We love DJ Rijo's annual Merry Mixmas albums, and for the 18th consecutive year, the legendary mashup DJ has released an album-length mashup of Christmas rarities (MP3), just in time for your holiday parties!
Every year, DJ Riko drops a longform "mixmas" of Christmas mashups; this year's mix is out (MP3 link), featuring everyone from Run DMC to Harry Belafonte to Eels (here's how to get all 16 installments in the series! — Read the rest
Tis the season (1:12:27).
DJ Riko writes, "Pour a glass of egg nog and break out the gingerbread — DJ Riko is back with another Merry Mixmas (MP3)."
DJ Riko is back with another year's worth of holiday mashups: Merry Mixmas 2015 (MP3).
DJ Riko writes, "It's time once again for Merry Mixmas, a free Christmas music mix that is a holiday tradition dating back to 2002.
This year's collection features some truly magnificent songs, with numbers new and old by performers big and small."
My favorite DJ, Dylan Yanekz (AKA DF Tram), whose audio journeys move through electronica, avant-garde classical, free jazz, and myriad other genres, recently collaborated with pioneering ambient DJ Mixmaster Morris on a DJ set for the aHulaBula Sound System in London. — Read the rest
A forthcoming article in the New Scientist proposes that aliens might be disguising the content and origin of their messages by splitting them into multiple pieces and bouncing them off distant mirrors.
(via Smartmobs)
My old friend and favorite DJ, DF Tram, pulls threads from from far-out jazz, psych, experimental ambient, spoken word, downtempo EDM, and avant-garde classical to create transgenre ambient mixes. A crate digger of the highest order, he has turned me on to countless artists, tracks, and albums that I'd never hear anywhere else. — Read the rest
Back in 2010, I did book-tour appearance in Seattle with a great indie band called "Pillow Army," whose music I'm still listening to today; in 2013, Pillow Army's frontman Tim Franklin had started recording angry, atheist Christmas carols and now he's got a whole band devoted to the genre: The X-Misses, whose music is a mix of funny, angry, noisy, and singable new Christmas music that makes for a great complement to other nontraditional seasonal music like DJ Riko's Merry Mixmas mashups. — Read the rest
Anarchic Adjustment was a pioneering streetwear brand and artist collective that emerged from the London punk-skate-BMX-Xerox art scene in the mid-1980s and spread like a virus when founder Nick Philip moved to San Francisco and immersed himself in the early cyberculture. — Read the rest
Mashup virtuoso DJ Riko has released his annual Xmas mix — this year sporting Amillionsons' "Super Sharp Santa:" "the best drum-and-bass Christmas song you'll ever hear."
(Thanks, Nick!)
See also:
DJ Riko's Christmas mix album
Whistler's Delight mashup mixes 22 whistling songs
Best mashups of 2005
Boing Boing buddy Coop may be best known as a high priest of lowbrow art, but he's a formidable mixmaster, too. Today on his blog, a rockingus maximus MP3 miximus just in time for holiday jammage. Before you crank up your speakers and play, make everyone in earshot click on an age-verification screen. — Read the rest
DJ Riko, the mashup genius behind Whistler's Delight, has released a 70-minute MP3 mix-CD of his favorite Xmas oddities, including rarities, non-English songs, and lots of upbeat holiday tuneage:
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I'm happy to announce that Merry Mixmas 2005 is now
available for download.
M.I.A. and S.M.B. combine to form Super Galang Galang. The mixmaster is
Josh "cry.on.my.console" Last.Name.Omitted (who will be playing with M.I.A. in Manchester UK next month: Link). Also check out the Britney-vs.-M.I.A. track. Link (Thanks, Justin, and whoever corrected me on the credit issue, I accidentally deleted your identity. — Read the rest
"Moments In Love" is a wonderful aural history of chillout and ambient music, hosted by Chris Coco. The hour-long BBC Radio 2 documentary covers a tremendous amount of material, from Erik Satie to Brian Eno to Air.
— Read the rest"Chillout is a state of mind.
