Mashups

Yes, it’s here – my first ever mash-up E.P featuring six pop-a-licious tracks to make you want to put your disco underpants on and run around the house sprinkling glitter everywhere! Here’s the story behind the tracks….. You can download this 50MB EP in a zip file by clicking here. Enjoy!

1) Frozen Dreams (Seb Sharp’s Lordy Ga-Ga Edit) – This was created one cold afternoon in 2009. The very dragalicious diva Val Nourished asked me to come up with some ideas for tracks to perform at the White Party at Connections Nightclub. The tracks had to be sexy and cold. Interesting combo. I started with the acapella and Calderone remix of Madonna’s ‘Frozen’ and then grabbed some beats and the riff from Angello’s remix of Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams’. A few hours later, voila! I didn’t get to see the performance as I was working that night but I heard it went down a treat.

2) 9 Inches For Fergie (Seb Sharp’s Auxilliary Clinton Edit) – In 2008 I was teaching a friend to use Acid Pro, the software I use to make these mash ups. He in return brought round some 9 Inch Nails instrumentals for me to play with. After he left I started playing with an instrumental of ‘Closer’ and the acapella of ‘London Bridge’. This fell together in about an hour and a half. I especially liked rearranging the lyrics a little to give it a more drunken feel in the breakdown and the build. Quite different to the original track.

3) First Degree Bimbo (Seb Sharp’s Ram-A-Banana Edit) – This was originally created for an interview I did with TV Rock in 2007 as a joke for a drivetime radio show. I redid it in 2009 to incorporate more Bananarama. It just needed a lil’ somethin’. Read the full story behind this by watching the YouTube video I created for this by clicking here.

4) Everybody Pow Now (Seb Sharp’s Rifftastic Edit) – One of my favourites and the simplest to make.  I made an eight minute version for DJ sets, this is the ‘radio edit’ made especially for this EP.  The crowd scream every time the riff from C & C Music Factory drops in – combined with the Black Eyed Peas ‘Boom Boom Pow’ – it hasn’t failed me yet.

5) Thrillerside (Seb Sharp’s Tribute Edit) – Taking two of my favourite Michael Jackson tracks “Thriller’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ and unexpectedly dropping them into ‘Riverside’ was my way of paying tribute to Jackson the weekend of his death.  Again made for DJ sets, this has been edited down from the original 10 minute version.

6) JelLeonaHead (Simon Cowbell X Factor Edit) – Only included on this EP as a sly wink to the 90′s gay dancefloor this was originally made as a challenge set to readers by music website Popjustice – they uploaded the acapella of Leona Lewis ‘Bleeding Love’ and asked people to send in their best ‘comedy remixes’.  This was mine.  It has all the classic elements of the 90′s dancefloor remix – the thumping kick drum and pounding bassline that totally destroy the melancholy mood of the original ballad.  I think the amount of cowbell does the trick.  It’s as if someone found Leona snivelling in the corner, cleaned the mascara streaks off her face, shoved a handful of sparklers in her cleavage and kicked her into the middle of a gay dancefloor at peak time.