M Is FOR MASHUP - January 25th, 2012
Frikkenfrack! Useo's Strangest Mashups X 5!
By DJ Useo
I reach a new milestone in mixing & posting mashups this week as I release the 5th in the FRIKKENFRACK : Useo's Strangest Mashups' series. Yes, it's true. Five full discs worth of very unusual mashups indeed, yet, there's clearly an appeal to listeners & to me. Enough interest to keep me releasing stuff that some would clearly not like me to release. Hahaha. Yup, I've heard from some saying it's demeaning to make such silly mixes. Silly, I agree with. Not so much the demeaning part. I mean, did Steve Allen demean himself with silly songs? Did Frank Zappa demean himself with songs about yellow snow & nasty poodles? Did Tiny Tim…well...maybe I'd better stop while I'm ahead.
The accomplishment of five full albums of weird mashups coincides with my completion of ONE HUNDRED (!) 'QRADIPS SHOW w/ DJ Useo' radio shows. If you didn't know, & I'm sure some don't, The QRADIPS SHOW is where I played all the more unusual mashups that abound from producers around the world. I decided to stop production & move to a new format after 100 shows, & durned iffen I didn't make it! You can find 2 best of the QRADIPS SHOW albums still available here
Volume one
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/01/mashups-as-heard-on-qradips-show-w-dj.html )
Volume two
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/08/mashups-as-heard-on-qradips-show-w-dj.html )
Those 2 albums are packed to the gills with the most popular tracks from the radio show. All tracks by other dj's, though. The FRIKKENFRACK series contains only useo-mixed tracks. The new 5th volume is a red-hot collection containing all my most popular wacked-out mashups from the last year, plus 7 incredible new, unreleased bootlegs. All will amuse & bewilder you. Check out this playlist.
DJ Useo- Frikkenfrack 5 : Useo's Strangest Boots
Playlist
01 - Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
All The Food Is Poison (DJ Useo Recipe Remix)
02 - Dickens, Fenster & Sinatra
(Nancy Sinatra vs The Dickens & Fenster March)
03 - Disturbed Boogie
(John Hartford vs Disturbed vs Arthur Brogli vs Vivian Stanshall)
04 - GummiScared
(Gummibär vs Young Nutz)
05 - Hardcore Studio
(Dog Police vs Hide & Seek vs E-Noid vs Meccano Twins)
06 - Inner Depth F*cked Up
(The Cramps vs Fatali)
07 - Jam Of Now
(Ken Nordine vs Culprate vs Grascals)
08 - Nikesclubbing
(Popeye vs Iggy Pop)
09 - Crayon Shin-Chan-Shin-Chan Theme
(DJ Useo Action Bastard Remix)
10 - The Dillards w/Maggie Peterson & Andy Griffith
There Is A Time (DJ Useo Loaded Goat Remix)
11 - Upside Down Drunken Sailor
(The Irish Rovers vs Plastik Funk vs 2Elements)
12 - Particle Man Space Invasion
(They Might Be Giants vs Skrillex vs Deadmau5)
13 - The Too-Fat Mashup
(Arthur Godfrey vs Day, Din And Nok )
14 - The Martian Hop State
(The Randells vs Porter Robinson)
15 - Moonage China Cat
(David Bowie vs The Grateful Dead)
16 - Dont Fear The Real World
(Blue Oyster Cult vs Z Rocks)
17 - Bedrock, Arizona
(Public Enemy vs The Flintstones)
18 - Another Pink Floyd Mashup
(Celtic Pink Floyd vs Cookie Monsta)
19 - Wagon Wheel Broadway Musical Polka
(Jonathan Winters vs Arthur Brogli)
No, as you can read, these aren't your 'normal' mashup fare.
I wouldn't be surprised if listening to this album wouldn't kill some people. Lol. Not really, but I bet you'll experience many a strange reaction. Most people will have never heard the like. The previous 4 FRIKKENFRACK albums are available currently along with many more regular
mashup albums here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Look for the new
FRIKKENFRACK 5 album here at my launched for this project site.
( www. http://uzo.weebly.com/ )
You might be able to get the record here, too
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/01/frikkenfrack-5useos-strangest-boots.html )
I sure would like to hear from anyone who wants to give responsive feedback, positive or negative.
Thanks for reading 'M IS FOR MASHUP'. Now back to our regular daily BARTCOP E.
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The recordings are part of a collection of more than 248 hours of taped meetings and 12 hours of phone conversations that have been reviewed and released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum since 1993.
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The series, which will consist of 10 weekly half-hour episodes, has already struck licensing agreements that will cover more than 600 million viewers across cable, satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks, according to WikiLeaks.
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Jackson hopes the 48-frames-a-second rate - twice the 24 frames that has been the custom since the 1920s - will help bring about a gradual transition to faster speeds that can bring more life-like images and action to the screen.
Digital cameras allow for shooting at 48 frames or faster, reducing the blurry effect known as strobing that can come with 24-frame filming.
Jackson said he hopes there will be a fair number of theaters equipped with digital projectors that can handle the faster film speeds by December, when Warner Bros. will release "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," the first chapter in his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic.
Other digital pioneers are making the same push for higher film speeds. "Avatar" creator James Cameron has said he will shoot the sequel to his science-fiction blockbuster at 48 or 60 frames a second.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFC Championship: N.Y. Giants vs. San Francisco, Fox, 57.64 million.
2. "NFC Championship Post-Game Show," Fox, 31.04 million.
3. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 21.93 million.
4. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 18.02 million.
5. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.84 million.
6. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.4 million.
7. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14.22 million.
8. "Betty White's 90th Birthday," NBC, 13.86 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 13.23 million.
10. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.02 million.
11. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13 million.
12. "Off Their Rockers," NBC, 12.26 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 12.02 million.
14. "Modern Family," ABC, 11.89 million.
15. "Rob," CBS, 11.41 million.
16. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.4 million.
17. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 11.09 million.
18. "Hawaii Five-O," CBS, 10.73 million.
19. "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 10.08 million.
20. "Alcatraz," Fox, 10.05.
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Police and hospital officials said Angelopoulos suffered serious head injuries and died at a hospital after being hit by a motorcycle while walking across a road near a movie set near Athens' main port of Piraeus.
The driver, also injured and hospitalized, was later identified as an off-duty police officer.
The accident occurred while Angelopoulos was working on his upcoming movie "The Other Sea."
Angelopoulos had won numerous awards for his movies, mostly at European film festivals, during a career that spanned more than 40 years.
In 1995, he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for "Ulysses' Gaze," starring American actor Harvey Keitel.
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In Memory
James Farentino
A family spokesman says actor James Farentino, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, has died in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 73.
Family spokesman Bob Palmer says Farentino died of heart failure after a long illness at Cedars-Sinai Hospital on Tuesday.
Farentino starred alongside Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen in a 1980 science fiction film "The Final Countdown."
Farentino also starred opposite Patty Duke in 1969's "Me, Natalie."
He also had recurring roles on "Dynasty," ''Melrose Place," ''The Bold Ones: The Lawyers" and "ER," playing the estranged father to George Clooney's character.
A four-time divorcee, Farentino's tumultuous personal life made headlines, too.
In March 1994 he pleaded no contest to stalking his ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra, daughter of Frank Sinatra.
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