Mashups & Gravy: Guetta vs Switch

Posted by Sara Churchville Apr 1, 2007

French house DJ David Guetta has been doing the serious festival circuit this year. He's already performed at SxSW and WMC (at his “F**k Me I’m Famous” party in Miami).

Next up, Coachella (he's playing Friday, April 27, so there are still tickets), as well as the season in Ibiza, where the FMIF parties began.

And for you anime aficionados, an enterprising vid set to Guetta’s “Love Don’t Let Me Go,” just because.

Swedish DJ Eric Prydz is having a busy summer of his own, planning a tour of Europe as he prepares for the release of his first artist album.

And now on to this week's blue plate special, which has quite the history.

“The World is Mine” was the tune that got Guetta noticed by the DJ who launched his U.S. career: more on that in my interview with Guetta.

“A Bit Patchy” is a reference to “Apache,” a “bit” of which Switch samples on this tune. “Apache” is a Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band conga drums tune from the 1970s that was itself a remake of an earlier The Shadows version.

Before Switch, the Viner version was famously reworked by Grandmaster Flash, as in, “Apache, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it.”

About this Tommy Seebach version from the 70s...well...see for yourself. No, really. Go look now.

So you can see this beat’s been around the block a time or two, and it’s still thumping. Here it is:

Frasier Manning’s mashup of David Guetta’s “The World is Mine” vs. the Eric Prydz mix of Switch’s “A Bit Patchy” : The World is a Little Bit Patchy.