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This is a new series in which various animals, vegetables and minerals will be inducted into our Corridor Of Amazingness for services to music and its various ‘facets‘.

An entry here is worth seven of those Hollywood star things, FYI.

Without further ado, let’s introduce inductee number one.

#1 McSleazy

McSleazy is a Scottish remixer/producer/superhero responsible for some of the most original and thrustworthy work of the 21st Century.

Rising, along with artists such as Josh Console and Fake ID, like a particularly fizzy bubble from the barrel of bootleg beer that was GYBO, McSleazy went on to mash up, reswizzle and generally improve tunes by everyone from Britney to Interpol.

He was even chosen to mix the indispensable Popjustice compilation album, which should speak for itself.

He continues to produce (we mentioned his remix of Foals’ ‘Hummer’ not long ago) and can be heard regularly on Xfm Scotland, which is bit like Xfm Manchester except it is in Scotland so they speak a bit differently.

Here are some of McSleazy’s greatest hits.

Live Stand Up (Interpol vs. Dizzee Rascal)
In which McSleazy single-handedly invented goth grime by pairing Dizzee’s second best tune with one of NYC miserablists Interpol’s most heart-rending riffs.

Mania - Looking For A Place (McSleazy remix)
Mania were what happened when two members of Xenomania thought, ‘actually, fuck this, we’re going for the charts ourselves‘. Unfortunately, they found that not being Girls Aloud was a major stumbling block in this plan, and the whole thing bombed. Sleazy’s remix is a bleepy sexfest, but nowhere near on a par with…

Britney Spears - Outrageous (McSleazy remix)
Dark, sinister, brooding - Britney’s hangovers are legendary, but this raunchy re-rub of her 2004 single more than matches them in the sex ‘n’ regret stakes. Remarkably, the label didn’t want to use this mix. Idiots.

Kelis - Milkshake (McSleazy Flavour)
Crazy jug-wobbler Kelis gets her megasmash remixed in an amyl-friendly electro stylee, which sounds like drinking a lime-flavoured version of the titular beverage at a speed no slower than one hundred miles per hour.

The Diressage (Death In Vegas vs. Grandmaster Flash)
Ingenious pairing of DIV’s storm-inducing ‘Dirge’ and the Grandmaster’s socially-aware hit ‘The Message’, in a reading so definitive it will actually make you want to go out and start cleaning up tower blocks.

These, and literally millions more, are available at McSleazy’s website.

Congratulations, etc.

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