M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - September 26th, 2012 (The Year of the Mashup Album)
Mashups Remember The Sixties!
By DJ Useo
Listen & I'll tell of a lost mashup collection now found again! Earlier this year, I'd discussed with a few other dj's the idea of putting together a collection of tracks featuring songs from the 1960's. Then I 'falled' down, got hurt bad, & the project went into limbo. I eventually got better, but with all the meds & pain, & passage of time, the project slipped my mind. Recently someone contacted me on Facebook asking where they could find the album. I didn't even know what he was referring to. After pondering the situation for a bit, I remembered the 60's comp. Despite all the selected tracks being on my mac that's in the shop, It was incredibly easy to hook up with other bootleggers over Facebook & put together one stunning collection.
Funkorelic is owed a big thanks for getting me to finish the album. He even managed to get a track included at literally the last minute. You'll sure feel the benefit when you hear his track 'Can't Buy Too Many Fish' (Marvelettes vs The Beatles) . The rest of the album is one winner after another all the way through. 'The Institute Of Bootleggers-Classic Sixties Mashups Volume 17'
( ) contains seventeen of the best mashups you'll ever hear, let alone sixties mashups. The source artists employed range from Peter, Paul, & Mary to The Rolling Stones to Jefferson Airplane & many more. The new artists grafted onto the oldies include The Smiths, Pitbull, Katy Perry, The Pixies, & enough others to boggle your mind.
If you're familiar at all with mashups, you'll recognize most of the bootleggers featured. If you don't, here's your chance to discover incredible talent like Party Ben, DJ Lobsterdust, Soundhog, DJ Schmolli & 13 others of vast ability. Do a quick search on any of the contributors to unveil a wealth of mashup treasures. Now don't think for a minute that just because these tracks use 60's tunes, they'll sound dated. Take Soundhog's mix, for instance. It has Led Zeppelin singing 'Ramble On' atop of Traffic's 'John Barleycorn Must Die'. Both original songs are among the best human-released music, yet this combo raise the stakes making this track clearly one of the best mashups that humans have created.
I had a preview party for the album, & literally everyone who heard it stated that it ended too soon. I just now played it again while I was writing, & I felt the same way. One disc is just not enough for one sitting. Here's a
link to preview my track '
I Dig Psycho Mantis Rock & Roll Music' (Peter, Paul, & Mary vs Matteo Poker)
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/peter-paul-mary-vs-matteo )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/peter-paul-mary-vs-matteo-poker.html ) Judging from the initial response, I expect the next volume to appear sooner rather than later. So, counting the SoundUnsound 70s album, the two volumes of 80's mashups & now this 60's collection, we've got much of the best music available mashed & ready for listening. As if that isn't enough, I can confirm there's an album being collected of all-new 1930's (!) mashups. This should be big news especially for those of you who thought music was invented in 2001. Lol. Tell your friends about this 60s album. They'll like you even more than before!
Mix Of The Week
Funkorelic has more than just the sixties track for you. He's done up an incredible The The mix called '
The The - Pornography Of Despair (43.26)'. Whether you know the music of the band THE THE or not, you'll enjoy this set. It's ten of their wonderful tracks thoroughly remixed into one seamless work.
Listen or download here
( soundcloud.com/funkorelic-mick-satan-fm/10-track-album-the-the )
Mashup Tip
Practice mixing without listening a few times. When you get back to listening while you mix, you'll most likely find you've improved.
Latest Useo Thing
I went to see Midnight Oil in concert once. There was a lo-o-ong delay in them appearing, so the audience was left with only House Of Freaks to keep us from tearing the place apart. Despite being only a drummer & a guitar-player, House OF Freaks soon had the entire audience in the palm of their hand. The band no longer exists, but I still love 'em, so I took one of my fave tracks of theirs & created '
Broken Bones Pulse (House Of Freaks vs Dubsection)' . It's largely Folk vs Dubstep. The song is a deeply touching one, so prepare yourself for a bittersweet experience.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/broken-bones-pulse-house-of-freaks-vs.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You'll spark up a jay for the first time in years after hearing the sixties album mentioned above.
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Heather Long: "The real message on America's Tax Day: don't bother saving" (Guardian)
As a friend of mine explained to me when I was in my 20s: "Want to lower your federal taxes? Just have a child and buy a house. We pretty much don't pay taxes anymore."
Charlie Brooker: "That's yer Thatcher Ding Dong ding-dong: I blame the BBC" (Guardian)
Maybe, being the first female prime minister, she was consciously subverting cliche by being as masculine as possible. It's like Barack Obama using flying robots to bomb brown folk overseas - critics chuckle and say: "Man, I didn't expect the first black president to do THAT!"
Stuart Jeffries: "Oliver Stone: 'America always wins'" (Guardian)
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of US history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton.
Stuart Heritage: "Films that changed your life: surely you can do better than this survey?" (Guardian)
We can do better than this, surely. What are the films that pinpointed important moments in your life? Leave your comments below. Say 'Love Actually' and I'll slap you.
Ed Pilkington: Robert De Niro's Tribeca mission (Guardian)
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Freeman Dyson: One in a Million (New York Review of Books)
'Debunked!' is short and highly readable. It tells good stories about human foolishness masquerading as science. It offers useful assistance to citizens trying to tell the difference between sense and nonsense.
M. Alice LeGrow: A Visit to St. Christopher's (Party Princess for Hire)
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Sequester Closing Galleries
Smithsonian
Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation's monuments in Washington, New York City and elsewhere, agency officials told Congress on Tuesday.
The House Government Oversight and Reform committee met for about three hours to hear the impact of across-the-board budget cuts on the nation's treasures at the Smithsonian, National Archives and National Park Service.
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough testified that the museum complex had made administrative cuts but must now reduce its security contract for gallery attendants because of the budget cuts. As a result, the Smithsonian can't keep all galleries open at once and will begin rolling gallery closures after May 1.
Facing a $41 million reduction in its budget, the Smithsonian will likely postpone or cancel some exhibits for 2014 and 2015, Clough said. One example is an initiative exploring the origins of democracy at the National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian also is cutting some education programs, including an outreach publication for teachers with digital lesson plans that serves 80,000 schools.
Meanwhile, the police force that guards the monuments and memorials on the National Mall, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York City and sites in San Francisco is being forced to furlough its 767 officers. They will have to take off up to 14 days unpaid from their jobs due to the budget cuts.
Smithsonian
Slams Prediction Theory
Seth MacFarlane
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane took to Twitter on Tuesday to condemn an edited clip that suggests Fox's animated comedy predicted Monday's Boston Marathon bombings a month before they occurred.
"The edited 'Family Guy' clip currently circulating is abhorrent. The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims," MacFarlane fumed on Twitter.
The creator was responding to an edited video that has sparked one of the more bizarre conspiracy theories since the Beantown bombings.
However, that didn't stop conspiracy-obsessed website Infowars from running a story Tuesday titled, "'Family Guy' Episode Predicted Boston Marathon Attack."
Seth MacFarlane
Episode Removed
'Family Guy'
Fox has pulled from websites a recent episode of "Family Guy" that depicts mass deaths at the Boston Marathon, and has no immediate plans to air it again.
Fox spokeswoman Gaude Paez said Tuesday the episode has been removed from Fox.com and Hulu.com.
In the episode, protagonist Peter Griffin is asked by sports announcer Bob Costas about his performance at the marathon. A flashback shows Peter mowing down runners with his car.
Later, Peter befriends a terrorist who, unbeknownst to him, is plotting to blow up a bridge. When Peter dials a cellphone the friend has given him, explosions and screams are heard. On some websites, an edited clip has been circulating that fuses the two scenes, making it seem - incorrectly - as if the explosion was at the marathon. Some commenters have implied that the show "predicted" the bombings.
'Family Guy'
Late Payout Predicted
Nenana Ice Classic
The person who runs Alaska's biggest annual guessing game predicts a late outcome this year.
Cherrie Forness manages the Nenana Ice Classic, a contest to see who can guess when the ice will give way on the Tanana River in the tiny community of Nenana, about 55 miles south of Fairbanks. The game is a hugely popular form of wagering in Alaska and draws entries from across the state and elsewhere.
Forness says the ice on the Tanana River measured 50.3 inches Monday. That, combined with cold weather this month, is leading her to speculate that the ice might break up late this year, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.
The ice "went out" last year on April 23, and Tommy Lee Waters of Fairbanks was the sole winner.
People from across the state pay $2.50 a guess to predict when the ice goes out on the river. A tripod is set up on the ice, and the game is over when the tripod tips on the shifting ice and stops a clock.
Nenana Ice Classic
Will Emphasize Rating Details
MPAA
The Motion Picture Association of America announced changes to its movie rating system Tuesday, saying it wants to help parents make informed decisions at the multiplex.
The new system, rolled out as the "Check the Box" campaign, will include prominent descriptions explaining why a movie received its rating. Films that might previously have been stamped PG-13 with a sentence beneath the rating will now feature those same descriptions in large type next to the ratings code.
The changes announced by MPAA CEO Christopher Dodd (D-For Lease) in Las Vegas on Tuesday come in the aftermath of explosions at the Boston Marathon and recent shooting rampages, though the former U.S. senator did not address such examples directly.
The White House has called on the movie industry help parents monitor violence in media since the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the state Dodd represented for 30 years as a Democrat until 2011. And in a sweeping proposal this year, President Barack Obama asked specifically for a stricter rating system.
MPAA
Russian Mob Ran Games
Celebrity Poker
Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime operation that included illegal, high-stakes poker games for the rich and famous and threats of violence to make sure customers paid their debts.
Federal authorities in New York City weren't naming names but said the poker players included pro athletes, Hollywood celebrities and Wall Street executives. None of them were charged.
The money-laundering investigation led to arrests Tuesday in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and elsewhere around the country. There also were FBI raids at a $6 million apartment in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and a prestigious Madison Avenue art gallery owned by two of the defendants.
George Venizelos, head of the New York FBI office, said the charges against 34 individuals "demonstrate the scope and reach of Russian organized crime."
Celebrity Poker
Indian State Stops Beach Club From Opening
Playboy
India's going to have to wait for its first Playboy bunnies.
After a month of heated debate, the government in the tourist hotspot of Goa refused permission for promoters to open the country's first Playboy club in a 22,000-square-foot open-air property on upmarket Candolim beach.
Women's groups and conservative politicians had attacked the proposed club, with Michael Lobo, a legislator from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party saying it was "tantamount to promoting prostitution."
In the end, the government barred the club from opening in one of India's most famous party locations on technical grounds. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the state assembly Monday that licenses to run so-called beach shacks - even ones as large as the proposed Playboy club - could not be granted to companies, only individuals.
Playboy
Restoration Inspected
Pompeii
Anti-Mafia prosecutors say they have ordered an inspection into restoration work at the Pompeii archaeological site to make sure that the organized crime has not infiltrated the project.
Prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that the day-long inspections were carried out on areas being restored as part of a 105 million euro ($136 million) project funded by the Italian government and the European Community.
The inspections were carried out by prosecutors along with military and financial police.
Several collapses in the ancient Roman city have raised concerns about the state of the historic cultural attraction, including that of a 2,000-year-old house once used by gladiators to train before combat.
Pompeii
21st Century Fox
Rupert
News Corp. says the name of the entertainment company that will survive when its newspapers are spun off into a different company will be 21st Century Fox.
That plays off its movie studio, 20th Century Fox, for the current century. Previously News Corp. planned to call the movie and TV show company Fox Group.
CEO Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate) said the new name draws on the rich heritage of the movie studio while hinting at the innovation and dynamism of its properties.
21st Century Fox will hold pay TV channels like FX and Fox News Channel, the Fox broadcast TV network, movie and TV studios under the 20th Century Fox umbrella and European pay TV providers such as Sky Italia.
The publishing company will still be called News Corp.
Rupert
Self-Publishes, Hits Best-Seller Lists
Colleen Hoover
After a feverish month of inspiration, Colleen Hoover had finally fulfilled her dream of writing a book.
With family and friends asking to read the emotional tale of first love, the married mother of three young boys living in rural East Texas and working 11-hour days as a social worker decided to digitally self-publish on Amazon, where they could download it for free for a week.
Soon after self-publishing, people she didn't know were downloading the book - even after it was only available for a fee. Readers began posting reviews and buzz built on blogs. Missing her characters, she self-published the sequel, "Point of Retreat," a month later. By June, both books hit Amazon's Kindle top 100 best-seller list. By July, both were on The New York Times best-seller list for e-books. Soon after, they were picked up by Atria Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint. By fall, she had sold the movie rights.
"I wasn't expecting any of this at all. And I'm not saying I don't like it, but it's taken a lot of getting used to," said the 33-year-old Hoover, who quit her job last summer to focus on her career as an author.
Hoover is both a story of self-published success in the digital age and of the popularity of so-called "New Adult" books, stories featuring characters in their late teens and early 20s. Others in the genre include Jamie McGuire's "Beautiful Disaster" and J. Lynn's "Wait for You." The novels, which often have explicit material, are seen by publishers as a bridge between young adult novels and romance novels.
Colleen Hoover
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville vs Michigan, CBS, 23.43 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 17.22 million.
3. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.1 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 14.03 million.
5. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 13.31 million.
6. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 13.19 million.
7. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.15 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.62 million.
9. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 12.23 million.
10. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 12.13 million.
11. "Prelude to a Championship, CBS, 11.78 million.
12. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.47 million.
13. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 11.44 million.
14. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 11.11 million.
15. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.65 million.
16. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.38 million.
17. "The Good Wife," CBS, 10.14 million.
18. "Person of Interest, CBS, 10.11 million.
19. "The Amazing Race 22," CBS, 9.76 million.
20. "Survivor: Caramoan," CBS, 9.38 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall was the calm alongside John Madden's storm.
Over four decades, Summerall described some of the biggest games in America in his deep, resonant voice. Simple, spare, he delivered the details on 16 Super Bowls, the Masters and the U.S. Open tennis tournament with a simple, understated style that was the perfect complement for the "booms!" and "bangs!" of Madden, his football partner for the last half of the NFL player-turned-broadcaster's career.
Summerall died Tuesday at age 82 of cardiac arrest, said University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center spokesman Jeff Carlton, speaking on behalf of Summerall's wife, Cheri.
Summerall played 10 NFL seasons from 1952 to 1961 with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants, but it was in his second career that he became a voice familiar to generations of sports fans, not only those of the NFL.
Summerall started doing NFL games for CBS in 1964, and became a play-by-play guy 10 years later. He was also part of coverage of the PGA Tour, including the Masters from 1968-94, and U.S. Open tennis.
When CBS lost its NFL deal after the 1993 season, Summerall switched to Fox to keep calling NFL games with Madden. Summerall had hoped to keep working with CBS for other events like the Masters, but network executives saw it otherwise. At the time, CBS Sports anchor Jim Nantz said he was "very saddened" that Summerall didn't get to leave CBS under his own terms.
A recovering alcoholic, Summerall had a liver transplant in April 2004. The lifesaving surgery was necessary even after 12 years of sobriety.
Summerall received the liver of a 13-year-old junior high football player from Arkansas who died unexpectedly from an aneurysm. Summerall had an emotional meeting with the teenager's family the following year.
Born George Allen Summerall on May 10, 1930, in Lake City, Fla., he was an all-state prep football and basketball player there, and lettered in baseball and tennis. He played college football at Arkansas before going to the NFL.
Summerall was part of the CBS broadcast of the inaugural Super Bowl in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 1967. After working the first half in the broadcast booth, he switched places with Gifford at halftime and was a sideline reporter during the second half.
Pat Summerall
In Memory
Richard LeParmentier
Character actor Richard LeParmentier, who as a young Death Star commander learned the hard way that Darth Vader brooks no disrespect, died Tuesday. He was 66.
LeParmentier died unexpectedly Tuesday morning in Austin while visiting his children, said his publicist, Derek Maki. Maki said he does not know the cause.
LeParmentier was born in Pittsburgh, but moved to Britain in 1974 and had been living in Bath, England, when he died.
As Admiral Motti in 1977's "Star Wars," LeParmentier's character mocks Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient Jedi religion." Vader responds with a demonstration, using the force to choke the young commander, but allowing him to live.
LeParmentier appeared frequently in British television roles throughout his career and was working as a screenwriter when he died. He played a reporter in 1980's "Superman II," which featured actress Sarah Douglas - the villainess Ursa - with whom he was married from 1981 until 1984, according to their imdb.com profiles.
It was for his "Star Wars" role that LeParmentier may be best remembered as an actor.
"He absolutely loved traveling the world and meeting his friends and fellow Stars Wars fans, whose tributes have given us all the best lines in this message," LeParmentier's family said in a statement.
"He was no respecter of convention, except comic conventions," said Rhiannon, Stephanie and Tyrone LeParmentier.
Richard LeParmentier
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