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One of my absolute favorite holiday songs is Carol Of The Bells. For the mix this year, I decided to have Johnny Mathis (and choir) do vocal duties on the instrumental version of "Carol Of The Bells" by Shawn Lee. Enjoy...and play loud!

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On a recent trip to Amoeba, visiting their Holiday section, I stumbled upon a copy of "Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs". For the fellow collectors, it is a clean second pressing, blue King label, and - most importantly - STEREO!

Launching up iTunes, and thumbing through the digital vault (sort by "Instrumental"), I got lucky. By the third instrumental, I found the match to Mr Brown's pseudo acapella. "Hold My Hand" by UNKLE (the instrumental, from the two-disc version of "War Stories").

For those who have not heard the original version of the Charles Brown classic (the re-recording is NOT good), YouTube user "refusedtobesilent" has uploaded a "video" (a still picture, with the original audio recording) of the classic original version of "Please Come Home For Christmas" over on YouTube.

The people who receive the CD version of this Holiday mashup don't have to bother. I put the original version of the song on the disc as well, since finding the original version of the song is a pain in the ass, let alone finding the STEREO version!

The classic Charles Brown Christmas song, brought up to date courtesy of the music of UNKLE. Happy Holidays everyone...

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Oh man. I was searching for this acapella for close to a year. I finally found the karaoke CD that had it. For weeks, I just listened to the acapella, saying "wow", and thinking how much of a sin it would be to add anything to the vocal track.

I guess I changed my mind. ;)

This is not a mashup. It is a quick and dirty remix. I did the piano line that starts it off, then programmed the Def Jam type beats.

This mix is just so, so wrong. Enjoy! ;)

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The 2007 Holiday Mashup. A pretty straight-forward mashup. Take the acapella of a holiday classic, and force it over another holiday classic. You'll never hear either song the same way again!

Play it loud, play it proud, and don't sell this! :)

December 10th update! If you downloaded this mix before December 10th, at 1:29pm (PST), grab it again! I accidentally uploaded the wrong version (still had the bad notes)!

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The 2006 Holiday Mix. In a sad new holiday tradition, the mix keeps getting distributed later and later, but oh well. Highlights on this disc include my beats over The Carpenters, as well as excerpts from "Santastic II" (a net mashup compilation). Light a fire, pour some 'nog, and enjoy the mix!

Best track? The Sonics!

The Tracks:

1 - The Carpenters - It's Christmas Time (BRAT Mix, featuring Nat King Cole)
2 - Animaniacs - "The ghost of Christmas past"
3 - The Beatles - The 1965 Christmas Record (outtake)
4 - Rhythm Scholar vs Paul McCartney (Wings) - Wonderful Christmastime (Rhythm Scholar mashup - BRAT Re-edit) - from Santastic II
5 - Jet - Back Door Santa (buy on iTunes)
6 - Animaniacs - "I love you, bye bye"
    Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers - Dig That Crazy Santa Claus
7 - Billie Holiday - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (buy on iTunes)
8 - The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (buy on iTunes)
9 - Johnny Cash greeting
10 - Velvet Underground vs Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Jingle Jane (Divide & Create mashup) - from Santastic II
11 - Animaniacs - "Burbank"
12 - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Christmas All Over Again (buy on iTunes)
13 - Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas (buy on iTunes)
14 - Dramarama - Run, Rudolph Run (Live)
15 - Billy Idol - Yellin' At The Christmas Tree (buy on iTunes)
16 - The Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
17 - Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Starfish - "Practicing For Santa"
18 - Richard Cheese - Jingle Bells (buy a different mix on iTunes)
19 - Guess - White Christmas (excerpt)
    Ben Folds - Bizarre Christmas Incident (*)
20 - Animaniacs - "Pinky & The Brain"
21 - South Park - Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel (BRAT Edit) (*)
22 - Coldplay - 2000 Miles
23 - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (buy on iTunes)
24 - Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (buy on iTunes)
25 - The Carpenters - Carpenters Christmas (Karen Meets Roots Radics Uptown) (Go Home Productions mashup) - from Santastic II
26 - Harry Connick Jr - (It Must Have Been Ol') Santa Claus (buy on iTunes)
27 - Canned Heat - Christmas Blues
28 - Detroit Junior - Christmas Day
29 - Kay Starr - (Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag (buy on iTunes)
30 - The Killers - A Great Big Sled (buy on iTunes)
31 - Smashing Pumpkins - Christmas Time (buy on iTunes)
32 - Jimmy McCracklin - Christmas Time (Part 1)
33 - South Park - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
34 - Astronaut Frank Borman (Apollo 8) greeting
35 - Animaniacs - "Leave a big load"

(*) - contains profanity. If your party guests don't mind hearing the word "fucking" (South Park) or "Ass" (Ben Folds), then ignore this warning.

Another year, another Holiday CD. Play it loud, play it proud, and don't sell this shit! :)

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The 2005 Holiday Mix. The 2005 Mix was a rather limited edition. Since I was in a really bad way around this time, I did not make too many of the CD's. This mix was also never online...until now. There are a few serious rarities in this mix set. Also check out the Freddy King track, taken from a very beat up 45 (and cleaned up). The intro is about all there is for real "mixing", but - oh man. Funky Rainbow Brite, and a Six Million Dollar Man Xmas record. How can you go wrong with that? :)

The Tracks:
01 - Intro (featuring the song stylings of Rainbow Brite)
02 - Billy May - "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer Mambo) (Malibu Remix)
03 - Doris Day - "Here Comes Santa Claus"
04 - Kay Starr - "The Man With The Bag (Thunderball Mix)
05 - Bing Crosby - "Frosty The Snowman"
06 - Booket T. & The M.G.'s - "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
07 - The Avalanches - "Winter Wonderland"
08 - Bing Crosby - "Winter Wonderland" (Bent Remix)
09 - Nat "King" Cole Trio - "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" (MJ Cole Remix)
10 - Freddy King - "I Hear Jingle Bells"
11 - The Raveonettes - "The Christmas Song"
12 - T. Rex - "1972 Christmas Greeting"
13 - Cocteau Twins - "Winter Wonderland"
14 - Paul McCartney - "Merry Christmas" (1969 fan club flexi-disc, with a BBC greeting)
15 - Otis Redding - "Merry Christmas Baby"
16 - Go Go Joes - "Cool Yule
17 - Cheap Trick - "Come On Christmas"
18 - Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers - "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix)
19 - Elvis Presley - "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me"
20 - Bit Meddler - "Let It Snow"
21 - Eddie Izzard - "Five Golden Rings"
22 - John Lennon - "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (Demo)
23 - Outro

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The 2004 Holiday Mix. It's that time of year again. Time for another Holiday CD. Since last year's compilation CD was enjoyed by so many of you, I decided to make another full-length CD mix of some of the best holiday tunes. Click the link, and get in the holiday mood.

The Tracks:
01 - Intro (featuring Fear - "Fuck Christmas") **
02 - Clarence Carter - "Back Door Santa" (BRAT Mono Mix)
03 - Solomon Burke - "Presents For Christmas"
04 - Ray Charles - "Winter Wonderland"
05 - Louis Armstrong - "Zat You, Santa Claus"
06 - Stevie Wonder - "What Christmas Means To Me"
07 - Mabel Scott - "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus"
08 - Eartha Kitt - "Santa Baby"
09 - Charles Brown - "Merry Christmas Baby"
10 - B. B. King - "Christmas Celebration"
11 - Grandaddy - "Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland"
12 - The Dandy Warhols - "The Little Drummer Boy"
13 - Booker T. & The MG's - "Jingle Bells"
14 - Elvis Presley - "Greeting" / "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)"
15 - South Park (Kyle) - "The Lonely Jew On Christmas" **
16 - XTC - "Thanks For Christmas"
17 - Slade - "Merry Christmas Everyone"
18 - Dean Martin - "Let It Snow! Let it Snow! Let It Snow!"
19 - Louis Armstrong - "Cool Yule"
20 - Smashing Pumpkins - "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Live)
21 - Pet Shop Boys - "It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas"
22 - Wings - "Wonderful Christmastime" (Live)
23 - Erasure - "Silent Night"
24 - Otis Redding - "White Christmas"
25 - Coldplay - "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
26 - Outro

** The reason for the "parental advisory" label. You have been warned.

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The 2003 Holiday Mix. Every year, I send out these Holiday Mix CD's. Every year, I pick one main song, and torture it. This year is different. Since no 'one song' really called out to me, I decided to make a full length compilation CD of holiday tunes. This is not your average CD, however. There are no slow songs (excluding track 30). There are no overly depressing songs (again, excluding track 30). This is a fun party mix. Click the link, and enjoy the tunes!

The Tracks:
01 - Intro
02 - STAR WARS "Christmas In The Stars"
03 - SOUTH PARK (Mr. Mackey) "Carol Of The Bells" (BRAT Mix)
04 - RUN D.M.C. "Christmas In Hollis"
05 - PAUL McCARTNEY "Wonderful Christmastime"
06 - LUSCIOUS JACKSON "Let It Snow"
07 - THE KINKS "Father Christmas"
08 - U2 "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)"
09 - SOUTH PARK (Cartman) "O Holy Night"
10 - NO DOUBT "Oi To The World"
11 - CHUCK BERRY "Run, Rudolph, Run"
12 - THE BEACH BOYS "Little Saint Nick" (BRAT Hack)
13 - THE DRIFTERS "White Christmas"
14 - THE CADILLACS "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer"
15 - THE BEATLES "Christmas Time Is Here Again" (BRAT Hack)
16 - THE VENTURES "Sleigh Ride" (BRAT Hack)
17 - SOUTH PARK (Mr. Garrison) "Merry Fucking Christmas"
18 - ELTON JOHN "Step Into Christmas"
19 - FRANK SINATRA "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"
20 - THE WAITRESSES "Christmas Wrapping"
21 - BING CROSBY "Jingle Bells"
22 - BILLY SQUIER "Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You"
23 - ADAM SANDLER "The Chanukah Song"
24 - BOBBY HELMS "Jingle Bell Rock"
25 - FRANK SINATRA and BING CROSBY "We Wish You The Merriest"
26 - KYLIE MINOGUE "Santa Baby"
27 - FRANK SINATRA "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town"
28 - ELVIS PRESLEY "Santa Claus Is Back In Town"
29 - BRENDA LEE "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
30 - ELVIS PRESLEY "I'll Be Home For Christmas"
31 - Outro

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The 2002 Holiday Mix. After spending three weeks of my life re-mastering rare Beatles videos for the recent Los Angeles Beatles Convention (ahem - "Liverpool Days"), most people expected that I was "Beatle'd out". Surprise!

Basically, this is just some of my favorite bits from The Beatles' Christmas records (released to members of their fan club), edited together to the tune "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)", commercially released on the "Free As A Bird" CD single. Enjoy.

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The 2001 Holiday Mix. I was stumped what to do for this mix, until I stumbled across a James Brown Christmas album (who knew?). A rather quick, and funky mix. This was done as the starting track on the special ten year anniversary CD I burned for my friends, in a special limited edition of 30 (hand numbered!). Funny part is no one noticed that all of the discs were numbered "3". ;)

Be on the lookout for the Shrek samples. :)

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The 2000 Holiday Mix. This time, I take a good interpretation of "The Little Drummer Boy", and give it the old school Latin Rascals treatment. Playing on the theme of the Playstation parody cover (see above), I even put the Playstation startup sound at the beginning of the mix. Though you can't make it out in the small picture, the ornament that the Grinch is holding is actually the label of the Stevie Wonder "Someday At Christmas" album I abused for the mix!

In the mix, you'll hear the following artists sampled:
H-TOWN - Knockin' Boots For Christmas
THE BEATLES - The End
BING CROSBY - Do You Hear What I Hear
PUBLIC ENEMY - Bring The Noise (acapella)
ERIC B. & RAKIM - Follow The Leader (acapella)
NEPTUNE - Soul Pride
SHEILA E. - Sex Cymbal (music video)
STEVIE WONDER - Fingertips
PUBLIC ENEMY - Power To The People
PROPELLERHEADS - Bring Us Together (Live)
STEVIE WONDER - The Little Drummer Boy

Since the mix is renamed "The Little Drum Loop Boy", it goes without saying that there are some loops in the mix. At the end, when Stevie is looped saying "me and my drum", listen for the following (in order):

THE INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND - Apache
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - The Humpty Dance
DEPECHE MODE - A Question Of Time (Remix)...I just had to!
THE BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper (Reprise)
ERIC B. & RAKIM - Paid In Full (The Coldcut Remix)
THE COMMODORES - The Assembly Line
SKULL SNAPS - It's A New Day
RUN D.M.C. - Walk This Way
GUS GUS - Believe
ERIC B. & RAKIM - Paid In Full (The Coldcut Remix)
ABC - Be Near Me (Munich Disco Mix)
KRAFTWERK - Numbers

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The 1999 Holiday Mix. What better way to usher in the millenium than with Frank Sinatra singing Jingle Bells over some rather unlikely rhythms!

A fun story: A friend of mine is a DJ in a local Los Angeles record store. Apparently he played this mix in the store, as Frank Sinatra Jr. was shopping in the store! From what I heard, Frank Jr. didn't like the mix that much. ;)

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The 1998 Holiday Mix. This mix was done to be a parody of Fatboy Slim's "The Rockefellar Skank". Since a guy saying "right about now, the funk soul brother" didn't sound quite right for a holiday mix, I took the Fatboy beat, and laid over it a highly re-edited Richard Blade. In other words, I spent a few hours sifting through Richard Blade/KROQ interviews, until I could find the words to make him say "right about now, The BRAT Christmas Mix". Damn funny! Track listing is:

CELINE DION - 1998 Christmas CD commercial
BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD
FATBOY SLIM - The Rockefellar Skank
THE BEATLES
RICHARD BLADE
THE VENTURES - Sleigh Ride
SOUTH PARK
THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Deck The Halls
BART SIMPSON - Jingle Bells
TCHAIKOVSKY - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
ANDY WILLIAMS - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
BAND AID - Do They Know It's Christmas
BURL IVES
PERRY COMO - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
HOMER SIMPSON - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

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The 1997 Holiday Mix. This mix was one of the best ones. Working off a loop from DJ Shadow's "Midnight In A Perfect World", this mix contains:

REN & STIMPY - Have Yourself A Stinky Little Christmas
TCHAIKOVSKY - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
THE BEATLES - Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
DJ SHADOW - Midnight In A Perfect World
PERRY COMO - Frosty The Snowman
THE BEATLES - Live At The BBC
THE BEATLES - The 1963 Christmas Record / Good King Wencesles
RUN D.M.C. - Christmas In Hollis
FRANKIE LYMON - It's Christmas Once Again
RONNIE MILSAP - It's Christmas
CHEECH & CHONG - Santa Claus And His Old Lady
EDDIE FISHER - Here Comes Santa Claus
BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD - It's A Miserable Life
PERRY COMO - The Twelve Days Of Christmas
NATIONAL LAMPOON - The Squalor Show
PERRY COMO - Frosty The Snowman
PEE WEE HERMAN - Christmas Medley
SOUTH PARK - The Spirit Of Christmas
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Jingle Bells
DEPECHE MODE - Strange Bells
BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD - It's A Miserable Life
PERRY COMO - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

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For 1996, my Holiday Mix took this shape. My first personal holiday greeting CD (it was a compilation of the past four Holiday cassettes, as well as this new mix). This mix combines the Chemical Brothers, Johnny Mathis...and Bing Crosby. Definitely different. A favorite during the 1996 Christmas season on both Groove Radio and KCRW FM (both Los Angeles radio stations).

Sadly, in a GAP commercial broadcast during the 1998 holiday season, there was a mix that sounded A LOT like my mix from two years earlier. Alwasy nice when corporate America steals, instead of giving credit. :P

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This is "Strangelove", re-edited to the tune of "Jingle Bells"! I sent this out as an "audio Christmas Card" for Christmas 1994 (and pressed it up on my 5th year Christmas anniversary CD, as seen above). It was even played on both KROQ-FM (Los Angeles) and KOME-FM (San Jose) back in 1994. This, by NO MEANS, should be considered as a normal representation of my work! It was a quick hack that I did in 5 hours, as a joke, and became a Christmas hit, of sorts. It is kinda cute, though.