M Is FOR MASHUP - February 12, 2014
TheMashup.org is da BOMB!
By DJ Useo
There're so many mashups on the net! It can seem overwhelming at times. The best way to find what you want is to have a central link site where the bootleggers can post all together. The newest hot spot for this type of group mashup power is
TheMashup.org
( www.themashup.org/ ) The site is relatively new, but is growing fast. As more talented mixers drop their stuff there, they're growing quicker and quicker. Let's take a look at some of the goodies found there in recent days.
01-'ToTom & DRA´man present the album "Bootwards 3' has 27 super-fine tracks on 2 CD´s. Neatly all are made by ToTom, or DRA'man in alternation, with a few pals like Athom, Fissunix and a couple more adding additional tracks. If you heard 'BOOTWARDS' 1 or 2, you know these are about as good as mashups get. There's plenty of strangely familiar sounds. You'll find lots of satisfying genre clash too. Don't miss ToTom's cool video! Here's where you can access both discs, and the full playlist
( www.themashup.org/bootwards-3-mashup-album/ )
02-One of the best home producers out there, and one of my biggest faves is Marc Johnce. He has a superb new mix out & it comes as a video, too! I think the audio is outstanding, but when you ad in the moving imagery of the video - it rules! "Payphone Getaway" ( Jessie J vs Klingande vs Linkin Park vs Maroon 5 vs Pitbull f/ Ke$ha vs Texas vs Backstreet Boys ) is assuredly a multi-artist track, but it plays like it was always this way, smooth and seductive. Links here
( www.themashup.org/payphone-getaway-marc-johnce/ )
( soundcloud.com/marcjohnce-1/payphone-getaway )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb0aTjZoAZ4 )
03-DJ Sunsite present his first album "2013 - The Mashup Album" with 5 unreleased tracks to wide acclaim. It takes a lot of ability to maintain quality like this collection does. There's lots of artists you'll know mashed with plenty you won't, but the fine results tell the tale. There's a sample track as a video http://vimeo.com/80785792 "Timber Payphone" ( Pitbull ft. Ke$ha vs Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa ) to give you plenty of confidence in d'l-ing the full collection. Grab all from here
( djsunsite.blogspot.de/p/mashup-album.html )
( www.themashup.org/dj-sunsite-2013-the-mashup-album/ )
04-DJ Schmolli sez of his awesome new "Promo Mix 2014" - "1.5 hours of mashups and remixes I like to play in the clubs all over the world. A good 50% in this mix have been produced by myself, the rest have been produced by the likes of DJs From Mars, Loo & Placido, Roger Stiller, Clockwork, Jewelz & Scott Sparks, Ian Munro, Frank Carmine, Rino Santaniello & Djwlady, DJ Dumpz, Ostblockschlampen, 2SHAE!, Tobi S., Willy William and Alex Morgan." Schmolli is like the number one bootlegging dj in the world. You'll love listening here
( soundcloud.com/djschmolli/promo2014 )
( www.themashup.org/promo-mix-2014-dj-schmolli/ )
These are only a tiny part of the many tremendous posts you'll find at this growing new mashup site. Please enjoy!
Thanks to the folk at
TheMashup.org
( www.themashup.org/ ) and all the mashers.
Podcast Of The Week
"DJ Useo February 2014 Mashup Podcast". Here's my new mashup podcast chock full of various style mashups from hugely talented mixers. Here's the full playlist:
DJ Useo February 2014 Mashup Podcast
playlist
01-Poppa Smurf - Genres Around The World ( asst )
02-Ch.Art Mashup - What Goes Around Comes So Young
( Ida Corr vs Dada Life )
03-Max Fail & Salkin - Vicious Roads
( Deniz Koyu vs Ibranovski vs De?cio )
04-MashmyAs$ - Calor do Boy
( Mahmundi vs. Estelle )
05-Oki - Gives You Golden Hell
( All-American Rejects vs David Bowie )
06-DJ Russell - Pullover Marshup
07-AtoZ - Autumn Submarine
(( Yellow Almanac ))
( The Beatles vs The Kinks )
08-Michmash - Reggae_California 2
( Eagles vs Reggae Riddim )
09-DJ Flashard - Time Out From The Pretender
( Foo Fighters vs Goldfrapp )
10-dj BC - Drive My Car, Thief!
( Beastie Boys vs Beatles )
11-Isosine - We Are Coming Undone
( Korn vs Taylor Swift )
12-Voicedude - Black Or White Prison
( Michael Jackson vs Johnny Cash )
13-Nerd Kinski - Believe In?nity
14-Rems79-Crippled Frog
( John Lennon vs Peter Gabriel )
15-Rillen Rudi - The Unsung Faith
( Faith No More vs Helmet )
16-DRA'man - Peace Fuzz
( The Doors vs the Sound Defects )
17-DJ Dumpz - Hey Now Mario Land
( Martin Solveig vs Super Mario )
18-Chocomang - King of the Divan
( The Veronicas vs Plastic Bertrand )
19-Sjoersje - Work Hard, Play Video Games
( Lana Del Rey vs Daft Punk vs Europe )
You can stream or download from links here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/02/dj-useo-february-2014-mashup-podcast.html )
Mashup Tip
If you mash for a living, be prepared to live off ramen noodles. ;)
Latest Useo Thing
Is it a strange mashup, or is it normal? You decide with 'Emulator In The Sky' ( Nina Hagen vs The Crystal Method )
Mashup for demonstration purposes only.
Stream or d/l from links found here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/02/nina-hagen-vs-crystal-method.html )
( hearthis.at/vXMfxz7w/emulator-in-the-sky-nina-hagen-vs-the-crystal-method/ )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Remember this sequence of numbers and letters. It'll all make sense in exactly 20 years.
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Andrew Tobias: The Minimum Wage and the S&P 500
higher wages = greater demand = stronger economy = greater job growth = virtuous cycle
Paul Krugman: CBO Speaks Up
It begins:
Q: Will 2.5 Million People Lose Their Jobs in 2024 Because of the ACA? A: No, we would not describe our estimates in that way.
I would add one Q&A that CBO somehow failed to include:
Q: Will our saying this stop pundits from misrepresenting what we said? A: No.
Les Dawson's secret past as 'Maria Brett-Cooper', author of romantic thrillers (Guardian)
The late comedian, previously best known for dodgy piano playing, mother-in-law jokes and Blankety Blank, also wrote thrillers about haunted gold and global apocalypse.
Shirley Temple: Hollywood's original child star dies age 85 (Guardian)
Temple began her career at the age of three, becoming one of the most famous child stars of all time. She found early success with films such as Curly Top, Heidi and Bright Eyes - the film that featured one of Temple's best known performances, a rendition of Richard A. Whiting and Sidney Clare's On the Good Ship Lollipop.
Hadley Freeman: 'Boyfriend' clothes may have an unfeminist name but at least they are not made for male approval (Guardian)
I think this is what I like most about boyfriend clothes: despite their decidedly unfeminist name, they are not made for male approval. Clearly, not all men are like cliches from Nuts magazine and want women in skintight clothes, but I would wager that most men prefer it when women wear clothes that fit them as opposed to shapeless sacks.
Ria Misra: Are these pictures of water flowing on Mars, right now? (io9)
Scientists at JPL say that new analysis of pictures taken on Mars contains the "strongest indication" that there is water flowing on the red planet, right now.
Kelly Faircloth: People Can't Even Poop Without Social Media Anymore (Jezebel)
According to the latest report, 40 percent of people 18 to 24 are whiling away their bathroom hours on various social media platforms. Guess that explains the reported rate of smartphone fecal matter contamination!
Kristin Kemper: High Time (Vimeo)
"In so many supernatural boy-meets-girl stories, the supernatural creature abandons their world (or vice versa) in the name of romance. But in the charming animated short High Tide, a boy from under the sea find something else on land worth pursuing. Kristin Kemper made High Tide while at the School of Visual Arts and the soundtrack is by Clark Powell." - io9 (Note: Music by Clark Powell.)
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2014 Inductees
Songwriters Hall
Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan and English rocker Ray Davies headline this year's inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization said on Tuesday.
Folk singer Donovan, 67, wrote 1960s hits "Sunshine Superman," "Mellow Yellow" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" becoming an international star and an emblem of the era's hippie culture.
Davies, 69, was the lead singer and main songwriter for the British Invasion rock band the Kinks, which he founded with his brother Dave Davies.
The singer-songwriter behind 1960s hits "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All Night" and "Waterloo Sunset" is credited with setting the stage for hard rock music of the 1970s and adding sardonic commentary on middle-class British life.
English rock songwriter Graham Gouldman, whose songs were recorded by the Yardbirds, the Hollies and others, will also be inducted. The other inductees are "Always on My Mind" songwriter Mark James, and country and R&B songwriter Jim Weatherly, who penned the 1973 No. 1 hit "Midnight Train to Georgia."
Texas-born James wrote the song "Hooked on a Feeling," which was turned into a hit by Blue Swede in 1974 and his song "Suspicious Minds" is credited with helping resurrect the career of Elvis Presley, who had a No. 1 hit with it.
Songwriters Hall
Hosting The Tony Awards Again
Hugh Jackman
Neil Patrick Harris has given way to Hugh Jackman at the Tony Awards.
Producers of the annual telecast celebrating the best of Broadway said Tuesday that Jackman will once again take up hosting duties for the next awards on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall.
It will be Jackman's fourth time hosting the Tonys.
Last year's telecast saw viewership jump to 7.24 million people, the show's largest audience in four years. Harris hosted for the fourth time but he'll be on Broadway this spring in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
Hugh Jackman
Hit The Road
Jack Kerouac
Seeking a great adventure across the United States? Want to drive the same route Jack Kerouac took on the trip that inspired his iconic novel/memoir "On the Road"?
Of course you do. And now, thanks to German college student Gregor Weichbrodt, you can do it via turn-by-turn directions.
We first learned of Weichbrodt's great endeavor at openculture.com. The student apparently went through Kerouac's book and noted all the landmarks and geographic stops mentioned in the text. He then put those stops into Google Maps and created an e-book with incredibly specific directions.
The book's few dozen pages don't make for scintillating reading (unless you happen to find that sentences like "Turn left onto Grant St. Slight left onto River Dr." inspire copious page-turning), but the e-book is another stellar example of people giving classic works of art a fresh take with a little help from the ol' Interwebs. Also, it's free.
Jack Kerouac
Weirder Make 'Better' Art
Artists
Scientists in Europe may have found a way for struggling artists to gain more respect: act weird. In a study published last month, researchers from the UK found that people tend to hold a higher opinion of a piece of art if the artist behind it is perceived to be eccentric, suggesting that at least in some cases, preconceived notions wield significant influence over reactions to art itself.
The study, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, sought to unpack the relationship between art valuation and the perceived eccentricity of artists - something the authors call the "eccentricity effect." To do this, they ran a series of experiments involving works from both well-known and fictitious artists. In one experiment, they gauged viewers' reactions to Vincent Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting; one group of subjects was told that the artist had cut off his ear lobe and the other was not. "As predicted, the art was evaluated more positively when Van Gogh's eccentric behavior was mentioned," they write.
Three other experiments involved fictional artists, and the results were largely the same, with some important caveats. Viewers who were told of the artist's eccentric behavior held his work in higher esteem, as did those who were shown an image of the artist in a disheveled state - wearing a thick stubble and with "half-long hair combed over one side of his head." The final experiment involved Lady Gaga: viewers were shown either a photograph of the musician in a standard black dress, or one of her "in a crouched position, wearing a tight black suit, black boots, black gloves, and a large, shiny mask." Those who saw the latter image held a higher opinion of her music, except for those who were told that some critics see Gaga's weird persona as a marketing ploy, suggesting that the effect only takes hold when the eccentricity is perceived to be authentic.
The researchers also note that they only observed this effect with "unconventional" art, implying that the work must correlate to a certain degree with the artist's persona. Nevertheless, they say their findings underscore longstanding perceptions linking creativity with eccentricity, suggesting that artistic stereotypes at least partially influence art appreciation.
Artists
Casino Websites Go Down
Las Vegas Sands Corp
The websites of casinos owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp. were down on Tuesday.
Patrons got error messages when they tried to visit the home pages of the Venetian casino, famous for its ersatz canals, and the Palazzo casino, which is next door on the Las Vegas Strip. The company's corporate site was also down.
The websites for a Sands casino in Bethlehem, Pa., and its properties in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau were also down.
The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., posted screenshots of the sites before they were taken down that showed a picture of Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson (R-Newtie's Uncle Sugar) posing with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a message condemning the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Las Vegas Sands Corp
Sued Over 'Toy Story 3'
Disney
Disney Enterprises has been taken to Texas federal court by a trademark owner who objects to the "Lots-O'-Huggin'" stuffed bear character in Toy Story 3.
As a refresher, in the 2010 film, this character -- aka "Lotso" -- has psychological problems stemming from being abandoned by his owner. The bear now resides at the Sunnyside Day Care Center, which he treats as his personal fiefdom. In Toy Story 3, "Lotso" and his gang attempt to stop Woody and other toys from escaping. The film's principal antagonist has now set off a trademark lawsuit.
The plaintiff is Diece-Lisa Industries, a New Jersey company that created the "Lots of Hugs" stuffed toy bears. DLI asserts that it has been licensing its "Lots of Hugs" since 1995, including for use as a promotional Olympic Panda Bear for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Not only does DLI have trademarks, but the company has a registered patent as well. According to the complaint (read here
Disney
Bigger Than First Thought
Art Trove
Around another 60 artworks, including pieces by Monet and Renoir, have come to light at the Austrian home of an elderly German recluse whose earlier discovered art hoard is suspected to contain Nazi-looted works.
The latest pieces were found at the property in Salzburg belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt, his spokesman said Tuesday, just months after the art world was rocked by news of a spectacular trove of more than 1,400 works unearthed at his German home in 2012.
A first inspection indicates there is no Nazi loot -- artwork that the fascist regime stole from Jewish owners or bought from them cheaply under duress -- in the latest discovery, spokesman Stephan Holzinger said.
The Gurlitt case first made headlines late last year when it emerged that investigators had found more than 1,400 artworks in his Munich flat, including long-lost works by masters including Matisse and Chagall.
Art Trove
Artifacts From Cuba Now At JFK Library
Ernest Hemingway
Bar bills, personal notes, telegrams and even recipes from Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway are available for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
The 2,500 digitally scanned materials were housed at Hemingway's former Cuban estate, called the Finca Vigía, where he lived for 21 years. He died in 1961.
This material reflects Hemingway's everyday life in Cuba, said Susan Wrynn, an Ernest Hemingway curator at the Kennedy Library.
This is the first time the material is available for examination by researchers in the United States. These artifacts are not open to the public.
Ernest Hemingway
World's First Robot Theme Park
South Korea
A massive project is underway in South Korea that would bring the Will Smith movie "I, Robot" to life with the opening of the world's first theme park devoted to robotics and artificial intelligence.
Slated to open in 2016, Robot Land will include a family-friendly amusement park with rides and attractions, waterpark and hotel, but will also be home to a graduate school for robotics, research and development lab, as well as residential complex, retail center and condominium.
Spanning 387,505 square meters in Incheon, 30 km from Seoul and 15 minutes from the Incheon airport, Robot Land is a tri-level investment from national and local governments, as well as private developers, and is estimated to cost $625 million USD.
Though details remain scarce, one of the main mandates will be to offer more "Asian and Korean content" in order to differentiate itself from other theme parks.
The park will also be a mix of high-tech entertainment and educational attractions.
South Korea
Volunteers Smuggle Dogs Out Of Town
Sochi
Alexei stops in his tracks as he sees a half-breed Labrador snooping around at a cafe's back door.
The dog comes obediently on his whistle. Alexei strokes it and in one swift movement takes it in his arms like a newborn baby.
Rushing past surprised passers-by, Alexei carries the equally-surprised dog to his car parked around the corner and places it gently on the back seat.
Alexei is one of a dozen people in the emerging movement of animal activists in Sochi alarmed by reports that the city has contracted the killing of thousands of stray dogs before and during the Olympic Games. Activists have been picking up dogs from the streets and putting them up at their homes or in temporary shelters before finding an owner elsewhere.
"I like dogs but that's not the point," Alexei's wife Dina Fillipova says. "You know, even if you don't like children and don't want to have one, when you see a baby lying on the street bleeding or find out about maniacs hunting for children, you would want to do something to help."
Sochi
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 3-9. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, NBC, 31.69 million.
2. Winter Olympics Sunday Prime Time, NBC, 26.32 million.
3. Winter Olympics Saturday Prime Time, NBC, 25.12 million.
4. Winter Olympics Thursday Prime Time, NBC, 20.02 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 19.53 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.53 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.30 million.
8. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 15.76 million.
9. "Beatles: A Grammy Salute," CBS, 14.05 million.
10. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 13.43 million.
11. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.92 million.
12. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.35 million
13. "CSI," CBS, 11.16 million.
14. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 11.08 million.
15. "The Millers," CBS, 10.68 million.
16. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 10.26 million.
17. "Castle," ABC, 10.02 million.
18. "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 9.98 million.
19. "Modern Family," ABC, 9.88 million.
20. "Elementary," CBS, 9.45 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Shirley Temple
Any kid who ever tap-danced at a talent show or put on a curly wig and auditioned for "Annie" can only dream of being as beloved - or as important - as Shirley Temple.
Temple, who died Monday night at 85, sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers and remains the ultimate child star decades later.
Her hit movies - which included "Bright Eyes" (1934), "Curly Top" (1935), "Dimples" (1936), "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1936) and "Heidi" (1937) - featured sentimental themes and musical subplots, with stories of resilience that a struggling American public strongly identified with. She kept children singing "On the Good Ship Lollipop" for generations.
Her achievements did not end with movies. Retired from acting at 21, she went on to hold several diplomatic posts in Republican administrations, including ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the sudden collapse of communism in 1989.
Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died at her home near San Francisco. The cause of death was not disclosed.
From 1935 to 1938, she was the most popular screen actress in the country and was a bigger draw than Clark Gable, Joan Crawford or Gary Cooper. In 1999, the American Film Institute's ranking of the greatest screen legends put Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses.
Known for a remarkable ability to cry on cue, she won a special Academy Award at age 6 - and was presented with a miniature Oscar statuette - for her "outstanding contribution to screen entertainment."
She made an unsuccessful bid for Congress as a Republican in 1967. After Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he appointed her a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly. In the 1970s, she was U.S. ambassador to Ghana and later U.S. chief of protocol.
A few months after she arrived in Prague in 1989, communist rule was overthrown in Czechoslovakia as the Iron Curtain collapsed across Eastern Europe.
Born in Santa Monica, Calif., to an accountant and his wife, Temple was little more than 3 when she made her film debut in 1932 in the Baby Burlesks, a series of short films in which tiny performers parodied grown-up movies, sometimes with risque results.
Temple's expert singing and tap-dancing in the 1934 movie "Stand Up and Cheer!" first gained her wide notice.
Her 1942 film "Miss Annie Rooney" included her first on-screen kiss, bestowed by another maturing child star, Dickie Moore.
Among her later films were "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," with Cary Grant, and "That Hagen Girl," with Ronald Reagan.
After her film career ended, she concentrated on raising her family and turned to television to host and act in 16 specials called "Shirley Temple's Storybook" on ABC. In 1960, she joined NBC and aired "The Shirley Temple Show."
Temple married Army Air Corps Pvt. John Agar, the brother of a classmate at Westlake, her exclusive Los Angeles girls' school, in 1945. He took up acting and the pair appeared together in two films, "Fort Apache" and "Adventure in Baltimore." She and Agar had a daughter, Susan, in 1948. The actress filed for divorce the following year.
She married Charles Black in 1950, and they had two more children, Lori and Charles. That marriage lasted until his death in 2005 at age 86.
In 1972, she underwent surgery for breast cancer and was credited with opening up public discussion about the disease. She issued a statement urging other women to get checked by their doctors and vowed: "I have much more to accomplish before I am through."
Shirley Temple
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