I Love The Outlaws!

February 16, 2005 4:40 AM

Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules is a great mixtape created by Bristol DJs The Outlaws. It's a bit like this popular little number but with great combinations of dance music, pop tunes and a bunch of old classics. It's recieved some good reviews and there is an option on the site to donate some money to the DEC Tsunami appeal if you like it. This rather beautiful and mental interview sheds a little more light on them. They seem, quite appropriately, to be fans of these guys too.
posted by sam and rufus (10 comments total)

that interview made me smile so wide it hurt. the record is great too. thanks for the links!
posted by n9 at 6:02 AM on February 16, 2005

Chemical Donor. Awesome.

I will be DLing this goodness when I get home.
posted by grabbingsand at 6:17 AM on February 16, 2005

Fabulous interview!

In a similar vein, but with far more interesting music: How To Kill The DJ (Part 2) by the Optimo DJs.

Slight disclaimer: I was for many years a regular at Optimo
posted by jack_mo at 6:36 AM on February 16, 2005

The party never stops when you're listening to mashups.
posted by interrupt at 8:58 AM on February 16, 2005

Update:

I listened to this mix while biking into the office. It was great and I made it here in 26:15 -- a personal record.

So far it sounds a lot better than just mashups -- they play more like very good remixes. The guy rhyming on the first track was pretty mindblowing and the When Doves Cry treatment was a-ok.
posted by n9 at 9:09 AM on February 16, 2005

Trust me, these are mashups.
posted by interrupt at 9:25 AM on February 16, 2005

I think the bittorrent tracker on the website is down... something feels wrong about downloading an 80mb mix direct.

Young MC has never sounded so good.
posted by anthill at 11:13 AM on February 16, 2005

What I said was that they sounded better than *just* mashups. I know what a mashup is. The production quality is too high in my estimation for there not to be beats and tones added in that are not from the source material. Just one opinion. My point was that they sound very very good.
posted by n9 at 1:45 PM on February 16, 2005

Oh spooky! I was just listening to this the other night.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 2:44 PM on February 16, 2005

Also worth a checkout: Strictly Kev's Raiding the 20th Century -- a history of the cutup/mashup from John Cage and W.S. Burroughs all the way to Soulwax and Go Home Productions (torrent here) and the new Kleptones joint, From Detroit to J.A.
posted by arto at 10:24 PM on February 16, 2005