M Is FOR MASHUP - February 25th, 2009
Chill Out With Mashup-Industries
By DJ Useo
The fine folks over at Mashup-Industries (mashup-industries.com) routinely provide some of the best bootleg material available. The site has members like DJ Clive$ter, DJ Schmolli, PingPong & Marc Johnce, so it's not much of a surprise the quality remains high.
New Mashups, remixes & long mixes regularly appear there, but the releases I anticipate the most are the killer bootleg compilations. Previous releases from Mashup-Industries such as 'Bootwerk: A Tribute To Kraftwerk', 'The Odd American Gangster : Gnarls Barkley vs Jay-Z', & 'King Of The Road - A Bastard Pop Tribute To Dean Martin' display the length & breadth of the talent contained by MI.
Now, a twelfth compilation of bootlegs has been released by them & 'Cafe Del Mash' shines as bright or more so than the previous albums. The record contains 17 tracks by 15 mashup stars, featuring such well-known talent as Krazyben, Atom, LeeDM101 & many more. The mixers of MI appropriated tunes from the best CHILLOUT artists like Morcheeba, Faithless & even SURPRISE! Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra, & applied other genre creators like Johnny Cash, Radiohead & Snow Patrol to stunningly effective results.
Many of my favorite mixers contribute, so you'll hear tracks like Norwegian Recycling's 'Radioghost' (Radiohead vs. Howie Day vs. The Staple Singers), QUBIC's 'Waiting For The Morning Twilight' (Achillea vs. BT vs. Nyaz vs. Jean Michel Jarre) & Apollo Zero's 'Gentle Stranger'(Captain & Tennille vs. Queen Latifah vs. The Shamen vs. B.E.F. vs. OMD vs. Queen vs. Eric B. & Rakim vs. Tears For Fears). With more killer tracks by ElectroSound, Phil Retrospector & Tone396 this comp shines with creative energy.
Stop by at Mashup-Industries or go directly to the download page
here -
mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=37
to obtain your cost-free bootleg collection of 'Cafe Del Mash'.
A wonderful bit of extra news is the record is listed as 'volume one'.So that means we get more later! Wooooot!
Podcast Of The Month - Skip to the End with Juxtaposeur is an astonishing monthly live release with tracks like you'll hear no where else. Hosted by the genial & informative Juxtaposeur the show airs live on
sound-unsound. radio the last Thursday of every month & should not be missed. For those of you who do miss it, or want a recorded version, it's available
here -
thejuxtaposition.co.uk/skiptotheend.html
Mashup Tip : Mashup more than one song.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Elaine Liner: "Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet" (dallasobserver.com)
An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.
David Weiner: McDonald's McScrews Hero Out of Money (huffingtonpost.com)
Eyebrows are raised as high as golden arches at the colossal cold-heartedness that McDonald's has shown in regards to the treatment of its employee, Nigel Haskett.
Mark Green: "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, 'Senator Maddow' & More" (huffingtonpost.com)
Senator-elect Al Franken hasn't spoken to the national media since November -- until now.
Frank Rich: How Far Down the Economic Hole Are We Headed? (The New York Times; Posted on AlterNet.org)
No one knows, of course, but a bigger question may be whether we really want to know.
Geoffrey Dunn: Bristol Palin's Truth Telling on Teen Pregnancy Sets Right-Wingers Sputtering (Huffington Post)
If the Christian Right really wants to confront teen pregnancy, they'd be smart to listen to Bristol Palin and absorb her real-life wisdom.
Germaine Greer: My front door got kicked in and this painting was stolen - but the loss is more than just mine (guardian.co.uk)
The chances of finding someone who cares about women's place in art history are slimmer now than 20 years ago.
Sam McDonald: Songwriter Arlo Guthrie says music has the power to help people endure hard times (Daily Press)
Arlo Guthrie makes music with personality and purpose.
20 QUESTIONS: Larkin Grimm (popmatters.com)
The eclectic and restless Larkin Grimm, a folk singer with a burgeoning career, talks to PopMatters 20 Questions about her inspiration, chainsaw art, and sex outdoors.
BRIAN MCDONALD: Under the Literary Influence (nytimes.com)
Standing behind a bar for much of my early adulthood, I wasn't a big reader. My literary inclinations were limited to the New York Post's sports section and the Daily Racing Form when a friend handed me a Raymond Chandler novel. "Go ahead," he said. "It won't kill you." I read just the one, put it down, and really didn't give it much thought.
"Douglas Fairbanks," by Jeffrey Vance: A review by Robert Gottlieb (The New York Review of Books; Posted on Powells.com)
Except for his great friend Charlie Chaplin, the biggest male star of silent films, and the most loved, was Douglas Fairbanks, the idol of millions of young boys -- and a number of grown-up boys, too. He was number one at the box office in 1919, before he began swashbuckling, and he stayed number one through the 1920s, his eight major productions bringing in even more money than the movies released in the same period by his wife, Mary Pickford -- America's (and the world's) sweetheart.
Neal Justin: Viewers tend to stick with the predictable (Star Tribune)
On the surface, Gregory House and Patrick Jane have little in common. One is a pill-popping, emotionally crippled doctor with the worst bedside manner since Typhoid Mary. The other is a sly, borderline-psychic investigator who takes unabashed pleasure in watching bad guys squirm.
Charlie Brooker: Television has the perfect confidence-boosting answer to credit crunch despair -- full-frontal nudity (guardian.co.uk)
Which would you rather do? Strip for a camera now and then, or work full-time in an office sitting beside a perspiring Coldplay fan?
Greg Hanlon: "Promoting Doubt: Bill Maher on the DVD Release of 'Religulous'" (huffingtonpost.com)
There's nothing like a Bill Maher sneer to puncture the pieties and moral certainty of the deeply religious. I spoke with him about religion, its followers and the release of the Religulous DVD.
Matt Mazur: "Simply the Best: Another 'Look' at Liv Ullmann" (popmatters.com)
PopMatters concludes our 100 Best Female Film Performances feature with extremely insightful, generous anecdotes from Liv Ullmann about three of the performances on this list, one of her personal choices, and a once-in-a-lifetime addendum by the glorious Bergman super trouper Bibi Andersson herself.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Problem-Solving (athensnews.com)
Marco Perella, a Texan actor, worked with Renée Zellweger before she made it big. One day, she wanted to play cards with Marco and three other men in a trailer during a break and because it was cold, she wanted to close the door of the trailer. Marco explained to sweet, innocent Renée that closing the door wasn't a good idea because of the gossip that was sure to be aroused. When Renée understood what Marco was saying, she went to the door of the trailer and shouted, "ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT I'M CLOSING THIS DOOR SO WE CAN GET WARM, AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE HAVING SEX! WE'RE PLAYING CARDS! WE'RE NOT SCREWING! NO HANKY-PANKY HERE! EVERYBODY, RELAX! NO SEX! NO SEX! NO SEX!" She then closed the door and said, "Deal."
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The "Guilty by Association" Issue
Amnesty International is urging the suspension of US military aid to Israel in a report that details the recent use of US weapons in Gaza. (CommonDreams.org)
Do you support their call to do so or not?
Send your response, and a (short) reason why, to
Results next Tuesday.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
We went out to dinner - in Las Vegas.
Picked the kid up after school & hit the road. Met some people, had a meal, visited a bit, and drove home.
Got back around 2am, and didn't get a lot of this page done before we left, so today's page is missing most of the artwork, and yesterday's archived page. Will get to it later today.
New US Coin
Duke Ellington
Jazz icon Duke Ellington has become the first African American to appear solo on a US coin intended for everyday use, officials at the US Mint said Tuesday after a celebration to mark the quarter-dollar's release.
"He's the first African American to feature solo and the second African American to feature on a circulating coin," Carla Coolman, a spokeswoman for the US Mint, told AFP.
"The first African American on a circulating coin was York, a slave who was depicted on a Missouri quarter alongside explorers Lewis and Clark. There have been other African Americans on commemorative coins," Coolman said.
The Duke Ellington High School Jazz Band played at an event at the National Museum of American History to celebrate the Washington DC quarter with Ellington's image on one side. The coin was released last month.
Duke Ellington
Conan's New Announcer
Andy Richter
NBC says Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien will be back together again on late-night TV.
Richter, who worked with O'Brien for seven years on NBC's "Late Night," will become the "Tonight" show announcer when O'Brien takes over from Jay Leno as host in June. NBC said Richter also will take part in comedy bits.
O'Brien called Richter a friend and one of the funniest people he knows, but couldn't resist a joke: O'Brien said he's looking forward to their reunion because Richter owes him $300.
After leaving "Late Night" in 2000, Richter starred in the TV series "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Andy Barker, P.I.," and appeared in "Talladega Nights," "Blades of Glory" and other movies.
Andy Richter
NY Post Drops
Liz Smith
The New York Post is dropping Liz Smith's column this week to save money, leaving the legendary gossip columnist without a newspaper home in the city for the first time in 33 years. "I'm very sorry that that has come to an end, and that I wasn't valuable enough for them to keep me on," the 86-year-old Smith said Tuesday.
Smith said the daily newspaper declined to renew her $125,000 annual contract in a letter that said, "due to economic circumstances, they were the bearer of bad news and so forth."
Smith writes a syndicated newspaper column that she said is carried by 70 papers around the country. She also publishes in Daily Variety and in Parade magazine, and is part owner of a Web site. Smith says she's also writing a novel and will never retire.
In New York, her column had appeared in Newsday until she left in a contract dispute in 2005. The Post had run her column six days a week, and cut it back to three days a year ago to cut costs, despite Smith's unsuccessful appeal to Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Personified).
Liz Smith
Renews 6 Series
CW
The CW network has picked up six series to return in the fall: "Gossip Girl," "One Tree Hill, "90210," the Thursday combo of "Smallville" and "Supernatural" and the reality hit "America's Next Top Model," which has been green-lighted for its 13th and 14th seasons.
The ninth-season renewal for "Smallville" came after producing studio Warner Bros TV was able to secure a new deal with star Tom Welling.
Awaiting a decision regarding its fate is freshman drama "Privileged," which has developed a strong fan base but has been a modest ratings performer.
Renewal chances are slim at best for "Reaper," whose second season begins Tuesday, and for the CW's only two remaining comedy series, "The Game" and "Everybody Hates Chris," since the network has abandoned the genre.
CW
QE II Unveils Mum
Queen Mother
Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a memorial to her late mother Tuesday, paying tribute to the beloved royal known for her sense of humor and dignity during a century marked by war and social upheaval.
The immense bronze depicting Queen Mother Elizabeth in the robes of the Order of the Garter was erected near an existing statue of her late husband, King George VI.
Two bronze friezes, depicting scenes of her life, were placed on either side. One showed her comforting Londoners during the blitz of World War II, a moment often remembered because she personified the city's grit and determination to beat the Nazis.
The 9-foot-6-inch (2.7-meter) statue cost 2 million pounds ($2.9 million) - all of it raised through the sale of coins celebrating the queen's 80th birthday in 2006 by the Royal Mint.
Queen Mother
Satellite Crashes After Launch
NASA
A NASA mission to monitor global warming from space ended Tuesday when a satellite plunged into the ocean near Antarctica minutes after launch. An equipment malfunction was apparently to blame, officials said.
The loss of the $280 million mission came a month after Japan launched the world's first spacecraft to track global warming emissions. The failure dealt a blow to NASA, which had hoped to send up its own satellite to measure carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas behind human-caused global warming.
The crash came just after liftoff from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's central coast. A Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off as scheduled shortly before 2 a.m.
Three minutes into the flight, the nose cone protecting the satellite failed to come off as designed, NASA officials said. The extra weight from the cover caused the rocket to dive back to Earth, splashing into the ocean near Antarctica, where a group of environment ministers from more than a dozen countries met Monday to get the latest science on global warming.
The 986-pound satellite was supposed to be placed into a polar orbit some 400 miles high. The project was nine years in the making, and the mission was supposed to last two years.
NASA
May Shut Down
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco may lose its main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, as owner Hearst Corp cuts a "significant" number of jobs and decides whether to shut or sell the money-losing daily.
The privately held New York-based publisher already is considering shutting a second West Coast paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in the face of a devastating decline in advertising revenue and big losses.
Founded shortly after Gold Rush fever hit California in the mid-19th century, the Chronicle has long been an essential part of daily life for many Bay Area residents, even as it sometimes disappointed or outraged them.
But the Chronicle lost more than $50 million last year and this year's losses to date are worse, Hearst said on its website on Tuesday. It said the paper has lost "major" amounts of money since 2001, a year after Hearst bought the paper.
San Francisco Chronicle
Director Allowed To Withdraw Plea
John McTiernan
A judge has allowed "Die Hard" director John McTiernan to withdraw his guilty plea in a case that involved the wiretapping of Hollywood celebrities and had left him with a four-month prison sentence.
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer on Monday granted a request from McTiernan to reverse his plea to a charge of lying to the FBI about his association with convicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
Fischer also ordered McTiernan's $100,000 fine refunded and set a March 23 hearing for attorneys to further discuss the case.
McTiernan, 58, argued he had inadequate legal representation and was jet-lagged and under the influence of alcohol when he made the plea in April 2006.
John McTiernan
Home Opens Doors
Agatha Christie
The English holiday home where Agatha Christie spent her summers and entertained guests with readings from her thrillers is opening to the public for the first time.
Craftsmen have worked for two years to restore the house, Greenway, to gleaming 1950s condition. The rooms remain much as they were when the mystery writer lived there, complete with books, papers, boxes of chocolates and flowers.
Christie's grandson Mathew Prichard said Tuesday the house had been restored to its former beauty.
Christie bought the house near Dartmouth in southwest England in 1938 and spent holidays there until 1959. Her family donated it to a conservation group nine years ago, but until now only the garden has been open to the public.
Agatha Christie
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Feb. 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (X) "Academy Awards," ABC, 36.31 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 25.37 million viewers.
3. (1) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 24.79 million viewers.
4. (X) "Oscar's Red Carpet 2009," ABC, 24.36 million viewers.
5. (8) "The Mentalist," CBS, 18.23 million viewers.
6. (6) "NCIS," CBS, 18.06 million viewers.
7. (4) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 16.92 million viewers.
8. (13) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 15.57 million viewers.
9. (11) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 14.54 million viewers.
10. (20) "House," Fox, 14.2 million viewers.
11. (14) "Survivor: Tocantins," CBS, 13.59 million viewers.
12. (12) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 13.32 million viewers.
13. (28) "The Bachelor," ABC, 12.52 million viewers.
14. (17) "CSI: NY," CBS, 12.33 million viewers.
15. (18) "Without a Trace," CBS, 12.1 million viewers.
16. (X) "Barbara Walters Special" (Sunday), ABC, 11.55 million viewers.
17. (25) "Lost," ABC, 11.41 million viewers.
18. (20) "24," Fox, 11.22 million viewers.
19. (23) "Eleventh Hour," CBS, 11.17 million viewers.
20. (44) "Private Practice," ABC, 11.16 million viewers.
Ratings
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