M Is FOR MASHUP - Summer Bonus
Junes' Top 25 Mashups
By DJ Useo
It's that time of year when time is most important, so although I now
call on your attention, I will spare you vast exposition & simply
present to you the top 25 mashups I enjoyed most recently.
All are freshly-mixed & ready for immediate consumption. The order of
the tracks is not intended to represent a countdown by
popularity. These are all great mashups.
1. DJ Fac - The Creation That Feeds (Stereo MC's vs Nine Inch Nails)
2. Fidget Freeman -Tidal Rave Work (Bit Thief vs Bryan Cox)
3. ToTom - Moonage Todaydream (Smashing Pumpkins vs David Bowie)
4. Mighty Mike - Fall Out Gloria (Fall Out Boy vs Gloria Gaynor)
5. DJ Le CLown - Maniac Love (Michael Sambello vs Busta Rhymes vs Kathy Brown)
6. Mp3J - Rockefeller In The USSR (The Beatles vs Fatboy Slim)
7. Instamatic - Florida Ghost Tour (Flo-Rida vs Deadmau5)
8. DJ Spider - Sex on Fire Can Set You Free (Kings of Leon vs. N-Trance)
9. DJ Clive$ter - Mercy Mutya (Groove Armada vs. Duffy vs. Dannii Minogue)
10. DJ Useo - 2 Classwars Down (Blackbird vs KMFDM vs Mystery Jets vs Pilooski)
11. Dan Mei & Marc Johnce & Clivester - Read My Promiscuous Mind (The Killers & Pet Shop Boys Vs Usher Vs Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland)
12. Party Ben - Laktos Scientist (Coldplay vs. Sebastian Ingrosso)
13. Bynar - A Forest In Paris (The Cure vs Mylo)
14. DJ Schmolli - You Give My Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi vs Justin Timberlake)
15. The Reborn Identity - In for the Kooks (La Roux vs The Kooks)
16. Bip_Bip - Killer Friends (Queen vs Beatles)
17. [MMM] MadMixMustang - The Bridge Of Burden (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
18. DJ Not-I-Kool - Shook C.R.E.A.M. (Mobb Deep vs. Wu-Tang vs. Kool & The Gang)
19. Winkar - Lopez-Free Love You Got (Justin Timberlake vs Ultra Nate vs Colby O'Donis)
20. Tizwarz - Right Round Amy (Flo-Rida vs Britney Spears)
21. DJ Earworm - Heartless (Fray vs. The Police & the Black Eyed Peas)
22. Bobby Martini - Something So Strong In Our Secret World (Peter Gabriel vs Crowded House)
23. Pheugoo - Green Light (Ready to Go with the Flow) (Queens of the Stone Age vs John Legend ft Andre 3000)
24. BDJ - Can't Buy Me Love ft. Peter Sellers (The Beatles vs Peter Sellers)
25. Neil Tomo - Brand New Blue Chair (Neil Thompson Helsinki Mix) (Andy Caldwell vs Morcheeba)
Now that's some fine mixing.Each & every track made solely for the love of the act.
You can find them all with any good search engine.
Simply copy & paste the info plus the words 'website' or 'blog' & hit 'search'.
None of the mixers claim copyright.
Mixed for purposes of demonstration only.
Tell your friends.
Feel free to leave a comment.
Mix Of The Week - Hahnstudios' 'PLASTIC MIX' maybe short at 13
minutes, but the 80's electro-goodness shines through every
groove. Grab this instant classic here (
hahnstudios.blogspot.com/ ) (Near the bottom of the page)
Mashup Tip : Keep a punching bag handy for when your mixing software fails & you lose all your work!!!
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Ton Danehy: Welcome to Tucson, you zany alternative-newsweekly people (tucsonweekly.com)
This weekend, the 'Tucson Weekly' is hosting the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Yes, for all you haters out there, Tucson has shown itself capable of attracting somebody other than the Jehovah's Witnesses during the summer.
Catherine O'Sullivan: Why don't Americans throw rocks when we're all roiled up? (tucsonweekly.com)
I've been so impressed by all the photos coming out of Iran. All those people upset about the recent election fraud, yelling, throwing stones, running right into the breach of whatever the authorities throw at them. I can't imagine Americans doing that.
CHRISTOPHER J. FERGUSON: Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius (chronicle.com)
The idea of intelligence - that human beings possess, to varying degrees, an innate and universal ability to learn - has taken a beating in recent decades.
Chris Dodd: Rights, Responsibilities and Love (dodd.senate.gov)
On Sunday, The Meriden Record-Journal published the following op-ed by [Connecticut] Senator Chris Dodd: "... I am also proud to now count myself among the many elected officials, advocates, and ordinary citizens who support full marriage equality for same-sex couples."
Triana: Kaiser Permenente + other insurance DENYING critical drugs to both my parents
The Washington "Democrats" and Repigs and the goddamned m'f'ing AMA can scaremonger all they want about the "socialized medicine" boogeyman or about how "Oh nooooooooooooo, we don't want Washington bureaucrats interfering with our health care!!" But GUESS WHAT we've got RIGHT NOW? CORPRAT BUREAUCRATS interfering in our health care.
Bruce Reed: It Can Happen Here (slate.com)
Conservatives' new share-the-wealth plan to destroy capitalism and make you $5 richer.
Oliver Burkeman: The Brangelina industry (guardian.co.uk)
Each week celebrity magazines breathlessly report yet another twist in the Jen-Brad-Angelina love triangle. But where do the stories come from? Are they ever true? And does that even matter?
Fair-weather rage (guardian.co.uk)
As soon as the sun comes out, all kinds of novices suddenly hog the cycle paths and clog up the pool. No wonder we're angry, says Tom Meltzer.
Sarah Boslaugh: Review of "Studs Terkel's 'Working': A Graphic Adaptation" by Harvey Pekar (popmatters.com)
Pekar finds splendor where others might see only grind, and has a gift for finding the telling anecdote or quotation to illustrate a point or typify a character.
20 QUESTIONS: Aleksandar Hemon (popmatters.com)
"Hell," Hemon tells PopMatters 20 Questions, "is being stuck at an airport without a book, starving for thought, forced to watch CNN." Heaven might be a bathtub full of Turkish coffee Š
Connie Ogle: "Joseph O'Neill: Bowled over by the fantastic" (McClatchy Newspapers)
"Think fantastic," urges the charismatic Chuck Ramkissoon, the shady but genial Trinidadian entrepreneur in Joseph O'Neill's prize-winning novel "Netherland." "My motto is, Think fantastic."
James B. Eldred: A Chat with Moby (bullz-eye.com)
"As sad as this might sound, I sell more records in Belgium than I do in America. Even though I was born in the United States and I live in the United States, in terms of status or in terms of my record sales, it's quite a small country."
The Weekly Poll
Next poll will be June 30, as my system is going in for a complete overhaul by my local computer boffin...
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny but cool.
Guess we all learned another one of TVs dirty little secrets - the 'topical' shows like Dave & Conan & Craig & the Jimmys all taped their Thursday show on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Sure bet that Dave, Conan, Craig and the Jimmys show's for today were also taped earlier in the week.
Kinda weird when the 'topical' shows are oblivious to events that caused their corporate masters to pre-empt regular programming and, more importantly, commercials.
And, Dave, Conan, Craig and the Jimmys are in reruns next week.
Michael Jackson's fans tried to collect at his star on the Hollywood Walk O'Fame, but it's in front of Grauman's and the area was taped off for the premiere of Bruno.
There used to be a wonderful radio talk show host, also named Michael Jackson, in the LA-market.
He was sane, rational, well-informed and not a pompous, self-serving, hate-mongering, right-wing hypcrite, so, of course, Disney fired him to make room for another bag-o-wind-and-bile.
This Michael Jackson also has a star on the Walk O'Fame - a couple of blocks east - so that's where Jacko's fans ended up.
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John Kerry
The Federal Election Commission failed to reach a decision Thursday on Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry's request to use $300,000 from his campaign funds to invest in a documentary about injured Iraq war veterans.
The panel will not issue an advisory opinion on Kerry's request.
A major issue was whether Kerry's proposal should be considered as an investment of campaign money, which is allowed, or else as his campaign operating a business. Campaigns cannot operate businesses.
The lawmaker also has asked the Senate ethics committee for permission to use campaign funds to invest in the documentary.
Kerry has $3.5 million in his campaign account and does not face re-election until 2014.
John Kerry
Beats Conan
Dave
Nielsen Media Research says the "Late Show With David Letterman" beat the "Tonight Show" last week - the first time in more than three years.
Letterman scored a weeklong average of 3.46 million viewers, edging out the 3.32 million viewers who watched NBC's "Tonight Show," hosted by Conan O'Brien.
It was Letterman's first win during a full week of all-new broadcasts since December 2005, when Oprah Winfrey was his guest on the CBS late-night show. Letterman was perhaps given a ratings boost from lingering controversy over a wisecrack that targeted the family of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Dave
35th Anniversary For 'PHC'
Garrison Keillor
For the 35th anniversary of his "A Prairie Home Companion," humorist Garrison Keillor will be in "Lake Wobegon" when he reads the news from Lake Wobegon.
Keillor caps the latest season of "A Prairie Home Companion" with a Fourth of July broadcast from Avon, part of the central Minnesota region that helped inspire Keillor's make-believe hometown, "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average."
The performance marks 35 years since Keillor's public radio variety show debuted on July 6, 1974, at Macalester College in St. Paul. That show, broadcast live, was watched by about a dozen people. "A Prairie Home Companion" is now heard on nearly 600 public radio stations nationwide, attracting more than 4.3 million listeners a week.
After this Saturday's "Prairie Home" performance at Tanglewood with actors Martin Sheen and Steve Martin, Keillor plans a "grass-roots show" for the Fourth of July, with longtime special effects man Tom Keith, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, the Lake Wobegon Brass Band, the St. John's Boys' Choir and singer Andra Suchy.
Garrison Keillor
35,000 Years Old
Bird-Bone Flutes
People have been making music for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone flutes excavated in southwest Germany.
Researchers said on Wednesday they had found a five-hole flute made from the radius bone of a griffon vulture and two fragments of ivory flutes in a cave in the Swabian Jura mountains.
The flutes are at least 5,000 years older than any previous confirmed archaeological examples of musical instruments.
"These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonised Europe, more than 35,000 calendar years ago," Nicholas Conard of Tuebingen University and colleagues reported in the journal Nature.
Bird-Bone Flutes
Apologizes For Slur
Perez Hilton
Openly gay gossip blogger Perez Hilton apologized Thursday for unleashing a gay slur during a nightclub altercation Monday with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am that resulted in the band's tour manager being charged with assault for allegedly punching Hilton.
Hilton originally said he called will.i.am the gay slur at a Toronto nightclub after the musician told the gossip blogger not to write about his band on his Web site. Peas' tour manager Alfred Molina was arrested after he allegedly punched Hilton following the argument. Hilton later posted about the incident on the microblogging site Twitter and in a tear-filled video on his site.
The 31-year-old blogger sued the Peas' tour manager on Wednesday in Los Angeles for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Hilton is seeking unspecified damages of more than $25,000.
He wrote Thursday that he would donate any money won from the lawsuit to the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which seeks to support diversity programs in education.
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Sister-In-Law Charged
Dane Cook
Dane Cook's sister-in-law has been charged with aiding her husband in the theft of millions of dollars from the comedian.
The Massachusetts attorney general's office says 37-year-old Erika McCauley, of Wilmington, will be arraigned Thursday.
Darryl McCauley is Cook's half-brother and McCauley's husband. He pleaded not guilty in March to larceny and forgery.
Prosecutors say Darryl McCauley stole the money while he was business manager for Cook's company, Great Dane Enterprises. His attorney has said he denies taking money without his brother's consent.
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Faces Charges
Amanda Brumfield
The estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton has been indicted on several charges in the death of a 1-year-old girl she was baby sitting in central Florida.
Amanda Brumfield, 29, was booked at the Orange County Jail on Wednesday. She faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child.
Court records show she told investigators the infant who died in her care in October acted normally and ate bananas after she fell from a playpen and hit her head. But detectives believe Brumfield's story is inconsistent with the girl's injuries.
Thornton's publicist has said the actor hasn't spoken to Brumfield for a number of years.
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Buy Stake In NFL Team
Estefans
Singer Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer Emilio Estefan, are becoming minority owners of the NFL football team the Miami Dolphins.
Gloria Estefan says she is a "hardcore" sports fan and is happy to be a part of her hometown team.
Last month, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross also began a partnership with Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville enterprise, which includes Land Shark Lager.
Buffett has yet to accept Ross's invitation to become a minority owner, but the Dolphins' stadium has been renamed Land Shark Stadium for this season.
Estefans
Stoned Wallabies
Crop Circles
The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania has been solved -- stoned wallabies are eating the poppy heads and hopping around in circles.
"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," the state's top lawmaker Lara Giddings told local media on Thursday.
Poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids said livestock which ate the poppies were known to "act weird" -- including deer and sheep in the state's highlands.
Australia produces about 50 percent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates.
Crop Circles
In Memory
Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett, the "Charlie's Angels" star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62.
Fawcett burst on the scene in 1976 as one-third of the crime-fighting trio in TV's "Charlie's Angels." A poster of her in a clingy swimsuit sold in the millions.
She left the show after one season but had a flop on the big screen with "Somebody Killed Her Husband." She turned to more serious roles in the 1980s and 1990s, winning praise playing an abused wife in "The Burning Bed."
As further proof of her acting credentials, Fawcett appeared off-Broadway in "Extremities" as a woman who is raped in her own home. She repeated the role in the 1986 film version.
Not content to continue playing victims, she switched type. She played a murderous mother in the 1989 true-crime story "Small Sacrifices" and a tough lawyer on the trail of a thief in 1992's "Criminal Behavior."
In 1995, at age 50, Fawcett posed partly nude for Playboy magazine. The following year, she starred in a Playboy video, "All of Me," in which she was equally unclothed while she sculpted and painted.
Fawcett's most unfortunate career moment may have been a 1997 appearance on David Letterman's show, when her disjointed, rambling answers led many to speculate that she was on drugs. She denied that, blaming her strange behavior on questionable advice from her mother to be playful and have a good time.
Born Feb. 2, 1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas, she was named Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett by her mother, who said she added the Farrah because it sounded good with Fawcett. She was less than a month old when she underwent surgery to remove a digestive tract tumor with which she was born.
After attending Roman Catholic grade school and W.B. Ray High School, Fawcett enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin. Fellow students voted her one of the 10 most beautiful people on the campus and her photos were eventually spotted by movie publicist David Mirisch, who suggested she pursue a film career. After overcoming her parents' objections, she agreed.
Soon she was appearing in such TV shows as "The Flying Nun," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Partridge Family."
Lee Majors became both her boyfriend and her adviser on career matters, and they married in 1973. She dropped his last name from hers after they divorced in 1982.
By then she had already begun her long relationship with Ryan O'Neal. Both Redmond and Ryan O'Neal have grappled with drug and legal problems in recent years.
Farrah Fawcett
In Memory
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who reigned over the music world like no other, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.
Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
His 1982 album "Thriller" - which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.
The public first knew him as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Ind. Among their No. 1 hits were "I Want You Back," "ABC" and "I'll Be There."
Jackson ranked alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time. He united two of music's biggest names when he was briefly married to Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, and Jackson's death immediately evoked comparisons to that of Presley himself, who died at age 42 in 1977.
As years went by, Jackson became an increasingly freakish figure - a middle-aged man-child weirdly out of touch with grown-up life. His skin became lighter, his nose narrower, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice. He often wore a germ mask while traveling, kept a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles as one of his closest companions, and surrounded himself with children at his Neverland ranch, a storybook playland filled with toys, rides and animals. The tabloids dubbed him "Wacko Jacko."
Michael Joseph Jackson was born Aug. 29, 1958, in Gary. He was 4 years old when he began singing with his brothers - Marlon, Jermaine, Jackie and Tito - in the Jackson 5. After his early success with bubblegum soul, he struck out on his own, generating innovative, explosive, unstoppable music.
The peak may have come in 1983, when Motown celebrated its 25th anniversary with an all-star televised concert and Jackson moonwalked off with the show, joining his brothers for a medley of old hits and then leaving them behind with a pointing, crouching, high-kicking, splay-footed, crotch-grabbing run through "Billie Jean."
By then he had cemented his place in pop culture. He got the plum Scarecrow role in the 1978 movie musical "The Wiz," a pop-R&B version of "The Wizard of Oz," that starred Diana Ross as Dorothy.
During production of a 1984 Pepsi commercial, Jackson's scalp sustains burns when an explosion sets his hair on fire.
Jackson's 13 No. 1 one hits on the Billboard charts put him behind only Presley, the Beatles and Mariah Carey, Werde said.
Michael Jackson
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