M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - September 12th, 2012
Mashups Return To The 1980's
By DJ Useo
SoundUnsound
( www.soundunsound.com ) is an internet forum for home producers. It features original music, mashups, remixes, podcasts & long dj mixes. I'm the 'super-moderator' . They call me Sgt. Useo. I mean DJ Useo. Around four times a year the staff of SoundUnsound picks a musical theme & we assemble mashups mixed along the theme. In the past there's been mashup compilations of Reggaeton, Surf, & Punk, among several others. You can find them for listening close to the bottom of
this page
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
SUS (SoundUnsound) has been blessed with a moderator whose one of the best mashers around, France's
Chocomang
( chocomang.org/ ) . As we routinely take turns deciding the new comp themes, it was Chocomang's choice this time & he loved the last SUS 80's album so much he decided to go with a second volume. In a bold move he set the track submission number at five. Back when the project was announced, we had no idea the theme would catch on like wildfire. In addition to many of the SUS regulars like DJ MXR, mARKYbOY, MaxwellJump & others, we found additional people joining in like Bobby Martini, Mister NoNo, Jarod Ripley, & Worldwide Brotherhood. All well-known bootleg producers with plenty of past 'hits'.
I could go on about how great the tracks are we got from others like ToTom, Eternal Khaos, Qubic, & more, but I prefer to give you all three discs' playlists. That's right. Three discs! & they're great! We could've easily have attained four discs if we had moved the deadline. I must'a got ten more tracks sent in after the deadline. Wot a treat! Here's what we ended up with -
Hmm. That was much too long of a list for Bartcop E. I believe it's simpler to just check
the page for the SoundUnsound 80's Mashed Volume Two compilation
( chocomang.org/mashup/80smashed2.htm ) . Take a gander!
Here it is, 2012, the year of the mashup album, & I got to be involved with one of the very best. Hearing the work of DJ Flashard, G4Gorilla, Rillen Rudi, & so very many more is always satisfying, but put them all together & the effect is stunning & memorable. New SUS member Sjoersje really shines with five incredible mixes. You have to wonder "Where has this talent been hiding until now?" Then there's Voicedude, surely the top mashup artist in the USA. DJ Spider is well-known for his spectacular mashups & we got one of them from him. Sweet! Literally, every track & every mixer on this set leaves you with a thirst for more. Tweylo, Justincredible, Alan Black, DRA'man, these people all are established names with many a fine track released. Nonny Mouse may be an unknown commodity to the modern mashup audience, but he shows through his five tracks an ability that'll surely draw listeners. I even got a few tracks on it myself.
Here's a link to find
my video for 'Paragroove Ranking Full Stop' (The Beat vs Onno vs Dyed Soundroom)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3nSRFRdHM&feature=youtu.be ) It' s 2-tone ska vs modern club techno. More videos coming soon.
The album has tons of great 80s artists like BIlly Idol, Human League, The Cure, New Order, Toto, MARRS, Yello, Tom Petty, Blondie, Pet Shop Boys... I could go on indefinitely. My favorite mashup album so far this year is
SUMMER BOOTY : The Summer Mashup Album
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/06/summer-booty-2012-summer-mashup-album.html ) but this new SUS 80s vol. 2 comp is coming on strong. I worked on the album production-wise, but I'm in no way tired of hearing it. I've been playing it constantly for three days. I'm pretty confidant that you'll feel the same. Make sure to listen all the way through. The last 2 tracks, Eternal Khaos' Taylor Swift vs Nine Inch Nails & Chocomangs' AC/DC vs the Cult are such huge faves of mine. Please
check them out & see why
( chocomang.org/mashup/80smashed2.htm ).
More new Mashup albums next week.
Mix Of The Week
Ace Of Clubs pleases again with his latest work, 'Club Countdown' "Top 25 of 1982" (Total Time 79:43). Yes, it literally mixes it's way through the best of 1982. Ace Of Clubs has been doing this type of yearly rundown for ages now & all are great. Also available are a 44 minute version & most astonishing of all, a 6 minute version. All
are found here
( www.clubcountdown.blogspot.com/ )
Mashup Tip
Use more than one mix application per track for a more professional sound. It works!
Latest Useo Thing
'Bom Bom Afterglow' (Sam And The Womp vs Phaeleh vs Soundmouse vs Akira Kiteshi) uses only the most recent tracks. It's perfect for making you dance. It was getting a great reception when it was removed from my blog for some unreasonable gripe. Here it is on
Official FM
( official.fm/tracks/jJHo ) This was the 3rd track in a row of mine to have the link be removed. Not cool, I say. I quickly put up another new track to see if it would suffer the same fate. '
Rocking Bloodlines' has Neil Young singing over Dethklok, the cartoon band from the tv show Metalocalypse.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/neil-young-vs-dethklok.html )
Good news so far is the links remain. Yay! I'm suspicious that some online fool is targeting me again out of jealousy. It's happened before, sadly. I hope you enjoy the mixes. You get your choice of club/techno, or classic rock/death metal.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
A major snafu will occur tomorrow with the NSA when they forget to spy on us because they're too busy playing the new DJ Earworm mashup. Say la vee.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Andrew Tobias: Fiscally Liberal, Socially Conservative
Most of the Republicans I know say they're socially liberal but fiscally conservative. So I'd like to point out two things: 1) That makes them Democrats. That's obviously true of the "socially liberal" piece. No one argues Republicans have the more socially liberal agenda. But it's also true of the "fiscally conservative" piece. It's Reagan//Bush/Trump who exploded deficit spending with tax cuts for the best off; Clinton and Obama who by the ends of their terms, in part via tax hikes on the rich, got the National Debt once again shrinking relative to the economy as a whole. 2) It's okay to switch parties once you realize this. Lots of people have done it, and I'm hoping more will.
Paul Krugman: Hoew's That Tax Cut Working Out? (NY Times Column)
Workers won't see significant gains soon, if ever.
Ian Sample: The five habits that can add more than a decade to your life (The Guardian)
Researchers at Harvard University used lifestyle questionnaires and medical records from 123,000 volunteers to understand how much longer people lived if they followed a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke. When the scientists calculated average life expectancy, they noticed a dramatic effect from the healthy habits. Compared with people who adopted none of them, men and women who adhered to all five saw their life expectancy at 50 rise from 26 to 38 years and 29 to 43 years respectively, or an extra 12 years for men and 14 for women.
Jonathan Chait: Trump Handed the Agenda to Conservatives and They Blew It (NY Mag)
Trump's idiosyncratic personal style will make it especially easy for conservatives to fob off their latest failure on the leader's lack of convictions. When he has left the scene, conservatives will agitate for a return to dogmatic purity, and wave away the Trump presidency as yet more proof that their philosophy has never been tried. But we should bear in mind that conservatives do have their hands on the controls of the ship of state, and they are making it perfectly plain they have no idea what to do with it.
Jonathan Chait: Has Michael Cohen Already Flipped on Donald Trump? (NY Mag)
What adds an extra layer of danger to Trump is that the alleged crimes with which Cohen could be charged are all state crimes. That is important because Trump can only pardon people for federal crimes. New York's state attorney general Eric Schneiderman is partnering with Robert Mueller, and seemingly has the capacity to credibly threaten Cohen with a very long prison sentence for a potentially very long list of offenses spanning the rest of his life.
Martin Belam: "A vegan gave a crying child ice cream: a social media tragedy in five acts" (The Guardian)
It seemed like a random act of kindness by a stranger who bought an ice-cream for a distressed child - but then social media got involved and the situation curdled.
Eva Wiseman: "Carrie: the film that captured the true horror of being a teenager" (The Guardian)
Some coming-of-age films may feature happy endings, but Brian De Palma's film depicts a bloody world of shame and unwanted power.
Vanessa Thorpe: Siren, satanist or comic genius? The myths of Jayne Mansfield (The Guardian)
A new film released 50 years after Jayne Mansfield's death aims to reveal the truth about her short, scandalous life.
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Presenting
Michael Egan
took the day off.
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
Bonus Links
Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp
from Marc Perkel
Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
QUEERS FOR TRUMP!
PEEK-A-BOO
FORTY QUESTIONS.
SARAH THE COW.
Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Looked like rain, but nada.
Recalls Correspondents' Dinner
Seth Meyers
Talk show host Seth Meyers on Monday posted a sardonic response to President-for-now Donald Trump's (R-Crooked) attack on this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner that included a mention of Meyers' 2011 performance at the gathering - which some say helped stir Trump's presidential ambitions.
In a tweet on Sunday, Trump criticized the controversial comic routine by the entertainer at Saturday's dinner, Michelle Wolf, and called it even worse than Meyers' "weak performance." Meyers cheekily responded by commemorating the "anniversary."
At the annual dinner seven years ago, Meyers, then the head writer and Weekend Update anchor on "Saturday Night Live," cracked a string of jokes aimed at Trump. TV cameras repeatedly cut to a stone-faced Trump, who was among the crowd at the event.
"The Apprentice" host had spent much of that year promulgating the birther conspiracy theory, raising doubts without evidence about whether then-President Barack Obama had been born in the U.S. Trump was among those demanding that Obama produce a copy of his birth certificate.
Meyers pilloried Trump, lobbing jab after jab.
Seth Meyers
Still Running Against
Hillary
Republicans running in midterm elections have picked a familiar target to try to fire up voters: Hillary Clinton.
The former U.S. secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee has vowed she's "not going to run again," but that's not stopping several candidates from portraying her as their de facto opponent in the fall.
According to data compiled by USA Today, Clinton has been mentioned more than 5,000 times in television ads in the Ohio gubernatorial race in the past four months.
In West Virginia's U.S. Senate race, Clinton has been featured in TV spots that aired 3,751 times, while in Indiana's Senate contest, she's appeared 2,222 times, USA Today reports.
The only Democratic politician to appear in more television ads is former President Barack Obama, who has turned up in 18,971 spots paid for by Republicans and 3,976 paid for by Democrats. Clinton has been portrayed negatively in 12,864 ads nationally - a stunning figure for a politician who lost and doesn't plan to run again.
Hillary
May Help
Ecstasy Therapy
Combining intensive psychotherapy with a pure form of the party drug ecstasy is safe and could aid recovery in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to the findings of a study in military veterans.
Scientists who conducted the research - a small study involving just 26 people - said its results suggested that with close medical and psychological supervision, giving MDMA to PTSD patients "could enhance the benefits of psychotherapy".
The study is one of several mid-stage trials looking into the potential for MDMA, or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine - the main active ingredient of ecstasy - to be used alongside psychotherapies in people suffering combat trauma and PTSD.
Trial participants - service personnel, firefighters and one police officer - were randomly assigned to receive either 30 milligram (mg), 75mg or 125mg doses of MDMA plus psychotherapy, and their symptoms and side effects were monitored.
The treatment had some adverse effects - including anxiety, insomnia and some transient increases in suicidal thoughts - but was found to be safe overall and showed promise in alleviating PTSD symptoms, the scientists said. They said a larger efficacy trial is now needed to assess the MDMA therapy's full potential.
Ecstasy Therapy
Files For Bankruptcy
Gibson Guitar
The maker of the Gibson guitar, omnipresent for decades on the American music stage, is filing for bankruptcy protection after wrestling for years with debt.
A pre-negotiated reorganisation plan filed on Tuesday will allow Gibson Brands Inc. to continue operations with $135 million (£100m) in financing from lenders.
After Chuck Berry died, his beloved cherry-red Gibson guitar was bolted to the inside of his coffin lid.
Gibson, founded in 1894 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, has the top market share in premium guitars.
It sells more than 170,000 guitars a year in more than 80 countries, including more than 40 per cent of all electric guitars that cost more than $2,000, according to a bankruptcy filing.
Gibson Guitar
Documents Show Ties
George Mason University
Virginia's largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents.
The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom.
University President Angel Cabrera wrote a note to faculty Friday night saying the agreements "fall short of the standards of academic independence I expect any gift to meet." The admission came three days after a judge scrutinized the university's earlier refusal to release any documents.
The newly released agreements spell out million-dollar deals in which the Koch Foundation endows a fund to pay the salary of one or more professors at the university's Mercatus Center, a free-market think tank. The agreements require creation of five-member selection committees to choose the professors and grant the donors the right to name two of the committee members.
The Koch Foundation enjoyed similar appointment rights to advisory boards that had the right under the agreements to recommend firing a professor who failed to live up to standards.
George Mason University
Stolen Sumerian Tablets
Hobby Lobby
Hundreds of 4,000 year old tablets that were looted in Iraq and bought by the U.S. company Hobby Lobby seem to hail from a mysterious Sumerian city whose whereabouts are unknown, a U.S. law enforcement agency just announced.
The tablets are part of a cache of thousands of looted artifacts purchased by Hobby Lobby and seized by the U.S. government. They are now set to be returned to Iraq.
Of the 450 cuneiform tablets in that haul, many came from an ancient city called Irisagrig, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements said in a statement. Many of these tablets date from between 2100 B.C. and 1600 B.C., the statement said. Most of them are legal or administrative texts- meaning that they contain records such as contracts and inventories of goods that made it easier for private citizens and the city's government to run their affairs - while a few contain a form of magical spells called incantations, the statement said.
Irisagrig is a "Sumerian city never excavated before and whose location remains unknown," wrote Manuel Molina, a research professor with the Spanish National Research Council, in a paper published in the book "From the 21st Century BC to the 21st Century AD: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neo-Sumerian Studies Held in Madrid 22-24 July 2010" (Eisenbrauns, 2013).
In addition to the 450 cuneiform tablets, Hobby Lobby also forfeited thousands of clay bullae (small inscribed texts that may have identified who owned an item) and cylinder seals, though the statement did not specify where these artifacts are from. Some of the clay bullae appear to date to from between 2,200 years ago and 1,400 years ago, a time when the Parthian Empire (247 B.C.- A.D. 224) and Sasanian Empire (A.D. 224- A.D. 651) flourished in Iraq, the statement said.
Hobby Lobby
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 23-29. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 11.8 million.
2. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 11.16 million.
3. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.26 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.16 million.
5. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 8.77 million.
6. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 8.43 million.
7. "Mom," CBS, 8.31 million.
8. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.13 million.
9. "Survivor," CBS, 7.82 million.
10. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 7.79 million.
11. "American Idol" (Monday), ABC, 7.63 million.
12. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.62 million.
13. "Instinct," CBS, 7 million.
14. "NCIS" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 6.98 million.
15. "NCIS" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 6.69 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.55 million.
17. "Roseanne" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), ABC, 6.51 million.
18. "The Big Bang Theory" (Monday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 6.38 million.
19. "Roseanne" (Tuesday, 9:30 p.m.), ABC, 6.381 million.
20. "Roseanne" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), ABC, 6.378 million.
Ratings
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