Get Your Beatles On (Part I of II)

LISTEN: https://www.mixcloud.com/lawrence-laferla/get-your-beatles-on-part-i-of-ii/

This show is a compilation put together by remixer MP3J.

1. DJ Z-Trip (Soulwax) Yesterday https://www.youtube.com/user/djztrip1 00:00

2. The Monkees (Go Home Productions) Paperback Believer https://youtu.be/W83InivbUSQ 03:23

3. Guns N' Roses (Jimmi Jammes) Sgt Pepper's Paradise https://youtu.be/Rbm6GXllBiw 05:44

4. Yazoo (CCC) Don't Go Flying, Jude https://youtu.be/HlxOmeG_Zlw 09:43

5. Singers & Players (Twin Freaks) Fool on the Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLo6OEO0K4o 15:34

6. Hardrive (Masters At Work) Get Back, Deep Inside https://youtu.be/OJ0WL4TJVCg 20:55

7. Richard X (Aggrol) Eleanor Rigby's Rock Jacket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMo2MNXjbpA 26:20

8. Kelly Clarkson (Jason Nevins Rock Da Edit) Since U Been Gone, Eleanor Rigby https://youtu.be/RUg6ny2N5xI 27:02

9. Armand Van Helden, Gary Numan, L'Trim My Other Car Is A Beatle  (Chaos Productions) https://youtu.be/6InqSDxOa7Q 31:35

10. Recap, Jackson 5, Gabriel Saban & Philippe Briand, Worship Service Resources (CCC) Want, Pity, Vortex, Evolution, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms https://youtu.be/HbayjIcsrQM https://youtu.be/4UJHvSwYP8c https://youtu.be/ZEZXU-UVdtk 36:36

11. Lady Pank, Christina Aguilera (Autopilot) Marchewkowe: Rebootified Prudence https://youtu.be/4GuhT6NEP0I https://youtu.be/7rwf7dnwRg4 40:36

12. Keane and Wings (Faultside) Let Keane In https://youtu.be/D8dqqdc-lrE 43:16

13. Mogwai and Kid Loco (Soundhog) A Day In Tracy's Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY30q1Sx7qc 49:32

14. Mountains Of Boutros Working Class Hero https://youtu.be/a5UPuoUIXUg 56:12

15. Queen (Go Home Productions) Imagine The Game https://youtu.be/1im_ql7lOkI 01:00:25

16. The Chemical Brothers (Lenlow) Let Norwegians Be https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0 01:01:55

17. Sir Mixalot Baby Got Silly Love Songs Back https://youtu.be/xl9LpxjwYOc 01:04:46

18. Atomic Kitten  (Go Home Productions) Get Back https://youtu.be/mpIsPjiIXNk 01:08:54

19. Sane Chuck (Loo + Placido) Black Beatles https://youtu.be/fCpBZf_s5FY 01:11:43

20. Psyche Magical Mystery Panther https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfK2WVaZIn5ygz2zMS9sA5vfp-JWZsRRV 01:14:40

With the above compilation (each track including something Beatles), MP3J is curating some of the best old audio from the 2000s, specifically from the Get Your Bootleg On (GYBO) community of mashup artists who created "bastard pop." GYBO was a forum. It died about eight or nine years ago after an intense 10-year run in the 00s. "It began as a simple message board for bedroom DJs. Partnerships were formed, skills were developed, and in some cases, careers were launched." https://www.popmatters.com/73662-get-your-bootleg-on-a-mashup-mystery-solved-2496020520.html

Here's the closed site itself. http://www.gybo-v3.co.uk/

About its demise https://www.radioclash.com/archives/2012/08/20/rc-224-gybo-rip-part-one-the-new-skool/

And here https://www.radioclash.com/archives/2012/08/15/whats-your-favourite-bootlegsmashups-of-the-last-10-years/

Do you long for yesterday?

Up until around ten years ago, the internet felt like a web of small communities. Completely independent message boards and forums felt like clubs or cocktail parties, little scenes where subcultures could gather, evolve and thrive.

But, all things must pass.

The era of independent blogging then morphed into huge platforms. By the end of the 00s, these communities were dead, replaced by enormous networks with major apps for all devices — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, TikTok, etc. The world became one enormous cocktail party owned by a handful of entrepreneurs and their funders. As individual netizens, we came to feel like a billion individuals in a global club.

There are places I remember. But... Everybody knows there's nothing doing. Everything is closed, it's like a ruin. Of course some of the old independent forums still exist, but they’re like ghost towns.

We've lost those old 00s internet subcultures, but recently we see Facebook nudging us all into Facebook Groups. That’s the closest we come nowadays to the old school message board communities of yesteryear. In 2020, some of the subcultural feeling is being revived, but a lot of it remains lost.

The past decade saw the rise of the idea that "disruption" can be something positive. I've never been a fan of heavily funded disruptors. The rise of the big apps wasn't a grass roots movement. It was the growth of internet monopolies that effectively killed off all the old, independent communities and blogs. Hundreds of thousands of small, independent internet communities were "disrupted" and coopted by a handful of apps that have become houshold names, all funded by billions in venture capital. On Facebook, you can find congregations of Beatles fans in general, and you can find lots of audiophiles posting pictures of record labels, but more particular groups like those for remixers aren't big enough to thrive on Facebook. So, remixing is a culture that's gone extinct. There are still Beatle remixer groups such as the one on Tapatalk. But it's no longer very active. It's too far off the highway. Action is on Facebook. Facebook is like THE major superhighway. Very minor apps sit there on your phone, but how often do you remember to open them? They're where the action isn't.

In this way, 00s internet culture turns out to have been so different from the 10s culture and how 20s culture is to become. Yesterday: quirky, funky, subcultures existed. Now it looks as though some subcultures have lost their independence, their quirk and their funk. Each of us is now a facebooker among billions. You're on your own. The once thriving GYBO subculture is dead.

These MixCloud sets, guest curated by MP3J (a veteran of the mashup/bastard pop/GYBO movement of the 00s), look back at how fun it must have been.