M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - September 12th, 2012 - RERUN
Mashups Return To The 1980's
By DJ Useo
SoundUnsound
( www.soundunsound.com ) is an internet forum for home producers. It features original music, mashups, remixes, podcasts & long dj mixes. I'm the 'super-moderator' . They call me Sgt. Useo. I mean DJ Useo. Around four times a year the staff of SoundUnsound picks a musical theme & we assemble mashups mixed along the theme. In the past there's been mashup compilations of Reggaeton, Surf, & Punk, among several others. You can find them for listening close to the bottom of
this page
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
SUS (SoundUnsound) has been blessed with a moderator whose one of the best mashers around, France's
Chocomang
( chocomang.org/ ) . As we routinely take turns deciding the new comp themes, it was Chocomang's choice this time & he loved the last SUS 80's album so much he decided to go with a second volume. In a bold move he set the track submission number at five. Back when the project was announced, we had no idea the theme would catch on like wildfire. In addition to many of the SUS regulars like DJ MXR, mARKYbOY, MaxwellJump & others, we found additional people joining in like Bobby Martini, Mister NoNo, Jarod Ripley, & Worldwide Brotherhood. All well-known bootleg producers with plenty of past 'hits'.
I could go on about how great the tracks are we got from others like ToTom, Eternal Khaos, Qubic, & more, but I prefer to give you all three discs' playlists. That's right. Three discs! & they're great! We could've easily have attained four discs if we had moved the deadline. I must'a got ten more tracks sent in after the deadline. Wot a treat! Here's what we ended up with -
Hmm. That was much too long of a list for Bartcop E. I believe it's simpler to just check
the page for the SoundUnsound 80's Mashed Volume Two compilation
( chocomang.org/mashup/80smashed2.htm ) . Take a gander!
Here it is, 2012, the year of the mashup album, & I got to be involved with one of the very best. Hearing the work of DJ Flashard, G4Gorilla, Rillen Rudi, & so very many more is always satisfying, but put them all together & the effect is stunning & memorable. New SUS member Sjoersje really shines with five incredible mixes. You have to wonder "Where has this talent been hiding until now?" Then there's Voicedude, surely the top mashup artist in the USA. DJ Spider is well-known for his spectacular mashups & we got one of them from him. Sweet! Literally, every track & every mixer on this set leaves you with a thirst for more. Tweylo, Justincredible, Alan Black, DRA'man, these people all are established names with many a fine track released. Nonny Mouse may be an unknown commodity to the modern mashup audience, but he shows through his five tracks an ability that'll surely draw listeners. I even got a few tracks on it myself.
Here's a link to find
my video for 'Paragroove Ranking Full Stop' (The Beat vs Onno vs Dyed Soundroom)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3nSRFRdHM&feature=youtu.be ) It' s 2-tone ska vs modern club techno. More videos coming soon.
The album has tons of great 80s artists like BIlly Idol, Human League, The Cure, New Order, Toto, MARRS, Yello, Tom Petty, Blondie, Pet Shop Boys... I could go on indefinitely. My favorite mashup album so far this year is
SUMMER BOOTY : The Summer Mashup Album
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/06/summer-booty-2012-summer-mashup-album.html ) but this new SUS 80s vol. 2 comp is coming on strong. I worked on the album production-wise, but I'm in no way tired of hearing it. I've been playing it constantly for three days. I'm pretty confidant that you'll feel the same. Make sure to listen all the way through. The last 2 tracks, Eternal Khaos' Taylor Swift vs Nine Inch Nails & Chocomangs' AC/DC vs the Cult are such huge faves of mine. Please
check them out & see why
( chocomang.org/mashup/80smashed2.htm ).
More new Mashup albums next week.
Mix Of The Week
Ace Of Clubs pleases again with his latest work, 'Club Countdown' "Top 25 of 1982" (Total Time 79:43). Yes, it literally mixes it's way through the best of 1982. Ace Of Clubs has been doing this type of yearly rundown for ages now & all are great. Also available are a 44 minute version & most astonishing of all, a 6 minute version. All
are found here
( www.clubcountdown.blogspot.com/ )
Mashup Tip
Use more than one mix application per track for a more professional sound. It works!
Latest Useo Thing
'Bom Bom Afterglow' (Sam And The Womp vs Phaeleh vs Soundmouse vs Akira Kiteshi) uses only the most recent tracks. It's perfect for making you dance. It was getting a great reception when it was removed from my blog for some unreasonable gripe. Here it is on
Official FM
( official.fm/tracks/jJHo ) This was the 3rd track in a row of mine to have the link be removed. Not cool, I say. I quickly put up another new track to see if it would suffer the same fate. '
Rocking Bloodlines' has Neil Young singing over Dethklok, the cartoon band from the tv show Metalocalypse.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/neil-young-vs-dethklok.html )
Good news so far is the links remain. Yay! I'm suspicious that some online fool is targeting me again out of jealousy. It's happened before, sadly. I hope you enjoy the mixes. You get your choice of club/techno, or classic rock/death metal.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
A major snafu will occur tomorrow with the NSA when they forget to spy on us because they're too busy playing the new DJ Earworm mashup. Say la vee.
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Stan Collender: Budget Bedlam This Fall
But the usual sense of dramatically less stress that typically takes place at the same time didn't happen. Instead of talking about vacation plans, the standard topic of conversation all weekend was about what's going to happen when Congress comes back.
Sam Schlinkert, Filipa Ioannou: The McPoverty Calculator (Daily Beast)
Paying cents more for a burger could mean big wage hikes for fast-food workers, many of whom live in poverty. So how much more would you pay for a Big Mac?
John Ruch: I edit two neighborhood newspapers in the US. What do you want to know? (Guardian)
Journalism is a funny - meaning, horrifyingly stressful - business because it combines a rigid, assembly-line schedule of deadlines with the utter chaos of people making news on their own time. The best and worst thing about my job is that I truly don't know for sure what I'll be dealing with tomorrow.
Emma Brockes: "Binge-viewing: the new crack-cocoon" (Guardian)
I was on a plane to Puerto Rico last year, sitting behind a couple with children. The man was in headphones, watching his screen; the woman was looking after their two squirmy children. Repeatedly, she turned to him and asked him to help … and repeatedly, he shushed her and said another five minutes.
David Haglund: Why People Don't Care About Avatar (Slate)
… while Avatar was arguably instrumental in pushing more filmmakers to use 3-D (for better or worse), it really does seem to have otherwise largely vanished from the cultural landscape.
Stuart Jeffries: "David Sedaris at Edinburgh: 'I'll never run out of things to laugh about'" (Guardian)
As he prepares for his Edinburgh festival show, David Sedaris talks about the things that scare him: hecklers in their 80s, the stench of enthusiasm - and the word 'loo.'
Push-Up Bra (Video)
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David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (Athens News)
In the 1960s, David Zucker attended school in Milwaukee. Occasionally, he was a class clown, and a teacher once told him, "I know one day I'll be paying good money to see you make me laugh, but right now, get your *ss back in that chair and crack that book!" Later, Mr. Zucker co-directed and co-wrote "Airplane!"
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize
"The Radicalization of Bradley Manning"
A play about WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning has won a drama award in Britain.
"The Radicalization of Bradley Manning" was named winner of a James Tait Black Memorial Prize on Tuesday.
The play by Tim Price focuses on Manning's teenage years in Wales, where he lived with his British mother, and his transformation into a troubled U.S. soldier who leaked troves of confidential documents to the anti-secrecy organization.
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Britain's oldest literary awards, and have introduced a drama category for the first time. It comes with a 10,000 pound ($15,000) check.
"The Radicalization of Bradley Manning"
Co-Anchors
'NewsHour'
"PBS NewsHour" has named Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as co-anchors and co-managing editors of the weeknight broadcast.
The network said Tuesday that the Washington-based Ifill and Woodruff will share anchor duties Mondays through Thursdays. Each Friday, Woodruff will anchor solo as Ifill continues to host "Washington Week" that evening.
Hari Sreenivasan will serve as senior correspondent of the "NewsHour," along with his duties anchoring the New York-based "PBS NewsHour Weekend" on Saturdays and Sundays starting Sept 7.
In recent years, the "NewsHour" has had rotating teams of anchors who included Ifill and Woodruff.
'NewsHour'
'Kick-Ass 2' Director Responds
Jim Carrey
"Kick-Ass 2" director Jeff Wadlow is defending his film after star Jim Carrey chose not to promote the action comedy because of its violence.
Carrey, who plays vigilante Colonel Stars and Stripes in the sequel to the 2010 hit, has distanced himself from the film, saying the shooting massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary school changed his perspective.
Wadlow says Carrey is as unpredictable in real life as he is as an actor and "you never know what he is going to do or say." He says he hopes people will see the movie and judge for themselves.
Despite the controversy, Wadlow said Tuesday that Carrey is "fantastic in the movie," and he'd work with him again.
Jim Carrey
PBS Stands Firm
'Downton Abbey'
PBS is standing firm against airing "Downton Abbey" simultaneously with the drama's U.K. season.
Despite the spoilers that leak online from its British run, the period drama has been a ratings hit for public TV, PBS chief executive Paula Kerger told the Television Critics Association on Tuesday.
Word-of-mouth from the British airing helps create buzz and promotion in advance of its PBS run, she said.
The show begins its fourth season in Britain this fall, with PBS airing it starting Jan. 5. It picks up after last season's death of scion Matthew (Dan Stevens), heir to the English estate at the drama's center. Newcomers include Paul Giamatti as an American relation.
'Downton Abbey'
Marks Anniversary
Hiroshima
Tens of thousands gathered at a peace memorial park in Hiroshima on Tuesday to mark the 68th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city, as anti-atomic sentiment runs high in Japan.
In Hiroshima, ageing survivors, relatives, government officials and foreign delegates observed a moment of silence at 8:15 am (2315 GMT Monday), the time of the detonation which turned the western Japanese city into a nuclear inferno.
Among the attendees in Hiroshima last year was Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of former US president Harry Truman, who authorised the bombings. He was the first Truman relative to attend the annual anniversary in Japan.
Many atomic bomb survivors, known as "hibakusha", oppose both military and civil use of nuclear power, pointing to the tens of thousands who were killed instantly in the Hiroshima blast and the many more who later died from radiation sickness and cancers linked to the attack.
Anti-nuclear sentiment flared in Japan after an earthquake-sparked tsunami left some 19,000 dead or missing and knocked out cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant two years ago.
Hiroshima
Production Company Sues
'Deep Throat'
The production company that owns the rights to the pornographic movie "Deep Throat" filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block distribution of the upcoming movie "Lovelace," a biography of the adult film's star.
Arrow Productions Ltd, the owner of the rights to the 1972 film, filed a $10 million copyright lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against the producers of the movie, starring Amanda Seyfried, and its distributor, The Weinstein Company.
"Lovelace" chronicles the formative years of porn star Linda Lovelace (born Linda Boreman), her abusive marriage to Chuck Traynor, played by Peter Sarsgaard, and how she came to work on "Deep Throat.
The lawsuit contends that the production company used more than five minutes of footage from "Deep Throat" without a license or permission.
'Deep Throat'
Warns Sun's Magnetic Field Is Preparing To Flip
NASA
This may sound like the plot of a new low-budget science fiction movie, but based on the recent observations, it's clear that the sun's magnetic field is preparing to flip polarity.
The sun looks to be constant to us here on Earth, but it actually goes through cycles of activity. This year, 2013, is one of the peak years of its 11-year cycle (the last one was in 2002). Along with the increased number and strength of sunspots and solar flares, the peak in the cycle also means that the sun's magnetic field will flip. Currently the field points north, like Earth's magnetic field does, and by some point before the end of this year, it will switch to pointing South.
One thing to emphasize about this whole event is that it's completely normal. It happens every 11 years. We've made it through innumerable reversals without a hitch, so unlike a sci-fi movie, this isn't going to cause any catastrophes. Another is that it happens very slowly, with the magnetic field reaching its full 'peak' of magnetic polarity sometime around the solar minimum (so, about 5-6 years from now). This is just when it crosses the line between 'negative' and 'positive'.
The only thing unusual about this particular switch is that the northern hemisphere has already switched and the southern hemisphere is lagging behind. This is something for scientists to puzzle out, since it's a little unusual, but it adds a note of interest to an otherwise rather mediocre solar maximum.
NASA
Complains About Noise
Rob Zombie
The noise from a new skate park in Connecticut is too much for rocker Rob Zombie.
He and his wife have complained to the Litchfield County town of Woodbury that the park, which opened near their home in April, makes such a racket that it should be moved.
The town is looking into moving the park, but first it's trying to muffle the noise by enclosing the sides of the metal skate ramps, stuffing the jumps with Styrofoam and putting up soundproofing fabric on a fence, said First Selectman Gerald Stomski. The park hours were also reduced and it is closed on Sundays.
Stomski said the Zombies were the first to complain about the park, but two other neighbors have since complained. The rocker's wife, Sheri Zombie, asked at a town budget meeting in June if there might be money available to move the park.
The park was opened after two decades of planning at a cost of $53,000, covered partly by the town and partly by fundraising by children and their parents, Stomski said.
Rob Zombie
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 29-Aug. 4. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Under the Dome," CBS, 11.41 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), NBC, 10.28 million.
3. NFL Exhibition Football: Dallas vs. Miami, NBC, 10.11 million.
4. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.81 million.
5. "Football Pregame," NBC, 8.9 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.22 million.
7. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.03 million.
8. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 7.94 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 7.66 million.
10. "Big Brother 15" (Thursday), CBS, 7.12 million.
11. "Unforgettable," CBS, 7.1 million.
12. "Big Brother 15" (Sunday), CBS, 6.79 million.
13. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 6.65 million.
14. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 6.54 million.
15. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.31 million.
16. "Big Brother 15" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.25 million.
17. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.15 million.
18. "Master Chef" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), Fox, 5.56 million.
19. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.4 million.
20. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 5.34 million.
Ratings
In Memory
George Duke
Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer George Duke, best known as a pioneer of fusion jazz and for his collaborations with rock musician Frank Zappa, has died, his publicist said. He was 67.
Duke, who died on Monday night in Los Angeles, had been suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, publicist Mike Wilpizeski said.
Duke, known for embracing synthesizers and fusing jazz with other genres such as rock and funk, began his career in the mid-1960s after joining San Francisco's Half Note jazz club's house band, which was fronted by singer Al Jarreau.
The musician's international breakout album was 1969's "The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio," which is considered as one of the first fusion jazz recordings, combining jazz with the electric violin of the French virtuoso Ponty.
Duke's albums "Faces in Reflection," "The Aura Will Prevail" and "Liberated Fantasies," all released in the 1970s, are considered classics of jazz-funk fusion.
During that time, Duke also collaborated on several albums with Zappa as a member of his Mothers of Invention band, including "Chunga's Revenge," "The Grand Wazoo" and "Over-Nite Sensation."
Duke, who was born in San Rafael, California, was first exposed to jazz at the age of 4 when his mother took him to a performance by pianist Duke Ellington. He began his formal training at age 7 with the music of his Baptist church as his earliest influence.
His production work spanned jazz, R&B and pop music, including work on recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis, pop singer Barry Manilow, R&B singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson and country singer Lyle Lovett.
Duke also scored a pop hit in 1981 with "Sweet Baby," a collaboration with bassist Stanley Clarke. Duke earned Grammy awards for his jazz production work for singer Dianne Reeves in 2000 and 2001.
The last of 40 Duke's albums, "DreamWeaver," was released last month.
He is survived by his two sons.
George Duke
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