M Is FOR MASHUP - February 3rd, 2010
Taking A Cue From Qubic
By DJ Useo
There's a wide selection of music available in bootleg albums. There're many styles available from techno to rock to jazz to pop. But what bootleg album brings all those styles & more together in one brilliant release? I have the answer. It's Qubic's 'Continuum 08'. It recasts many a great commercial release into the hybrid mashup style so popular nowadays. Not only does it do that, but it presents them with finestkind mixing, producing & presentation. The package is available in three splendid files -
1-Continuum 08: the Music, 2-Continuum 08: the Mixes, & 3-Continuum 08: the Videos. I'm telling you this is the complete package.
In the first file, 'Continuum 08: the Music', you'll hear fantastic works like 'A Little Piece About Death (A Rockoween Love Story)' (Avenged Sevenfold vs Sixx:A.M. vs Oingo Boingo), 'L'Éternel Enfant Roi' (Noir Désir vs Yello), & 'The Jig is Never Up' (String Cheese Incident vs Rae Stickly), & lots more. (Rearrange that stickly name for a clever surprise) The genius behind these mixes is heads above much of the already-fine mashup music out there. These are all delightfully inventive tracks that utilize music that exists apart from top 40. You'll find yourself satisfied in a new way; a way that is pioneered by Qubic again & again on this memorable collection.
In the second file 'Continuum 08: the Mixes' you'll experience Qubic's practiced hand in a continuous long mix of his best works. It's an impressive joining & perfect for you fans of the long mix format. Because of his ability in that type of mix, it's my chosen form for listening to 'Continuum 08'. Not that I slight the individual tracks any, but I am always up for the entire 'Continuum 08' experience. Having played the mix version on radio I can safely say others showed a strong preference for it, too. Try it for yourself. Get a live gig in a club, pop this baby on while you nod your head-phoned noggin & people will think you're the best dj they ever heard!
No let-up in the third file 'Continuum 08: the Videos'. It contains all the bootleg videos for each of the solo tracks, all done up by masters of mashup film, BorisB, Guv'nor, and The Reborn Identity. When I see a mashup video, I want it to be by one of them. You'll thrill to the flickering imagery in vids like 'Feedback Inside the Robots' (Thompson Twins vs Kraftwerk), 'Thinking About Pumping Up The Volume' (MARRS vs Londonbeat), 'The Principle Of Twin Lust #14' (Enigma vs Diana Krall vs Aphex Twin), & 'The Angel Divine' (Massive Attack vs Yello vs Art Of Noise). The videos all do justice to Qubic's finestkind mashups, & I'm confident you'll want to save the files for future savoring.& in a special visual treat, Qubic has done all the artwork up in 3-d! Grab the 3-d glasses of your choice & thrill to the depth!
If you find yourself attached to this project (& you will) be sure & give a listen to Qubic's first album, still available, 'deConstruction of a Stigmata ( qubicmx.blogspot.com/2008/07/deconstruction-of-stigmata.html )'.
As Qubic says ' It's a collection of 10 tracks that are a culmination of 26 songs, which have been deconstructed, reconstructed, mixed, and mashed with each other, and the overall sound and style was governed by a very specific theme throughout.'
This 'Continuum 08' release may not be as well-known as albums by Dangermouse, Soulwax, or The Keptones, but it should be! Grab yours now at Qubic's site
( qubicmx.blogspot.com/2009/11/continuum-08-music-mixes.html )
Mix Of The Week
The mix of the week is something very special this week. The astonishing long mix site BMBX ( www.bmbx.org ) is celebrating their 10th year anniversary. Woot! This Saturday on Sound-Unsound Radio, seven of the finest long mixes posted at BMBX will be aired all day long & into the night, being repeated so that the US audience can enjoy them too. Here's the titles & sequence -
01-Baxter_Park_Sunbather_-_Rhumbalicious_mix
02-bong-pump
03-Briscoe_-_Warehouse_Daze_Mix
04-King_Megatrip_-_I_Must_Insist_You_Eat_Steel
05-Mr_wyse-Schminimal_mix
06-Swampmaster_-_Rokkmixxx_The_Third_Installment
07-vepik_-_lazysexy33
Tune in here, no registration required -
( streams.sound-unsound.com/start/wadio/ )
Mashup Tip : The only thing to do with a good mashup is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
What's new with DJ Useo
The great heavy metal pioneers' Blue öyster Cult get combined with the stars of rave, Human Resource in my new mashup 'Dominator And Submission' (Human Resource vs Blue öyster Cult). Experience the joy of this new mix here -
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/01/dominator-and-submission-human-resource.html )
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The grisly truth about the Super Bowl abortion ad.
Atul Gawande: Testing, Testing (newyorker.com)
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It began as a bit of partisan gamesmanship and ended, surprisingly, as illuminating political theater.
Froma Harrop: Dems Must Swing for the Fences or Lose (creators.com)
Is there a patriot in the house? Is there anyone in Washington who regards governing as a means to accomplish anything other than win the sterile game of Democrat versus Republican? Every day, American soldiers risk their lives for their country, but people in Congress won't even risk their jobs to pass legislation essential to the nation's economic future.
Susan Estrich: Don't Ask, Don't Tell (creators.com)
I don't get it. Since 1993, more than 13,000 soldiers have been discharged from the military under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. Countless others are effectively denied access to mental health and other services because they can't tell.
Roger Ebert: The Third Man (1949; A Great Movie)
Has there ever been a film where the music more perfectly suited the action than in Carol Reed's "The Third Man"? The score was performed on a zither by Anton Karas, who was playing in a Vienna beerhouse one night when Reed heard him. The sound is jaunty but without joy, like whistling in the dark. It sets the tone; the action begins like an undergraduate lark and then reveals vicious undertones.
Roger Ebert: TWO FOR THE ROAD (An Overlooked DVD; 4 stars)
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David Bruce: Wise Up! Holocaust (athensnews.com)
Branko Lustig used his wits to stay alive in the Holocaust. He worked in the Birkenau coal mines, but caught typhoid fever and was put on a truck going to the crematoria, where he knew that he would be exterminated. He jumped from the truck, and on the road he saw a group of running naked prisoners whom guards were herding to Auschwitz. Mr. Lustig stripped off his clothes, and he managed to join the group of running naked prisoners. At Auschwitz, he and the other prisoners were tattooed, but at least he was still alive. Following the Holocaust, he studied film and television, and he became a co-producer of the movie "Schlinder's List," which was directed by Stephen Spielberg.
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Paints 2010 NOLA Jazz Fest Poster
Tony Bennett
Grammy-winning jazz crooner Tony Bennett will be part of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - but not with his voice.
A portrait Bennett painted of his late friend and fellow jazzman Louis Prima is being produced as this year's official Jazz Fest poster.
The festival's official poster dates to 1975, when the first one was produced as a fifth anniversary fundraiser for the non-profit New Orleans Jazz&Heritage Foundation.
The poster is sold during Jazz Fest, which runs April 23-25 and April 29-May 2.
Tony Bennett
Getting Yellowstone Bison
Ted Turner
Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park through a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands.
The animals were spared several years ago from a periodic slaughter of bison leaving Yellowstone because of worries about disease. They're now in a joint federal-state quarantine compound in southern Montana's Paradise Valley.
Montana officials didn't want the animals on state land. They also turned down requests for the animals from a Wyoming state park and at least two Indian reservations.
Turner will care for the animals for five years and in return wants 75 percent of their offspring, an estimated 188 bison. He already owns more than 50,000 bison but wants the Yellowstone animals because of their pure genetics.
Ted Turner
Tribe Recognized
Wayne Newton
"Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton is asking legislators in his home state of Virginia to grant state recognition to his Indian tribe.
The entertainer appealed Tuesday to the House Rules Committee to officially recognize the Patawomeck, or Potomac, tribe, of which he is a member.
Committee members voted unanimously in favour of the recognition, which has been given to eight Virginia tribes.
The recognition allows the group to be known as a tribe but does not grant sovereignty.
Wayne Newton
"Tete de femme (Jacqueline)"
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso once again proved his appeal to wealthy collectors when the artist's portrait of his second wife Jacqueline was the top lot at Christie's impressionist and modern art sale in London on Tuesday.
"Tete de femme (Jacqueline)," painted in 1963, fetched 8.1 million pounds ($13 million), around double its presale estimate of 3-4 million pounds. The sale price includes buyer's premium whereas the estimate does not.
The painting has not been seen in public since 1967 and has been in the same collection for nearly 30 years.
Jacqueline had an unusually short neck and it is said that Picasso would jokingly exaggerate its size in his portraits -- as in this elongated example.
Pablo Picasso
Makes Bail
Joseph Brooks
"You Light Up My Life" tunesmith Joseph Brooks is staying free while fighting charges of molesting a string of would-be actresses in his Manhattan apartment.
Defense lawyer Jeffrey Hoffman said Tuesday that the Academy Award-winning songwriter sold stock to come up with $1.25 million cash bail.
The 71-year-old Brooks has pleaded not guilty to predatory sexual assault and other charges.
Brooks won an Oscar for best original song for "You Light Up My Life" in 1977.
Joseph Brooks
Blackmail Suspect Charged
Cindy Crawford
A German man accused of trying to blackmail Cindy Crawford over a photograph showing the supermodel's daughter gagged and bound has been indicted, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Edis Kayalar, 26, was charged with one count of extortion and two counts of attempted extortion for allegedly demanding Crawford pay him more than 100,000 dollars (72,000 euros), the prosecutor's office in Stuttgart, southern Germany said.
The daughter, Kaia, told her parents, who were unaware of the image, that her nanny had taken the photograph at the family home in the United States as part of a "cops and robbers" game.
Kayalar, a friend of the nanny, took possession of the photo and warned Crawford, 43, and her husband, 48-year-old businessman Rande Gerber, that he would sell the picture to tabloid newspapers unless they paid him, according to the charge sheet.
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Back To Rehab
Redmond O'Neal
A judge in Los Angeles is sending the troubled son of Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett back to rehab after more than a month in jail.
The judge placed Redmond O'Neal back on probation and sentenced to an intense residential rehab program during a brief hearing Thursday. The 25-year-old has been jailed since Dec. 29 for violating his probation on a previous drug conviction.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan says if O'Neal succeeds at the rehab program, he will then be sent to a sober-living facility. He may eventually be granted passes to leave, but Tynan says the program will be "justifiably" severe.
Redmond O'Neal
Maximum Milking of 'Avatar'
Rupert
Republican propagandist and News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday there have been "very early" talks with director James Cameron about making a sequel to his box office record-breaking film "Avatar."
Murdoch also said the initial DVD release of "Avatar," which was made by News Corp. studio 20th Century Fox, would not feature the 3-D effects of the movie theater version.
"We certainly plan to release the DVD as soon as possible," he told analysts during a conference call to discuss News Corp.'s second-quarter earnings. "But it is continuing, for a great period it seems, in the cinemas."
Murdoch said that as for a sequel, there have been "very early talks about it" with Cameron and "we'll be pushing for one."
Rupert
Fracking Gas
Marcellus Shale
A drilling technique that is beginning to unlock staggering quantities of natural gas underneath Appalachia also yields a troubling byproduct: powerfully briny wastewater that can kill fish and give tap water a foul taste and odor.
Drilling crews across the country have been flocking since late 2008 to the Marcellus Shale, a rock bed the size of Greece that lies about 6,000 feet beneath New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Geologists say it could become the most productive natural gas field in the U.S., capable of supplying the entire country's needs for up to two decades by some estimates.
Before that can happen, the industry is realizing that it must solve the challenge of what to do with its wastewater. As a result, the Marcellus Shale in on its way to being the nation's first gas field where drilling water is widely reused.
The polluted water comes from a drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in which millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are blasted into each well to fracture tightly compacted shale and release trapped natural gas.
Once the rock is fractured, some of the water - estimates range from 15 to 40 percent - comes back up the well. When it does, it can be five times saltier than seawater and laden with dissolved solids such as sulfates and chlorides, which conventional sewage and drinking water treatment plants aren't equipped to remove.
Marcellus Shale
Bestiality Outlawed
Netherlands
The Internet potentially will lose one of its main sources of bestiality videos under a ban approved Tuesday by the upper house of the Dutch parliament.
The new law bans human sex with animals, including in private situations where the animals are not injured, and prohibits the production or distribution of animal pornography, a summary of the law posted on the upper chamber's website said.
Given the illicit nature of the product, precise figures on animal pornography video sales are difficult to find, but the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, in a 2007 survey, found that distributors in the Netherlands were responsible for some 80 percent of bestiality videos worldwide.
Sex with animals had been legal in the Netherlands, as long as it could be proven the animals were not injured.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Jan. 25-31. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Grammy Awards," CBS, 25.87 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 25.71 million.
3. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.45 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 20.22 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.94 million.
6. "House," Fox, 14.21 million.
7. "Bones," Fox, 12.331 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.328 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 12.07 million.
10. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 11.5 million.
11. "The Bachelor," ABC, 11.47 million.
12. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 11.44 million.
13. "The Mentalist," CBS, 11.07 million.
14. "24," Fox, 10.81 million.
15. "Castle," ABC, 10.55 million.
16. "The Good Wife," CBS, 10.02 million.
17. "The Biggest Loser 9," NBC, 9.71 million.
18. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 9.55 million.
19. "Human Target," Fox, 9.26 million.
20. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.15 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Marika Rivera
Marika Rivera, a daughter of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, has died in England, her son said Tuesday. She was 90.
Rivera, a film and stage actress who had little contact with or support from her father, was born from his tempestuous affair with the Russian-born artist Marevna Vorobieff. They moved in the same revolutionary avant garde circles with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, George Braque, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani.
Diego Rivera found Vorobieff's "wild beauty" irresistible despite her reputation for a ferocious temper. The affair ended violently as Marevna - by then pregnant - pulled a knife, cut the back of Rivera's neck and then her own neck.
"When the child, a girl, was born, Marevna exhibited her as living proof of my infamy. She succeeded in turning many of my friends ... against me," Rivera wrote in his autobiography, "My Art, My Life."
Rivera, who died in 1957, spurned appeals to help the child and mother.
Marika Rivera had several small film roles, including in "Darling" (1965), "The Girl on a Motorcycle" (1968); "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971); "Percy's Progress" (1974); and "Hôtel du Paradis" (1986), in which she played herself.
She also produced a one-woman show in London, "Marika's Cafe Theatre," based on her memories of life the arty Montemarte area of Paris.
Marika Rivera
In Memory
Aaron Ruben
Aaron Ruben, who produced such TV hits as "The Andy Griffith Show," "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." and "Sanford and Son," has died. He was 95.
Aaron Ruben began his career after World War II as a comedy writer for radio shows featuring Milton Berle, Fred Allen and other stars. In the 1950s he moved into television, writing for comedy shows and directing.
He wrote for and produced "The Andy Griffith Show" for five seasons, and was executive producer of the Gomer Pyle spinoff.
Aaron Ruben also wrote for and was the initial producer of the 1970s hit "Sanford and Son."
In later years, he was a court-appointed special advocate for abused and abandoned children.
Aaron Ruben
In Memory
David Brown
David Brown, a film and theater producer who helped bring to the screen two of the 1970s' biggest hits, "Jaws" and "The Sting," has died. He was 93.
Brown, who was the husband of longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, died Monday at his Manhattan home following a long illness, according to the Hearst Corp., which owns Cosmopolitan.
Brown came to Hollywood in 1953, in the waning years of the studio system, and remained active into the 21st century. As a producer, he was nominated for the best picture Oscar four times, for "Jaws," 1975; "The Verdict," 1982; "A Few Good Men," 1992; and "Chocolat," 2000.
He brought Elvis Presley to the big screen for the first time in "Love Me Tender," and was credited with talking George C. Scott into playing "Patton," according to Hearst.
Brown formed Zanuck-Brown Productions with Richard Zanuck, which helped produce "The Sting" in 1973; Steven Spielberg's first big-screen feature, "The Sugarland Express," in 1974; and the Spielberg blockbuster "Jaws" in 1975.
Other Zanuck and Brown films included "MacArthur," "The Verdict" and "Cocoon." In addition, Brown was executive producer on the 1989 film "Driving Miss Daisy," produced by Zanuck and his wife, Lili Fini Zanuck. (As executive producer, Brown did not take home a best picture Oscar, as the Zanucks did, just as the Zanuck-Brown team did not share in the best picture award for "The Sting.")
Among the films Brown produced without Zanuck: "The Player," "The Saint," "Angela's Ashes," "Chocolat" and three films with Morgan Freeman - "Deep Impact," "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came a Spider."
At 90, David Brown put out a book called "Brown's Guide to the Good Life Without Tears, Fears or Boredom." In it, he stressed the importance of good manners ("Always acknowledge a gift. ... Treat everyone equally") and included a chapter called "The Care and Feeding of a Famous Wife."
That, of course, was Gurley Brown. They married in 1959, when he was 43 and twice divorced and she was 37 and a top advertising copywriter in Los Angeles.
David Brown
In Memory
Justin Mentell
The Iowa County (Wisconsin) Sheriff's Department says Justin Mentell was killed when his SUV went down an embankment off Highway 39 near Blanchardville and hit two trees.
The sheriff's department says the 27-year-old from Waukegan, Ill., wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Mentell portrayed attorney Garrett Wells on "Boston Legal" from 2005 to 2006. According to the film database IMDb.com, he also was Terrell in the 2009 Disney movie "G-Force."
The Web site says Mentell was a former member of the U.S. Junior National Speedskating team.
Justin Mentell
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