Where Is Diana's Home?

A Colatron classic, and a personal fave of mine.

About a year ago, I began making "Welcome To My World", possibly my finest moment to date, and this was the second track I completed. Previously unreleased in it's unmixed glory, after the events of the last 12 months, now it seems even more so haunting than before.

Where Is Diana's Home?

Bloc Party - Where Is Home (Burial Remix)
Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancefloor
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
Princess Diana - excerpts from the Martin bashir interview (1995)

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Also, if you haven't already seen it, be sure to check out the emotionally charged and damned haunting video from my good friend, The Reborn Identity




I'm off to think up new ideas. But if you ask nicely, I may even give you the War of Staunton next....

Bluestep

The Nu-Blood meets the Maestro, versus the Legends


Bluestep

Corkz - Faces of War
Skream - Dutch Flowerz
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Billie Holiday - Summertime

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Again, thanks to DJ UMB for the pointer to new young Birmingham Dubstep producer, Corkz. Amazing music.

http://www.myspace.com/corkzuk

Invaders Are In For The Dubstep

Invaders Are In For The Dubstep



The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (FS9 Remix)
La Roux - In For The Kill

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Big thanks to Skream for making the best remix of last year, for my bro DJ UMB (check the Generation Bass link to the left) for pointing the way to this awesome remix from FS9. And to Bayonetta for taking dubstep to national TV.

Support FS9 at his Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/FS9MUSIC

Best of Mom

This week, one for all the pop metal kids. Put down your skateboards!!

Best of Mom

Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Foo Fighters - Best of You

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Smells Like Tea Spirit

In the true spirit of G3RSt....

Smells Like Tea Spirit

Joe Loss and His Orchestra - Tea For Two [Live]
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit


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Gave me a giggle for an hour or so
:-)

Hang Me Out To Die

One for all the indie-kids...



Merry Christmas all
Love Andy


Hang Me Out To Die

Kasabian - British Legion
Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry

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Tenebrism

Is it an album? Yes. Is it behind you, reading these words over your shoulder? Yes. Will there be blood? Yes.

Jim Reeves welcomes you...but does he mean it? Yes.

Something's in the sky, something reflected in the soul. Is it a contradiction? Yes. Is it true? Yes.

There is something, something in the color, something in the black, something in the air. You can't touch it, only sense it. Can it be within and without? Yes. Is it life and death, the beyond and the just-behind-you? Yes. And it wears a wide-brimmed hat.

Are we adrift? Yes. Now float on into the black, into the white...into living tenebrism.

Go? Yes.

Alan Black, Dec'09
1086 Productions


The sequel to this year's Welcome to My World, this journey will take you through dubstep, ambient, downtempo, IDM, computer games, horror soundtracks, requiems and Catholic Mass, my beloved Louise, sci-fi movie trailers, the sounds of the planets, astrophysicists, Shakespeare, and somehow.....Miles Davis . Only the brave need apply. Extremes of light and dark.

Tracklistings:-


Welcome to the Light (and Dark)
Jim Reeves - Welcome To My World
The Prodigy - Weather Experience
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
Burial - In McDonalds
John Carpenter - This Is Not a Dream (from "Prince of Darkness" OST - 1987)"
The Black Hole" (movie trailer sample - 1979)
The Voice of Vrillon
The Voice of Colatron
The Voice of Korton
Burial - Night Bus
Sample from "There Will Be Blood" - 2007

A Light Lunch
Grim on Mbient - Mans Roygbiv
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv (Cardamar Remix)

Rachael's Lost
Vangelis - Rachael's Song (from "Blade Runner" OST - 1982)
Sample from "Inland Empire" - 2006
Akira Yamaoka - Lost Carol
Sample from "Mulholland Drive" - 2001
Akira Yamaoka - Alessa's Harmony
Sample from "Silent Hill" - 2006
Beyonce Knowles (spoken word sample)
Burial - Pirates

Ghost In The Machine
Sample from "Poltergeist II: The Other Side" - 1986
Burial - Ghost Hardware
Morcheeba - Blue Chair
Sample from "Halloween" - 2007
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
Sample from "2010: Odyssey Two" - 1984

No Woman No Chill
John Carpenter - The Alley Nightmare
Benga and Coki - Night
Bob Marley (interview sample)
Jeff Pearce - Sudden Light
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
various sounds from Seven Mile Beach, Negril, Jamaica
Burial - Prayer

A Prayer for Sadness
Krzysztof Penderecki - Quid sum miser - Rex tremendae
Akira Yamaoka - Find the Holy One
John Carpenter - This Is Not a Dream (from "Prince of Darkness" OST - 1987)
Burial - Prayer
John Foxx - Shifting Perspective
Massive Attack - Teardrop
The Lord's Prayer

God - Intermission #1
sample from "There Will Be Blood" - 2007
John Carpenter - This Is Not a Dream (from "Prince of Darkness" OST - 1987)
DJ Shadow - Transmission 1

Incest
M83 - Sister (part 1)
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Helen Vendler - Shakespeares Sonnets - 01 1
M83 - Sister (part 2)
Vangelis - Rachael Sleeps (from "Blade Runner" OST - 1982)

Dedication
Mako - Avec La Tech
REM - The One I Love

Nyctophobia
Rooflight - Between Darkness and Daylight
Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Lost in the Humming Air
Louise Annette Smart - Nuzzle
Radiohead - Iron Lung

Crowley's Condition
We Have Built Jerusalem (from "Glastonbury: The Film" OST - 2006)
Tycho - Human Condition
Aleister Crowley - The Pentagram
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Aleister Crowley - The Fingernails
Aleister Crowley - Intro
Aleister Crowley - The Poet

The Nation (and off to the Cosmos) - Intermission #2
Angelo Badalamenti - Haunting and Heartbreaking (from "Lost Highway" OST - 1997)
DJ Shadow - The Outsider
EP Thompson - An Alternative Nation (from "Glastonbury - the Film" OST - 2006)
Harold Budd and Brian Eno - The Pearl
John Carpenter - This Is Not a Dream (from "Prince of Darkness" OST - 1987)
Carl Sagan - Cosmos Introduction

Sleeping in Space
Vocal excerpts from the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery for the STS-120 mission
Morcheeba - Sleep On It
David Bowie - Space Oddity
John Foxx - Return to a Place of Remembered Beauty
NASA radio recordings from Saturn's Rings
NASA Voyager radio recordings from Uranus
NASA radio recordings of Earth
Sounds from Sputnik 1 satellite (1957)
Sounds from Oscar 1 satellite (1961)
Carl Sagan - God, The Universe & Everything Else
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

We Could Be Happy (But Something Happened That Day)
Snow Patrol - You Could Be Happy
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
DJ Shadow - Triplicate (Something Happened That Day)

Rapturous Once More
Sample from "21 Grams" - 2003
Autopilot - Once More (Echodub Edit)
Jeff Pearce - Doubt on Dark Waters
Imogen Heap - Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley (spoken word sample)

Losing the Dinosaurs (from "Glastonbury - the Film" OST - 2006)

The Bigger Picture*
DFRNT - Surface
"Starcrash" (Movie Trailer Sample - 1979)
Pink Floyd - Is There Any Body Out There
Burial - Pirates
Burial - Untitled
Burial - Etched Headplate
Boards of Canada - A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
The Shamen - Explanation of a Shamen
Burial - Untitled
Sample from "Bubba Ho-Tep" - 2002


*previously heard on Alan Black's Orson IX

Available in single MP3 mix format (61min 39sec) with artwork (RAR archived files)

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Once again, a thousand thanks to Alan, Gavin and Tom for continued inspiration and for providing one hell of a crazy year. Looking forward to 2010 guys.


Is there finally and really, anything to life other than food, shit and sex

Rentokiller

Another out-take from the Tenebrism sessions, here's a lesson in how to rid yourselves of pests with a funky endoskeleton and a bassline

Rentokiller

Rusko - Terminator
Michael Jackson - Ben
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

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And keep checking back here, the biggie is coming very, very soon!

Terminated....

The Science of Telephony

Here's something a little different from the House of Colatron. Originally intended to be on the forthcoming Tenebrism album, I've decided not to include it, as it doesn't quite fit with the ambient vibe I've got reaching across the album currently.

But as everyone knows, I love me some dubstep.

A humorous semi-biographical look at the world of telecoms; 911 operators aside, I come across these call centre loons every single day of my working life.

Mr. B.T., I salute your persistence.

The Science of Telephony

Mike Lennon - When Science Fails (Rusko remix)
911 calls - various samples
Blondie - Call Me
British Telecom Customer Services - sample
Ella Fitzgerald - Putting on the Ritz

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Be warned folks, the poor git on the end of the phone to BT, gets a little irate and a few naughty words pop out! If your easily offended, don't pick up the phone!

Sleeping In Space

Well I've been away for a few weeks, busy constructing new tracks for the forthcoming Tenebrism album. What began several months ago as a dubstep album, has changed drastically, to now encompass ambient, reggae, dubstep, pop etc. The good news is, there's 7 or 8 other new mashes made for the album. The bad news is, it's still some weeks/months away from completion.

As a taster for the album, here's a little ode to dreaming whilst floating through the cosmos...

Sleeping In Space

Vocal excerpts from the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery for the STS-120 mission
Morcheeba - Sleep On It
David Bowie - Space Oddity
John Foxx - Return to a Place of Remembered Beauty
NASA radio recordings from Saturn's rings
NASA Voyager radio recordings from Uranus
NASA radio recordings of EarthSounds from Sputnik 1 satellite (1957)
Sounds from Oscar 1 satellite (1961)

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God in the Mirror

A mash for the self-concious lovers out there...

God In The Mirror

Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight

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Don't Upset Timbaland

Ridiculously obvious and cheesy party banger #43....

Don't Upset Timbaland

The Noisettes - Don't Upset the Rhythm
Timbaland (feat. Keri Hilson + DOE) - The Way I Are
Timbaland (feat. Nelly Furtdao + Justin Timberlake) - Give It To Me

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I promise I'll get back to the serious stuff soon!

Hotel F.E.A.R.

Classic Americana meets classic Manc genius. The result is a disturbing night in a hotel that you'll never forget...

Hotel F.E.A.R.

Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.
The Eagles - Hotel California
Burial - Untitled

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Right, now where did I leave those colitas....

Home Baked Pie

A hint of nostalgia. Yearn for the days when hair was big, clothes were spandex and the guy with the most eye-liner got the girl in the tiny denim shorts?

Splicing glam hair metal classic Cherry Pie, with local guitar heroes (local to me at least; several friends were at school with these guys!) and friends of Oasis, The Enemy - a good old fashioned slice of rock n' roll for you all, featuring my first ever mashed guitar solo! Now grab me the glitter hairspray.....

Home Baked Pie

The Enemy - Silver Spoon
Warrant - Cherry Pie


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Air guitar frenzy for this one!

A glimpse of the light...

...and of things to come.


TENEBRISM

A Happy Heavenly Day

Today marks a special day in the history of us all. And me being an astrophysicist (it's true!), I couldn't resist making this to mark the day.

Originally made for Welcome To My World, then finding it's way on to Ministry of Mashed Sound's excellent compilation (as found down below), what better way to musically celebrate, to my mind, the most important event in humankind's evolution, than a good old Colatron mashup....

A Happy Heavenly Day

Apollo 11 radio broadcasts
Orbital - Halcyon + On + On
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Opus III - It's A Fine Day

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Now go Space Farers and venture into the beyond!

Presenting Louise Annette Smart: Finally Ringing My Bell

Hey y'all. Here's a hot off the press scoop for you.

After the success and fun we had working on the last track (Solange vs. Marvin), the very talented Louise Annette Smart has took the plunge and had a go at her own full mashup, and it's a disco doozey!

Louise is a highly qualified musician, trained in composition, orchestration, samba drums and music technology, and produces original pieces, she considers to be electro-acoustic ambient, which you can find over at her Myspace (link on left). But she loves all types of music, and especially likes a good dance session, hence the origins of this - her debut mashup!

Finally Ringing My Bell

Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally

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Be sure to keep 'em peeled, and you'll hopefully hear a lot more from the lady herself. Watch this space....

Summer Booty '09

The days are long, the sun is high in the sky, and a fire is started in my heart. It can mean only one thing....it's Summer!

And in what is now becoming tradition for this time of year, the fantastic DJ Useo has once again compiled an amazing collection of some of the best producers on the scene, to give us all his Summer Booty '09 collection. Featuring the likes of DJ Zebra, DJ Spider, ThC, The Reborn Identity, CjR, Voicedude, Eddie Pedalo, Useo himself, and many many more, it's a double CD full of sunshine and fun, so be sure to grab your copy now.

And yeah, I'm on there too with a sultry little number, my first mash in French!

Head on over to
Summer Booty 2009

and kick off the summer in style

I Decided On Marvin

I finally decided on Marvin, if only because I couldn't quite master the troublesome Martha and the Vandellas "(Love Is Like) A Heatwave" pella, which this track was originally supposed to be made with (the resemblance stood out like the proverbial sore thumb when I first heard Solange's track all that time ago).

A toe-tapping-whistle-along-dance-like-it's-a-Friday-night-catchy-as-hell tune for the summer, and the first of what I hope to be many, many collaborations with the incredibly talented Louise Annette Smart


I Decided On Marvin

Solange - I Decided (part 1)
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (a)


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Also, a big thanks to Envision from the Ministry of Mashed Sound, for supplying the instrumental. Cheers fella.

Bring on the Summer people!

Forthcoming attractions....

Yep - pencil the 22nd June in your diaries. That's the day another installment of the fab Summer Booty album, presented by the finestkind DJ Useo, is released, and this year, I'm on there somewhere with a little summery number.

To promote it, DJ Mashup has posted this rather wonderful track featuring the gorgeous Jordin Sparks throwing it down with those old stalwarts of the disco....the Bee Gees. A great taster of things to come (and yep, more details to be posted closer the time)