M Is FOR MASHUP - June 1st, 2011
Beatles Mashup Fad Continues Unabated
By DJ Useo
I happen to know for a fact that there's an incredible amount of Michael Jackson, Eminem, Beastie Boys & now, Lady Gaga mashups out there, but the one band that continues to draw steady ready of new bootleg mixes is the one & only BEATLES!! Of course all these artists are available as a capellas & often in instrumental form as well. That certainly aids in the appeal of grafting their superb singing onto new & ever-varied tunes by other artists. Yet, it is undisputed that the Beatles maintain a large audience, through the sheer charm of the music. In my case, I am thrilled to take already psychedelic Beatles songs & try & make them more so. Others are also constantly drawn to find mew musical expression through Beatles/new artists mix combos.
Now we all feel the benefit of that desire in it's fullest expression through two great Beatles Remixers mashup compilations. The first we shall discuss is 'TJT201 The Beatles - The Best Of PataMixical Science', collecting the finestkind tracks from the former ten volumes of PATAMIXICAL SCIENCE releases. I have been a big booster of each of the past ten as they appeared, & so naturally this 'best of' is a dream fulfilled for me. Very listenable with consistently great pairings, remixes & blends, all focusing on the Beatles. The 'Patamixical Science' series from TJT is very much like the recent George Martin-produced Beatles album 'LOVE' (My absolute favorite Beatles record) in that a mixer with access to the stems of the songs performs drastic mixing to highly satisfying results. TJT sez "So, I have ten volumes of remixes and mashups of Beatles material to my credit. Now it is time to do a "greatest hits" kind of compilation. Greatest hits are kind of a funny thing when it comes to mashups, as tastes can be wildly different for people. But if I were to never make a remix or mashup again, these are the ones I would like to be remembered by." Lend your ears to this gem of a 'best of' with the links here at the BEATLES REMIXERS site.
( beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/the-beatles-the-best-of-patamixical-science-t1089.html )
The second Beatles mashup album is 'Tuned To A Natural E Vol VI - The Mashups', the latest in the superb series from the BEATLES REMIXERS GROUP. Like it's predecessor's, this gem of a collection features handpicked classics from the strongest Beatles mashups released. Over the 2 complete discs the full motivation towards bootlegging the fab fours' work is revealed. Through the home producer prowess of such folk as Bdj, TJT, Ferbeat & CC, you will realize anew the pleasure-encompassing styles the Beatles imparted, all through a new filter provided through fresh compositional positioning. For instance, in the track "Sgt.Now" from PS you will hear 'Sgt.Pepper's Lonely hearts Club Band' paired with 'All Together Now'.
When it comes to rock & pop in the modern age, the impressions the Beatles made still reverberate. Many is the time one hears a new radio song & thinks 'That tune reminds me of the Liverpool lads'. Well,check out how mashing gives music an entirely new 'feel'. I am well-versed in Beatles music & still found many a track here that perplexed, at least momentarily, as the source Beatles track. Mashups can easily obscure & confuse even the most savvy listener. That's why some people loathe them, but you & I find it enchanting. Hear this instant classic set at links found here
( beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/tuned-to-a-natural-e-vol-vi-the-mashups-t1073.html )
Yes, I expect the Beatles music to be selling for some time to come. After all, I recently bought a record by Schubert, & he has been gone much longer. Lol. What other group could've gotten me to buy one of their records every payday until I had them all? Ok,a few more, but I did buy every Beatles' cd I could find. If you want great music, go for the Beatles full catalog & then supplement it with lots of Beatles-related mashup albums! The price is right!
Mix Of The Week
Oddbeats 'Shuffle To This' is a swell long mix of funky breakbeat done up right. Lately I've noticed a resurgence of good long mixes after a seeming slowdown of many months. Oddbeats helps this shortage with this new set & also the other four sets he has posted. Enjoy it
for listening or download here
( soundcloud.com/oddbeat/shuffle-to-this )
Mashup Tip : Mix intoxicated, master sober (a genuine mashup tip, for once, I think Aggro1 or someone like that said it originally)
Latest Useo Thing
Last week I asked you to write & tell me if I should post the Devo mashup or the Rolling Stones one. No surprise the Stones won easily, I guess.43 votes to 7-A landslide in mashup terms. So here's
Mott The Hoople performing the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' with the Stones singing 'Gimme Shelter' over it.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/05/you-really-gimme-shelter-rolling-stones.html )
The Devo track will most likely become part of a Devo mashup tribute project or something. I have a few more unreleased Devo mashups ready. For instance, Devo's 'Uncontrollable Urge' goes great over Cheap Tricks' 'Hello There'.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Trolls from under the ocean will start doing the most successful mashups, starting in 2017.March 15, I think. Around tea time. Dreadful business, really.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Diane Dimond: False Prophets and Their Profits (Creators Syndicate)
There ought to be a law. But there isn't. So, religious hucksters like 89-year-old Harold Camping continue to operate monumental con-jobs that bring in multiple millions of dollars in donations from gullible people.
Jonah Lehrer: When We're Cowed by the Crowd (Wall Street Journal)
America depends upon the wisdom of crowds. When voting, we rely on the masses to pick the best politicians. When investing in stocks, we assume that, over time, people will gravitate toward the best companies. Even our culture is increasingly driven by the collective: Just look at "American Idol."
Joe Queenan: Putting the Squeeze on Cheapskates (Wall Street Journal)
Everyone in America pretty much agrees that our financial profligacy and devil-may-care attitude toward the national debt have landed us on the very threshold of the poorhouse. Whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security or bridges to nowhere, we have run up astronomical bills without ever seriously contemplating who's going to foot them. Yet it would be a great tragedy if, in our attempts to get our fiscal house in order, we turned into the kinds of tightwad, penny-pinching, money-grubbing cheapskates who blight our daily lives.
Charlie Brooker: Why idolise footballers? It's like living in a world where half of us worship shire horses (Guardian)
Society rewards athletes with astronomical sums. It's wonky and demented, but that's the way it is.
Hadley Freeman: Justin Bieber's perfume ad: seduction by a child is wrong (Guardian)
Listen up, Bieber. You seem to be under the delusion that teenage girls want to meet you. They don't. They just want to obsess over you.
Al Lewis: Blowing in the Wind (Wall Street Journal)
Too old to work, too poor to retire? Maybe it's time to blow the whistle on your employer. The Securities and Exchange Commission last week adopted new rules offering huge rewards to people who report corporate fraud -- up to 30% for information leading to an enforcement action with more than $1 million in penalties.
Anne Tergesen: Ready to Retire? Here's a Five-Year Pre-Retirement Plan (Wall Street Journal)
Retirement planning, at its best, is about much more than the size of your nest egg. With that in mind, one of the smartest ways to prepare is to map out a to-do list, one that counts down to "R" day.
George Varga: Mike Watt's New Solo Album Examines His Life as a Middle-Aged Punk-Rocker (Creators Syndicate)
The worlds of punk-rock, opera, Renaissance painting and cutting-edge jazz happily merge with bicycling and kayaking in the heady music of Mike Watt.
What I see in the mirror: Laurie Anderson (Guardian)
'People don't really care what you look like - as long as you don't smell.'
Henry Rollins: "Suicide: Henry on Appreciating Challenging Music" (Los Angeles Weekly)
I don't know how I came upon it, but I remember holding the album, looking at the cover and marveling at the artwork, which was lots of dripping blood coming down from the band's name -- Suicide.
Alexis Petridis: Was 1976 pop's worst year? Yes - and this singer was one of the culprits (Guardian)
Seventies Top of the Pops might have been awful, but it puts today's charts to shame.
David Bruce: "The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 7" (Free Download)
This book contains 250 stories about good deeds, including this one: At a 2010 concert in Philadelphia, John Mayer saw 11-year-old Austin Christy in the audience. Austin was holding a sign that asked, "Can I play 'Belief' with you?" Mr. Mayer invited Austin onstage and allowed him to play guitar on "Belief." Austin said, "I was really excited. I was thinking that it wasn't real." Austin had been practicing the song so that he could play it for his mother, who was in the audience. Mr. Mayer also gave Austin a gift: a red Squier guitar. Mr. Mayer autographed the guitar: "To Austin, You rock. Keep playing. See you at your show." Afterwards, Mr. Mayer tweeted, "8 out of 8 band members agree, Philly is always an awesome show. XO J." Austin also submitted his own tweet for Mr. Mayer: "@johncmayer thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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Films Get Titles And Release Dates
"The Hobbit"
Peter Jackson's two upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" have been given official names and release dates.
The first of the two films, which are currently being filmed back-to-back in New Zealand, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," arrives in theaters on December 14, 2012.
The sequel, opening December 13, 2013, will be known as "The Hobbit: There and Back Again." Both will be released through Warner Bros.
The two prequels to Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy follow the adventures of Bilbo Baggins -- to be played by Martin Freeman, with Ian Holm reprising his role as the elder Bilbo -- in his quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug.
"The Hobbit"
Forgotten Film Could Fetch Fortune
Charlie Chaplin
A forgotten short film featuring footage of comic legend Charlie Chaplin is expected to fetch over 100,000 pounds ($165,000) when it goes under the hammer next month, auctioneers Bonhams said on Tuesday.
"Charlie Chaplin in 'Zepped,'" believed to be a propaganda film made in Britain during World War One, was discovered inside a battered old film reel tin which collector Morace Park bought for 3.20 pounds on the online auction site eBay.
According to the auctioneer, the seven-minute film which shows Chaplin taking on a German Zeppelin aircraft, features some of the earliest animation in cinema history.
Chaplin probably never knew of the movie's existence, said film critic and Chaplin biographer David Robinson.
He said the anonymous maker had put together out-takes from three earlier Chaplin pictures -- "His New Profession" (1914), "A Jitney Elopement" (1915) and "The Tramp" (1915) -- and included sequences of stop-motion animation and other effects.
Charlie Chaplin
Belfast Marks 100th Anniversary Of Launch
Titanic
A century ago, the people of Belfast celebrated one of their proudest days - the launching of the supposedly unsinkable Titanic. The Northern Ireland capital commemorated that bittersweet anniversary Tuesday with cheers from schoolchildren in Edwardian period costumes, the tooting of foghorns, and a hymn-singing dockside choir.
The doomed Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough on May 31, 1911. Ten months later, more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers and crew drowned or froze to death awaiting rescue after it struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage to New York City.
For decades Belfast didn't publicize its status as the birthplace of the world's most infamous maritime disaster. But ever since James Cameron's film "Titanic" became a worldwide blockbuster in 1997, Belfast has been working to build a new community and tourism hub on its once-derelict docklands, now christened Titanic Quarter and one of the biggest construction sites in Europe.
A new Titanic Quarter visitors center expected to open before next year's 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking will focus on the liner's 1909-12 construction. Belfast City Council hopes it will attract 400,000 tourists annually to Belfast, a city of just 700,000.
Titanic
Relaunch Most Titles At No. 1
DC Comics
DC Comics is going back to the starting point in September, renumbering its entire lineup of DC Universe titles with No. 1 and retooling nearly all of its major characters, including Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman.
At the same time, the company, which has been publishing comics for 76 years, also said it would start selling digital copies of its printed ongoing superhero titles through apps and a website the same day they're released in comic shops, a move dubbed by the industry as day-and-date sales. That will affect the company's superhero titles.
That means DC is joining a movement already embraced by Archie Comics, which began same-day digital and print sales in April, along with other smaller publishers.
DC's rival, Marvel Comics, has not yet implemented such a move but has routinely held more market share every year since 2002, based on sales statistics from Diamond Comic Distributors.
DC Comics
Heading Rome Film Festival Jury
Ennio Morricone
Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone will head the jury at the 2011 Rome Film Festival.
Morricone has composed scores for movies including "The Untouchables," "The Mission" and the Spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." He was nominated for an Academy Award five times and won an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007.
Organizers said Tuesday the festival will run from Oct. 27-Nov. 4. It will be the festival's sixth edition.
Ennio Morricone
Music Festival Goes To 2 Weekends
Coachella
Coachella festival organizers are doubling the annual music extravaganza.
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival organizers say next year's festival will be held in Indio, Calif., over two weekends on April 13 to 15 and April 20 to 22.
The separate events are expected to feature the "same lineup, same art, same place, different people."
Coachella
Drawing To Auction
Michalengelo
A preparatory drawing by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti for his lost commission "The Battle of Cascina" is expected to fetch 3-5 million pounds ($5-8 million) at auction on July 5.
According to Christie's, which will auction the work in London, the male nude is dated around 1504, shortly after Michelangelo began work on a major commission to commemorate Florentine civic virtue.
The Florentine government commissioned Michelangelo and fellow great Leonardo Da Vinci to produce rival battle frescos for a hall in the civic palace.
Neither Leonardo's "Battle of Anghiari" nor Michelangelo's "Battle of Cascina" was completed and both were lost, although they survived partially through engravings and sketches.
Michalengelo
Opera Stars Skip Japan Tour
Radiation
Two of the biggest stars of New York's Metropolitan Opera have pulled out of a Japan tour because they are afraid of radioactive contamination.
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Joseph Calleja announced at the last minute that they would not join the company on a tour of Nagoya and Tokyo, forcing the Met to "scour the world" for replacements so that the shows could go on, general manager Peter Gelb said Tuesday.
Gelb said he respected the singers' decision and called them great artists, but he added that he felt it was safe to perform in Japan. The tour begins Saturday.
Radiation
High Court Rules Out Damage Claim
Ashcroft
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out damage claims against former Attorney General John Ashcroft over an American Muslim's arrest, but four justices said the case raises serious questions about post-9/11 detentions under a federal law intended to make sure witnesses testify.
The justices were unanimous, 8-0, in holding that Ashcroft cannot be personally sued over his role in the arrest of Abdullah al-Kidd in 2003. The court sets a high bar for suing high-ranking officials, and all the justices agreed al-Kidd did not meet it, even though he was never charged with a crime or called to testify in the terrorism-related trial for which he ostensibly was needed.
Al-Kidd contended that his arrest under the material witness statute had a more sinister motive that violated his constitutional rights - federal authorities suspected him of ties to terrorism but lacked evidence that he committed or was planning a crime. And, he said, Ashcroft blessed the use of the law in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to take suspected terrorists off the street.
A five-justice majority absolved Ashcroft of any wrongdoing. "We hold ... that Ashcroft did not violate al-Kidd's Fourth Amendment rights," Justice Antonin Scalia said in his majority opinion. The five justices in the majority on this aspect of the decision are all Republican appointees.
Ashcroft
Gary Collins' Infomercial
Promissory Notes
Colorado and federal officials are suing a company that runs infomercials offering to teach people how make money in the promissory notes business.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers on Tuesday announced the lawsuit against Westminster-based Dalbey Education Institute, formerly known as America's Note Network. The company markets its products in infomercials that have featured actor Gary Collins.
Suthers and the Federal Trade Commission allege that the company and its principals engaged in deceptive trade practices. They say very few customers earn money from its products and that some testimonials don't disclose actual earnings after costs are deducted.
Promissory Notes
Out Of UK "X Factor"
Cheryl Cole
British singer Cheryl Cole will not be appearing on the British version of "The X Factor", after reportedly being dropped from the upcoming U.S. launch of the popular TV talent show.
Reports surfaced last week that Cole, who rose to fame as a member of British girl band Girls Aloud, had been ditched from the new Fox television venture despite having had public backing from the show's creator and star judge Simon Cowell.
The reversal, which some news sites attributed to Cole's northern English accent which producers feared U.S. viewers may struggle to understand, dominated British and U.S. celebrity headlines, although it has yet to be officially confirmed.
British newspapers said that Cole, who they reported was furious at the U.S. snub, had been offered an "olive branch" of returning to the British edition of the show, which commands large audiences for broadcaster ITV.
But when the channel announced its judging lineup for the 2011 series on Monday, Cole's name did not feature.
Cheryl Cole
Near Settlement
Jeb Corliss
A TV daredevil and the Empire State Building's owners are poised to settle the landmark's $12 million lawsuit over his April 2006 parachute-jump attempt, lawyers for both sides said.
Court records show the building owners' civil case against Jeb Corliss was closed last week, and his lawyer said a confidential deal has been reached. Lawyers for the building said Tuesday the agreement hadn't been finalized yet, but they anticipated filing final paperwork next week.
Corliss is a BASE jumper - the acronym stands for "building, span, antenna, earth" - who says he's made more than 1,000 successful leaps from structures and cliffs around the world. He lives in California.
He was the host of a Discovery Channel program called "Stunt Junkies" when he donned a fat suit with a parachute hidden underneath and went up to the 102-story Empire State Building's 86th-floor observation deck on April 27, 2006. He stripped off the disguise in a bathroom, put on a helmet with a video camera and scaled a fence at the edge of the deck. Security guards stopped him by grabbing him through the fence.
Corliss was later convicted of a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment. He was sentenced to 3 years' probation and 100 hours of community service. The Discovery Channel dropped Corliss after his arrest.
Jeb Corliss
Dallas Nightclub Patron Sues
Andy Dick
A Texas man is suing comedian Andy Dick over his December performance at a Dallas nightclub.
Robert Tucker claims he suffered emotional distress and defamation as a result of an alleged incident in which Dick exposed his genitals while walking through the audience.
The suit filed May 10 also names a talent agency that represents the comedian and the club where he performed. It says they should have known Dick's "long history of assaulting patrons."
The lawsuit cites Dick's January 2010 arrest on felony sexual abuse charges, after allegations he groped a bouncer and patron at a Huntington, W. Va., bar, as well as other incidents.
Andy Dick
Severity Of Europe Outbreak Stuns Experts
E. coli
The foodborne bacterial outbreak that has hit Germany and other European nations is unlike anything Western experts have seen: 16 dead and more than 1,000 sick, including nearly 400 suffering severe and potentially fatal symptoms. But several days into the health threat, scientists remain unsure what produce - and what country - is responsible.
Investigators across Europe were frantically trying to determine the scope of the contamination by an unusual strain of the common E. coli germ - and where in the long journey from farm to grocery store the contamination occurred. German authorities pointed to a few cucumbers from Spain, but further tests showed that those vegetables, while contaminated, did not cause the outbreak.
In Germany, where the vast majority of deaths and severe illnesses have been reported, officials said that investigations including interviews with patients have shown that people were likely infected by eating raw cucumbers, tomatoes or lettuce. They are warning consumers to avoid those vegetables, and Russia went so far as to ban imports of those vegetables from Spain or Germany.
It's "extraordinary" to see so many cases of the kidney complication from a foodborne illness, said Dr. Robert Tauxe, a foodborne disease expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"There has not been such an outbreak before that we know of in the history of public health," Tauxe said. He added that the strain of E. coli in the European outbreak has not been seen in the United States, where there have been several high-profile foodborne outbreaks in recent years, but none with such a high death toll.
E. coli
A Rip-Off?
"Wipeout"
In the 1996 film "Swingers," Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and their fellow wannabe actors debate whether Quentin Tarantino ripped off a slow-motion sequence in "Reservoir Dogs" from Martin Scorsese. "Everybody steals from everybody," Vaughn's character announces. "That's Hollywood."
The Swingers maxim is true throughout showbiz, but perhaps it most accurately describes one particular segment of Hollywood: Reality TV. Since "Survivor" kicked off the U.S. boom in unscripted, narrative programing 11 years ago, the niche has been littered with more copycat shows and derivative concepts than hit original formats. "American Idol," the official U.S. version of Britain's "Pop Idol," spawned countless singing elimination shows. History's "Pawn Stars" begat "Hard Core Pawn," "Pawn Queens" and the rest. Producers of ABC's "Wife Swap" once sued the makers of Fox's similar family switcheroo series "Trading Spouses."
Owing to what might be a knee-jerk reaction against protecting the creativity in a genre dubbed "reality," as well as a lack of clarity in copyright law, many producers believe there is a Wild West mentality in the unscripted world that has given rise to a culture of rampant, unlicensed borrowing.
Not helping matters was a leaked 2008 memo from an ABC executive, urging executives and producers to "carefully scrutinize" whether licensing foreign formats was "necessary or appropriate" before going forward with similar shows, especially when they might only be interested in the "general, underlying premise."
The memo didn't specifically target reality shows, but it drew the ire of the Format Recognition and Protection Association, an international group pushing for intellectual property rights for unscripted TV formats. FRAPA suggested that producers consider helping themselves to the "underlying premise" of Disney's Hannah Montana and Mickey Mouse.
"Wipeout"
OK With Calif. Selling Donated Estate
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand says she understands that California has to sell her donated 22-acre Malibu ranch to help balance the state budget but hopes the buyer will preserve its "special habitat."
The singer released a statement last week about Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to put Ramirez Canyon and other state-owned properties up for sale.
Streisand donated the property to California and the state's Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in 1993. It contains rolling meadows, creeks and custom homes.
Streisand wanted the property that was valued at $15 million to become an environmental conference and study center.
Barbra Streisand
Coyote Hybrids
Eastern Wolves
Wolves in the eastern United States are hybrids of gray wolves and coyotes, while the region's coyotes actually are wolf-coyote-dog hybrids, according to a new genetic study that is adding fuel to a longstanding debate over the origins of two endangered species.
The study is unlikely to impact the management of the endangered red wolf in North Carolina and the eastern Canadian wolf in Ontario, but it offers fresh insight into their genetic makeup and concludes that those wolves are hybrids that developed over the last few hundred years.
Some scientists have argued that the red wolf, Canis rufus, and the eastern Canadian wolf, Canis lycaon, evolved from an ancient eastern wolf species distinct from the larger gray wolf, Canis lupus, that is found in western North America.
In the study, published online earlier this month in the peer-reviewed journal Genome Research, 16 researchers from around the globe led by Robert Wayne of the University of California-Los Angeles, used information from the dog genome - the animal's entire genetic code - to survey the genetic diversity in dogs, wolves and coyotes.
Eastern Wolves
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