RemoteTreeChildren vs Taylor Swift - Love Pressurize

RemoteTreeChildren is a collaboration of Glen Phillips and John Askew. Preview (and then purchase) their trippy album Veteran of the Loudness Wars here. It's a favorite of mine.

Blood Pressurize is a standout track on the album, and the multi-tracks were graciously made available by Glen and John. This mashup country-fies it and I don't like country. But if I had to listen to country, this would be it.

Glen Phillips - It Takes Time (The Multimodal Mix)

A mix of one of my favorite Glen tunes, It Takes Time. Check out the original classic here. Acapella courtesy of The Reborn Identity.

Glen Phillips vs Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous Spirit

End of the year closet cleaning going on here. This one was done earlier this year before I started this site and kind of fell off my radar. Perhaps for Glen fans only?

Glen Phillips vs. Joe Pesci vs. Mary Jane Girls - Drive By My House Wise Guy

This started out as an attempt to utilize an acapella of the Glen Phillips song Drive By which was extracted and made available by Gavin (The Reborn Identity). The goal was to use an instrumental that would make for a clever title. Drive By My House came to mind and luckily an instrumental of Mary Jane Girls', In My House wasn't hard to find.

In starting to work on the mashup, I recalled the chorus of Joe Pesci's song (yes he put out an album) Wise Guy, "louvely dey in the neighburhud fer a drive by", and thought why not? I was surprised with how overlaying together the instrumentals to In My House and Wise Guy (really Blondie's Rapture) seemed to work.

So now the title had to be slightly expanded.

Many thanks to Gavin for the acapella and just all the help and support in general that he's given me in the mashup and mixing world. There are two versions, the first is an edited "for airplay version", the second is the longer full version.

Kompoz contest in the Top 10

My opportunity to post that a mix I had done has made a Top 10 list. My Shrapnel Perilicious Mix of The Spirit of Shackleton ended up at #7. I'm just thrilled that this got voted in as one of the top 10 with 75 entries that were considered and voted upon by the public at large through Ourstage.com. 2076 plays? That might be more than Vanilla Ice's most recent album.

The Spirit of Shackleton mixes

I completed a couple of mixes a few months ago for the Glen Phillips song "The Spirit of Shackleton". You can listen to the original song here to get an idea of what it sounds like. The mixes are entitled "The Thick Mix" and the "The Shrapnel Perilicious Mix". Naming a mix can be just as fun as creating one.

Glen Phillips vs. Marvin Gaye - Healing Spirit

For me, Marvin Gaye has/had the greatest sounding voice in pop history. It's something I can say comfortably as a heterosexual male, and not have to feel awkward about. The guy just had a voice that how could any male pop singer not want to sound like? I could imagine a more tranquil world of phone customer service with less irate customers if Marvin's voice replaced all the automated voices, but I digress . . .

I always thought Marvin's "Sexual Healing" had only one negative, being released in the now dated 80's sound. "Let's Get it On" sounds more timely from a musical perspective even though it came out earlier. This mashup takes Glen's voice out of the mix in his track "The Spirit of Shackleton" and gives Marvin a chance to move "Sexual Healing" out of the 80's.

sunny and shady glen

I have done several mashups and mixes in the past few months related to Glen Phillips' posting of the multi-track files to his most excellent song The Spirit of Shackleton off of his EP “Secrets of the New Explorers”. I’ll slowly be posting these as I come up with “artwork” for each track, basically, it’s an excuse to mess around with GIMP and/or Photoshop.

Since I’m mentioning Glen, I must tout his music. He’s been creating some incredible work since his days with Toad the Wet Sprocket, the quality of which far surpasses his former Toad-life. His solo works such as "Winter Pays for Summer" and "Mr. Lemons" have a sunny glen feel while works like "Unlucky 7" offer a more shady glen vibe.