Shitmat - Full English Breakfast (and Rolf Harris)

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Is this brilliant or what? Or is it too wacky for the mashup bizness massive? Who cares, it's miles better than Van Halen or Marquee Moon.

The Shitmat website is aiming for 100 mash-ups featuring Rolf Harris. Currently standing at 52.

― oorwulliewallpaper, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's the link:
http://www.shitmat.co.uk/

― oorwulliewallpaper, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've not heard this actually, mostly cuz I found the first record (12 noise-y jungle-y mashups of the same tune kind of dull.) Is this new one better?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a Shitmat track on the latest Mu compilation - I dismissed it immediately but cannot stop listening to it & playing it for my friends.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Noisy jungly mashups - yes definetely. Loads of throttled samples and violent drum machines going off all over the place like The Prodigy's Experience put through a drill'n'bass blender. Bit of gabba, bit of electro, bit of thrash. They are quite varied though, including a couple of slower ones with a bit of a skank going on. One thing I enjoyed was that most of the tracks paint a bit of a musical tableaux, if you will. I enjoyed lying back imagining the slaughter of all those teams of Morris Dancers, for example.

― oorwulliewallpaper, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmn. Well maybe I'll pick it up then (although this perhaps strikes me as something that might work better in single form.) The last record was simultaneously annoyingly repetitive and annoyingly short-attention spanned at the same time which is really a tough task to accomplish, but it did manage.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

link to the rolf page: http://shitmat.adverse-camber.net/mp3.htm

This is a hilarious idea. But the link to the 'ergo fitz' one is broken... that's the one I most want to hear

People Like Us to thread.

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You are correct, I think, that this stuff works better in shorter formats. I don't think I've listened to it all at one go yet. However that's been a problem for this kind of thing since...well since "Experience".

― oorwulliewallpaper, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Nick O Teen and Al K Hall" one is realy cool actually. It's too bad (but predictable) that none of them feature Rolf's best (and rarest?) record: "If You've Ever Seen San Francisco".

― everything, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"However that's been a problem for this kind of thing since...well since "Experience"."

I don't think that's true at all, unfortunately. It's just sad that most of the well-sequenced sensibly lengthed hardcore/jungle full-lengths (the Ragga Twins, Champion Jungle Sound, the first Congo Natty album, the first Panacea record, etc) got largely ignored or had limited distribution and the over-baked over-long concept records got all the attention.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What I've heard of Shitmat sounds a hell of a lot like Aphex Twin, particularly when he started using those faster drum sounds circa Hangable Auto Bulb. Definitely much better than a lot of things around, but ultimately it didn't hold my interest.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

boring noise core

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I dare say you are right, Alex. I haven't really heard that many albums in this genre other than the biggies: Kid 606, Squarepusher etc. Any other reccommendations?

Bimble, I reckon it's way rougher, more gimmicky and lots more sampling than Aphex. Shares a sense of humour, though.

― oorwulliewallpaper, Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Well like most things this stuff is better on comps, but if you want more in the noisier end the two DJ Scud collections (Murder Sound which is a split with Panacea and Ambush!) are both very good, as are both Hellfish & Producer albums. If you want more jungle/hardcore albums sadly there weren't very many and most are very hard to find.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers, I'll give them a listen (if I can find 'em).

― oorwulliewallpaper, Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Doormouse album on Mu is a great and, presumably, easy to find addition to this list

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 6 January 2005 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've got that Doormouse album. It's a good one for listening to at the gym. Usually come away feeling like breaking something though.

― oorwulliewallpaper@hotmail.com, Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

SKELECHAIRS is an anthem of sorts for this genre

― contribute, Friday, 7 January 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

This is what I've been waiting for. There's a new Shitmat album coming out!!!

15.03.06 : SHITMAT - HANG THE DJ

posted by: DJ Shitmat on Monday 20 February

released on 22.05.06

The new matty CD is a heavy 13 tracker album of clasic ravage, gabber nonsence, amen flippers, Bros hardstep and indecent pop mashies
think red dwarf meets sean paul or timmy mallet meets a filthy arssed pisstrack.

01. fido dido vs simon mayo
02. the fern britton experiance
03. fear and lothing in stead and simpsons
04. kipper bang wallop codpiece
05. In a previous life i was an onion sandwich
06. oh yeah i dont write ragga i just steal it!
07. Bad Bad bad man/boy etc ..
08. radio shitmat/radio gabber
09. bloodclot jungle techno!
10. jesus was a raver
11. henry's hardcore chickfest2001 tour t-shirt
12. the most radical free party since 1979
13. that goats skull aint no good for thirsty psy trance workers

http://www.sublightrecords.com

― everything, Monday, 17 April 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I quite enjoy Shitmat in small doses but I've seen him live and the place was full of old-enough-to-know-better middle-class males jumping around pushing each other, shouting "gabba!" and waving their cocks about (ok there was only one person doing the latter, but still) and that kind of kills any enthusiasm you mnight have for it because it's so totally lame.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

If you're old enough to remember Fido Dido...

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

I finally heard this album which seems to have finally crawled out with a slightly different tracklisting to the one advertised. Or possibly he just though up some different titles. I'm a little underwhelmed by it for some reason. It's just not as good as Full English Breakfast. Bros amd Kylie samples galore, chipmunk vocals on just about ever track. But there's not enough variety on there or something. Still, I haven't yet listened to it during a 2 hour gym visit after a joint and some ephedra, so it's not completely dismissed yet.

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

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