How is Wolf Diesel Mountain different from a regular remix or mash-up album?
I think the important thing was with this mix, from the start, was that it is something I’ve been wanting to make for years and years. It’s been running through my head since the late 90’s, and there are certain ideas I’ve had since then for a project like this that I’ve kept noted down and in my brain for time when I could actually make it all. I mention this because I think I see the term ‘mash-up’ in the remix sense as quite a recent thing – I know it means different things to different people but I see it as, say, a Nas acapella with, I don’t know, a Madonna beat or something like that. There was a time a few years ago when this remix style blew up like crazy – remember when ‘Seven Nation Army’ came out? Damn, that got remixed and mashed up ridiculously. And older tracks by The Cure, Public Enemy, all that stuff. They were called bootleg mixes a lot too – I think the mash-up thing was just a new name for that. I just call them blends mostly. I’m not saying these mixes don’t have a
