Alternate Albums and More!
Friday, June 13, 2025
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (Extra Absorbent Edition)
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Summer Days - The Beach Boys Sessions 1965
The last three years (and 6 or 7 fancomps) have been the most fun and, at the same time, the most hectic a fanmixer could live. Like with every fancomp I do, I meet more fans, go more places, have more mixing sessions in audacity, do more mixes, and lose more sleep than anybody could call normal. I've been to mega.nz, Soulseek, and PinkRobert, as well as the entire Beach Boys General™ discord server (my favorite place). My fanmixes have been played to hundreds of thousands of people and they've all loved it. There's only one complaint I have - there's never enough subscribers on my YouTube channel to really enjoy it - or maybe worse, it's very seldom these fancomps are recommended to fans on reddit or the Smiley Smile Message Board.
As I'm writing this, Dae, Salty Marshmallow (our fanmixin' buddy and sessionography nerd) and three girls (lol as if) along with Howie Edelson are sitting around the table working on our own fanmixes while avoiding eye contact with each other. But my mind is somewhere else right now. I'm still working on ideas for my next fancomp. We had an unbelievable hassle trying to finish up the 50 songs on this set, especially after a three month break following Jiggy Flows 2.0.
You should've seen Mike diggin' the lack of his own voice when we played back "The Girl from New York City (Session Excerpt; Track)" on my laptop last week. He was moovin' and groovin' like he used to in the home studio at the "Marcella" mixing sessions back in 1972. I thought AI pulled off "Then I Kissed Her (A Cappella)" purty poorly, hence its lack of inclusion on this set. And then there's Charles who fell asleep in his car parked outside Brother Studios the day he was supposed to bootleg a proper backing track mix of "Sherry, She Needs Me."
Hope you like my efforts this time.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Jiggy Flows 2.0
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Fall Breaks...and Back to Mixing!
This is all an outgrowth of the influx of new "blood" from the Jiggy22 Presents Smile fan base (huge tip of the hat to SaltyMarshmallow -- we're really where we're at today because of him and Sloop.) 1 year on, these sets give us a chance to reposition the camera in a way that -- I feel -- illuminates some tracks in a more direct and succinct way. I was insistent early on that the stereo mixes from Smiley Smile should be mixed down to their bare essence, for the basic reason that I'm pretty confident that they'll get Apple Music™ and blog placements with the more natural mix.
That's how this stuff lives on and grows beyond us loving it and passing it along single google drive link to friends and family. I think the fact that this stuff was NOT played in rotation next to "China Grove" and Skynyrd will ultimately be its saving grace. I think this stuff is poised to be devoured NOW.
That said, would've loved to have fit the L.A. version of "Here Comes the Night" on to this one. . .
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Jiggy22 Presents Smile
Personally, if I owned these masters, I would do a 15-25 disc DUMP of all of this unreleased (1966-1971) material. Redefine the fanmixing fandom like the UNSURPASSED MASTERS SERIES did in '99. There wouldn't be a single music rag, blog, or website that wouldn't automatically give it JIGGY FLOWS-like press. You wouldn't have to read about BB's music remixes on dead blogspot websites. Real press would EAT IT UP. Film and TV placements would follow, moving the narrative past the tents, bedroom years, and shittily-written Mike Love Rolling Stone articles. With so little effort, EVERYTHING could change.
EVERYTHING.
And all because of fanmixers.
PR TAGLINE: "WHAT IF THERE WAS ANOTHER SMILE FANMIX? Guess what -- There IS."
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Jiggy and the Passions - "So Tough to Mix!"
After all these years, that's never happened with me and that song until the other day and THIS comp. Perfect timing.
Jiggy and the Passions - "So Tough to Mix!" is amazing and done with love -- and I am THRILLED with it.
Some stuff may not be for everyone -- and GOOD; I'd loathe to live in a world where we were all the same.
This is the deal, it's anyone's prerogative to have and voice opinions on ANYTHING, but I've found that the people who do -- and do so negatively, often and VOCIFEROUSLY (usually with an ugly and personal bent) do it because NO ONE asks THEM their opinion. The unseen seem to either remain invisible -- or choose to spread ugliness (e.g. "Jiggy is bad. . . Jiggy is wrong. . . I hate jiggy. . . )
I'm SO LUCKY that with the work I do, I'm part of a team of fanmixers that aims to spread the goodness, instead of feeling so left out and unseen that I need to spit and curse loudly in the street to prove I'm actually here.
That would break my heart.
Have a GREAT 2023 everybody -- thanks for all the love and well wishes we've been getting on the set.
It's the best music.