There were some killer remixes out there that gave a new lease of life to tracks well known and well loved (like seriously, industry-standard remixes – looking at you RS you clever sir you). However, it’s not all doom and gloom! Whilst many of my friends and peers have took a step back to put their feet up in the grand GYBO retirement home in the sky (picture if you will, a bunch of us jaded, craggy faced old gits sat around in comfy cardigans in huge leather armchairs by the fire, moaning about our tinnitus and randomly shouting out #NAGAIUTB), a number of newer producers continue to pump out some chooooons and for me, 2014 was without doubt the year of the remix. The dream of creating our own little nation state on an island in the Caribbean (MASHLANTIS ahoy!) from where like-minded producers can exist in safety and copyright laws don’t exist is still alive and well (I joined a lottery syndicate!). With a couple of major exceptions, new source files haven’t been terribly exciting and with the Soundcloud police tightening up on detecting what we do, it’s becoming ever harder for the guys and girls to get their stuff out there and heard. Whether it be the state of the music industry in general in 2014 or a general apathy on my part, there just hasn’t been much new music that has interested me, and sadly that’s filtered down in to the world of mashup.
And I totally got distracted by pastures new **waving at my new street art buddies**. I haven’t been listening to many tracks this year – in fact if you pushed me, I’d be hard-pressed to tell you what I have been listening to in the Colamobile (though Last FM tells me that SuBo once made the playlist… **shudders**). As you may have seen elsewhere, I kinda let things slip both in my duties as a producer and as a fan. It’s been a strange old year and one for which I owe you an apology for from the get go. Pull on your dancing shoes, crank up your speakers and come join me on a journey in to the weird and wonderful corners of this little scene we call mashup.
Yes, it’s time for Colatron’s Best of 2014 list. Well, here we go again folks – it’s the end of another year and it’s that time when Andy sits down with a cup of tea, a bag of Doritos and several bags of ice to soothe his weary wrists whilst he types out this post.
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