THE BOOK LA review - June 2006
MYSPACE MUSIC PICK OF THE MONTH: The Arbiters
A little misbehaving has never felt this good, and the Arbiters
do plenty of that with their mash-ups. Also referred to as
“Bastard Pop”, this underground practice directed at the
bootleg “white label” market, combines several songs into one,
creating musical relationships between elements to create a
new hybrid entity. The Arbiters do their mashing (in their own
words) “with great love for the original tracks and for the
simple joy in creating them”....
At its simplest, “Papa Was A Crashing Car” merges Bono
and the gang flawlessly with the Temptations. But “Missing
Sweet Love” is crafted from so many different source material
that you might as well be counting raindrops. It’s cool, fun
and illicit enough be sold from under a raincoat in a back alley...
Keep the contraband coming boys.
www.myspace.com/arbiters