My track 13 mix as used by Queen

As you have probably read on the flossmixes site, one of my mixes has been used on the into tape to Queen's currents gigs.
Wow! is a serious understatement and I'm just gobsmacked!

But i didn't even know the actual mix used existed up until last week:
Bart Lammey, my fellow fanmixer and you could say the original fanmixer, emailed me along the lines "so you're famous now" with a link to queenconcerts.com and the snippet with "Its a beautiful day 2005 techno mix - DJ Koma - Ross Robertson [mix tape]".
I assumed someone had ripped my mix of Bo Rhap which used Beautiful Day so i basically emailed back along the lines of "Hmph". Some lowlife probably taking credit for one of my mixes on some mix tape. It's happened before with some Japanese guy palming my Christmas mixes of WWRY as his own mix.

I was going to leave it at that but I thought I might as well follow the link and take a goosey.
BOOOOM!
I had to take several retakes at the page - It was a tracklisting of one of Queen's current concerts and and the first track to be played was this Ross Robertson / DJ Koma mix as an intro before the first live track.
In total shock I spent the next few hours doing some serious digging on the internet to find out what was going on.
The first link took me to queenzone.com, not one of my favourite sites as i find there is way too much bitching and knowledge snobbery, and someone whining about how crap they thought this mix was.
I managed to find a link to an audience recorded snippet of this mix from one of the concerts and on listening to it I discovered that it wasn't the mix that I thought it was.

This DJ Koma had ripped my Track 13 mix. Ironically the only one of my original compositions that I have made publicly available and the only "flossmix" that really has no connection to Queen!! :)

It was one i did while faffing around with my keyboard and a programe called Impulse Tracker or something. Its been years since I did this and I dont really remember the details.
Anyway, I think it was for one of the QFM contests that I decided to use this as the insparation for the track was from one of the echoey riffs from track 13 of Made In Heaven.

To say Im a bit cheesed off here is an understatement. Don't get me wrong though, I'm honoured and thrilled that Queen have decided to use this as an opening to their concerts (they could have let me know about it though!) and I'm not cheesed with Queen, I'm cheesed with this DJ Koma guy.
He has ripped one of my own songs without even asking me or letting me know about it, grafting the beginning to Beautiful Day on the start and dubbing some Freddie samples over it. Its been done okay I suppose, but it essentially remains my song. I guess I should be grateful that he has at least kept my name in the title and given me some credit for it!

If he had taken one of my Queen mixes as a base then added to it, then yep. Again an email would be nice but at the end of the day it would have still been a "Queen" remix. By using my Track 13 inspired mix, one of my original songs, without permission, notification or anything and altering it (and not very much at that) it really gripes me. Probably because I feel the song is "my baby" and I feel like its been stolen from me!

Lol! Listen to me. I know some people would say its poetic justice for what I have been doing to the Queen tracks but at least QP knew about it. Greg Brooks knows about my mixes. So does Jim Beech. So does Brian May (apparently).
I didn't know about this mix to my song!

Listen to me, I sound like some old housewife whos had her sheets nicked!

At the end of the day I'm just really happy, thrilled, honoured et al. that Queen have used my mix in their live shows and they are more than welcome to continue using it.

If they feel the need, then by all means send me some signed CDs, DVDs, unreleased demos, etc or even divert some funds from Brian May's wig fund to me.
Did I tell you that I am in great need of a new Honda Accord type R, and my fiance' is constantly bugging me to buy her a Seat Leon. Lol! Only joking.... I know Brian May doesnt have any wigs! :)