Evolution Control Committee's 'All Rights Reserved': Old school mashup

Evolution Control Committee's new compilation collects all the cool stuff they have released in bits and pieces over the last few years. Who knew we'd reach a point where there were mashup nostalgia acts! It's hard to believe ECC has not been sued into oblivion since their seminal Rocked by Rape* single took aim at how the mainstream news packages fear for consumption (between similarly-themed television commercials). Well, Dan Rather is retired, but ECC is still here in all their parodic/fair-commenting glory. If you haven't heard them before, "Stairway To Britney" is hard to beat in the mashup pantheon, and "Pwn Monkey" blends Jonathan Coulton's "Code Monkey" with a manic pastiche of samples not seen since Paul's Boutique. They even start the album with a funny EULA-pimping "Listener License Agreement" track. You can find ECC on Amazon, iTunes, most major P2P sites, or below. They're doing live shows to support the album, too, so check it out.

All Rights Reserved RELEASED! (via bootiemashup)

*Imma let you finish, but "Rocked by Rape" is the greatest mashup of all time.

• [Anonymous]

  Imma let you finish, but “John Oswald’s Angle” is the greatest mashup of all time.

  http://www.illegalart.net/mp3s/507/13-Plunder.mp3

• [Anonymous]

  While I am legally unable to testify as to the audible content, I can however attest to the utter gorgeousness of the vinyl edition!
  180 grams of orange goodness in a wonderfully designed gatefold sleeve.

• [Anonymous]

  Imma let you finish, but Angle (while great – it’ s one of my favorite Oswald tracks) isn’t a mashup, per se. It’s a cut-up of a single song, not an amalgamation of more than one song.
  Furthermore, I submit the argument that ECC’s Whipped Cream Remixes were the first ever Mashups.

• [Andrea James]

  Congrats on the new album, and thanks for all the influential and thought-provoking work!

• [musicman]

  I’m gonna let you finish but No time for Yes is also great mashup. Bonus points for Cassette Boy’s Phil Collins C*ck.

• [TradeMark Gunderson / The ECC]

  Y’know, I would’ve thought that this album being the first to come with a EULA would’ve had Cory writing about it first for sure…

  Oh, and it’s worth mentioning that the EULA/Listener License Agreement is a mashup too — we collaged it from the EULAs of Apple iTunes, Microsoft Office, Nullsoft Shoutcast, and Creative Commons ccMixter.