M Is FOR MASHUP - May 2nd, 2012
Envision Genre Smashed Mashups
By DJ Useo
Mashups are generally a single track affair. Some producer works up 4 to 7 minutes of bootleg mixing & offers it to the world. I'm all for that. I myself indulge in that pursuit frequently. However, perhaps because of my years of listening to album-oriented music, I find increased interest in collections of mashups. Any kind are fine, but give me a themed collection & I can listen from beginning to end, one disc, two discs, or even 3 discs. So imagine my delight with the 4th annual Envision Smashed Genres mashup box set. 4 discs plus many videos. It's like being immersed in a vat of bubbling music until you reach a new plateau of pleasure.
Now,as if this new 4-disc set isn't enough, remember, this is the 4th annual Genre Smashed, so you can still savour the past years releases. As far as this years goes, it's a true variety collection wherein many of the most varied styles of music co-exist not only peacefully, but elevatingly. It takes a lot of practice & ability to provide the needed tracks for a project like this. No worries here as Envision brings together topnotch deejays like Ryan Nellis, The Reborn Identity, GaraGara, Colatron,& so very many more. All well-established mixers with histories of providing stirring mashups. So, with a large assortment of skilled peeps & a motivating theme it's obvious how this collection offers tracks of such wide stylistic variance.
The 4 discs are available in 3 separate files so you don't got'ta grab all four if you prefer not to. It'd be a poor choice, though as there's cool tracks right up to the end. I mean, I wouldn't want you to miss my Doors vs Mission Of Burma punk on pop track. There's incredible combos with New Order vs The Stooges, Lady Gaga vs AC/DC, Celine Dion vs Journey, along with 56 more! Envision, who is featured on the album with several excellent tracks, has again managed to assemble such a worthy release that I can assure you of your full satisfaction.
Look for 'The 4th Point Of Procrastination' & the many promotional videos here
( www.envisiondesign.com.au/the4thpoint.html )
In this year of 2012, the year of the mashup album, Envision's 'The 4th Point Of Procrastination' is a crowning achievement of the bootleg music scene. Grab your copy today, you'll love yourself for it.
Mix Of The Week
I've got a really special long mix for you this week. If you read
last weeks' 'M Is For Mashup' on the recent SUS 70's Mashups Album
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-042512.index.html ) , you're primed for this great new long mix version of that album from longtime inter-net fave, BUDTHEWEISER. 'SUS 70s 2 Mix' delivers a great flow with excellent sound that is a guaranteed party pleaser. Happiness will result. That's what happened when I played it for a small group of friends. Big thanks to BUDTHEWEISER for this totally unexpected, yet massively welcomed set.
Listen or download here
( new.official.fm/tracks/rPVH )
Mashup Tip : Mix through tears if you can, it really adds a lot of edge.
Latest Useo Thing
'And Your Punkrocker Can Sing' (The Beatles vs Teddybears) is my latest single release for the Beatles Remixers Forum where I am wont to frequent. Personal response has been phenomenal even from fans of the Beatles. Very encouraging when that happens. It's some very appealing techno pop with the Beatles singing the familiar 'And Your Bird Can Sing'. It sounds old & new at the same time. Hear for yourself
here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/beatles-vs-teddybears.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Exponential resurgence of dichotic resonance in club-oriented mashups will continue to malfunction during sunlight for the next 32 years.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
BENJY SARLIN & EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO: The Five Stages Of GOP Reaction To Osama Bin Laden's Death - And What's Next (Talking Points Memo)
… the best bet might be to just accept that Obama has the advantage on the issue and move on. After all, having won plenty of elections with a tough national security message, Republicans should probably know better than anyone how much of a stretch it is to claim that running on bin Laden is beyond the pale.
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein: "Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem" (Washington Post)
Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it's not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West's comment - right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s - so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.
Help For The Economy? Not From Debt-Bound Grads (NPR)
In a little more than 10 years, the total amount of student loan debt in this country has doubled to more than $1 trillion. In the not too-distant-future, student loan debt will eclipse the amount of money Americans owe on their cars and credit cards.
TASNIM SHAMMA: Profiled By The TSA? There's An App For That (NPR)
The mobile app is called FlyRights. Travelers who suspect they have been profiled take out their smartphone, tap a finger on the app and answer about a dozen questions. Then they hit "submit" and an official complaint is filed immediately with the Transportation Security Administration.
Scott Burns: Good Personal Decisions Can Be More Valuable Than Investing
Allow me to introduce Life Capital Decisions. These are the decisions we can make that change our lives and improve our standard of living. While some of these decisions can, and should, be done while we are as young as possible, others bring the greatest benefits as we approach retirement.
Jim C. Hines: Posing Like a Man (jimchines.com)
Male poses do not generally require a visit to the chiropractor afterward.
Chuck Norris: Sleeping with the Enemy (Creators Syndicate)
Q: Chuck, my roommate, who is majoring in nutrition, and I recently argued over how often I need to change the sheets on my bed for health reasons. He says weekly, and I say monthly. What do you say? - "Am I Sleeping With the Enemy?" in Encinitas, Calif.
Marilyn Preston: Don't Overdo It! Three Ways 2 B the Best Athlete U Can B (Creators Syndicate)
Left to their own devices - none of them digital - it's the nature of our bodies to want to start moving when the weather is warm, the sun is shining and, yes, when we're switching over to skimpy sleeveless tops and more revealing bottoms.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lovely marine layer never burned off.
Winners Announced
Webby Awards
When Louis C.K. released his comedy special "Live at the Beacon Theater" by himself on his website for $5, it was little more than a cautiously optimistic experiment.
Less than two weeks later, it had reaped more than $1 million. Already among the most respected stand-ups in the country, Louis C.K. was suddenly a new media trailblazer, too.
On Tuesday, the Webby Awards announced Louis C.K. is their "person of the year" for setting "a new precedent for distribution." Comedians Aziz Ansari and Jim Gaffigan have since similarly released albums online.
The Webbys, which celebrate Internet achievement, announced the winners of its 16th annual awards on Tuesday. They're presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a group of about 1,000 Web experts and Internet professionals.
In more than 130 regular categories, the Webbys give two winners for each: an official Webby award and a "people's voice" pick chosen from online votes.
Webby Awards
Oscars' Home Renamed
Dolby Theatre
The Academy Awards' home at Hollywood's former Kodak Theatre is being renamed the Dolby Theatre.
Facility owner CIM Group on Tuesday announced a 20-year naming deal with the audio technology company Dolby Laboratories Inc.
CIM Group and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also announced a new agreement to keep the annual Oscars presentation at the theater for 20 more years.
Dolby says it will enhance the theater's sound system to showcase its technologies.
Dolby Theatre
Wins Nenana Ice Classic
Tommy Lee Waters
And the winner is: a man who drills his own holes in a frozen river to study the best conditions for hitting the jackpot in Alaska's biggest annual guessing game.
The ice drilling paid off handsomely for Tommy Lee Waters in the Nenana Ice Classic.
The Fairbanks man bested more than 250,000 other entrants in a contest to see who could guess when the ice would give way on the Tanana River in the tiny community of Nenana, about 55 miles south of Fairbanks.
Organizers announced the winner Tuesday, but Waters won't receive his winnings until June 1. This year's jackpot was a record $350,000. Of that, $252,000 will go to Waters after federal taxes, Ice Classic manager Cherrie Forness said.
Waters was the only person to correctly guess that a tripod set up on the river would tip over and stop the official clock at 7:39 p.m. April 23 - which happened to be his 55th birthday.
Waiting for the ice to move is hugely popular in a state that doesn't participate in lottery drawings or have any sanctioned gambling beyond bingo and pull-cards.
Tommy Lee Waters
Iron Maiden Singer Pledges 1,000 New Jobs
Bruce Dickinson
The lead singer of heavy metal rock band Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, has announced plans to open an aviation centre in South Wales that will bring up to 1,000 new jobs to the area on Tuesday.
Dickinson, who has sold more than 85 million records worldwide, is also a commercial airline pilot and aviation entrepreneur.
The singer said that his new company Cardiff Aviation will aim to provide specialist aviation support services which includes training and aircraft maintenance to clients such as Boeing.
"We'd expect to create up to a thousand jobs within 18 months, based on the level of interest and commitment from aircraft manufacturers and operators," Dickinson said in a press statement.
Bruce Dickinson
Unhurt In Pileup
'Swamp People'
Two stars of the reality TV show "Swamp People" are unhurt after being involved in a five-car pileup near the Arkansas-Louisiana state line
Arkansas State Police say three people suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries in Monday's crash on U.S. 71.
The Texarkana Gazette reports that alligator hunters Joe LaFont and Tommy Chauvin, known as Trapper Joe and Trigger Tommy, were not injured. "Swamp People" T-shirts and other merchandise from the show spilled from their truck onto the highway.
Police say four cars had stopped for a flagman directing traffic around highway maintenance work but that a fifth driver failed to halt and smashed into a tractor-trailer, causing the pileup.
'Swamp People'
Hospital News
Bobby Vee
Former 1960s teen pop idol Bobby Vee says he's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
The 69-year-old, born Robert Velline in Fargo, N.D., says on his website that he was diagnosed last year.
Vee was catapulted to stardom after the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP "Big Bopper" Richardson in a 1959 plane crash en route to Moorhead, Minn. Vee and his friends filled in for the trio at the Moorhead performance and soon after that he recorded his first single, "Suzie Baby," for Soma Records in Minneapolis.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press says Vee's wife of 48 years, Karen Velline, is also dealing with health issues. She's on a waiting list for a lung transplant.
Bobby Vee
Baby News
Maxwell Drew Johnson
Actress, singer and fashion designer Jessica Simpson gave birth to her first baby on Tuesday, a 9 lb. 13 oz. girl named Maxwell Drew Johnson.
Simpson and her former football player fiancé Eric Johnson announced Maxwell's arrival on her website, saying the baby girl was 21-3/4 inches long.
Maxwell Drew Johnson
Unfit To Run Company
Rupert
Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate) is not fit to run a major international company, British lawmakers said on Tuesday, finding him ultimately responsible for the illegal phone hacking that has corroded his global media empire and damaged the political establishment.
The lawmakers said the 81-year-old News Corp chief lacked credibility, his son James appeared incompetent and the company was guilty of "willful blindness" towards its staff at the News of the World tabloid.
The cross-party parliamentary committee, which approved the report by a majority of six to four, also scolded News Corp's British newspaper arm for misleading parliament during its five year investigation into the hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victims, politicians and soldiers.
But it split along party lines, with members from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party voting against the report, saying they did not agree with its view that the Australian-born Murdoch was not fit to run a major company.
The report said there had been huge failures in corporate governance which raised questions about the competence of Rupert's 39-year-old son, James.
Rupert
Co-Creator Steps Down
"Two and a Half Men"
There's been another "Two and a Half Men" shakeup - but this one has nothing to do with volatile cast members.
Lee Aronsohn, who created the hit CBS series with Chuck Lorre, is stepping down as the series' showrunner, an individual with knowledge of the decision confirms to TheWrap.
Aronsohn, who has been with the series for nine years, is in final negotiations to remain on as an executive consultant for the show.
All of this is pending CBS' renewal of the series for a 10th season, which has not yet been formally announced.
"Two and a Half Men"
Heckler Rules Event
New York City
Willard "Mitt" Romney marked the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death by joining former New York City Mayor Rudy "9/11" Giuliani at a Manhattan firehouse that served as the city's first response center in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
But the photo op was hijacked by a female heckler, who loudly accused Romney of being a "racist" for his stance on immigration reform.
"Mitt Romney is a racist!" she repeatedly screamed, drowning out Romney's comments and those made by Giuliani as well. "Racist! Racist!"
Her screams appeared to have prompted Romney aides to cut the presumptive Republican nominee's talk short. While Romney did not acknowledge the protester, the candidate walked away from the microphone after just five minutes and moved toward his waiting SUV.
When Giuliani did not follow, Romney awkwardly returned to the microphone to thank the former mayor for joining him at the event. As the protester continued to assail Romney-bellowing expletives at the GOP candidate, including "F*** you, Mitt Romney!"-he exited the scene again, this time for good.
New York City
Suspect Has $2 Million
Amish Attacks
A federal judge is weighing the government's request to require a suspect in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio to hire a private attorney.
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing last week that Sam Mullet Sr. recently received more than $2 million from gas and oil leases on his property.
Prosecutors say Mullet was able to obtain a public defender by being less than forthcoming about his financial situation.
Mullet's attorney argues that the $2 million is enough to ensure a sizable cash bond for his client to be freed.
Amish Attacks
600th Birthday
Joan of Arc
The normally tranquil city of Orleans is buzzing with festivities over the next two weeks to mark the 600th birthday of one of France's best cultural exports: Joan of Arc.
On Tuesday, like in a Hollywood epic, the Loire River swarmed with wooden boats filled with locals dressed in medieval garb - re-enacting Joan of Arc's legendary entry into the city in 1429.
In a testament to her international appeal, some 600 contemporary artists - from as far as the U.S., Japan and Russia - have made portraits of Joan of Arc through the ages that will be projected on the City Hall this Friday.
Later in the week, a medieval market will be the scene of period cuisine and music, while a sound and light show will be projected on the city's Gothic cathedral to celebrate her life.
Joan of Arc
Motivated By Compassion
Atheists
Atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people, a new study finds.
That doesn't mean highly religious people don't give, according to the research to be published in the July 2012 issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. But compassion seems to drive religious people's charitable feelings less than it other groups.
"Overall, we find that for less religious people, the strength of their emotional connection to another person is critical to whether they will help that person or not," study co-author and University of California, Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer said in a statement. "The more religious, on the other hand, may ground their generosity less in emotion, and more in other factors such as doctrine, a communal identity, or reputational concerns."
"Overall, this research suggests that although less religious people tend to be less trusted in the U.S., when feeling compassionate, they may actually be more inclined to help their fellow citizens than more religious people," Willer said.
Atheists
One In Seven
End Of The World
Nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime and 10 percent think the Mayan calendar could signify it will happen in 2012, according to a new poll.
"Whether they think it will come to an end through the hands of God, or a natural disaster or a political event, whatever the reason, one in seven thinks the end of the world is coming," said Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos Global Public Affairs which conducted the poll for Reuters.
Responses to the international poll of 16,262 people in more than 20 countries varied widely with only six percent of French residents believing in an impending Armageddon in their lifetime, compared to 22 percent in Turkey and the United States and slightly less in South Africa and Argentina.
Gottfried also said that people with lower education or household income levels, as well as those under 35 years old, were more likely to believe in an apocalypse during their lifetime or in 2012, or have anxiety over the prospect.
End Of The World
Watercolor Fetches $19M At NY Auction
Paul Cezanne
A rare watercolor study by Paul Cezanne believed lost for nearly 60 years fetched over $19 million at a New York City auction on Tuesday.
Christie's auction house said "A Card Player" sold to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. The price included the buyer's premium.
The watercolor was a study for Cezanne's celebrated series of oil paintings titled "Card Players." It was rediscovered this year in the collection of the late Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, a well-known collector from Dallas, Texas.
It shows a man in a hat and jacket seated at a table. Rendered in hues of blue and ochre, it was previously known to scholars only from a black-and-white photograph.
Paul Cezanne
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 23-29. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 17.62 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 16.87 million.
3. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 14.87 million.
4. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 14.54 million.
5. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.73 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.65 million.
7. "NCIS," CBS, 12.41 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 12.03 million.
9. "20/20 Special Edition," ABC, 10.69 million.
10. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.47 million.
11. "The Voice," NBC, 10.31 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10 million.
13. "The Good Wife," CBS, 9.97 million.
14. "Survivor: One World," CBS, 9.81 million.
15. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 9.66 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 9.45 million.
17. "Once Upon a Time," ABC, 9.2 million.
18. "CSI: NY," CBS, 9.13 million.
19. "The Voice Results Show," NBC, 8.93 million.
20. "The Amazing Race 20," CBS, 8.6 million.
Ratings
In Memory
George Vujnovich
George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia, has died at his home in New York. He was 96.
Vujnovich is credited with leading the so-called Halyard Mission in what was then Yugoslavia. It was the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war.
A long retired salesman of aircraft parts, he died April 24 of natural causes at home in Queens, according to his daughter, Xenia Wilkinson.
The Serbian-American and Pittsburgh native was an officer of the OSS, the precursor of today's CIA, when about 500 pilots and other airmen were downed over Serbia in the summer of 1944 while on bombing runs targeting Hitler's oil fields in Romania, according to U.S. government field station files.
The airmen were hidden in villages by Serbian guerrilla fighter Draza Mihailovich, leader of the Chetniks, whom Yugoslav communist officials considered to be Germany's collaborators.
It was no small feat to convince American officials to allow him to work with Mihailovich on the clandestine mission, dubbed Halyard, meaning a rope used to hoist sails. By then, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had decided to follow British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's lead, abandoning support for Mihailovich in favor of the Yugoslav communists, the strongest grass-roots guerrilla force fighting the invading Nazis and Italian fascists.
On Aug. 2, 1944, three OSS agents strapped with radio transmitters were airdropped near Mihailovich's headquarters to set up the operation. Dozens of U.S. military cargo planes flew in over the months to pick up the airmen when they were downed. Serbian villagers had helped them build an airstrip by the village of Pranjani.
The fliers parachuted into a mountainous region where local farmers brought them to their houses and barns. During the next 66 days, the Americans moved each night to a different location so as not to be captured by the occupying Germans.
George Vujnovich
In Memory
Charles "Skip" Pitts
Charles "Skip" Pitts, the longtime Memphis guitar player for Isaac Hayes whose distinctive sound helped define soul and make "Shaft" cool, has died. He was 65.
Tim Sampson, communication director with the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, said Pitts died Tuesday in Memphis after a long struggle with cancer.
Pitts was responsible for the unforgettable wah-wah pedal guitar sound on Hayes' "Theme from Shaft," the '70s Blaxploitation film that remains a memorable moment in American popular culture - mostly due to the enduring popularity of the song. Pitts' 1971 riff was angry and bristling with menace, capturing a dangerous vibe that transcended the screen and translated to the streets of a tense nation.
He also was responsible the guitar line from The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing," also a distinctive, influential moment in American music.
Schooled by neighbor Bo Diddley while growing up in Washington, D.C., Pitts first recorded when he was 15 and had a long, historic run in Memphis after moving there to join Hayes. He played with the deep-voiced soul singer for nearly four decades, worked as a session musician for Stax Records where some of America's greatest music was made and logged time with many significant soul and blues acts, including Al Green, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas and Albert King.
Late in his career, he made appearances in movies like "Black Snake Moan," to which he also contributed three soundtrack entries, and "Soul Men" and performed on the score for "Hustle and Flow."
Most recently he appeared on Green's "I Can't Stop" and Cyndi Lauper's "Memphis Blues," both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. He also released an album last fall with his band The Bo-Keys.
Charles "Skip" Pitts
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