M Is FOR MASHUP - March 12th, 2014
Classic Mashup Producers Update
By By DJ Useo
There have been certain mashup producers who have achieved a massive level of success and to a certain extent, fame. I'm referring to people who consistently released tracks that pulled in LARGE numbers of listeners, and even inspired people to 'follow' them in hopes of more. Looking back over some of the top mashers' careers, you often notice that they lose interest, or burn out after a number of years. Still, they post a few tracks a year, most likely out of love of mixing. There are many who fit into this category of bootleggers, who for one reason or another appear less frequently, but still with excellent work. Allow me now to review five mixers who I wish would post more.
01-Go Home Productions
( www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/ ) - GHP is a genius when it comes to music. He's even released swell original music. Currently, he's riding the success of the excellent tv show ADDICTIVE TV
( www.addictive.tv/ )
which he provides the music for. I believe he's too busy to post free mashups right now, except his mp3 archive is chock full of wondrous tunes. While he's working up some new material, he's made three collections of his best available. You will be delighted with "This Was Pop (2002-2007)", "Bones:A Collection Of GHP Snacks 2008-2012", and "Spliced Krispies". All have currently working links and will thrill those new to the concept of mashups through to those who are completely familiar with mashups. Youtube is abounding with tons of his video mashups, too!
( www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/ )
( www.youtube.com/user/markv1967 )
02-DIVIDE AND KREATE
( www.divideandkreate.com/ ) - DAK are so fantastic you might feel like bowing. They do big business on their site, and do post occasional new music that is sublime. If you check out their site right now, you'll find plenty of previous tracks, but they still have some relatively new mixes posted. First up there's a remix of Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World", the a mashup of Tom Petty vs Capital Cities, and also a remix of that popular Daft Punk song "Get Lucky". All are as fine as can be. The production is awesome.In mashup circles we often used to argue who was the best masher, and DIVIDE AND KREATE always triumphed as the choice of all.
( www.divideandkreate.com/ )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFtwBgUIqHg )
03-Party Ben
( www.partyben.com/ ) - Party Ben was/is one of the best and most well known of all mashers. His tracks have always been tremendous, and tremendously popular. He's very active on the live scene, while giving the posting of new tracks a large hiatus. You can find many of his most requested tracks still posted with working links. He provides you with a mighty collection of remixes created in tandem with MYKILL. The most welcome part of his site is his new page devoted to re-issuing Party Ben's acclaimed "SIXX MIXX" LIVE 105 long mashup mixes. I actually own them all already, but PB is now remastering them one a week and making them available once more. You can't go wrong with Party Ben, I always say.
( www.partyben.com/ )
( www.youtube.com/user/partyben )
04-DJ Earworm
( djearworm.com/ ) - This guy is at the pinnacle of perfection when it comes to mashups. He does an
incredible multi-mashup each New Years' Eve
( youtu.be/ZGRQKKaox5Q ). He maintains links for his tracks that you can access now, and he does fantastic live shows. For a supreme mashup experience, don't miss DJ Earworms' releases. If only he made MORE!
( djearworm.com/ )
( www.youtube.com/user/djearworm )
05-DJ Zebra
( www.zebramix.fr/ ) - Oh, the memories DJ Zebra's very name conjures. He once did a
mashup/video project of the WOODSTOCK concert
( www.zebramix.fr/musique/albums/bootstock/ )! He even did a
mashup radio station
( www.zebramix.fr/category/radio/ )! Everything he mixes is a pure gem, and believe me, he's mixed a lot! You can find tons of collections of his mashups on his site. GRAB THEM NOW! He also has been releasing lots of original material, and performing live all over the place!
( www.zebramix.fr/ )
( www.youtube.com/user/zebramixx )
Now, bear in mind that this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to talented bootleggers.
If only the mainstream industry would acknowledge the genre.
They probably aren't that interested in making money! ROFL!
Mix Of The Week
Tons of new, wonderful mixes abound, but they say to write about what you know, so, I present to you "
DJ Useo - Earth Sounds 2014"
( www.bmbx.org/2014/03/earth-sounds-2014/ ). Check out the contradictory mellowness and energy of the 2014 techno tunes. Note how there's less classical music influence than just last year. I think this type of music is moving even further away from the kid's club music of the top 40.
I'm thrilled because long time fave mixer Briscoe liked my mix!
Woot!
Stream, or download here
( www.bmbx.org/2014/03/earth-sounds-2014/ )
Mashup Tip
Look over your bought cd's for bonus tracks of instrumentals and acapellas. I just found an 'instr' of Chris Isaak's "wicked Game" that way.
Note to BTTB BOB
I haven't forgotten your suggestion of a PUSSY RIOT / LADY GAGA mix. I've just been overwhelmed with offline matters. I'd say I'm about 70% done with it. & I think you'll like it! Very brave of me to say that, eh? ;)
Latest Useo Thing
I had so much fun recently when I posted three various styles of mashups all at once to see which would be the most popular. I enjoyed it so much I did it again. Which of these three do you like the most?
01-'Sweet Noizy Water Dreams' ( Eurythmics vs Moritz Ochsenbauer vs Hollen )
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/eurythmics-vs-moritz )
02-'The Radar Look' ( Roxette vs Golden Earring ) Mixed with DJ Petrushka.
( hearthis.at/vXMfxz7w/the-radar-look-roxette-vs-golden-earring/ )
03-'Uncontrollable Hello' ( Devo vs Cheap Trick )( Reversed Version )
( www.hulkshare.com/3jjzqdku0xxc )
So far, #3 is the most popular, then #2, then #1. It's exactly the reverse order of what I expected. They haven't been posted long, so I expect them to increase in listener numbers quite a bit over time. My Loreena McKennitt mashup was over 7000 recently, if my memory serves. Meanwhile, I've been motivated to make many more new tracks. I just last night finished one with John Lennon vs Yes vs Pink Floyd.
I love all three, but I think #1 is the best. Shows what I know. Lol.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Podgornio, the Mashup Psychic Predicts : Useo will start a new mashup forum immediately.
Recommended Reading
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Ann O'Neill, "Speed trap city accused of corruption, threatened with extinction" (CNN)
Hampton, Florida (CNN) -- How off-the-charts corrupt do you have to be to capture somebody's attention in the Sunshine State? You can lay claim to a 1,260-foot stretch of busy highway a mile outside of town and set up one of the nation's most notorious speed traps. You can use the ticket money to build up a mighty police force -- an officer for every 25 people in town -- and, residents say, let drugs run rampant while your cops sit out by the highway on lawn chairs, pointing radar guns at everybody who passes by.
Joel Achenbach: Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable (Smithsonian Magazine)
No one will ever match his talent as the "gatekeeper of scientific credibility."
Michele Hanson: Michael Gove is sending his child to a state school. Does he want a gold star? (Guardian)
For most children a normal education is far from the world of high achievement and selective admission that the Goves have chosen for their daughter.
Jordan Weissmann: Khan Academy's Free SAT Classes Show How Online Education Could Be Awesome (Slate)
Last week's big news about the new SAT redesign included a very important footnote: In the name of fairness to students who can't afford $999 Princeton Review classes, the College Board now plans to partner with online learning platform Khan Academy to offer free test-prep materials for the exam.
Joshua Keating: "Ottawa: Where's All the Canadian Erotica?" (Slate)
The National Post reports that three Canadian erotica channels have earned a government reprimand for not showing enough home-grown content …
Amanda Mannen, Lachlan M., Zackarias Speed, Ryan Menezes: 5 Movies and TV Shows With Brilliant Clues in the Dialogue (Cracked)
Foreshadowing is one of those things that takes a lot of effort from the writers but goes largely unnoticed by viewers -- it exists mainly as a reward to those loyal fans who watch a movie or TV show over and over.
'Junk' (2011) Award-winning animation HD (YouTube)
U.K. / 2011 / 6'30" / HD / CC subtitles - English, Francais, Italiano - JUNK is the multi-award winning short film produced at London animation studio Th1ng by house director Kirk Hendry in association with the UK Film Council.?It tells the story of a boy with an obsession for junk food and the importance of following your gut instinct!
Let It Go (from Frozen) Meets Metal (YouTube)
So I haven't seen this many requests to do a tune in my inbox since the "Call Me Maybe" days haha.
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Pussy Riot Calls For Cases To Be Dismissed
Wisconsin
Members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot are calling on Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to dismiss cases against protesters arrested for singing in the Capitol building.
Two members of the group appear in a video released Tuesday calling for a petition to drop the more than 400 arrests made last summer.
Protesters have sung in the Capitol rotunda nearly every day since 2011. The singing started during massive protests against Gov. Scott Walker's plan to take away public workers' collective bargaining rights.
Pussy Riot has gained notoriety for protesting against oppressive rule by the Russian government. Members of the group have spent time in jail on several occasions, most recently during the winter Olympics in Sochi.
Wisconsin
Writing Children's Book
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is writing a children's book. He really is.
The Rolling Stone who came to define the adults-only lifestyle of rock has a deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers for a picture story called "Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar." The publisher announced Tuesday that the book will come out this fall and will include illustrations by Richards' daughter, Theodora Richards. Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro are assisting with the writing.
"Gus" is Gus Dupree, Keith Richards' beloved musician-grandfather. In a statement issued by the publisher, Richards said the book was based on "one of those magical moments" he had with Dupree. Richards, 70, has five grandchildren of his own. His memoir "Life" was published in 2010.
Keith Richards
Landmark Birthday Party
Doris Day
Screen legend Doris Day is celebrating a landmark birthday with an auction to benefit her favourite cause: animals.
A spokesman for Day said Tuesday the non-profit Doris Day Animal Foundation will mark her 90th birthday in April with a bash in Carmel, Calif.
A sold-out fundraising celebration at Day's Cypress Inn will include a doggie fashion show, adoption event and an April 4 tribute dinner for fans and friends.
Items autographed by Day and celebrity pals including Paul McCartney and Tony Bennett will be auctioned off online and at the dinner. Online bidding ends April 1.
In a statement, Day said she doesn't care much for celebrating birthdays with cards or gifts, inviting fans to help animals instead. As Day put it: "I'm all about the four-leggers."
Doris Day
Departing 'America's Funniest Home Videos'
Tom Bergeron
ABC's busiest host is scaling back. Tom Bergeron announced that he'll end his run as host of America's Funniest Home Videos at the end of next season -- the clip show's 25th.
Eclipsing original host Bob Saget a few years back, Bergeron is the longest running emcee for the franchise. He started the job back in 2001, four years before he ultimately took the much higher-profile job as Dancing With the Stars co-host.
"I'm embracing change this month," said Bergeron in a statement. "DWTS will sure have plenty of it. And I've decided that, after 15 wonderful seasons as host of AFV, next year, the show's 25th anniversary(!!), will be my last. As Doctor Who fans know, every so often a regeneration is a good thing."
Bergeron, who won an Emmy in 2012 for hosting Dancing With the Stars, was the fourth host to take the America's Funniest Home Videos stage. He followed Saget and co-hosts John Fugelsang and Daisy Fuentes.
Tom Bergeron
Get Off My Lawn
CBS
CBS Corp Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said the No. 1 rated broadcaster could offer its content directly to consumers over the Internet and cut off its traditional broadcast signal if the Aereo video streaming service is deemed legal.
Major broadcasters are challenging Aereo Inc's use of their television broadcast signals without paying for them. The case will be argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in April.
"If Aereo should work, if they should win, which we don't think will happen, we can go OTT with CBS," Moonves said on Tuesday at an investor conference.
OTT is short for "over the top," which is industry parlance for offering television over the Internet outside of a pay TV subscription.
CBS
Texas Rules
Pennsylvania
A court injunction obtained by Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas is preventing Pennsylvania resident Vera Scroggins from going to her local grocery store, her friends' homes, schools, or even the hospital.
That's because those properties sit atop the more than 200,000 acres in Susquehanna County that the energy producer owns and leases for gas extraction - land on which Scroggins, a determined anti-fracking activist, is not allowed to tread.
A judge in October granted Cabot's request to bar Scroggins from the land - more than 40 percent of Susquehanna County, where she lives - after her repeated trespassing, court documents show. Her offending actions included giving a tour last year to anti-drilling celebrities Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon, the documents said.
Scroggins, 62, is a long-time opponent of energy drilling in northeastern Pennsylvania, especially the method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial process of injecting water, chemicals and sand into underground shale formations to extract oil and gas.
Vic Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU and one of her lawyers, said neither state law nor the gas leases themselves give Cabot the right to tell private property owners who may come on their land. It is also a freedom of speech and freedom of travel issue, he said.
Pennsylvania
'We Will Rock You' Closing In London
Queen
The Queen musical "We Will Rock You" is to close in its London home after 12 straight years, producers said Tuesday.
The show, which has played to more than 6.5 million people at the Dominion Theatre, will close on May 31 after what will be more than 4,600 performances.
The musical, set in a future where music is computer-generated and instruments banned, sees a group of rebels bringing rock back to life, inspired by surviving fragments of songs -- chiefly Queen's masterpiece "Bohemian Rhapsody".
The story, penned by comedian and writer Ben Elton and co-produced by Robert De Niro, uses a barrage of Queen hits such as "Another One Bites The Dust", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "We Are The Champions" and the title track.
Queen
Move To Sea By Truck
Salmon
Wildlife officials said they will consider a plan to move millions of hatchery-raised salmon by tanker trucks to the ocean if the Sacramento River and its tributaries prove inhospitable due to the drought.
Officials fear the rivers could become too shallow and warm, affecting food supply and making salmon easier to catch by predators, the Sacramento Bee reported.
State and federal officials said Monday they were watching conditions and would be ready to implement the plan next month, barring heavy rains.
Salmon are usually released in April and May from the Coleman National Fish Hatchery on Battle Creek, a tributary of the river.
The problem is heightened by water diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms and cities.
Salmon
Strong Female Characters Still Underrepresented
Hollywood
A new study shows that despite the wealth of talented actresses in Hollywood, women remain under-represented when it comes to major film roles.
The "It's a Man's (Celluloid) World" survey, which was released by Dr. Martha M. Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, revealed that women accounted for only 15 percent of protagonists, 29 percent of major characters, and 30 percent of speaking characters in the top 100 [domestic] grossing films of 2013.
The study showed that only 13 percent of the top 100 films featured equal numbers of female and male characters. Those that were cast were younger than their male counterparts, and less likely than males to have clear goals or be portrayed as leaders.
"Overall, we have seen little movement in the numbers of female protagonists and females as speaking characters over the last decade," said Lauzen in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "Moreover, female characters are less likely than males to have identifiable goals or to be portrayed as leaders of any kind."
Covering analysis of over 2,300 characters appearing in the top grossing films, the study compared them with findings from 2011 and 2002, considering a total of 7,000 characters in 300 films.
Hollywood
UK Study Shows It Actually Exists
Five-Second Rule
You've fixed yourself a snack. You're crossing over to the living room when a cracker slides off the plate and lands on the floor. Oh well, no problem. According to the five-second rule, you can still pick it up right away and eat it, right? In recent years, the answer has been a resounding "no!
Wait! Don't throw that cracker out just yet. A new study out of the UK has shown that there may be more to the five-second rule than we thought.
Anthony Hilton, a professor of microbiology at Aston University in Birmingham, UK conducted an experiment with his final year students, dropping different types of food - toast, pasta, biscuit (or cookie) and "a sticky sweet" - onto carpet, laminate floor and tile. They left the food there for between 3 and 30 seconds, and then tested for the transfer of two different common bacteria - E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
"Consuming food dropped on the floor still carries an infection risk as it very much depends on which bacteria are present on the floor at the time," Hilton said in an Aston University press release. "However the findings of this study will bring some light relief to those who have been employing the five-second rule for years, despite a general consensus that it is purely a myth."
"We have found evidence that transfer from indoor flooring surfaces is incredibly poor with carpet actually posing the lowest risk of bacterial transfer onto dropped food."
Five-Second Rule
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen ratings company for March 3-9. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.09 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 17.85 million.
3. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 15.62 million.
4. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 14.53 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.37 million.
6. "Resurrection," ABC, 13.9 million.
7. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 12.65 million.
8. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 12.03 million.
9. "The Millers," CBS, 11.58 million.
10. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.42 million.
11. "The Black List," NBC, 11.01 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.73 million.
13. "Person of Interest," CBS, 10.64 million.
14. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 10.53 million.
15. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 10.38 million.
16. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 10.35 million.
17. "The Mentalist," CBS, 9.95 million.
18. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 9.76 million.
19. "Survivor," CBS, 9.58 million.
20. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.29 million.
Ratings
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