August 26th, 2010 by Tiger Mendoza

It’s safe to say that the gig was a genuine success which to be honest I’m still a bit amazed about. All of the feedback so far has been incredibly positive and there was really a great atmosphere. In total the gig raised £416.57 for Oxfam which is just brilliant and Dan and I are just amazed with everyone’s generosity. I’ve been told that I’ve been saying thank you a little bit too much but we wanted to put together one last post to say Thank You to everyone that helped us out:

The Bands:
The Half Rabbits, Phantom Theory, The Prohibition Smokers Club, Helena, Swindlestock and Kt and Ky,

Sarah Mayhew (from The Oxford Castle for letting us do the gig at the castle in the first place) and Helen Statham (for letting us move the gig to The O3 Gallery with one day to go), and The Real China.

Mel Skinner, Sarah Kenway, Ashleigh Toll, Mez Flint for minding the bar and helping us tidy up afterwards (+ the rest of the Oxjam crew!)

Stu Smith, Mark Wilden, Neil Smith, for loaning us the audio equipment

And everyone that braved the rain to come along, listen to some great music and donate!

There are some pictures up on the pictures page and Dan Paxton has some up on his Flickr profile. There may even be some video soon too. Dan and I have already started talking about whether or not we’ll do it again. We shall see….

Please keep supporting Oxfam and Oxjam and good luck to anyone else that’s organising an Oxjam gig this year!

Ian and Dan

[Updated 02/09/10] Now with Video!

September 13th, 2009 by Tiger Mendoza

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that came, said hi and gave money to Helena and me for busking around Oxford town centre for Cancer Research as part of the last Busking Cancer week. In total we raised £85 which isn’t that bad for 4 1 hour slots and considering our short-ish repetoire.

If you want to donate, you can do so by clicking here.

June 30th, 2009 by Tiger Mendoza

Thought I’d put together a small 8tracks playlist. Enjoy.

Tracklisting:
Beat It – Supergrass / The Diamond Hoo Ha Men
We Want Your Soul – Freeland
Hip Hop – Dead Prez & Static X
I Against I – Massive attack and Mos Def
‘Slayer Boot’ – Amon Tobin
The Hand That Feeds (Mr Cake DnB mix) – Nine Inch Nails
Rehab (Extended mix) – Manchild feat. Andy Cairns (Therapy?)
Kill Your Own (65daysofstatic remix) – Hundread Reasons
Scratch Yer Head (Squarepusher remix) – DJ Food

March 26th, 2009 by Tiger Mendoza

When: Sunday 29th March
Doors: 7:30pm
Where: The Living Room, Oxford
Entry: £Free
Info: http://is.gd/oYs7

March 22nd, 2009 by Tiger Mendoza

Just updated the TMCD1 (we are going to call it something different, can’t remember what now) playlist on Fairtilizer. Probably going to add 1, maybe 2 more songs (maybe including a cover) and then put the whole lot up for download and maybe make a few CDs too. Won’t that be nice?

Oh, there’s someting new on the remixes page as well. Hmmmm….

February 21st, 2009 by Tiger Mendoza

Hello. Let’s say this is the first PROPER POST of 2009 shall we? The last one was just me getting excited about the Watchmen film. Again. So how are you all? Doing well. That’s nice.

First of all a quick site update. I’ve recently had to move the blog to a slightly different bit of the internet and, shock horror, I now have to actually start paying for my webspace. I do want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Sam Shelton who’s been hosting this site and the Toy #1 site for me pretty much since day 1. I have to say it is quite cool though to actually ‘own’ tigermendoza.co.uk now but’s that’s more geek-ery than anything else. Moving the site around has meant changing a couple of things behind the scenes so if you do spot any links not working or anything else weird please let me know.

As for new music, the start of 2009 was weird because once I got back from a brilliant holiday, I found it really difficult to create anything I thought was good and wanted to continue. I think I’m coming out of it now though and there’s a couple new things which need a little tweaking but should be ready very shortly (including a couple of new songs with Helena) and maybe even some gigs. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve also been thing of adding a mixtapeshow.net style regular podcast to the site but we’ll see.

Untill next time then, here’s something I started right at end of 2008 and tweaked today.

Perfect Love (Nine Inch Nails ‘Blend’)
via remix.nin.com

November 1st, 2008 by Tiger Mendoza

I’ve been listening to Annie Mac’s Mashup radio show for a little while now and generally the bit I’m waiting for is the minimix – 5mins where a DJ, producer or band make a musical collage of stuff that has influenced them or that they’re listening to at the moment. Here’s my go:

Tiger Mendoza – Minimix (v2)
Tracklisting:
Prodigy – No good (start the dance)
Primal Scream – Movin’ on up
Lion – Transformers theme
Pendulum – Propane nightmares
QOTSA – No-one knows (UNKLE remix)
Burial – Archangel
DJ Shadow – High noon
The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun (Live version)
The Beatles – Tomorrow never knows
The Evenings – I Didn’t remember
Iggy Pop – Lust for life
NiN – Perfect Drug (Acapella)
Foo Fighters – Everlong
RHCP – Under the bridge
Kings of convenience – I don’t know what… (Mojib remix)
The Herbaliser – On your knees
Orbital & Kirk Hammett – Satan
Squarepusher – My Red hot car
David Holmes – Radio 7
Union of Knives – Opposite direction
The Knack – My Sharona

(update 02/11: Sorry, couldn’t resist making a couple of minor tweaks!)

October 4th, 2008 by Tiger Mendoza

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)

August 22nd, 2008 by Tiger Mendoza

I thought I’d put some of files back up that were on the last version of the site but wanted to separate them out a bit. So, if you look over to the left you’ll see a link to ‘Music‘ and some of the bits and pieces I’ve put together on pages below it. There’s also the first version of a new Adele / 808 state bootleg on the bootlegs page for you to enjoy. May still need a bit a bit mre tweaking but ah well, it’s up now. I’ll re-jig it soon.

For some reason I’ve also signed up for the Orange unisigned act / pop idol type thing for a bit of a laugh. Not sure why but feel free to look at my rad new page.

Lastly howdy to anyone that’s arrived here from the GYBO forum, hope you like what you find.

October 16th, 2007 by Tiger Mendoza

The previously mentioned demo thing is now up to 5 tracks:

1. Untitled 1
2. Untitled 2
3. No Heroes Left
4. Wait for Tomorrow
5. Take

On another note Toy #1 have finished a new 2 track CD with this cover: