Club Watch: Bootie London @ Electrowerkz

Franco Milazzo
By Franco Milazzo Last edited 143 months ago
Club Watch: Bootie London @ Electrowerkz

Bootie — the world-famous all-mashup party from San Francisco — is back on tour and in London tomorrow night (Friday).

For the uninitiated, mashups (also known as bootlegs or bastard pop) take the acapella from one track, the music from another and fuse them to make a new piece of music.

Arguably the first internet-powered music phenomenon, the modern mashup scene was born in London about a decade ago. Hits like M/A/R/R/S' Pump Up The Volume and the Sugababes' Freak Like Me have reached number one, successful sample-based bands include the Go! Team and the Avalanches and laptop-wielding megastar Girl Talk recently released a free-to-download album which "broke the internet".

We take our hats off to the ingenious DJs who somehow dream up killer combinations like Green Day, Oasis, Travis and Eminem, George Bush with John Lennon or, in the suitably named A Stroke Of Genius, The Strokes with Christina Aguilera.

As well as writing their own material with dancefloor fillers like Beethoven's 5th combined Kanye West's Gold Digger, Bootie ringmasters San Francisco DJs Adrian and the Mysterious D (aka A+D) have been responsible for organising mashup parties all over the US with occasional trots around the globe. Tomorrow evening, they will be dropping into Electrowerkz in Islington where they will host and headline a night with London's own DJ Payroll.

There's a free exclusive Bootie London mashup CD to the first 100 people through the door and to get you in the mood, here's a sublime combination of Iron Maiden and The Monkees titled Trooper Believer.

Tickets are £8 in advance or on the door. Electrowerks is at 7 Torrens Street, Angel EC1V 1NQ.

Last Updated 12 April 2012