M Is FOR MASHUP - April 25th, 2012
Don't Miss The 70s A 2nd Time
By DJ Useo
One of the things I love most about the
Sound-Unsound home producers forum
( sound-unsound.com/ ) , where I'm a Super-Moderator, is that we regularly create themed mashup albums. It amazes me how a bunch of people spread out around the world can work together to such an amazingly successful degree. In the past, we've released
mashup albums in Reggaeton, Punk, Surf, UK 80's & many more
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ ). Ok, we aren't allowed to sell them, but that makes it even more amazing that they get made, & made so well. After the last one was made (the punk one) we had a vote & the clear winner for the next theme was the 1970s. The only requirement was that any track had to have at least one seventies song in it.
You'd think that would be tough enough, what with the pitfalls of many 70s artists like Gilbert O'Sullivan, Carly Simon & The Partridge Family. But then if you check 1970s music history closer, you discover there were a lot of really great groups like Parliament, Alice Cooper & The Banana Splits. Immediately it was clear that for many of us one 70's source in each track was insufficient. Justincredible affirmed the accuracy of his name right away when I heard his astonishing J.Geils Band bootleg that has singing from the Eagles, Lynyd Skynyrd, & Wild Cherry. The resulting combination of four 70s artists is one of the most appealing music tracks I've heard lately.
Then in comes a mix from Voicedude that joins the killer mashup club right away with one of the most beautiful combos you've ever head. It drops in with some awesome Jim Croce, when alluva sudden this luscious Boston singing comes in. Next you hear Elton John, Bob Seger & Don Mclean with an understanding of arrangements & melody that'll blow your mind. I hope it's obvious that this collection is a continuous assortment of appealing, easy-to-hear & satisfying mashups. Another one that really tickles me is Chocomangs' 'More Gold Woman' which is an addicting combo of Fleetwood Mac & Janis Joplin that'll force you to happily replay it. I actually got my track with the Grateful Dead singing over Boston caught in my head for 3 days & I enjoyed it. I know you will, too.
Both discs of this album have only been available a few hours, but already the feedback is entirely & enthusiastically positive. As if there weren't enough stunners about this record, check this out. Many of us had a good handful each of fine tracks that didn't get included. We could probably have made a 3rd disc if we'd extended the deadline. Let me say big thanks to all contributors like Voicedude, Chocomang, mARKYbOY, DJ MashUP, DRA'man, DJ Petrushka, G4Gorilla, Justincredible, DJ MXR, & Guv'nor. We're going to do another themed mashup album soon. Come & join the Sound-Unsound forum to be involved. We need home producers & non-home producers alike. Free registration for all people over 10 years old.
Here's the link to find both discs of the SUS 70s mashups album
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/04/sus-70s.html ).
Mix Of The Week
'DJ Maez Music Mix 2012' By DJ Maez is a great example of what he plays in his live sets. You'll hear Stromae, Sugababes, Seeed, Don Omar Ft Lucenzo, Mika and more. It's 48 minutes & I think you'll play it more than once.
Listen here
( www.mixcloud.com/DJMaez/maez-music-mix-2012/ )
Mashup Tip : Big Ed down at Pier 28 can sell you actual mashup talent. A bit pricey, though.
Latest Useo Thing
'Idle Heart Sing2Me' (Bear in Heaven vs Thomas Gold) is getting a great reception in bootleg circles. It's beautiful pop with edgy techno backing. I just got both records in the last month so it was great to mix with new material. I didn't talk to anyone who knew either artist or song, but everyone who said anything said they loved it. Mixed live on 2 turntables.
Listen here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/04/bear-in-heaven-vs-thomas-gold.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
That acapella you've been looking for is under the right hand cushion in your living room couch. You're welcome.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Ana Samways, "Rescue Dwarfs All Others" (New Zealand Herald)
"Always a Good Samaritan my daughter," writes a parent. "One morning in Bondi, she spotted from behind what appeared to be a toddler about to cross a busy road and no sign of mum! Quick as a flash, with her long legs and high heels flying, she darted through the traffic and whisked the unattended toddler off his feet ... But the 'toddler' was a very disgruntled dwarf who swore at her."
Maria Popova: How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love (Brain Pickings)
Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends.
Scott Burns: The Real Doomsday: Less Bang, More Whimper (AssetBuilder)
"I still love high heels and fashion, but I am also thinking… is there anything I can conceal a weapon in?"-Megan, a Doomsday Prepper
AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow' (Guardian)
The prolific author talks to William Skidelsky about the mystique of Tolstoy, his spat with Richard Evans and the limitations of the Kindle.
The Saturday interview: Professor Mary Beard (Guardian)
With her new TV series about the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to tackle history differently. The nation's new favourite classicist talks to Stuart Jeffries.
Ed Pilkington: Christopher Hitchens' wit and warmth remembered as New York pays tribute (Guardian)
Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis among those at Cooper Union to celebrate life and work of 'pioneer at the frontier.'
Sarah Burleton On Her National Best-Seller "Why Me?" (Smashwords)
Sarah Burleton grew up in the Midwest, the daughter of an emotionally disturbed woman. Her book, "Why Me" chronicles the abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother. It has proven to be a remarkable success and has been on The New York Times bestseller list for an extended time now. She has made it her life's goal to get her story out to the world and to become an ambassador to children who are experiencing similarly frightening childhoods today.
Adam K. Raymond: 10 Secrets from the Wonderful World of Disney
From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma's ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lovely marine layer never burned off.
Declares War
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner is ready for war-not against his former wives or girlfriends, but against conservative politicians who he says are thrusting their viewpoints into other people's bedrooms.
In a rare move, the founder of Playboy magazine picks up his pen and writes an editorial in the May issue of the men's magazine. The politics website Politico.com notes that Hefner, in his editorial headlined "The War Against Sex," blasts "repressed conservatives ... [for] pounding on America's bedroom door."
"For months I have watched the rhetoric building," writes Hefner. "Last October, in an interview with an evangelical blogger, Rick Santorum promised to defund birth control on the grounds that contraception is 'a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.'
"Ron Paul was no better, believing that the birth control pill did not cause immorality but that immorality creates the problem of wanting to use the pill. Mitt Romney vowed to see a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and to overturn Roe v. Wade."
Hugh Hefner
Renewed For Two Seasons
"Real Time With Bill Maher"
Bill Maher's long-running political talk show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," has been renewed for its 11th and 12th seasons, HBO announced Tuesday. The renewal will keep the show on the air until at least 2014.
The show is averaging 4.1 million viewers per episode in its current 10th season, a three-year high for the series.
The hour-long show, which features Maher hosting lively roundtable discussions on contemporary topics, airs Fridays at 10 p.m. on HBO.
"Real Time With Bill Maher"
Hosting White House Correspondents Dinner
Jimmy Kimmel
Late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel admits he is anxious about headlining his first White House Correspondents Dinner this coming Saturday, and his self-confessed lack of insight into Washington doesn't help calm his nerves.
The star of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" told Reuters his interest in politics is roughly equal to his interest in sports -- and in reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
"I will feast on stupid comments," Kimmel said with glee about his upcoming gig, noting that out on the campaign trail "there seems to be a glut of dumb things being said."
His take on Newt Gingrich is that the lagging Republican presidential hopeful is "really on a pie-tasting tour of the United States." Former candidate Herman Cain should be the vice president nominee because his pizza-making days provide the grist for great comedy.
Jimmy Kimmel
Chicago-Bound In June
Conan O'Brien
"Conan" will shoot for a week in Chicago this summer to kick off the TBS Just for Laughs Chicago Comedy Special, the network announced Tuesday.
The show, which shoots at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, also went on the road to record a week of episodes in New York last summer.
O'Brien lived briefly in Chicago in 1988, appearing in a stage show with Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel.
The shows will shoot June 11-14.
Conan O'Brien
Testimony Spotlights Crony Corruption
Little Rupert
News Corp. executive James Murdoch's behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign spilled out into the public domain Tuesday, casting a harsh light on the British government's Olympics czar.
Murdoch was speaking before the media ethics inquiry set up in the wake of the country's phone hacking scandal, which has shaken the U.K.'s establishment with revelations of journalistic misdeeds, police corruption, and corporate malpractice.
Particularly damning was correspondence showing how Olympics czar Jeremy Hunt secretly backed Murdoch's multibillion dollar bid for full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. As the minister charged with deciding whether to refer the takeover deal to Britain's competition authority, Hunt was meant to have been neutral.
"I am approaching the decision with total impartiality and following strict due process," Hunt told lawmakers in January 2011. But a cache of text messages and emails published by Leveson's inquiry Tuesday suggested that Hunt was fighting on Murdoch's side the whole time.
Other emails appeared to capture Hunt's office providing Murdoch with sensitive intelligence on his political opponents and offering advice on how best to present his bid. At one point Adam Smith, Hunt's special adviser, sends a text message to Michel boasting that "I (have) been causing a lot of chaos and moaning from people here on your behalf."
One message even quoted Hunt's statement a day before it was due to be delivered to the House of Commons - a breach of parliamentary protocol which Michel described as "absolutely illegal."
Little Rupert
Pleads Guilty
Nugent
Aging rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent (R-Draft Dodger) pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska.
With his plea, Nugent followed through with a signed agreement he made with federal prosecutors earlier this month.
According to the document, Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island in southeast Alaska after wounding another bear in a bow hunt. The bow incident counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear.
The plea agreement says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act.
The document says Nugent agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and serve two years of probation, including a special condition that he not hunt or fish in Alaska or on U.S. Forest Service properties for a year.
Nugent
O'Really Whines
"The Simpsons"
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly wasn't amused by the latest "Simpsons" jab at his network.
As part of Fox's 25th anniversary celebration Sunday, Fox re-aired the first episode of "The Simpsons" - but the show added a new title card. "Congratulations FOX on 25 years... we still love you," it said, adding, "This doesn't include Fox News."
On his show Monday, O'Reilly responded that the joke was "dopey," "predictable," and a "cheap shot."
Both the Fox network, which airs "The Simpsons," and Fox News, which airs O'Reilly, are owned by News Corp Rupert.
"The Simpsons"
Washington's Copy To Be Auctioned
1789 Acts of Congress
George Washington's personal copy of the Acts of Congress is heading to a New York City auction. Its presale estimate is $2 million to $3 million.
The 93-page leather-bound volume contains the U.S. Constitution and a draft of the Bill of Rights. It was printed in 1789 during the first president's first year in office.
Washington made notations in the margin of the Constitution and bracketed passages pertaining to the president's duties. The title page contains his signature.
Two similar copies were made for Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Attorney General John Jay.
1789 Acts of Congress
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 18.08 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 16.9 million.
3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 16.65 million.
4. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 14.99 million.
5. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 14.17 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.96 million.
7. "Castle," ABC, 11.23 million.
8. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.22 million.
9. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 11.17 million.
10. "The Good Wife," CBS, 10.42 million.
11. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.22 million.
12. "The Voice," NBC, 10.03 million.
13. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 9.83 million.
14. "Survivor: One World," CBS, 9.69 million.
15. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 9.54 million.
16. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 9.29 million.
17. "The Amazing Race 20," CBS, 9.14 million.
18. "Once Upon a Time," ABC, 9.08 million.
19. "The Voice Results Show," NBC, 8.86 million.
20. "Person of Interest," CBS, 8.81 million.
Ratings
In Memory
John Christopher "Chris" Ethridge II
John Christopher "Chris" Ethridge II, a Mississippi-born musician, bassist and songwriter who was a founding member of the 1960s country-rock band "The Flying Burrito Brothers," has died. He was 65.
Officials with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home said Tuesday that Ethridge died Monday at Anderson Regional Medical Center in Meridian. The family said in a statement that Ethridge had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September.
Born and raised in Meridian, Ethridge moved to Los Angeles when he was 17.
Ethridge collaborated with another seminal Southern music figure, Gram Parsons, on several projects, including the Flying Burrito Brothers and the International Submarine Band, and he co-wrote several of Parsons' solo tunes.
Ethridge spent eight years on the road with Willie Nelson and can be heard on the country legend's "Whiskey River."
With Joel Scott Hill and John Barbata, Ethridge recorded in the L.A. Getaway, which many rock critics hail as one of the great, lost 1970s rock albums.
In later years, Ethridge played with many music luminaries, including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Ry Cooder, both as a session musician and touring player.
John Christopher "Chris" Ethridge II
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