M Is FOR MASHUP - July 10th, 2013
Mashup Keepers Collected For You
By DJ Useo
I discovered mashups back in late 2003. Loved them right away, I did. However, I thought of them as a limited resource, sure to dry up quickly, so I collected as many as I could. Was I ever surprised when they picked up a big momentum that's increased yearly ever since. When I began doing live shows I found that some tracks had a mystic lure to the crowd. Just as with unmixed music, there's certain tunes that we refer to as 'floorfillas' that compel people to rush the dancefloor. ( Or crank up the volume, if you prefer. )
Over the years I've accrued so many excellent mashups that people love to hear again and again. No wonder, as there's literally a ton of excellent mixers lurking about the net. Armed with that knowledge, I gathered together a discs' worth of the real classics that I know from experience will thrill your ears. They're newly re-mastered for the ultimate sonic pleasure, and you can have them now with only a few right-clicks as the price.
The Institute Of Bootleggers Presents MASHUP KEEPERS" ( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2013/07/mashup-keepers-19-classic-bootlegs.html ) is lean, mean, and a bootleg machine. It has incredible tracks by only the best like 10000Spoons, Go Home Productions, The Kleptones and plenty more. I even had the audacity to include one of mine that always gets a rave reception. As for the music thats mixed on this collection you can find artists like Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and The Doors, paired with newer artists like Calvin Harris, Kasabian, The White Stripes and gosh so many more.
This seems a good time to unveil the playlist. The mixers names might be unknown to you, but the source artists should interest you greatly.
The Institute Of Bootleggers Presents MASHUP KEEPERS
playlist
01-10000 Spoons-Bugger the Killing Monkey
( Jeremy Joshua vs Echo & The Bunnymen vs Elbow )
02-Go Home Productions-Bus Stop Runner
( Hollies vs Kasabian )
03-TheHomogenicChaos-All The Lovers Against me
( Hybrid vs Britney Spears vs Kylie Minogue vs All Saints )
04-DJ Not-I-( Feelin' ) Temptation in the Bathroom
( Swollen Members vs Perverted Monks
vs The English Beat vs Squeeze )
05-Soundhog-500 Bad Mice
( 2 Bad Mice vs The Proclaimers )
06-Qubic-Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume
( Londonbeat vs MARRS )
07-IDC-7 Nation Rocker
( Alter Ego vs The White Stripes )
08-DJ Le CLown--Evil Whisky Bar
( Hadouken vs The Doors )
09-DJ Prince-Jesus Christ What Time is Love
( Jesus Christ Superstar vs The KLF vs Quincy Jones
vs Mark then 45 King vs The Incredible Bongo
Band vs George Carlin )
10-MP3J-Help For You
( The Beatles vs The Rembrandts )
11-The Kleptones-Jump You Fucker
( Cee Lo Green vs Van Halen )
12-[MMM] MadMixMustang-Holiday Of Choice
( Fatboy Slim vs Dead Kennedys vs MC Miker & DJ Swen )
13-ToTom-Bootlegger Rhapsody
( Ramones vs Nine Inch Nails vs The Doors vs Queen )
14-DJ Spider-I Believe in Miracles Dude ( Asteroid Mix )
( Jackson Sisters vs Beenie Man )
15-Envision-Always Just A Mean Heartbreaker ( Dance Mix )
( Alice Cooper ft Joe Jonas vs Underworld vs Metronomy )
16-LeeDM101-Radioactive Tubular Girls
( Kraftwerk vs Mike Old?eld vs Duran Duran vs Calvn Harris )
17-DJ Zebra-Break Through Love
( Led Zeppelin vs The Doors )
18-ElectroSound-Crazy Little Feel Called Love
( James Brown vs Queen vs Fatboy Slim vs Beck)
19-DJ Useo-The Last Dance Of Mr Brightside
( The Killers vs The Raveonettes )
A cool bonus with many of these tracks is they have videos! Here's links for two of them.
There's a text file in the zip file with the links for all the videos! Indulge!
01--Go Home Productions-Bus Stop Runner
( Hollies vs Kasabian )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lRS10-vhw )
02-Soundhog-500 Bad Mice
( 2 Bad Mice vs The Proclaimers )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cbdNP7Plak )
Before we end this discussion, I have two real treats for you! It's two more NEW videos from
SUMMER BOOTY 2013.
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-062613.index.html )
This is the video for Chocomangs'
'Beads This Afternoon'
( Nickelback vs Humble Souls ).
It has so much Summer vibe, you can cook a raw egg onnit! Thanks to Chocomang.
( vimeo.com/68965093 )
This is the video for Oki's great SUMMER BOOTY 2013 mix
'Feeling This Heatwave'
( Blink 182 vs Martha and The Vandellas )
It has all the satisfaction of a classic Summer beach party! You'll be singing it happily the rest of your life.
Thanks to Oki!
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffFEAAug8I )
I hope you check out SUMMER BOOTY 2013. It's been getting a wonderful reception, and will surely have you full of Summer joy.
Mix Of The Week
iMash's "SMORGASMASH JUNE 2013 Ayee Mashup in the Mix" is all new mashups from the month of June mixed into one long excellent listen.
Stream or download here
( official.fm/tracks/UV9k )
Mashup Tip
Feel free to add lots of effects and scratching to your mixes. Music needs spicing up!
Latest Useo Thing
I did a track for my next INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA album that has Elvis singing over Led Zeppelin. I was going to use it on the collection, but I bumped it off for one that was much more intense. You feel the benefit now because this mix might not be exactly intense, but it's a memorable, catchy listen. 'A Little Less Ramble Conversation' ( Elvis vs Led Zeppelin ) can be
listened to from here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/07/elvis-vs-led-zeppelin.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
A mashup by DJ Zebra will be featured in a big hit movie next May and will create a huge hunger for mashups in general. I'd say more, but I have a headache. Who has an aspirin?
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Urp vs. Derp (New York Times)
By urp I mean just getting something wrong - and then conceding, as evidence rolls in, that you did indeed get it wrong: "Urp! That was a bad call!" Obviously if someone urps all the time, his credibility is diminished; but everyone is going to do it now and then. To urp is human. Derp, on the other hand, means being proved wrong but continuing to loudly assert the same thing again and again regardless. Blanchard and Leigh urped, but they didn't derp; the inflationistas, on the other hand, just keep on derping.
Andrea Wren: The rise and rise of austerity blogs (Guardian)
'This morning, small boy had one of the last Weetabix, mashed with water, with a glass of tap water to wash it down. 'Where's Mummy's breakfast?' he asks, big blue eyes and two-year-old concern. I tell him I'm not hungry, but the rumblings of my stomach call me a liar."
Justin Peters: "Another Boy Dies in Ohio, America's Capital of 'Accidental' Child Shootings" (Slate)
Accidental child shootings are almost never accidents.
Amanda Marcotte: Real Life Manic Pixie Dream Girl Pens Essay, Plays Ukulele (Slate)
Nathan Rabin of the AV Club coined the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" in 2007 to describe an irritatingly common fantasy that crops up in male-dominated Hollywood: "The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures."
Interview by Robert McCrum: Clive James - a life in writing (Guardian)
As he awaits the British reviews of his translation of The Divine Comedy, Clive James talks to Robert McCrum about his illness, his marital split, TV criticism and his 'joking seriousness.'
Joseph Luzzi: This Could Be 'Heaven,' or This Could Be 'Hell' (New York Times)
Despite these barriers to entry, James's austere volume achieves something remarkable: It lets Dante's poetry shine in all its brilliance even in those technical patches closer to Aquinas's syllogisms than to Virgil's hexameters. Eliot, James recalls, once said that the last cantos of "Paradiso" were as good as poetry gets. After an uneven start, James's translation reminds us just why.
Peter Goldsworthy: Clive James's translation of Dante is simply divine (Australian)
The Comedy is possibly the most translated epic in world literature - especially the pacy, action-packed road movie that is the Inferno. Some translators venture no further, perhaps because the toughest tests of their craft - their own circles of hell - are the two later books.
Clive James on Dan Brown: 'I pity him deeply' (USA Today)
Catching the shades and tones [of Dante's Divine Comedy] took me all the skill I had, which meant that it took a lifetime to get ready: a lifetime of writing verse, with the occasional very small check and a croak of approval from a literary critic. Dan Brown has spent his lifetime learning to write the kind of prose that has earned him nothing except millions of dollars. I pity him deeply."
David Bruce: Wise Up! Practical Jokes (Athens News)
Journalist Bob Casey once learned that some explorers were going to explore the top of a mesa to see what they could see. The night before the explorers climbed the mesa, Mr. Casey hired a pilot to fly him over the mesa. From the plane, Mr. Casey dropped spark plugs and rusty automobile mufflers and other such items. By the way, Mr. Casey once researched an article on a wolf, even going on location to do so. On his expense account, he included the item wolfbane.
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Reader Comment
Re: Wailing Wall
I had always thought that I would leave a name or two in the Wailing Wall if I ever got to Jerusalem. But when I DID get there, I was told that women could only approach a small section of the wall apart from the men. I refused to go near the damn thing--I told the tour guide that was either going to be treated like a human being deserving of respect or they could take their wall and stuff it. From
the story you ran tonight, I see things have not gotten any better in the last 13 years.
Linda >^..^<
We're all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Hot. Cranky.
On The Road
Robert Plant
takes Zeppelin songs to new
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Robert Plant knows his fans want Led Zeppelin and he's happy to comply. On his own terms.
Plant is on the road this summer with a new band, The Sensational Space Shifters, and he's offering up fan favorites - rejiggered a bit to keep him excited about the music he's been performing for more than four decades.
"You just hit it, give it a good bang," Plant said. "It's sort of like taking a can of wasps and giving it a good bang with a stick, and then opening the lid. It's just like, 'Ooooh!' That makes me sing better and it makes me go back to not feeling that I'm a cliche, that I'm not actually just going through the motions. ... This is obviously a gig but nonetheless you can still make it into a great pleasure dome for yourself, which is what I do."
The tour effectively marks the end of a seven-year Americana period for Plant that started with "Raising Sand," his 2007 Grammy Award-winning collaboration with Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett, and continued through his most recent work with girlfriend Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller and Band of Joy.
Robert Plant
Now She'll Be The Smart One
Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (R-Stepford) is leaving the desk at "The View" for the couch on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."
The news network said Tuesday that Hasselbeck will join co-anchors Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on the three-hour morning show "Fox & Friends" in September. Wednesday will be her last day after a decade on "The View."
Hasselbeck parlayed her popularity as a contestant on "Survivor" into a job on Barbara Walters' ABC daytime show in 2003. During her decade on the show, she authored two cookbooks. She's politically more conservative than her co-hosts on "The View," which often led to some contentious moments.
Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes (R-Ethically Bereft) said that Hasselbeck's "warm and engaging personality made her a star" and an "excellent conversationalist." She replaces Gretchen Carlson, who will be given her own daytime show on Fox, Ailes said.
Hasselbeck
10 Benefit Concerts
Sting
Sting will hold 10 concerts in New York City this fall to benefit The Public Theater arts organization.
The singer announced Tuesday that he will perform at the 260-seat Anspacher Theater in the Public Theater from Sept. 25 through Oct. 9.
The 61-year-old will sing songs from his new album, "The Last Ship," out Sept. 24. He also will talk about the creative process behind his play with the same name. It premieres next year.
A limited number of free seats will be given to fans the day of each performance. Ticket prices range from $250 to $2,500.
Sting
Cancels London Show
Elton John
Elton John has canceled a show in London's Hyde Park due to appendicitis that will require surgery.
A statement issued Tuesday by the musician's publicist said John was suffering from an inflamed appendix and surrounding abscess.
He has been advised by doctors to cancel his concerts while he undergoes a regime of antibiotics to treat the abscess. That will be followed by surgery in the next few weeks.
The 66-year-old performer had been due to play an outdoor concert in London's Hyde Park on Friday on a bill with Elvis Costello and Ray Davies.
Elton John
Spinning Class
Pigboy
Conservative radio hostHuffington Post reported on Tuesday.
The latest update shows Limbaugh appearing to temper what seemed to be an escalating feud with the cable network that began last Tuesday with his appearance on "Fox and Friends." Later that day, the Huffington Post reported that Limbaugh had accused Fox News of trying to prevent him from talking about immigration and rifts within the GOP.
"Now I told the people at Fox that I wanted to talk about this today three or four times and they wouldn't do it," Limbaugh said on his radio show after the "Fox and Friends" appearance. "They were not interested in bringing this subject up. I wanted to talk about this in relationship to the current state of the Republican Party and they wouldn't do it."
On Monday, when Tony from Tampa called in and mentioned a pundit whom he'd seen "somewhere on Fox," Limbaugh appeared to insist that the caller stop watching the network.
"You need to stop watching these people, because they're not going to change," Limbaugh told Tony from Tampa. "Your blood pressure is going to suffer if you keep watching these people. I mean, they're designed to tick you off. They're designed to make you question your sanity. You're going to watch these people [and] you're going to say, 'How in the world can we have such idiotic people?' And you're going to think maybe they're not and you're crazy."
Pigboy
MPs Want An Encore
Rupert
British lawmakers said on Tuesday they would recall media mogul Rupert Murdoch to clarify evidence he gave to them last year after he was secretly recorded belittling a police inquiry into alleged crimes committed by journalists on his papers.
In a meeting with staff on his mass-selling Sun tabloid, Murdoch said he regretted helping a police inquiry into phone-hacking which has grown into a far wider investigation into alleged illegal reporting practices.
He suggested the industry had relied on such tactics for decades.
Murdoch, the head of News Corp and 21st Century Fox, had described himself as appalled by revelations of illegality and phone-hacking that engulfed his British newspaper business two years ago and severely damaged his reputation.
"This is the most humble day of my life," he told the committee during lengthy testimony with his son James during which a protester attacked him with a custard pie, provoking his now estranged wife Wendi Deng to leap to his aid.
Rupert
Chief Fired
Bolshoi
The chief of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater was fired Tuesday after months of infighting following an acid attack on its artistic director that has stained the reputation of one of the legendary names in world ballet.
The departure of Anatoly Iksanov, the theater's director general, comes just a few weeks after the ouster of his rival, principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze. Both men have enjoyed the backing of senior government officials and Kremlin-connected tycoons, and their successive dismissals appear to reflect high-level intrigue and score-settling.
Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said only that the 61-year old Iksanov, who led the Bolshoi for nearly 13 years, was dismissed because of a "difficult situation at the theater."
He told a news conference that the head of Moscow's No. 2 ballet company, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater, would succeed Iksanov.
Bolshoi
Argentina's 100-Peso Bill
Evita
Argentina's central bank has warned businesses to stop rejecting commemorative bank notes bearing the image of Eva Peron to mark the 60th anniversary of the iconic former first lady's death.
President Cristina Fernandez, whose fiery speaking style often prompts comparisons with that of "Evita", unveiled the 100-peso bills emblazoned with her profile a year ago.
But publicity surrounding the newly-minted notes was not wide enough to overcome doubts from small businesses where cashiers have rejected the bills for being unfamiliar.
So the central bank this week launched a hotline for people to report those who refuse to accept the bills, threatening to fine those who keep turning them away.
Some cashiers have snubbed the Evita notes because they did not recognize them as legal tender. Others turned their backs on the bills for political reasons.
Evita
Accepts Birth Control Compromise
Catholic Hospitals
In a split with U.S. bishops, a trade group for Catholic hospitals said Tuesday it can accept the Obama's administration latest compromise on birth control coverage by religious employers.
"We are pleased that our members now have an accommodation that will not require them to contract, provide, pay or refer for contraceptive coverage," said the Catholic Health Association.
Under President Barack Obama's health care law, most employers are required to cover birth control as a free preventive service for women workers. Churches and other houses of worship are fully exempt from the mandate. But religiously-affiliated hospitals, universities and social service groups are not.
The compromise, in a final regulation from the administration, attempts to create a buffer for these employers. It requires insurers or the health plan's outside administrator to pay for birth control coverage, and creates a mechanism for reimbursing them.
However, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops (R-Defenders Of Pedophiles) are suing to overturn the entire requirement, saying it trespasses on freedom of religion.
Catholic Hospitals
Because They Care About You
American Meat Institute
Eight meat and livestock groups from the United States and Canada have asked a court to strike down stricter U.S. meat labeling rules that they say have hurt U.S. processors and Canadian farmers, arguing that they violate the U.S. Constitution.
The suit, filed late on Monday, seeks to undo recent revisions to four-year-old rules that required retail outlets to label meat according to where it came from.
The country of origin labeling rules, known as COOL, have led to lower U.S. imports of Canadian cattle and pigs, which has hurt Canadian farmers and the U.S. processing plants that relied on imported livestock. The rules are an effort to give U.S. consumers more information about the safety and origin of their food and some farm groups, particularly R-CALF USA, support them.
The World Trade Organization ordered the United States to comply with WTO rules by May 23, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made revisions to COOL that Canada and Mexico said would only make the situation worse.
One example is the rules no longer allow co-mingling of most muscle cuts from livestock in different countries within the same package, which creates added cost to U.S. feedlots and processors to segregate animals, said Mark Dopp, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at the American Meat Institute (AMI).
American Meat Institute
30,000 Return To ND
Pelicans
About 30,000 American white pelicans have returned to south central North Dakota, nesting at a guano-rich island known as North America's largest refuge, federal Fish and Wildlife Service said.
The white pelican colony at the 4,385-acre Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge north of Medina peaked at 35,466 birds in 2000. The pelicans winter mainly in the Gulf Coast states but some fly to North Dakota from as far away as Florida and California to nest the island that also serves as a rookery.
The big-billed birds normally stay in North Dakota through September, raising their young and feasting on crawfish, small fish and salamanders from small prairie ponds within a 100-mile radius of the refuge.
Last year, an aerial count found 31,534 breeding adults, up from 20,854 in 2011, said Neil Shook, a U.S Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and the refuge manager.
Pelicans have been monitored at Chase Lake since 1905, when the birds numbered about 50. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the site as a bird refuge in 1908, when many of the birds were being killed for their feathers and for target practice.
Pelicans
In Memory
Joe Conley
Joe Conley, an actor best known as the small town storekeeper on the TV series "The Waltons," has died at age 85.
The Los Angeles Times reports Tuesday that according to wife Louise Conley, Joe Conley died at a care facility in Southern California on Sunday. She says he had suffered from dementia.
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Conley had bit parts on 1960s series like "Green Acres" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" before he landed the role on CBS's "The Waltons" in 1972 that would last nearly a decade.
Conley played Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the Jefferson County general store frequented by the Walton family in Depression-era Virginia. He would appear in 172 episodes over nine seasons and in TV movie reunions that lasted into the 1990s.
Joe Conley
Way back in the mid-70's, while I was still in school, I shared an apartment on Bessemer Street in Van Nuys, near Valley College.
One day, my roommate came home and found a note taped to the door stating that the apartment building had been sold, and the new owner would be inspecting the apartments at his convenience, whether we were home or not.
Ellie was afraid something would be stolen. I was convinced something would be broken. And neither of us liked the idea of a stranger pawing through our stuff, at his convenience.
That night we called the new owner to say that while we understood it was his building, an inspection without one of us present was unacceptable.
And that set him off. He went right to nasty and got nastier. And who the fuck were we to question his authority. Yikes.
So we gave notice, and moved out two weeks early, making sure the place was spotless, and took pictures of all the rooms, with a newspaper showing the date.
Then the new landlord refused to return our security deposit, and that prompted my first experience with small claims court.
Long story short, Ellie and I won. The new owner came off as a real jerk, got a proper dressing-down from the judge, and ended up having to give us a few dollars more than we asked for.
That new landlord was Joe Conley.
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