M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - from July 14th, 2010
For You This Summer Will Never End
By DJ Useo
You have just hit the mashup jackpot! SUMMER BOOTY 2010 is a new 3-disc collection of all-new mashups from 32 excellent mashup producers. I personally had the thrill of arranging & producing this fantastic new collection. Can you imagine the fun I had as each new track arrived? It was so worth the investment of time & energy. I also had the joy of talking with one fine batch of human beings.
The Summer Booty mashup albums started in 2007 when I realized that many of my all-time fave songs had a discernable 'eternal summer' feeling to them. I know it's an old song, but have you ever heard the Zombies 'Time Of The Season'? When I hear that Zombies song I feel like I'm driving a convertible on a sunny beach. Hear it for youself & see what I mean. Secondly, I noticed I knew enough other mashup mixers that I reckoned we could easily get enough tracks to make the collection viable. Sure enough, SUMMER BOOTY 2007 literally shook with the summer vibe.SUMMER BOOTY 2008 & 2009 followed to even more warm reception.
When it came to SUMMER BOOTY 2010 I was more hepped than ever before. With the current pals I have & other bootleg connections, I was sure this would be the best collection yet. Still, people have their own lives & are not always available to participate in a project like this. Knowing that, I invited 56(!) different bootleggers in the hope that at least half would be able to get this comp to a generous 2 discs. Imagine my delight when so many excellent tracks came in that the project swelled to 3 discs!
The album starts with one of the best longer mixes I've heard in years. Hahnstudios' 'World Cup Mix 2010' is 20 minutes of the most exciting,sport-oriented, summery mixing you'll hear for quite a while. There's an incredible 10-minute version with video
here - ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2jJ57MRCxI )
Then, you run through an astonishingly fine collection of mashups by the likes of DJ Moule, Solcofn, A Plus D, Pomatic & so many more top mixers your head wll explode.
More videos have appeared as well. The Reborn Identity whipped up a great video version of his Michael Jackson/Goldfrappe track
here - ( vimeo.com/12643405 )
DJ MashUp not only did the best Country & Western mashup I can recall, but crafted a must-see video too -
vimeo.com/13023430
The comp is really roaring through the download numbers & now has several mirror links to make sure you get a copy. All working links found
here - ( djuseo.podomatic.com/entry/2010-07-06T20_20_43-07_00 )
&
here - ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-booty-2010.html )
The icing on the cake has arrived too with a loooong mix from the skilled hand of BUDTHEWEISER (
budtheweiser.blogspot.com/ )
It contains parts of all 3 discs & runs nearly 3 hours! Perfect for your summer party music experience.
Past SUMMER BOOTYS available
here - ( http://djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Big gracias to all the talented contributors who helped bring my dream to life. For all of us who hear the album,this summer will never end!
Mix Of The Week
BUDTHEWEISERS' 'Summer Booty Mix 2010' has all the essential elements of what you want in a long mix. Say no more.Grab it
here - ( djuseo.podomatic.com/entry/2010-07-06T20_20_43-07_00 )
Mashup Tip
Give a person a pella & they'll make a mashup, but teach that person to extract a pella & ...etc
Newest Useo Thing
Lifes A Gas Wid Nit Wit (Bang Bang Machine vs The Sabres Of Paradise). Ok, I don't normally do too many 'mellow' tracks, but this one just had to be. It uses a cover of an old T.Rex song.
( http://groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/07/lifes-gas-wid-nit-wit-bang-bang-machine.html )
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The move, which was first reported by TV Guide, follows a mid-June decision by KSL-TV to opt out of airing the drama because of objectionable content. At the time, the Utah station, which has ties to the Mormon Church, argued that the series didn't fit with its mission.
"The Playboy brand is known internationally," KSL president and CEO Mark Willes said in a statement. "Everyone is clear what it stands for. We want to be sure everyone is clear what the KSL brand stands for, which is completely inconsistent with the Playboy brand." (KSL also does not air "Saturday Night Live.")
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The University City council, which has jurisdiction over the spot where the statue is to be installed, rejected a last-minute petition drive by opponents, who gathered 100 signatures in a bid to block or delay the statue.
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The Malaysian actress arrived in the country's main city, Yangon, on June 22 and was deported the same day because she was on a blacklist, a government official said.
The official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press, did not say why Yeoh was on the list. But Myanmar's repressive government Burma's military dictatorship has routinely rejected visa requests of journalists and perceived critics for years.
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The Peninsula Daily News reports a campaign to raise $287,000 to save the 86-year-old facade raised only a few thousand dollars. It was one site in the Olympic Peninsula town visited by fans of the teen vampire-romance books and movies.
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A video purportedly showing a "UFO mothership" and a "fleet" of alien spacecraft has gone viral on YouTube on June 28, two days after it was uploaded.
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The video has received some mainstream press coverage in addition to mentions on blogs specializing in UFOs. While no marketing company has yet come forward to claim responsibility for the footage, a number of similar videos have appeared on YouTube over the past few days, leading some to question if the videos are part of a viral promotional campaign.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for June 20-26. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9:16 p.m.), NBC, 13.5 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 12.3 million.
3. "The Voice," NBC, 12.05 million.
4. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 10:16 p.m.), NBC, 10.75 million.
5. "The Voice Results Show," NBC, 10 million.
6. "NCIS," CBS, 9.33 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.84 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 8.02 million.
9. Copa Oro 2011 Soccer: U.S. vs. Mexico, Univision, 7.98 million.
10. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 7.76 million.
11. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.74 million.
12. "Wipeout" (Thursday), ABC, 7.69 million.
13. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.35 million.
14. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.19 million.
15. "Expedition Impossible," ABC, 7.18 million.
16. Copa Oro 2011 Soccer: Honduras vs. Mexico, Univision, 7.12 million.
17. "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 6.52 million.
18. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.33 million.
19. "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 6.28 million.
20. "America's Got Talent" (Monday), NBC, 6.2 million.
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In Memory
Norma Lyon
Norma "Duffy" Lyon, whose life-size butter sculptures of cows, Elvis and even Jesus and his disciples delighted Iowa state fairgoers for nearly half a century, has died. She was 81.
Lyon suffered a stroke at her rural home Sunday and died shortly after at a hospital, Michelle Juhl, one of Lyon's nine children, said Monday.
Known to most people as the "butter cow lady," Lyon was pregnant with her seventh child when she produced her first bovine butter sculpture, a 600-pound cow, for the Iowa State Fair in 1959.
The rural Toledo housewife went on to sculpt a butter cow every year until she retired in 2006, and along the way also sculpted the likes of Garth Brooks, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Smokey Bear and other images in her 40-degree refrigerated showcase at the fair.
She picked up her penchant for sculpting while earning her veterinary science degree at Iowa State University and helping her husband with the family dairy and beef cattle operation. In the midst of her animal medicine and mammalian anatomy classes, Lyon took two sculpting classes.
The Iowa State Fair has featured a butter cow every year since 1911 as a promotion for dairy products, and Lyon got her start after working briefly under her predecessor, Earl Dutt, whose work didn't overly impress her.
"It was a good farm cow, but it wasn't a show cow," Lyon told The Associated Press in 1999.
While Lyon wasn't the genesis of the butter cow, she did expand the medium during her time as a butter sculptor for the state fair, much to the delight of fairgoers.
She began carving companion pieces in 1984, starting with a horse and foal. In 1996, Lyon recreated Iowa artist Grant Woods' "American Gothic," the famous painting of a stern-faced man and woman with a pitchfork in front of a farm house.
The following year, Lyon suffered a stroke, but recovered in time to sculpt the traditional cow and a 6-foot likeness of Elvis Presley that saw fairgoers lined up around the building that housed it.
In 1999, Lyon took on what was arguably her most ambitious project: Her own rendition of the biblical story of the Last Supper, featuring disciples around a table leaning back on lounge chairs while Jesus stood at the head of the table with his arms stretched out, looking toward the heavens.
Lyon also garnered attention in 2007, when she publicly backed Barack Obama for president and appeared in campaign ads for him.
Lyon is survived by her husband, G. Joe Lyon, her nine children, 23 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Norma Lyon
In Memory
Elaine Stewart
Elaine Stewart, a leading lady in a series of films in the 1950s, including "Brigadoon," and star of the 1970s game shows "Gambit" and "High Rollers," has died. She was 81.
Her agent Fred Wostbrock told the Los Angeles Times that Stewart died Monday at her home in Beverly Hills after a long illness.
Stewart was born Elsy Steinberg. Her first starring role came in the 1953 crime drama "Code Two." She also appeared in the films "The Adventures of Hajji Baba," ''The Tattered Dress" and "Night Passage."
In the 1960s, she was in several TV shows including "Bat Masterson," ''Burke's Law" and "Perry Mason."
Stewart is survived by her husband, the game show producer Merrill Heatter, and two children.
Elaine Stewart
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