M Is FOR MASHUP - September 26th, 2012 (The Year of the Mashup Album)
Mashups Remember The Sixties!
By DJ Useo
Listen & I'll tell of a lost mashup collection now found again! Earlier this year, I'd discussed with a few other dj's the idea of putting together a collection of tracks featuring songs from the 1960's. Then I 'falled' down, got hurt bad, & the project went into limbo. I eventually got better, but with all the meds & pain, & passage of time, the project slipped my mind. Recently someone contacted me on Facebook asking where they could find the album. I didn't even know what he was referring to. After pondering the situation for a bit, I remembered the 60's comp. Despite all the selected tracks being on my mac that's in the shop, It was incredibly easy to hook up with other bootleggers over Facebook & put together one stunning collection.
Funkorelic is owed a big thanks for getting me to finish the album. He even managed to get a track included at literally the last minute. You'll sure feel the benefit when you hear his track 'Can't Buy Too Many Fish' (Marvelettes vs The Beatles) . The rest of the album is one winner after another all the way through. 'The Institute Of Bootleggers-Classic Sixties Mashups Volume 17'
( ) contains seventeen of the best mashups you'll ever hear, let alone sixties mashups. The source artists employed range from Peter, Paul, & Mary to The Rolling Stones to Jefferson Airplane & many more. The new artists grafted onto the oldies include The Smiths, Pitbull, Katy Perry, The Pixies, & enough others to boggle your mind.
If you're familiar at all with mashups, you'll recognize most of the bootleggers featured. If you don't, here's your chance to discover incredible talent like Party Ben, DJ Lobsterdust, Soundhog, DJ Schmolli & 13 others of vast ability. Do a quick search on any of the contributors to unveil a wealth of mashup treasures. Now don't think for a minute that just because these tracks use 60's tunes, they'll sound dated. Take Soundhog's mix, for instance. It has Led Zeppelin singing 'Ramble On' atop of Traffic's 'John Barleycorn Must Die'. Both original songs are among the best human-released music, yet this combo raise the stakes making this track clearly one of the best mashups that humans have created.
I had a preview party for the album, & literally everyone who heard it stated that it ended too soon. I just now played it again while I was writing, & I felt the same way. One disc is just not enough for one sitting. Here's a
link to preview my track '
I Dig Psycho Mantis Rock & Roll Music' (Peter, Paul, & Mary vs Matteo Poker)
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/peter-paul-mary-vs-matteo )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/peter-paul-mary-vs-matteo-poker.html ) Judging from the initial response, I expect the next volume to appear sooner rather than later. So, counting the SoundUnsound 70s album, the two volumes of 80's mashups & now this 60's collection, we've got much of the best music available mashed & ready for listening. As if that isn't enough, I can confirm there's an album being collected of all-new 1930's (!) mashups. This should be big news especially for those of you who thought music was invented in 2001. Lol. Tell your friends about this 60s album. They'll like you even more than before!
Mix Of The Week
Funkorelic has more than just the sixties track for you. He's done up an incredible The The mix called '
The The - Pornography Of Despair (43.26)'. Whether you know the music of the band THE THE or not, you'll enjoy this set. It's ten of their wonderful tracks thoroughly remixed into one seamless work.
Listen or download here
( soundcloud.com/funkorelic-mick-satan-fm/10-track-album-the-the )
Mashup Tip
Practice mixing without listening a few times. When you get back to listening while you mix, you'll most likely find you've improved.
Latest Useo Thing
I went to see Midnight Oil in concert once. There was a lo-o-ong delay in them appearing, so the audience was left with only House Of Freaks to keep us from tearing the place apart. Despite being only a drummer & a guitar-player, House OF Freaks soon had the entire audience in the palm of their hand. The band no longer exists, but I still love 'em, so I took one of my fave tracks of theirs & created '
Broken Bones Pulse (House Of Freaks vs Dubsection)' . It's largely Folk vs Dubstep. The song is a deeply touching one, so prepare yourself for a bittersweet experience.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/broken-bones-pulse-house-of-freaks-vs.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You'll spark up a jay for the first time in years after hearing the sixties album mentioned above.
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SAHIL KAPUR: Bill Clinton Goes After Mitt Romney's 47 Percent Claim (Talking Points Memo)
"First, they do pay taxes - they pay Social Security taxes, they pay Medicare taxes, they pay state and local taxes," he said. "Second, they are out of the income tax pool for two reasons: one is the economic crash, which lowered a lot of peoples' incomes. … Now the second reason is interesting, it's a bipartisan reason in the past: it's because of the combined impacts of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit."
Meghan Daum: Romney's Sorry State (LA Times)
Once upon a time, children were taught to apologize for breaking the neighbor's window because honesty and genuine regret reflected strength of character. Today, political leaders demand apologies from their opponents because it's a sure way to make them look weak of character.
Letters: Mitt Romney, meet the 47% (LA Times)
"I am one of those voters who strongly supports President Obama. I now understand what Mitt Romney thinks of me. Because my income is significantly less than $200,000, I am not part of the middle class. The taxes I pay at a 28% rate are so inconsequential as to not count at all."-- Barbara Motz
Matt Miller: U.S. Needs Strike Over Inequities in Public Schools (Bloomberg View)
The reforms that Chicago just negotiated may help improve schools incrementally over the next decade or two. But the strike that Chicago and the nation needs is to demand school- funding equity-it is the only way to alter the life chances of today's poor kids while they are still in the classroom.
The girl with the 'zebra leg' wows Hog country (Sports.Yahoo)
When she was six months old, Patience Beard was diagnosed with Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD), a disease that affects bone growth. Put simply, her left leg would always be shorter than her right. And over the course of years, that would create all kinds of structural problems. So when she was nine months old, Beard's parents allowed doctors to amputate their daughter's left foot and ankle. She would be able to walk, but not without a prosthetic.
Lucy Mangan: what makes us think we're entitled to our pound of Kate Middleton's flesh? (Guardian)
The monarchy is absurd, but so are we for not giving Kate Middleton more support in her hour of need.
Gerrick D. Kennedy: Pink says singing 'The Truth About Love' is 'medicine' for her (Los Angeles Times)
"I've always had something to prove in America," says Pink, 33, curled up barefoot on a couch in her suite at Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach. "The Grammys ... that was my moment. I waited my whole life for that. That was my 'A-ha.'"
Mary Schmich: Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young (Chicago Tribune)
Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who'd rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there's no reason we can't entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Graduates.
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The GOP candidate gets dangerously frank with CBS' Scott Pelley.
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Fox News 93% Wrong, Report Finds
Climate Coverage
Primetime coverage of global warming at Fox News is overwhelmingly misleading, according to a new report that finds the same is true of climate change information in the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages.
Both outlets are owned by Rupert Murdoch's media company News Corporation. The analysis by the science-policy nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that 93 percent of primetime program discussions of global warming on Fox News are inaccurate, as are 81 percent of Wall Street Journal editorials on the subject.
"It's like they were writing and talking about some sort of bizarre world where climate change isn't happening," study author Aaron Huertas, a press secretary at UCS, told LiveScience.
The report, available online, focused on Fox News and the Journal because of both anecdotal and academic reports suggesting high levels of misleading climate chatter in each. UCS researchers combed through six months of Fox News primetime programs (from February 2012 to July 2012) and one year of Wall Street Journal op-eds (from August 2011 to July 2012), for discussions of global warming.
The researchers found that Fox News and the Journal were consistently dismissive of the established scientific consensus that climate change is happening
Climate Coverage
Promo Package Sparks Bomb Scare
CBS Radio
What do an ayem bomb scare and a p.m. yakker have in common? Staffers at three CBS-owned radio stations in Los Angeles found out after they were evacuated briefly from their Wilshire Boulevard offices Tuesday morning when a mailroom employee discovered a suspicious package -- which turned out to be a promotional item from cable network BET.
"Welcome to the zoo," radio reporter Pete Demetriou told Variety as he stood among fellow evacuated employees on the corner of Wilshire and Masselin Avenue. Staffers gathered on the sidewalk, phoning friends and colleagues while the area around the building was taped off by police.
After the entire 27-floor building in the 5600 block of Wilshire was evacuated, bomb squad experts were called in around 10 a.m. PT. The Eye's all-news radio station KNX-AM began simulcasting the feed of San Francisco's KCBS-AM news station because all KNX staffers were ordered out of the building.
The beeping package turned out to be an alarm clock that was included as part of a promotional package from BET's upcoming late night talk show, "Don't Sleep!" with T.J. Holmes. While the package turned out to be harmless, you nevertheless "follow protocol" and "your adrenaline goes into overdrive," Demetriou said.
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Renewals
USA
Fear not, Matt Bomer fans; "White Collar" will be returning for another season.
"White Collar," along with "Royal Pains" and "Covert Affairs," have renewed by USA Network, the network said Monday.
"White Collar," which stars Bomer and Tim DeKay as a con artist and FBI agent who team up to fight white-collar crime, has been given a 16-episode order for a fifth season, which will begin filming next year.
"Royal Pains," meanwhile, has been granted a 26-episode pickup across two seasons, with its sixth season due to begin filming in New York next year. The series, which stars Mark Feuerstein as a disgraced New York physician who reinvents himself as an in-demand doctor to the rich in the Hamptons, also will air a two-hour movie, "Off-Season Greetings," which will explore the backstory of the main characters, on December 16.
"Covert Affairs," which stars Piper Perabo as a linguistically gifted CIA operative, has been picked up for a 16-episode fourth season. The show returns to the air October 16 with six new episodes.
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NBC Renews For Two More Seasons
"The Voice"
NBC said on Tuesday it had ordered two more seasons of its hit TV singing contest "The Voice" for the spring and fall of 2013.
"This pickup will assure the many dedicated 'Voice' fans that this innovative show will continue to bring some of the most talented new voices to the world's attention through all of next year," NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement.
"The Voice", which debuted as a spring show in 2011, moved to a twice a year cycle earlier this month, where it is watched by more than 12 million Americans and has drawn bigger audiences than Fox television's revamped "The X Factor."
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Look For Voter Fraud, Find Little
Republicans
Republican election officials who promised to root out voter fraud so far are finding little evidence of a widespread problem.
State officials in key presidential battleground states have found only a tiny fraction of the illegal voters they initially suspected existed. Searches in Colorado and Florida have yielded numbers that amount to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all registered voters in either state.
Democrats say the searches waste time and, worse, could disenfranchise eligible voters who are swept up in the checks.
Especially telling, critics of the searches say, is that the efforts are focused on crucial swing states from Colorado to Florida, where both political parties and the presidential campaigns are watching every vote. And in Colorado, most of those who received letters are either Democrats or unaffiliated with a party. It's a similar story in Florida, too.
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Would Let NJ Towns Regulate Reality TV
"Snookiville" Law
A bill introduced on Monday would give towns where reality TV shows are being filmed more control over The Situation. (Not to mention Snooki and JWoww, too.)
State Assemblyman Ronald Dancer, an Ocean County Republican, introduced the legislation for the "Snookiville" Law, which would let towns license and regulate the filming of reality television showsand impose conditions including requiring TV crews to pay for additional police officers needed to assure public safety.
Dancer said in a statement that New Jersey has a tradition of being a desirable setting for reality shows such as The Situation, Snooki and JWoww's "Jersey Shore," ''The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and "Cake Boss."
Dancer named the law after Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the most famous cast member of MTV's "Jersey Shore," which recently ended its three-year run in Seaside Heights, 20 miles east of Dancer's district.
"Snookiville" Law
Texas Judge Orders DNA Tests
Sherman Hemsley
A Texas judge has ordered DNA testing on a man who claims to be the brother of the late "The Jeffersons" star Sherman Hemsley.
Richard Thornton is challenging the validity of Hemsley's will, which names the actor's longtime manager, Flora Enchinton of El Paso, as sole beneficiary. Hemsley died of lung cancer July 24.
Judge Patricia Chew on Monday rescheduled the El Paso trial on Hemsley's estate to begin Oct. 31.
Thornton, of Philadelphia, sought the DNA testing and must provide results by Oct. 15. Hemsley was born in Philadelphia but had lived in El Paso for the past 20 years.
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CMT Reality Show
Duane 'Dog' Chapman
Duane "Dog" Chapman (R-Tancredo) and his Mullet of Golden Wonder are returning to your TV set.
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" star Chapman and his wife, Beth, will star in a new reality series for CMT, the network said Tuesday.
Where "Dog the Bounty Hunter," which was canceled by A&E in May after eight seasons, focused on the Chapmans' own bail-bonds business, the new series will follow the Chapmans as they "journey into the American heartland to help fellow bail bondsmen and bounty hunters struggling with their business of catching fugitives on the lam," according to CMT.
The show, which has been greenlit for 10 one-hour episodes, begins production early next year for a spring/summer premiere. The Chapmans will also serve as executive producers on the series, which comes via Ben Silverman's studio Electus.
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Auction Fetches $8.7M
Brooke Astor
The first day of an auction of the contents of philanthropist Brooke Astor's two homes brought in $8.7 million, Sotheby's said.
Sotheby's is offering the contents of both homes, 901 objects in all, including European and Asian furnishings, Old Masters, Qing Dynasty paintings, tea sets, silverware, jewelry, a porcelain menagerie, over 100 dog paintings - and even the uniforms of her domestic staff.
Proceeds will go to institutions and charities, including the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, under a settlement negotiated by the state Attorney General's office.
The collection had expected to fetch just $6 million to $9 million.
Brooke Astor
Collection Donated To University of South Carolina
Ernest Hemingway
A love of Ernest Hemingway's writing and the thrill of tracking down his many works led a Mississippi physician to amass a huge literary collection and donate it to the University of South Carolina so students and scholars could share it, the doctor said Tuesday.
"It's like an Easter egg hunt. You just don't know what's going to pop up," Edgar Grissom said as he described his 50-year effort to compile all of Hemingway's English-language publications.
"I have the most complete collection of his primary works in existence," said Grissom. "There's no equal to it."
The 70-year-old Grissom was joined by his wife Julie, 46, at a special showing of the collection in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collection Library on USC's Columbia campus. Dozens of books in their original dust jackets, along with pamphlets, magazines, proofs and papers are on display in glass-covered cases.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Sept. 17-23. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: New England at Baltimore, NBC, 21.27 million.
2. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.67 million.
3. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 13.6 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 13.57 million.
5. "Primetime Emmy Awards," ABC, 13.26 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.64 million.
7. "Revolution," NBC, 11.65 million.
8. "Survivor: Philippines," CBS, 11.37 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 10.25 million.
10. "The X-Factor" (Thursday), Fox, 10.15 million.
11. "The X-Factor" (Wednesday), Fox, 9.54 million.
12. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), CBS, 9.32 million.
13. "Go On," NBC, 9.28 million.
14. "Football Night in America," NBC, 8.7 million.
15. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.09 million.
16. "Bones," Fox, 7.98 million.
17. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 7.91 million.
18. "20/20," ABC, 7.48 million.
19. "Glee," Fox, 7.46 million.
20. "Two and a Half Men" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 7.41 million.
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