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A Night At The Hip-Hopera

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I'm probably the last person on the planet to advocate Valentine's Day, but when you're in the midst of demoing new things and a pairing like this comes along on 14th Feb (about three hours ago to be precise)... well, you've got to do it, haven't you?

Yes, it's very silly. 

No, the album won't sound anything like this. 

I hope.

Thanks to everyone who is following. Much goodness coming your way this year.

Happy chocolates and flowers day!

Perfect

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Back with HC number 13. The unlucky one? Well, I hope not. Just as well I'm not superstitious, isn't it?

That said, there's definitely a thread here that I can't explain in a sentence or two. Which is why it's a mix, and not an essay. Feel free to try and explain it, it would help me out...!

Everything's had a bit of a snip, naturally, however the ones titled as edits differ more significantly from the originals in terms of arrangement... I may make them available individually for your own mixing usage - if you want any one in particular let me know :)

01 Flux - The Value Of Nothing (Kleptones 'I See What You Did There' Edit)
02 African Head Charge - Unplanned
03 Wally Badarou - Mambo
04 Brian Eno - Ali Click (Rural 'Doo Gap' Mix - Kleptones 'Brianless' Edit)
05 Thompson Twins - Nurse Shark
06 The The - Soul Mining (Kleptones 'Lost Johnson' Edit)
07 Blancmange - Feel Me (Kleptones 'Feel The Count' Edit)
08 XTC - It's Nearly Africa (Kleptones remake/remodel of Apiento Edit)
09 Mental Remedy - Heartbeat Inside Of The African Womb (Outro Rhythm)
10 Keith LeBlanc / Tackhead - Mechanical Movements Dub
11 Daniele Baldelli - Cosmic Parsley
12 Thomas Leer - Saving Grace
13 The Three Johns - Downhearted Blues (Kleptones 'The Fourth John' Edit)
14 Fad Gadget - State Of The Nation
15 Pink Skull - u.g.uo.aaaahhhh
16 Bohannon - Summertime Groove (Kleptones 'Nearly No-Bo' Edit)
17 Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline)
18 Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Kleptones 'No Plink Plonk' Edit)
19 New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Big
20 Buzzcocks - Money

Additional riffs and beats from Nitzer Ebb, John Martyn, Grace Jones, Queen, Eurythmics, Peter Gabriel, Vera, Said Mrad and Throbbing Gristle.

Thanks to Grant Martin for the CD source of "Soul Mining" (My vinyl's past it sadly...) and Apiento for the idea on "Nearly Africa". Coincidentally, his version has just been reposted here: http://testpressing.org/2012/02/xtc-nearly-africa-apiento-cut/

Hope the listening is as much fun as the making was.

Hectic City 13 - Walking Under Ladders

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A quick musical amusement for you that I just couldn't resist, reuniting a cover version with the original vocals (and in this case, a little touch of synth strings). Possibly the start of an off-and-on series, if I can find any more that sound good...

Another one here : http://soundcloud.com/kleptones/sexual_dubbing

Duran Duran & The Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra - Girls On Film (Kleptones "Reunited" Remix)

Full album in one mix!

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Shits & Giggles

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Been wanting to do this for a while, and it seemed like it would be a daunting undertaking, but seeing as Ableton & Soundcloud have donated some extra free space on here for a few months, I thought I'd better use it, and it all seems to have turned out rather splendid indeed. Three one-hour-or-so mixes and a compendium of some of my favourite mashups, remixes, edits and general insanity, or at least the ones that I could string together in some sort of coherant order. If you've heard me DJ at any point over the Kleptones lifetime, there will be more than a few familiar things here, for sure...

So here you go, nearly three and a half hours - 70 tracks and a few uncredited inserts and nibbles. And there still wasn't room for any Drum'N'Bass, or any mellow stuff... and I tried to limit each producer and artist to one appearance only (Tried and failed as a couple are in there twice...) - guess I'll have to pick all that slack up in future mixes, won't I?

Hope you enjoy - I certainly had a ball mixing it!


Part One: "A Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister."

01 Grant Green - Let The Music Take Your Mind (Muro Mix)
02 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (Baxter Park Sunbather's Korova Edit)
03 Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (Sure Is Pure Mix - Danny Krivet Edit)
04 Hot Chocolate - Cadillac (The Revenge Rework)
05 Beat Conductor - Only A Thrill
06 DJ Melo - Grown Man Shit pt.2
07 Aaron Neville - Hercules (Groovement Inc Remix)
08 Sect - Man Of Wisdom
09 Claptone - Good To You
10 Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit)
11 Bottin - Eagle
12 Barry De Vorzon - Warriors (Cristoff Remix)
13 Frank Sinatra - This Town (Morgan Page Unreleased Remix)
14 Animal Collective - My Girls (El Remolon Cumbia Mix)
15 Andy Ash - Timmy
16 Kraftwerk - It's More Fun To Compute (Busy P Edit)
17 Tanita Tikeram - Twist In My Sobriety (Alf Tumble Re-Dress)
18 Claptone - Cream
19 Dimitri From Stoke-On-Trent - I Wanna Be Your Lobster
20 Nina Simone - Ain't Got No, I Got Life (Groovefinder Remix)
21 Radiohead - Nude (Jarrad K Remix)

Previous Hectic City mixes can be found thru the links on the bottom right of our main Souncloud page!

(Oh and the "M3B" title? It's another Monty Python reference which fitted the concept, but proved a bit too long for the titles, so got abbreviated - sure you can figure it out if you're a fan... ;)

Hectic City 14 - M3B Part 1: A Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister

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Been wanting to do this for a while, and it seemed like it would be a daunting undertaking, but seeing as Ableton & Soundcloud have donated some extra free space on here for a few months, I thought I'd better use it, and it all seems to have turned out rather splendid indeed. Three one-hour-or-so mixes and a compendium of some of my favourite mashups, remixes, edits and general insanity, or at least the ones that I could string together in some sort of coherant order. If you've heard me DJ at any point over the Kleptones lifetime, there will be more than a few familiar things here, for sure...

So here you go, nearly three and a half hours - 70 tracks and a few uncredited inserts and nibbles. And there still wasn't room for any Drum'N'Bass, or any mellow stuff... and I tried to limit each producer and artist to one appearance only (Tried and failed as a couple are in there twice...) - guess I'll have to pick all that slack up in future mixes, won't I?

Hope you enjoy - I certainly had a ball mixing it!


Part Two: "Stop That, It's Silly..."

01 Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie (Kovary Nu Jump Up Booty)
02 Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (DJ Apt One Remix)
03 Sabo - Patchy Moombahton
04 Trick Turner - Sirens Comin'
05 2pac vs Feed Me - Hell To The Stars (Funkanomics Blend)
06 Featurecast - Rock Ya Body
07 Legion Of Doom - Crazy As She Goes
08 The Beatles - The Word (The Captain Remix)
09 Moondog - Lament I ("Bird's Lament")
10 Obvious Productions - Standing In The Way Of Your Friends
11 DJ Faroff - Ray No Speak Americano
12 G3rst - We No Speak Cantina
13 Mashup-Germany - Everybody No Speak Americano (Chaos Club Edit)
14 Mad Mix Mustang - Let's Dance 'n Stuff
15 Duck Sauce vs Fatboy Slim - The Barbra Skank (DJ Myagi Awesomesauce Mashup)
16 DJ Schmolli - Barbra & Gerry
17 Basement Jaxx - Red Alert (HeavyFeet vs Nick Thayer Bootleg)
18 Rye Rye ft. M.I.A - Sunshine (Smalltown DJs Remix)
19 DJ Topcat - Bust A Flawless Move
20 Big Boi - Shutterbug (Jack Beats Remix - Krafty Kuts Re-Rub)
21 Adele vs Robin S - Show Me In The Deep (DJs From Mars Mashup)
22 Tom Jones vs Lipps Inc - Funkytown Kiss (DMC Mashup - Kleptones Remake)
23 Nate Dogg - All The Girls Get Up (Mr Andersonic Remix)
24 Nero - Crush On You (Sound Remedy Remix)
25 Bell Biv Devoe - Poison (Risk One Bigger Room Bootleg)
26 Rick James vs Salt'n'Pepa - Superfreak Push (Gary G Mashup)
27 DJ Zebra - Happy Friends

Previous Hectic City mixes can be found thru the links on the bottom right of our main Souncloud page!

(Oh and the "M3B" title? It's another Monty Python reference which fitted the concept, but proved a bit too long for the titles, so got abbreviated - sure you can figure it out if you're a fan... ;)

Hectic City 14 - M3B Part 2: Stop That, It's Silly...

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Been wanting to do this for a while, and it seemed like it would be a daunting undertaking, but seeing as Ableton & Soundcloud have donated some extra free space on here for a few months, I thought I'd better use it, and it all seems to have turned out rather splendid indeed. Three one-hour-or-so mixes and a compendium of some of my favourite mashups, remixes, edits and general insanity, or at least the ones that I could string together in some sort of coherant order. If you've heard me DJ at any point over the Kleptones lifetime, there will be more than a few familiar things here, for sure...

So here you go, nearly three and a half hours - 70 tracks and a few uncredited inserts and nibbles. And there still wasn't room for any Drum'N'Bass, or any mellow stuff... and I tried to limit each producer and artist to one appearance only (Tried and failed as a couple are in there twice...) - guess I'll have to pick all that slack up in future mixes, won't I?

Hope you enjoy - I certainly had a ball mixing it!

Part Three: "I'm Sorry, I'm Going To Have To Shoot You."

01 Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop (Tea Time Remix Ft. GSUS)
02 Dem Slackers - Swagger (Evil Nine Remix)
03 Nicky Romero - Generation 303
04 Bingo Players - L'Amour
05 Megadeth - Sleepwalker (Kaze V Croma Remix)
06 Fatboy Slim - Ya Mama (Moguai Remix)
07 Faith No More - Epic (Utah Saints Bootleg Mix)
08 Poet - Disco Statuz (JD Live Edit)
09 Daft Punk - Around The World (Kid Dub Remix)
10 Hedflux & Neurodriver - Energy Vibration (Kill Dyl Bootleg Remix)
11 Breach - Fatherless (Doc Daneeka's MRR remix)
12 Queens Of The Stone Age - Better Living Through Chemistry (Streetlife DJs Remix)
13 Plump DJs - The Volcano Coalition
14 Human Resource - Dominator (DJ Hell Remix)
15 Wolfgang Gartner - Funk Nasty V3 (Krafty Kuts Re-Rub)
16 Exactshit - Crazy Humanoids
17 KRS-One - Sound Of Da Police (heapy's Brooklyn Fire Bootleg)
18 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Mr Peaches Remix)
19 AC-DC - Thunderstruck (Tittsworth Remix)
20 The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction (Discotech Remix)
21 Benni Benassi - Satisfaction (J. Rabbit Remix)
22 Metallica - Seek And Destroy (Bassnectar Remix)
23 DJ Parker - Iron Mandem
24 The Kinks - You Really Got Me (Diffusion Remix)

Previous Hectic City mixes can be found thru the links on the bottom right of our main Souncloud page!

(Oh and the "M3B" title? It's another Monty Python reference which fitted the concept, but proved a bit too long for the titles, so got abbreviated - sure you can figure it out if you're a fan... ;)

Hectic City 14 - M3B Part 3: I'm Sorry But I'm Going To Have To Shoot You

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Apologies if the vocal is a little rough, best subtraction I could do :) - felt too nice to keep in the cupboard, though x

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As always with HC, there's a backstory to this mix - if you have time, I'd be delighted if you'd read it!:
http://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-paths-to-graceland

Jive music from South Africa and Lesotho, providers of inspiration for Paul Simon's "Graceland" - Perfect summer stuff!

01a Tau Ea Lesotho - Nyatsi Tloha Pela'ka
01b Tau Ea Lesotho - Puleng
01c Puseletso Seema & Tau Ea Linare - He O Oe Oe!
02  Mahotella Queens - Umculo Kawupheli
03  The Rainbows - Mashonisa
04  Soul Brothers - Bayeza
05  Dark City Sisters - Ezomculo
06  M.D. Shirinda & The Gaza Sisters - Pfuka N'wavolo
07  Abafana Baseqhudeni - Mubi Umakhelwane
08  Mgababa Queens - Maphuthi
09  Zorro Five - Barcarolle
10  Amazulu Queens - Sankatana
11  Marks Mankwane - Khupa Marama No. 2
12  Naledi Boys - Bump Again
13  Ebrahim Isaacs - Meadowlands
14  John Amutabi Nzenze - Angelike Twist
15  Queue Sisters - Ethembeni
16  Spokes Mashiyane - Kalla's Special
17  Soul Of The City - Hustle Bump!
18  J.K. Mayengani & The ShingWedzi Sisters - Khubani
19  Mahlathini & Izintombi Zomgqashiyo - Okwamadoda Kuya Bhikwa
20  Izintombi Zodumo - Mississippi River
21  Sannah Mnguni Nesimanjemanje - Ukhulupheka
22  Lulu Masilela & The Boyoyo Boys - Small Time No.4
23  Tempo All Stars - Take Off
24  Paulus Masina - Umalusi
25  Intombi Zephepha - Ingoina Le Nyathi
26  Mgababa Queens - Akulaiwa Esoweto
27  Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens - Bophumthwalo
28  Izintombi Zesi Manje Manje - Awufuni Ukulandela Na
29  African Symphonics - Zulu Roll
30  Kings Messengers Quartet - My Lord

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Hectic City 15 - Paths To Graceland

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Well, the sun came out here today in London for an hour, so to celebrate this momentous occasion, I felt inspired to do another "Reunited" remix, this time sending young Michael off to the Caribbean...

Previous Reunited mixes here:
http://soundcloud.com/kleptones/sexual_dubbing
http://soundcloud.com/kleptones/girls_on_girls_on_film_on_film

Michael Jackson & The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - I Want You Back (Kleptones "Reunited" Remix)

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Full Version available here if you miss the second verse and chorus : http://soundcloud.com/kleptones/jump-you-fucker-full-version

Video here : http://vimeo.com/15385734

Thanks to everyone below for the pre-release feedback!

Jump You Fucker (Bootie Edit)

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A lot of people, myself included, have commented on the similarities between "Under The Westway" and "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", but until I tinkered, I hadn't realised *exactly* how close they were - same tempo, same key (C major, I think)... although Blur cut the last bar of each verse three measures short to achieve a rolling, overlapping effect.

Didn't need to do more than a minute for you to get the idea... 

I do like "Westway" a lot, and, well, "Whiter Shade" was heavily influenced by Bach, so as usual, round and round the riffs we go...

Blur & Procol Harum - A Whiter Westway (Kleptones "Reunited" Mini-Remix)

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Jump You Fucker

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Very silly, and NSFW, but at least it isn't very long... ;-)

Short And Round

Chapter 16, In which some Putney boys meet a Canadian Godfather uptown, or possibly round a campfire.

Love In The City

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Decided to have a crack at the new Major Lazer single. Tried a few styles but this knocked everything else out of the water by a country mile. 

So here you go... hope you enjoy.

Get Free Parking

John Martyn - Acid Rain (The Kleptones Re-Edit)

A classic 70s rocker given a rather dubby makeover. Hope you like!
(Now updated with new 2024 remaster - you're welcome!)

Available on our 2nd singles compilation "Shirts & Gurgles", available here: https://kleptones.bandcamp.com/album/shirts-gurgles

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Dub Like An Eagle

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A classic 70s rocker given a rather dubby makeover. Hope you like!

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Dread Lex