M Is FOR MASHUP - February 13th, 2013
The Variety Of Mashups
By DJ Useo
Strangely, I know a LOT of people for whom music holds no interest. They'd rather pay attention to sports, politics, religion or drugs. I even know one person who digs precious metals. Go figure. I do know a few people who like music, but they stick to label-released stuff. Maybe they don't know about bootlegged music. Maybe it perplexes them to the point of abandonment. Meanwhile, for me, & tons of online friends, mashups are 'the bees' knees'. I can't get enough of them. So much so that the amount of music-listening time I allocate to them has reached about fifty percent. Normally, I go from style to style of music each day so I get a chance to hear all the types I like each week. I like a wide swath of human music, although I haven't taken to Tejano music too much. Give me more time, and it'll happen, no doubt.
Certain genres of music dominate the market. Pop and dance music are big sellers. I'm sure we've all heard them at least once. Lol. Well, mashups save me the bother of changing styles as nearly all styles of music are in the same mixes. I've heard rock vs hip hop, pop vs electro, and even swing vs folk. All as mashups. Though many of the new mashups adhere to dance over dance, there's so much more available out there. Bonus---You don't have to pay dough for most mashups, as copyright issues prevent that in most cases. Now, to clarify my point about mashups being made in many styles, let's take a look at five new tracks.
01-DJ Le Clown - 'Bitter Sweet Woman' (The Guess Who vs The Verve vs Busta Rhymes)
Mmm-mmm. Rock vs Alt Rock vs Hip Hop.
( djleclown.free.fr/index.html )
02-G3rst - 'Flow Around The World' (Queens Of The Stone Age vs Loris vs Daft Punk)
Yum! Hard Rock vs Classical vs Techno.
( www.g3rst.com/ )
03-Voicedude - 'I Stand For Jive' (Fun. vs The Bee Gees)
Finestkind tunage. Disco vs Hard Funk.
( official.fm/tracks/LwXf )
04-Colatron
- Colatron teamed up with achieved masher Fissunix to bring you
'Running Up That Silent Hill' (Kate Bush Vs Eminem Vs Silent Hill) Scrumptious to the end. Diva vs Hip Hop vs Film Samples.
( www.colatron.com/2013/01/running-up-that-silent-hill.html )
05-DJ Mashup - 'Keep Feeling Me Maybe' (Carly Rae Jepson vs Human League)
Delicious to the ears. Canadian Idol singer vs techno-pop.
( djmashupxdv.blogspot.com/2012/05/dj-mashup-keep-feeling-me-maybe.html )
I could have continued for hours with each track getting more and more out there, but I think I've made my point. Of course, all these mixers also make traditional modern mashups with dance-pop mixed to dance-pop. That's what the club listeners want and we'd be foolish to neglect them. With my penchant for multiple musical styles, mashups fulfill all that I crave in modern music. Once you become aware of mashups, you also notice how much the chart tunes adhere to similar arrangements and musical pairings. It's practically an endless cornucopia of genre clash!
More mashup madness next week. In the meanwhile, go grab last weeks' M IS FOR MASHUP-featured album 'SOUNDUNSOUNDS' NeVER MASH A DIVA'. It's red hot and tearing to the top of the non-existent mashup charts!
Mix Of The Week
To hammer a point home again I remind you all to bookmark
B00mB0X
( www.bmbx.org/ ) . They have the best new long mixes and mixtapes that I hear. A large crew of experienced deejays like Matrix, Bong, Naz, Swampmaster, Solcofn and Lenodd and so very many more have established a GIANT archive of varied and finestkind sets. You can stream, download or suscribe as podcasts to achieve one of the best modern music experiences on the web. A new mix of late sixties vegas bands just came over my itunes feed 'The Go-Go Cage! 7th Birthday Shakedown' from B00MB0XERS' Combover Soundsystem, Andy Hoodoo and Johnny Alpha and me and the wife are finding it pure pleasure.
Check it out here
( www.bmbx.org/2013/02/the-go-go-cage-7th-birthday-shakedown/ )
Mashup Tip
Don't do ANY work for MASHSTIX ( www.mashstix.com/ ) mashup forum unless they pay you FIRST!
Latest Useo Thing
I posted a psychedelic long mix of nothing but Useo mashups called 'Two Mic-Tables And A Turnophone' that should blow your mind. There's even a couple unreleased tracks included. If you think you can handle completely out-there mixes all done up blended together,
grab it here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/01/psychedelic-mashup-long-mix.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
The Ramones punk band will return trapped in a ouija board, but will be lost when the board is stolen and hidden in the governments' Fort S.C.A.R.Y.with all the other ghost bands trapped in inanimate objects.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
What is It Like to Have a GLBT Child? (Slate)
David was very definitely born gay. One of his favorite words was "pretty," which he would chant over and over while stroking my clothing. He liked to do waaaay too many things most folks consider "little girl" activities, and he didn't care for many "little boy" activities, at all.-J. Starr, mother
Andrew Tobias: Feeding Your Family On $15.87 A Day
I spend that much on shrimp. Salad shrimp (only by mistake), large shrimp (rarely), jumbo shrimp (which is to say), colossal shrimp (mine, recently, for $16.95 a pound, of which I am not proud) and epically gargantuan shrimp sold here at $49.95 a pound (which I have bought exactly never).
Roy Greenslade: Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: 'News now is not the newspaper' (Guardian)
As the FT celebrates its 125th birthday, Barber outlines his plans for a digital revolution.
10 more amazing bets you will always win (YouTube)
Quirkology.
Matt Mazur: Why Has Jennifer Jason Leigh Never Been Nominated for an Oscar? (PopMatters)
… I would place JJL's overall deserved nominations total at of 7, with one win for 'Margot at the Wedding' as Best Supporting Actress. Completely disturbing and senseless that she has never once been Oscar-nominated.
Mick Fleetwood: 'Rumours is who we are' (Telegraph)
With their 35-year-old album back in the charts, the Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood talks to Neil McCormick about its stormy story and long legacy.
Hanna Rosin: Don't Read This. Go Take a Nap (Slate)
The problem is, all these strategies for relaxing just end up feeling like one more thing I have to do, or more likely one more thing I worry I am failing to do. And anyway nothing kills relaxation more than an oversized bold headline that reads "Relax!"
David Bruce: Wise Up! Children (Athens News)
Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, disliked making the movie "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T," and the critics hated it, but it did provide one happy memory for him. The movie featured 150 boy pianists, and one day the movie studio made the mistake of giving the boys' weekly salary to the boys instead of to the boys' parents or agents. The boys happily gorged themselves on way too many hot dogs and way too much other junk food, and then filming resumed. One boy vomited, and this caused a chain reaction, as one boy after another upchucked the results of a junk-food orgy.
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Michelle in AZ
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Team Coco
Conan Highlights
Bill Maher Is Over Donald Trump's Ridiculous Lawsuit
Says Bill, "He's an '80s pop icon; it's like having a spat with JR Ewing."
Bill Maher Is Gay For Marijuana
Bill is in love with weed and just wants President Obama to endorse their union.
Bill Maher Is Not A Proud Gun Owner
He owns a gun, but Bill's not a proud gun owner. "That's like saying I'm a proud remote control owner."
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and a bit warmer.
Selling Citizenship
Dominica
Hadi Mezawi has never set foot on the Caribbean island of Dominica, has never seen its rainforests or black-sand beaches. But he's one of its newest citizens.
Without leaving his home in the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian man recently received a brand new Dominican passport after sending a roughly $100,000 contribution to the tropical nation half a world away.
"At the start I was a little worried that it might be a fraud, but the process turned out to be quite smooth and simple. Now, I am a Dominican," said Mezawi, who like many Palestinians had not been recognized as a citizen of any country. That passport will help with travel for his job with a Brazilian food processing company, he said by telephone from Dubai.
Turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has led to a surge of interest in programs that let investors buy citizenship or residence in countries around the world in return for a healthy contribution or investment. Most are seeking a second passport for hassle-free travel or a ready escape hatch in case things get worse at home.
Nowhere is it easier or faster than in the minuscule Eastern Caribbean nations of Dominica and St. Kitts & Nevis.
Dominica
Review Wins Prize
Hatchet Job
A critic who dismissed a divorce memoir as a stew of "vague literary blah" has won a prize celebrating the year's most lacerating book reviews.
Camilla Long's review of Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation" for the Sunday Times newspaper was named winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award on Tuesday.
Long acknowledged finding the book - in which Cusk, an award-winning novelist, recounts the breakdown of her marriage - full of narrative gaps and "quite simply, bizarre."
She described Cusk as a "peerless narcissist" and the book as "acres of poetic whimsy and vague literary blah, a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains."
Long's prize consists of a golden hatchet and a year's supply of potted shrimp from the award's sponsor, a fishmonger.
The Hatchet Job award was established by literary website The Omnivore to honor "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine.
Hatchet Job
Postpones Shows
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga says she's "heartsick" to postpone four shows after sustaining an injury that's left her unable to walk.
A Tuesday news release says performances set for Feb. 13-14 in Chicago, Feb. 16 in Detroit and Feb. 17 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, have been postponed.
Gaga took to Twitter to explain, saying she injured herself during a performance some time ago and her condition has worsened, leaving her immobile following Monday's concert in Montreal. She's been hiding the injury from her staff, but can no longer perform.
Neither Lady Gaga nor the news release specifies what the injury is. The remainder of the "Born This Way Ball" tour is expected to continue on schedule, beginning with a two-night stand in Philadelphia on Feb. 19-20. Makeup dates for the missed shows will be announced later.
Lady Gaga
Tops Britain's Female Power List
QE2
She commands obedience only from her staff and her corgis, but Queen Elizabeth II has been named Britain's most powerful woman by a BBC radio program.
The monarch topped the list of 100 female figures announced Tuesday on "Woman's Hour," though she is above party politics and her role in government is limited to formalities.
The list was dominated by business leaders and politicians. Home Secretary Theresa May - Britain's interior minister - ranked second, followed by Ana Botin, chief executive of Santander U.K. bank.
The top five also included Supreme Court judge Brenda Hale and Elisabeth Murdoch, chair of television company Shine Group and daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
QE2
Trespasser Arrested
Grammy Awards
A man who attempted to upstage Adele at Sunday's Grammy Awards faces a possible trespassing charge for his latest awkward celebrity interaction.
Vitalli Sediuk spoke briefly before Adele took the stage and received the telecast's first Grammy Award. He was shooed away by presenter Jennifer Lopez and video of the ceremony shows him walking off the stage while Adele delivered her acceptance speech, crediting Lopez as a "good luck charm."
Jail records show Sediuk spent the next several hours in custody and was ordered to appear for a March 4 court date. He told The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported his arrest, that he did not have a ticket to the show and took musician Adam Levine's seat before going on stage.
Police said they had no details on Sediuk's arrest, other than it was made by private security at the show.
Grammy Awards
Deports Producer Of Gay Play
Uganda
Uganda has deported a British theatre producer charged with staging a play about homosexuality, the British High Commission said on Tuesday.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and further legislation on the issue, awaiting debate in parliament, has drawn criticism from donors including the United States.
Producer David Cecil, 35, was deported from the east African country late on Monday aboard a KLM flight, and arrived in the UK on Tuesday morning, British High Commission spokesperson Chris Ward said.
Cecil, who denied being a gay rights activist, could have faced two to four years in jail in the religiously conservative country if convicted.
Uganda
Emergency Alert System Hacked
Michigan
Two northern Michigan television stations say hackers broke into their Emergency Alert System with messages Monday warning of zombies. Along with a crawl strip, an audio message said "dead bodies are rising from their graves" and "attacking the living."
The messages ran on public station WNMU and WBUP. Two Montana stations also were hit.
WNMU General Manger Eric Smith says police determined the source isn't local and may be from another country. He wasn't aware of any arrests and says equipment changes have been made to prevent future incidents.
The Michigan Association of Broadcasters told its members about programming changes to prevent hacking. Association President Karole White says it's the first breach of the emergency system she's aware of since its inception in the 1940s.
Michigan
"prisoner x"
Ben Zygier
An Australian man committed suicide in a high-security Israeli jail in 2010 after being held for months in great secrecy, Australia's ABC channel said on Tuesday, throwing new light on a case that has rattled Israel.
The unsourced Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) story named the man, known previously only as "prisoner x", as Ben Zygier. It added that it "understood" the 34-year-old from Melbourne had been previously recruited by the Israeli spy agency Mossad.
Within hours of the report surfacing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office summoned Israeli editors to ask them not to publish a story "that is very embarrassing to a certain government agency", Israel's Haaretz newspaper said.
"The emergency meeting was called following a broadcast outside Israel regarding the incident in question," Haaretz said. Shortly afterwards, all reference to the Australian report vanished from Israeli news sites -- including Haaretz itself.
Such a gag order is highly unusual in Israel, where state military censors normally allow local media to quote foreign sources on controversial incidents -- such as an alleged attack on Syria last month by the Israeli air force.
Ben Zygier
Comcast To Buy GE's Stake
NBCUniversal
Comcast said Tuesday that it's buying the rest of NBCUniversal from General Electric for $16.7 billion, doing so several years early as the cable TV provider takes advantage of low borrowing costs and what CEO Brian Roberts called a "very attractive price."
At the same time, Comcast Corp. raised its annual dividend 20 percent to 78 cents per share and vowed to buy back $2 billion in shares this year. It is also buying NBCUniversal's headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York and the CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., for another $1.4 billion.
Investors thought the move was good for both companies - GE because it got cash for its stake earlier than expected and Comcast because it will benefit more from the rising price of rights to sports and other TV programs. With the NBCUniversal businesses, Comcast avoids solely being in the uncomfortable position of passing those costs onto consumers.
Comcast's stock jumped $2.53, or 6.4 percent, to $41.46 in after-hours trading, following the announcement. GE shares rose 81 cents, or 3.6 percent, to $23.39.
Comcast is the nation's largest cable TV operator, a business that generates nearly two-thirds of its revenue. The NBCUniversal business makes up the rest and includes the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, pay TV channels such as as USA, CNBC, Bravo and SyFy, the Universal Pictures movie studio and theme parks in Florida and California.
NBCUniversal
'Ape Woman' Buried After 150 Years
Julia Pastrana
An indigenous Mexican woman put on display in Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition that covered her face in thick hair was buried in her home state on Tuesday in a ceremony that ends one of the best-known episodes from an era when human bodies were treated as collectible specimens.
With her hairy face and body, jutting jaw and other deformities, Julia Pastrana became known as the "ape woman" after she left the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa in 1854, when she was 20, and was taken around the United States by showman Theodore Lent, according to a Norwegian commission that studied her case.
She sang and danced for paying audiences, becoming a sensation who also toured Europe and Russia. She and Lent married and had a son, but she developed a fever related to complications from childbirth, and died along with her baby in 1860 in Moscow. Her remains ended up at the University of Oslo, Norway. After government and private requests to return her body, the university shipped her remains to the state of Sinaloa, where they were laid to rest.
Pastrana's repatriation is part of a broader movement among museums and academic institutions to send human remains gathered during the European colonization of Latin America, Africa and Asia back to their countries and tribal lands.
Hundreds of thousands of remains have left cultural institutions in the U.S., Europe and Australia since the repatriation movement began in the late 1980s, when a new generation of anthropologists, archeologists curators began grappling with the colonial legacies of their disciplines, said Tiffany Jenkins, author of "Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: the crisis of cultural authority."
Julia Pastrana
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 4-10. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Grammy Awards," CBS, 28.38 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 21.79 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.98 million.
4. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.67 million.
5. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.88 million.
6. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 14.27 million.
7. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.12 million.
8. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 13.28 million.
9. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.98 million.
10. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.37 million.
11. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.24 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.04 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.97 million.
14. "Elementary," CBS, 10.84 million.
15. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 10.77 million.
16. "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 10.31 million.
17. "Vegas," CBS, 10.25 million.
18. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 9.86 million.
19. "Modern Family," ABC, 9.83 million.
20. "CSI: NY," CBS, 9.57 million.
Ratings
In Memory
John Kerr
John Kerr, the stage and film actor whose credits include the movie "South Pacific," the thriller "The Pit and the Pendulum" and a Tony Award-winning turn in "Tea and Sympathy," has died. He was 81.
Kerr died Saturday of heart failure at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, his son Michael said.
He was perhaps best known for playing a sensitive prep school student who is bullied for being a suspected homosexual in Elia Kazan's 1953 Broadway production of "Tea and Sympathy." He went on to reprise the role in a 1956 film version.
The Harvard-educated Kerr also played a district attorney on TV in "Peyton Place" in the mid-1960s. After leaving show business, he became a lawyer specializing in personal injury law.
John Kerr
In Memory
Rick Huxley
Rick Huxley, the bassist for the 1960s British Invasion pop-rock group the Dave Clark Five, has died, the band's leader said on Tuesday. He was 72.
Huxley died unexpectedly at his home in the English countryside on Monday, Dave Clark told Reuters.
The band scored No. 1 hits on both sides of the Atlantic during its decade-long run from 1960-1970.
"Glad All Over" holds the honor of knocking the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" out of the top spot on the UK chart in 1964, while "Over and Over" topped the U.S. chart in 1965.
The cause of death was not immediately known, said Clark, who added that Huxley had been "sprightly and in good shape" despite suffering from emphysema for several years.
Clark remembered Huxley for his modest demeanor and humor.
The Dave Clark Five was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Huxley was born in Dartford, England, east of London, the same town that is home to the Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards.
Huxley is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Rick Huxley
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