Ima huge dork.

A few short months ago a group of british DJ's calling themselves The Kleptones released a mash-up album called Yoshimi Battles the Hip Hop Robots. If you don't know what a mash-up album is, it's when someone takes 2 completely unrelated albums and mixes them together. Made dizzyingly famous by DJ Danger Mouse when he combined Jay-Z's Black Album with the Beatles White Album to create the seminal Grey Album. It blew up, not just because it sounded good, but because it worked on so many different levels, both illegal and not.

Well... As good as that album was, The Kleptone's version of Yoshimi was way better. It combined the insta-classic Flaming Lips Yoshimi with various old school and contemporary hip-hop songs. Including 50 cent rapping over spaced out Flaming Lips guitar rock. It's mind-blowing, and again, completely illegal.

The Kleptones are at it again, this morning I got an email from them with a new album called...

A Night at the Hip-Hopera.

That's right... This time they've taken on Queen. The amount of mixing and sampling is mind-boggling.

Now I would link directly to the download page for this album, but by request from the Kleptones I won't. They're as afraid of the huge corporate legal machine as anybody. But I will link to their main website, and if you are so inclined, maybe you can search out the album, or let me know and I can help you find it. It's worth it. The Kleptones are my new heros.

**update**
as it turns out, The Kleptones are fearless in the face of Corporate Legality:
" Oh and by the way, we're not afraid of the corporate machine, we're just afraid of our bandwidth bills..."