Go Home Productions (also known as GHP) is the alter ego of Mark Vidler, a producer/
remixer
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/DJ based in
Northampton
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(and formerly
Watford
Watford () is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne.
Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal en ...
), England. GHP has produced well over 200
mash-ups since May 2002, many of which have been played on both national and independent radio stations around the world. He was born on May 4, 1967 in Barnet,
Middlesex
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,
England
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.
Career
GHP creations have been heard regularly on
Xfm London
Radio X is a British National commercial radio station focused on alternative music, primarily indie rock, and owned by Global. Radio X launched in 1989 as a pirate radio station, a licensed London-wide station in 1997 and nationally in 2015 ...
's ''The Remix'' and ''The Rinse'' radio shows, and are heavily played on the
New York City
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area station
WFMU
WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station, licensed to East Orange, New Jersey. Since 1998 its studios and operating facilities have been headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. It broadcasts locally at 91.1 Mhz FM, ...
. A 30-minute Go Home Productions "Superchunk" mix was aired on Xfm in May 2003 to critical acclaim, and was voted "Superchunk of the year". GHP has also been nominated for Best Studio Session on
XFM
Radio X is a British National commercial radio station focused on alternative music, primarily indie rock, and owned by Global. Radio X launched in 1989 as a pirate radio station, a licensed London-wide station in 1997 and nationally in 2015 ...
alongside the likes of
The Darkness
Darkness is the absence of light.
Darkness or The Darkness may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''Dark'' (TV series), a 2017 German-language TV series produced by Netflix
* Darknss, a character from the film ''Legend'' (1985)
* ''Darkne ...
,
Muse
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,
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill, and their cousin Matthew Followill.
The band's early music was a blend of Southern rock and ...
and
Blur
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Optics and images
* Bokeh, the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus parts of an image
* Box blur, a graphic-art effect
* Defocus aberration, blurring of an image due to incorrect focus
* Gaussian blur, a graphic-art effect
...
. GHP's WFMU Re:Mixology set was broadcast as part of a series that included the legendary mixer
Steinski
Double Dee and Steinski is a duo of hip hop producers, composed of Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco and Steven "Steinski" Stein. They achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the "Le ...
. Go Home Productions has worked with
MTV
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Mash on their weekly bootleg video show and had five tracks on rotation across Europe in 2004. In the same year,
Emap
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History
Ri ...
's QTV also broadcast a selection of 8 GHP tracks across their network.
GHP's 2005 mix "Rapture Riders" (
Blondie vs
The Doors
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) was not only approved by both bands, but has been re-remixed using the original studio tracks, and officially released both as a single and as a track on Blondie's 2005 album ''
Greatest Hits: Sound & Vision''. It reached #1 on the ''
Billboard
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'' US Hot Dance Club Play chart in May 2006, and charted in the top 40 of multiple worldwide singles charts, with continual play on numerous MTV channels; the (
Blondie vs
The Doors
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) video was directed by audiovisual artists
Addictive TV
Addictive TV are digital artists known for their movie supercuts and creation of audiovisual remix material, sampling movies and TV. After a number of years recording and filming musicians around the world, in 2017 they signed with German label ...
who created a video mash-up of the two tracks.
Another mash-up that has received approval of the original artists involved is "Ray of Gob" which superimposes the vocals from
Madonna's "Ray of Light" onto clips from several songs by the
Sex Pistols
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(including "
Pretty Vacant
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", "
God Save the Queen
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" and "
Anarchy in the U.K.
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").
Many Go Home Productions tracks were included in the 2007 mash-up compilation ''
Mashed
Mashed may refer to:
* Mashed, that created from mash ingredients
* Mashed, the result of a mashing
* Mashed, the result of a mashup (music)
* ''Mashed'' (album), a 2007 mashup album
* ''Mashed'' (video game), a vehicular combat video game
* M ...
'', which featured previous hit tracks including "Rapture Riders" and "Notorious Trick" - a mixed version of
Kelis
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and
Duran Duran
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. The album also included two tracks by Loo & Placido, most notably the chart hit "Horny as a Dandy", featuring
The Dandy Warhols
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and
Mousse T
Mustafa Gundogdu ( tr, Mustafa Gündoğdu ; born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German-Turkish DJ, record producer, film composer and judge on season 15 of ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar'', the German versi ...
.
["Various – Mashed"]
Discogs
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.
Turning his skills to AV, for over 10 years Vidler has been one half of project
Addictive TV
Addictive TV are digital artists known for their movie supercuts and creation of audiovisual remix material, sampling movies and TV. After a number of years recording and filming musicians around the world, in 2017 they signed with German label ...
with fellow artist Graham Daniels.
[Woods, Al (May 2, 2018)]
"Graham Daniels and Mark Vidler aka Addictive TV at Splice Festival"
''Flux Magazine''.
References
Further reading
Articles
* Lawrence, Dale (December 4, 2002)
"Two Boots" ''The Village Voice''. Page 67.
* Ratliff, Ben (May 11, 2003)
''The New York Times''.
* Acid Ted (October 30, 2012). "Bootleg rollercoaster ride; Happy people, happy memories–Go Home Productions Interview, Pts.
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Books
* Goeghegan, Michael W. (2007). ''Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Audio and Video Podcasting''. New York: Apress
Page 37 .
* Sinnreich, Aram (2010). ''Mashed up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture''. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. pp
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External links
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Mark Vidleron
YouTube
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Mark Vidlerat
AllMusic
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21st-century British musicians
1967 births
Living people
Musicians from Northamptonshire
Musicians from Watford
People from the London Borough of Barnet
English DJs
English record producers
British mashup artists
Remixers