M Is FOR MASHUP - June 22nd, 2011
Eternal Summer Mashups Arrive Today
By DJ Useo
Woot! It's the fifth anniversary of the SUMMER BOOTY mashup compilation I put together every year. It's always been released on the Summer Solstice, June 22nd. Thinking back, I'm amazed how it actually gets done on time. You don't know, of course, but every year there's been big problems that make it tough to get it completed. Not insurmountable problems apparently, as not only does it get released promptly, but it's always such a killer comp! It began when my wife was putting together a mixtape of songs she thought all had that undefined 'eternal summer' feel. Songs like "Mrs Robinson", "Summer in the City", and "Good Vibrations". I knew many but not all of the songs & really got into them. I soon thought what a great theme for a mashup album. So, I took action & started inviting people I thought could manage to mix such mashups.
Maybe it was how I defined the terms of the project, or maybe I just 'charmed' them into it, haha, but sure enough people took to the concept & turned out one great album. If you read
my recent column on it (
suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-060811.index.html ), you'll know that I remastered SUMMER BOOTY 2007 & re-posted it a few weeks ago. It's still available along with all the other SUMMER BOOTY albums
here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
or
here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
DJ Petrushka advised me when I began bootlegging to put the people first & the mixing second & it's always been a successful policy, plus I got to know many incredible individuals. Just think of it - there's this spinning globe in space with folks on it who take established popular music & alter it in most cases to an improved state. On top of how preposterous that sounds, the tracks they release are catered to by an elite, small group of interested fans who long for more. We don't pull in the audience numbers the label artists do, but we could with some promotion, as the traveling mashup shows like BOOTIE & MASHUP YOUR BOOTZ prove.
So with some Summery motivation & the ever-tricky internet email situation to negotiate, we soon arrive at a new fully complete 2-disc set of FINESTKIND Summer mashups. I am humbled to be in the midst of well-known International bootleggers such as DJ Zebra, ToTom, Hi-Brid, Solcofn, Voicedude & so very many more. It really boggles me puzzler sometimes when I get perspective, & realize the actual proceedings. And then the orb continues spinning. I've been on a few very good mashup compilations in my time, but the sheer splendidness of this new one thrills me throughly.
I had an unstated desire for this project to have lots of late sixties Summer tracks used, & so I did mashes with the Doors' 'People Are Strange' & the Small Faces' 'Itchykoo Park. Smack me with a kipper iffen many of the others didn't follow the same muse & did tracks with the Lovin' Spoonful, the Beach Boys, Janis Joplin & Procol Harum. What a coinkydink, eh? In addition you get them mashed with new artists like Pitbul, Beyonce, Bruno Mars & many more. The finished album spans a wide swath of styles from hip hop to pop to techno to rock & even to Hawaiian steel guitar & jazz! I've heard the entire collection inside out & can guarantee you'll find this a worthy musical pursuit. Some of the best mixers like Chocomang, rillenrudi,Rappy, mARKYbOY, The Reborn Identity, Terminus, & so many more are on this sucker. Grab it in 160 kbps or 296 files or even as individual tracks
here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
As you sit by the pool or cruise in your vee-hickle. If you have a great time listening, please raise your glass in a toast to all involved. We're already mixing on the next project!
Mix Of The Week
This week we are blessed with an extra-special mix from a huge talent. Eve Massacre's 'Effing Diva' mix is a must-not-miss affair. It goes through many great tracks from the best, such as Pixelord, Jai Paul, Air & Lykke Li. This is all awesome NEW music like you haven't heard yet, & all is mixed by a highly-skilled deejay with heart. Listen, or
download here
( soundcloud.com/eve-massacre/effing-diva-mix )
Mashup Tip : Always add lots of samples to your tracks. People really like samples.
Latest Useo Thing
I love the entire twelve-minute track "Eine Kleine Nichtmusik" by P.D.Q. Bach.
This is my remix of the Allegro section. In it you can hear musical references to the following 23 authored pieces.---
01 - Anonymous, "Turkey In The Straw"
02 - Liszt, "Piano Concerto No. 1"
03 - Brahms, "Symphony No. 3," 4th Movement
04 - Mozart, "La Ci Darem La Mano" from "Don Giovanni"
05 - Mozart, "Piano Concerto No. 23," 1st Movement
06 - Mozart, "Voi Che Sapete" from "The Marriage Of Figaro"
07 - Anonymous, "Song Of The Volga Boatmen"
08 - Anonymous, "D'ya Ken John Peel? (Do You Know John Peel?)"
09 - Mozart, "Symphony No. 1," 1st Movement
10 - Anonymous, "Mexican Hat Dance"
11 - Mozart, "Voi Che Sapete" from "The Marriage Of Figaro"
12 - Rachmaninoff, "Piano Concerto No. 2," 1st Movement
13 - Sousa, "The Thunderer March"
14 - Beethoven, "Symphony No. 7," 4th Movement
15 - Mozart, "Symphony No. 41 In C (Jupiter)," 4th Movement
16 - Dvorak, "Symphony No. 9 In E Minor (From The New World)"
17 - Dvorak, "Polka In E Major"
18 - Brahms, "Symphony No. 4," 1st Movement
19 - Handel, "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" from "Messiah"
20 - Beethoven, "Symphony No. 5," 4th Movement
21 - Daniel Decatur Emmett, "Dixie"
22 - Shostakovich, "Symphony No. 9," 1st Movement
23 - Tchaikovsky, "March" from "The Nutcracker"
I first started in production recording live bands and symphonies. I sure liked working on this piece. Hope you get a charge from it.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
After DJ Whakkadoo makes a mashup next May using ocarinas vs Burundi drums, everyone else will do it too.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Investing: Keep it simple (Video)
Andrew Tobias gives investment advice for regular people.
Pat Regnier: Know just enough to succeed (CNN Money)
Andrew Tobias, 64, argues that saving more is the smartest, safest investment you'll ever make.
Paul Krugman: Mr. Keynes and the Moderns (Vox)
Keynes' General Theory is 75 years old. In this column, Paul Krugman argues that many of its insights and lessons are still relevant today, but many have been forgotten. A broad swath of macroeconomists and policymakers are applying old fallacies to today's crisis. As the nostrums being applied by the "pain caucus" are visibly failing, Keynesian ideas may yet make a comeback.
Froma Harrop: High-Tech, High-Touch: Back to the Future (Creators Syndicate)
While fetching my digital camera from the repair shop, I noted a bunch of clunky old film cameras and their flashes lining a back table. I thought no one used film anymore. Wrong.
Joe Queenan: A Blog, a Hoax and a Literary Tradition (Wall Street Journal)
There's no such thing as waging a vicarious war against the forces of evil. Either you are out in the streets risking your own life or you are not.
Stanley Fish: Is Voting Speech? (New York Times)
At the first tenure meeting I ever attended, a candidate for promotion was approved by a single vote, and it turned out that one of my colleagues in the majority had gotten mixed up and believed he was voting for someone else. (It was a very large department.)
Mark Morford: A mysterious throb deep in your bed (SF Gate)
It's all due to a strange, deep vibration, a town-wide hum akin to the throb of a car engine; it occurs every night, all night, waking the locals, rattling their bedframes, vibrating their mattresses and throbbing their bones. And not in the good way.
SHIRLEY S. WANG: The Health Benefits of Staying Loyal (Wall Street Journal)
Even as society seems to make it increasingly difficult for people to remain loyal to their jobs and relationships, and even to their sport teams, a growing body of research indicates there are real benefits for people who commit for the long term.
Suzanne Goldenberg: "This much I know: Ted Danson" (Guardian)
The actor and campaigner, 63, on hypochondria, being dropped from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and a brush with death.
Rebecca Keegan: John Lasseter, the driving force behind Pixar (Los Angeles Times)
The computer animation company's boyish visionary is back in the director's chair for 'Cars 2,' a labor of love for the longtime gearhead.
George Varga: "Life on Mars (Bruno, That Is)" (Creators Syndicate)
Few experiences can fuel success like complete and utter failure. Grammy Award-winning pop sensation Bruno Mars learned this from a bitter, yet ultimately fruitful, personal experience that helped propel him from obscurity to fame.
Debbie Harry: 'I'm more anonymous than Gaga or Madonna. I'm more of a cult figure' (Guardian)
It is all going well with the Blondie singer. Nothing is off limits over lunch. If only Rachel Cooke hadn't shown her the salad photo...
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Public Service
2011 Jefferson Awards
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actress Marlo Thomas and sports team owner Jerry M. Reinsdorf are among the people and institutions being honored with a national prize for public service.
Recipients of the 2011 Jefferson Awards accepted their honors Tuesday evening at the National Building Museum in Washington. Others honorees will accept theirs Wednesday in New York City. The recipients of most of the 18 awards, dubbed a "Nobel Prize" for public service, are not celebrities. They include the founder of a nonprofit that works to end childhood hunger and a brother and sister who have distributed phone cards to U.S. troops overseas.
The awards, now in their 39th year, were co-founded by former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The Jefferson Award for lifetime achievement is going to Thomas, known for her role in the TV series "That Girl" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The wife of TV personality Phil Donahue, she has worked with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis for 20 years, raising money for pediatric cancer research.
2011 Jefferson Awards
To Reveal Secret Of 'Pottermore'
JK Rowling
Harry Potter fans are holding their collective breath as author J.K. Rowling gets set to reveal her latest project involving the boy wizard.
Rowling has called a news conference Thursday in London to reveal details of "Pottermore," a mysterious website that has been taunting fans with the words "coming soon."
A leading Potter fan site, www.the-leaky-cauldron.org, said it had seen a preview of Pottermore and called it "breathtaking."
JK Rowling
Signs New 3-Year Contract
Jon Hamm
Don Draper is getting job security and a raise.
Jon Hamm, who plays 1960s advertising executive Draper on AMC's "Mad Men," has signed a new contract with series studio Lionsgate Television Group. Hamm's publicist, Slate PR, said Tuesday that the deal keeps him with the show for three more years.
The actor will receive a substantial raise for the upcoming fifth season. By the contract's final year, he'll earn more than $250,000 an episode, Variety.com reported, citing unidentified sources.
Series creator Matthew Weiner signed a contract in March for a sixth season and a possible seventh. Weiner's protracted negotiations delayed the show's return from this year to early 2012.
Jon Hamm
Sets Record
Egon Schiele
Sotheby's auctioneer sold a rare cityscape by Austrian artist Egon Schiele for a record 24.7 million pounds ($40.1 million) at a London auction on Wednesday.
The auction house had expected to fetch between 22 and 30 million pounds for the work, called "Hauser mit bunter Wasche 'Vorstadt' II" ("Houses with colorful Laundry, 'Suburb' II").
The sale price included a buyer's premium, meaning that despite comfortably setting a new auction benchmark for the artist, the work sold at the lower end of the expected price range.
The work was painted in 1914 at the height of Schiele's short career, four years before his death in the Spanish influenza epidemic at the age of 28.
Egon Schiele
$22M At Sydnet Auction
Pablo Picasso
A Pablo Picasso painting given to the University of Sydney by an anonymous American donor has sold at a London auction for 13.5 million pounds ($22 million), school officials said Wednesday.
The 1935 painting "Jeune fille endormie" was donated to the Australian school last year on the condition that it use proceeds from its sale to fund scientific research. The money will help pay for research into obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, said the university's vice chancellor, Michael Spence.
There was fierce bidding at Christie's auction house on Tuesday for the painting, which depicts Picasso's lover, Marie-Therese Walter.
Last year, another Picasso portrait of Walter sold for $106.5 million - a world record price for any work of art sold at auction.
Pablo Picasso
Sells At Auction
Old Mafia File
It was an unlikely - and coveted - find: a thick United States government file discovered on the backseat of a New York City taxi, its pages containing mug shots, criminal associates and `favorite hangouts of over 800 Mafia members during the 1950s and early 1960s. Such notorious figures as Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino, Meyer Lansky and Salvatore "Lucky Luciano" Lucania each had their own entries.
Nearly 20 years after it was found inside the yellow cab by a passenger, the 3-inch thick, three-ring binder stamped "Mafia" and "United States Treasury Department Bureau of Narcotics" was sold at Bonhams New York on Wednesday for $10,980.
The file, sold by James Finkle, a retired undersheriff from Essex County, N.J., was compiled sometime between 1957 and 1962 by the Bureau of Narcotics, an early iteration of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Only 50 copies of the file were thought to have been printed. The one for sale at Bonhams is No. 31, and the others were probably destroyed, said Christina Geiger, director of Bonhams New York fine books & manuscripts.
Old Mafia File
Alzheimer Diagnosis
Glen Campbell
Country music legend Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and plans to put out his final album this summer.
Campbell's representative Bobbie Gale made the announcement Wednesday. The disease is in its early stages.
The 75-year-old's wife Kim also talked to People magazine and said they wanted to go public with his illness because they wanted fans to know if he has trouble onstage.
Campbell's CD "Ghost on the Canvas" is scheduled for release Aug. 30. He also is to go on "The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour."
Glen Campbell
Ponzi Schemer Bad Poker Player
Bradley Ruderman
"Spider-Man" star Tobey Maguire and other celebrities have been caught in a web of lawsuits seeking to reclaim more than $4 million won during unlicensed poker matches at upscale Beverly Hills hotels, court records show.
The lawsuits were filed by a bankruptcy trustee attempting to recoup money for investors who were duped in a Ponzi scheme.
The legal actions claim the clandestine Texas Hold `em matches were played between 2006 and 2009, with some of the money taken in the Ponzi scheme used to pay off debts incurred by its architect, Bradley Ruderman.
Maguire is being sued for $311,000 plus interest that the lawsuit says was won from Ruderman. In all, 22 people have been individually sued to try to recoup money.
Ruderman was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud, two counts of investment adviser fraud and willful failure to file taxes.
Bradley Ruderman
Convicted Of Negligent Homicide
James Arthur Ray
A jury has convicted a self-help author who led a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona that left three people dead.
Jurors in Camp Verde, Ariz., reached their verdict Wednesday after a four-month trial.
James Arthur Ray was found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide.
Ray became a self-help superstar by using his charismatic personality and convincing people his words would lead them to spiritual and financial wealth. He used free talks to recruit people to expensive seminars like the Sedona retreat that led to the sweat lodge tragedy. Participants paid up to $10,000 for the five-day program intended to push people beyond their physical and emotional limits.
Ray's popularity soared after appearing in the 2006 Rhonda Byrne documentary "The Secret," and Ray promoted it on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Larry King Live."
James Arthur Ray
Prosecutors Ask For $14,400 Fine
John Galliano
Prosecutors in France have asked for a fine of no less than (EURO)10,000 ($14,400) for former Dior designer John Galliano who is on trial charged with making anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe.
Galliano testified during his one-day trial Wednesday that he remembers nothing because addictions to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills. He apologized for an anti-Semitic diatribe in a separate incident captured on video and posted on the Internet.
A verdict is expected at a later date.
John Galliano
Former GM Pleads In Tax Case
Michael Jackson
A former general manager for Michael Jackson pleaded guilty Wednesday for failing to file tax returns during the time she worked for the late pop star.
The Justice Department said Raymone Bain failed to pay income taxes owed from 2006 through 2008. During that period, she was responsible for daily operations of the Michael Jackson Co., including financial, public relations and marketing tasks. Court documents put the tax loss between $200,000 and $400,000. Under a plea agreement with the government, Bain agreed to pay the back taxes she owes and must file accurate returns covering five years starting in 2004 before her sentencing Aug. 31.
She pleaded guilty to two counts in federal court Wednesday. She could face up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine for failing to file a federal tax return in 2008, and up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine for failure to file a District of Columbia tax return in 2008.
Michael Jackson
Announces Big Pledges
Philly Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra has received several major gifts and pledges toward its effort to emerge from bankruptcy and establish solid financial footing, leaders said Wednesday.
Since filing for bankruptcy reorganization in April, the orchestra has received $11.2 million from foundations, philanthropists and its board, chief executive officer Allison Vulgamore said. An additional $16.3 million has been promised in the form of challenge pledges, which will be awarded if the orchestra raises $17.5 million more by the end of the year.
Orchestra officials regarded the funding as a vote of confidence in its five-year plan to secure big donors, fill more seats and build a nest egg. The orchestra did not release specific amounts given by donors, which include the William Penn Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, cable mogul and philanthropist H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, the Neubauer Family Foundation and members of the orchestra board.
The 111-year-old orchestra, among the world's most renowned symphonies and the ensemble behind the soundtrack to Walt Disney's 1940 film "Fantasia," stunned music lovers by becoming the first major U.S. orchestra to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It has struggled with dwindling attendance and donations, shrinking endowment income, the recession and an aging audience that's not being replaced.
Management told a federal Bankruptcy Court judge that it wants to save money by changing the pension plan for musicians, negotiating a new lease with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and cutting financial ties with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops.
Philly Orchestra
Moves To Keep License
Dr. Michael Kamrava
The fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments is asking that he be allowed to continue practicing medicine while he appeals his license revocation.
Dr. Michael Kamrava asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Monday to delay a decision that revokes his license to practice medicine as of July 1.
The Beverly Hills fertility doctor represented himself in the filing, which claims the state's medical licensing agency "exceeded its jurisdiction and violated (his) due process right to earn a living" by revoking his license.
By law, Kamrava can petition for reinstatement of his license three years after revocation takes effect, though he would have to show considerable rehabilitation to persuade the board to give his license back.
Dr. Michael Kamrava
Child Stars Barred From Cinema Awards
Spain
Spain's Cinema Academy says it is barring child stars from winning its biggest cinema awards, the Goyas, to shield them from media pressures and heavy responsibilities.
Children under 16 are ruled out of all sections of the grand prize of Spanish cinema, it said, standing apart from other awards such as Hollywood's Oscars, Cannes' Palme d'Or and Britain's BAFTAs.
Spain's academy decided under-16s were too young to assume certain responsibilities, including the right to cast votes in the Academy which is conferred automatically to winners.
In the last awards two children, 11-year-old Francesc Colomer and nine-year-old Marina Comas, won the prizes for best new male and female actors for their roles in the film "Pa negre" (Black Bread).
Spain
Gluteal Expanders
Potato Chips
Blame the potato chip. It's the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found. Bigger than soda, candy and ice cream.
And the reason is partly that old advertising cliche: You can't eat just one.
What we eat and how much of it we consume has far more impact than exercise and most other habits do on long-term weight gain, according to the study by Harvard University scientists. It's the most comprehensive look yet at the effect of individual foods and lifestyle choices like sleep time and quitting smoking.
Weight problems are epidemic. Two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. Childhood obesity has tripled in the past three decades. Pounds often are packed on gradually over decades, and many people struggle to limit weight gain without realizing what's causing it.
Potato Chips
Come With Expiration Dates
Breast Implants
Women who get silicone breast implants are likely to need additional surgery within 10 years to address complications such as rupturing of the device, U.S. health regulators said on Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration will work to revise safety labels for silicone breast implants after reviewing data from several long-term studies, which also showed that the products had a small link to a rare form of cancer.
The agency said the studies overall confirmed its decision that implants can be used safely, but noted the conclusions could be limited because some women dropped out.
There were almost 400,000 breast enlargement or reconstruction procedures in the United States in 2010, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. That includes silicone and saline implants.
Breast Implants
Splitsville
George Clooney
One of the world's most eligible bachelors is single again.
Hollywood leading man George Clooney, 50, has split with his Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, 32, after a two-year romance, according to a statement issued by Clooney's publicist on Wednesday.
"We are not together anymore. It's very difficult and very personal and we hope everyone can respect our privacy," said the statement.
He has been married once, but divorced his wife Talia Balsam in 1993. Since then, Clooney has remained single.
George Clooney
Cable Nielsens
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of June 13-19. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
1. "Pawn Stars" (Monday, 10:30 p.m.), History, 5.08 million homes, 7.48 million viewers.
2. "Pawn Stars" (Monday, 10 p.m.), History, 4.9 million homes, 7.28 million viewers.
3. "American Pickers" (Monday, 9 p.m.), History, 4.02 million homes, 5.65 million viewers.
4. Movie: "Falling Skies" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 3.95 million homes, 5.9 million viewers.
5. Auto Racing: Sprint Cup/Michigan (Sunday, 12:59 p.m.), TNT, 3.38 million homes, 4.89 million viewers.
6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.33 million homes, 4.96 million viewers.
7. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.2 million homes, 4.7 million viewers.
8. "Swamp People" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), History, 3.06 million homes, 4.57 million viewers.
9. "Covert Affairs" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.9 million homes, 3.91 million viewers.
10. "NASCAR Post Race Show" (Sunday, 3:58 p.m.), TNT, 2.89 million homes, 4.23 million viewers.
11. Movie: "iParty With Victorious" (Monday, 4 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.84 million homes, 3.76 million viewers.
12. "Family Guy" (Wednesday, 11:30 p.m.), Cartoon, 2.75 million homes, 3.71 million viewers.
13. "White Collar" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.746 million homes, 3.71 million viewers.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 11 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.74 million homes, 3.95 million viewers.
15. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.71 million homes, 3.75 million viewers.
Ratings
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