Hey, those guys are stealing my idea for a mash-up album! Oh wait, if you made the original I guess it’s not stealing. Billboard reports the no longer boyish (if basically beastly) Beastie Boys are planning to release a remixed version of their instrumental album, The Mix-Up; artists tapped for inclusion on the new mix include rapper M.I.A., former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, and visa-denial poster child Lily Allen. In other words, as Adam “MCA” Yauch said, “a bunch of British people.”
No word on whether the vocalists will be contributing existing a capellas or writing new material for the album, either would be interesting I guess, although it’d be hard to make The Mix-Up more boring. Perhaps the band were inspired by The Beastles, the multiple-album project from Boston’s DJ BC?
