M Is FOR MASHUP - May 1st, 2013
Newbie Mashup Review
By DJ Petrushka
Hey Y'all, I'm doing a guest spot for Dj Useo this week.
Let's get started with some brand new mashers and their tracks.
01-Deviz Bang & Edshock-'Gentleman GTFU' (Psy VS Zoolanda)
This track is great! I love that guy Psy first off, and this includes some beefing up with techo
added. This track is almost more of a remix than mash, but never mind that. It's great for dancing
in a club, your living room, at the wheel of your car, you choose.
( soundcloud.com/deviz-edshock/gentleman-gtfu-deviz-bang )
02-Avicii vs. Nicky Romero Ft. Noonie Bao - I Could Be The One (Nikolai Valeev Intro Smashmash)
Hang onto your hat! This tune is also great. At first, it seems like the masher went out of key, but if you are
patient, it resolves into a gorgeous dance tune. The music is very beautiful, and I easily recognize when
musicians deliberately use modulation to cause some tension. When the tunes are resolved as wonderfully
as this one, it's a great trip.
( soundcloud.com/nikolai-valeev/avicii-vs-nicky-romero-ft )
03-J. Cole x Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough (Jeanine Da Feen Blend)
Man, these new mashes are blowing my mind. I have no idea who any of the mashers are or the artists,
except for Psy. I am loving this, it's just what I needed. One of my closest friends is very ill in the hospital,
and I needed a huge uplift. This mashup has soul reminiscent of Motown and also like disco from the 70's.
Very nice, this also goes on my ipod.
( soundcloud.com/jeaninedafeen/j-cole-x-soulsearcher-cant-get-enough )
04-Life In Color (Ft. R3hab, David Solano x Neon Hitch x Zedd & Foxes, DJ mikeH Edit)
I can't believe it. Another major hit! This one has some heavier dubstep in the instrumental.
The Vocal seems to be mainly typical club vocal, but typical club vocal is actually very good.
Beautiful tone to the voice, that's what makes the dubstep so great, it's an awesome juxtaposition
to the pure vocal sweetness.
( soundcloud.com/dj-mikeh/life-in-color-ft-r3hab-david )
05-Haftbefehl x Oasis - Chabos wissen wer der Wonderwall ist (Craaze Mashup)
Last but not least, great pairing! I love Oasis, and the instrumental sounds like it
has Asian or maybe Arabic influences, yet it's actually German.
I can't really describe this one, so go listen and see what I mean
( soundcloud.com/craaze/haftbefehl-x-oasis-chabos )
Well, that's it for me and this weeks mashing scene.
Look for Useo to be back next week.
Mix Of The Week
Dr. Jimmy-'Weird World' is one super trippy affair. It has great variety of psychedelic music sprinkled liberally with appropriate samples. Dr. Jimmy displays vast skills at selection, production, and passage with this gem. Stream, or download for free here-
( www.bmbx.org/2013/04/weird-world/ )
Mashup Tip
Never mash a song with an 'r' in the title during the month of May.
Latest Useo Thing
Here's a pair of Yello mashups from DJ Useo that both mess with the Yello song 'pumping velvet'. First up is ''
Pumping Frozen Black Hole' (
Madonna vs Yello vs Joy Marquez) is 3 songs mixed together for maximum enjoyment. I'm proud to be a fan of all 3 artists.
( official.fm/tracks/yCoq )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/04/madonna-vs-yello-vs-joy-marquez.html )
Second up is 'Pumping Foxy Velvet' (Yello vs Sis vs JJimi Hendrix) . Listen closely to this blend of songs and you can discern elements of
01-Yello-Pumping Velvet
02-Sis-Foxy
03-Jimi Hendrix-Foxy Lady
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/04/sis-vs-yello-vs-jimi-hendrix.html )
Both mashups for demonstration purposes only.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
By July 9th 2014 there will be enough mashup mixers to reach to the moon if they stand on their toes
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FOX-CT disgusting b-roll video footage during report on Women's Day (YouTube)
"This Fox affiliate news show uses this footage for a story on women's history month. When the presenter hesitates you know he can't believe what the dickheads in the editing room have done...." - Ana Samways
Paul Krugman: "Knaves, Fools, and Me (Meta)" (New York Times)
One criticism I face fairly often is the assertion that I must be dishonest - I must be cherry-picking my evidence, or something - because the way I describe it, I'm always right while the people who disagree with me are always wrong. And not just wrong, they're often knaves or fools. How likely is that?
Amanda Marcotte: Conservative Sex Obsession Hurts Both Boys and Girls (Slate)
One of the realities of living in the right-wing bubble is that the outside world is portrayed as a den of sin, where everyone is having sex all the time, from puberty on. Rest assured, Jonathan Krohn, NYU's campus is positively thick with virgins of all political stripes. You're only 18. There's no reason to feel like an outsider.
Michael Wolff: The New York Times Book Review's retirement plan (Guardian)
The Book Review was once American literary culture's holy of holies, but neither books nor criticism count for much any more.
Lucy Mangan: "The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder" (Guardian)
… if you want to teach your children not to waste your increasingly expensive resources, there is no better way than letting them read about the hog-butchering in Little House in the Big Woods, where everything, literally from nose to tail, is used. If you want to teach them the true value of Christmas, let them read Laura's raptures over the piece of candy each of her sisters gets in her stocking every year.
Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 (Guardian)
It's a landmark birthday, the perfect time to take stock of one's life so far. So what has The Thick Of It writer Ian Martin discovered now he has entered his seventh decade?
Eamonn Forde: "The rebirth of the compilation album: now that's what I call a surprise!" (Guardian)
Spotify, iTunes and digital downloads were supposed to signal the death of the compilation album. But in the past year sales have shot up.
Alasdair Wilkins: This misshapen blotch was once the brightest supernova ever recorded (io9)
In the spring of the year 1006, Earth's sky was drastically altered by the appearance of a supernova that was brighter than the entire combined night sky. Mentioned in historical records throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, this supernova was likely bright enough to be visible during daylight hours, with some accounts even claiming it cast its own shadows. Now, 1007 years later, this exploded star doesn't look quite so impressive.
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Winners Announced
Webbys
Campaigns for pop stars Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga joined comedian Jerry Seinfeld and the team behind President Barack Obama's 2012 social media election strategy on Tuesday in winning Webby Awards, the annual honors for excellence on the Internet.
R&B singer Frank Ocean, fake news website, The Onion, and humor website Funny or Die also picked up awards.
The Webby Awards recognizes websites, online video, social media and apps and interactive advertising.
Other winners included actor Kevin Spacey and producer Dana Brunetti for creating the online television drama series "House of Cards" for video streaming service Netflix, and actors Ben Stiller, Ken Marino and creator Erica Oyama for the online comedy series "Burning Love."
U.S. football player Chris Kluwe was honored for his online activism as Athlete of the Year, while Steve Wilhite won the Lifetime Achievement award for the durability of his two-decade-old GIF image format.
Webbys
Nominations Largely Skip Hollywood Stars
Tony Awards
The Tony Awards committee largely favoured tried-and-true stage veterans over flashy visitors Tuesday when announcing this year's Tony nominations, with Hollywood stars such as Bette Midler, Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes and Scarlett Johansson never hearing their names called.
With the exception of Broadway debutant Tom Hanks, the acting categories were mostly filled by established theatre creatures such as Laurie Metcalf, Amy Morton, Laura Osnes, Nathan Lane, Tracy Letts, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen.
Hanks, who earned a best actor nod playing gutsy New York City newspaper columnist Mike McAlary in the late Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy," joked that he was out of his league and that to win he'd have to beat Lane and Pierce.
The awards will be broadcast on CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9. The snubs of big-name actors may mean a less starry telecast.
Tony Awards
Equality Forum
Mariela Castro
The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro will be allowed to travel to Philadelphia to accept an award for her gay rights advocacy, officials said Tuesday, reversing a previous decision to reject her visa request.
Mariela Castro will attend the Equality Forum's annual conference on civil rights for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people, according to Malcolm Lazin, the advocacy group's executive director.
Lazin, who had blasted the State Department's travel denial last week, said organizers are "delighted" at the change of heart.
A U.S. official confirmed that Castro has been authorized to go to the event. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because visa records are confidential.
Castro, a married mother of three, is the niece of retired Cuban strongman Fidel Castro. She is also the director of Cuba's National Center for Sex Education, part of Cuba's public health ministry, and is the country's most prominent gay rights activist.
Mariela Castro
Take Spotlight
Celebrity Wines
Fancy having Brangelina, Drew Barrymore and Dan Aykroyd over for dinner? No problem, they'll even bring the wine.
OK, maybe the stars themselves won't show up, but their wines will appear with just a wave of a credit card. You might start with an aperitif of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's new Miraval rose, move on to a light pasta dish served with Barrymore Wine's pinot grigio, then perhaps finish up with a glass of Aykroyd's cabernet franc ice wine for dessert.
It's hard to put a number on celebrity wines, a category that includes singers, sports stars, chefs and more. But Danny Brager, vice president for alcoholic beverages at market research firm Nielsen, says there's close to 100 on the market at the moment. "It keeps growing all the time," he said.
Interestingly, the average price for all 750-milliliter bottles of wine in the Nielsen database is $9. Average price for celebrity wines: $20. That could be due to a number of factors, including the type of wine the celebrity is selling - some are drawn to high-end efforts. Still, "it's a significant gap," Brager points out.
Celebrity Wines
"Distraction"
ESPN
ESPN (the channel you get whether you want it or not) says that it regrets the "distraction" (not the words or comments, just the "distraction") caused by one of its sanctimonious reporters who described Jason Collins as a sinner after the NBA center publicly revealed that he was gay.
Chris Broussard, who covers the NBA for ESPN, had said on the air that Collins and others in the NBA who engage in premarital sex or adultery were "walking in open rebellion to God, and to Jesus Christ." Broussard, a former reporter for The New York Times, spoke during ESPN's "Outside the Lines" program Monday discussing Collins' announcement.
ESPN's Josh Krulewitz said the network regrets that a discussion of personal viewpoints became a "distraction." The network offered its own view of Collins' news: "ESPN is fully committed to diversity and welcomes Jason Collins' announcement," he said.
During his on-the-air discussion, Broussard described himself as a Christian whose shit doesn't smell.
ESPN
Curb Records Sues, Again
Tim McGraw
Curb Records is suing Tim McGraw. Again.
The Nashville, Tenn.-based label has filed a lawsuit against the country music star and Big Machine Records in federal court, alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract.
Curb also has sued McGraw in Tennessee state court, but has thus far failed to keep McGraw from recording new music under a new agreement with Big Machine, which put out "Two Lanes of Freedom" earlier this year.
The lawsuit asks for a return of master recordings, compensatory and punitive damages and an injunction against future recording or releases until its contract with McGraw has been fulfilled. The state case remains in front of a judge, but the court allowed McGraw to record for a new label in a decision that's been upheld on appeal.
Tim McGraw
Pleads Guilty
Kimberly Rivera
A female soldier in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war.
Pfc. Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge after entering her plea at a court-martial.
Rivera, 30, was a wheeled-vehicle driver in Fort Carson's 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and served in Iraq in 2006. She has said that, while there, she became disillusioned with the U.S. mission in Iraq.
During a two-week leave in the U.S. in 2007, Rivera crossed the Canadian border after she was ordered to serve another tour in Iraq.
During her sentencing hearing, government lawyers argued that Rivera, who was granted leave shortly into her tour to work out marital issues, failed to return because her husband threatened to leave her and take their children, The Gazette reported.
Kimberly Rivera
Faces Fines In Fatal Mauling
Animals of Montana
The death of a Montana animal trainer mauled by a pair of 500-pound captive brown bears could have been prevented if standard safety practices had been followed, federal authorities said Tuesday, as state officials revealed that the private menagerie where the death occurred has seen numerous animal escapes.
Benjamin Cloutier, 24, was killed in November while cleaning the pens of two Syrian brown bears - named Griz and Yosemite - at Animals of Montana near Bozeman. The company provides captive-bred predators and other animals for photography shoots and motion pictures.
The U.S. Department of Labor said the circumstances of Cloutier's death violated federal workplace safety rules. The agency proposed $9,000 in fines for allowing employees to have direct contact with bears and for not promptly reporting Cloutier's death.
Investigators determined the death could have been prevented if the bears had been kept in a separate enclosure while their pen was cleaned, said Jeff Funke, area director for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Animals of Montana
Sands, DreamWorks Strike Casino License Deal
Macau
Kung Fu Panda, Shrek and other DreamWorks characters are coming to a new attraction at Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Chinese casino resorts, the companies said Tuesday, in the latest sign of China's growing importance to Hollywood studios.
Sands China Ltd. is licensing DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.'s stable of animated characters for use at the gambling company's resorts in the former Portuguese colony of Macau starting July 1.
The deal is also a sign of how authorities in Macau, now a self-governing Chinese region that has become the world's biggest casino market, want to diversify the economy away from gambling after years of hypercharged growth.
The companies would not disclose financial details such as the investment amount or how long the agreement would run.
Macau has about three dozen casinos that raked in a total of $38 billion last year, 13.5 percent more than in 2011. Much of the growth has come from wealthy high-rollers from mainland China, whose trips are organized by junket operators - middleman companies that lend money and collect debts. Some junkets also have a reputation for being associated with organized crime. But leaders are eager for the tiny enclave to shed its reputation for seediness and corruption and draw more middle-class Chinese families.
Macau
Eternal Flame Undergoing Repairs
JFK
The eternal flame at the gravesite of former President John F. Kennedy is undergoing repairs at Arlington National Cemetery.
Before the repairs began, workers used a torch Monday to carry the flame and pass it to a temporary burner that will be visible to tourists at the site while work is underway.
Cemetery officials say the work will take about three weeks and should be completed by late May, when the flame will be passed back to the original site.
A temporary flame was used from the time of Kennedy's November 1963 funeral until the permanent flame was established in 1967. Officials said repairs are needed after more than four decades of use and will include new gas lines and more efficient burners.
JFK
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 22-28. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 17.33 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.1 million.
3. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.22 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 14.15 million.
5. "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 13.77 million.
6. "Person of Interest," CBS, 13.22 million.
7. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.78 million.
8. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 12.65 million.
9. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 12.46 million.
10. "Castle," ABC, 11.76 million.
11. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.74 million.
12. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 11.4 million.
13. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.32 million.
14. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.46 million.
15. "Survivor: Caramoan," CBS, 10.31 million.
16. "Elementary," CBS, 10.07 million.
17. "Duck Dynasty," A&E, 9.63 million.
18. "Body of Proof," ABC, 9.35 million.
19. "The Amazing Race 22," CBS, 9.32 million.
20. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 9.16 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Jack Shea
Jack Shea, who directed "The Jeffersons" and other TV hits and was a three-time president of the Directors Guild of America, has died at age 84.
He died Sunday in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
During a four-decade career, Shea directed hundreds of episodes for shows such as "Silver Spoons" and "Sanford & Son," along with many Bob Hope specials.
He was president of the Directors Guild from 1997 to 2002. Current President Taylor Hackford says Shea worked to bring women and minorities into guild service.
In 1999, Shea and the DGA board renamed the guild's D.W. Griffith Award as the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award. The guild said that Griffith's classic film, "Birth of a Nation," glorified the Ku Klux Klan and fostered racial stereotypes.
Jack Shea
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