beatles cassetteIgnore the bizarre cover story on this site, amusing though it is to imagine falling down a rabbit hole to a universe in which the Beatles were still together and gigging, nicking a tape of their latest album (CD’s haven’t been invented in the parallel world) and , and just go straight ahead and have a listen to the mashup/remix that the guy perpetrating the myth has produced (you can download a .zip). Essentially a throwing together of late Beatles stuff, with samples from Wings and the ex-Beatles solo stuff, it’s a pretty well put together imagination of how the fab 4 might sound if they’d been time-ported to the 00’s before they split. There might be some copyright issues waiting to kill this off, but it’s a substantially different product to it’s constituent original bits of Beatles, so it may well scrape through. Daft though the website may be, it has done it’s intended job of generating amused interest from the media – publicising your music by making it stand out from the crowd is difficult to do, and this is a novel approach.