Best Of Bottie 2005 CD, Free Download

I've never really made it a secret that I'm a huge music fan of just about every genre. Name a tune, new or old, and chances are I know what song you are referring to. From Sinatra to Pink Floyd, to John Mayer, to Linkin Park, to Nirvana, to Lenny Kravitz, to Marilyn Manson, to Missy Elliot, to 2Pac and everything and anything just about in-between. I can appreciate and enjoy it all. At one point when I was growing up, I thought it would be cool to work as a DJ. That way I could be surrounded by an endless stack of music right at my fingertips. Thru my entire day, I have music playing. Whether it be when my alarm goes off, when I'm getting ready for work in the morning, on my drive in, at work, at the gym...it's all around me and that's how I like it. Sometimes I feel I couldn't work as well if I didn't have that background noise. It's one of my necessities in life. Take your food, water and air...just give me music and I'll survive.

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I can't imagine not being able to hear. Sometimes I wonder if I had to choose between the power of sight or the power or hearing, which I would choose. (Hmm, that might be a worthy topic to dig into for a future blog post.) Usually I'm not a big fan of the mixed and mashed-up music scene. It's ok in a club, as long as the DJ is good and has a keen ear for picking out the right beats to mix. However, there are far too many DJs that think putting together a badass mix is where you force 2 or more songs to mesh together that just can't coexist no matter how you slow down or mix up the beat - it just doesn't flow. Then there are some DJs that have a talent for this type of thing. I can't put my finger on what it is that makes a mixed or mashed-up song flow, it's just something some DJs have and some don't.

You may recall awhile back that there was a huge stir on the web when 2 free mash-up CDs were released online. They invited people to download the complete album in MP3 format for free, days and even weeks before the original artist had released their album in stores. A guy named "DJ Danger Mouse" did a mash-up on Jay Z's "The Black Album", renaming it "The Grey Album". It was the first of it's kind and the day it hit the net on February 24, 2004 was referred to as "Grey Tuesday". Of course the RIAA shut the site down, but the album is still available all over then net and on various P2P clients. It's also one of my favorite CDs.

Next to follow was a guy named "DJ Dean Gray". He did a mash-up on Green Day's "American Idiot", renaming it "American Edit". The day that CD hit the web was Tuesday, December 13, 2005 which of course was called "Gray Tuesday". Green Day had a fit about it considering their album had not hit store shelves yet. So once again the RIAA stepped in and shut down the downloading frenzy. It too is still available thru various websites and on P2P.

Finally we come to a non-illegal downloadable CD, which is also free and pretty damn catchy if I do say so myself. It's called "Best Of Bottie 2005" and it's a best of CD compiled by various DJs who play throughout some of the bigger known clubs in LA, SF and NY. So you didn't think you could mix Gwen Stefani vs. Snoop Dogg vs. ZZ Top? How about mixing The Beatles vs. Black-Eyed Peas vs. Ludacris vs. Kelis? Ahh, but you can and it sounds good too. You don't have to take my word for it, go ahead and download the 20 songs from the album complete with artwork. Then burn that to CD or drop it into your iPod playlist and enjoy!