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This is the end of Mash Hits. It has been a epic journey for me and now i need some days for it to sink in that it is actually over. As far as i know have used every single UK number one single since 1952, i have checked my list numerous times but please let me know if i missed any out!
This mash hit is a subtly altered version of the tender song "Oh Mein Papa" by Eddie Calvert. To make it i bought a 78rpm shellac copy of the record, recorded it from a gramophone. 78rpm records have such a warm dusty sound to them unlike the super crisp, compressed hits of nowadays. This Eddie Calvert track in particular i found very beautiful so that's why i saved it until the end.
I'd quite like to press some stuff onto shellac. Would be fantastic to hear DJ RED ALERT & MIKE SLAMMER's killer EP's on a gramophone. ... True Old School!!!
Over the course of the last 319 days i have reworked, re-imagined, remade and mashed up 1213 number one singles into 293 tracks. I have analyzed and dismembered the most popular music of six decades. I have made an aural illusion by turning Gary Barlow into Kurt Cobain, Stretched Brian Adam's 'Everything i do i do it for you' to last 16 weeks, Turned chart trance into mood music, tuned elvis into freakout guitar music, tuned elvis into electronica, turned elvis into music concrete. Defragmented Peter Andre, Wrote a Requiem for Whitney Houston, got justice for Bobby Vinton, Killed Phil, Insulted David Guetta, found out that the proclaimers mix exceedingly well with rage against the machine and Invented a new plunderphonic sub called 'faux rock', but most of all ..... mashed hits.
Hope you have enjoyed it. Thanks for your support for the the year.
Over and out.
Henry
Contains only samples and/or parts of the following UK No 1 singles:
Eddie Calvert - Oh Mein Papa (8/1/1954)