M Is FOR MASHUP - January 6th, 2016
Exciting Space Adventures With Useo
From DJ Useo
So, like, I got flooded out of my home on Halloween. At that point, I had many finished tracks ready to post. While spending 6 weeks in a motel, I quickly posted up the finished tracks. I didn't have access to my mac with the large file of unfinished mixes, so I installed programs on the backup pc laptop, & started new mashups. When I finally made it home about two weeks ago, I began finishing this new batch of creations.
Some of the new ones I posted right away, or saved for two other upcoming used projects. Most of the rest ended up on my new album, which I was referring to as my "Next Album". That name got shot down right away by those who heard it, so I studied on it & came up with the title "Exciting Space Adventures". I chose a painting I did of some of my own created characters as the front cover, & that quickly inspired the new title.
All I had left to do was the single track cover art, & the text files. All easily finished. I uploaded the file to mirror links, & now present to you "Exciting Space Adventures", the new mashup album from DJ Useo. :)
I used many tracks I love dearly, & strove to improve, or match the quality. The results are debatable, for sure, but I really like the tracks that made the final cut. Actually, the ones that didn't fit on a single disc are mighty fine, too. I especially like the Stevie Wonder vs Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark track. I'll post that one soon, no doubt.
So, there's stuff like Harry Nilsson vs Talking Heads, The Clash vs The Psychedelic Furs, & Adam Lambert vs Tears For Fears, plus lots more in the way of mashup variety. Find the full playlist, & file links here at
my blog
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
The entire collection comes at no charge, as is the way with bootlegged mashup albums. Many other useo & useo-related albums are also available here at
my album blog
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Here's the link for the preview track called "Smoking' Paranoid" with Garbage vs Boston vs Raymix.
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/smokin-paranoid-garbage-vs-boston-vs-raymix/ )
I hope you like it & share it with pals. Otherwise, I could'a become a corn farmer like everyone else where I was born. Lol. Have the day of good, y'all.
Ps. Here's the live Mashup set I did on New Years' Eve. If you like it as much as the live crowd did, you'll love it. Only played tracks by pals of mine, & it's beat & pitch-matched.
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-live-mashups-set-dec-31-2015/ )
Groovy Time With DJ Useo: DJ Useo - Live Mashups Set ( Dec 31 2015 )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2016/01/dj-useo-live-mashups-set-dec-31-2015.html )
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Sukhdev Sandhu: "Luc Sante: 'Money doesn't kill people, but it changes the fabric of daily life'" (The Guardian)
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Laura Miller: Someday Never Comes (Slate)
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Miss Cellania: The Top 20 Weird News Stories of 2015 (Mental Floss)
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Gene Roddenberry
Leave it to Gene Roddenberry to give us Star Trek fans hope for more sci-fi adventures long after he's left this galaxy.
DriveSavers announced Monday that it recovered documents from 200 floppy disks used by the Star Trek creator, though no details of the documents' contents have yet been revealed. Roddenberry created scripts for the futuristic '60s show on a typewriter, but it is interesting to note that the 200 5.25-inch floppy disks paired with a custom-built computer Roddenberry later used to write show ideas and notes.
After Roddenberry died in 1991, his estate discovered the disks. But because the floppy disks were uniquely created for his computer, they couldn't be easily read by ordinary tools. That's where data recovery company DriveSavers came in.
It took over three months for the DriveSavers team to develop software to read the customized disks, and it took over a year to then process all the information.
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Ronda Rousey is set to host "Saturday Night Live" one week after Adam Driver takes a turn. The latter participant was announced previously.
The UFC fighter and Olympic gold medalist's musical guest will beSelena Gomez; Jan. 23 will also mark Gomez's first turn in the famed Studio 8H.
The "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" star's Jan. 16 musical accompaniment will come from Chris Stapleton.
The popular Rousey famously lost to Holly Holm in November, the former's first professional defeat. At the time of this writing, it is not clear if the Rousey booking came before or after the loss, though the pace of "Saturday Night Live" suggests this appearance was set up purposefully for her public comeback.
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An astrophysicist has discovered something even rarer than a double-black hole galaxy: a skinny black hole.
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Julie Comerford reported her findings Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting in Kissimmee, Florida.
To date, only 12 galaxies are known to exist with two black holes in their midst, Comerford said. Normally galaxies have a single supermassive black hole at the center, equivalent to 1 million to 1 billion times the mass of our sun.
But in this newly identified galaxy about 1 billion light-years away, one of the two black holes is significantly smaller than the other and apparently starved of stars. Black holes typically are surrounded by stars; this one appears "naked."
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Coca-Cola
All Coca-Cola wanted to do was to wish consumers a Happy New Year, but instead it ended up stirring anger in two markets, Russia and Ukraine, over the disputed territory of Crimea.
The Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula was annexed by Moscow in March 2014 and remains a trigger issue in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis today.
In a New Year's message on VK, the most popular Russian social media network, Coca-Cola published a map of Russia that did not include Crimea.
Faced with barrage of criticism from Russian VK users, it published the map again on Tuesday -- this time with Crimea -- and apologised.
The second version also included Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave situated between Poland and Lithuania, that is globally recognised as belonging to Moscow.
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Shares of gun manufacturers soared again on Tuesday after President Barack Obama unveiled gun control measures and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp released a more bullish financial outlook.
Smith & Wesson shares were up 12.2 percent to $26.12 in morning trade after touching a record high of $26.54 earlier in the session. Shares of rival Sturm Ruger & Co jumped 7.4 percent to $65.95 after rising to a 1-1/2-year high of $66.93.
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Begins Effort To Fire Professor
Wheaton College
Officials of a Christian college in suburban Chicago on Tuesday said they have begun efforts to fire a professor who was placed on leave after asserting that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Wheaton College announced its action against Larycia Hawkins in a statement on its website, saying Provost Stanton Jones initiated the termination-for-cause proceeding after Hawkins refused to participate in "clarifying conversations" about theological issues.
The private evangelical school west of Chicago said it placed Hawkins on paid administrative leave in December because of theological statements "that seem inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions, which she voluntarily agreed to support and uphold when she entered into an employment agreement with the college." Hawkins also had begun wearing a hijab, the headscarf worn by some Muslim women, but the school has said that is not why she was placed on leave.
Hawkins, who is a Christian and an associate professor of political science, began wearing a hijab to counter what she called the recent "vitriolic" rhetoric against Muslims. She told reporters last month that her actions "were motivated by a desire to live out my faith."
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T-rump
British lawmakers will debate a petition calling for U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump (R-Pendejo) to be banned from the country over his remarks about Muslims - and a rival petition saying he should be allowed in.
More than half a million people signed an online petition calling for Trump to be blocked after he called last month for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Almost 40,000 people backed one saying he should not be barred.
Under British law any petition that gets 100,000 signatures must be considered for parliamentary debate.
Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned the remarks by the contender for the Republican presidential nomination as "divisive, stupid and wrong." But he and other senior officials have said they do not think Trump should be banned from Britain, where he owns a Scottish golf course.
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Hong Kong
Five men associated with a Hong Kong publisher known for books critical of China's leaders have vanished one by one in the last three months, alarming activists and deepening suspicions that mainland authorities are squeezing free expression in the enclave.
The mystery took another turn Tuesday when the wife of the latest man to disappear said she now believes he went to China voluntarily and has canceled a missing person's report for him.
Lee Bo, a British citizen who vanished Dec. 30, purportedly wrote to say he went to mainland China to help with an investigation. His case has sparked fears that he was seized in Hong Kong by security agents from the mainland and taken there in violation of an agreement giving Hong Kong a high degree of control over its own affairs.
"I believe that it was voluntarily written, so that's why I retracted the case," Choi Ka-ping told reporters in brief comments.
The disappearance of the five - all since October - has raised concerns Beijing is eroding the "one country, two systems" principle that's been in place since Britain ceded control of Hong Kong to China in 1997. The principle maintains civil liberties in Hong Kong that are nonexistent on the mainland, including freedom of the press.
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Firm To Pay Up
American Future Systems Inc.
A Pennsylvania company that publishes business newsletters will pay about $1.75 million to thousands of employees who had to clock out while going on short breaks, including for the bathroom.
A federal judge has given the U.S. Department of Labor and the Malvern-based company, American Future Systems Inc., until Thursday to submit proposals on how to manage the payment process, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The bill includes back pay and damages to 6,000 employees who worked at offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio between July 2009 and July 2013.
The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in November 2012, claiming the company violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because employees weren't earning the minimum wage- $7.25 per hour -when the company required them to clock out for breaks.
American Future Systems Inc.
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