M Is FOR MASHUP - August 6th, 2014
Volume Nine 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 eight 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 "Dream House In Bloom" ( Nirvana vs Deafheaven vs DEENK ) , the preview track from 2013's volume 8.
( app.box.com/s/5jfm50bsivq9q266q3eg )
It contains the classic grunge vocals of early 1990's Nirvana with the present day rock of Deafheaven, & the modern techno of DEENK. Yet, I like to think it has a pleasant appeal on top of the buzzing, & roaring.
It was the prompting, & requests I got from so many that inspired me to go for volume nine. 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 thirty 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 twelve nifty mixes to do what I want with apart from this new INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA project.
Here's the playlist I chose then for final release.
01-Mental Acid Witness ( Mindless Self Indulgence vs Demir and Seymen )
02-Perfect Firestarter Drug ( Nine Inch Nails vs The Prodigy )
03-A Full Moon Stillness ( The Naked And Famous vs Soraleks )
04-Astronauts Run Like Hell ( Pink Floyd vs Armin Van Buuren )
05-Lucy In The Black Rain With Diamonds ( Beatles vs Soundgarden )
06-Last Cosmic Dancer ( T_Rex vs Raveonettes )
07-Search And Destroy Teenage Lust ( Iggy and the Stooges vs MC5 )
08-You Can Leave It All Behind-Song Of Divine ( Saint Of Sin vs Ambientsketchbook )
09-Your Gold Little Child Dress ( The Beatles vs The Dukes Of Stratosphere )
10-Alabama Getaway Built On Sand ( Grateful Dead vs Animated Egg )
11-Light My Fire Warning Sign ( Doors vs Talking Heads )
12-Stone Conductor Crazy ( Queen vs TOY vs John Trubee )
13-Gagang Retriever ( Super Furry Animals vs Yumade )
14-Don't Fear 2000 Light Years From Home ( Blue Oyster Cult vs Rolling Stones )
15-One Of These Days Incinerate ( Sonic Youth vs Pink Floyd vs No One Else )
16-Tomorrow Never Knows Sanity ( The Beatles vs Killing Joke )
17-Buttholeville In The Sun ( Weezer vs Drive-By Truckers )
18-What In The Prisoner Of Society World ( The Living End vs The Dukes Of Stratosphere )
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 waited a month after my last big project
SUMMER BOOTY 2014
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-062514.index.html )
& now you can have IP9 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 eight Halloween ep. Having heard some of it already, I know you'll enjoy it much.
I hope you like the new INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA album. Here's the preview track to give you an idea of what you're going to find.
"One Of These Days Incinerate" ( Sonic Youth vs Pink Floyd vs No One Else )
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/sonic-youth-vs-pink-floyd-vs-no-one-else )
Mirror links for INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA 9 can be found here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/07/dj-useo-intense-psychedelia-9-mashups.html )
The previous eight volumes all have fresh links & you can find them down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Tell your friends, but use hushed tones. ~Wink!~
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Andrew Tobias: "By Any Standard A Disaster"
Did you see Mitch McConnell's speech over the weekend? He's in a tight race to hold onto his Senate seat. "By any standard," he said, "Barack Obama has been a disaster for our country." Here are some standards: […] JOBS: Private sector employment has grown for 53 months straight, 9.9 million net new jobs, the longest streak in history - a disaster. DEBT: The $1.5 trillion deficit Bush handed Obama has been cut by two-thirds ("So Whatever Happened to the Deficit?") and thus our National Debt is once again growing slower than the economy - a disaster. […] ENERGY: We now, at last, export more oil than we import - a disaster. […]
Peter Rugh: The Untold Story of Alice Walton's DWI Incident (Mic)
It was a routine arrest, the kind Texas Public Safety officers like Trooper Jeffrey Davis make every day. But little did Davis know that the woman he had just booked for driving while intoxicated possessed a superhuman power. She wasn't able to walk heel to toe. She couldn't put her index finger to her nose if her eyes were shut. She even had a hard time keeping her head up. In other words, she failed the Standardized Roadside Sobriety Test that Davis administered the evening of Oct. 7, 2011 and was arrested.
Michele Hanson: This is a tricky time to be Jewish (Guardian)
Why in discussions about Gaza do people assume that all Jews support what Israel is doing?
Anonymous, J.F. Sargent, "5 Facts About Meth the Anti-Drug Ads Won't Show You" (Cracked)
Meth is terrifying. … we donned our anti-meth contamination suits, got ourselves blessed by five priests of opposing faiths, and only then dared to speak to two former meth addicts, Oscar Kindling and Jessica Fish, from the relative safety of our offices across the country. Shocker -- we discovered that meth sucks! But much like heroin, it might not suck in the exact shape and form that has been described to you by pop culture.
Paula Cocozza: My own private toll road: £150,000 to avoid a detour on the A431 (Guardian)
Businessman Mike Watts has opened a road across a field to help commuters between Bristol and Bath avoid an enormous detour because of roadworks. He explains how it came about.
A.O. Scott: The Squeeze on the Middlebrow (NY Times)
A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture.
Alison Flood: Pro-gun picture book for children aims to reassure kids about parents' weapons (Guardian)
My Parents Open Carry aims to explain 'the right to bear arms and the growing practice of the open carry of a handgun.'
David Bruce: Wise Up! Work (Athens News)
Musicians see a lot of ups and downs. Joe "Bean" Esposito was nominated for a Grammy with Brenda Russell for the song "Piano in the Dark" in the late 1980s. However, he was dropped from his label - Capitol Records - and needed money. A friend told him about a painting job that paid $17.50 an hour. Mr. Esposito took the job - it was at Capitol Records. Mr. Esposito remembers, "The day of the Grammys, I'm scraping the wallpaper off the wall and that night I go to the Grammys. Whatever doesn't kill you, my friend, makes you stronger."
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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.
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
Sunny, but not humid.
New Host For The 'Late Late Show'
James Corden
CBS has finally firmed up its late night talk block by hiring British actor James Corden to replace Craig Ferguson at The Late Late Show according to The Wrap, a surprising pick and another left-turn in the 35-year-old's eclectic career, which includes creating cult British comedy Gavin & Stacey, winning the Tony for Best Actor in a Play in 2012, and featuring as the Baker in the upcoming film adaptation of Into the Woods.
Corden was a relatively unknown actor best known for being part of The History Boys' ensemble. He leapt to fame in Britain when he co-created and starred in the sitcom Gavin & Stacey, winning a BAFTA in 2008. He also had a memorable guest-starring role on Doctor Who as temporary flatmate Owens in the episode "The Lodger" and its sequel "Closing Time." His starring role in the stage comedy One Man, Two Guvnors was critically acclaimed in London and transferred to New York, where he won the Tony; his work as Paul Potts in 2013 biopic One Chance didn't make much of a splash outside the UK.
His last big TV project was Hulu original series The Wrong Mans, a comedy-thriller that aired six episodes to minor acclaim last year, and he'll be a major part of Into the Woods at Christmas as the Baker, but it's still safe to say that he'll be basically unknown to American audiences whenever he begins work at CBS following up Stephen Colbert, who is replacing David Letterman at The Late Show in 2015.
James Corden
Handwriting Verified
Abraham Lincoln
For years, librarians at a small central Illinois library gossiped that a tattered book lying on one of its shelves justifying racism may have been in the hands of none other than Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.
On Tuesday, state historians confirmed that theory by announcing Lincoln's handwriting had been found inside the cover of the 700-page text, at the same time taking great pains to offer reassurance that the former president who ended slavery in the U.S. didn't subscribe to the theories at hand, but likely read the book to better educate himself about his opponents' line of thinking.
"Types of Mankind" makes a case that different races were formed at different times and places and thus can't be equals. It was seized upon by slave owners during the Civil War era as support for their way of life. The authors suggested that Africans and Native Americans were fundamentally different from Caucasians, and enslaving them was part of the natural order.
Like so many other supposed Lincoln artifacts discovered in places the former president frequented, the authenticity of the inscription remained in question for years, until a new library director decided to have it inspected by experts at the state historical museum this summer.
Abraham Lincoln
New Dictionary Picks Up Language Of Millennials
Scrabble
Young players of the classic word game Scrabble, perhaps disenfranchised by its decade-old lexicon, can "chillax" now that this multi-generational favorite is being updated to speak the language of the millennials.
The fifth edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, published by Merriam-Webster, goes on sale Wednesday and includes 5,000 new words that editors say will help the 66-year-old game stay relevant.
The publishing house this week released a sample of the new words, which add 30 pages to the dictionary last updated 10 years ago.
In addition to "bromance," "chillax," "selfie" and "buzzkill," the list includes terms like "hashtag," commonly used with Twitter; "dubstep," an electronic dance music that has gained popularity in the past few years; "texter," referring to one who texts; and "meh," an expression of ambivalence used on social media and in text messaging.
New additions such as "webzine" and "frenemy" and "funplex" have been around a decade or two and may feel a little closer to Gen X terminology. The same goes for "mixtape" and "beatbox," also in the new book, which took their places firmly in the American vernacular by the end of the 1980s but have stayed current in spite of changes in technology and pop culture.
Scrabble
Begins Season 8 Production
'Big Bang Theory'
The studio that produces "The Big Bang Theory" said it has reached contract deals with the sitcom's cast.
With negotiations concluded, the comedy will begin production Wednesday for the 2014-15 season, Warner Bros. Television said in a statement Tuesday.
Work on the eighth season reportedly had been delayed as the cast of TV's top-rated sitcom held out for raises. Agreements have been reached with stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco for lucrative three-year contracts that trade reports put at about $1 million per episode for each actor.
Deals are in place with the entire cast, which includes Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar, the studio said.
'Big Bang Theory'
Another Leaker
Second Snowden
The U.S. government believes it has another Edward Snowden following a new story from The Intercept based on post-Snowden government documents.
Government officials confirmed with CNN that there is another government leaker after The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux story on the Obama administration's databases of known and possible spies was published Tuesday. The report uses documents from the National Counterterrorism Center dated August 2013, which is after Snowden went to Russia.
Last year Snowden fled the country after it was discovered that he'd leaked classified government documents to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald. Last month Greenwald tweeted that he suspected there's another leaker.
In an email to Business Insider on Tuesday, Greenwald said he "can't comment on that CNN claim," about a new leaker working with The Intercept. "There are definitely still more stories based on Snowden documents coming," he added.
Scahill and Devereaux reported that nearly half of the people in the Terrorist Screening Database have no connection to terrorist organizations, and that the databases (and no fly lists) have been drastically expanded under the Obama administration. The government tried to leak the scoop to the Associated Press to soften the blow of the story.
Second Snowden
Sues To Remove Name
T-rump
Donald Trump (R-Parasite) has a message for the two Atlantic City casinos that still bear his name, five years after he gave up anything to do with running them: You're fired.
The real estate mogul and reality TV star, who presided over a casino empire in the glory days of Atlantic City, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday demanding that his name be stripped from the remaining two.
He told The Associated Press he sued Trump Entertainment Resorts, a descendant of a corporate entity he once controlled, because it has allowed its two Atlantic City casinos, the Trump Plaza and the Trump Taj Mahal, to fall into disrepair, tarnishing his personal brand and confusing customers.
Trump does not run or control Trump Entertainment Resorts, which was formed after the Trump casino empire emerged from the second of its three bankruptcies. But he retains a 10 percent stake, which enables the company to use his name for licensing purposes.
T-rump
Rock Formation Beheaded
The Cobra
A red rock pinnacle popular with climbers and named for its snakelike shape has been beheaded in the Utah desert, federal land managers said on Tuesday.
The Cobra was one of dozens of rock formations in the Fisher Towers region of the Colorado River Special Recreation area near Moab, about 400 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
Sometimes called hoodoos, the red-orange sandstone rocks have been sculpted over the past million years by wind and water erosion into spires, towers and pedestals.
A popular attraction for rock climbers, the Cobra was a thin spire standing some 50-feet high and affixed with a wide, flat cap rock.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating what happened, and early reports suggest heavy thunderstorms that moved through the region over the past week could be to blame, agency spokeswoman Megan Crandall said.
The Cobra
Seized At US Border
Bagpipes
The skirl of their pipes had barely receded before two New Hampshire teenagers learned a hard lesson in cross-border musical diplomacy: If your bagpipes have ivory in them, leave them at home before traveling to Canada or risk having them seized at the border.
Campbell Webster, of Concord, and his friend Eryk Bean, of Londonderry, were returning from Canada on Sunday after a bagpipe competition that served as a tuneup for the world championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The 17-year-olds, fresh off winning several top prizes in Canada, got to a small border crossing in Vermont when they were told they'd have to relinquish their pipes because they contain ivory.
The U.S. prohibits importing ivory taken after 1976. Even though the boys had certificates showing their ivory is older - Campbell's pipes date to 1936 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized the pipes in Highgate Springs, Vermont. Well, not all of them: The boys took every other part possible and left the ivory with Border Patrol so nobody else could make a full set out of the parts.
After contacting New Hampshire's congressional delegation and gathering more than 3,000 signatures on an online petition, the boys are getting their pipes back and were set to fly from Boston to Scotland on Tuesday. But the hassle is lingering like a sour note: Lezlie Webster said the boys had to shell out $576 in extra fees because they took the pipes across the border at a "non-designated crossing."
Bagpipes
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 28-Aug. 3. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), NBC, 10.79 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.64 million.
3. NFL Exhibition Game: N.Y. Giants vs. Buffalo, NBC, 8.53 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 8.44 million.
5. "The Bachelorette: After the Rose," ABC, 8.16 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.05 million.
7. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 8 million.
8. "NFL Pre-Game Show," NBC, 7.56 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.2 million.
10. "Big Brother" (Sunday), CBS, 6.58 million.
11. "Under the Dome," CBS, 6.57 million.
12. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.5 million.
13. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.42 million.
14. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 6.3 million.
15. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 6.29 million.
16. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.99 million.
17. "Extant," CBS, 5.92 million.
18. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 5.87 million.
19. "Major Crimes," TNT, 5.85 million.
20. "Master Chef," Fox, 5.76 million.
Ratings
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