M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - July 21st, 2010
More Mashup Albums Than You Can Shake A Stick At
By DJ Useo
Howdy again, everybody. If you read last weeks' M IS FOR MASHUP column then hopefully you've had a full week to sample the SUMMER BOOTY 2010 collection with it's 3 full discs of all-new mashups by over 30 producers. I don't want you to quit listening to it yet, but here's some other GREAT new mashup collections for you. The summer has barely started so expect more fine mashup albums soon. In the meantime, here's some must-not-miss compilations for you to enjoy during this heated season.
First up is the amazing volume 4 from Mashup-Germany, called '
RECYCLING REVOLUTION' (
www.mashup-germany.com/2010/mashup-germany-vol-4-recycling-revolution-out-now/ ).
Mashup-Germany is a talented,prolific producer with great mashup concepts. I literally can't keep up with all his posts, & I wish I could. It's essential bootleg listening. Just imagine mashups with all the best recent artists mixed with purposeful skill, & that's what this sounds like.
Next up is 'Defected Rock' by Sugamotor and friends. A well-honed collection of rock instrumentals attached to acapellas from Defected Records artists, the record contains finestkind tracks mixed by such folk as 10000 Spoons, Fissunix, G3rst, Pomdeter & more! Look for mixes featuring artists like Queens Of The Stone Age, Blink 182, Julie McKnight, Pat Benatar, Jewel & many more. Grab it
here
( sugamotor.blogspot.com/2010/06/defected-rock-by-sugamotor-and-friends.html )
& have lots of guitar-based mashup fun!
Rillen Rudi is red hot at mixing mashups, so it's no surprise he has another fine collection released. 'the rillen rudi collection IV (tracks 31-40)' is a surefire pleaser of a collection with the latest ten killer tracks from RR. Turn this set on & you'll enjoy tracks mixing artists like The Darkness, System Of A Down, Elvis Presley, Lily Allen, Helmut, Steppenwolf & mucho more-o! This comes hot on the heels of volumes 1-3 which are all still available & in demand. See for yourself why Rillen Rudi has amassed such ardent fans by looking
here - (
rillenrudi.blogspot.com/2010/07/rillen-rudi-collection-31-40.html )
You may not have heard of Elocnep yet, but you'll want to hear his new collection of hot dance-floor mashups. 'Elocnep - Smash The Dancefloor (20 Mashups)' not only is plenty of inspired mixes from Elocnep, but also a few more from Mighty Mike, ToTom and SUYT. You won't be able to refrain from shaking your hinder to tracks like 'Mr Oizo In Da House' (Mr Oizo vs Jurassic 5) & 'The Roots Of Aeroflex' (Asian Trash Boy vs Electrosound vs Dizzee Rascal). If you like mashups, you'll love these.See why I say that by going
here - (
www.elocnep.com/index.php?option=com_muscol&view=album&id=16 )
Lastly, we reach an entire album of mashups from the Netherlands. 'PINKpOp MashUP bOOtleg 2010' features mashups utilizing artists appearing at the annual Dutch Pinkpop Music Festival. Popular mashup producers like MadMixMustang, Pheugoo, Roaxx J,Martinn, & more give you memorable mixes using The Eagles, Yeasayer, The Prodigy, The Editors, Pink& Procol Harum as just the starters. See why so much mashup talent flows from the Netherlands by checking out '
PINKpOp MashUP bOOtleg 2010' here - (
mashupfacts.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/pinkpop-2010-mashup-bootleg/ )
Wot an assortment,eh? & yet I still find time to play regular artists' records, too. Write & tell me what you thought. I'm happy to post your letters.
Mix Of The Week
'Summer Breeze' by Lenodd is such great summer chill enjoyment you may melt from happiness. It has great tunes from artists like Max Sedgely, Alankara and Jazzy D, & Underground Resistance, all joined & mixed thoroughly by proven mixer, Lenodd. Don't miss this one!
(
www.bmbx.org/2010/07/summer-breeze-2/ )
Mashup Tip
Karaoke instrumentals only make good karaoke mashups.
New Useo Thing
Here's another fairly mellow track, except I've danced it up a bit. Loreena McKennitt's 'the mummer's dance'
vs Patric La Funk & Timo Becker's 'overdrive'. 'The Mummers Overdrive' (Loreena McKennit vs Patric La Funk & Timo Becker) can be heard
here - (
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/07/loreena-mckennit-vs-patric-la-funk-timo.html )
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Children
• As a child, E.L. Konigsburg, author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, suffered from a case of what her family referred to as “dishes diarrhea.” When it was time to do the dishes, she disappeared into the bathroom with some reading material. When she read the end of Gone with the Wind, she cried. Because she didn’t want anyone to hear her crying, she flushed the toilet again and again.
• Children’s book author Sid Fleischman lived much of his youth in San Diego, California, where snow was a rarity, if not an impossibility. When he was very young, his father drove him and his three-year-old sister, Honey, to the mountains so they could see snow and play in it. Unfortunately, Honey was so scared of the snow that she started crying and refused to get out of the car and play in the snow.
• Popular children’s author Gary Paulsen once spoke on a panel at a Minnesota college where everyone was very polite. Suddenly, a group of middle-school students — all of them fans of Mr. Paulsen’s books — rushed in and started peppering him with questions about his books and characters. Pleased, Mr. Paulsen says, “Everyone had been so proper before, and the kids just blew it wide open!”
• Children’s book illustrator Pat Cummings started drawing with crayons when she was very young. Often, she would take a drawing to her mother, who would say something like, “What a nice duck.” Young Pat would say that it wasn’t a duck, and her mother would look at the drawing more closely and say, “Oh, I see. It’s a dinosaur.” Pat would then reveal, “It’s a picture of Daddy.”
• Benjamin West, the son of a Quaker family, demonstrated exceptional artistic ability as a child. This worried the Quakers, who chose to live simply; in fact, many Quakers did not have any pictures in their houses. Therefore, his parents discussed young Benjamin’s talent with the church elders, who decided that God gave his talent to him and so he ought to develop it.
• Comedian Flip Wilson started acting at age nine in a school play about Clara Barton. The girl who was supposed to play Clara Barton got sick, and since Flip was the only child who knew Clara Barton’s lines, he played her. He said that it was a thrill to have that many lines because originally he was going to play a wounded soldier who did nothing but groan.
• Even as a child, Hugh Troy enjoyed playing practical jokes. His next-door neighbor owned a cherry tree that he was very proud of. When the neighbor went on vacation, Hugh Troy bought a few bushels of apples and tied the apples to the cherry tree branches. The neighbor called in several people to see the “miracle” before discovering the practical joke.
• Brinton Turkle dedicated his first book, Obadiah the Bold, to his youngest son, Jonathan. Mr. Turkle pointed out that the book would be read in libraries all across the United States and Jonathan’s name would appear in the front of the book. Jonathan was nonchalant about the honor, merely saying, “OK, Daddy. I don’t mind.”
• Mr. and Mrs. Perry Schwartz adopted two children — a boy and a girl, who were not related by birth — from Honduras. They brought the girl home on March 25, and a couple of years later they brought the boy home on March 23. Each year, the Schwartz family celebrates “Gotcha Day” — March 24 — by doing something special.
• Children’s book author/illustrator David McPhail enjoyed creating art even when he was very young. One day, he loaded up his little red wagon with lots of drawings he had created and dragged them off to show his little girlfriend. What happened to the drawings? Mr. McPhail thinks that his girlfriend’s mother burned them.
• When she was a child, children’s book illustrator Amy Schwartz borrowed and read many library books. At one point, she borrowed and read books by authors whose names began with W, Y, and Z because she thought that books from that section of the children’s library were more advanced than the other books.
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Music: "(Kerouac Said) Everything's Fine"
Album: KEROUAC SAID …
Artist: Psykobilly
Artist Location: Gloucester, UK
Record Company: Aldora Britain Records
Record Company Location: Rothley, UK
Info: “AB Records is an e-zine and record label that promotes the music and work of authentic independent or underground artists from all around the world.”
Price: €1 (GBP) for track; €2.2 (GBP) for 23-track album
Genre: Pop. Rock. Various
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Lost Childhood Home Discovered
Harriet Tubman
An archaeologist believes she may have found the home of abolitionist and Underground Railroad mastermind Harriet Tubman.
Julie Schablitsky, an archaeologist leading a team from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, believes she has found the home of Ben Ross, Ms Tubman's father.
The site is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, "deep in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge," according to a statement released by the team.
The site is not currently open to the public, but Ben Ross' great-great-great-granddaughter and a number of dignitaries were present when the announcement of the find was made.
Bricks, 19th-century pottery, a button, a drawer pull, old records and a pipe stem were all found at the site, according to officials. They believe a log cabin once stood at the location.
Harriet Tubman
Ass Kicked By Hoax
Ted Nugent
Rocker Ted Nugent (R-Poopy Pants) is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.”
“I thought I was dying,” Nugent says in a Facebook live video posted Monday. “I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days,” adding: “So I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.”
In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer repeatedly uses racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he wouldn’t be getting the vaccine because he claims wrongly that “nobody knows what’s in it.”
Nugent, a supporter of ex-President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up), previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions. He has repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official death count from the coronavirus is inflated.
A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they will probably or definitely not get vaccinated, compared with 12% of Democrats. The seven-day national average of cases remains over 60,000 new infections per day.
Ted Nugent
Biopic ‘Karma Chameleon’
Boy George
The Boy George movie biopic, which is to be called Karma Chameleon, has moved from MGM to Millennium Media and is eyeing a summer 2021 start in London and Bulgaria, we can reveal.
In a new video that we can debut on Deadline, the Culture Club frontman says a casting search is underway for the actor to play him. The singer also teases the casting of 1917 and Line Of Duty actor Danny Mays in the role of his father and claims “there are rumours of Keanu Reeves popping in.” The production declined to confirm either actor’s involvement.
As previously announced, the project is written and will be directed by Hitchcock and Anvil: The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi, and it will be produced by Kevin King Templeton (Creed I & II) and Paul Kemsley. George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce. Newly aboard is casting director Kate Ringsell (Wonder Woman).
The film will explore George’s humble beginnings in an Irish working-class family, through his rise to the top of the international charts with the ’80s band Culture Club alongside original band members Jon Moss, Roy Hay, and Mikey Craig.
Boy George
Book Deal
Amy
Supreme Court Justicette Amy Coney Barrett (R-Religiously Insane) has a book deal with a Penguin Random House imprint, The Associated Press has learned.
Adrian Zackheim, who heads the conservative Sentinel imprint, confirmed Monday that he has an agreement with Barrett. Zackheim declined to provide any additional details beyond saying that the book would not be out this year. Coney Barrett, 49, was approved last fall by the Republican-led Senate just weeks after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was the third justice selected by then-President Donald Trump and she replaced Ginsburg, the court’s most prominent liberal, gave the court a 6-3 conservative majority.
Politico reported earlier Monday that Barrett had a deal for a book about how judges should avoid letting their decisions be shaped by personal feelings, but did not identify the publisher. Other Supreme Court justices who have released books in recent years include Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor.
Amy
New Report Contradicts FBI
'Occupy the Capitol'
FBI officials have repeatedly said they gathered no credible intelligence in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection suggesting that pro-Trump extremists intended to storm the U.S. Capitol.
And even after months of intensive investigation, Justice Department prosecutors have presented no evidence so far that any of the 420 individuals charged to date for their actions Jan. 6 planned in advance to attack the building in which Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.
But a new report by a nonprofit research group, and a separate review by NBC News, uncovered hundreds of social media posts discussing plans to move on the Capitol, including a map of the building and talk of how to create a stampede that would overwhelm Capitol Police.
"You know there will be riot police preventing us from getting in the capitol building," one anonymous poster wrote in December. "What if we created a stampede/crush situation? Start pushing from the back. Surely they will have to get out of the way or get crushed. They're not going to start shooting people."
The posts raise new questions about whether the FBI missed or failed to act on these threats, and why federal prosecutors have so far said in court they have not determined whether anyone planned the attack in advance. A Justice Department spokesman and the FBI declined to comment.
'Occupy the Capitol'
Keep Mosquito Lake
Ohio
A GOP-backed bill introduced Monday would change the name of an Ohio state park to honor former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up).
The bill primarily sponsored by freshman state Rep. Mike Loychik to rename Mosquito Lake State Park to Donald J. Trump State Park is the latest attempt by Ohio Republicans to honor the former president.
While Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, he won Ohio with more votes than any candidate in state history.
The state park proposal is just the latest indication of Trump’s influence in politics over the GOP party in Ohio — whether in the measured approaches of it over establishment Republicans like Gov. Mike DeWine, who is expected to run for reelection next year, or in the many right-wing candidates vying for the party’s nomination for Sen. Rob Portman’s seat.
In Trumbull County, where the Mosquito Lake State Park is located, Trump won nearly 55% of the vote in November.
Ohio
Rhino Poacher Trampled
Elephants
Breeding elephants trampled a suspected rhino poacher to death at the weekend in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park, an official said Monday.
Rangers on routine patrol spotted three poachers who ran into the elephant herd while trying to flee.
The rangers later discovered a "badly trampled" man who had succumbed to his injuries, according to South African National Parks (SANParks) spokesman Isaac Phaahla.
Another man was also attacked but managed to flee, while a third was in custody.
Poachers, who are part of a global trafficking syndicate, shoot rhinos and chop off their horns to feed an insatiable demand in Asia where they are used in traditional medicine or believed to be an aphrodisiac.
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Scientists Created
Whitest Paint Ever
Engineers have created the whitest paint ever, and they think it can help fight a warming planet.
This whitest paint surpasses the ultrawhite paint that the same group of engineers at Purdue University revealed in October 2020, and it can cool buildings just as an air conditioner would, they report in a new study.
If the paint were to cover a roof 1,000 square feet (93 square meters) in area, it would have a cooling power of about 10 kilowatts. "That's more powerful than the central air conditioners used by most houses," senior author Xiulin Ruan, a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue University in Indiana, said in a statement.
The paint's cooling power comes from its impressive ability to reflect sunlight — and thus infrared heat. Commercially available paints that are specifically designed to "cool," reflect about 80% to 90% of sunlight, but they can't cool surfaces to temperatures that are lower than their surroundings, according to the statement.
The new ultrawhite paint, by contrast, reflects 98.1% of sunlight — much more than the former record holder, which reflected 95.5%. The paint is the opposite of the ultrablack one researchers created in 2014, called "vantablack," which absorbs 99.9% of visible light.
Whitest Paint Ever
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