(By the way, bootleg means it’s unauthorized, unreleased, or otherwise illegitimate in some fashion.  Lots of remixes never get approved by the original artists, samples don’t get cleared, etc, and these tracks become bootlegs.)

I would love it if all of you lovely folks could make it out some night to hear me spin.  But if that’s not an option, and since I can’t just upload an hour or more of DJ set, I just share some of my great tracks with you all from time to time.

Over the last couple weeks I’ve scored a couple excellent underground bootlegs that I’m pretty happy with.  This first one is a track I’ve been looking for for about a year.  It is NOWHERE, not even on discogs.com, and they have a record of EVERYTHING.  Liquid Todd plays it on the Sirius Breakbeat channel once in a while.  It’s a remix of the Foo Fighters track Everlong, done by Cates & DPL.  It’s a pretty awesome track, but I have to admit, part of why I love this track is its exclusivity.  It’s REAL hard to find.  I performed some Interweb nerdery to locate it.  And there’s something amusing about the fact that when I did finally find it, it was 1 AM and I was on my laptop, in bed, in a Best Western in Tulsa. :-)

As with any remix, it helps if you like the original.

Foo Fighters – Everfighters (Cates and DPL).mp3

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Another bootleg.  This one is a breakbeat remix of the trip-hop track Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack.  It’s just called Massive Boot.  I haven’t found a digital file of this anywhere ever, except the one I made when I finally got the vinyl from London.  I searched about six months to find this one.  No download link for this one – you have to search like I did.  Dig.

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Hope you enjoy :-)