by JAY WATTS III

My DJ partner and Pop Montreal gendarme Guillaume Decouflet turned me on to U.K. dancehall dicers Noisy Bunch, who’ve moved my attention from all the Cosmo Baker and DJ Ayres remixes I’ve been hunting. The essential production of the operation is their remix of Mr. Oizo’s “Flat Beat,” undergoing the process of riddim-fication with added vocals by dancehaller MC Assassin. Curiously, since Justice remixed “Flat Beat” for his new album, I’ve heard it far more times than around when it was released, and that video with the ADD-addled puppet on the telephone saturated the airwaves. High-quality tracks which pull a smile or two (disco ’n’ dancehall mash-ups, for instance), and very little information, at their Web site, noisybunch.multiply.com/music.

For my money, the best mash-up producer is another Brit, Dunproofin (www.dunproofin.co.uk), who comes to the game with sugar-soaked R&B, hip hop and electro record stacks, and a keenly developed sense of play. His patching together of Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight” and the Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” (as “Casbah Wonder”) has long been a weapon in my, err, mighty DJ arsenal, and there are scores of other fantastic tracks to be found on his blog, including a (surprise, surprise!) palatable Linus and Gwen Stefani mash-up.

Cosmo Baker (who was here some weeks back, a guest of Kop Shoppers and affiliates), DJ Ayres and DJ Eleven, good-natured hosts of NYC club night the Rub (they’ll be here, all as one, on June 4) have done the public a mighty service by posting an MP3 of the Smalltown DJs’ re-working of "We Got Our Own Thing" (djayres.com/MP3/remixes/Wegotourow.mp3) by Heavy D, who I last spotted sporting a terrible purple pant-suit in an embarrassing Sprite commercial. Smalltown DJs are Pete Ernes and Mike Grimes from Calgary, Alberta, but don’t hold that against them. In fact, make friends: myspace.com/smalltowndjs. Another visitor to Montreal, District of Columbian Tittsworth (here tonight, May 18, at Saphir), floats a wicked B-more mix of “Bojangles” tittsworth.com/audio/oldbay001/bojangles96.mp3), all reverbed handclaps and syncopated percussion.

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