M Is FOR MASHUP - September 4th, 2013
New Mashup Albums Roundup
By DJ Useo
It sure is obvious that the Summer lull in mashups is over. Suddenly, there's about one hundred new tracks a day, and in addition, there's plenty of new mashup albums. All me now to select some of the best ones for your edification.
01-'Country Clashics - Welcome To Mashville' is Country music combined with various other styles, mainly Hip Hop and Pop. Justincredible and DJ Mashup teamed up for this masterpiece, alternating each track betweeen the two of them. The results are vastly appealing. So far, I've heard this collection five times, each time listening from start to end. It's that good of a record. It has great source material like Blake Shelton, Sugarland, Rascal Flatts, Little Big Town, and many more paired up with various genre artists like Paramore, Daft Punk, Florence and the Machine, Joan Jett, and plenty of others. DJ Mashup and Justincredible are fantastic apart, but apparently working together inspires them mightily. I urge you to enjoy this great collection.
Here's a fine video for Justin's 'Hillbilly Drank' ( Kendrick Lamar vs Brooks and Dunn ) that'll show you why I feel this is such a fantastic collection.
( vimeo.com/70902843 )
Full album here
( www.mashstix.com/CountryClashics.php )
02-Voicedudes' 'VOICEDUDE GOES TO THE MOVIES' is powerful fine mixes using the best of the music world with the best of the movie music world. Listen for inventive blends using James Bond, Donnie Darko, Shaft, Blue Velvet and more vs Rihanna, Maroon 5, Genesis, Johnny Cash, and tons more. No tracks strays from greatness in this assortment. In addition, there's many video versions.
Here's the overall promo medley 'Voicedude Goes To The Movies' ( Meco vs Various Artists)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d8Lt96uVpg )
Don't hesitate to indulge in the wonder of the full album
( voicedudemoviemashups.blogspot.com/ )
03-Hollands' treasured mixer Sjoersje has overseen a splendid new mashup collection called 'Mash The Dutchie (an all Dutch mashup album)'. It's all brand new tracks from skilled Dutch bootleggers like MadMixMustang, Lizzart, G3rst, Xam, and plenty more. A fascinating feature of this 2-disc project is how disc one is Dutch vs Dutch, while disc two is Dutch vs various International artists. Immediately noticeable is how both discs maintain the same vast appeal.
Download the album
( mashthedutchie.blogspot.com/ )
04-DJ Gastons' 'SOUL FUNK BOOT' is a mashup compilation of popular tunes blended with a soul / funk instrumental. It has accomplished mixes from irresistible mixers like ComaR, DJ Y Alias JY, Fissunix, Gaston, Grandpamini, Phatbastard, & Yold. If you want soul and funk in your mashups, you can't ask for better than this assortment.
Grab it for free here
( djgaston.net/SoulFunkBoot/ )
05-A+D's 'BOOTIE TOP 10 - August 2013' is available on the great dance party BOOTIE'S blog, as it always is. A+D not only host, and perform at the BOOTIE shows, but they regularly post the best top 10 dance mashup tracks for the month. This month there's awesome tracks from DJ Earworm, DJ's From Mars, Mashup-Germany, and more. If you're familiar with bootlegging at all, you'll recognize these names as the best of the best. The BOOTIE Top 10 is always like that. Essential listening.
Grab them by the file or the track here
( bootiemashup.com/blog/2013/08/bootie-top-10-august-2013.html )
Mix Of The Week
DJ MXR's 'Yazz Megamix' is eleven tracks mixed down to only twelve minutes. The tunes are great, and the arrangement is even better. I expect that once you've sampled MXR's skills, you'll be after more of his mixes. The others on his page are all excellent too.
Stream or download here
( soundcloud.com/dj-mxr-the-original/dj-mxr-yazz-megamix )
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Latest Useo Thing
'The Black Hit Of Panic Station' ( Muse vs Human League ) is melodic intensity paired with techno-dimensity.
Stream or download from the links here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/09/muse-vs-human-league.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Uh-oh! I don't see anything after September 14th. Oh crud!!
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Susan Estrich: It's Not Just One Judge (Creators Syndicate)
… [Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh] handed down a sentence of 30 days (actually it was 31, but he gave him credit for having served one day already) to a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student - who committed suicide while the criminal case was pending. Explaining the result, he focused on the victim, saying she was "older than her chronological age" and "as much in control of the situation" as the adult teacher rapist. The victim's mother, sitting in the courtroom, screamed at the judge and stormed out, which in my book qualifies as a rather impressive show of restraint.
Mark Shields: Labor Day Is the Real New Year's (Creators Syndicate)
Just 10 months ago, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower to win more than 51 percent of the popular vote in successive national elections. Some conservatives insisted that Mr. Obama would not have won without the votes of blacks or Hispanics or gays - or, as some people call them, Americans.
Froma Harrop: We All Need Moderate Republicans (Creators Syndicate)
In a recent conversation, a rich benefactor of the Democratic Party stopped his usual attack on Republicans to express worry about the survival of their party. Moderates of all political stripes want a choice. Without responsible Republicans, the Democrats can get sloppy, and America's challenges go unmet. A return of the Republican moderate would be good all around.
Lenore Skenazy: Who's Really Stalking Kids (Creators Syndicate)
This is a new development, and it's a big one: A school district in California has hired a firm to monitor the public postings of its 13,500 students. It will analyze the students' content on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and some other sites, looking for hints of "cyber-bullying, harm, hate, despair, substance abuse, vandalism and truancy," according to a story in the Glendale News Press.
Froma Harrop: Panhandling is Not Harmless (Creators Syndicate)
Be mindful that panhandling is not an answer to poverty or homelessness. Few panhandlers are homeless, and the poorest, saddest people are not among them. Panhandlers tend to be aggressive hustlers. What about free speech? Don't panhandlers have a First Amendment right to get in your face and demand, much less ask nicely for, a handout? Not necessarily, the courts have ruled.
Pete Cashmore: 11 reasons why we should still love listicles (Guardian)
Some people hate those bulletpointed articles written in the form of a list that seem to be everywhere online. But hey, they're great, you really should read more of them …
Luisa Dilner: Should I believe calorie counts? (Guardian)
There may be a difference between a food's listed calorific value, and the amount of calories it actually delivers - but only a small one.
Evan V. Symon: 5 Celebrities You Didn't Know Ass-Kicked Their Way to Fame (Cracked)
The next time you see a celebrity walking down the red carpet surrounded by scary-looking guys in black suits, pay attention to those muscleheads: One of them could become a bigger star than the jackass he or she is protecting. After all, it's happened before with former badass bodyguards-turned-beloved actors. For instance ...
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University Kicks Off Panel
Geraldo
Duquesne University (R-Sanctimonious) says Geraldo Rivera (R-Narcissist) isn't welcome to appear on a panel at the Pittsburgh school because of a half-naked "selfie" he posted this summer.
Duquesne says the cellphone picture the TV personality posted on Twitter in July was inappropriate and not in line with the school's values as a Catholic university. Rivera had been scheduled to moderate a panel to mark the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Rivera says he learned of the cancellation last week. He couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Duquesne spokeswoman Bridget Fare (R-Can't Be A Priest) didn't immediately respond to a question about whether Rivera will be welcome at future events.
Geraldo
Egypt Court Bans
Al-Jazeera
An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered Al-Jazeera's local affiliate and three other stations to stop broadcasting, part of an expanding government crackdown against media seen as supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and the country's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
In another legal move, a military tribunal issued the first verdicts against backers of Morsi, sentencing one to life in prison and handing sentences of five to 15 years in prison to 51 other defendants for assaulting troops during riots in the port city of Suez last month. The riots were part of a nationwide wave of violence sparked when security forces cracked down on pro-Morsi camps in Cairo, killing hundreds.
The administrative court Tuesday accused Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr and three other stations of violating broadcasting conditions and ordered their offices closed and broadcasts halted.
The court said in its ruling that the stations "hurt national security," as well as "broadcast lies to the Egyptian people, defamed the armed forces, violated the professional code of conduct, and incited foreign countries against Egypt," according to MENA.
It accused the stations of fabricating news and claiming that footage and pictures from the Syrian conflict were from Egypt, labeling Morsi's ouster a coup and denying that millions of Egyptians protested to demand his fall.
Al-Jazeera
Final Season
'True Blood'
It's a wrap for the sexy supernaturals on HBO's "True Blood."
The network said Tuesday that the series will end next year, following a 10-episode season that will begin in the summer. That will be the show's seventh season.
The series stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse. Paquin works with her husband, actor Stephen Moyer, who plays a vampire. The real-life couple became parents of twins last year.
The show has been a hit for HBO at a time it was looking for something new. Episodes averaged more than 10 million viewers for the sixth season, which concluded last month.
'True Blood'
Bought At Auction
John Constable
A small painting bought at an auction and kept in a cupboard for years, has been revealed as an original by British painter John Constable worth an estimated 250,000 pounds ($400,000).
The postcard-size painting, bought for 30 pounds in the British city of Canterbury around a decade ago, depicts a landscape by the 19th century artist and has been described as a "lost item" by the man who uncovered its origins.
Antiques dealer and forgeries expert Curtis Dowling told Reuters he and his team spent about nine months studying the painting after the owner, Rob Darvell, asked for their help.
"It's a fairly standard stock sort of Constable painting. It's quite interesting in that it's small, which you don't see that often. It's something we've never seen before ... It's really actually been quite a lost item," Dowling said.
"Our investigation confirms this thing has passed through a number of hands over the years and it's never been sold - it's a fresh-to-the-market, sweet little item."
John Constable
Rights Group Slams
Kanye West
A rights group has hit out at hip-hop superstar Kanye West for performing at the lavish wedding party of the Kazakh president's grandson, calling the country a "human rights wasteland."
Thor Halvorssen of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation said President Nursultan Nazarbayev's "regime crushes freedom of speech and association."
West was reportedly paid $3 million to perform as the surprise celebrity guest at the wedding in Almaty over the weekend and his performance was pictured by guests on Twitter and Instagram.
The rights group said Sting had refused to perform at a private concert in Kazakhstan in 2011 over the repression of workers.
"The millions of dollars paid to Kanye came from the loot stolen from the Kazakhstan treasury. Kanye has entertained a brutal killer and his entourage," said Garry Kasparov, the former world champion chess player who is now chairman of the Human Rights Foundation (HRF).
Kanye West
To Become Missouri's Steelhawk
Windseeker
A ride that stranded people 300 feet high twice last year will be moving from Knott's Berry Farm to a sister amusement park in Missouri next year.
Park officials said the Windseeker ride will be relocated to Worlds of Fun in Kansas City in January, according to the Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/198nvKH). The two parks are owned by the same company.
The Windseeker takes people 300 feet in the air and twirls them at up to a 45-degree angle for about 60 seconds. It malfunctioned twice last year, most dramatically in September when a frozen brake left 20 riders stranded for several hours until they could be safely brought down. No one was injured.
The new name for the Windseeker at its new home will be the Steelhawk. Knott's Berry officials have not said whether a new ride will replace the Windseeker in Buena Park.
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Believed To Be A First
NAACP-KKK Meeting
A meeting between the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend is believed to be the first of its kind.
The meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from Great Falls, Mont., took place at a hotel in Casper, Wyo., under tight security, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the United Klans of America said Tuesday that the meeting is a first.
Abarr told The Associated Press that he met with Simmons Saturday and ended up filling out an NAACP membership form so he can get the group's newsletters and some insight into its views. He said he paid the $30 fee to join, plus a $20 donation.
Simmons asked for the meeting following reports that KKK literature was being distributed in Gillette, about 130 miles north of Casper, and that African-American men were being beaten while out in public with white women.
NAACP-KKK Meeting
Just A Good Ole Boy
Montana
A Montana judge under fire for his comments about a 14-year-old victim in a schoolhouse rape case has ordered a new sentencing hearing for the former teacher who received just 30 days in prison for the crime.
In setting the hearing for Friday afternoon, District Judge G. Todd Baugh said Tuesday that state law appears to require a two-year mandatory minimum prison term for Stacey Rambold, 54, of Billings.
Rambold last week was sentenced to 15 years with all but 31 days suspended and a one-day credit given for time-served. He began serving his monthlong term last week at the state prison in Deer Lodge.
The judge has faced widespread condemnation from women's rights activists, elected officials and others for the light sentence and for saying Rambold's 14-year-old victim, Cherise Moralez, was "older than her chronological age" and asserting that she had some control over her months-long relationship with Rambold.
Moralez killed herself before Rambold's case came to trial. That left prosecutors without their main witness and led them to strike a deal with Rambold that allowed him to avoid prison until he violated the terms of his court-ordered release.
Montana
Found In German Attic
Mystery Mummy
German police, prosecutors and forensics experts are facing a mystery after a 10-year-old boy found a human mummy in a sarcophagus in a corner of his grandparents' attic.
A CT scan has revealed a well-preserved human skull, with an arrow sticking out of the left eye socket, and large parts of a skeleton with the arms crossed over the chest, the local newspaper Kreiszeitung has reported.
Adding to the riddle is a death mask also found in the box, and the fact that X-rays show a metal layer covering the bones of the 1.49-metre-long (4 feet 8 inches) human remains of unknown gender.
The boy's father, Lutz-Wolfgang Kettler, said his own father, who died 12 years ago, had in the 1950s travelled to North Africa and may have brought back the mummy as a grisly souvenir.
The bandages used for the mummy -- which has not been unwrapped for fear of damaging the remains -- date from the 20th century and are machine-woven, said Kettler, a dentist who attended the CT scan.
Mystery Mummy
Parasite Problem
King Richard III
William Shakespeare depicted King Richard III as a crooked ruler, due to the monarch's supposed ruthless demeanor and his curved spine. A new study suggests that in addition to scoliosis, Richard III suffered from a roundworm infection.
Interest and research into the monarch has spiked since scientists found Richard III's skeleton beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England. It was first uncovered in September 2012, and its identity was confirmed via DNA testing earlier this year.
While digging up the bones of Richard III, who was born in 1452 and ruled England from 1483 to 1485, scientists took soil samples from within the grave. They then looked for evidence of parasites in order to better understand his health and diet. Within the soil where the king's pelvis once rested, they found a large number of ancient eggs from roundworms (Ascaris lumbricoides). As a control, they also took a soil sample from inside Richard III's skull and from the grave outside the bounds of the body. They found no eggs in the skull sample, and only a small number - 15 times fewer eggs - in that soil, suggesting a background level of contamination from sewage, said Piers Mitchell, a physician and biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge.
The scientists found zero trace of other types of parasites also recorded in England at the time, such as whipworms or liver flukes. Nor did they find signs of pork, beef or fish tapeworm. The king ate all of these foods, according to a forthcoming analysis of the chemical content of his bones and preserved menus from monarchs of this time period, so this lack of other parasites suggests the king's food was well cooked, Mitchell said.
King Richard III
Algal Bloom Can Be Seen From Space
Lake Ontario
Astronauts on board the International Space Station spotted something unusual as they flew over North America on August 24th - the normally blue waters of Lake Ontario had changed to a vibrant green hue!
The reason for this was a population explosion blue-green algae in the lake water. These 'algal blooms' are seen quite often in the Great Lakes during the summer months, but ones of this extent are usually seen in Lake Erie (you can even see that the western part of Lake Erie has a smaller bloom going on at the same time). According to NASA's Earth Observatory, the Aqua satellite captured a view of this at the same time (you can see it here).
Algal blooms happen when there's a combination of warm water and lots of nutrients, from sources like sewage and runoff of fertilizer from farmers fields. The algae feast on the nutrients, spurred on by the warmth, and multiply rapidly.
Algal blooms can cause health problems for anyone drinking the water or swimming in it, as the algae, called cyanobacteria, can produce toxins as they eat. Even without the toxins, the blooms also threaten life in the lake, as the algae consume all the oxygen in the water, causing the fish to suffocate.
Lake Ontario
In Memory
Frederik Pohl
Author Frederik Pohl, who over decades gained a reputation of being a literate and sophisticated writer of science fiction, has died at age 93.
His wife, Elizabeth Hull, said Tuesday that Pohl died Monday at a hospital after experiencing respiratory problems at his home in the Chicago suburb of Palatine. News of his death was first announced by his granddaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary, in a tweet.
Pohl wrote more than 40 novels. Two of his better-known works were "The Space Merchants," written in the early 1950s with Cyril M. Kornbluth, and 1978's "Gateway," a winner of the Hugo Award for science fiction writing. Pohl was a literary agent and editor before getting his own work published in science fiction magazines of the 1930s. He's credited with launching the careers of James Blish and Larry Niven.
Pohl's career began in 1937 with the sale of a poem, "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna," to Amazing Stories magazine. He went on to edit Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, Galaxy and If magazines, as well as an original anthology series, Star Science Fiction. As a book editor, he worked on Samuel R. Delaney's "Dhalgren" and Joanna Russ's "The Female Man." As a literary agent, Pohl represented Isaac Asimov, Algis Budrys, Hal Clement, Fritz Leiber and John Wyndham.
Pohl was born in New York City in 1919. Despite dropping out of high school, his ambition was to be a professional writer. Friends described him as an avid reader, who read the works of Tolstoy in addition to science fiction magazines.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was stationed in Italy, and after his discharge wrote advertising copy for a mail order publisher. After becoming a literary agent again, Pohl helped Asimov publish his first novel "Pebble in the Sky" in 1950. Although he devoted much of his time to writing in the 1970s, he also was science fiction editor at Bantam Books.
In 2009, Pohl launched "The Way the Future Blogs," in which he wrote about his life, the science-fiction community, science and championed progressive politics.
Elizabeth Hull, English professor emerita of William Rainey Harper College and his wife of 29 years, said his remains will be cremated and a memorial service will be held at a future date.
Along with his wife, Pohl is survived by a son, three daughters and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Frederik Pohl
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