Friend of MNSKA and bassist for Brooklyn rocksteady band The Forthrights, Sammy Kay has started an Official Tour Blog over at Musical Occupation.  The Forthrights will be embarking on the Ska Is Dead: Young Guns Tour with We Are The Union, Stuck Lucky, Brunt Of It, and Green Room Rockers.  After that, the band will be heading West with Maddie Ruthless on the Rocksteady Ruined My Life Tour, which will be hitting Minneapolis on Thursday, May 26th at The Terminal Bar, featuring MNSKA bands The Dropsteppers and The Prizefighters.  Read through Sammy’s first blog entry and find a free download from Babylon Party Machine (aka Matt Wixson) who is mashing up The Forthrights’ latest EP Camp Birdman with the sounds of Motown.

You can follow The Forthrights tour blog HERE

There have been lots of quality reggae mashups floating around on the Internet.  We’ve seen Chicago reggae/dub group The Drastics mashing reggae with the late King of Pop with MJ A Rocker.  We’ve seen Michigan mashup artist Babylon Party Machine release several albums pairing known reggae riddims with pop music.  Now, we’ve got Max Tannone, famous for his Jaydiohead (Jay-Z vs. Radiohead) release, mashing up hip-hop great Mos Def with reggae dub to create MOS DUB.  You get points if you can name the reggae backbeats on all the songs!

It’s available for streaming and download HERE.

It’s finally here!  The brand new album from Michigan ska-mashup genius Babylon Party Machine (aka Matt Wixson) TRICKS is available for FREE download over at Open Hand Records.  Some of the bands featured on this one are: The Toasters, Ludacris, Sonic Boom Six, Green Day, Big D, and that girl from Hannah Montana, among a few others.

Here’s the tracklist:

Babylon Party Machine – Tricks (2010)
1. 2-Tone Freak (The Toasters vs. Rick James)
2. Highrise Robbery (Pama International vs. Chumbawamba)
3. How Low Can You Dance (Hepcat vs. Ludacris)
4. Rider Boy (The Slackers vs. Rihanna)
5. Supaman That Grandma (The Ratazanas vs. Soulja Boy)
6. Shining Little Skallywag (Sonic Boom Six vs. Big D and the Kids Table)
7. The United States Green Party (Green Day vs. Miley Cyrus)

Matt Wixson  will be playing a bunch of shows in New Orleans, New England, and Michigan in the coming month (some featuring a full band), so make sure to get out to a show and give him all your money!

head on over to:
http://www.myspace.com/babylonpartymachine
or
http://www.myspace.com/mattwixson
for more info!

Michigan’s own Babylon Party Machine is set to release a brand new mashup EP entitled TRICKS on April 1st, 2010.  Here’s what founder/creator Matt Wixson had to say:

This ain’t no April Fools joke! This is “Tricks”! Seven fresh new mashups coming your way! Some of the artists you can expect to hear include Green Day, the Toasters, Big D and the Kids Table, the Slackers, Rihanna, Sonic Boom Six, Miley Cyrus, Hepcat, Chumbawamba, and more! You can get this release for free from Open Hand Records on April 1st. And if you haven’t downloaded the previous two mashup collections, head over to the Open Hand Records site and get yourself “Rididm & Flow” and “Mash Up Bashment” immediately!

You can check out one of the tracks from this EP over at Musical Occupation.

Babylon Party Machine (aka Matt Wixson) recently joined NY band The Forthrights on stage in Chicago to perform their mashup song “Did It All For The Reggae.”  The mashup is off the Babylon Party Machine recent EP called Mash Up Bashment and mashes the song “Other People” by the Forthrights with the song “Nookie” by Limp Bizkit.  Doing his best Fred Durst impression, Matt Wixson hopped on stage for a rare live treat.   It’s amazing how late 90′s crappy rap-rock mixes so well with laid back reggae grooves. You can check out the video on the Forthrights’ FACEBOOK page.

Be sure to check out my interview with Matt Wixson on the Midwest Ska Moment podcast from last month HERE.

You can download Mash Up Bashment and other Babylon Party Machine albums for FREE (but donations are always accepted).

Matt Wixson, the brains behind the increasingly popular reggae-influenced mashup project Babylon Party Machine has posted his latest track from his new album that’s set to be released this month.  The track “The Lolocaust” features the song “The Cost” by Deal’s Gone Bad mashed with “Lollipop” by Lil’ Wayne.  It only goes to further prove that dub and reggae provide a great backing beat for hip-hop.