The Tiger Mendoza Blog

A while back I did a remix / re-version of a song by my old band Toy #1 called Atari Joystick. Dan from the band asked me if I still had it but somehow I’ve managed to lose the final mp3 and the source files so here’s the 2008 redux version.

TM vs TOY #1 - Atari Joystick (TM 2008 redux v2)

Edit 27/12: I managed to find the original remix:
TM vs TOY #1 - Atari Joystick (TM remix)

Let me know which one you prefer. If I can find a good copy of a Toy #1 version of Atari Joystick I’ll post that as well.

Cheers to everyone that saw me do the acoustic gig in slough last week. It was fun. Don’t know if I really fitted in to a punk night but never mind it seemed to go down well.

Apart from that I’ve been working on a couple of souns that will be on the first Tiger Mendoza download release which will probably be called TMCD1 (imaginative? No, but never mind eh?) and will be ready for the end of Jan 2009. Won’t that be great? Here are a couple of tracks for you to listen to:

‘Tokyo Triangle’ is features the lovely Helena Markou on vocals. We’ll be working on some other new songs together as well but they’re not ready yet.

There’s a video that’s been around on video sites like youtube that’s been around for a while now which I’ve been slightly obsessed with ever since the first time I saw it. Manu Delago posted a video of a solo piece he did on an instrument called a Hang which I’d seen before but never heard played properly. I just LOVED the sound the things were making. When I heard it I really wanted to do something with it. Not too much but just……enhance it maybe? Re-edit it? I dunno. But I found out I could do video editing in good old ableton so I thought I’d give it a go. Here’s the result:

Here’s an mp3 of the audio: Manu Delago - Hang Drum solo (Mono Desire) [TM edit]

A big Thank you to Manu for posting the original video (which you can see here) and for letting me post the remix.

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
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!)

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)

So I seem to have gotten back in to making bootlegs recently instead of finishing off the proper Tiger Mendoza demo that I’ve been trying to finish for ages now (almost there now though honest..). When I was on the way home from a mate’s wedding a couple of weeks ago I came up with an idea so here’s the result:

Hometown Lopez (Adele & High Contrast / 808 State & James Dean Bradfield)

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