In the wild and wacky world of mash-ups, there are scads of producers who are slamming the most unlikely bits and pieces of music together to startling and/or amusing effect. Although few of them are household names, one – Howie Pyro - is a musician who was a driving force in some notable bands, including arty punk-rockers D Generation and industrial-metalists Danzig. Pyro also worked as a DJ in New York City and co-founded the East Village hard-rock club Coney Island High.
Moving from New York to Los Angeles, Pyro teamed up with DJ/producer Jells Mayhem as the Illuminoids – and the duo is now creating a series of memorable madcap mash-ups. One of the hottest of them is "That's Not My Wild Name Game Thing" - available for your listening pleasure via the stream at the top of this post. The track is a fresh jam-up of The Ting Tings’ recent massive U.K. chart-topper "That’s Not My Name," soul singer Shirley Ellis’ ‘60s novelty hit "The Name Game," Tone Loc’s "Wild Thing," and select snatches of songs by X-rated electro-diva Peaches, drag icon Divine and Motown girl-group superstars The Supremes.
Here’s a name to remember: The Illuminoids.
Speaking of memory, this would be an ideal place to run the video clip for the first mash-up by the duo that really grabbed me: "Pretend We're Alala," blending L7 and CSS. Check out the carnage…
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Wow, they used some ketchup in that clip Mike.
There's enough goin' on in your upload to keep you entertained for weeks. Keep up Ben, count the artists.......damn, I can't keep up.
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Thanks Mike for yet another brace of impressive mash-ups...
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Ben's right. There's a lot going on in the video, musically and visually, and it holds together for me even though I don't fully understand it yet.
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Ben: I ain't messin' around here!
Jox: You're welcome...to more as soon as I get 'em up.
Spike: All will be made clear in time - or not. ;-)
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Like Shakespeare, it's like trying unsuccessfully to see to the bottom of a clear deep lake, as opposed to the bottom of a shallow muddy puddle.
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Mike, another nice addition to a growing list of classics
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Way cool and entertaining- Thanks
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Rawk: I wanted to stream two more Illuminoids tracks in the thread, but couldn't figure out how. Uploaded them to an empty post, got the code, and put 'em in comments, but couldn't get them to work. Anyone who knows the secret to adding audio streams to comments since the last MOG upgrade should clue me in.
MusicRX: Glad you liked it!
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thanks for the lesson Mike. i know almost nothing about the mash-up "scene" but i love the stuff you post about. you are one fine filtration device my friend! i will definitely remember Illuminoids.
As for audio in comments, you may have already seen this but, Dermahrk just published a post tailor-made for your needs. Basically a step-by-step tutorial on how to post audio in comments, but it sounds like you had the right technique to begin with. Here's D's post:
http://mog.com/Q4_der_mahrk/blog_post/170164
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Thank you, molli. Although it's a bit late for me to do something special with this post, I need to know this skill for future hijinks...
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This one should be a hit in its own right... thanks Mike!
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Thanks for the article Mike, very cool.
Noticed your located in SF. We will be DJ'ing up there at Club Bootie @ The DNA lounge on July 12th.
Our website is www.illuminoids, where you can download all our stuff and more for free.
Later and thanx!!!
Jells
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glad you spoke about the "streaming in comments" issue.
besides the killer mash-up, this post gets a nod in the "where are they now?" department! i see a couple of the D Gen guys around periodically, but this was a surprise. they rocked and Coney Island High was often a hang on the LES.
it's funny what many of us move into as we keep making music! for any other vintage new yorkers, i'll be recording a Bush Tetras/Human Switchboard collaboration today.......in LA. i guess that's still, technically, south of 14th Street.
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vannatta: I'll say! Damned infectious!
Jells: Happy to know you guys have an outpost in the MOG-iverse. And glad to give the props. If I'm in S.F. on the 12th, you can bet that I'll be at Bootie, and will check in with you.
Robin: Yep. That "stream-in-a-comment" thing has been a bit of a hassle. And making it happen is a little more complicated than I'd like, but it's good to know, so praise to dermahrk. New York, L.A., San Fran? All the same neighborhood to me...
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I bet there's a hell of a lot of mashups using "That's Not My Name", since it's quite the perfect song w/it's beat. This one's pretty great, thank!
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I'm doing my chair dance...it's got me shaking. Nice.
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August: If there are, I haven't heard them yet. In any event, this is one of the first.
annie: You go, girl! (Just don't tip over.)
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i actually came back today to listen again. i'm such a sucker for Tone Loc and now, by association, Peaches. i've had their "Wild Thing" duet on rotation for quite a while now...
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Them beats is irresistible, molli!
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You, those tracks definitively make the house shaking. And interesting background info. Never thought that people who did industrial/metal would drift into making mashups. But you never know, as we can see here.
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Hermes: You could say that there's something "industrial" about grafting or soldering or screwing tracks together. O.K. That may be a reach...
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Industrially produced music - why not. I'm still wondering how those guys do that.
It's a technical miracle to me so to say. But I really don't have a clue about music production. I only had one course on computer vision and learned there a bit about filtering. But that you can do that so well, without having any distracting remains from other instruments is really.. miraculous .. to me. 'Cause I don't think the have the master tapes with seperate tracks for each instrument or do they?
Is there any tutorial or website, where they reveal some of the techniques, that are employed?
Grandma Sue sadly can't really help me
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Hermes: Holy crap! Grandma Sue is flippin' the switch, yo. As for more technical info (ProTools is probably a must), I'm at a loss other than to direct you to my fave mash-up clearing house: http://bootiesf.com - a great site to link to the work of various mash-up DJs/producers and also where you can see flyers for upcoming Bootie events such as the Illuminoids' appearance at the DNA.
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It's got me doing the Swim, the Jerk, the Monkey, the Hully Gully, but since I'm in my seat, not the Stroll. That's my kinda name game.
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Jonh: Best argument yet for decent seat cushions...
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;)
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! Can you spell "dancing frenzy"?!!!
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Neill: Gabba-gabba. Ting-Ting. Now, someone has to mash in "The Witch Doctor" by David Seville. You know: "Ting-tang walla-walla bing-bang..."
Anna: Spell it? I live it!