{"id":728,"date":"2010-03-22T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:16:03","slug":"pearsall-presents-too-fat-for-skinny-jeans-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/pearsall-presents-too-fat-for-skinny-jeans-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents Too Fat For Skinny Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/pearsall-presents-too-fat-for-skinny-jeans-new\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeans.jpg\" alt=\"grilled cheese sandwich\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeans.mp3\">Pearsall presents Too Fat For Skinny Jeans<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click on the title and save as to download<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed in Edinburgh, March 2010<br \/>\n(66:27, 121.1 MB, V0 VBR MP3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeans.zip\">Zip pack (cut into individual tracks)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeansBIG.jpg\">Big cover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeans.cue\">Cue file<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Style: electro, fidget and bassline house<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Direct link to the mix:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeans.mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/toofat\/Pearsall-TooFatForSkinnyJeans.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Fast Eddie &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Fast-Eddie-Yo-Yo-Get-Funky-09-Mixes\/release\/1860316\">Yo Yo Get Funky (Tim Healey &#038; Deekline Mix)<\/a> (Giant Pussy Records)<br \/>\n02. Detboi &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Detboi-Y-All-Want-Mo-EP\/release\/1824166\">Y&#8217;All Want Mo<\/a> (Cheap Thrills)<br \/>\n03. Beat Assassins &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Beat-Assassins-Urban-Electro-Project-Part-2\/release\/1844102\">Direct Hit VIP (Calvertron Remix)<\/a> (Mofo)<br \/>\n04. Diplo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Diplo-Blow-Your-Head\/release\/1476950\">Wassup Wassup ft. Rye Rye (Crookers Remix)<\/a> (Mad Decent)<br \/>\n05. Fake Blood &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Dr-Lektroluv-Live-Recorded-At-Pukkelpop-08-Sampler\/release\/1760636\">Mars<\/a> (Lektroluv)<br \/>\n06. DJ Zinc &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Zinc-Crackhouse-EP\/release\/1957873\">Nu Sound<\/a> (Bingo Bass)<br \/>\n07. Crookers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Crookers-Feat-Kardinal-Offishall-Carla-Marie-Put-Your-Hands-On-Me\/release\/1497523\">Put Your Hands On Me (Jesse Rose Play Prime Remix)<\/a> (Southern Fried)<br \/>\n08. Martin Solveig &#038; Dragonette &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Martin-Solveig-Feat-Dragonette-Boys-Girls\/release\/1995244\">Boys &#038; Girls (Laidback Luke Dub)<\/a> (d:vision)<br \/>\n09. Sound Of Stereo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Sound-Of-Stereo-Zipper-EP\/release\/2016562\">Zipper<\/a> (Lektroluv)<br \/>\n10. Tiga &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Tiga-Beep-Beep-Beep\/release\/1987425\">Beep Beep Beep (Crookers Remix)<\/a> (Different)<br \/>\n11. Herv\u00e9 &#038; Jack Beats &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Herv%C3%A9-Cheap-Thrills-Sampler-Volume-1\/release\/2030262\">Rainstick (Herv\u00e9&#8217;s Bushfire Remix)<\/a> (Cheap Thrills)<br \/>\n12. Rack n&#8217; Ruin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/rackNruin-Do-One-Screaming-Siren\/release\/1992752\">Do One<\/a> (Future Perfect)<br \/>\n13. Acid Girls &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Acid-Girls-The-Number-Song\/release\/1967942\">The Numbers Song<\/a> (iheartcomix)<br \/>\n14. Boys Noize &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Boys-Noize-Transmission-Remixes-Part-2\/release\/2153892\">Transmission (Tiga Remix)<\/a> (Boysnoize Records)<br \/>\n15. Proxy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Proxy-Who-Are-You\/release\/1968195\">Who Are You?<\/a> (Turbo)<br \/>\n16. DJ Zinc &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Zinc-Killa-Sound\/release\/1711172\">Killa Sound ft. No Lay<\/a> (Bingo Bass)<br \/>\n17. Rico Tubbs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Rico-Tubbs-Hip-Rave-Anthem-EP\/release\/1696628\">Hip Rave Anthem<\/a> (Cheap Thrills)<br \/>\n18. Double 99 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Double-99-Ripgroove-Remixes-2009\/release\/2117399\">RIPGroove (Tim Deluxe&#8217;s 2006 Version)<\/a> (Skint)<br \/>\n19. Baobinga &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Baobinga-Feat-DJ-Nasty-State-Of-Ghetto-Jackin\/release\/1694207\">State of Ghetto Jackin ft. DJ Nasty<\/a> (Trouble &#038; Bass)<br \/>\n20. Dizzee Rascal &#038; Armand Van Helden &#8211; <a href=http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Dizzee-Rascal-And-Armand-Van-Helden-Bonkers\/release\/1776307\">Bonkers<\/a> (Dirtee Stank)<br \/>\n21. Machines Don&#8217;t Care &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Machines-Dont-Care-Service-Pack-02\/release\/1370905\">Drop It To The Floor<\/a> (Machines Don&#8217;t Care)<br \/>\n22. AC Slater &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Switch-Sampler\/release\/1658530\">Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)<\/a> (La Musique Fait La Force)<br \/>\n23. Project Bassline &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Project-Bassline-Drop-The-Pressure\/release\/1556097\">Drop The Pressure<\/a> (Cheap Thrills)<br \/>\n24. Piddy Py &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Piddy-Py-Giggle-Riddim\/release\/1674134\">Giggle Riddim<\/a> (Dress 2 Sweat)<br \/>\n25. Mr Virgo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Mr-Virgo-Hipnotiq-EP2\/release\/1511883\">Hipnotiq (Instrumental Mix)<\/a> (Strickly Bangorz)<br \/>\n26. Rude Kid &#8211; Jack Daniels (No Hats No Hoods)<br \/>\n27. Skepta &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Skepta-Pirate-Sessions-EP\/release\/940317\">Dupps<\/a> (Pirate Sessions Recordings)<br \/>\n28. Rossi B &#038; Luca &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Rossi-B-Luca-Dont-Cry-Soundbwoy\/release\/1924059\">Don&#8217;t Cry Soundbwoy (ID Remix)<\/a> (Heavy Artillery)<br \/>\n29. Diplo &#038; Blaqstarr &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Diplo-Blaqstarr-Get-Off\/release\/1842282\">Get Off (Jack Beats Remix)<\/a> (Mad Decent)<br \/>\n30. Aquasky &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Aquasky-Deep-Fat-Frequencies-EP1\/release\/2023721\">Outta Control (Instrumental)<\/a> (Passenger)<\/p>\n<p><i>Cover: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marco_parc\/3485626410\/in\/set-72157622531548790\/\">&#8220;Grilled Cheese&#8221;<\/a> image used with the kind permission of the photographer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marco_parc\/\">Marco Parc<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Enjoy this mix? Click <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=728#comments\">here<\/a> to leave a comment<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I love stupid music.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s stupid pounding acid trance, or stupid wobbly dubstep, or stupid tearout drum n&#8217; bass, or just flat-out stupid maniac hardcore, there&#8217;s nothing I love more than unashamedly partytastic dance music with a healthy side order of stupid.<\/p>\n<p>And the tunes on this mix are nothing if not stupid &#8230; which is great!<\/p>\n<p>Massive wobbling basslines, strange buzzing electro sounds, cliched rap samples, drum rolls, fluffy rave synths, all bolted to a thumping four-to-the-floor house pulse. What&#8217;s not to love?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the &#8216;real house music&#8217; purists react to this stuff like a vampire would to a family-sized garlic bread soaked in Holy Water, but, well, we can safely ignore them, no?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I capital-L LOVE this stuff, and so I&#8217;ve really enjoyed putting together this mix. It originally started out as a half-hour mix called &#8216;Viking Quest&#8217;, which I put together back in the Autumn as a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fidget_house\">fidget house<\/a> tracks (to whoever invented it: fidget house is a stupid genre name, by the way). I wanted to use the mix as a sort of mini-update, a bit in the way that I did <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/pearsall-presents-obsoleted-new\/\">Obsoleted<\/a> last year, but I wasn&#8217;t all that happy with it. I felt it needed a bit more variety, but I wasn&#8217;t too sure what to do with it, so I decided to shelve it until I could come up with a better concept.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, by early March I had spent a bit of time pondering it and I had decided that the best way to pad the mix out to a full length would be by pulling in some other similar styles of hipster house, so I pulled out some electro house tunes and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v15n3\/htdocs\/fashion_bassline_house.php\">bassline<\/a> and even a little bit of 4\/4 grime. Fun music.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, coming up with the concept is different from executing it. Trying to mix 30 records in just over sixty minutes is a bit tricky, since you need to make sure to hit the right cue points and to get everything into time quickly and accurately. I ended up redoing this mix a few times to get it right, to a point where I felt happy with the flow of the tunes. Whenever I am working on a mix, I always listen to each version a few times before I decide whether or not to keep it. Sometimes it can all be pretty good but there will be one or two tunes that just don&#8217;t sit right, and I&#8217;ll find that I can&#8217;t help going back and having another go. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes things are (literally!) out of my hands. At one point, I had to start this mix over because I was chopping the vertical faders so furiously that the toy on top of the left speaker fell off and knocked the needle clean off the record that was playing!<\/p>\n<p>Although this final version is not <i>quite<\/i> perfect (since there are one or two slightly shaky moments), I am really pleased with it, and I hope you enjoy it too (and tell your friends!).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all from me in terms of words for this one; instead of my usual long essay I decided to put together a little picture gallery of the whole mix process. All these pictures were taken using the <a href=\"http:\/\/hipstamaticapp.com\/\">Hipstamatic<\/a> app for the iPhone, which gives iPhone pictures the quality of pictures from old school instant cameras. I thought it was kind of a neat concept, and I hope you like this little pictorial tour of the Pearsall mix process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/left.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/left-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/cables.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/cables-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/viewacross.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/viewacross-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/ldeck.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/ldeck-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/mixer.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/mixer-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/crates.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/crates-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/self.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/self-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/rdeck.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/rdeck-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/right.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/right-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/desktop.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/desktop-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/cd%27s.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/cd%27s-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/toprack.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/toprack-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/bottomrack.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/bottomrack-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/records.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/toofat\/records-458.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bumping electro, fidget and bassline house, all expertly mixes by Pearsall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,18],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","tag-electro","tag-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}