PUSSYCAT PUSSYCAT WHERE HAVE YA BEEN?

Who? You? Or me? If you have no idea where you have been then it's no good asking me. But where have I been? I have on the tropical island of Hawaii for the past few light years, trying to develop a new coconut and pineapple flavoured zit.

I'm afraid I wasn't successful in my quest, and only managed to produce a cottage cheese tasting pus, and one that can only likened to wallpaper paste. So I have swum (or is it swam) back to the Uranian moon of Holland to look at reality right in the face. And what an ugly beast it is!

For those who have been emailing me trying to get your mits on the first 5 volumes of the Carty Mixes on CD, I am working on it. The tracks are still available for free from antfan.com, but it seems that's not enough. I have to think of a rather cool disclaimer for the small print on the CD covers, as some of those old mixes are rather embarrassing to hear now.

The CD covers will be slightly re-designed so that the spines look sexy together on a shelf, or in a bin, or whatever you do with them. I have thought about re-creating some of the dodgier mixes, but end up creating new ones. So I may as well just remaster the old tracks and bang them out to the Carty Store.

The much praised (and thank you for that) "Makes me Proud..." is also expected to make a CD appearance. I have some excellent remixes by Antflavour and Ciaron that just have to be heard. The only delay is for a new mix of it from me...which has been started...honest!

Still on the Carty Mixes front, Volume 11 isn't far from completion. Expect to see The Family Of Noise (Dot Com Remix), Lou Reed Dive (Dance) (Remix), Jason Mraz vs AATA (Carty Mash-up), something with Wonderful and Beautiful Dream, an un-used track I created for adam-ant.net when Justin Swan was at the helm, a mix I performed at AntFest in 2007, and one from an Ant Lib convention a few years back (I forget the date).

What about the website (cry the emails)? Hmmm. Well it needs some housework to keep it looking not so out of date, but to be honest, I don't have the drive to run an Adam & The Ants site anymore. That doesn't mean there won't be any updates. You'll hear of them here first, so keep checking in.

THE FAMILY OF NOISE (DOT COM REMIX)

Yesterday, whilst reading one of the Ant forums inbetween working for a living, I saw Cork post that he had been listening to the Never Mind The Ant Box CD.

This CD was a 22 track production disc featuring tracks meant for use in the NMTAB quiz. Unfortunately, the venue was too noisy to play music, which was a disappointment as the theme tune is just brilliant! However, the first 20 attendees of the Family Reunion event found a copy in their goodie bags.

Anyway, Cork mentioned how he was enjoying track 11 from the CD. I had no clue what track 11 was until I arrived home. It was the remix I made of "The Family Of Noise", which is actually more of a mash up between the NMTAB theme tune (The Wolfmen's "Taliban Sam"), The Beatles' "She Loves You" and of course Adam And The Ants' "The Family Of Noise".

I stole the above image from Cork's site at Mulitply, because I am like that.

Ironically, within moments of me completing this remix, Niall X had also completed a remix of the same track for the Family of Noise organisaton. But I didn't tell you that as I don't know if they have announced it yet. (But it is bloody fantastic - and I didn't tell you that either, as I have not heard it, have I?)

Little known fact - Niall X is also a Welshman called Chris! Yes, we are the same person, although I'm sure his missus will have something to say about that.

Anyway, never mind the drivel, here's the Carty remix:

Adam & The Ants - The Family Of Noise [Dot Com Remix]