The talented folks at Mashup-Industries have released
a finestkind collection of bootlegs, mashups & remixes
called Bootwerk - A Bastard Pop Tribute To
Kraftwerk. The downloadable compilation features many
of the biggest names currently posting performing
their magic on the classic music of the band whose
name means "power station". Under the direction of DJ
Clive$ter, 19 international mixers each devised a take
on the tracks that keep Kraftwerk popular over 35
years after they started.
Astonishing showpieces like 'Sex Object (Rhythm
Scholar Deviant Remix)' , DJ Zebra's 'The Robots
Dance', & The Robots (Dunproofin's Where Were You In
'92 Mix) are excellent reasons to attend this
release. Major boot players like Atom, Divide & Kreate, &
DJ Schmolli transform, enhance & even funkify the many
hits Kraftwerk has crafted, resulting in a widening of
the appeal they already had. Totom adds Depeche Mode to
the mix. Virtual DJ brings together the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Black-Eyed Peas & Public Enemy with
ease. Copycat teamed up with Celebrity Murder Party &
combined 7 different artists including Harry
Belafonte's 'Banana Boat Song'. Such a killer track,as
they all are.
Mashup-Industries has other fine comps available as
well, like MIXED EMOTIONS - Tunes For Valentines Day,
& Mashed Of '06. Keep an eye on that crowd. They're
heading places.
Readers of recent 'M Is For mashup' columns will
remember bootlegger Kai's compilation Media
Particles, & the fine tracks therein. Well, if you liked
that one get ready for the next full-length
Mashup/Sound-Art album by Kai - 'A Quick Detour'. Cut
after cut of inspired combos & great-sounding mashups
unfold like a never-ending zip-file of goodness.
Kai explains. "A Quick Detour contains new and original
mashups, fused and blended together by samples of all
manner of sound from around the wide world of media -
both visual and audible. The difference is this one is
less chilled, more upbeat (for the majority of the
album) and in many ways, more comical. There is no
particular story or concept; more of a strange look at
some kind of 'abstract journey' of sorts. The mashups
are all new, original and have been created over a
span of 2 years (in range). From The Strokes
accompanied by The B52s, to Air blended with vocals by
Super Furry Animals, including The Clash being given a
gospel touch and James Blunt revisited in rock...I'm
hoping there will be something for everyone."
I was surprised & happy to hear 'Horny Jack Flash'
(The Rolling Stones vs Mousse T). Tickled to witness
'You're Painful' (Jimmy Eat World vs James Blunt),&
intrigued at the low-key seductiveness of 'Fragile
Playground' (Air vs Super Furry Animals). Virtual DJ
from the Bootwerk comp had this to say," It has a very
good flow, glued together by the sound collages...
This is one of the better full mashups album I've
heard in some time."
Releasing such an accomplished collection, while still
dealing with the pressures of schooling, reveals the
skills of an accomplished mixer. The use of sound
samples & themes displays an understanding of human
nature that ensures an ingratiating listen. Take 'A
Quick Detour' with Kai, & you'll find it a rewarding
journey.
Mix of the week - Tranquilize - A Solcofn Ambient Mix
June 07 - This is a mellow affair, but one which is
highly memorable. Perfect for after the club, or when
high tempo in inappropriate. Solcofn has made many of
my fave mixes in the past & continues that trend
here. He delivers quality sound & spotless
mixing. Don't miss this one.
As you listen to music this week, take a second & ask
yourself - "Have I called my Mother?"
RICHARD CORLISS: Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert (time.com)
We tend to take for granted any pleasure, however acute, that is offered to us regularly; the gift becomes routine. Only when it's removed do we realize how precious it was. And if, in some real-life Hollywood ending, the gift is restored, we can again savor the privilege, this time more acutely.
Richard Roeper: The 'Hard' way (suntimes.com)
In "Live Free or Die Harder," John McClane is the Energizer Bunny, Chuck Wepner and Batman rolled into one. Like the battery-powered bunny, he just keeps going and going. Like Wepner, he will be bloodied and battered but he will not go down.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Hot Weather (athensnews.com)
On a very hot day, the Rev. Robert Collyer once went by the White House, where he was startled to see three pairs of feet -- one pair of which were particularly big -- sticking out of an open window. Seeing a worker nearby, he asked whose feet were sticking out of the window. The worker said, "That's the Cabinet, which is a-settin', and them there big feet belong to Abraham Lincoln."
zEN mAN (wishing it were so...that tricky Dick 1 and Tricky Dick 2 were merely stupid. Trouble is they've both managed to fuck up the world in sinister and calculated ways)
A bit of a marine layer this morning kept things pleasant.
Bad news, ducks - CBS has dumped 'Creature Comforts'.
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'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Claire Danes, Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick, and Ryan Adams.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Mandy Moore and David Steinberg.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Comic Standing', followed by a FRESH'Lost Comic Standing', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Josh Duhamel, David Willey, and Jason Aldean.
On a RERUNConan (from 2/21/07) are Jim Carrey, Al Roker, and Jonny Lives.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 5/2/07) are Alice Cooper and Teddybears.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Next Best Thing', followed by a FRESH'American Inventor', then a FRESH'Traveler'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Debra Messing, Justin Long, and Kelly Rowland.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hidden Palms', followed by another FRESH'Hidden Palms'.
Faux has a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY has a FRESH'American Heiress', followed by a FRESH'Saints & Sinners'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The Sopranos', and more 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Last Of The Mohicans', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park', then the movie 'Below'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Daily Cooks! - Episode 18;
[12:30 PM] Rick Stein's Food Heroes - Episode 8;
[1:00 PM] The Naked Chef - Ep 3 The Godfather;
[1:30 PM] Masterchef Goes Large - Episode 3;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 19;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 8;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[4:00 PM] Changing Rooms - Ep.11 Milton Keynes;
[4:30 PM] Changing Rooms - Ep.12 West Drayton;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 7 I Second That Emulsion;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep. 8 The Age of Romance;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[8:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 3;
[9:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 4;
[10:00 PM] Hollyoaks - Episode 17;
[10:30 PM] Hollyoaks - Episode 18;
[11:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 3;
[12:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 4;
[1:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 17;
[1:30 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 18;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 1;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.11 Milton Keynes;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.12 West Drayton;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 Ardingly 52;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 7 Harrogate 43;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 4 Sweet;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 5 Maddison;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', and a FRESH'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Lil' Bush'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Michael Moore.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Daniel Gilbert.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by a FRESH'Rescue Me'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] Bus 174;
[08:20 AM] The Field;
[10:15 AM] Reefer Madness;
[11:30 AM] Bus 174;
[01:30 PM] The Henry Rollins Show #311: Gene Simmons/Queens of The Stone Age;
[02:00 PM] The Field;
[04:00 PM] Reefer Madness;
[05:15 PM] Bus 174;
[07:20 PM] Albino Alligator;
[09:00 PM] Kill Bill Vol. 1;
[11:00 PM] Kill Bill Vol. 2;
[01:20 AM] Media Lab Results;
[01:30 AM] Kill Bill Vol. 1;
[03:30 AM] Kill Bill Vol. 2;
[05:50 AM] IFC News Special. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', and a FRESH'Destination Truth'.
Sundance -
[04:00 AM] Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer;
[06:00 AM] August in the Empire State;
[07:00 AM] Open City;
[09:00 AM] Southern Belles;
[10:00 AM] The War Room;
[12:00 PM] The Apostle;
[02:00 PM] Following;
[03:00 PM] Rick;
[05:00 PM] Dark Water;
[07:00 PM] A Man's Gotta Do;
[09:00 PM] Episode 3: Fatal Attraction;
[09:00 PM] Episode 5;
[10:00 PM] Stoned;
[12:00 AM] Episode 5;
[12:00 AM] Room;
[01:00 AM] Joe Gould's Secret;
[03:00 AM] Mysterious Skin;
[05:00 AM] The Apostle. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Gabrielle Union, left, and Sanaa Lathan arrive at the 2007 pre-BET Awards dinner and party in Los Angeles on Monday, June 25, 2007.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Mort Sahl tosses his head back in delight upon being reminded that the elderly man calmly sipping his latte and commenting on the state of the world was once comedy's angry young man.
"Angry?" asks the 80-year-old Sahl, amusement registering in his deeply set but still-piercing blue eyes as he sits outside a sun-splashed Starbucks tucked deep into the Hollywood hills.
Disappointed in America maybe. Definitely heartbroken almost 44 years after John F. Kennedy, the young president he mocked publicly but admired privately, was cut down by an assassin's bullets. But angry?
When Sahl arrived on the comedy scene in the 1950s, he was clearly the hippest guy in the room, dressed in a V-neck sweater at a time when George Carlin, and everyone else, was still wearing a coat and tie.
Robin Williams, left, his wife Marsha, center left, daughter Zelda, and Jared Silver attend the premiere of 'License to Wed' Monday, June 25, 2007, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
Photo by Phil McCarten
Larry Gelbart, whose writing for the war sitcom "M-A-S-H" defined television in the 1970s, collected his second Humanitas Prize for screenwriting on Tuesday: this time for his lifelong career.
The prize honors films and television shows that "entertain, engage and enrich the viewing public." Twelve writers accepted awards and a share of $145,000 in prize money at a luncheon at the Hilton Universal Hotel.
Gelbart, 79, was given the honorary Kieser Award - named after Humanitas Prize founder and priest Ellwood "Bud" Kieser - for his "stellar career," said Frank Desiderio, president of the Humanitas Prize.
Richard LaGravenese won for his urban classroom film drama "Freedom Writers," about a teacher who inspires kids to write, and Hanif Kureishi won for the film "Venus," in which an aging actor fosters a relationship with a younger woman. They each won $25,000.
U.S. singer and actress Barbra Streisand performs in Paris, June 26, 2007. Streisand who is on a European tour is on stage in Paris for the first time.
Photo by Philippe Wojazer
Equipped with folding chairs and sleeping bags, hundreds of Paul McCartney fans lined the street outside a funky Hollywood record store on Tuesday to secure a seat for a free show there by the ex-Beatle.
McCartney will play an all-ages concert at Sunset Boulevard's Amoeba Music at 7:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday, his spokesman Paul Freundlich confirmed.
Wristbands to gain entrance will be given out starting at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Carrie Underwood and Kevin Eubanks have been named the "world's sexiest vegetarians" in PETA's annual contest.
Underwood, 24, a Grammy-winning country singer, won the title in 2005. Eubanks, 49, leader of NBC's "Tonight Show" band, is a newcomer to the winner's circle.
Eubanks leapt ahead of his competitors with help from Jay Leno, who encouraged viewers to vote for Eubanks and "bring honor" to the late-night NBC talk show.
Runners-up in the contest, which the animal rights group said drew more than 110,000 votes on its Web site, included Joaquin Phoenix, Milo Ventimiglia, Kristen Bell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jared Leto and Lisa Edelstein.
Motown Records founder Berry Gordy (C) gets a hug from singer Diana Ross (2nd R) and her family as they arrive at the 2007 BET Awards in Los Angeles, California June 26, 2007.
Photo by Fred Prouser
It may be the longest, strangest trip the Grateful Dead's music has endured - a performance by a symphony orchestra under the baton of a classical composer.
But to Lee Johnson, the guy with the baton, the real surprise is that his world of high culture took as long as it did to embrace the world of counterculture for which the Grateful Dead provided so much of the soundtrack.
Born in San Francisco in 1965, two years before the legendary Summer of Love it helped usher in, the band was dismissed by critics for years as a footnote to pop music's Psychedelic Era. But by the time its 30-year run ended with the death of guitarist-composer Jerry Garcia, the Dead had morphed into one of the world's most popular concert attractions.
"The Grateful Dead embodied such a huge swath of the late 20th century ... that they are just a wonderful place from which to have a symphony in which you can explore and come out with a response to American popular culture," says Johnson. His composition: "Dead Symphony No. 6: An Orchestral Tribute to the Grateful Dead."
Big media companies that include graphic violence in their programs are more concerned about short-term profits than the long-term health of children, and government should intervene, a senator said Tuesday.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he will push legislation in the coming weeks to limit violent content in the media.
"I fear that graphic violent programming has become so pervasive and has been shown to be so harmful, we are left with no choice but to have the government step in," Rockefeller said at a meeting of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
"To be blunt, the big media companies have placed a greater emphasis on their corporate short-term profits than on the long-term health and well-being of our children," Rockefeller said.
The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.
It has also defined "Intelligent Design", the idea that life is too complex to have arisen without the guiding hand of a greater intelligence, as a religion, along with "creationism".
A petition posted by James Rocks of the Science, Just Science campaign, a group that formed to counter a nascent anti-evolution lobby in the UK stated: "Creationism & Intelligent design are...being used disingenuously to portray science & the theory or evolution as being in crisis when they are not... These ideas therefore do not constitute science, cannot be considered scientific education and therefore do not belong in the nation's science classrooms."
Musicians Jack White and Meg White of the rock band 'The White Stripes' perform in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, Monday June 25, 2007.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the hairy manlike creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."
The expedition will center in eastern Marquette County, following the most recent Bigfoot eyewitness account, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
Among all U.P. counties, Marquette County has logged the most reported Bigfoot sightings with four, Moneymaker said. Bigfoot encounters also have been reported in Ontonagon, Baraga, Dickinson, Luce and Schoolcraft counties.
A letter writen by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is inspected at Christies auctioneers in London ahead of its sale June 26, 2007. The auction of The Albin Schram Collection of Autograph Letters will be held in London in July.
Photo by James Boardman
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for June 18-24. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (28) "America's Got Talent," NBC, 12.51 million viewers.
2. (50) "Dateline NBC" (Monday), NBC, 12.21 million viewers.
3. (15) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 12.06 million viewers.
4. (33) "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," NBC, 9.46 million viewers.
5. (18) "NCIS," CBS, 9.35 million viewers.
6. (5) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.3 million viewers.
7. (32) "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?," Fox, 9.239 million viewers.
8. (18) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 9.238 million viewers.
9. (56) "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 9.17 million viewers.
10. (11) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 9.09 million viewers.
11. (43) "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 8.97 million viewers.
12. (28) "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.53 million viewers.
13. (26) "Shark," CBS, 8.23 million viewers.
14. (X) "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies," CBS, 7.71 million viewers.
15. (21) "Cold Case," CBS, 7.64 million viewers.
16. (77) "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 7.57 million viewers.
17. (70) "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 7.42 million viewers.
18. (106) "Age of Love," NBC, 6.93 million viewers.
19. (X) "CBS Saturday Movie," CBS, 6.88 million viewers.
20. (101) "48 Hours Mystery Tuesday," CBS, 6.86 million viewers.
Naked participants with painted bodies take part in the performance "Start again" at Madrid's Pradillo theatre June 26, 2007. The performance promotes sexual tolerance and is one of the many activities going on in the Spanish capital to celebrate Europride Madrid 2007.
Photo by Susana Vera
J.B. Handelsman, who applied his dry wit to subjects ranging from politics to popular culture while creating nearly 1,000 New Yorker magazine cartoons, has died of lung cancer.
Besides his 950 cartoons and five covers for the magazine between 1961 and 2006, Handelsman illustrated several books and wrote three humor pieces that incorporated drawings. His work also appeared regularly in Playboy and in the British humor magazine Punch.
In a remembrance in the current issue of the New Yorker, Nancy Franklin wrote that Handelsman's legacy "has as much to do with writing as it does with drawing. Handelsman may be better known for his captions than for the cartoons."
In one 2003 cartoon, a businessman in a corporate boardroom says, "We are among those chosen to bear the burden of rebuilding Iraq. A thankless job, with no reward apart from obscene profits."
Handelsman was born in the Bronx in 1922. His given name was Bernard but in adulthood he adopted John as his first name, and he was known informally as Bud. He studied at the Art Students League and at New York University.
He is survived by his wife, the former Gertrude Peck, three children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A one-and-a-half-month-old wolf cub stands in an enclosure in the zoo of the southern Russian city of Stavropol June 26, 2007.
Photo by Eduard Korniyenko
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