M Is FOR MASHUP - August 28th, 2013
Heavy Metal Fissunix Meltdown
By DJ Useo
Fissunix
( bootleg.fissunix.com/ ) rides atop the mashup scene through sheer skill and inventiveness. I reckon all the people who listen to mashups know his work and love it. For me, he grabs me with his great genre clash ability. An ability that's on large display with his newest tracks 'Honky Tonk Sledgehammer' ( BIll Doggett vs Peter Gabriel ), 'The Laws Must Give It Away' ( Red Hot Chili Peppers vs John Mayall ), and 'Rapper's Cantaloop' ( Sugerhill Gang vs US3 ). I notice Fissunix's offerings on many compilations, an experience that displays shrewdness on the part of the album compilers.
In the world of mashups, dance mashups rule, easily being the style of choice by the most listeners. Now Fissunix steps up with a fantastic mix trilogy of Rock vs various mashups for those of us starving for heavier mashes. All three are perfect fare for all, but especially for those craving metal in their mixes. Fissunix's 'Heavy Metal Mashups' has three volumes- 01-'SABBATH BOOTIE SABBATH', 02-'LOUDER THAN HELL', & 03-'METAL AT THE BEACH'. Each follows the pattern of a fave tape mix so you get all of the song, rather than losing a section to mixed tempo joinings. In Addition to superior tracks from Fissunix he fills up the sound with awesome blends from Wax Audio, DJ Schmolli, A+D, ToTom, MadMixMustang , and many more of the best out there.
To satisfy your taste for variation, this is the perfect collection. Sometimes you hear metal vocals over surprising pop, and dance styles, and on others you get the reverse. After playing these three sections around, I find that people want the individual tracks as well. Not a prob if you are on friendly terms with most search engines. Allow me to spare you some of that searching and offer you the links to each 'HEAVY METAL MASHUPS' section.
01 - soundcloud.com/fissunix/heavy-metal-mashups-vol-1
02 - soundcloud.com/fissunix/heavy-metal-mashups-vol-2
03 - soundcloud.com/fissunix/heavy-metal-mashups-vol-3
There's also one page with all three parts together.
04 - soundcloud.com/fissunix/sets/heavy-metal-mashups
These are all 'keepers', as we say in the bootleg biz. You could simply stream them, as the majority seem to do, but I advise downloading them along with the playlist and cover. They'll be great for easy replays, and you can will them to people when you bite the big one (never going to happen).
If you like Fissunix' work like I think you will, his site is loaded with tons of great, past releases. all gratis, as is the mashup norm.
Back next week with a dynamite roundup of recent mashup themed albums.
Mix Of The Week
DJ Useo - CH-ILLIN ( 1:12:18 ) is a Long Player Chill Mix for August 2013. It's really good for you to relax. Especially in the heat of Summer. Please to be chillaxing to this practiced and performed live long player mix. I know I did.
Stream or download here.
( www.bmbx.org/2013/08/ch-illin/ )
Mashup Tip
Never bring a remix to a mashup fight.
Latest Useo Thing
You will be surprised to find my new mashup 'I Kick For You' (
Bob Sinclair vs Ambassadors Of Funk ) is a wonderful dance floor mashup. Perfect for wearing out your shoes. Lol.
Stream or d/l from
these
links.
( official.fm/tracks/fx5E )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/08/bob-sinclair-vs-ambassadors-of-funk.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You will forget to read this prediction, so I'm not bothering to write it. Nyah!!
Recommended Reading
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Deborah Orr: Gender stereotyping is unhelpful and counter-productive - whoever's doing it (Guardian)
Assuming that men are not responsible for their actions harms them just as much as it harms women.
Matt Miller: The GOP's Obamacare youth hoax (Washington Post)
It's rare for a political party to trumpet a position that unintentionally reveals its myopia, incoherence and expediency. Yet such is the trifecta with the Republican campaign to call attention to Obamacare's young "victims."
Marina O'Loughlin: "Restaurant pet hates: 11 ways to ruin my appetite" (Guardian)
From double tipping to wineglass-filling fascism, some restaurant practices are certain to cause indigestion. Our restaurant critic reveals her biggest peeves.
David Berrebe: The obesity era (Aeon)
As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice. The problem may be bigger than any of us.
Will Oremus: "I Can't Quit You, Skype: A Look at the Websites That Make It Hardest to Delete Your Account" (Slate)
If the instructions on the site itself aren't clear, you can click "show info" on the Just Delete Me page to learn in plain English exactly how to delete your account. Never again will you be forced to wonder, after 20 minutes of clicking around fruitlessly in your Evernote app, whether it's even possible to delete your Evernote account. (It isn't, though Just Delete Me will take you to a page where you can at least deactivate it.)
Comedian Lenny Henry: 'Richard Pryor will always be my hero' (Independent)
Ahead of a new documentary on the groundbreaking funny man, Lenny Henry tells how he idolised - and copied - the star.
Charlie Jane Anders: Why does live-action fantasy fail at the movies? (io9)
Apart from Harry Potter, Twilight and the Tolkien adaptations, live-action fantasy movies always seem to tank these days. Latest case in point: Mortal Instruments, which underperformed massively, taking in only about $14 million on a $60 million budget. Why are fantasy movies cursed?
David Bruce: Wise Up! Problem-Solving (Athens News)
For a while, Major League baseball player Kevin Mitchell had an unusual haircut: one with three strips shaved on the sides of his head. The three strips symbolically represented his first three hits in the major leagues. By the way, Mr. Mitchell is a problem-solver. While playing in the San Diego Padres' sometimes-chilly Candlestick Park, he used to put pepper between his toes on cold nights. Why? He explains, "When your feet sweat and the pepper dissolves, it makes your feet warm."
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Top-Earning Celebrity
Madonna
Pop diva Madonna 55, is the world's top-earning celebrity, according to a Forbes list released on Monday, raking in an estimated $125 million in the past year, mainly from her $305 million-grossing MDNA tour, but helped by sales of clothing, fragrance and various investments.
Director Steven Spielberg, who had a big hit last year with "Lincoln," was a distant second with earnings of $100 million in the year ended June 2013, most of which came from his catalog of past hits such as "E.T." and "Jurassic Park," which continue to bring in big bucks.
Forbes compiles its annual list of celebrity earnings using input from agents, managers, producers and others to calculate its estimates for each celebrity's entertainment-related earnings. The figures do not reflect tax deductions, agent fees or "the other expenses of being a celebrity."
Others in the top 10 earners included TV host Glenn Beck, director Michael Bay of the "Transformers" franchise, and thriller novelist James Patterson, who Forbes said was now the best-selling author of all time.
Madonna
Named After Climate Deniers
Hurricanes
Activist group 350 Action is circulating a video and petition that urges the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to name hurricanes not after people (like Andrew, Hugo, Sandy, or Katrina), but global warming-denying lawmakers who oppose the passage of climate policy.
"Thousands of animals have been displaced or killed by Governor Rick Perry" and "If you value your life, please seek shelter from Michelle Bachmann" are but two of the soundbites heard on the video, which was produced in partnership with NYC-based advertising firm Barton F. Graf 9000.
As amusing as you and I might deem this video to be, we can all agree with near unanimity-say even 97 percent certainty, the same percentage of scientists that contend climate change is caused by man-that there is almost no chance of this new monikering operandi ever being adopted by the U.N.-housed WMO.
This isn't to totally pooh-pooh 350's efforts, as deniers need to be held accountable for their absurdist positions on climate change. (Perry has called climate change a "contrived phony mess," while Bachmann has said that the science supporting global warming is "vodoo.")
Hurricanes
Humanitarian Awards
Muhammad Ali
Boxing great Muhammad Ali wants to recognize the greatness of people waging their own fights for peace and social justice.
The former three-time heavyweight champion plans to be in his hometown of Louisville, Ky., for the presentation of the first-ever Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards on Oct. 3. The award winners were not immediately identified but will come from places around the world, the Muhammad Ali Center said Tuesday.
A half-dozen awards will honor people ages 35 and under for making significant contributions to the causes of peace, social justice and other humanitarian efforts, the center said. Awards will be given for exemplifying each of those principles - confidence, conviction, dedication, giving, respect and spirituality.
"The Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards is his opportunity to formally recognize some of these young people for the good works they do and to encourage them and others to begin and continue to do good in their own communities and hopefully extend that good to the global community," Lonnie Ali said.
Other presentations will be for a Humanitarian of the Year Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Kentucky Humanitarian of the Year Award.
Muhammad Ali
Baby News
Noah Bublé
The Argentinian actress wife of Canadian Grammy-winning singer Michael Bublé gave birth to a boy on Tuesday, the singer said on Twitter.
The first child together for the singer and Luisana Lopilato was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Bublé, 37, and Lopilato, 26, announced in January that they were expecting a child, posting a video with the ultrasound of a fetus on YouTube.
The couple were married in 2011. Lopilato has starred in such Spanish-language telenovelas as "Chiquititas, la historia" and "Rebelde Way."
Noah Bublé
Gets 270 Days
Joe Francis
Joe Francis, the creator of "Girls Gone Wild," has been sentenced to 270 days in jail and three years probation for assaulting a woman at his Los Angeles mansion in 2011.
Deputy City Attorney Mitchell Fox says a judge Tuesday ordered the 40-year-old Francis to complete an anger management course and attend 52 sessions of psychological counselling.
Francis was convicted in May of five misdemeanour counts, including false imprisonment, assault, and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime.
Francis met three women at a college graduation party in Hollywood. Instead of taking them to their cars as they believed, he took them home. When they tried to leave Francis grabbed one woman by the throat and slammed her head to the ground.
Joe Francis
'Battle of the Sexes' Rigged?
Billie Jean King
The "Battle of the Sexes," a 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and a former Grand Slam champion, was rigged by the mob, according to a new report.
The tennis match between King and the late Bobby Riggs, a former Wimbledon and U.S. Open champ, was a spectacle watched by millions around the world Sept. 20, 1973. More than 30,000 people packed the Houston Astrodome to see whether King, 29 at the time, could defeat a man.
King beat Riggs, who was 55 at the time of the match, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. The win gave women's tennis a huge boost in terms of respect and gender equality, but an ESPN "Outside the Lines" report says the whole match was fixed because Riggs owed mobsters more than $100,000 and threw the match to erase the debt.
Hal Shaw, who was an assistant golf pro at a Florida country club, says he overheard two infamous mobsters discussing Riggs months before the legendary match.
"They brought up the name of Bobby Riggs, and Riggs assured him that he would go in the tank, and he'll make it look and appear that he's trying his best but Billie Jean King was just overwhelming him," Shaw told "Outside the Lines."
Billie Jean King
Russian Police Seize Painting
Putin
Police seized a painting of Russia's president and prime minister in women's underwear from a gallery in St Petersburg, saying the satirical display had broken unspecified laws.
The officers also removed a picture of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, his torso covered in tattoos, and two others poking fun at lawmakers who have backed legislation banning so-called gay propaganda, gallery staff said.
The police service said it had taken paintings from the "Museum of Power" gallery - based in two rooms of a flat - late on Monday after receiving reports they were illegal.
It gave no further detail but Russia does have a law against insulting authorities - an offence that carries a maximum one-year prison term.
Putin
Pre-Civil War Steamship Identified
Robert J. Walker
The wreck of the U.S. steamship Robert J. Walker, which sank in a collision with a schooner more than 153 years ago, has been identified off the coast of New Jersey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday.
The Walker, built in 1847 as one of the first U.S. government iron-hulled, side-wheel steamers, sank in rough seas on June 21, 1860, after being hit by a commercial schooner.
The 132-foot (40 meter) vessel sank within 30 minutes, taking 20 sailors down with it of a total crew of 66.
Resting 85 feet underwater near Atlantic City, the wreck was discovered in the 1970s by a commercial fisherman and has become a popular destination for divers, but its identity was not confirmed until June 23 of this year.
The Walker was a survey ship and was returning to New York from a mission to chart the Gulf Coast in the year before the Civil War. The work was part of the U.S. Coast Survey, a precursor to NOAA's Office of Coast Survey.
Robert J. Walker
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 19-25. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Under the Dome," CBS, 10.64 million.
2. "Duck Dynasty," A&E, 10.07 million.
3. "Video Music Awards," MTV, 10.066 million.
4. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), NBC, 9.35 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.67 million.
6. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 8.52 million.
7. NFL Exhibition: Minnesota vs. San Francisco, NBC, 8.18 million.
8. "NCIS," CBS, 7.95 million.
9. NFL Exhibition: Seattle vs. Green Bay, CBS, 7.68 million.
10. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.38 million.
11. "Big Brother 15" (Sunday), CBS, 7.17 million.
12. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 6.86 million.
13. "Unforgettable," CBS, 6.8 million.
14. "Big Brother 15" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.38 million.
15. Auto Racing: NASCAR at Bristol, ABC, 6.32 million.
16. "Big Brother 15" (Thursday), CBS, 6.31 million.
17. "NFL Pre-Kick Show," NBC, 6.09 million.
18. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 5.98 million.
19. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 5.87 million.
20. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 5.8 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Gilbert Taylor
Gilbert Taylor was a master of black and white and a master of different universes.
Taylor, the influential "Star Wars" cinematographer who worked on a number of stellar films alongside some of the world's most famous directors, died on Friday at the age of 99, according to the British Society of Cinematographers.
Dee Taylor, his wife, told the BBC News that her husband died at their home on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England.
Born in Bushey Heath, a small town 20 miles (32 kilometres) north of London, Taylor entered the British film industry as a teenager against the wishes of his father, who warned him that the movie business was full of ne'er-do-wells, according to a 2006 biographical sketch posted to the American Society of Cinematographers' website.
Taylor joined the movie industry at the tail end of the silent film era, running errands and occasionally acting. Within a year, Taylor said he was hooked," captivated by the magic smells of film stock, acetone, and makeup." He spent the next few years doing stints behind the camera before joining the war effort in 1930s, putting his film skills to use by capturing footage of nighttime bombing raids over Germany - films which he said were sent directly to Winston Churchill's No. 10 Downing Street office.
After the allies invaded France, Taylor followed with a unit of cameramen, filming the liberation of Nazi concentration camps and the signing of the armistice.
Taylor caught his break while working for John and Roy Boulting - the brothers were a powerful force in postwar British cinema - and went on to make seven more features for the pair, including "Seven Days to Noon," a thriller whose atomic age paranoia would prefigure his work on Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
He was the director of photography on several distinctive black-and-white classics, including Richard Lester's Beatlemania chronicle "A Hard Day's Night," and had dozens of credits to his name, working with a range of directors, including George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski. He also worked on television series, including the very popular "The Avengers."
In a comment cited in the sketch, Taylor said he was "most happy to be remembered as the man who set the look for Star Wars."
"I wanted to give it a unique visual style that would distinguish it from other films in the science-fiction genre," he was quoted as saying. "I wanted 'Star Wars' to have clarity because I don't think space is out of focus."
Gilbert Taylor
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