M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - September 12th, 2012
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.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Helaine Olen: "The curse of student loan debt: owe while you're young, live when you're old" (Guardian)
Student debt and dead-end jobs have put many young Americans in dire circumstances outside their own control.
Saundra Young: Marijuana stops child's severe seizures (CNN)
"When she didn't have those three, four seizures that first hour, that was the first sign," Paige recalled. "And I thought well, 'Let's go another hour, this has got to be a fluke.' " The seizures stopped for another hour. And for the following seven days […] Charlotte gets a dose of the cannabis oil twice a day in her food. […] Today, Charlotte, 6, is thriving. Her seizures only happen two to three times per month, almost solely in her sleep. Not only is she walking, she can ride her bicycle. She feeds herself and is talking more and more each day.
7 Neat Facts About Schrödinger (Neatorama)
1. The Challenge That Caused Schrödinger to Figure out Wave Mechanics
Swiss physicist Felix Bloch recounted the story of how wave mechanics came to be: One day, Nobel laureate Peter Debye said, "Schrödinger, you are not working right now on very important problems anyway. Why don't you tell us some time about that thesis of de Broglie, which seems to have attracted some attention."
Scala Infiorata
"Every year, residents of Caltagirone, Italy honor the patron saint of the city with the Scala Flower Festival. They arrange potted plants on a grand staircase in that city to form composite images, such as these flowers made of flowers." - Neatorama
Alexander Jansen: I Left My Camera Bag on a Train (PetaPixel)
"You are a very lucky man. Three girls came right in and said that they watched you chase the train, and that they had found your bag. They held onto it for the entire train ride to make sure no one else took it and got off here on their way to the beach and turned it in to me. They said they also tried calling your hotel because you had the hotel printout in the bag, but apparently you hadn't made it there yet."
Caught this guy playing a game with himself (YouTube)
A dog drops a ball upstream, then catches it downstream - over and over.
RideVictoria: How We Do A Drive-By In Canada (YouTube)
A Canadian Good Deed.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Children (Athens News)
Johnny Carson loved children, even when they said something - unintentionally - at his expense. He once had as guests on "The Tonight Show" two second-grade girls who sold jokes for a penny each. Before he began buying jokes, he asked the two little girls if they had ever seen his late-night talk show. One little girl replied, "Yes, but I fell asleep." On another show was an 8-year-old child named Joey Lawrence. When Johnny asked Joey if he had ever seen his show, Joey replied, "Yes - one night when I was throwing up."
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Graphic Novel
John Lewis
In telling his life story in the pages of a graphic novel, U.S. Rep. John Lewis pays homage to a comic book that propelled him into the civil rights movement and, ultimately, into Congress.
The Georgia Democrat's "March: Book One," released Tuesday, was published by Top Shelf, co-written by Lewis staffer Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Nate Powell,
Lewis says the 128-page volume, the first in a trilogy, focuses on his early life - from raising chickens in Pike County, Alabama, to meeting Martin Luther King Jr. and holding lunch counter sit-ins and civil rights protests in Nashville, Tenn. A freedom rider and civil rights leader in the 1960s, Lewis was severely beaten while marching for voting rights.
"It's all there," Lewis said, from his "growing up" to his discovery of the 1957 comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."
John Lewis
Debate Challenge
Tom Steyer
A San Francisco billionaire has challenged TransCanada boss Russ Girling to a live debate on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Tom Steyer, an ardent critic of the project and a major Democratic financier, extended his invitation in an open letter to Girling on Tuesday.
"I care so much that the truth comes out that I hereby challenge you to a debate on the merits and faults of the Keystone XL pipeline," Steyer wrote.
"Let's have a real, substantial conversation about the issues at hand, and have the viewing public and have the public decide for themselves as to which of us is in possession of the more persuasive and the more important argument."
A TransCanada spokesman didn't say if Girling would accept the challenge.
Tom Steyer
'Politely Declined' Role
Ira Glass
"Orange Is the New Black" creator Jenji Kohan offered Ira Glass a role in her Netflix prison drama, but says the "This American Life" host "politely declined."
Speaking on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, Kohan said she's a "huge Ira Glass fan" and "huge fan of radio in general." She said Glass - particularly Glass's glasses - helped inspire the public radio host played by Robert Stanton on the show about a woman in prison.
"I don't have a lot of time to watch TV, but I am a big podcast listener and radio listener and a fangirl to a certain extent," Kohan said. "I actually asked Ira Glass if he would do it and he politely declined."
Kohan says the host's glasses aren't identical to Glass's, but acknowledged "there's a flavor." She hopes Glass doesn't mind.
Ira Glass
"Ecce Mono"
Cecilia Gimenez
A year ago, Cecilia Gimenez's botched attempt to restore a fresco of Christ inspired ridicule and references to monkeys. Now, the 81-year-old Spanish artist is having the last laugh.
The disfigured fresco has drawn more than 40,000 visitors and raised more than 50,000 euros ($66,285) for a local charity in the town of Borja since gaining worldwide attention. It has spurred the town to put the likeness on merchandise it hopes will sell for years to come. And Gimenez has even had her own art exhibit, with two dozen of her other works showing through Aug. 24 in the town of 5,000.
Gimenez and a local council are to sign a deal next week to share profits from merchandise featuring the image, with the artist getting 49 percent and the council the rest, said councilor Juan Maria Ojeda, who listed the tourism and income figures.
The fresco originally depicted Christ with a crown of thorns in a style known as "Ecce Homo" (Behold the Man). The church painting was for decades a little-known piece of religious art by a minor Spanish artist. It had remained in peaceful obscurity in the Misericordia sanctuary since it was painted in 1930.
That was until Gimenez, a longtime devotee of the work, decided it needed some attention because it was flaking due to the damp church air. Her attempt didn't go so well, and some dubbed Gimenez's retouching of it "Ecce Mono" - Behold the Monkey.
Cecilia Gimenez
Paparazzi Bill
California
Actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner urged California lawmakers Tuesday to support legislation that they say would help them better protect their children from the paparazzi that follow them daily.
The stars testified before the Assembly Judiciary Committee regarding SB606, which would impose tougher penalties on photographers who harass celebrities and their children.
It was Berry's second state Capitol appearance on the measure. The Academy Award-winning actress, who is pregnant, told lawmakers the constant presence of photographers yelling and snapping pictures has made her daughter scared to go to school.
The bill from Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, would change the definition of harassment to include photographing or recording a child without the permission of a legal guardian by following the child or guardian's activities or by lying in wait. It also increases the penalties for people convicted of such behavior.
California
Fires Football Analyst
ESPN
Former Eagles defensive lineman Hugh Douglas is now a former ESPN talent.
An ESPN spokesperson confirmed to TheWrap on Tuesday that "Douglas no longer works at ESPN as of today."
Douglas was fired from the station following a heated confrontation with his "Numbers Never Lie" co-host Michael Smith at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention on August 3.
According to Deadspin, Douglas was very drunk at a post-convention party and made a move toward the club's stage. Smith tried to stop him, and then Douglas flew into a rage, called Smith an "Uncle Tom" and threatened to beat him up.
ESPN
Paternity-Rights
Jason Patric
A bill sparked by a custody dispute involving "The Lost Boys" actor Jason Patric that would allow certain sperm donors to seek paternity rights in court is on hold after failing to clear a legislative panel Tuesday.
Patric testified before state lawmakers about his court battle to gain custody of his 3-year-old son, Gus. A judge deemed him a sperm donor - rather than a parent - during a custody dispute over the boy.
He and his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Schreiber, conceived a son through artificial insemination. The couple, who never married, disagrees on the role he was to play in the child's life.
The legislation would allow a man whose sperm was used to conceive a child through artificial insemination to ask a court for parental rights if he can show a certain level of involvement in the child's life.
Among the bill's supporters are Equality California and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which say the bill strikes the right balance by requiring a donor seeking parental rights to have lived with the child and presented the child as his own.
Opponents - including the state's chapter of the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, and the Academy of California Adoption Lawyers - have raised concerns about whether single mothers or same-sex couples who use sperm donors could be negatively affected by the legislation.
Jason Patric
Don't Want You to Know About Their Food
Papa John's
Food companies understand that Americans are increasingly interested in buying food that actually seems worth eating. We want food that's some degree of fresh, healthy, natural or otherwise of higher quality. It's for this reason that you see images of plump fruit decorating packages of cereal bars and the greenest broccoli you've ever laid eyes upon appearing on boxes of frozen dinners. At Burger King, you don't order a mere salad - it's a Chicken Caesar Garden Fresh Salad. Those chips aren't just cheese-flavored - they're Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips, with "harvest cheddar" an entirely meaningless term.
Few companies have applied this appeal more literally than Papa John's, which for years has boasted "Better pizza. Better ingredients." Printed on every Papa John's pizza box is a little story: "When I founded Papa John's in 1984, my mission was to build a better pizza," says "Papa" John Schnatter. "I went the extra mile to ensure we used the highest quality ingredients available - like fresh, never frozen original dough, all-natural sauce, veggies sliced fresh daily and 100 percent real beef and pork. We think you'll taste the difference."
So you'd think if Papa John's was really following a different model, they'd want to tell us all about it. Too bad they don't. Those "better ingredients": Good luck finding out what they are. Unlike the packaged products you buy at the supermarket, restaurant food isn't required to list ingredients. Many fast food chains, like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Subway, do voluntarily provide them, in part for indemnity against lawsuits and in part because they realize some of their customers actually want to know what they're eating.
By not disclosing what's in its food, Papa John's is revealing that it doesn't think too much of its customers. It is either asking customers for blind trust or assuming people are too stupid and complacent to ask questions. When we do ask questions, they refuse to answer. At least that was my experience, both when I approached Papa John's as a journalist and a customer. This strikes me as a foolish approach in an age when American eaters are demanding more transparency when it comes to food, not less. For some reason, Papa John's has failed to realize that when you hoist your entire brand up on the idea of high-quality food, you'd better be able to back it up.
Papa John's
Just As Racist
Smart People
Despite what they may claim, geniuses are no less likely than their denser peers to be racist, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.
While intelligent white Americans were more likely to support the ideals of racial tolerance, their subsequent responses to specific, race-based policies did not bear out those claims, the study found.
"High-ability whites are less likely to report prejudiced attitudes and more likely to say they support racial integration in principle," said Geoffrey Wodtke, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Michigan and the study's author. "But they are no more likely than lower-ability whites to support open housing laws and are less likely to support school bussing and affirmative action programs."
Of course, bussing and affirmative action programs lie at the center of a heated debate over the government's approach to reducing racial inequality. The Supreme Court, spearheaded by a conservative majority, in 2007 struck down a school integration effort in Washington, while making it clear that affirmative action at the university level is in peril. Conservatives would hardly think their opposition to such policies constituted racism - indeed, many say the policies themselves are racist.
Still, the latest finding may seem counterintuitive. Smarter people, we assume, should have better critical thinking skills and therefore be more apt to view racism as irrational on its face. And indeed, past studies have drawn a link between lower I.Q. scores and prejudicial beliefs.
Smart People
Folk/Classical Group
Mediaeval Baebes
Rock and folk fans are not often treated to Latin, Middle English and medieval German, but that is exactly what attendees at a recent music festival in rural England got.
The Mediaeval Baebes, a British folk/classical group that mixes ancient texts with new music, enchanted a crowd otherwise gathered in an Oxfordshire field for the heavy rock of Alice Cooper and the fiddle frenzy of The Levellers.
Cooper's "School's Out For Summer" gave way to "Adam Lay Ibounden", a tale in 15th century English about the first man's 4,000 years in bondage.
Katherine Blake, the Baebes' classically trained founder and musical director, leads the group, which currently comprises six women but has been as large as 12.
With various personnel, Blake and her Baebes have spent 17 years touring folk clubs, church halls and singing at corporate functions.
Mediaeval Baebes
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 5-11. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Under the Dome," CBS, 10.42 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), NBC, 10.26 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.39 million.
4. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 8.94 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.62 million.
6. "The Bachelorette: After the Rose," ABC, 8.31 million.
7. "NCIS," CBS, 7.96 million.
8. "Big Brother 15" (Sunday), CBS, 7.14 million.
9. "Unforgettable," CBS, 6.88 million.
10. "Big Brother 15" (Thursday), CBS, 6.61 million.
11. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 6.58 million.
12. "Big Brother 15" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.43 million.
13. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 6.35 million.
14. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 5.99 million.
15. "Breaking Bad," AMC, 5.92 million.
16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 5.86 million.
17. "Master Chef" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), Fox, 5.66 million.
18. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 5.51 million.
19. "Rizzoli & Isles," TNT, 5.5 million.
20. "Dateline Classic," NBC, 5.36 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Tompall Glaser
Tompall Glaser, a country music singer, publisher and studio owner best known for his association with the outlaw movement against record labels, died Tuesday. He was 79.
Louis Glaser, Tompall Glaser's nephew, said the singer died in Nashville, Tenn., after a long illness.
Thomas Paul Glaser, a Spalding, Neb., native, began performing with his brothers, Jim and Chuck, as The Glaser Brothers in the 1950s and eventually moved to Nashville after meeting Marty Robbins, who tapped them to sing backup.
Glaser and his brothers immediately chafed under the label system in place in the 1960s and '70s - just like contemporaries Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson.
Though he would never achieve the success of those friends, he was nonetheless a key player in the rebellion they started against Music Row in the early 1970s that would come to be known as the outlaw movement. He circumvented the label system by opening with his brothers their own music publishing company and recording studio - soon known as "Hillbilly Central."
Author Michael Streissguth described the studio in his recent history of the movement, "Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville": "Its doors propped open to let in the young breezes sweeping the West End, the so-called Hillbilly Central offices became an outlaw safe haven. Former employees recalled Willie Nelson lazing on the front lawn and Waylon haunting the offices at three in the morning."
Glaser appeared on "Wanted! The Outlaws," a 1976 compilation that also included Nelson and Jennings. The album, which included his version of Shel Silverstein's "Put Another Log on the Fire," became country music's first platinum-selling album and served as a Rosetta Stone for those looking for something raw and original out of the genre.
Glaser also was known as a co-writer of the standard "The Streets of Baltimore," which Bobby Bare took to No. 1, and famously feuded with The Byrds and Gram Parsons during their one ill-fated appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.
Tompall Glaser
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