just go well with anything so if you wanna try your hand at doing some mash ups a good starting point is trying GHOSTBUSTERS THEME SONG, UPTOWN GIRL, SWEET DREAMS or GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN. Give it a go you could help a song find the perfect match and they'd live happily ever after as tiny Mp3 file!! i did and i feel great about myself :-)

Made entirely from samples and/or parts of the following British No 1 singles... 
The Firm 'Star Trekkin' 20/6/1987
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - That's What I Like 21/10/1989
Spacedust - Gym & Tonic 24/10/1998
M/A/R/R/S ''Pump Up The Volume /
Sam and The Womp - Bom Bom .. w/e Sept 01 (1) in@No.1 
Lonnie Donegan.. Puttin' On The Style /  28/6/1957
Kay Starr : Comes A-Long A-Love - 23/1/1953.
Bobby Darin 'Mack The Knife' 16/10/1959
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 'Tears Of A Clown' 12/9/1970
Black Legend - You See The Trouble With Me 24/6/2000
Erasure  - Take a Chance on Me" (B. Andersson / B. Ulvaeus) - 3:43
Pet Shop Boys - Heart.mp3
Shaggy featuring Rikrok.. It Wasn't Me 10/3/2001
Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain .. 14/06/2008 (2) in@ No.1 ..
Desmond Dekker & The Aces 'Israelites' 16/4/1969
Destiny's Child.. Survivor 28/4/2001
Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Bad Moon Rising' 20/9/1969
Sonique - It Feels So Go.mp3
Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It.mp3
Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster.. w/e 14 Aug (1) in@ No.1 ..
S Club 7.. Don't Stop Movin' 5/5/2001
Katy Perry ft.Snoop Dogg - California Gurls.. w/e 03 July (2) in@ No.1 ..
Pet Shop Boys 'Heart 9/4/1988
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree' (21/4/1973)
Wizzard 'See My Baby Jive' 19/5/1973
Melanie C- I Turn To You 19/8/2000 
Madonna 'La Isla Bonita 25/4/1987

Chart Trek

For the past 10 months I have been reworking and re-imagining every UK number one single since the charts began in 1952. Using solely the 1200+ songs with no other samples i have created a huge portfolio of plunderphonic works, varying dramatically from the the absurd to the sublime, from hilarious to profound, recycling the songs that defined the generations with infinite imagination.

The project is evolving and exciting as new works are uploaded daily
online for the world to hear and download. One day you may hear bucks
fizz turned into ambient mood music, the next 100 number ones are
chopped up into fragments and made into a frenzied sound collage and
by friday it's rage against the machine vs the proclaimers vs
vengaboys.

On November 14th 2012 it will exactly 60 years since the first ever
number one, and on that day the project ends.

Chart Trek

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