M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - April 20th, 2011
UK 80s MASHED & MASHED GREAT!
By DJ Useo
Howdy, y'all, I'm not available for this weeks' "M IS FOR MASHUP",
but here's a classic column that you'll love.
It's a pertinent article, too, because, I'm helping to arrange the
new 3rd volume of this eighties mashup series.
I'll tell you more in a few weeks when it's ready.
Next week it's the all new 8th Annual SUMMER BOOTY : The Summer Mashup Album!
I'll have plenty to say to y'all about that one.
And, yes, all the links below work. : )
Do you know what a mashup is? It's at least two unrelated songs that have been mixed together so they sound like one song. For instance, on the new mashup compilation from the
SOUND-UNSOUND bootleg forum
( sound-unsound.com/ ), there's a mashup by talented French mixer, Chocomang. The mashup is the music from the Cult's 'Sanctuary' with vocals from Kesha's 'We R Who We R'. Heard in Chocomang's mashup are also selected vocals from the Black Eyed Peas, the Police, & even a dash of Adam Ant to spice up the pacing. I'm sure there're a few more musical bits added but all these aforementioned parts are joined by Chocomang using mixing software until the resulting musical blend yields an astonishingly-appealing final track. If this kind of thing I've described sounds interesting to you, then you'll find the entire UK 80s MASHED compilation a satisfying & memorable experience.
As one of the dual super moderators at
SOUND-UNSOUND forum
( sound-unsound.com/ ) , along with the pop genius mARKYbOY, I had the honor of over-seeing this new collection. In fact, since the SUS releases before this had the themes chosen by other moderators, it was my turn this time & I was mighty gratified the others agreed to my UK 80s MASHED theme. Who would've thought we would release it the week of the Royal Wedding? Not bad timing-wise,eh? If only one of us mixers had done a track with the Royal theme.'Da dada de dada da da'. Wouldn't that sound that great with Adele singing over it? (lol)
The final collection turned out to be two discs,with some mixers turning in multiple tracks.
G4Gorilla
( www.g4gorilla.blogspot.com/ ) outdid himself with what I regard as a record for a mashup comp- - - five killer tracks. Initial feedback from the mashup communnity found big favour with G4Gorilla's 'Oscillating Monster', which, to me, is the best mashup of Lady Gaga's 'Monster' I've heard. Surely the fact that the music in the track is from the Smiths raises the likeability factor to eleven. (Spinal Tap joke) Chocomang himself also turned in an amazing four tracks. So far, two of those tracks have achieved transition into video form. Don't miss them as they are the pinnacle of mashup videos. Find them at
Chocomang's site -
( chocomang.org/ )
So if you want to hear new mixes pitting some of the best UK 80s artists like Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Tears For Fears, Judas Priest, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel & many more vs modern music from folks like Gnarls Barkley, Kelly Clarkson, Richard Cheese, Bruno Mars, Avril Lavigne, etc.,& you want them mixed by super mashers like DJ MXR, Guv'nor, Tweylo, Digitalldj, DJ Petrushka, & more, then this is the run-on sentence, I mean,mashup collection for you. It comes in 160 & 296 kbps complete files, & also in individual tracks that you can listen to before d/l-ing. Be sure & check out the attached artwork to the mp3's when you play them. There's special covers on them just for visual enjoyment. I mean,why should your ears get all the fun? (Why didn't we make a braille version just for touch stimulation? We'll have to get right on that for the next album.) Find the album
here -
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/04/all-new-sound-unsounds-uk-80s-mashed.html )
Next week you won't believe it, but there's an astonishing new mashup compilation being released.& it has tracks by me onnit, lol! Meet me back here in a week & bring lots of bandwidth. ;)
Mix Of The Week
STAR SLINGER's 'FABRIC MIX - APRIL 2011' is an hour & 8 minutes of tunes by THREE 6 MAFIA, JAMIE XX , GUCCI MANE, & more. STAR SLINGER made this gem up for an upcoming gig at Fabric (the legendary nightclub).
Check it out for listening or download here -
( soundcloud.com/starslingeruk/star-slinger-fabric-mix-April )
Mashup Tip : Don't mash the Family Guy into your track. It might seem like a good idea, but it's only because you're high as a kite.
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Von meinem Gehirn-Maschine kommt diese Mischung aus Rammstein und Die Hörer. Sie sind glücklich und du weißt es klatschen Sie Ihre Füße auf dem Boden.Link
here -
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/04/rammstein-vs-die-hoerer.html )
Podgornio,The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Famous mashup DJ Simon Iddol will find his keys in the couch.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
George Dvorsky: The U.S. Has the Most Expensive, Least Effective Health Care System (io9)
A survey released today by the Commonwealth Fund ranks the United States dead last in the quality of its healthcare system compared to ten other developed nations. At the same time, it's also the most expensive in the world. Frustratingly, the new report (pdf) shows that the U.S. is not improving; it ranks last, just like it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of the survey. Call it a ten-year losing streak.
Alison Flood: Will the internet kill the literary novel? Depends on who you ask (Guardian)
Author Tim Parks argues that our technology-shredded attention spans have definitively doomed the novel, but many other writers, from John Banville to Francesca Segal, disagree.
Interviews by Anna Tims: How we made Sleeping Beauty (Guardian)
Mary Costa, voice of Sleeping Beauty: 'Walt listened to my audition from behind a screen - he knew right away that I was his princess.'
Jonathan Pearce: not the only World Cup commentator looking foolish (Guardian)
Fifa's goal-line technology used in the France and Honduras game confused no one except the BBC's Jonathan Pearce. So which other commentators have scored an own goal so far?
Brian William: I Like Big Butts (YouTube)
"The editing geniuses at The Tonight Show have done it again, making NBC news anchor Brian Williams perform Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back." But he's not alone, because others of the NBC news team lend a hand here and there." - Neatorama
"HI Brit" by Gal Volinez (YouTube)
"In a video that reminds me of something Chris Farley would have done, Gal Volinez imitates Britney Spears' "Work Bitch" video, down to the last hip sway and pelvic thrust. Uploaded to his YouTube channel called "Volinez Spears," Volinez named this video "Hi Brit." It seems as if he's trying to get Spears' attention. I hope he's using his brief Internet fame for good, not evil! (NSFW, language and scantily clad women (and a big, bare beer belly!)" - Neatorama
Boop-Oop-A-Doop: The Story of Betty Boop
If you're a cartoon fan but have never seen the original Betty Boop cartoons of the late 1920s and early 1930s, do yourself a favor the next time you rent a movie: rent some Betty Boop cartoons, too. Here's a look at the origins of some of the earliest and most controversial cartoon "superstars." Boop-Oop-A-Doop!
Esther Inglis-Arkell: The Surprisingly Accurate Science of the Romantic Comedy (io9)
Traditional rom-coms are a dying genre, but perhaps hard science fiction fans should mourn their loss. These films' characters and plots are more grounded in psychological realism than most science fiction films ever made.
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
from Marc Perkel
BartCop
Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
The most active open discussion is on Bart's Facebook page.
( www.facebook.com/bartcop )
You can listen to Bart's theme song here
or here.
( www.bartcop.com/blizing-saddles.mp3 )
( youtu.be/MySGAaB0A9k )
We have opened up the radio show archives which are now free. Listen to
all you want.
( bartcop.com/members )
Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is
overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate
button on bartcop.com
But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note
isn't going to directly reach all of Bart's fans. So if you can repost
it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we
figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just
over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So
here's the signup link for this email list.
( mailman.bartcop.com/listinfo/bartnews )
Marc Perkel
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Marine layer burned off early.
New Bill Or Dog & Pony Show
"Net Neutrality"
Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives to ban deals where Web content companies could pay Internet service providers to deliver their traffic to users faster and more reliably.
The bicameral bill by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative Doris Matsui of California comes as the Federal Communications Commission is collecting public comments on new "net neutrality" rules.
The FCC's proposed rules, up for public comment until September 10, prohibit Internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to websites but may let them charge content companies to prioritize their traffic as long as such deals are deemed "commercially reasonable."
Leahy's and Matsui's bill would require the FCC to prohibit such agreements for paid prioritization on the so-called "last mile," the part of the network that goes from the Internet service providers to the consumer.
The legislation would not apply to so-called interconnection deals, like the ones that have triggered a spat between Netflix Inc, Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications Inc. The FCC is reviewing such deals but has not historically regulated them.
"Net Neutrality"
U.S. District Court
Florida
The United States' first black, openly gay male judge was appointed to the federal bench on Tuesday in a unanimous confirmation decision by the U.S. Senate.
Darrin P. Gayles, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, one of the nation's busiest federal benches, has served as a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge since 2011. He was born in Peoria, Illinois in 1966 and earned a law degree from the George Washington University Law School.
The Senate also confirmed Judge Staci Michelle Yandle, an openly gay African-American woman, to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. She is the federal bench's second openly lesbian black woman.
President Barack Obama nominated Gayles for the position in February, after a previous openly gay black nominee from Miami was not confirmed to the federal bench last year.
Florida
Reporter Freed
Al-Jazeera
An Al-Jazeera Arabic service journalist who had been on hunger strike for more than four months to protest his prolonged detention without charges in Egypt walked free Tuesday to cheers.
The mother, wife and brothers of 26-year-old Abdullah Elshamy met him with hugs and cheers as he walked out of a police station in a northern Cairo suburb. Egypt's prosecutor general had ordered his release, citing "health conditions." Dozens of friends and supporters were also there to receive him after he spent 10 months in prison without charges.
Elshamy, once a chubby young man, looked gaunt and frail, and sported a bushy beard as he left the station in Nasr City still dressed in a prison uniform.
His detention, along with the trial of other Al-Jazeera journalists, was related to the sweeping crackdown on Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi since the military overthrew him last year. Egyptian officials accused the network of supporting Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. The Qatar-based network denied the allegations
Al-Jazeera
Rare British Guiana Stamp Sets Record
One-Cent Magenta
A British Guiana One-Cent Magenta postage stamp from 1856, the only one of its kind to still exist, sold for a record $9.5 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday.
The hefty price, which includes the buyer's premium, makes the one-inch by one-and-a-quarter-inch stamp (2.5 cm by 3.2 cm) printed in black on magenta paper the most expensive stamp ever sold at auction, and the most valuable object by weight and size, according to the auction house.
An anonymous telephone bidder purchased the stamp during the bidding in the packed auction.
The previous record auction price for a single stamp was 2.87 million Swiss francs (about $2.2 million). It was set in 1996 for the Treskilling Yellow, a Swedish stamp that is a misprint of an 1855 shilling stamp in the wrong color.
The British Guiana stamp was sold by the estate of the late multimillionaire John du Pont, an heir to the du Pont chemical fortune, who died in prison in 2010 at the age of 72. Du Pont was serving a murder sentence for the shooting of David Schultz, a champion U.S. wrestler, in 1996.
One-Cent Magenta
Case Dropped
Simon & Brickell
Prosecutors on Tuesday said they were dropping a disorderly conduct case against Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, that stemmed from a fight at the couple's home.
Simon, 72, and Brickell, 48, did not appear in Norwalk Superior Court, where prosecutors told a judge they were declining to pursue the case, meaning the charges will be dropped and eventually erased after 13 months.
Prosecutors declined to comment outside court. A telephone message left for the couple's attorney, Andrew Bowman, was not immediately returned.
Simon & Brickell
Can't Drop Ovation TV, Reelz
DirecTV
Ovation TV and Reelz, two struggling TV networks, have gotten a huge boost in Minnesota federal court. Because of a ruling on Thursday concerning a 15-year-old merger agreement, the two networks are virtually guaranteed placement on DirecTV's platform.
The genesis of the dispute - which has been under wraps until late last week - dates back to the late 20th century, during the race to launch satellites into space. At the time, it wasn't apparent that DirecTV would become the leading satellite TV service, so successful that AT&T now wants to acquire it for $48 billion. Besides competing with the predecessor to Dish Network, DirecTV was also battling United States Satellite Broadcasting (USSB), owned by Stanley Hubbard, who had exclusive carriage deals with HBO and Showtime.
DirecTV took care of this in 1999 by merging with USSB in a somewhat unique marriage. Along with $1.3 billion, Hubbard also secured a long-term programming agreement to ensure that his family would be in the satellite TV business for "generations." The parties agreed that Hubbard would have a distribution right on up to three channels, but the exact deal was somewhat ambiguous.
During negotiations, Hubbard proposed the right should last in "perpetuity" while DirecTV wanted the right to be limited to seven years. Drafts of the agreement suggest the dealmakers began talking about rights granted "on an ongoing basis," but in the end, DirecTV and Hubbard didn't specify an exact expiration date.
Hubbard, though, did secure the right to distribute programming on three channels "owned and controlled" by the Hubbard family and their "lineal descendants."
DirecTV
Request To Disband Police
Arizona
Arizona's attorney general has asked a federal judge to disband the police department for twin Utah-Arizona border towns that are dominated by the polygamous church of jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs, according to court papers.
The documents filed by Attorney General Thomas Horne in federal court in Arizona on Monday said police in the two towns put directives from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, ahead of state and federal law.
Horne's request came as part of a proposed judgment in a housing discrimination lawsuit brought by Arizona against the towns - Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah - where most members of the Jeffs-led group live.
A jury ruled against the towns in March, saying two residents, Ronald and Jinjer Cooke, were unfairly denied utilities because they were not FLDS members.
Jeffs, 58, is serving a life term plus 20 years after being convicted in 2011 of sexual assault charges related to his marriages with underage sect girls.
Arizona
Bars Giving Away Pregnancy Tests
Alaska
Cute outfit? Check. Designated driver? Check. Pregnancy test? That's one item that's probably not on the night-on-the-town prep list of the average American woman. But in an effort to counter skyrocketing rates of fetal alcohol syndrome, Alaska's government is funding a research project that will put vending machines with free pregancy tests in the restrooms of 20 bars across the state.
This pee-on-a-stick-before-partying idea isn't entirely new. In order to curb fetal alcohol syndrome in Minnesota, the nonprofit organization Healthy Brains for Children put pregnancy test dispensers in a Minneapolis-area bar in 2012.
However, since Alaskan women of child-bearing age are 20 percent more likely to binge drink than their peers across the nation, Alaska has the highest known rate of the syndrome, which causes birth defects and other physical and mental problems in babies. On top of the human costs, according to a 2009 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fetal alcohol syndrome also costs the U.S. economy $3.6 billion annually.
Starting in December, the vending machine pregnancy tests will be completely free to female patrons of the bars, thanks to $400,000 allocated by the state. Each test will come labeled with warnings about fetal alcohol syndrome. The dispenser will also feature a poster about the dangers. The project will only give away 5,000 free tests, so Crowe and the University of Alaska researchers hope that even if women don't actually head to a bathroom stall with one, the accompanying messaging will help educate the public about the risks of drinking while expecting.
Alaska
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for June 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NBA Finals: Miami vs. San Antonio, Game 5, ABC, 18 million.
2. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami, Game 4, ABC, 14.96 million.
3. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami, Game 3, ABC, 14.78 million.
4. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.54 million.
5. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.37 million.
6. "NCIS," CBS, 8.07 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.45 million.
8. "Game of Thrones," HBO, 7.09 million.
9. "Night Shift," NBC, 6.7 million.
10. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.58 million.
11. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.52 million.
12. "Hillary Clinton: Public & Private," ABC, 6.46 million.
13. "Mom" (Thursday), CBS, 6.37 million.
14. "24: Live Another Day," Fox, 6.29 million.
15. "Dateline NBC: People vs. OJ," NBC, 6.28 million.
16. "20/20," ABC, 6.23 million.
17. NHL Finals: New York Rangers vs. Los Angeles Kings, Game 5, NBC, 6.02 million.
18. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.69 million.
19. "48 Hours" (Monday), CBS, 5.68 million.
20. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 5.4 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Charles Barsotti
Charles Barsotti, whose New Yorker cartoons plumbed the human condition featuring characters such as the psychiatrist dog and the pilgrim with the walking stick, has died. He was 80.
Barsotti was diagnosed in 2013 with brain cancer and died late Monday at home in Kansas City, his daughter, Kerry Scott, said Tuesday.
"He got the maximum out of the minimum," said Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine, which has published nearly 1,400 Barsotti cartoons since the 1960s. "With just a few lines he could delineate a hobo, a spy, a king, a philosopher, a dog, a judge, all those in the same picture."
Barsotti, born Sept. 28, 1933, in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from Texas State University in 1954 and worked for Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards as a greeting card artist before moving to New York to become cartoon editor for The Saturday Evening Post until that magazine closed. Barsotti and his family returned to Kansas City in the 1960s when Barsotti developed the "Sally Bananas" comic strip.
He freelanced cartoons for The New Yorker for several years before he became a staff cartoonist for magazine about 1970, while he and his family remained in Kansas City.
Barsotti's cartoons also appeared in other publications, including The Atlantic and The New York Times. Several collections of his work have been published, including most recently the 2007 book "They Moved My Bowl," which featured his dog cartoons.
Charles Barsotti
In Memory
Stanley Marsh 3
Eccentric Texas businessman-turned-artist Stanley Marsh 3, whose partially buried row of Cadillacs became a road-side tourist attraction in the 1970s, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Marsh, long known in his hometown of Amarillo as a prankster and philanthropist but who faced indictment alleging he molested teenage boys late in life, died in Amarillo, his criminal attorney, Paul Nugent, said.
An heir to his family's oil-and-gas fortune, Marsh was a quirky but successful banker and television executive. But he was best known for his art, most notably "Cadillac Ranch," a row of 10 graffiti-splattered cars seemingly standing on their noses along Interstate 40 west of Amarillo.
The display, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary Saturday, quickly became a tourist attraction after Marsh commissioned the Ant Farm, a radical art and design collective, to build it in 1974. The cars - acquired from junkyards, private owners and used car lots - were moved a mile west in 1997.
In 2012, when Marsh was 74, several lawsuits were filed alleging he'd paid two boys, ages 15 and 16 at the time, for sexual acts. He settled the lawsuits the next year, but was indicted two months later on charges that accused him of sexually assaulting six teenagers in recent years. Marsh denied the allegations and vowed to fight them in court. No trial date had been set.
Marsh's creations include a mesa painted to look as if it were floating and a football field-sized pool table hidden in the Panhandle terrain that only could be seen from the air. Hundreds of his mock road signs popped up in Amarillo neighbourhoods, bearing such slogans as "Big Deal" and "My Grandmother Can Whip Your Grandmother."
Marsh was born on Jan. 31, 1938, in Amarillo. His father and grandfather made their fortunes in the oil and gas business, but Marsh didn't follow in their footsteps. His given name was Stanley Marsh "III," but he changed it to "3'' because he thought the former was pretentious.
He earned his bachelor's degree in economics and master's degree in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Wendy, adopted five children and had numerous grandchildren, and lived in Toad Hall, a 300-acre estate on the outskirts of Amarillo.
He returned to Amarillo after college in the late 1960s and impressed those who knew him as a prankster with his business skills by heading a local bank. In 1967, using some family money, Marsh purchased KVII-TV and turned it into the city's top-rated television station within a few years.
Marsh sold the station in 2002 but continued to go to his office and pursue artistic endeavours.
Although his art and shenanigans were often public, Marsh said he never wanted to be figured out. In 1994, he said he wanted his epitaph to read in part: "Thanks, everybody. I had a good time."
Stanley Marsh 3
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