M Is FOR MASHUP - June 3rd, 2015
Volume Ten Of INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA
By DJ Useo
I've mentioned before how I like the creativity that working with psychedelic music affords. So much so, in fact, that I made nine volumes of what I called "INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA" mashups. They encompass the types of music that people associate with the psychedelic genre from the mid-sixties up to the present. I especially enjoy revving the tracks up to what I call "intensity".
For instance here's "Warriors Dance Sometimes" ( My Bloody Valentine vs Moloko vs Armand Van Helden & Deep Creed )
( hearthis.at/vXMfxz7w/warriors-dance-sometimes-my-bloody-valentine-vs-moloko-vs-armand-van-helden-deep-creed/ ) , the preview track from 2013's volume 8.
It contains the classic guitar, & vocals of early 1990's My Bloody Valentine with the present day club techno of Armand Van Helden & Deep Creed, & cool vocals of Moloko. Yet, I like to think it has a pleasant appeal on top of the beats, the buzzing, & the roaring.
It was the prompting, & requests I got from so many that inspired me to go for volume ten. Same as always, eh? Lol! Every time someone inquired, whether in person, or over email chat, I started up a couple new psychedelic tracks. Eventually, over many months, I had twenty-six tracks. I sat down with the Useoettes, & they told me which ones to exclude, & which ones to include. We agreed on every track. Ni-ice, eh? …& the bonus is I still have many nifty mixes to do what I want to with, apart from this new INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA project.
Here's the playlist I chose then for final release.
01 - I Can See Old Time Rock 'n' Roll
( Bob Seger vs The Who )
02 - Purple Haze Down Under
( Men At Work vs Jimi Hendrix )
03 - Sub Zero Kingdom Of Love
( Robyn Hitchcock vs Ben Klock vs Function-Regis )
04 - Ticket To Debaser
( Beatles vs Pixies )
05 - Refresh Mr Noah
( Panda Bear vs Phex )
06 - Fire Go Out
( Blur vs Superchumbo vs Stephan Grondin )
07 - Warriors Dance Sometimes
( My Bloody Valentine vs Moloko
vs Armand Van Helden & Deep Creed )
08 - Mica In The Flesh
( Mission Of Burma vs Pink Floyd )
09 - Sky Gun
( The Pixies vs Flosstradamus )
10 - You Don't Know How Moar Feels
( Tom Petty vs Foreverkid )
11 - Letter Good Times Roll
( Cars vs Pixies )
12 - Y.U.H.2.BangaGong
( T.Rex vs Whitey )
13 - Club Car Re-Ed
( The Electric Love Muffin vs Rise Against )
14 - Nevermind Little Black Egg
( The Rattlers vs Infected Mushroom )
15 - Cracked Music
( Rihanna vs David Bowie )
16 - Electro-icity
( London Suede vs David Amo & Julio Navas )
17 - Roundabout Apostrophe'
( Yes vs Frank Zappa vs T_Rex vs Armand Van Helden )
18 - Poker Break
( Lady Gaga vs The Raveonettes )
Before I made it available, I offered it to a few mixer pals to preview the entire 'record'. The response back was totally favorable, so I posted this about a month before my next big project, SUMMER BOOTY 2015 & now you can have IP10 for ever & ever.
I'm always surprised when I mix up a new album project, but I suppose I'll keep doing it for a while more. I love to listen to SUMMER BOOTY 2014, & I'm already well into mixing my ninth Halloween ep. Having heard some of it already, I know you'll enjoy it much.
I hope you like the new INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA album.
Mirror links for INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA 10 can be found here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2015/05/dj-useo-intense-psychedelia-10-mashups.html )
The previous nine volumes all have fresh links & you can find them down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Tell your friends, but use hushed tones. ~Wink!~
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The tall, red-haired Ritchie, who grew up in Kentucky's Cumberland mountains, sang ballads with a clear soprano voice. She accompanied herself on the guitar, autoharp or the mountain dulcimer, a string instrument played while placed on the performer's lap that Ritchie helped rescue from obscurity.
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Johnny Cash recorded her "The L. & N. Don't Stop Here Anymore" and Harris performed "Sweet Sorrow in the Wind." In a 1978 Rolling Stone interview, Bob Dylan cited her as one of the folksingers he listened to, along with Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy and Leadbelly.
She combined her authentic mountain musical background with a scholarly touch, even travelling overseas on a Fulbright scholarship in the early 1950s to trace the roots of her traditional music.
Her books included "The Swapping Song Book," a 1952 collection of songs she sang as a child in Kentucky, accompanied by notes on life and customs in the Cumberland Mountains and photos by her husband, photographer George Pickow.
Along with Seeger, Odetta, Joan Baez and Earl Scruggs, she was one of the singers at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. As the Times wrote earlier that year, "there is no disputing that Jean Ritchie is one of the finest authentic traditional folk singers we have in the United States today."
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She moved to New York to become a social worker after graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1946. Her first solo recording was the 1952 "Jean Ritchie Sings Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family."
Her 1955 book, "They Sang the Moon Up: Singing Family of the Cumberlands," traced her family's roots from the time James Ritchie came from England in 1768, fought in the Revolutionary War and migrated west to Kentucky. It was illustrated by Maurice Sendak and included 42 of the songs her family members liked to sing.
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Along with Loretta Lynn, Rosemary Clooney and the Everly Brothers, she was one of 12 musicians and groups chosen for the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame's first inductees in 2001.
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