M Is FOR MASHUP - January 9th, 2013
Depeche Mode Mashup Tribute Album
By DJ Useo
As part of my '2012 The Year Of The Mashup Album' celebration, I slowly over the course of months worked up a Depeche Mode mashup tribute album. I was nearly done when my MAC broke. This meant I had to start all over again from scratch. I didn't even have access to the mixing fodder I'd used, & I didn't have notes of what I'd made. I'm sure these circumstances sound familiar to all of you, even if your files weren't original mashups. Because of the loss of the finished tracks, I finally decided to start again from scratch.
Originally, the album would've come out in July 2012, but it finally came out in December. Only a few of the first mixes made it onto the revised edition. For the most part the collection is a completely different set of tracks. I eventually got word that the files from my old hard drive were recoverable. So, you get this new Depeche Mode mashup tribute album from me called 'DEPECHE MASH', & eventually, you'll get a second volume comprised of the formerly lost and now recovered tracks.
Now, the thing about mashing Depeche Mode is their fans love bootleg mixes, but they have a VERY high standard. You'll get nowhere with them unless your work is exceptional. From the response so far, I hit that mark. On 'DEPECHE MASH' I delve into various styles of mix & matching. I start out with DM's 'People Are People' vs David Bowies' 'Fame', head through a few techno pairings, & end up with some wide genre clashes like DM vs Frank Zappa, The Yardbirds, & Van Halen. I call that taking a chance, but ensuring the final results are satisfying. It takes an 'exceptional' (there's that word again) mix to get DM fans to enjoy their fave band mashed with rock acts like that.
Yes, I'm stating right up front that I attempted to please the audience as much as myself. Normally, I lean much more toward pleasing myself, & if the listeners like it, that's extra icing on the cake. So 'DEPECHE MASH' was my twelth solo mashup album in twelve months. I started the year with 'FRIKKENFRACK 5 : Useo's Strangest Boots' , then went through many progressively wilder mashup albums only to end the year with the most accessible album of the batch.
It's great fun being Useo because I get to do any style, & post as much or little as I desire. Nearly every other mashup mixer needs to maintain a close connection to the mainstream in order to please an audience that demands dancey, melodic mixes that sound like they came right from a label that way. I enjoy tracks like that, too, but I want to hear all kinds of mashups. With the twelve Useo collections of 2012 I achieved my goal of one swell release a month all year long.
So far, 'WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE' is by far the most popular of the twelve. Who can tell which will ultimately be the stand-out, but I reckon this 'DEPECHE MASH' will be at or near the top. The
full file is available here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/12/dj-useo-presents-depeche-mash.html )
And
here's a link to listen to the preview track 'Fame People Are People' (David Bowie vs Depeche Mode)
( www.box.com/s/kg579aljf3e3jh3seywh )
Here's a
bonus link to a pdf file of links to all twelve Useo 2012 mashup albums.
( www.mediafire.com/?cy2u34m6cq5w5yx )
Have the day of good!
Mix Of The Week
I hope this set has you bopping as if it's still New Years' Eve! It's one and a half hours long, so start it at ten thirty pm & you'll end right at midnight, just like the actual holiday! It's comprised of the best techno dubstep I could find. Hosted for streaming or downloading at the king of long mix sites,
BMBX.org
( http://bmbx.org/ ) .
www.bmbx.org/2012/12/djuseo-nye-2013/
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Lol. More? Yup! Wouldn't it be great if The The reunited? They made so many excellent albums. More would be great. I couldn't get more yet, so I re-did a classic The The cut.
'And She Was Uncertain Smile' (Talking Heads vs The The vs Phunklarique & Dejonka) contains- The The-'Uncertain Smile' extract Talking Heads-'And She Was'acapella Phunklarique & Dejonka-'No Breath At 280 Feet' loops No 10cc
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/12/talking-heads-vs-the.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
In three days Hacktivists ANONYMOUS will reveal all mashups are actually derived from label releases.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: The Outside Man (New York Times)
Yes, I've heard about the notion that I should be nominated as Treasury Secretary. I'm flattered, but it really is a bad idea.
Aaron Ellis: What Is It Like To Be Black in America? (Slate)
Before answering this, I just want to say that I love being black, I love America, and I love being black in America. Most of the time, I am just another person in this great country. But, in the recent words of one of my close friends, "Every now and then, you get a reminder that you are black in America."
Jon Henley: The psychoanalyst's tale - why we need to tell stories to relieve our sorrows (Guardian)
After practising as a psychoanalyst for 25 years, Stephen Grosz has written a book -- of the stories his patients learnt to tell on the path to recovery.
Dennis Powell: Things Have Always the Worst They Have Ever Been (Athens News)
What I learned, sparked by those few lines on the back of a book, is that if one steps back a little, to catch a little more of the breadth of history, is that a constant crisis is part of the human condition and is not likely to go away anytime in this life. And that when it boils over - goes "over the cliff" in the current cliche - we usually somehow fix it, despite the predictions that it cannot be fixed. I also learned that fixing it often comes at a terrible and unnecessary cost.
Peter Brantley: Digital Lending, In Agreement (Publishers Weekly)
This last week, the Douglas County Library (DCL) system announced that they had acquired 10,000 ebook titles from the leading self- and independently-published e-book distributor, Smashwords. ... The deal was culminated through the legal equivalent of a sketch on a cocktail napkin, not a 330 page contract with multiple addenda.
Charlie Jane Anders: How to Write for Money Without Selling Out Too Much (io9)
This past weekend, it seemed like all of the Twitter conversations were about fiction writing, and selling ¬out. It's a weird conundrum: Most advice for writers assumes that you're doing this as a business, and you want to make money at it. But you shouldn't want to make money too badly.
Fragment #22: "Dear Internet" by Tina Fey (WordPress)
Now go to bed, you crazy night owl! You have to be at NASA early in the morning. So they can look for your penis with the Hubble telescope.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Royalty (Athens News)
In 1930, Arturo Toscanini conducted "Tannha ser" at the Bayreuth Festival, held in Bavaria. At intermission, several people waited to see Maestro Toscanini, including King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Princess Margherita. However, the Maestro chose to see only a couple of old friends, ignoring the royalty. Afterward, he was asked if he had been aware that royalty had wished to see him. He replied, "Yes, yes, they told me. But what have I to do with kings and princesses? They have nothing to say to me. I have nothing to say to them."
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Birthday Remembered
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley fans from as far as Japan and Brazil gathered Tuesday in Memphis to sing "Happy Birthday" to the late rock 'n' roll icon on the day he would have turned 78.
Hundreds of Elvis devotees watched as 13-year-old Isabella Scott cut a birthday cake on the lawn at Graceland, the singer's longtime Memphis home. Scott heads an Internet-based Elvis fan club with more than 2,000 members.
The mayors of Memphis and Shelby County also read a proclamation of Elvis Presley Day during the ceremony, which was attended by fans from Brazil, England, France, Japan, Spain and the U.S.
Presley recorded his first song "That's All Right" at Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954 and made the West Tennessee city his primary home until his death.
Elvis Presley
Action Figures Draw Protest
'Django Unchained'
Slavery-era action figures tied to Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" are raising questions about whether they're appropriate.
A line of figures of the movie's main characters are on sale online, manufactured by toy maker NECA in partnership with the Weinstein Co.
Najee Ali, director of the advocacy group Project Islamic Hope, plans a news conference Tuesday with other Los Angeles black community leaders calling for the removal of the toys from the market.
The action figures are collectibles recommended for people older than 17. Tarantino has had such figures made for all of his films, including his last, "Inglourious Basterds." That film, too, reveled in a revenge fantasy set in history - Nazi Germany.
Ali made clear his objections were not with the film "Django Unchained," which he said he liked and had seen twice.
'Django Unchained'
Gets Ninth Season
"Bones"
Fox has renewed "Bones" for a ninth season, the network announced Tuesday.
"After more than 150 episodes, 'Bones' continues to be one of television's most dynamic and consistent dramas," said Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly. "We at Fox, along with millions of zealous fans, look forward to seeing where the incredible creative team takes the series next season."
The show returns with a special two-hour winter premiere on Monday at 8 p.m.
"Bones"
TV Production Plunges 20%
L.A.
The filming of TV dramas and reality shows in Los Angeles plummeted in 2012, according to figures released Tuesday by FilmL.A., the non-profit agency that coordinates location shoots in the region.
TV drama shoots were off by 20 percent from 2011, while the filming of reality shows dropped by 11.8 percent. Those numbers overshadowed the report's good news on overall location shooting, movie production and commercial filming, all of which were up from the previous year.
The TV drama number is critical to the overall health of local filming, because those shows -- mainly hour-long, high-end and multiple episodes - employ more people and bring more economic benefits than other types of productions. A typical 22-episode-a-year network series has a budget of $60 million and generates 840 direct and indirect jobs, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
Of 23 TV drama pilots launched last year, just two were based in L.A., with the rest being shot in Canada, and other U.S. states including New York and North Carolina.
L.A.
California Group Challenges Ban
Boy Scouts
A California chapter of the Boy Scouts of America is directly challenging the national organization's ban on gays by formally recommending that an openly gay former Scout be awarded the top rank of Eagle.
"From what I understand, this has never happened before," Eric Andresen, father of former scout Ryan Andresen, told Reuters.
Ryan, 18, and his parents drew national attention in October after his Scoutmaster refused to sign his Eagle scout application because of his sexual orientation.
More than 462,000 people subsequently signed the Andresens' petitions at Change.org calling on the Scoutmaster to sign. Meanwhile, the Andresens pushed Ryan's application up the Boy Scout hierarchy in the San Francisco Bay area, where it landed before Hazarabedian.
"It's gotten to the point that getting the Eagle doesn't matter so much. It's the message that counts. It's the desire that no other Scout should ever have to go through this," Eric Andresen said.
Boy Scouts
2nd Inquest
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a second coroner's inquest confirmed Tuesday.
Coroner Shirley Radcliffe ruled that the 27-year-old soul singer "died as a result of alcohol toxicity" and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. She said there were no suspicious circumstances.
She said Winehouse "voluntarily consumed alcohol - a deliberate act that took an unexpected turn and led to her death."
Tuesday's verdict was identical to that produced by a first inquest in 2011. But the result of that hearing was annulled after the original coroner was found to lack the proper qualifications for the job.
Radcliffe said a postmortem had found that Winehouse had a blood alcohol level five times the legal driving limit, and above a level that can prove fatal.
Amy Winehouse
More Popular Than Gonorrhea
Congress
Good news, Congress! You're more popular than telemarketers, the deadly ebola virus, gonorrhea, the Kardashians, Lindsay Lohan, communism, disgraced Democratic former Sen. John Edwards, playground bullies and meth labs.
Bad news, Congress! Americans still have a higher opinion of head lice, colonoscopies, cockroaches, Nickelback, the NFL replacement refs, and Donald Trump.
Those are the findings of the latest they-have-way-too-much-fun-over-there survey by Public Policy Polling, which found that the legislative branch's approval rating is mired at 9 percent. A whopping 85 percent of respondents said they disapproved. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
It's not all bad news for Congress. Americans rate lawmakers higher than telemarketers (45 to 35 percent); Edwards (45 to 29 percent); the Kardashian clan (49 to 36 percent, with 16 percent not sure); lobbyists (48 to 30 percent), North Korea (61 to 26 percent), ebola (53 to 25 percent with 21 percent apparently not sure whether they prefer their elected representatives over death after bleeding from various bodily orifices); Lindsay Lohan (though the 45 to 41 percent ratio falls well within the margin of error); Fidel Castro (54 to 32 percent); communism (57 to 23 percent); and gonorrhea (53 to 28 percent).
Congress
What Climate Change?
Hottest Year
A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That's a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998.
Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so.
The National Climatic Data Center's figures for the entire world won't come out until next week, but through the first 11 months of 2012, the world was on pace to have its eighth warmest year on record.
Last year was 3.2 degrees warmer than the average for the entire 20th century. Last July was the also the hottest month on record.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. last year also had the second most weather extremes on record, behind 1998. There were 11 different disasters that caused more than $1 billion in damage, including Superstorm Sandy and the drought, NOAA said.
Hottest Year
Expands Despite Lawsuits
TV-Over-Internet
The Barry Diller-backed Internet company that challenged cable and satellite TV services by offering inexpensive live television online plans to expand beyond New York City this spring.
In the wake of a federal court ruling that tentatively endorsed its legality, Aereo will bring its $8-a-month service to Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and 18 other markets in the U.S., as well as to New York's suburbs. For the past year, the service had been limited to New York City residents as the company fine-tuned its technology and awaited guidance on whether its unlicensed use of free, over-the-air broadcasts amounted to a copyright violation.
A federal judge in New York ruled in July that the service doesn't appear to violate copyright law because individual subscribers are assigned their own, tiny antenna at Aereo's Brooklyn data center, making it analogous to the free signal a consumer would get with a regular antenna at home. Aereo spent the subsequent months selecting markets for expansion and renting space for new equipment in those cities.
Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo's case, the judge accepted the company's legal reasoning, but with reluctance.
If the ruling stands, Aereo could cause a great deal of upheaval in the broadcast industry. It could give people a reason to drop cable or satellite subscriptions as monthly bills rise. It also might hinder broadcasters' ability to sell ads because it's not yet clear how traditional audience measures will incorporate Aereo's viewership. In addition, it could reduce the licensing fees broadcasters collect from cable and satellite companies.
TV-Over-Internet
Skips Drunk Driving Hearing
Gerard Depardieu
In the last three days, Gerard Depardieu met with Vladimir Putin to get Russian citizenship, got a prime seat at soccer's biggest annual gala in Switzerland and dashed off to Montenegro to eye some real estate.
But in all this whirlwind travel, he didn't manage to show up at a Paris court Tuesday to face a hearing on drunken driving charges because, his lawyer said, he had a vital meeting abroad for an upcoming film.
The 64-year-old French actor was in Montenegro meeting with the prime minister, it turns out.
The lawyer insisted that Depardieu, who has threatened to renounce his French citizenship and turn in his passport and social security card, wasn't trying to dodge justice.
Still, the hearing on a relatively minor charge was elevated to criminal court.
Gerard Depardieu
Kate Winslet's Husband Wins Court Battle
Ned RocknRoll
British actress Kate Winslet's husband won a court battle on Tuesday stopping The Sun newspaper printing photographs of him "semi-naked" at a private fancy dress party several years ago.
Lawyers for Ned RocknRoll, 34, who married the "Titanic" star last month, argued that there was no public interest in the Sun publishing the pictures, that it would be a breach of his privacy and it could lead to Winslet's children being bullied.
According to the Press Association, the judge at London's High Court ruled in favor of RocknRoll and ordered The Sun not to publish the pictures pending any trial, adding that he would give the reasons for his decision at a later date.
Winslet wed RocknRoll, who changed his name from Abel Smith, in New York in a small, private ceremony that took even family members by surprise.
RocknRoll is a nephew of airline tycoon Richard Branson and, the court heard, had been head of marketing at his space travel venture Virgin Galactic before he took up sheep farming.
Ned RocknRoll
Painting Stolen In 1987 Recovered
Henri Matisse
A Henri Matisse painting stolen in 1987 from a Swedish museum by a thief wielding a sledgehammer has been recovered, an art specialist and a dealer said Tuesday.
The Art Loss Register, which tracks stolen, missing and looted art, says "Le Jardin" was found when a British dealer checked the picture against the group's database before selling it.
Dealer Charles Roberts, who runs Charles Fine Art in southern England, said he was shocked to discover the painting was stolen.
Roberts said the current Polish owner, whom he did not name, had bought the Impressionist artwork in good faith 20 years ago.
Christopher Marinello, a lawyer working with the London-based Art Loss Register, said the 1920 painting, valued at about $1 million, would be returned to Stockholm's Moderna Museet. It was snatched from the gallery during a nighttime raid in May 1987.
Henri Matisse
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 31-Jan. 6. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Playoff: Minnesota at Green Bay, NBC, 30.28 million.
2. NFL Playoff Pre-Kick, NBC, 29.27 million.
3. NFL Wildcard Post Game: Seattle at Washington, Fox, 19.56 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 19.25 million.
5. "Person of Interest," CBS, 16.23 million.
6. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15.41 million.
7. "New Year's Rockin' Eve," ABC, 13.33 million.
8. Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M at Univ. of Okla., Fox, 11.94 million.
9. "Elementary," CBS, 11.44 million.
10. "The Mentalist," CBS, 10.85 million.
11. "NCIS (Special)," CBS, 10.63 million.
12. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.18 million.
13. "The Good Wife," CBS, 9.96 million.
14. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.61 million.
15. "New Year's Rockin' Eve Celebrates Dick Clark," ABC 9.44 million.
16. "NCIS: Los Angeles (Special)," CBS, 9.39 million.
17. "CSI: NY," CBS, 9.13 million.
18. "Once Upon a Time," ABC, 9.10 million.
19. "The Simpsons," Fox, 8.97 million.
20. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.54 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Ned Wertimer
Ned Wertimer, who played Ralph the Doorman on all 11 seasons of the CBS sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died.
Wertimer's manager Brad Lemack said Tuesday that the 89-year-old actor died at a Los Angeles-area nursing home on Jan. 2, following a November fall at his home in Burbank.
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., and a Navy pilot during World War II, Wertimer had one-off roles on dozens of TV shows from the early 1960s through the late 1980s, including "Car 54 Where Are You?" and "Mary Tyler Moore."
But he was best known by far as Ralph Hart, the uniformed, mustachioed doorman at the luxury apartment building on "The Jeffersons," the "All In the Family" spinoff that ran from 1975 to 1985.
The show's star, Sherman Hemsley, died July 24.
Ned Wertimer
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