I've been noticing big movement in two directions for
mashups this last month. A small push toward the
mainstream with more bootleggers getting airplay & a
big pull back as many sites insist that mashups not
be posted there. Still, the home mixing movement
proceeds, and there's always plenty of new
tracks, ranging from experimental to rough to splendid.
I've corralled a few of the more interesting projects,
and present them to you now.
DJ Not-I comes at us with a type of boot we've never
heard before, Latin and Buddhist. His ep features five
brand new boots that combine familiar pop sounds with
some exotic world tunes resulting in satisfaction.
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (not-I remix feat.
Latin Hip-Hop Allstars) is toe-tapping and
melodic. Jill Scott vs. Swizz Beatz feat. Thich Nhat
Hanh: Golden Ride (Beginner's Mind) adds a hiphop beat
to the shining voice of Jill Scott, with a few dharma
phrases linking it all together. DJ Not-I has a
history of providing inspired combinations such as his
Feel All Apologies (Blackalicious vs Nirvana), a track
that brings the best elements of both, and heightens
them. These new ones fulfill the world-style promise
with much elan.
Up-and-coming forum Beat-Boot-Ique's new compilation,
Mashed Colours, is out with an hour's worth of
enjoyable freshly-made "boot"-fections. The concept
here was to include artists or titles that had a
colour in them. In the style of Summer Booty, Ludacris
Remixed, and Stephen Marley Remixed, it features such
cuts as Celebrity Murder Party's Black Ross (Sebastian
- Ross Ross Ross vs Imarobot - Black Jetta), Icky's
Jigglin' Pink (Pink - Most Girls vs Ying Yang Twins -
Jigglin'), & Andy S' Dance Floor Album For A White
Wedding (Good Charlotte - Dance Floor Anthem vs Billy
Idol - White Wedding). My big immediate fave is Kai's
The Colour Parade, one of the those multi-artist
creations, it combines Cyndi Lauper, 2Pac, My Chemical
Romance, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top & Joni Mitchell
while maintaining focus & drive. Most certainly a
colorful assortment.
Scotland's finest bootlegger, Tizwarz has a fun short
comp available in his Spice Girls Tizwarz Mash-Up
E.P.. He adds the remixed musical backing of the
Britpop ladies to fine vocals from the likes of
Ludacris, Obie Trice, & Smitty Holler. With a habit of
adding hip hop to (pip) pop, Tizwarz jams them up to a
previously unreached level, & brings us the
unexpected, & upbeat results. When asked to comment, the
rogue mixer emitted a resounding "Whoop! Whoop!" I
second that!
With some a capellas obtained from the Beastie Boys
Official site, & a big portion of mixing talent, Inev
unveiled Beastie Boys Revisited. There's deep electro
beats, good strong scratching, & even some chilled
organ a la DJ Shadow. Not much info available on
Inev, but I reckon more will be heard from this fine
new bootlegger.
Mix Of The Week - Something diff this week! Big fave
of mine, Edward has released Watch With Edward (The
Prequel) - A Video Mini-Mix. That's right! Visuals with
your tunes! The mini-mix includes a plug at the end
for a launch party where Edward'll be premiering a
full-length video mix. More info at:
http://www.comfortableshoe.co.uk/robotsneedtoys Video
Mix found here - b00mb0x.org/wordpress/2007/05/26/watch-with-edward-the-prequel/
Wonderful work there, Edward!
Not getting much feedback lately. If anyone has a
suggestion, or request, drop me a line!
Lezlie Lowe: Chasing Amy (thecoast.ca)
Artist. Activist. Addict. Wife. After years of washing windshields for spare change, Amy Lee Collins was widely recognized in Halifax but not well known.
Ann Wright: What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies (truthout.org)
If the Iraqi Parliament refuses to pass the privatization legislation, Congress will withhold US reconstruction funds that were promised to the Iraqis to rebuild what the United States has destroyed there. ... The $120 billion dollar "Support the Troops" legislation passed by Congress requires Iraq, in order to get reconstruction funds from the United States, to privatize its oil resources and put them up for long term (20- to 30-year) contracts. What does this "Support the Troops" legislation mean for the United States military? Supporting our troops has nothing to do with this bill, other than keeping them there for another 30 years to protect US oil interests. [Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army and US Army Reserves and retired as a colonel.]
Krugman: Bush led us to war with 'unseemly eagerness' (rawstory.com)
As the nation mourns its fallen troops this Memorial Day, it is important to remember the headlong rush into war that was pursued with "unseemly eagerness" by President Bush and his neoconservative cabal of war architects, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues.
Paul Krugman: Trust and Betrayal (The New York Times)
"In this place where valor sleeps, we are reminded why America has always gone to war reluctantly, because we know the costs of war." That's what President Bush said last year, in a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Those were fine words, spoken by a man with less right to say them than any president in our nation's history. For Mr. Bush took us to war not with reluctance, but with unseemly eagerness.
Ellen Goodman: The Fastest Man on No Legs
With technology becoming far more sophisticated and pervasive, sports is awash in ethical dilemmas. So where does a lightning fast amputee fit in the spectrum of Barry Bonds with his alleged doping and Tiger Woods with his better-than-perfect Lasik eyes?
Purple Gene's review of the movie "Waitress" (2007).
Written and Directed by Adrienne Shelly:
Obit: Adrienne Shelly was an up and coming Indie actress and budding writer and director when her life was cut short last year in her Manhattan apartment by 19 year old Diego Pillco, a construction worker. She left behind her loving husband Andrew Ostroy, a lovely 2 year old daughter named Sophie and an absolutely wonderful movie that she had just finished writing, directing and starring in called "Waitress"!
Cut to the chase…..will Jenna have her baby (boy or girl?), leave Earl and run away with the Doc? Will Jenna get a chance to enter the $25,000 pie contest. Does Old Joe have a trick up his ancient sleeve……you'll find out that this big huggable sweet banana cream pie of a movie has a surprise ending….
Note: Jenna's baby (she does give birth) is played by Adrienne Shelly's real life toddler. Dawn, the ditzy waitress, is played by Adrienne Shelly. And if you listen at the end of the movie, Jenna sings a great little lullaby that goes…."Baby don't you cry…gonna make a pie…with a heart in the middle…." …check the credits out….it was written by Adrienne Shelly!
Purple Gene gives "Waitress" 9 sweet fruit sugar filled crumbly crusted cream pies out of 10 for being such a joy to watch….Keri is very good in an "Alice"…."Mel's Diner" kinda way.
Another May Gray morning and a nice sunny afternoon.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a RERUN'King Of Queens', followed by another RERUN'King Of Queens', then a RERUN'Criminal Minds', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 5/10/07) are Dr. Phil McGraw and Jack Hanna.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/24/07) are Paula Abdul, Vinnie Jones, and Billy D. Washington.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Most Outrageous Moments', followed by another RERUN'Most Outrageous Moments', then still another RERUN'Most Outrageous Moments', followed by yet another 'Most Outrageous Moments', then a RERUN'Medium'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 3/13/07) are Sandra Bullock, Andy Richter, and Evanescence.
On a RERUNConan (from 10/6/06) are Alex Trebek, Yunjin Kim, and Barenaked Ladies.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 3/21/07) are Andy Richter and Gary Jules.
ABC begins the night with the SERIES PREMIERE'The Next Best Thing: Who Is The Greatest Celebrity Impersonator?', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Taveler', then a FRESH'Traveler'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 5/22/07) are Ozzy Osbourne, Jorge Garcia, and "Dancing With the Stars" winner Apolo Anton Ohno.
The CW offers the SERIES PREMIERE'Hidden Palms', followed by a FRESH'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH 2-hour 'So You Thin You Can Dance'.
MY has the RERUN'Ana Micole Smith: Centerfold Revisited', followed by the RERUN'Britney Spears: A Pop Idol Exposed'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The Sopranos', and more 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Independence Day', followed by the movie 'Patriot Games', then the movie 'Glory'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7;
[1:00 PM] What Not To Wear - Season 6 - Ep 3 Mother Of The Bride;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 21;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[4:00 PM] Changing Rooms - Episode 11;
[4:30 PM] Changing Rooms - Episode 12;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - TBA;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - TBA;
[6:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 1;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[8:00 PM] How Not To Decorate - Episode 4;
[9:00 PM] Perfect Housewives - Episode 4;
[10:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 7;
[11:00 PM] How Not To Decorate - Episode 4;
[12:00 AM] Perfect Housewives - Episode 4;
[1:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 7;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 1;
[3:00 AM] Prime Suspect - Episode 2;
[5:00 AM] Mine All Mine - Episode 2;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Reno 911!', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Mind Of Mencia'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 5/24/07) is Al Gore.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 5/22/07) is John Amaechi.
FX has the movie 'Open Water', followed by the mvoie 'Hellboy'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Engineering Disasters Of Teh 70s', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[07:45 AM] Dancer in the Dark;
[10:10 AM] Fall Time;
[11:40 AM] Quitting;
[01:35 PM] Girls Town;
[03:10 PM] Dancer in the Dark;
[05:35 PM] Garage Days;
[07:25 PM] Fall Time;
[09:00 PM] Sid and Nancy;
[11:00 PM] The Filth and the Fury;
[12:50 AM] Media Lab Results;
[01:00 AM] Sid and Nancy;
[03:00 AM] The Filth and the Fury;
[04:50 AM] Garage Days. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Some of the hundreds of lanterns floating out to sea during the Ninth Annual Lantern Floating Hawaii ceremony to honor the deceased on Memorial Day, at Ala Moana Beach Park, in Honolulu, Monday, May 28, 2007.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
George Michael has donated John Lennon's piano to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, it has been confirmed.
The U.K. pop star is understood to have given the iconic and hugely valuable instrument away, in a gesture designed to promote world peace.
The piano, which he brought at auction, is valued at almost $3 million and was apparently used to compose a host of Lennon classics, including "Imagine."
A spokesman for Michael commented: "George's deepest wish is to imagine a world of peace, a world without violence."
Yoko Ono flashes a victory sign during an opening of her new exhibition 'Odyssey Of A Cockroach' in Moscow, May 29, 2007. Ono, widow of the late Beatles member John Lennon, describes the show as a theatrical display of pictures and sculptures seen by a cockroach as it makes its way through the streets of New York.
Photo by Denis Sinyakov
The Dutch government criticized plans to air a reality television show during which a dying woman chooses a recipient for her kidneys, saying on Tuesday that the show was unethical.
"The intention of the program to get more attention for organ donation may be applaudable," said Dutch Education and Culture Minister Ronald Plasterk.
"However based on the information I now have, the program appears to me to be inappropriate and unethical because it is a competition," said Plasterk, who is a molecular biologist and former chief of the Dutch Cancer Institute.
A government spokesman said there was no law banning the live reality television show, which will be produced by Endemol, famed for its "Big Brother" and "Fear Factor" reality TV shows.
Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, threatened by a suspect in the murder of a journalist, said on Tuesday he had recently been in Turkey and did not consider himself a writer in exile.
Pamuk, who won the Nobel for novels including "Snow" and "My Name is Red," told an audience at the Hay literature festival in Britain he had recently visited Turkey.
Pamuk was prosecuted in 2005 under laws restricting freedom of expression in Turkey after telling a Swiss newspaper that 1 million Armenians had died in Turkey in World War One and 30,000 Kurds had perished more recently.
Charges against him were dropped after his case triggered criticism from the European Union, which Turkey hopes to join.
The Police kicked off its reunion tour before a sold-out crowd of 20,000 - not bad for a group playing its first stadium in more than 20 years.
The trio of singer-bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland followed that up with a six-minute rendition of 1982's "Synchronicity."
The Police have scheduled 21 gigs in the United States and Canada, including stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, New Orleans and New York.
Sony Corp. says it will introduce its first HD Radio products in July, joining the growing group of companies seeking to make the next-generation digital radio technology a standard feature in audio products over the next several years.
HD Radio is new form of digital radio broadcasting that allows radio stations to deliver extra music content on up to four side channels that piggyback on the frequency it already uses. So far, more than 1,200 radio stations nationwide have adopted the technology, according to the HD Digital Radio Alliance, a group of broadcasters promoting the new format.
A listener, however, needs a special radio receiver to hear HD Radio signals, which also boasts improved sound quality. About 50 models are available already, often sold as part of a car stereo or home audio component, according to the alliance.
Sony's first HD Radio products will be the XDR-S3HD, a $200 tabletop AM/FM/HD radio, and the XT-100HD, a $100 tuner module for vehicles that will work with most Sony car stereo units.
Burglars stole a Stradivari violin worth some C$3 million and another valuable instrument after using blowtorches to break into a musician's wall safe, police said Tuesday.
Police said the estimated value of the violin could be as high as C$3.6 million. Also stolen from the musician's Vienna apartment was a Vuillaume violin worth an estimated $174,000, as well as three valuable bows, law enforcement officials said.
"It's clear that the perpetrators were total professionals," police official Walter Blesky told the Austria Press Agency. "Cutting open the safe was a pile of work."
The adventures of boy wizard Harry Potter can stay in Gwinnett County school libraries, despite a mother's objections, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Laura Mallory, who argued the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft, said she still wants the best-selling books removed and may take her case to federal court.
The ruling by Superior Judge Ronnie Batchelor upheld a decision by the Georgia Board of Education, which had supported local school officials.
At Tuesday's hearing, Mallory argued in part that witchcraft is a religion practiced by some people and, therefore, the books should be banned because reading them in school violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
A one month old Albino Common Barking Deer named Peth romps near an older male deer Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first day the young deer was on display. The Albino deer is consider rare in Thailand.
Photo by Sakchai Lalit
Five visitors to Walt Disney World and an employee suffered minor injuries Tuesday while evacuating a water ride that had malfunctioned, authorities said.
The injured guests were a family of four and a teenager, said Bo Jones, Reedy Creek's deputy fire chief. They suffered neck and back pain and other bumps and bruises, but no serious injuries.
A sensor on the Kali River Rapids ride tripped, stopping it and forcing riders to evacuate, said Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Polak. The injuries happened while people were moving from floats to a walkway, she said, but she did not give details on exactly how they occurred.
A lawyer for Vice President Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.
The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act.
The Justice Department filed the letter Friday in a lawsuit by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, seeking the identities of conservative religious leaders who visited Cheney at his official residence.
The newly disclosed letter about visitors to Cheney's residence is accompanied by an 18-page Secret Service document revealing the agency's long-standing practice has been to destroy printed daily access lists of visitors to the residence.
Poland's watchdog for children's rights was quoted as saying she would ask psychologists to investigate whether the TV "Teletubbies" character Tinky Winky is gay. On Tuesday, she backed away from the comments.
Ewa Sowinska, ombudsman for children's rights, said in the latest edition of a magazine that the purse-carrying character on the British Broadcastinhg Corp.'s "Teletubbies" children's show could promote homosexuality.
On Tuesday, Sowinska's spokeswoman Wieslawa Lipinska told The Associated Press that Sowinska "hasn't asked and won't ask" psychologists to investigate whether "Teletubbies" promote homosexuality.
"They are fictional characters, they have nothing to do with reality, and the bag and scissors and other props the fictional characters use are there to create a fictional world that speaks to children," Lipinska said. "We are not going to deal with this issue any more."
Christie's Senior Vice President Pola Antebi displays two Chinese Qing dynasty ceramic bowls in Hong Kong Tuesday, May 29, 2007. The bowls were sold for US$6.6 million (euro4.9 million) to Eskenazi Ltd. Tuesday.
Photo by Lo Sai-hung
A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history - that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago - attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied outside.
Dozens of demonstrators argued Monday that the Creation Museum's central tenets conflict with scientific evidence that the Earth is several billion years old. Overhead, an airplane pulled a banner with the message: "Thou Shalt Not Lie."
Lawrence Krauss, an author and physicist at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, decided to view the museum firsthand.
"It's really impressive - and it really gives the impression that they're talking about science at some point," Krauss said. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being best, "I'd give it a 4 for technology, 5 for propaganda. As for content, I'd give it a negative 5."
Compared with the $27 million (13.6 million pounds) Creation Museum that just opened its doors in Kentucky, Canada's first museum dedicated to explaining geology, evolution and paleontology in biblical terms is a decidedly more modest affair.
The Big Valley Creation Science Museum, which opens next week, was built for C$300,000 in the village Big Valley, Alberta, population 308, a two-hour drive northeast of Calgary.
The Canadian museum features displays on how men once walked among dinosaurs, a giant model of Noah's Ark, a set of English scrolls tracing the family of King Henry VI back to the Garden of Eden, and an interactive bacterial flagellum.
To the Rev. David J. Beale, it looked like an avalanche: an enormous wall of water thundering down the mountain into the valley community, carrying debris, livestock, train cars and human beings.
"The dam, having burst, the water was upon us washing away all before it," Beale wrote just days after the 1889 Johnstown flood.
Last summer, Beale's yellowing journals were found in an old Philadelphia carriage-house, shedding new light on a catastrophe that killed 2,209 people. The diaries will be presented to the public on Thursday to mark the the 118th anniversary of the flood, before the collection is made a part of the Johnstown Flood Museum's permanent exhibit by 2009.
Tiger cubs play with chicks at a zoo in Wenling, Zhejian province, May 29, 2007. The chicks, who were not harmed by the cubs, were feeding at a nearby river before entering the tigers' cage. It is the first time zoo staff have witnessed such an occurrence, China Daily reported.
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