M Is FOR MASHUP - November 13th, 2013
Rock 'N' Mash 'N' Killer Tunes
By DJ Useo
A couple months back I was feeling the urge to mix. I'd been enjoying Robert Plants' "In The Mood", so I cut and looped an instrumental, leaving most of the Plant vocals on the floor. The first acapella ( vocals only ) that struck me as a worthy pairing to the great Plant song was Yes's "Leave It".
I also liked the idea of mixing two tracks that were from the same time period. I'm certain that neither song has ever been mashed before. So for a short time each session over three days I adjusted the mix to make it tighter and glow to the ear.
It was a Thursday when I finished. The next Friday morning I was online chatting with a pal and he mentioned Gerhard Frohmann was putting together a rock-oriented mashup album. I didn't have a clue whom else was doing tracks for the collection, but if this particular online pal was endorsing it, that was good enough for me. I rolled the dice, & sent my new Yes / Plant mix to Herr Frohmann.
Man, was I happy when he accepted my mix. I had no idea how much happier the finished release would please me. "TheMashup.org
( themashup.org/ )
Presents ROCK 'N' MASH"
( http://www.themashup.org/portal/themashup-org-present-rock-n-mash/ ) was released a couple weeks before Halloween, and with all my planned Halloween BARTCOP E articles, I didn't get to writing about it till now. That just made me love the release more, as by now I am so much more acquainted with the full collection. When it appeared for download, I was stunned at the other mixers on the record. It was the biggest, best mashers in the world. In addition it was a GREAT collection of inspired mixes chock full of skilled production.
Sometimes lately, after ten years of mashing and bootlegging, I've felt like moving on to other endeavors. It happens to nearly everyone, and to many long before ten years have passed. I looked at the final playlist for "TheMashup.org Presents ROCK 'N' MASH", and felt well-pleased. Over the next few days, as I played the release more and more, I just kept getting more of a kick out of it. I always get to be on records with beloved, talented folk, so that wasn't really new, but to be included among the BIGGIES had me reassessing my own mixing abilities. I must be better at this than I realize, I found myself thinking.
So that's the framework within which I present this super assortment of rock tribute mashups.
Check out the full playlist
( www.themashup.org/portal/themashup-org-present-rock-n-mash/ ) and see the names that have people satisfied all around the world. There's mixes from Fabulous Beatmashers, DJ's From Mars, DJ Schmolli, Jimmy Klok, Mashup-Germany, Loo and Placido, and so very many others who rule with their mixes. Listen for the strangely familiar as they revise your past rock faves like AC/DC, Billy Idol, Motorhead, Nirvana, Queen, and others against the modern sounds that provide great genre clash.
Gerhard Frohmann over at TheMashup.org has other past collections available as well, plus more like "TheMashup.org Presents ROCK 'N' MASH"
( www.themashup.org/portal/themashup-org-present-rock-n-mash/planned ) . I hope to be a part of each release. I find the levels achieved from being on a great album very inspiring. I'm well over feeling like quitting mashups now. Thanks, Gerhard!
The main lesson I learned out of this matter was to ALWAYS LISTEN TO ROBERT PLANT! ;)
BTW: Here's the page to hear my YES/ Plant mix.
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/yes-vs-robert-plant )
Podcast Of The Week
"DJ Useo MASHUPS BY THE NUMBERS Podcast November 2013" is my monthly podcast of killer mashups. This episode features mashups from past and present mixers like Soundhog, Fettdog, Miss Frenchie, and a great lost ten minute show closer from Osymyso. All great classic tracks you'll love hearing. Only a few of which are actually still available as single tracks. Join the growing audience of
DJ Useo podcast listeners here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/11/mashups-by-numbers-podcast.html )
Mashup Tip
Mashup Tip - Don't mash on Pikes' Peak. The Yetis hate the noise!
Latest Useo Thing
'Run For Your Moonage Daydream' (
David Bowie vs Beatles vs Jimi Hendrix ) Listen as Bowie sings over the Beatles while Hendrix loops swirl in and out.
Stream or
d/l from this link
( hearthis.at/vXMfxz7w/run-for-your-moonage-daydream-david-bowie-vs-beatles-vs-jimi-hendrix/ )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/11/bowie-vs-beatles-vs-jimi-hendrix.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Popular Korean masher TaTa will provoke his nations ire by refusing to mash the new Psy single.
Recommended Reading
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Jeff Sparrow: What's the point of literary magazines? (Guardian)
It's true that many cannot survive from sales - but this argument can be made about all art. Meanwhile, a growing enthusiasm for creative writing presents a tremendous opportunity for publishers.
Deborah Orr: Russell Brand might be better off actually trying to help the dispossessed (Guardian)
It's nice to see celebrities such as Brand and Robert Webb engaged in political debate, but few in showbusiness could even begin to handle the level of contempt that politicians face.
Helen Pidd: War veteran Harold Percival mourned by strangers after online appeal (Guardians)
Hundreds gather in Lytham, Lancashire for cremation of Harold Jellicoe Percival, who died in nursing home, aged 99.
Annie Baker: Life in Black and White (Slate)
Frances Ha, America's best French New Wave film.
Muireann Carey-Campbell: Jennifer Lawrence is striking a blow for healthy, sweaty women (Guardian)
Shock, horror - a female film star says she wants to be 'fit and strong'. But the more women she gets into the gym the better.
Hadley Freeman: Why feminism doesn't need a makeover (Guardian)
There is a growing clamour for feminism to be rebranded. Clearly, it's a word that a lot of people just don't understand.
Liz Stinson: A Genius of Book Design Creates a Tome With No Ink (Wired)
It's not an exaggeration to say that Irma Boom has designed some of the coolest books ever put on a bookshelf. Throughout her career, the Amsterdam-based designer has made more than 250 volumes, and a staggering 20 percent have found a home in a permanent collection at MoMA. They really are works of art, though Boom herself is vehemently against calling them so. "I do not consider and approach my work as art. I do push the boundaries of bookmaking, but it is never art," she says.
J.F. Sargent, William Bonnie: 7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless (Cracked)
#7. It Doesn't Take Much to Wind Up Homeless
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Marine layer never burned off, so not so much sun.
Finally Collecting French Award
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan will on Wednesday finally collect a French award he was almost denied because of his pot-smoking and protesting past, officials confirmed on Tuesday.
Dylan, 72, will emulate Paul McCartney as one of only a handful of foreigners to receive the Legion d'Honneur.
He was nominated for the award by avowed Dylan fan Aurelie Filippetti, France's minister of culture.
The nomination was blocked temporarily earlier this year after army general Jean-Louis Georgelin, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion, voiced reservations about Dylan's use of cannabis and anti-war politics.
Georgelin finally agreed to grant the award after a review of the "chaotic life and lyrics of an exceptional artist who is recognised in his own country and throughout the world as a major singer and a great poet".
Bob Dylan
Guesting On 'American Horror Story: Coven'
Stevie Nicks
Lily Rabe's Stevie Nicks-obsessed character on "American Horror Story: Coven" is in for a treat.
The singer will guest star on an upcoming episode of the FX series.
This is the third season of "American Horror Story," which focuses on witches. Season one centred on a haunted house, while season two followed an insane asylum.
The show, which airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern, has already been picked up for a fourth installment to air in 2014.
Stevie Nicks
Sold For $31.5 Million
"The Orange"
A spectacular and rare orange diamond, the largest known gem of its kind, was on Tuesday auctioned off for a record $31.5 million in Geneva.
The price excluded another $4.04 million in taxes and commission.
The deep orange gemstone, which was found in South Africa, weighs a whopping 14.82 carats. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has handed it the top rating for coloured diamonds: "fancy vivid".
Pure orange diamonds, also known as "fire diamonds", are extremely uncommon and very few have been auctioned, with the largest never more than six carats.
Christie's had estimated "The Orange" would rake in $17 million to $20 million.
"The Orange"
Pays Mothers To Breastfeed
Britain
New mothers in two areas of Britain are to be paid to breastfeed their babies, it was announced Tuesday, under a trial scheme aimed at boosting the practice in poor areas where it is "stigmatised".
Mums in Derbyshire, central England, and its neighbour South Yorkshire, will be offered shopping vouchers worth £120 ($200, 140 euros) if they breastfeed for the first six weeks, rising to £200 if they continue for six months.
Some 130 women from deprived areas will take part in the pilot scheme, which aims to establish whether financial incentives can boost a practice believed to bring significant health benefits to newborn babies.
"The UK has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world and breastfeeding rates vary very widely across different parts of the country," said Clare Relton of Sheffield University, which is running the pilot in collaboration with the government.
"Babies who are breastfed have fewer health problems such as upset tummies and chest infections, and are less likely to develop diabetes and obesity when they are older."
Britain
Activists Arrive In St. Petersburg
Greenpeace
The 30 people arrested following a Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil rig were transferred to St. Petersburg on Tuesday, Greenpeace International and Russian transport officials said.
A sealed wagon attached to a passenger train transported the group from the northern city of Murmansk to St. Petersburg's Ladozhsky Station, the officials said.
While Russia has not given an official reason for the transfer, it comes after widespread international protests over the arrest of the 28 crew members, and a Russian photographer and a British videographer who were working for Greenpeace.
St. Petersburg is a more accessible destination for the activists' lawyers and family members than Murmansk, a far-flung city north of the Arctic Circle that gets little light during its long winter.
Greenpeace
Bodyguard Acquitted
Patti LaBelle
Singer Patti LaBelle's bodyguard has been acquitted misdemeanour assault in a confrontation with a drunken West Point cadet at a Houston airport terminal.
A Harris County jury returned its verdict Monday clearing Efrem Holmes in the 2011 confrontation with Richard King at a Bush Intercontinental Airport terminal.
According to trial evidence, King had a blood-alcohol level almost 3 1/2 times above the Texas legal threshold for intoxication and didn't remember what happened the day of the incident. According to testimony and surveillance video, King approached a limousine containing LaBelle and verbally abused the performer when her son tried to block his way. King punched him, and Holmes sprang up and punched King several times.
King filed a lawsuit against the singer and Holmes. LaBelle countersued.
Patti LaBelle
Millions Spent To Keep Junk Food Covered
SNAP
In South Texas, not far from the Rio Grande, the area known as Little Mexico could easily be mistaken for an impoverished village on the south side of the border. Eli Saslow of the Washington Post describes the slapdash homes, chickens wandering through the streets, a mule munching on trash in the middle of an intersection.
Except, as the immigrant parents of Blanca, a diabetic single mother of two who relies on food stamps, told their daughter about the border, "On one side you're skinny. On the other you're fat."
In his long, impressive story, with its flashy "Snow Fall"-like design, Saslow looks at the problem inherent in modern poverty: Hunger no longer means being skinny for lack of food. Rather, it means subsisting on junk-and suffering from obesity and other diet-related diseases as a result of the new diet of austerity.
The narrative of Blanca and her family, is heart-wrenching. Mother, for example, shares her cholesterol medication with son Antonio, just nine years old. But it's one of the wonkier paragraphs in the story that caught our eye. It comes just after Terry Canales, a Texas state representative, presents a bill that would block SNAP recipients from buying energy drinks with their benefits.
Then he yielded the microphone and waited for rebuttals. The first critic was one he had anticipated, a lobbyist for the Texas Beverage Association, which desperately wanted all of its drinks available for sale to the fastest-growing market in America: the food-stamp market, which has quadrupled from $20 billion to $80 billion in the past 12 years. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Kraft and Mars have spent more than $10 million in the past several years lobbying Congress to keep their products available to those using food stamps. "No clear standards exist for defining foods as good or bad," the lobbyist said.
SNAP
German Website Down
Art Trove
A website featuring artworks from among a massive trove discovered in a Munich apartment crashed Tuesday because of heavy traffic, officials said, as a handful of potential heirs came forward to claim art possibly looted by the Nazis.
Authorities posted 25 paintings from the more than 1,400 paintings, drawings and other works discovered in the apartment of 80-year-old Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a dealer who worked with the Nazis. But the website - www.lostart.de - was overwhelmed by interest, according to Sabine Kramer from the government-run Lost Art Internet Database.
"There are simply too many people who want to look at the pictures and that's why we're facing technical problems," Kramer said.
Officials had initially released few details about what was found in Gurlitt's apartment in part of an ongoing tax investigation, but the haul was known to have included works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and others. Bowing to demands to release more information, the government said Monday it believes about 590 of the more than 1,400 artworks may have been stolen by the Nazis.
Art Trove
Worst Arab State For Women
Egypt
Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday.
Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking also contributed to Egypt's place at the bottom of a ranking of 22 Arab states, the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey found.
Despite hopes that women would be one of the prime beneficiaries of the Arab Spring, they have instead been some of the biggest losers, as the revolts have brought conflict, instability, displacement and a rise in Islamist groups in many parts of the region, experts said.
"We removed the Mubarak from our presidential palace but we still have to remove the Mubarak who lives in our minds and in our bedrooms," Egyptian columnist Mona Eltahawy said, referring to Egypt's toppled dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
"As the miserable poll results show, we women need a double revolution, one against the various dictators who've ruined our countries and the other against a toxic mix of culture and religion that ruin our lives as women."
Egypt
Dutch Self-Image Shaken
"Black Pete"
The Dutch see themselves as tolerant pragmatists, especially adaptable if social harmony or commercial interests demand it.
But that self-image has taken a battering in recent weeks as a growing chorus of voices inside and outside the country protest against a Christmas tradition that many Dutch see as harmless fun but critics say is racist.
According to the folklore, Saint Nicholas arrives in the Netherlands in mid-November accompanied by his servant Black Pete - a part usually played by a white man in "blackface" with a curly wig and large, red-painted mouth.
Now the Dutch are being forced to confront the possibility that their enormously popular Christmas tradition might point to a latent racism which many thought was anathema to their culture.
Few debates have stirred such emotion among the cool-headed Dutch. Millions flocked to "like" a Facebook page backing Black Pete after an independent expert who reports to the U.N. Human Rights Council criticized the tradition.
"Black Pete"
Pending Magnetic Flip
Sun
The Sun's magnetic field will soon make a dramatic flip, which it does every 10 to 13 years, and scientists are keeping a close eye to see if that reverses the bizarre behaviour they've been seeing for the past decade.
Last week, the sun unleashed the biggest solar flare of the year, an X3.3 flare, which was followed with an only slightly less intense X1 flare from a Jupiter-sized sunspot. X-class flares are the most powerful class of solar flares, and in late October the sun fired off four in the space of a week.
All indications suggest the sun is ramping up to the midpoint of its solar cycle - which is the peak moment at which it is expected to reverse its magnetic field.
The sun has been behaving particularly strangely since the last time its magnetic field flipped in 2003.
Sun
Surprise For White Supremacist
Leith, North Dakota
A virulent white supremacist who tried to turn a sleepy North Dakota town into a neo-Nazi community has discovered, on live television, that he is part black.
Craig Cobb might have to throw himself out of town if the racist American maintains his hatred of blacks after a DNA test that showed he was of 14 per cent Sub-Saharan African heritage, according to a clip from the Trisha Goddard Show.
The results were revealed during taping of an episode scheduled to air on Nov. 18, but the clip has appeared in a MailOnline video - showing Cobb looking unimpressed as the audience bursts into laughter.
Cobb later told the Bismarck Tribune he doesn't believe the results and he's planning to take other tests in an attempt to prove he's all white.
Leith, North Dakota
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 4-11. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Dallas at New Orleans, NBC, 21.09 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 19.18 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.89 million.
4. "CMA Awards," ABC, 16.76 million.
5. NFL Football: Chicago at Green Bay, ESPN, 16.1 million.
6. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 15.87 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.26 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.76 million.
9. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.72 million.
10. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 12.2 million.
11. College Football: LSU at Alabama, CBS, 11.9 million.
12. "Person of Interest," CBS, 11.79 million.
13. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.75 million.
14. "Football Night in America," NBC, 11.61 million.
15. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.3 million.
16. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.97 million.
17. "Castle," ABC, 10.87 million.
18. "The Millers," CBS, 10.38 million.
19. "The Blacklist," NBC, 10.34 million.
20. "The Good Wife," CBS, 10.26 million.
Ratings
In Memory
John Tavener
John Tavener, one of Britain's most celebrated composers whose music was played at the funeral of Princess Diana, died at his home in southwest England on Tuesday at the age of 69, his publisher said.
He was one of the few modern composers to gain a following among non-classical audiences, with many people attracted to his mysticism and spirituality.
Tavener studied at the Royal Academy of Music and spent five decades composing. He first came to attention in 1968 for his cantata "The Whale", which was later recorded on the Beatles' Apple label.
He was best known for the classical chart-topper "The Protecting Veil" and for his "Song for Athene" that was played at Diana's funeral in 1997. His 2003 work "The Veil of the Temple" lasts seven hours.
Much of his work was inspired by his spirituality after joining the Russian Orthodox Church.
A striking, gaunt man who stood 6-foot-six-inches with shoulder-length hair, Tavener expressed regret in later life for having been photographed wearing monk's robes with religious icons and candles in the background.
Plagued by poor health for much of his life, Tavener suffered a stroke in his mid-30s and in 1990 was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome, a genetic condition that can cause heart defects. He had a major heart attack in 2007.
Tavener was knighted in 2000 for services to music.
He is survived by his wife and three children.
John Tavener
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