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aceofwands
Anonymous and prolific cover artist has recorded more than 30 different XTC and solo Andy Partridge songs. |
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DJ Lunch Boy: “Adam Ant vs. XTC”
A mashup of bits from Adam Ant's “Apollo 9”, XTC's “Love at First Sight” and They Might Be Giants's “XTC vs. Adam Ant”.
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Leisure: “All of a Sudden (It's '78)”
“An XTC cover done for the Chalkhills fan site; we've re-imagined this English Settlement track as if performed by the White Music lineup. Yes, we're music geeks, but the fun 'Jack-Black-in-High-Fidelity' kind.” Originally recorded for the King for a Day tribute. |
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Ape House Blog/Podcast
The new podcast/blog section on the Ape site has audio and video podcasts and a blog section to entertain you. Currently available: “Monstrance - Andy And Barry Masticate The Fat (Part Three)”, “Fuzzy Warbles Podcast”, and more. . . |
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“Chalkhills and Children”
MIDI sequenced by Steve Clarke for the 1997 XTC Convention in Basingstoke, UK. As he says, “I used it in conjunction with a Roland SC88 Sound Canvas to perform the song. That's why there is no melody on the file. It was intended as a backing track.”
(29 KB, mid) |
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Suture: “Dear God (early dark version)”
Release Date: 9/1/2003
From the Artist: “In 2001 SUTURE was invited to participate in the XTC tribute King for a Day. This MP3 collection features over 130 songs and was released in 2003. Only Sparks was available to work on the track before the deadline. . .”
(9 MB, mp3) |
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Drummed & Wired
An XTC tribute band in Los Angeles. Audio and video samples of their performances are available for download. |
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Drone Forest Vs. XTC: “Frost Circus”
Processing the source material past the point of recognition; layering samples from the Drone Forest sound library, founder Ian C Stewart creates new structures that build on the DNA of the sources. |
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Boojiboy Jnr: “Get Ur Freak In Motion”
Missy Elliot vs. XTC. “Ok..ok..I know the acapella's been used a gazillion times before and that Missy's been mashed to death but give me a break. This was the first mash up I ever completed, it's got sentimental value y'know. Anyway, it's ‘Get Ur Freak On’ spliced with of XTC's ‘Radios in Motion’ and some more extra drums and synths.”
(6 MB, mp3) |
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Go Home Productions
Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions is a fan of XTC and a masher. That is, a mashup/bootleg artist. Not a cad. That is, he was. An artist, not a cad, that is. Any gate, he has closed the door on that phase of his career by releasing GHP Complete, 16 CDs of bootlegs, official and unofficial remixes, including many tracks which sample or remix XTC. Some of those tracks include “I Can't Freak Her”, mixing XTC's “I Can't Own Her” with Adina Howard's “Freak Like Me”, “You Make Me Feel XTC”, which pits XTC's “Generals and Majors” vs. Sylvester's “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Message of Love”, a mashup of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's “The Message” and XTC's “Love At First Sight” “Franz Buffalo”, mashing Malcolm McLaren's “Buffalo Girls”, XTC's “I Am The Audience” and Franz Ferdinand's “Take Me Out”. But by far his best is “Making Plans For Vinyl”, which mixes Tweet's “Oops Oh My” with XTC's “Making Plans for Nigel”. |
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“Happy Families”
29, August 1997
composed by: Andy Partridge
Steve Johnson writes, “Okay, this MIDI file is an older one that I've had lying around since before there was General MIDI, so I quickly made a few alterations to it to make it a GM file. This sequence was done by me on an Atari ST using Dr. T's KCS and Omega II. It was quickly thrown together in a couple of hours, so it's kind of minimalistic, plus some of the pieces of this song were not totally figured out (since there's no XTC sheet music out there...YET!). Anyway, please excuse their exclusion/modification (mainly the intro and ending piano chords and bits of the bass part). I believe the drums were remapped correctly to fit the GM standard, but I could be wrong on one or two of the drum instruments. Anyway, I'm a big XTC fan and hope other fans (as well as XTC newbies) enjoy this -- well, as much as a MIDI file CAN be enjoyed.”
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Monstrance: “I Lovely Cosmonaut”
“XTC's Andy Partridge's latest project sees him team up with the original XTC keyboard player Barry Andrews and drummer Martyn Barker. . . a disparate floating exploration of a piece which finds our three musical explorers high above the earth.” |
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Go Home Productions: “Londinium Loves”
Go Home Productions mashes up Blur / XTC / The Kinks / The Beatles / Bon Jovi / The Bee Gees.
Mashup of the track “London Loves” from Blur's Parklife, taken from the GYBO Parkspliced project. Donate and download. (Thanks to Adrian Ransome.)
(7 MB, mp3) |
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Mitch Friedman
Mitch Friedman covers various XTC songs and sings his own, too. Not to mention the fact that Andy Partridge helps him out a bit here and there. . . |
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“Scissor Man”
MIDI sequenced by Ed Daranciang and submitted to Chalkhills long ago.
(39 KB, mid) |
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Frédéric Quentin: “Senses Working Overtime”
“My name is Frédéric QUENTIN
Sound is quite good but the song doesn't seem to be finished, and it isn't.
I never succeeded to mix a song.
Melody and lyrics are the same but chords are changed.”
(9 MB, mp3) |
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Sgt. Rock
“En 1979 escuche por primera vez a XTC. Sobra decir que algo paso. Y el hecho es que con el tiempo, he podido descifrar muchisimas de estas canciones. Y no he tratado de reproducirlas, de copiarlas, de ‘hacer covers’... Estas son algunas versiones libres, hechas como simple ejercicio. Y estan hechas con todo el respeto posible, a Andy, Colin, Barry, Dave, Terry y a todos los que nos sigue pasando algo cada vez que escuchamos a XTC. Y mientras no me quiten el my space por no tener el copyright, apareceran todas ellas, alrededor de 30, como un simple homenaje, como un recorrido personal por la discografia oficial y no oficial de XTC. Siempre es como la primera vez. Atte. Sgt. Rock.” |
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Kim Simpson: “Snowman”
Kim Simpson: voice and guitar. Recorded 2/07 by Bill Doughty at the Bread Machine, Austin, TX. |
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Steve Dockery
Steve Dockery covers “Wake Up” and “Earn Enough for Us”. |
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Asa Butterfield: “Teenage Dirtbag vs Making Plans For Nigel”
The Xfm Rock School writes, “One of, if not the, youngest entry we've had for the Rock School, Asa Butterfield (7) from Thornhill Primary School, London would definitely get the stamp of approval from Xfm's resident remixer Eddy Temple-Morris with a bootleg, mash-up of XTC and Wheatus.” We wonder if this could be true. . . |
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Pugwash: “Thanks for Christmas”
“A really cool Pugwash christmas present to you . . . the ultra rare cover version of ‘Thanks For Christmas’ . . . that the lads did as a track for the Irish charity album It's All Bells. Enjoy a stoned sung - recorded - engineered and mixed fun-fest of frivolity that, if released, would have no bearing on anything BUT IT WOULD ‘STILL’ BE BETTER THAN THE FUCKING DARKNESS!!!!!”
(4 MB, mp3) |
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School For The Dead: “Thug”
“Thug” is “not an XTC song but it is a song based on many XTC lyrics and styles . . . littered with references to the band and to the songs”. |
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X-sTatiC
Once the definitive XTC tribute band in England (disbanded in October 2005). Hear them on their website, including their cover of “Dear God” recorded for the King for a Day tribute. |
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XTC4U.org
Numerous interesting audio and video tidbits, mostly in lossless SHN and/or FLAC formats. Free the boots! |
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Charlie Crane: “Young Cleopatra”
Charlie says, “I figured that, since Miss Cleo is 14 years old in the song, it was best to record the song now when I'm 17 than record it next year and be hunted down by the CSOM. Granted, it's still a bit creepy, but at least it's not illegal. I wonder how Mr. Partridge got away with writing it at the age of 30?” |
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Your Atom Bomb
That odd noise from the end of “Mole From The Ministry”. Slowed down and reversed for your listening pleasure by J.D. Mack. (Thanks also to Steve Perley.)
(48 KB, mp3) |
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The Dukes of Silverlake: “Your Gold Dress”
IPO performance at Spaceland in Silverlake, California, July 27, 2004. Jason Falkner, Matt Mahaffey & various members of The 88 performed the Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock EP in its entirety. |
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