M Is FOR MASHUP - April 20th, 2022
Mashup Malt Shop Mix
By DJ Useo
Howdy, y’all - I’ve got a really fine mix of classic mashups for you today. I took a batch of rare blends that are mostly unavailable currently, & remastered them for maximum effect. Next, I played them live on decks as a mix, & posted it as a podcast.
The tunes included go through all the major styles, leaving you well-pleased, & ears full. The bootleggers featured vary from the unknown like Braaka, Duff Paddy & DJ Mike W, to the very well known like Dunproofin, ToToM, & Party Ben, plus more.
Content contained displays pairings like Rod Stewart vs Stevie Wonder, Doobie Brothers vs Deep Purple, & The Eagles vs Green Day. This is a set you can play for friends, & look like a genius. I employed a suggestion from mashup pal Minor Arth, & restrained the length to a mere ‘discs’ worth.
Stream, & download the entire one-track set here - "DJ Useo - Mashup Malt Shop"
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April 15 2022 (1:19:01)
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Have a fine week, & I’ll be back next time with an interesting new mashup album.
- DJ Konrad Useo
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from Bruce
Anecdotes
Music
• Some music trivia: 1) Q: Who wrote Henry Purcell’s Trumpet Voluntary? A: Jeremiah Clarke (1670?-1707) composed the Trumpet Voluntary, but many people thought it was too good to have been written by him, so Henry Purcell (1659?-1695) was given the credit for composing it. 2) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) took organ music seriously. He once walked 200 miles to hear the great organist Dietrich Buxtehude. 3) It helps to have long fingers if you are a pianist or an organist so that you can more easily reach widely separated keys. According to music historian Charles Burney, Johann Sebastian Bach sometimes used a stick in his mouth to strike keys he couldn’t reach with either hand. 4) George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed his Water Music for King George I of England. At its premiere, King George I sailed on a barge on the Thames, while another barge nearby played the Water Music. 5) Orlando di Lasso was a boy singer in Belgium in the 16th century. He was such a good singer that rival choirs kidnapped him three times.
• A few music anecdotes: 1) Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler once ordered the musicians of the London Philharmonic Orchestra not to cross their legs as he felt that it looked unprofessional. At the very next performance, without any planning, every member of the orchestra whose instrument permitted it had his or her legs crossed when Maestro Furtwängler came out to conduct. When he raised the baton, they all uncrossed their legs. Later, Maestro Furtwängler apologized to the orchestra. 2) Conductor Georg Solti once told singer John Lanigan, “John, dear, I beat it in twelve here.” Mr. Lanigan replied, “Don’t worry, Maestro. I never look.” Sir Georg laughed. (Don’t worry—this anecdote uses music jargon that doesn’t need to be censored.) 3) Sir Malcolm Sargent once publicly rehearsed a piece written by Vaughan Williams, making alterations as he went along. Suddenly, a voice came from the audience, “Hey! What are you doing to my piece?” The voice belonged to Mr. Williams himself.
• A few jazz music anecdotes: 1) Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis believes that it takes more skill to play jazz than it takes to play classical music. In 1984, he won Grammys for making both kinds of music—he won as Best Classical Soloist with Orchestra and as Best Jazz Soloist. He also decided that year to devote himself solely to playing jazz. 2) As a young boy, jazz musician Louis Armstrong frequently did not have enough food to eat. He sometimes scavenged through garbage cans looking for something edible. 3) Some musicians played for Duke Ellington for most of their careers. For example, Harry Carney joined Mr. Ellington’s band in 1927 when he was 17 years old and was still playing for him 47 years later, when Mr. Ellington died. 4) Charlie “Bird” Parker was a genius while playing the saxophone, but far from a genius while attending school. He once said that he had “spent three years in high school and wound up a freshman.”
• Famous violinist Eduard Reményi used to amaze audiences by seeming to play a long low note at the same time he played a series of high notes. Such a feat is impossible, and this is the trick he used: While he stood on stage playing the series of high notes, backstage an organist played the long low note. By the way, Niccolo Paganini was such a gifted violinist that after hearing him play, a professional musician by the name of Mori raised his own violin over his head and offered to sell it for only eighteen cents. Also by the way, famous violinist August Wilhemj knew how to make a violin sound good and how to make it sound bad. When he wanted to sell a violin, he played it and made it sound good, and when he wished to buy a violin, he played it and made it sound bad.
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Music: "The Wild are Welcome"
Single: This is a one-track single.
Artist: Sean O’Hagen
Artist Location: London, UK
Info:
“Sean O’Hagan (born 1959) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and arranger who leads the avant-pop band the High Llamas, which he founded in 1992. He is also known for being one half of the songwriting duo (with Cathal Coughlan) in Microdisney and for his work with the English-French band Stereolab.” — Wikipedia
“This April [2020], the animals were coming back to the cities. I love our wild in London, the foxes and badgers – but then sheep, deer and goats started to stray back into the edges of urbanity, in Essex and on the fringes of Swansea and Edinburgh. So I imagined the conversations the animals were having as they acclimatised to the new norm. And of course it flipped the status for the rest of us not in captivity, as we stared out at the wild from our lockdown.”
“Following the spirit. Sweet music to feed the soul. Get it out there, however you can. Channel the past, learn from the young. Check out brother High Llamas.” Sean O’Hagen
Price: $1 (USD) for one-track single
Genre: Pop.
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‘Winning Time’ Series
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is definitely not a fan of “Winning Time,” the HBO series dramatizing 1980s Los Angeles and the rise of the NBA’s Lakers. In a lengthy review posted on his Substack, the Hall of Famer had some harsh criticisms of the show.
In his post, Abdul-Jabbar admits that he originally “had no real interest in watching the show,” simply because he actually lived through the events of the plot. “To watch 10 hours of someone else’s interpretation seemed like a waste of my time,” he writes.
To preface his thoughts, Abdul-Jabbar made it clear that his opinion on the show “has nothing to do with how I’m portrayed” or with how factual it is. That being said, he did have problems with how virtually everyone was portrayed — but more from an artistic, storytelling perspective.
“The characters are crude stick-figure representations that resemble real people the way Lego Hans Solo resembles Harrison Ford,” he writes. “Each character is reduced to a single bold trait as if the writers were afraid anything more complex would tax the viewers’ comprehension.”
“If you gathered the biggest gossip-mongers from the Real Housewives franchise and they collected all the rumors they heard about each other from Twitter and then played Telephone with each other you’d have the stitched together Frankenstein’s monster that is this show,” he added. “I was shocked that for all the talent and budget, the result was so lacking in substance and humor.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Prime Time Ratings
“FBI”
Among the broadcast networks, CBS led the way last week with an average of 4.5 million viewers in prime time. ABC had 3.5 million, NBC had 3 million, Fox had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo had 800,000.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks with a prime-time average of 2.24 million viewers. TNT had 1.59 million, ESPN had 1.23 million, MSNBC had 1.16 million and HGTV had 977,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings with an average of 8 million viewers last week. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.6 million.
For the week of April 11-17, the top 20 most-watched prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. “FBI,” CBS, 7.39 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.12 million.
3. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.11 million.
4. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.85 million.
5. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.77 million.
6. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.64 million.
7. “Ghosts,” CBS, 5.96 million.
8. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.92 million.
9. “FBI: International,” CBS, 5.79 million.
10. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.64 million.
11. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.43 million.
12. “CMT Music Awards,” CBS, 5.33 million.
13. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 5.31 million.
14. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 5.27 million.
15. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.08 million.
16. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 5.07 million.
17. “911,” Fox, 5.06 million.
18. “United States of Al,” CBS, 4.91 million.
19. NBA Playoffs: Chicago at Milwaukee, Turner, 4.77 million.
20. “Law & Order: SVU,” NBC, 4.74 million.
“FBI”
Renewed For Season 10
‘The Goldbergs’
The Goldbergs, which recently hit the 200-episode mark, will keep going as ABC has renewed the family comedy for a 10th season.
With the pickup, the series from creator Adam F. Goldberg and Sony Pictures TV joins an exclusive club of live-action broadcast comedies that have gone to double-digit runs. It is the longest-running live-action network comedy series currently on the air.
The Goldbergs renewal comes as little surprise given that ABC in March inked a new deal with star/EP Wendi McLendon-Covey to continue on the series, as Deadline exclusively reported. Fellow original cast members Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile and Hayley Orrantia also have closed deals to return, Deadline has learned. They will continue to star alongside Sam Lerner, who was upped to series regular in Season 5.
The renewal caps a trying year for The Goldbergs, which follows the challenges, ups, downs, twists and turns in the life of the chaotic but loving titular family during the Reagan era. In the past 13 months, the comedy lost two core cast members: George Segal, who died in March 2021 of complications from bypass surgery, and Jeff Garlin, who exited in December following multiple misconduct allegations and HR investigations.
Ratings-wise, The Goldbergs has been a reliable performer for ABC and an anchor of the network’s Wednesday comedy lineup, remaining ABC’s top program on the night this season.
‘The Goldbergs’
Loses 200K Subscribers
Netflix
Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its shares to plunge 25% in extended trading amid concerns that the pioneering streaming service may have already seen its best days.
The company’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period, according to its quarterly earnings report released Tuesday It’s the first time that Netflix’s subscribers have fallen since the streaming service became available throughout most of the world outside of China six years ago. The drop this year stemmed in part from Netflix’s decision to withdraw from Russia to protest the war against Ukraine, resulting in a loss of 700,00 subscribers.
Even so, Netflix acknowledged its problems are deep rooted by projecting a loss of another 2 million subscribers during the April-June period.
If the stock drop extends into Wednesday’s regular trading session, Netflix shares will have lost more than half of their value so far this year — wiping out about $150 billion in shareholder wealth in less than four months.
It marks the fourth time in the last five quarters that Netflix’s subscriber growth has fallen below the gains of the previous year. Now investors fear that its streaming service may be mired in a malaise that has been magnified by stiffening competition from well-funded rivals such as Apple and Walt Disney.
Netflix
Conservatives Having a Meltdown
Libs of TikTok
When a well-known reporter on the internet culture beat writes about a viral right-wing social media account, what’s the proper response? Well, if you’re a conservative on the internet, the best course of action is to get really upset and let everyone on Twitter know just how you’re feeling.
That’s the method a special segment of Twitter deployed Monday upon learning of Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz’s plans to publish a story about the wildly popular (and much maligned) Libs of TikTok — an openly bigoted and homophobic social media account that reposts so-called “liberal” content culled from various platforms repackaged to produce maximum engagement via rage clicks.
Libs of TikTok is a favorite among terminally online conservatives, who believe the account’s cherry-picked curation of primarily LGBT-oriented content lends credence to right-wing conspiracy theories claiming America’s youth are being coerced and “groomed” into homosexuality and transgenderism.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary and right-wing Twitter figurehead Christina Pushaw ignited the backlash against Lorenz when she shared a screenshot of an email purportedly from the journalist, which stated the Post is “running a story exposing the woman behind the ‘Libs of TikTok’ account.” The alleged email also mentions Pushaw’s “many interactions” with Libs of TikTok — echoing a recent Media Matters report examining Pushaw’s questionable admiration for the account, which noted that DeSantis’ mouthpiece and Libs of TikTok “have interacted with each other at least 138 times since June 2021.”
Libs of TikTok emerged on social media in early 2021, its popularity buoyed by capitalizing upon the nonsensical fear-mongering beliefs that took hold in conservative circles during the buildup to the presidential election. Banned from both TikTok and Instagram (and suspended numerous times by Twitter), the account is now focused on cultivating an audience not on mainstream social media platforms, engaging with audiences via a newsletter and on notoriously right-leaning sites including Gettr, Rumble, and Gab. (Spreading misinformation and fear-mongering hate speech sure is a busy job!)
Libs of TikTok
India's First Openly Gay Prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the 39th direct descendant of India's Gohil Rajput dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12. But he could only live his truth three decades later.
Gohil publicly came out in an interview to a local newspaper in 2006, becoming the first openly gay royal in the country. He was 41 at the time.
Until 2018, homosexuality was illegal in India, punishable under Section 377, a colonial-era draconian law that demanded up to life imprisonment for anyone committing sexual acts "against the order of nature." Naturally, Gohil's public unmasking triggered a nation-wide scandal. The entire town of Rajpipla — a formerly princely state located in the western state of Gujarat where his ancestors were kings — turned on him.
"The day I came out, my effigies were burnt. There were a lot of protests, people took to the streets and shouted slogans saying that I brought shame and humiliation to the royal family and to the culture of India. There were death-threats and demands that I be stripped off of my title," Gohil told Insider over a phone call from the coastal state of Kerala.
His parents, the Maharaja and Maharani of Rajpipla, responded with similar rage. They publicly disowned him as their son and took out advertisements in newspapers announcing that he was cut off as heir due to his involvement in activities "unsuitable to society".
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil
14 States
Bald Eagles
Among the latest victims of the bird flu outbreak sweeping across the country: the national bird of the United States.
Bald eagles in 14 states died after contracting bird flu, and eagles in another two states are suspected of falling ill with the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In total, 36 bald eagles have died since February.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources reported Thursday that three bald eagles in the state that died recently tested positive for the bird flu virus. Other dead bald eagles also will be tested.
Officials said recent aerial surveys of eagle nests on the state's coast revealed several failed nests, including eaglets dead or missing when they normally wouldn't have left the nest yet. Bob Sargent, program manager with the department's wildlife conservation section, said nest success is down about 30% this year.
Tens of millions of domestic and wild birds have died or were euthanized as a result of the disease, which is especially deadly to domestic poultry. It has been detected in 32 states as of Saturday, most recently Utah and Idaho.
Bald Eagles
Mysterious Glowing Swirl
Hawaii
A dying SpaceX rocket stage generated a strange and stunning "night spiral" over Hawaii.
The Subaru Telescope captured a video of the "flying whirlpool," as SpaceWeather.com termed it, on Sunday (April 17) near Mauna Kea, hours after a California-based Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a spy satellite into orbit.
SpaceX launched the spy satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The Falcon 9 rocket was capped by a NROL-85 spacecraft, which lifted off at 9:13 am EDT (13:13 UTC) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California; the activity and payload of the spacecraft were classified.
The Subaru Telescope is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope located in Hawaii and operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The facility operates at 13,579 feet (4,139 meters) in altitude.
The Subaru-Asahi Sky Camera, which captured the footage, is an outreach camera project in collaboration with the Asahi-Shimbun, a large Japanese newspaper. The project started in 2021 to livestream the night sky, Subaru stated in a press release about the project.
Hawaii
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