Rhythm Scholar got an early start in the bootleg
business: He began attending recording sessions when
he was three (his dad managed '70s funk band
Zikkafoos) and was a competent mixer by the age of
five. While still a teen he helped local artists
record remixes, and he was granted full control over
extended tracks long before the world ever heard of
mashups.
Today, with his 3-piece suits weighed down by
ipods, day planners, and a cell phone with
headset, the Scholar is a one-man mobile
communications center. At twenty-nine, the
Chicago-based bootleg DJ gets a lot of feedback from
fans of his tracks. Highly regarded on the world of DJ
forums & internet radio, he delights frequently with
cuts like Night Hunter (Demons and Desires) (Full Hunt
Remix), a pairing of the Eagles' 'one of these nights'
with Ice T's 'the hunted child'.
I was able to get an interview with the reclusive
DJ, in which he revealed much about his art.
01- How did you get started in the bootleg/remix
business?
RS- Music has always been a big part of my life. I've
been DJing and
creating my own versions of tunes since the 80s, using
whatever means I could
afford. Tape decks, a Casio sampling keyboard and even
primitive music
creation programs on the Commodore 64.
02- Do you approach your musical creations from a DJs
point of view
rather than that of a traditional producer who would
be thinking in terms
of lyrics and melodies?
RS- I try hard to incorporate what I've learned as a DJ
in the mixes I
make, while also trying to maintain a large part of
what made the original
songs cool in the first place. Adding DJ-friendly
intros and breaks is
something I usually do as far as structure in my
creations. But other
than that, whatever happens, happens.
03- Your biggest successes have been in to 80's New
Wave & Dance realm,
such as The Fixx of The Clash. Are you enjoying the
re-creation of
retro?
RS- Well... I'm enjoying MY re-creation of retro. :)
A lot of retro mixes
I hear coming out these days using sources from the
80s don't seem to
have a lot of thought or time put into them. Nor do
they even contain
much of the original tunes. Many times simple loops
are used over and
over, with some standard dance beats and maybe some
electro blips added.
Nothing exciting, fun, or different seems to happen in
most of those
mixes. I try to make my mixes a little more involved
and exciting
throughout. Hopefully my remixes can be enjoyed
anytime as single tracks and
not just for a couple minutes as a splash of retro in
a club DJ set.
04- How do you think being in the states rather than
the UK has affected
your popularity?
RS- Hopefully location hasn't affected it either way.
Everything is
instantly global these days. The quality of what I'm
creating would be the
same if I was here, there, or anywhere. It sucks if
that kind of thing
truly makes a difference.
05- Who has influenced you as a producer?
RS- I would say the producer that has been involved
with the most music
that I enjoyed, especially in the 80s, would be Trevor
Horn. There's a lot
of incredible tunes out there thanks to him.
As far as remixing goes... I was very partial to the
edit-style
remixing that was happening in the 80s. The 'Latin
Rascals' did a lot of cool
stuff with razors and reel to reel tape back then. I
do a lot of edits
and effects in my mixes. This is the result of my love
for that style.
06- What is your favorite record of all time, & the
favorite that you've done?
RS- It's way to hard to try to think of a favorite
record of all time. But
I can mention a great one. In the 70s, a funky
keyboardist named Manzel
Bush had a couple singles released that were amazing.
His full-length
album was NEVER released back then. In 2004, the old
recordings were
finally compiled as an album and released on CD. That
CD is 'Midnight
Theme' by Manzel. If you like funk, then you must
listen to it. :)
As far as the remixes I've done... Hmmm. I guess I'll
leave the
picking of favorites of those to other people.
07- Do you mix a lot?
RS- I try to not go too long without working on
something musical. Even if
I bounce around from different projects, I try to keep
creating
something.
08- What style of music do you feel makes the best
tracks?
RS- Funk. Anything that creates a nice, funky groove.
09- What are you working on now?
RS- I have SO many music projects started. I don't
usually talk about what
I'm working on because of my past history with
unfinished mixes. Along
with new stuff, I am also going back, tidying up and
finishing some of
the stuff from the past as well. Stuff from ELO, Yes,
Thomas Dolby...
10- What advice would you give to somebody who is just
starting out?
RS- Take your time with your musical projects. Explore
the music-making
software you have. There's no rush. Ask questions in
online music forums if
you need help. The more time you put into your tracks,
and in learning
the software, the better your creations will sound.
11- What preparations do you do when remixing and what
are the essential
elements you need to make a great bootleg track?
RS- I always try to obtain as many of the available
versions of the tunes I
want to remix as I can before starting. If you can get
instrumentals or
a capellas of the songs, then you'll be more free to do
what you want to
the tracks. I then try to create all new drum and
percussion tracks
that compliment the songs I am working on. That way I
don't have to
completely rely on just the original tune when I want
to take my mix in
different directions. From there I just listen to the
versions I have, and
figure out what would work best for sections of my
mixes. I then do a
lot of experimentation with what's there and compile
the best of the
results.
12- What do you think of the current state of
bootlegging?
RS- I think there's still a fair amount of decent
stuff being produced.
There IS a large amount of crap being made, as well
though. The good tunes
may be only a small percentage, but they are out
there. With everyone
being a bedroom producer these days, it's to be
expected. Certain people
are always turning out wonderful tunes, though.
13- Can you describe how it feels to be associated
with the number of
quality mixes you've made?
RS- When I'm able to satisfy myself with the remixes I
make, then I'm
happy. So far that's worked out well for me. I
wouldn't still be doing it
after all this time if it wasn't still enjoyable.
14- Is there anything left for you that you haven't
accomplished that
you want to accomplish? As a fan, I'd rather you
continued for the
foreseeable future.
RS-Hopefully someday I'll be able to work on music
production and remixing
as more than just a hobby. Until then, I'll keep doing
what I've been
doing. There will always be some song out there that
I'll want to turn
into a Rhythm Scholar remix!
15- Your latest track, 'Night Hunter', is a bootleg
featuring the Eagles
and Ice-T. You have mentioned there also being a
version without the
Ice-T lyrics included. Will that version see the light
of day?
RS- I think so. I just need to figure out how best to
structure what's left
when Ice-T is removed. I was thinking of leaving in
some of the
scratching, but I haven't experimented with that
option, yet. We'll see. It
should be out soon.
16- Is there anything you'd like to add?
RS- I'm always interested in what songs people would
like to hear remixed.
If you have any suggestions, let me know. Some of my
mixes are the
result of just one person telling me they thought the
songs would be
perfect to remix. Other than that I just hope that
people continue to enjoy
what I create. It's a good feeling. Thanks!
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Paul Krugman: Valor and Squalor (New York Times)
When Salon, the online magazine, reported on mistreatment of veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center two years ago, officials simply denied that there were any problems. And they initially tried to brush off last month's exposé in The Washington Post. But this time, with President Bush's approval at 29 percent, Democrats in control of Congress, and Donald Rumsfeld no longer defense secretary - Robert Gates, his successor, appears genuinely distressed at the situation - the whitewash didn't stick.
Sarah Prohaska: Ballooning foreclosures tax court clerks, judges (palmbeachpost.com)
For months, a ceaseless routine has gripped the St. Lucie clerk of court's civil office: New mortgage foreclosure lawsuits arrive in unprecedented numbers - huge stacks, some a foot or 2 tall. But as soon as one stack is processed and emptied from the in-box, another dozen or more foreclosures show up the next day. On really busy mornings, process servers drop off banks' boxes filled with these documents, which set into motion a process that often means homeowners who haven't paid their mortgages will lose their homes.
Andrew Sullivan: Faggot (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
I watched Ann Coulter ... in the gayest way I could. I was on a stairmaster at a gym, slack-jawed at her proud defense of calling someone a "faggot" on the same stage as presidential candidates and as an icon of today's conservative movement. The way in which Fox News and Sean Hannity and, even more repulsively, Pat Cadell, shilled for her was a new low for Fox, I think - and for what remains of decent conservatism. "We're all friends here," Hannity chuckled at the end. Yes, they were. And no faggots were on the show to defend themselves. That's fair and balanced.
Tom Hodgkinson: Why I decided to pull the plug on email (guardian.co.uk)
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.
Boys! Boys! Boys! (arts.guardian.co.uk)
Spots, heartbreak and batwing jumpers ... Esther Addley celebrates 40 stormy years of teenage magazine comic strips.
Hot, dry and windy - more like late summer weather than early spring.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Fiji', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'Shark'.
On a RERUNDave (from 2/19/07) are Jim Carrey, and Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Bill Maher, Jacinda Barrett, and Razorlight.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', followed by a RERUN'The Office', then a FRESH'Scrubs', followed by a FRESH'30 Rock', then a RERUN'The Office', followed by a RERUN'30 Rock'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 1/19/07) are Don Rickles, John Stamos, and Rocco DeLuca & the Burden.
On a RERUNConan (from 9/18/06) are Gisele Bundchen, Jim Cramer, and Madeleine Peyroux.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 1/16/07) are Dominique Swain and Aaron Lewis.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Ugly Betty', followed by a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then a RERUN'Men In Trees'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 2/2/07) are Andy Dick, Ivanka Trump, and NAS.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'The Rundown'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then the FRESH'Real Premonitions'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson', followed by the movie 'Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines', then the movie 'Black Dog'.
BBC -
[1:00 PM] As Time Goes By - Episode 4;
[1:40 PM] My Hero - Ep. 3 Girlfriend;
[2:20 PM] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 4;
[3:00 PM] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 1;
[4:00 PM] The Saint - Ep. 12 The Man Who Gambled With Life;
[5:00 PM] The Avengers - Ep. 18 Return of the Cybernauts;
[6:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 11;
[7:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 22 Lutton;
[8:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[8:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[9:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[9:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
[10:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[10:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[11:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[11:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 2;
[12:00 AM] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 55;
[1:00 AM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[1:30 AM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
[2:00 AM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[2:30 AM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[3:00 AM] Bad Girls - Episode 4;
[4:00 AM] Bad Girls - Episode 5;
[5:00 AM] Bad Girls - Episode 6;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Design', another 'Top Design', 'Real Housewives', and another 'Real Housewives'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Sarah Silverman'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Dr. Sharon Moalem.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Ted Koppel.
FX has 'That 70s Show', another 'That 70s Show', followed by the movie 'The Sum Of All Fears', then the movie 'The Sum Of All Fears'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', and 'Last Stand Of The 300'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] Bus 174;
[08:30 AM] Lulu On The Bridge;
[10:15 AM] The Empty Mirror;
[12:15 PM] Bus 174;
[02:15 PM] Lulu On The Bridge;
[04:00 PM] The Empty Mirror;
[06:00 PM] Bus 174;
[08:00 PM] The Yakuza Papers 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity;
[09:45 PM] The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima;
[11:30 PM] The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War;
[01:15 AM] The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics;
[03:00 AM] The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode;
[04:40 AM] Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong;
[05:40 AM] Lulu On The Bridge. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Fire In The Sky', followed by the movie 'Red Planet'.
Sundance -
[08:30 AM] Red Sky at Morning;
[10:30 AM] Pack Strap Swallow;
[12:00 PM] Brazil;
[02:15 PM] Mother/Country;
[02:45 PM] Millennium Mambo;
[04:30 PM] The Human Behavior Experiments;
[05:30 PM] Loggerheads;
[07:15 PM] John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk;
[09:00 PM] Swinging: Season 1: Episode 102;
[09:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[10:00 PM] Where Angels Fear to Tread;
[12:00 AM] Swinging: Season 1: Episode 102;
[12:30 AM] High Art;
[02:15 AM] Topsy-Turvy;
[05:00 AM] Debbie Does Dallas: Uncovered. (ALL TIMES EST)
Sharon Stone speaks at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Frank G. Pogue Honors Scholarship luncheon Wednesday, March 7, 2007, in Erie, Pa. Stone was describing the importance of humanitarian efforts like this porous pottery that helps filter water in third-world countries. The pottery was made by Edinboro graduate and current Slippery Rock University art professor Richard Wukich who won the Alumni Award of Excellence.
Photo by Greg Wohlford
There was joy in "Roachville" on Wednesday as the edgy, Latino-themed comic strip "La Cucaracha" returned to the Los Angeles Times after a swift, Internet-driven protest.
Lalo Alcaraz, the creator of "La Cucaracha," said he was dumbfounded when he opened his hometown paper Monday and saw no sign of the wisecracking, antennaed Chicano hipster named Cuco Rocha or any of his barrio friends.
"They didn't give a hint of who they were going to drop," he said. "It was kind of poor form."
"We've had some reader reaction, which is why we brought `La Cucaracha' back," Times spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said. She couldn't immediately say how many unhappy e-mails the Times had received but noted it was "enough that we thought we should listen and bring it back."
"La Cucaracha" was one of four strips the Times dropped to create more space for its kids reading page. Sullivan said it was unlikely the others, "Candorville," "Mr. Boffo" and "Mallard Fillmore," would return.
Fictional Kazakh TV reporter Borat has made an unexpected cameo appearance as a victim of censorship in a heavyweight annual human rights report issued by the State Department.
The 2006 report, released in Washington on Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, criticized the real Kazakhstan, a vast oil-producing Central Asian state, for increased restrictions on freedom of speech and other abuses.
The report cited Borat's loss of his Kazakh webpage www.borat.kz in late 2005 alongside court cases and limits on free speech faced by the few domestic media critical of Kazakhstan's long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo gives a lecture on Abu Ghraib prison on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Zimbardo, best known for a 1971 prison experiment that had to be aborted when students playing prison guards became sadistic and the prisoners became depressed, delivered his final lecture.
Photo by Paul Sakuma
More than 30 Vermont towns passed resolutions on Tuesday seeking to impeach resident Bush, while at least 16 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
Known for picturesque autumn foliage, colonial inns, maple sugar and old-fashion dairy farms, Vermont is in the vanguard of a grass-roots protest movement to impeach Bush over his handling of the unpopular Iraq war.
The resolutions passed on Vermont's annual town meeting day -- a colonial era tradition where citizens debate issues of the day big and small -- are symbolic and cannot force Congress to impeach Bush, but they "may help instigate further discussions in the legislature," said state Rep. David Zuckerman.
"The president must be held accountable," said Zuckerman, a politician from Burlington, Vermont's largest city.
Jake Waid rubbed his bloodshot eyes, blankly stared at a script for Shakespeare's "Macbeth," then resumed an unfamiliar struggle with a set of lines.
"Tleil tsu tlax yei l kusheek'eiyi ye yageeyi kwasatDinch, ch'a aan yak'ei," he read slowly of what would normally be, "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
Waid, a 31-year-old who has been acting since he was 15, faces his most daunting stage assignment to date: performing Shakespeare in Tlingit, an American Indian language unique to southeast Alaska and Canada, and in which fewer than 300 people are fluent. Its words are difficult to translate into English sounds.
The role calls for mastering new sets of pauses, sounds and pitches - first with his ears then with his voice - in delivering the lines. That's not all.
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a forensic anthropologist said Tuesday after exhuming the body.
The performer's son, Jay Richardson, hired Dr. Bill Bass, a well-known forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, to look at the remains in Beaumont, Texas.
There have been rumors a gun might have been fired on board the plane and that the Big Bopper might have survived the crash and died trying to get help.
"There was no indication of foul play," Bass said in a telephone interview from Beaumont. "There are fractures from head to toe. Massive fractures. ... (He) died immediately. He didn't crawl away. He didn't walk away from the plane."
British comedian Rowan Atkinson as his alter ego Mr. Bean poses for photographs as he sits on the sand at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Wednesday, March 7, 2007. Atkinson is in Australia to promote the opening of his new film 'Mr. Bean's Holiday.'
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are fetching around $50 apiece online.
The properly struck dollar coins, bearing the likeness of the nation's first president, are inscribed along the edge with "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum" and the year and mint mark. The flawed coins made it past inspectors and went into circulation Feb. 15.
It is the first U.S. coin to have words stamped around the edge since the storied 1933 $20 gold "double eagle," among the rarest and most valuable in the world. In 2002, a 1933 double eagle was sold for $7.59 million - the highest price ever paid for a coin.
Three newspapers said this week they will drop Ann Coulter's column after the republican spokesliar referred to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."
The Mountain Press in Sevierville, Tennessee, The Oakland Press in Michigan and the Lancaster New Era in Pennsylvania said they would stop running Coulter's syndicated column because of the comment she made last week.
Coulter's column, which has been distributed by Universal Press Syndicate since 1999, runs in about 100 papers, syndicate spokeswoman Kathie Kerr said, adding that the syndicate has no plans to drop the column.
Kenny Loggins displays his hands to supporters after placing them in cement at the Hollywood Rockwalk, Wednesday March 7, 2007 in Los Angeles. Loggins, whose hit duo Loggins and Messina in the '70s segwayed into a successful solo career, was inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on Wednesday. Known for his soulful voice and lyrics, he won a Grammy in 1980 for writing the Doobie Brothers hit 'What a Fool Believes' with Michael McDonald, and in 1981 for 'This Is It.'
Photo by Nick Ut
Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
Ryan Jordan's fraud came to light last week when The New Yorker published an editor's note stating that a 2006 Wikipedia profile in the magazine had erroneously described Essjay's purported academic resume. The New Yorker said a Wikipedia higher-up had vouched for Essjay to the author of the piece, Stacy Schiff, but that neither knew Essjay's real identity.
In addition to contributing thousands of articles to the sprawling Web encyclopedia, Jordan had recently been promoted to arbitrator, a position for trusted members of the community. Arbitrators can overrule an edit made by another volunteer or block people who abuse the site.
Jordan also was hired in January by Wikia Inc., a for-profit venture run by Wales. He has since been dismissed.
A judge has moved to break a legal logjam in the Hollywood wiretapping case by ruling that no new defendants can be added to the 13 civil lawsuits already filed against private eye Anthony Pellicano and others.
More than 20 attorneys packed a downtown courtroom for the hearing Tuesday, illustrating the furor that could accompany the civil trials.
Prosecutors contend in a 111-count criminal indictment that Pellicano illegally wiretapped the phones of Hollywood stars such as Sylvester Stallone and bribed police officers to run the names of more than 60 people, including comedians Garry Shandling and Kevin Nealon, through government databases.
The information gathered was used to get dirt for threats, blackmail and in some cases to secure a tactical advantage in litigation, prosecutors alleged.
Actor Dustin Hoffman speaks at the 22nd annual Israel Film Festival's Opening Night Award Gala Dinner in Beverly Hills, California March 6, 2007.
Photo by Phil McCarten
A high school student who made a dress out of candy wrappers has claimed a top award in an art competition. Caroline Bodell, a junior from Lapeer West High School east of Flint, won a Gold Key design award in a regional scholastic art competition with a dress made from Dum Dum Pop lollipop wrappers.
"I looked at maps, old sheet music and then I found the Dum Dum wrappers," Bodell said. "I had seen a dress could be made out of duct tape and I thought, why couldn't you make one out of candy wrappers? So, I experimented with the materials and the Dum Dum dress was made."
Later this year, the Dum Dum dress will move on to New York, where it will be judged again. When the competition is over, Spangler Candy will add the dress to its museum.
Star Jones Reynolds has landed her own daily talk show - and she won't have to worry about Barbara Walters this time.
Court TV said Wednesday it had hired Reynolds to run a show about criminal justice issues that intersect with the pop culture world. The show, which has no title yet, will likely start early this fall.
It's a return to her roots for Reynolds, a lawyer who began her TV career as a legal commentator on Court TV in 1991. She was an original co-host with ABC's "The View," starting in 1997, where she became acquainted with the glitz and glamour of show biz.
Musicians Tony Banks (L), Phil Collins (C), and Mike Rutherford arrive to attend a news conference announcing the 'Turn It On Again' tour and the reunification of the band Genesis in New York March 6, 2007.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
Federal agents seized four retired F-14 fighter jets that authorities said were improperly transferred from the Navy to two air museums and the company that produced the TV show "JAG."
The Tomcats were not properly demilitarized before being transferred to private parties, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Two of the jets were at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, Calif., another was at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, and the fourth, which was acquired by Paramount Pictures, then resold to a scrap dealer, had been stored at a facility operated by Southern California Aviation at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, Calif.
A wetland bird that eluded scientists for nearly 130 years has been rediscovered at a wastewater treatment plant in Thailand, Birdlife International announced Wednesday.
Little is known about the large-billed reed-warbler because it had not been seen since its discovery in 1867 in the Sutlej Valley of India. Because it was so rare, scientists had long debated whether it represented a true species or was an aberrant individual of a more common species.
That debate appears to be settled after Philip Round, an ornithologist at Bangkok's Mahidol University, captured one of the birds on March 27, 2006, at a wastewater treatment center outside Bangkok, the conservation organization in Cambridge, England said.
To confirm his findings, Round sent photographs and DNA samples of the bird to Staffan Bensch of Sweden's Lund University, who had previously examined the Indian specimen. Bensch confirmed it represented a valid species.
Liu Shuping, a farmer specializing in raising pigs, presents a newly-born piglet with one head, two mouths, two noses and three eyes, for photographers in Xi'an, northwest China's Shannxi Province March 6, 2007. Experts attributed it's condition to genetic variation, local media reported.
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Rhythm Scholar got an early start in the bootleg
business: He began attending recording sessions when
he was three (his dad managed '70s funk band
Zikkafoos) and was a competent mixer by the age of
five. While still a teen he helped local artists
record remixes, and he was granted full control over
extended tracks long before the world ever heard of
mashups.
