The Tiger Mendoza Blog

I don’t really know why, but I love this:

And a great Family Guy mini version.

I realise this is probably pretty old to some people now but a little while back the brilliant [adultswim] posted a free compilation of stuff from the Ghostly International record label, and it’s a really quite brilliant little compilation. And Free! Here’s the player Sorry, the player auto-playing whenever you go to the site annoid me. Here’s the first track instead:

Michna - Triple chrome dipped

The whole lot can be downloaded from here.

5 years ago, Elliott Smith died. His death is probably the only ‘celebrity’ death where I can say I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when I found out (putting out CDs in hight street ‘music retailer’). For better or for worse, he was is one of my favourite song writers and his music has meant a lot to me over the years. Here’s a short article from the LAist on his life from SPIN.com on the circumstances leading up to his death.
Cheers for the music Elliott.

Elliott Smith - Angeles (from the album Either/Or)

I re-dicovered this recently. Yes I know it’s silly.
Murder she wrote [TM remix] (feat. Chaka Demus and Pliers)

Ahhh they’ve done it again. Radiohead have released ’stems’ for one of the tracks off of In Rainbows and I couldn’t resist having a go. Here’s my widget:

(Edit 21/10/08: Can’t be arsed taking part in the pop idol process anymore. Enjoy the download below.)

It was actually harder to remix this one than it was doing the Nude remix a while back even if this one is in 4/4. The structure isn’t as straight forward ya see, extra bars and stuff. This is actually my second attempt at it. I tried to be truer to the actual structure the first time and it just didn’t work. Ah, whatever - I like it!

Here’s a download for anyone that wants it:
Radiohead - Reckoner (Tiger mendoza remix 1)