M Is FOR MASHUP - September 16th, 2009
September 2009 Mashup Albums
By DJ Useo
Lucky lucky lucky we, luck has hit us again. Mashups are unlicensed & thus can't be charged for unless the license holder chooses, so none of the following mashup albums come with a fee. You can sample the mixing wares of these home producers for the low, low price of a right-click. Just transfer the mp3 files to your nearest cd burning program, print the artwork out for your blank cd case, & no-one will know you didn't fork out serious cash for these babies. Unless they know some of the tunes the mixers used,then you're going to get some mighty puzzled looks. lol
The first mashup album we cast out gaze upon is
FLYING WHITE DOTS (
www.flyingwhitedots.com ) "CMYK".
A quality gem of a release, it's his 4th album & shows clearly why FWD should be releasing these records for a label. "CMYK" is solid mixing ideas done up with precision & care in a record that reminds you to play it again through it's compelling melodies & rhythms. It's full of artists you'll recognize, all given a bootleg twist into unfamiliarity. There's rock, pop, & r 'n b artists you'll know here, but Flying White Dots doesn't mention them, so I won't either. Take my word for it, tho, you'll enjoy the heck out of this collection. FWD's doesn't post too many single tracks, he generally works in the almost-forgotten album-format.
See why for yourself
here - (
www.flyingwhitedots.com/pages/CMYK.html )
Next we come to a type of mashup collection you don't see too often. The b-sides collection. Many home producers leave unreleased tracks in their wake as they seek the perfect single. Normally, they bin them so their 'lesser' tracks don't make their way to the public, but sometimes the b-sides are a-tracks, just not the 'a+'-tracks the mixer is seeking. I recall a few months ago when mashup pirate Alpha1999 left the scene he posted a 2-disc set of all his best tracks. Then as an extra bonus he added a 3rd disc of unreleased tracks that was full of keepers. It just doesn't happen that way too often. So when the mixer who releases the b-sides collection is
Kai (
www.theomarlow.com/kai.html ) you can be assured of some fine bootleg entertainment. The record is called "Recycle Your Recycled" & is 19 tracks of intriguing pairings.
Here's what Kai himself says of the record -
"A selection of 19 B-sides or unused tracks that didn't quite fit in anywhere else; Misfits, if you will. But don't let that put you off. "RYR" has a little something for everyone through the varying mashed genres that bleed through. The disimilar likes of Bob Marley, The Cure, Genesis, Billy Joel, Gossip, Billy Idol, Crazy Town, Pop Will Eat Itself, Propellerheads and many, many more including the all-too-traditional blends of sampled-materials and sound bites, are all at play." Kai sez of the record "For a few of the following tracks, it may be obvious to some why it's been labeled a B-side or unused. There are some ambitious, some risque tracks...but personally I'm happy with all of it really!"
Get yours here - ( www.theomarlow.com/kai_recyclealbum.html ).
Next we hit upon a mixer who is less known but sure to be remembered by listeners of DJ Newlights' ( djnewlight.blogspot.com ) 'TOUR TRACKS'.
Released in conjunction with THE INSTITUTE OF BOOTLEGGERS, DJ Newlight crafted this hot set while touring around this last summer doing live shows. In between sweating it out to his live sets, & riding around in a crowded tour bus, DJ Newlight managed to come up with 14 dance-oriented mashups that will have you hoofing it on the dancefloor.
Listen for newer artists like Benny Benassi, Daft Punk, & Moby put to older artists like The Cars, Inspiral Carpets & The Sweet. Some of these tracks are so slick you'll be hard-pressed to identify them as mashups. I have a big fave in the track 'Popiholla Catch' (Kosheen vs Chicane) . I'm really into that Chicane track & this version adds words in a way that really sends me.
See for yourself here - ( djnewlight.blogspot.com/2009/09/tour-tracks-new-full-album.html ).
One last record worth mentioning is Simon Iddol's 'MAXIMUM BURNOUT'. This album is a cross between a regular mashup release & a long mix collection. The progression through material is great & yields maximum pleasure. I don't know where the burnout comes in, unless that's you. lol. Just check out this list of part 3 & you'll see why you want to hear this set.
part three » DEEP
01 Simon Iddol - sargasso sleep
(Morcheeba VS Salt Tank)
02 Simon Iddol - blue home
(Morcheeba VS Dziha & Kamien)
03 Simon Iddol - even if easy
(Morcheeba VS Deep & Wide)
04 Simon Iddol - au day
(Morcheeba VS Mark de Clive-Lowe & DJ Spinna remix)
05 Simon Iddol - riverbeat
(Morcheeba VS Quiet Village)
Simon is the man behind AUDIOPORNCENTRAL (audioporncentral.com/ ) & knows him way back & forth around a mashup.
Simon Iddol's 'MAXIMUM BURNOUT' is available as a direct download, a torrent, or dealio at simoniddol.com/post/187159476/maximum-burnout
Mix of the Week - What with all these swell mashup albums, we don't need a mix of the week this week.
So I'll just say 'potrzebie' till next week. Week.
Mashup Tip : Don't bother to mash songs, someone else already did it for you.
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Stephen Mihm: Why capitalism fails (boston.com)
The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again.
Scott Burns: The Involuntary (But Happy) Investor Tax Holiday (assetbuilder.com)
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Alex Blum: Broken healthcare and broken lives (latimes.com)
A 12-year-old boy suffering from a stroke makes a compelling case for change, says one pediatrician.
George McGovern: It's Simple: Medicare for All (washingtonpost.com)
"We know that Medicare has worked well for half a century for those of us over 65. Why does it become 'socialized medicine' when we extend it to younger Americans?"
Charlie Brooker: What links Lord Mandelson, Damien Hirst and the music industry? (guardian.co.uk)
Damien Hirst's tantrum over intellectual property rights.
Germaine Greer: Women everywhere - please send a picture of your unsupported breasts to Stephen Bayley (guardian.co.uk)
If woman was designed, what exactly was the brief?
20 QUESTIONS: Nick Hornby (popmatters.com)
Nick Hornby tells PopMatters 20 Questions about his affiliation with Seinfeld's George Costanza, his soon-to-be-released album with Ben Folds, and this great bargain he got from a Russian websiteŠ
Willow takes center stage in her own "Buffy" comic (afterellen.com)
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RICHARD ROEPER: 'Whiteout' is a real snow job (suntimes.com)
The first time we see Kate Beckinsale as U.S. marshal Carrie Stetko in "Whiteout," she has just come in from the brutal Antarctica cold and has entered her quarters. She peels off layer after layer after layer of clothing, until she's down to bra and panties, poking her butt in the camera's direction as she turns on the shower. (Even though "Whiteout" is rated R, she takes a PG shower.)
Roger Ebert's Journal: "Antichrist" redux
Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is poised to detonate at the Toronto Film Festival. This willfully controversial director will inspire, as he often does, a storm of controversy, debate, critics clamoring to get into advance screenings that are already jammed, and a contentious press conference.
Roger Ebert's Journal: The man who didn't land
It was two years ago on Saturday night that Jason Reitman's "Juno" had its world premiere here at Toronto. The standing ovation that night was the most spontaneous and joyous I can remember. Still vibrating, Reitman stood on the stage of the Ryerson Theater and vowed, "I'm gonna open all of my films right here in this theater at Toronto."
David Bruce: Wise Up! Plagiarism (athensnews.com)
Corey Ford's writings were widely plagiarized - especially his short humorous piece "How to Guess Your Age." Whenever this happened, Mr. Ford would sue, winning every case. He once said about his lawsuits, "I find this a much easier way to make a living than by writing."
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Helping out The Man' Edition
I think I can safely say that we all support President Obama's efforts to enact an effective, comprehensive Health Care Reform Bill... Right? Right!
Well then, have you contacted your congressional representatives and senators and asked them to support his plan?
If not, here's your opportunity to do just that! Then you can answer yes and become a member of my Badtothebone for Barack club. How cool is that, eh?
Details of the plan are included in the link for your perusal...
Do the right thing, I'm sayin'! Walk the walk!
Send your response to
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Visits Dave On Monday
President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama is visiting David Letterman on Monday, part of a media blitz to sell his health care plan.
CBS says it would make the first visit ever by a sitting president to Letterman's "Late Show." Obama has appeared on Letterman's show five times before, the last during the campaign in September 2008.
Obama will be the sole guest on Monday's "Late Show."
President Barack Obama
Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Award
Betty White
"Golden Girls" star Betty White will receive a lifetime achievement award from the largest U.S. actors union, the group said on Tuesday.
The Screen Actors Guild will honor White, 87, for her career and humanitarian achievements, with a presentation on January 23, 2010, at the televised SAG Awards.
White is best known for playing naive senior citizen Rose on the 1980s television series "Golden Girls". In recent years she had a recurring role on "Boston Legal" and played herself in two episodes of "Ugly Betty."
The actress also has a passion for animal welfare, and is a board member of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association.
Betty White
Honors Announced
National Book Awards
Author, playwright and political commentator Gore Vidal will receive an honorary National Book Award medal this fall for "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters." Vidal, who turns 84 next month, is known for such bestsellers as "Burr" and "Lincoln," and for the play "The Best Man."
Award organizers also announced Tuesday that Dave Eggers, 39, will be presented the "Literarian Award" for community service. Eggers, whose books include "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," helped found 826 Valencia, which works with young people to develop writing skills, and has centres based in San Francisco, New York and several other cities.
The ceremony for the National Book Awards, now in their 60th year, will be held Nov. 18. Author-comedian Andy Borowitz will host.
National Book Awards
Living Legend Award
Iggy Pop
Punk pioneer Iggy Pop will collect a living legend gong at this year's Marshall Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards.
The 62-year-old extrovert, who was the lead singer of The Stooges, will collect the trophy in London on November 2.
The star said: "I feel now that all those years of banging away in the dives and palaces of the weird universe of rock are finally adding up to something. "
The singer, whose hits include Lust For Life, Real Wild Child and The Passenger, will join an esteemed list of previous recipients, including Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page, Alice Cooper and Lemmy.
Iggy Pop
Spring Opening For Theme Park
Harry Potter
Harry Potter fans will soon be able to kick back with a glass of butterbeer after riding the Hippogriff through Hogwarts grounds.
It's not magic but the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a 20-acre (8-hectare) theme park due to open this spring in Florida, Universal Orlando said on Tuesday.
Visitors will be able to sip the non-alcoholic "butterbeer" and "pumpkin juice" at the Hog's Head pub, go shopping and tour a huge replica of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, just like the one where Harry Potter learned his magic.
Other attractions will include the Dragon Challenge, a twin high-speed roller coaster, and the Flight of the Hippogriff, a coaster for families that will roll along the grounds of Hogwarts.
Harry Potter
Oh, Puh-leeze
'TV Standards'
President Barack Obama's candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.
ABC News says it was wrong for its employees to tweet that Obama had called West a "jackass" for the rapper's treatment of country singer Taylor Swift. The network said some of its employees had overheard a conversation between the president and CNBC's John Harwood and didn't realize it was considered off the record.
The network apologized to the White House and CNBC.
Harwood had sat down with the president to tape an interview following his appearance on Wall Street on Monday. Although they are competitors, CNBC and ABC share a fiber optic line to save money, and this enabled some ABC employees to listen in on the interview as it was being taped for later use.
'TV Standards'
Secretive Spending Disclosed
U.S. Intelligence
Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation's top intelligence official disclosed on Tuesday, revealing publicly for the first time an overall number long shrouded in secrecy.
The disclosure by Dennis Blair, President Barack Obama's director of national intelligence, put a spotlight on the sharp growth in intelligence spending as well as on the huge and long obscured role of military intelligence programs, which, based on previous disclosures, would account for roughly $25 billion to $30 billion of the $75 billion total.
In comparison, when total intelligence spending was accidentally published in a congressional document in 1994, it totaled about $26 billion, including $10 billion for military intelligence programs, according to Steven Aftergood, an expert on intelligence spending with the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
In a conference call with reporters, Blair brushed aside as "no longer relevant" what he called the "traditional fault line" separating military programs from overall intelligence spending.
U.S. Intelligence
New Suspect Emerges
Brian Jones
The line for suspected killers of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones forms at the left.
As conspiracy theorists salivate over the British police's recent decision to look into Jones' drowning 40 years ago, the band's former road manager on Monday accused a deceased World War Two veteran of killing the ill-starred virtuoso.
Sam Cutler pointed the finger at Tom Keylock, the band's former chauffeur. Keylock allegedly coaxed a death-bed confession 16 years ago out of his friend Frank Thorogood, a builder who immediately became the pundits' prime suspect.
While there is no hard evidence linking either man to Jones' death in his own swimming pool, Cutler said Keylock acted suspiciously in the ensuing days, removing or destroying items at Jones' house.
Moreover, he disclosed that Keylock was the only suspect in a hitherto-undisclosed private investigation launched by the band's Allen Klein, who had little confidence in the British police.
Brian Jones
Philly DUI
Bobby Rydell
Sixties teen idol Bobby Rydell has been charged with driving under the influence following a minor crash last month outside Philadelphia.
Lower Merion Police Capt. Bill Boegly said Tuesday that Rydell's blood-alcohol level was .17, more than twice the legal driving limit, after the Aug. 17 crash. A summons was mailed to Rydell last week; a court date is set for Nov. 19.
Police said Rydell's 1969 Bentley jumped a curb and struck a wall in Narberth. No one was hurt.
Rydell, 67, has said that he had a couple of cocktails at lunch that day but wasn't impaired.
Bobby Rydell
Popular Footwear
Muntazer al-Zaidi
A black and brown leather lace-up shoe named after the Iraqi journalist who threw his footwear at former US resident George W. Bush has become a top seller in northeastern Bangladesh.
Shoe sellers in the city of Sylhet had named the "Zaidi shoe" in a bid to cash in on the popularity of reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi, who became a folk hero in Bangladesh after hurling his shoes at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last December.
Sales have shot up in the run in to Eid al-Fitr next week, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month Ramadan, when Bangladeshis traditionally shop for new clothing.
"Younger men, especially, are buying the shoes as a mark of their respect to Zaidi," said Faruq Mahmud Chowdhury, a top businessman in Sylhet.
Muntazer al-Zaidi
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