M Is FOR MASHUP - 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
Girl kicks her teacher in balls (with English subtitles)
Let this be a warning to teachers everywhere.
This gorgeous timelapse will make you wish you lived in Oregon (Vimeo)
Ring in the weekend with this killer compilation of timelapse footage of the Pacific Northwest. Photographer John Eklund captured these scenes at some of the region's most magnificent locales, including Crater Lake, Mt. Mount St. Helens, Oregon's Badlands and Painted Hills, to name a few
Paul Krugman: Spinning for Dollars (New York Times)
If they come to the conclusion that they invested in a loser, they will try to cover their position by rushing a lot of cash to Obama in the final weeks of the campaign. And that will blunt the one big advantage Romney still has. So the Romney campaign has to do all it can to obscure and deny reality, lest perceptions that their candidate is a lemon turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
David DeWitt: Presidential campaign makes big splash in Athens, Ohio (Athens News)
Biden related an anecdote about his father telling him not to tell him what he values, but show him his budget, and he would tell him what he values. "Let's look at the Romney budget and what it does," he invited. "Massive cuts in Medicaid. Millions of children and a million more seniors off of health care… Massive cuts to Social Security for future generations… Massive cuts to education… Eliminating the $2,500 tax credit we're so proud of." He said that they need to do all this in order to pay for maintaining tax cuts for the very wealthy and then giving them more.
Scott Burns: Building the Next Financial Crisis, One Loan at a Time (AssetBuilder)
Can we find a silver lining somewhere in this dark cloud? You bet. First, let's not fret about our financial institutions; they already own Congress and can take care of themselves. The silver lining is for younger families: higher future interest rates amount to a major wealth transfer. Lenders will lose, borrowers will gain. Younger households may be able to recoup some of their losses from the last decade as home prices rise and the true value of mortgages declines.
Emily Bazelon: The Conscience (Slate)
Jonathan Kozol has spent 45 years reporting on the children left behind.
I, Anonymous: I'm Going to Steal Your Boyfriend (The Stranger)
So why am I giving away my plan, giving you a heads up so that you can thwart me? You don't read "The Stranger." Your boyfriend does.
Lucy Mangan: me, judging what's funny, that's a laugh (Guardian)
'The only thing we really know about funniness is that it retreats the harder you look for it.'
Philip Roth: AN OPEN LETTER TO WIKIPEDIA (New Yorker)
I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel "The Human Stain." The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip-there is no truth in it at all.
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
"Doug's Most Shared Facebook Post" Today
wrote:
answered:
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
(Infographic)
To Post or Not to Post
To Post or Not to Post (Infographic)
Thanks, Peter!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
This computer is crankier than I am, and that's saying a LOT!
Hey - isn't today somebody's birthday?
Presents and/or love offerings are always appropriate.
Campaign Fact-Checks
"2016"
Barack Obama's campaign has hit back at Dinesh D'Souza and his filmmaking team for their cutting characterization of the incumbent president in "2016: Obama's America."
On September 5, as the anti-Obama documentary continued its winning streak at the box office and the Democratic National Convention hit a crescendo with a rousing appearance by former President Bill Clinton, a pointed blog entry about "2016" was posted on BarackObama.com.
Calling D'Souza, a longtime fixture on the right-wing speakers' circuit, "a self-proclaimed expert on the President," the blog post on the campaign site's "Truth Team" page fires this opening salvo: "Right-wing author Dinesh D'Souza has recently released '2016: Obama's America,' a movie that falsely smears President Obama as having a hidden agenda bent on realizing 'anti-colonial' ambitions."
The campaign site's impromptu review also offers counterpoints to specific claims the documentary makes about the president's politics. On the subject of the source of the controversial TARP bank bailout program, for example, the entry states: "D'Souza even claimed that President Obama passed the bank bailouts when the facts clearly show that it was President Bush who signed the Troubled Asset Relief Program into law in October 2008."
As if there was any room for doubt, the blog gives "2016" a clear thumbs down, concluding that the documentary is "nothing more than an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the President by giving intellectual cover to the worst in subterranean conspiracy theories and false, partisan attacks."
"2016"
Honoree's Announced
International Emmy Awards
"All in the Family" creator Norman Lear and "M*A*S*H" star Alan Alda will be honored with special Founders Awards at the International Emmy Awards Gala to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the event, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday.
Alda and Lear both had programs in distribution in 1972, the first year of the gala.
The gala will take place November 19 in New York.
"Glee" creator Ryan Murphy will also be honored with the 2012 International Emmy Founders Award. Korean Broadcasting System president & CEO Dr. Kim In-Kyu will receive the 2012 International Emmy Directorate Award. The International Academy will also present Emmys in nine program categories during the event.
International Emmy Awards
Boycott Failing Miserably
Big Apple Pizza
When Scott Van Nuzer got caught up in the moment duringPresident Obama's Sunday visit to his pizza shop in Fort Pierce, Florida, little did he know how quickly the Yelp army would mobilize. On Saturday, Big Apple Pizza had just two reviews, but at the time of this posting, that number had grown to 1,059. Of course, Obama being a Democrat and this being an election year, not all of them are five stars.
"I will not eat from traitor's hands and I'll never take food from man who DIDN'T BUILD his business," reads a one-star review from a Yelper in Las Vegas. "Went there during my summer vacation. It was nasty. Not surprised the owner is an Obama hack!!" reads another, also with one star. There are few more, too. Apparently, some anti-Obama trolls were trying to mount an assault against Big Apple Pizza on Yelp, launching their one-star reviews like Sidewinder missiles into hull of Van Nuzer's reputation. Too bad they were outnumbered. Like, really outnumbered.
The would be Yelp war between Obama lovers and detractors on Yelp seems to have turned into more of a massacre. For every one-star review bashing Big Apple Pizza on Yelp, there were about 60 five-star reviews singing its praises. (We counted.) In reality, the ratio is a little bit different since about 130 reviews were taken down -- most of them one-star reviews -- for violating Yelp's terms of service. It's still a pretty stark split, though, you have to admit. Not only does Van Nuzer's pizza place have the best rating in Fort Pierce. He's got the highest rated restaurant in the entire state of Florida. (Bern's Steakhouse in Tampa appears to be a distant second.)
This is an all-too-familiar tale. A troll taunts the Internet with a silly ruse, but the Internet is much bigger and more powerful than said troll, so said ruse backfires. Then again, maybe we haven't seen the last of the anti-Big Apple Pizza army. The restaurant's Facebook page
Big Apple Pizza
Twin Babies
Paquin - Moyer
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are the proud parents of newborn twins.
Reps for the acting couple confirm Paquin gave birth to the babies a few weeks early but say they're in good health and their parents "are overjoyed." The statement issued Tuesday didn't specify when or where the babies were born or the sex of the children.
The babies are 30-year-old Paquin's first children. Moyer, 42, has two children from previous relationships.
The "True Blood" stars were married in 2010. The show is in its fifth season on HBO.
Paquin - Moyer
Hospital News
Jerry Lawler
Professional wrestler and commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler is stable in the cardiac care unit of a Montreal hospital after collapsing during a World Wrestling Entertainment event.
The WWE posted an update on Lawler's condition Tuesday afternoon on both its webpage and on Twitter.
The WWE said that Lawler suffered a heart attack at the announcers' table Monday night during "Raw" and was taken from the Bell Centre to a hospital. The 62-year-old Lawler of Memphis, Tenn., still wrestles and took part in a tag team match before joining Cole ringside for the rest of the program as a commentator. He collapsed ringside while a match continued in the ring and was carried backstage before being taken to a hospital.
The wrestler shot to fame in the early 1980s when he feuded with comedian Andy Kaufman. The two wrestled in Memphis, and Lawler famously slapped Kaufman during an appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman." Lawler later appeared as himself in the Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon," starring Jim Carrey.
Jerry Lawler
Another $20M
Steve Wynn
A jury doubled its verdict against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis on Tuesday, ordering him to pay an additional $20 million in punitive damages to Steve Wynn for claiming the casino mogul threatened to kill him.
The decision came one day after the same nine men and three women awarded Wynn $20 million after determining that Francis' allegations slandered the designer of upscale casinos. Francis plans to appeal the verdicts.
The panel followed the suggestion of Wynn's attorney, Barry Langberg, who asked jurors to double their initial verdict, which was intended to compensate Wynn for damage to his reputation and casino empire.
Francis' attorney Aaron Aftergood said he intends to file a motion for a new trial on the grounds that jurors were allowed to consider statements Francis made to a "Good Morning America" crew, but the panel was never shown the interview and heard little testimony about it. A judge allowed Wynn's attorneys to add the interview to the case after testimony had concluded and before jury deliberations began.
Steve Wynn
Appeals Court Makes An Example
Jammie Thomas-Rasset
The music industry won the latest round on Tuesday in its long-running legal battle against a woman accused of illegally downloading and sharing two dozen songs on the Kazaa peer-to-peer network.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota, reinstated a $222,000 jury verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, rejecting her arguments that the damages award was excessive and violated her due process rights under the U.S. Constitution.
The decision is the latest to address the music industry's ability to use the Copyright Act to pursue individuals who illegally download music from the Internet. The law allows copyright owners to recover damages between $750 and $150,000 per infringed work.
Thomas-Rasset, from Brainerd, Minnesota, was one of 18,000 individuals sued by the Recording Industry Association of America between 2003 and 2008 in a legal assault meant to discourage people from illegally downloading songs from sites like Kazaa.
The case has followed a circuitous path. Thomas-Rasset lost her first trial in 2007 and was ordered to pay $222,000, only to have the court throw out the verdict because of a faulty jury instruction.
At her second trial, Thomas-Rasset testified that her ex-boyfriend or sons, then 8 and 10, were most likely responsible for downloading and distributing the songs. The jury awarded the record labels $1.92 million in damages. But the court lowered the damages to $54,000, calling the jury's award "shocking."
Jammie Thomas-Rasset
AEG Dropping Insurance Claim
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's former concert promoter AEG Live is withdrawing a $17.5 million insurance claimin the 2009 death of the pop star amid revelations in leaked emails that show company executives were concerned about his stability ahead of his planned London comeback tour.
Attorneys involved in the case denied on Tuesday that AEG Live's move was related to the publication of the leaked emails by the Los Angeles Times on September 2.
AEG Live, the concert division of privately-held Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), had filed a claim seeking a $17.5 million insurance payment from Lloyd's of London for losses they incurred in up-front costs for Jackson's "This Is It" sell-out shows that were to start in London in July 2009.
Marvin Putnam, an attorney for AEG, said the company no longer needed the $17.5 million because it was reimbursed by the Jackson estate for its concert-related losses and that it informed Lloyd's in June that it was withdrawing its claim.
Michael Jackson
Files For Chapter 11
Digital Domain
Less than a year after going public, the digital production company founded by director James Cameron has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell the core of its business to a private investment firm for $15 million.
Digital Domain Media Group Inc., best known for its work on Cameron's "Titanic," has produced visual effects for more than 90 movies, including "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and the "Transformers" series. And in April, its Tupac Shakur hologram made a splash when it took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and appeared to perform alongside Snoop Dogg.
But the company was "running out of cash," Chief Restructuring Officer Michael Katzenstein said in court filings, and had violated cash and debt requirements set forth by its lenders. It tried to find additional outside sources of capital, but wasn't able get enough to restructure its debt and pay its operating expenses, he said.
The downward spiral was swift. The company went public just 10 months ago but sold nearly five million shares at $8.50 each, below the expected $10 to $12 range. Drifting to the $5 range by spring, the stock then spiked as high as $9.20 following huge reaction to the Shakur hologram, with the performance garnering 15 million YouTube hits within 48 hours and winning a top award at the creative marketing gathering Cannes Lions. Building on the buzz, Digital Domain got the greenlight to create an Elvis Presley hologram for shows, film, TV and other projects worldwide, including appearances.
But by August the struggling company said it would review its options, suggesting a possible sale. Shares have fallen as low as 44 cents in recent days.
Digital Domain
Keeps Up With
Kardashians Kris JennerNBC
For NBC's "Today" show, keeping up with the Kardashians on Tuesday trumped observing a moment of silence marking the attacks of September 11, an American television news tradition observed by every other U.S. broadcast network.
At 8:46 a.m., ABC, CBS and Fox all aired live silent footage of grim-faced firefighters and somber families from various memorials, marking the minute 11 years ago when the first of two hijacked airplanes struck New York's Twin Towers.
NBC's "Today" morning program at the same moment broadcast an interview with Kris Jenner, the mother of Kim Kardashian and a cast member of the popular reality show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
NBC has found itself under scrutiny since ABC News' "Good Morning America" recently snapped a 14-year streak as the top-rated U.S. morning show.
NBC
Apologizes For Banning Cartoon
Facebook
Facebook said Tuesday that it mistakenly blocked a cartoonfeaturing bare female nipples and suspended an account used by the New Yorker.
The social network took down the magazine's cartoon page Monday after the New Yorker posted a comic depicting the biblical characters Adam and Eve in the nude, with the latter's nipple clearly sketched.
The move prompted a snarky post on the New Yorker's Cartoon Bureau blog, in which the cartoonist Mick Stevens satirically redrew the comic with both characters fully clothed and an "Not O.K., O.K." look at Facebook's policy.
Emphasizing the magazine's apparent eye-rolling, it posted a zoomed in image of both Adam and Eve's nipples indicating which is OK.
Facebook
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Sept. 3-9. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Sunday Night Football: Pittsburgh at Denver, NBC, 27.57 million.
2. NFL Football: Dallas at N.Y. Giants, NBC, 23.89 million.
3. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 20.14 million.
4. "Wednesday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 18.67 million.
5. "Football Night in America," NBC, 12.99 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.32 million.
7. "NFL Opening Kick-Off Show," NBC, 10.68 million.
8. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 8.93 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 7.94 million.
10. "America's Got Talent" (Thursday), NBC, 7.88 million.
11. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.39 million.
12. "Democratic Convention" (Thursday), NBC, 7.38 million.
13. "Big Brother 14" (Sunday), CBS, 6.9 million.
14. "Master Chef" (Tuesday), Fox, 6.53 million.
15. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.4 million.
16. "Two and a Half Men" (Thursday), CBS, 6.36 million.
17. "Big Brother 14" (Thursday), CBS, 6.2 million.
18. "Hell's Kitchen" (Tuesday), Fox, 6.17 million.
19. "Big Brother 14" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.09 million.
20. "The Big Bang Theory" (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), CBS, 5.79 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Bob Lambert
Digital media executive Bob Lambert died suddenly Friday at his home in Glendale, his family announced this week. He was 55, and a cause of death was not given.
During his 25 years at the Walt Disney Company and through his associations with various industry organizations, Lambert was a major force in pushing the film business to embrace a digital future.
He played key roles in overhauling Disney's approach to creating its animated hits and altering the way those movies are projected on the big screen.
Lambert was a senior executive at Disney until 2010, with a portfolio of projects ranging from movies to television to e-commerce and gaming. In his final post, he was the senior technology executive in charge of strategic planning, intellectual property, patent strategy, standards and regulatory issues and talent recruitment.
Lambert was also a founder and chairman of DCI, LLC, the six-studio consortium that helped push movie theaters to abandon film projectors in favor of digital exhibition. In that capacity, he helped create a set of uniform standards for digital projection.
While working for Disney Feature Animation, Lambert helped develop a way to replace cell animation with CGI production, later tapping Pixar to design the software and help create the digital production system.
Bob Lambert
| CURRENT MOON lunar phases |
