M Is FOR MASHUP - May 11th, 2011
Mashups Aren't Just For Breakfast Anymore!
By DJ Useo
I remember strongly as a lad in early school, the many times I saw other kids fading in class right away because they didn't start their day with a proper breakfast. So it is with people's lessening interest in modern music. By not maintaining a healthy bootleg diet in their daily tunes consumption, many people hit the wall quickly when it comes to listening habits. Seeing this unhealthy trend, I hit upon a scheme to create a breakfast themed mashup album. At one point, the concept seemed logical to me: Now it's a bit hard to explain, lol. Still, the title 'SUGAR-FROSTED USEOS' stayed with me.
After trying my hand at creating a few covers for the project, I noticed in the interim that I'd created way too many tracks for the album: enough for 2 discs! But 2 discs is too much for a proper breakfast of mashups, I don't want listeners feeling logey after one play. That was when I brought in help in the form of fresh ears. I invited many pals to hear selected tracks & offer suggestions & vetoes. Thanks to their responses I easily halved the tracks resulting in only the one disc of the BEST mashups, & the cool thing is there's still an entire disc's worth of cuts left for other purposes. Allow me to name three that didn't make the album -
1. UV Ray Fish N Chips (The Jesus & Mary Chain vs Flavio Vecchi)
2. I Love That Old Time Thunderkiss (Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band vs White Zombie)
3. You Dont Know How Fluta Su Feels (Tom Petty vs Funkagenda vs Axwell)
Mebbe some of them will surface elsewhere, perhaps in a long mix or podcast. Still, it's no cause for sadness, as the tracks that did make the release can all stand alone or together as one enjoyable & worthy play. Pre-DJ tested. :)
Here's a quick mention of some tracks that are on 'SUGAR FROSTED USEOS'.-
1. Fire Vacant (The Sex Pistols vs Killing Joke vs Acid Mothers Temple)
2. Do Ya On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings vs Electric Light Orchestra)
3. Smoke On The Grump (Deep Purple vs The Beatles vs Basement Jaxx vs Adam Ant)
There're 16 more like bootleg blends on this collection. It literally contains 100 % of the daily mashup requirements for an adult human person. I apologize if I'm pitching it a bit hard. I mixed tracks over many months & am anxious to share them. Why do I want to share them? To tell you all that I'M ALIVE~! Alive & mixing. :)
Try 'SUGAR-FROSTED USEOS' today at this location -
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/05/sugar-frosted-useos-new-mashup-album.html )
There's multiple links for files of sides a & b,& also individual track links.
(The free toy in each box is one of 4 paper folding animals)
Mix Of The Week
'WFD Exclusive Mix 006' by Them Jeans
( soundcloud.com/themjeans ) is splendid club chill. The content is killer & the mixing is that of a practiced hand. Hear for yourself
here
( soundcloud.com/whatsfordinna/exclusive-mix-006-them-jeans ) or
here
( www.whatsfordinna.net/2011/04/wfd-exclusive-mix-006-them-jeans.html )
Mashup Tip : Don't marry & expect to mash. Wives don't play that game.
Latest Useo Thing
Bigfoots' Remix Mix' is modern techno remix, all recent bootleg releases. This mix will have you dancing!
Hear it here
( www.bmbx.org/2011/05/bigfoots-remix-mix/ )
Podgornio,The Mashup Psychic Predicts
A minor bootlegger, DJ ScratchMyItch will make a fortune performing mashups, but will spend it all on one really great lapdance.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Bill Maher on Barack Obama (Video)
Six minutes of comedy.
President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
Eighteen minutes mostly of comedy.
Seth Meyers' remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
Twenty minutes of comedy.
Sanford Pinsker: An Open Letter to Professor X (Irascible professor.com)
But experience has taught me that college ain't for everybody. And when administrators face this un-pleasant fact, they have two choices: they can lower the bar or work to raise student abilities. In far too many cases they have opted for the former rather than the latter. They do this by watering down the curriculum and allowing grade inflation to run rampant. The result is students who have lots of "self-esteem" but very little to be proud about.
Paul Krugman: The Unwisdom of Elites (New York Times)
The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong?
Jim Hightower: HOW ABOUT A WALL STREET APOLOGY?
It's good to know that the FBI, Justice Department, and Federal courts are all over the major crime cases that so dramatically affect millions of Americans. Like the seven-year prosecution and $6-million trial of baseball player Barry Bonds.
Jim Hightower: ENTERGY GOES NUCLEAR OVER VERMONT'S DECISION
The nuclear power boys are weaseling again, this time in Vermont.
Patrick Goldstein: "Albert Brooks on his new futuristic novel: I wanted it to read like a news story" (Los Angeles Times)
It's hard not to argue, with only the smallest apology to Larry David, that Albert Brooks has the most distinct comic voice of his generation. When we were talking the other day, just after the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. special forces in an affluent suburb of Islamabad, near an elite military academy and a lush golf course, Brooks said dryly: "It would be like Hitler living in Burbank. You'd have to think the Burbank police were in on it, wouldn't you?"
A Fiercely Gifted Artist (Wall Street Journal)
"Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter," is the biography of a gifted artist who fraternized with the rich and famous-and argued with everyone. Karen Wilkin reviews.
Peter Parker: E. M. Forster unlocked (London Times)
Vivid phrases, rounds of golf and how society's laws against homosexuality wasted Forster's time.
Jeff Bailey: "Book review: 'Dick Van Dyke: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business'" (Los Angeles Times)
The personable performer has written an engaging memoir that stresses the personal over the professional.
David Bruce has 41 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $41 you can buy 10,250 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
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Reader Suggestions
Michelle in AZ
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Suggestion
Second GOP Debate for 2012
Second GOP Debate for 2012:
Undeclared Candidates Debate, at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH. Presented by SNL. A Debate worth watching!
Second GOP Debate for 2012
MAM
Reader Contribution
Carnation Milk
A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.
When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan. The producers wanted a rhyme beginning With 'Carnation Milk is best of all.'
She thought to herself, I know all about milk and dairy farms. I can do this! She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black limo pulled up in front of her house.
A man got out and said, 'Carnation' LOVED your entry so much! We are here to award you $2,000 even though we will not be able to use it!'
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Thick marine layer again. Quite nice.
Debuts Songs On FarmVille
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is turning to an unusual method to cultivate her fan base: The pop icon is releasing songs from her new album on a section of the popular online game "FarmVille" before they can be heard anywhere else.
The singer, known for her outrageous styles and hits such as "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance," will allow singles from "Born This Way" (due out May 23) to be heard within a specially-created farm, called "GagaVille," in the game. Players will have to complete tasks to hear one exclusive new track per day streamed online from May 17 to 19. Starting on May 20, players will be also able to unlock additional songs that aren't exclusive.
"FarmVille" is one of the most popular games on Facebook, played by about 46 million people worldwide each month. It lets players tend to virtual farms by harvesting crops, tending to livestock and decorating cottages to earn points. Its creator, Zynga, makes money by selling virtual items, such as seeds or cows or farm sheds, in the game.
"GagaVille" will be short-lived. Zynga says it's running the special only until May 26 to celebrate the debut of "Born This Way." The company wouldn't say whether Lady Gaga picked "FarmVille" to debut her songs or if Zynga concocted this unusual promotion, which will feature magical unicorns, sheep on motorcycles and other Gaga-inspired items on "GagaVille."
Lady Gaga
Hosting Tony Awards Again
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris will return as host for the upcoming Tony Awards.
Producers of the show announced Tuesday that the star of the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and a stage veteran would take over from former "Will & Grace" actor Sean Hayes, who was last year's host.
Harris joked that producers of the show had borrowed the rigging equipment from the troubled "Spider-Man" musical. "What could possibly go wrong?" he asked.
This time, the ceremony honoring the best on Broadway will be at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan's Upper West Side after several years at Radio City Music Hall. The awards will be handed out June 12 in a telecast aired on CBS.
Neil Patrick Harris
Two-Year Las Vegas Residency
Rod Stewart
British rocker Rod Stewart has signed a two year Las Vegas residency deal which will see him return to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace beginning August 24, promoters said on Tuesday.
Tickets for the first 18 concerts, titled "Rod Stewart: The Hits," go on sale on May 15.
Promoters AEG Live said the concert will be designed to give audiences an intimate feel with no fan more than 120 feet from the stage.
Rod Stewart
Royal Philharmonic Society
British Musi Awards
American pianist Leon Fleisher, 82, who spent much of his career unable to use his right hand, was honored as instrumentalist of the year by Britain's Royal Philharmonic Society on Tuesday.
Fleisher, a child prodigy whose book "My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Years in Music" describes his loss of dexterity in his right hand at the peak of his career, and his battle over four decades to regain its use, was cited for "extraordinary" performances at the 2010 Aldeburgh festival in eastern England.
As if to confirm the avant garde is alive and well, the RPS at a glittering ceremony in a hotel ballroom also gave Scottish composer James Dillon, a proponent of the "New Complexity" school, his fourth award.
The RPS cited Dillon's uncompromising, 200-minute-long orchestral, choral and electronic piece Nine Rivers, which had to wait some 20 years for its first complete performance in Glasgow last year, for its "sheer ambition."
English composer Brian Ferneyhough, whose works are as demanding as Dillon's, won the chamber award for his String Quartet No. 6.
British Musi Awards
'Sesame Street' Adaptation Debuts
Nigeria
U.S. officials say a Nigerian adaptation of "Sesame Street" will debut later this month in Africa's most populous country.
The U.S. mission in Nigeria said in a Tuesday statement that the show will debut May 21 on the state-run Nigerian Television Authority. It will be called "Sesame Square" and will air every Saturday and Sunday.
"Sesame Square" features Kami, an inquisitive female Muppet living with HIV and Zobi, a blue Muppet obsessed with yams, a staple food in Nigeria.
Sesame Square is co-produced by the Nigerian production house Ileke Media and the nonprofit educational organization behind "Sesame Street," Sesame Workshop.
Nigeria
Reality Shows Poor Path To Success
AC/DC
Unlike Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, you won't find members of AC/DC on the panel of a singing contest: They're not exactly fans of the reality show route to success.
"There's only one way to do it," said lead vocalist Brian Johnson. "You get on the stage, you learn your trade and you get out and play in front of people. You serve your apprenticeship just like anybody else."
Johnson added: "The shortcut ways leads to tears at the end of the day. It's all hype. And it's not fair on the kids to make them famous one week and then nobodies the next. It's just not right."
Johnson and Angus Young - who jokingly asked if Tyler was "hanging people or something" when told of Tyler's role as a judge on "American Idol" - reflected on the path to success last week in London before the premiere of their latest DVD, "Live At River Plate." It features performances from Argentina, where the band - which also includes Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd - performed to an impressive crowd of 70,000 fans each show for three nights last December.
AC/DC
Star Trek's Maquis NOT Involved In Bin Laden Mission
German TV
On Thursday the German news channel N24 was covering the death of Osama bin Laden and how the US Navy's "SEAL Team Six" headed up the mission in Pakistan last Sunday. At one point N24 host Mick Locher showed off what he thought was the official emblem for SEAL Team Six, check it out:
EMI To Release Unheard Music
Pink Floyd
EMI will release unheard songs by Pink Floyd starting from September, the English rockers' record label said on Tuesday.
The tracks will be unearthed from archives as part of a multi-month schedule of releases, which will include collectors' box sets and remastered studio recordings.
The announcement comes four months after the long-time partners said they had signed a new five-year deal and ended their legal dispute.
Pink Floyd, who signed to EMI more than 40 years ago, are most famous for influential and acclaimed albums "The Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall."
Pink Floyd
Sells Ranch
Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman may be putting on his cowboy hat and boots again and heading back to "Dallas," but off-screen the actor is selling his own ranch, and some of the memorabilia from the classic 1980s TV show.
Hagman, 79, best-known for playing conniving Texas oil baron J.R. Ewing, is putting furnishings, antiques, art work and personal property from his hilltop California home up for auction in Beverly Hills in June.
Collected over his 50-year career in show business, the June 4 auction includes furniture, modern and contemporary art, items belonging to Hagman's mother -- stage actress Mary Martin -- and "Dallas" collectibles.
Hagman, who is on board for an upcoming remake of "Dallas", decided to sell after putting his 28,000 square-feet estate in the southern California town of Ojai on the market and moving to a smaller home near Los Angeles.
Larry Hagman
Launches Music Service Without Labels
Google
Google launched an online music locker service on Tuesday that allows users to store and access their songs wherever they are, similar to one launched by Amazon.com in March.
And like the Amazon Cloud Drive player, the Google music service is being introduced without any prior licensing deals with major music labels, following months of fruitless negotiations.
The new service will allow a user to upload up to 20,000 songs on to the service and the demo showed a range of music player features for managing songs in a user's library.
Music Beta will be available for free for a limited time to users who request an invitation in the United States.
Google
Yiddish Cell Phone Launches
Israel
Israel's kosher cellular phone market has a new model, a device with a Yiddish interface to help devout Jews combine tradition with modern technology.
Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones, popularly dubbed kosher because they block access to services frowned upon by ultra-Orthodox rabbis, have been operating in the Jewish state for years.
Last month, Israel's second largest mobile provider, Partner introduced what it hailed as the world's first Yiddish cell phone, manufactured by Alcatel-Lucent.
Marc Seelenfreund, CEO of Israeli Accel Telecom which imports and distributes mobile phones to all Israeli operators, had a special team of translators work for months to develop an interface entirely in Yiddish.
Seelenfreund said the market for Kosher phones was substantial, estimating there are up to 400,000 users in Israel and another 500,000 in the United States.
Israel
Rare Paintings Found In Museum Cellar
Egypt
Rare paintings by some of Egypt's most renowned artists thought to have belonged to the country's former royal family have been found by workers renovating a Cairo museum.
Officials said the trove of 222 works -- including books, maps and newspapers found in the Egyptian Museum of Civilization -- dated back to before Egypt's monarchy was toppled in 1952.
"We found a huge number of artworks from the most popular artists like Hussein Fawzi, Mofeed Gayd and Kamel Mustafa," Culture Ministry official Ashraf Reda told Reuters.
Artists like Fawzi represented Egypt's contemporary art movement in the 20th century, which flourished under King Farouq I and his father King Fuad I.
Egypt
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for May 2-8. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 21.4 million.
2. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 21.29 million.
3. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 21.14 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 17.87 million.
5. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 16.06 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.16 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.1 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14 million.
9. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.9 million.
10. "The Voice," NBC, 12.58 million.
11. "The Good Wife," CBS, 12.38 million.
12. "Castle," ABC, 12.11 million.
13. "Survivor: Redemption Island," CBS, 11 million.
14. "Bones," Fox, 10.94 million.
15. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," 10.67 million.
16. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.5 million.
17. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.38 million.
18. "Body of Proof," ABC, 10.23 million.
19. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 10.11 million.
20. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 10 million.
Ratings
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