M Is FOR MASHUP - October 14th, 2014
The MONSTER MASHUP X!
By DJ Useo
Many years ago, Cheekyboy & his bootlegger pals indulged their fondness for Halloween, by releasing a free mashup album with only Samhain tunes on it. The theme was so popular, there's been a sequel posted every year since. Cheekyboy has mainly moved into original music, so this latest version "MONSTER MASHUP X", was lassoed together by that mashup lovin' hombre, Jeremy Girard. Mr. Girard heads the
MASHUP OF THE DAY
( www.facebook.com/pages/Mashup-of-the-Day/113345165356828 )
page on Facebook, ( I'm subscribed to the feed ), and he knows a fine mashup when he hears it.
When I discovered the MONSTER MASHUP series, I was really motivated to get a track on there, which eventually happened. I sure get a charge being on a great comp with such talent. I was thrilled when Jeremy contacted me about contributing a track to this tenth anniversary edition. I got even more hyped, when he accepted my offer to master the projects sound aspects. Then, I got the biggest thrill when I read the list of contributors, & began sampling the contents. This new volume has tons of people whose work I always adore.
Allow me now to offer you Mr. Girards' own words on this subject.
"Good evening Boos and Ghouls...
Monster Mashup
( www.facebook.com/HalloweenMonsterMashup?fref=nf ) ,
and
Mashup of the Day
( www.facebook.com/pages/Mashup-of-the-Day/113345165356828 )
are proud to present Monster Mashup X! 40 spine-tingling tracks on 2 terrifying discs! Featuring monstrous mashups, wicked remixes, ominous originals, and even a few tracks that have been hiding in dark corners of the web!
There are even tracks visiting from AtoZ and DJ Useo's album; "The Sinister Season: In a Moony Mood!".
( dmrofatoz.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-sinister-season-in-moony-mood.html )
Contributing artists include:
Alan Black, AtoZ, Bobby C Sound TV, Bros Rock Crew, Ceasar K,
Cheekyboy, Dan Absent, dj BC, DJ Deville, DJ Hal & MC Rowena,
DJ Palermo, DJ Schmolli, DJ Shokkout, DJ ShyBoy, DJ Spider,
DJ Useo, Fettdog, Fissunix, Frail Limb Purity, G3RSt, G4Gorilla,
Gatzilla Mashup, Hot Couture, JP, Kill_mR_DJ, Morpheus Mashup,
Pilchard, Romano Gemini, Skeewiff, Stefano Ercolino, and Voicedude!
That's it, no more talking... Click! Download! Listen! Enjoy! Share! Spread! Go!
Oh, and do it twice to make sure you get BOTH albums!"
-Jeremy Girard.
I think I know the album as well as anyone, & I'm sure y'all will love it. I just updated the links, so you can obtain it for sure at
Facebook
( www.facebook.com/HalloweenMonsterMashup?fref=nf ) , or
at my blog
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/10/monster-mashup-x-40-track-comp-for.html )
A few of the previous MONSTER MASHUP comps are available from
links way down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Come back tomorrow for a guest article from DmR of AtoZ on the Halloween mashup album we made with just the two of us. :D
ps. Read about my new DJ Useo-Halloween ep 2014 is here
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-100114.index.html )
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from Marc Perkel
BartCop
Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is
overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate
button on bartcop.com
But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note
isn't going to directly reach all of Bart's fans. So if you can repost
it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we
figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just
over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So
here's the signup link for this email list.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and seasonal.
It's Disappearing
Music
In 1903, Huddie William Ledbetter was one of the strongest voices in American folk and blues. Known as Lead Belly, Ledbetter was known as the King of the Twelve String Guitar, but he also played the piano, the mandolin, the harmonica, and the violin. He wrote songs about racism and politics. His songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Nirvana. They tell hard stories about what it was like to be black and a musician in the early 1930s. They are treasures.
But many of Lead Belly's original recordings no longer exist. The tapes that held his last sessions were beyond saving after the oxide on the top of the record fell off rendering it unplayable. Because conservators couldn't get to them earlier, those songs are lost forever. Let's repeat that - some of these songs, among the most significant in music history, are less than 100 years old but still lost to us for all time.
All sound recordings are equally at risk of disintegrating. Before digital technology, record companies created reels for albums by recording different sections of songs, then splicing those sections together using tape. Some of those original tapes are stored in several collections at the Smithsonian Museum.
"You can only imagine what has happened to these pieces of tapes," Jeff Place, an archivist for the Smithsonian Center for Folklike and Cultural Heritage told me. "Over time, every one of those tape breaks is going to break, and it's going to take an hour to transfer three minutes of a recording into a digital format where we can store it. So there are albums that take a whole day to save."
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Esquire's 'Sexiest Woman Alive'
Penelope Cruz
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The 40-year-old follows last year's winner, American actress Scarlett Johansson, to earn the honor chosen by Esquire editors.
Cruz, whose last film was director Ridley Scott's 2013 thriller "The Counselor," alongside husband Javier Bardem, will star in the upcoming Spanish-language drama "Ma Ma," and is currently in production on the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy "Grimsby."
The Madrid-born actress, who won a supporting actress Oscar for her performance as an emotionally volatile artist in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," told the magazine that she is no longer as attracted to dramatic roles as before.
Penelope Cruz
Our Era
The Anthropocene
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Though most non-experts don't realize it, science calls the past 12,000 years the Holocene, Greek for "entirely recent." But the way humans and their industries are altering the planet, especially its climate, has caused an increasing number of scientists to use the word "Anthropocene."
More than 500 scientific studies have been published this year referring to the current time period as the Anthropocene.
On Friday the Anthropocene Working Group ramps up its efforts to change the era's name with a meeting at a Berlin museum.
The Anthropocene
Will Drop The ISIS Name
'Archer'
Since the show first premiered in September 2009, FX's espionage comedy Archer has centered around the International Secret Intelligence Service, aka ISIS. As in, the same acronym (formerly) used by
mobile wallet company Soft Card - and more importantly, an acronym used by an active Islamic militant group. At this weekend's New York Comic Con, the cast and crew confirmed that the name ISIS will no longer be a part of the show.
As described by executive producer Matt Thompson, the only visual representation will be movers rolling away a large ISIS sign in the background behind Jessica Walter's character Malory Archer. A few other ISIS signs have been painting out and the name will not again be spoken aloud.
According to The Daily Beast, Walters recorded new lines to stress that everyone now works for the CIA, following the events of season five, "Archer Vice." The militant group, meanwhile, does not and will not exist in the show's universe.
Season six of Archer will premiere in early 2015.
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Different Message
Oil
Saudi Arabia is quietly telling the oil market it would be comfortable with much lower oil prices for an extended period, a sharp shift in policy that may be aimed at slowing the expansion of rival producers including those in the U.S. shale patch.
Some OPEC members including Venezuela are clamoring for production cuts to push oil prices back up above $100 a barrel.
But Saudi officials have given a different message in meetings with investors and analysts: the kingdom, OPEC's largest producer, will accept oil prices below $90 per barrel, and perhaps down to $80, for as long as a year or two, according to people who have been briefed on the recent conversations.
The Saudis appear to be betting lower prices - which could strain the finances of some members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - will be necessary to pave the way for higher revenue in the medium term, by curbing new investment and further increases in supply from places like the U.S. shale patch or ultra-deepwater, according to the sources, who declined to be identified due to the private nature of the discussions.
Oil
Confederate Diary Decoded
James Malbone
A century and a half after Confederate officer James Malbone wrote his Civil War diary partly in code, a couple of Yankees have figured out why he took the precaution: He liked to gossip.
Sprinkled amid entries on camp recipes and casualties are encrypted passages in which Malbone dishes on such juicy topics as a fellow soldier who got caught in bed with another man's wife.
Malbone also writes about meeting the wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and describes her looks in an apparent echo of rumors at the time that she may have been of mixed race.
"That's pretty shocking," said Kent D. Boklan, the Queens College computer science professor and former National Security Agency cryptographer who deciphered Malbone's code with little difficulty. "It's a military diary and you expect military information, but you don't expect the first lady of the Confederacy to make an appearance in this diary."
James Malbone
Viking Treasure Found
Scotland
A hoard of Viking gold and silver artifacts dating back over 1,000 years has been discovered by a treasure hunter with a metal detector in Scotland, in a find hailed by experts as one of the country's most significant.
Derek McLennan, a retired businessman, uncovered the 100 items in a field in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in September.
Amongst the objects is a solid silver cross thought to date from the 9th or 10th century, a silver pot of west European origin, which is likely to have already been 100 years old when it was buried and several gold objects.
The Viking hoard is McLennan's second significant contribution to Scotland's understanding of its past. Last year, he and a friend unearthed around 300 medieval coins in the same area of Scotland.
Scotland
Medieval Cemetery
Gdansk
The rough, kidney-shaped object was found in a medieval cemetery in Poland, and a new analysis has revealed it is actually a rather large bladder (kidney) stone.
The stone was discovered in Gdansk, a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, where archaeological excavations in 2001 uncovered a medieval burial ground that contained a thousand graves. Since this cemetery was used for about 800 years, the dead were not left to rest in peace; some corpses were exhumed and regrouped with other gravemates to make way for new bodies, according to the researchers, who reported the find in the journal PLOS ONE this month.
The stone was found among the skeletons of four badly preserved bodies: a female between 20 and 39 years old, an older male between 40 and 55 years old, a teenager and a fetus (the sex was not determined). The researchers don't have a precise date for the burial of the corpses, but they think these bodies were interred between the mid-10th century and the mid-14th century.
The mass is about 1.5 inches (3.9 centimeters) long and 0.5 inches (1.25 cm) thick, and it weights about 0.25 ounces (6.87 g). When the researchers cut into the brownish stone with a diamond blade, they saw that it had yellowish concentric layers inside, characteristic of bladder stones.
The researchers think the stone may have come from any one of the grave's occupants, except the fetus. And whoever it belonged to was rather unlucky. The rough, porous edges of the stone suggest that "a very aggressive bacterial inflammation" developed in the last stages of the stone's formation, which was likely the cause of death, the researchers wrote.
Gdansk
Parrot Vanishes, Returns Speaking Spanish
Nigel
The owner of a parrot that spoke English with a British accent says the bird went missing for four years, only to return speaking Spanish and asking for someone named Larry, a Southern California newspaper reported on Monday.
Darren Chick told the Daily Breeze newspaper that he doesn't know where African grey parrot Nigel has been for four years but that aside from the language switch, the bird is doing fine back at home.
Nigel was discovered in the back yard of a Torrance couple who run a dog grooming business and originally was thought to belong to Teresa Micco, who had placed an ad for her own missing parrot, the Breeze reported.
When Micco, a veterinarian's technician, realized that Nigel wasn't her bird, she was able to trace him via the original sales records to Chick, who was stunned to recover his lost bird after four years, the paper said.
Nigel
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