M Is FOR MASHUP - March 10th, 2010
Cast Thy Pod Upon The Mashup, O Ramdom
By DJ Useo
Well, if'n you've been reading these columns & not just lining your screensaver with them, or gawking at the pitchers, you'll remember me mentioning the world's greatest mashup/remix/bootleg podcast, Scott Johnson's RAMDOM THOUGHTS ( www.ramdomthoughts.co.uk/ ). For over 150 episodes, Scott has brought you the best new tracks available from bootleggers from Albuquerque to Cucamonga. I've been subscribed to the feed in itunes, so the minute there's a new show it loads, ready to please my constant hunger for new mixes. Imagine how satisfied I am after 150 shows. Siiiiiiigh.
Well, the icing on the cake just piled higher for me. With his other successful endeavors calling him more urgently, Scott offered me the opportunity to guest-host. I said yes so fast he thought it was a jet flying too low. First up for me with hosting was to check the latest tracks I'd heard for the finest. That got me a few immediate gems. Then I scampered over to MarcJohnce's site ( marcjohnce.wordpress.com/ ) because he has the best link page for other DJ's. What a time I had going to the fave sites I normally frequent. Soon, I had brand new tracks by Party Ben, Go Home Productions & DJ Moule, among many others. All mixes literally hours old.
The timing of Mr. Ramdom's offer was perfectly coordinated with my new album post, 'IP3:Intense Psychedelia 3'. Wot an opportunity to share a track from it with even more peeps. I noticed after the RAMDOM THOUGHTS was available, the downloads quickly doubled, & it's only been a couple days. A cool thing about RAMDOM THOUGHTS is each episode has links available a week after the show so you can nab your favorites. (All of them. lol)
I was mighty nervous stepping behind Scott's mic, but a few days after recording it, my jitters subsided. Then the show was posted!
Good news is I got overwhelmingly positive feedback. I even got to hear the show with some pals on Sound-Unsound Wadio, the new online mashup radio station ( streams.sound-unsound.com/start/wadio/ ) where RAMDOM THOUGHTS is broadcast every Sunday at 2:30 pm gmt & repeated 4 hours later. You will be astonished at what fine tracks the mashup scene produces. Honestly, the new DJ Moule mix with Led Zeppelin vs Joan Jett is one of my alltime favorites.
Now hold on to yourself, this story doesn't end with just the new RAMDOM THOUGHTS (although that's great in & of itself). After a few days I heard from Scott Johnson & he invited me to be the regular guest-host! So...it's a gig! I will most likely handle every fourth show. What an honour! To be joining the world's greatest mashup podcast! I'm going to be smiling over this one for a long time!
Sign up for the regular shows, or grab yours here - ( www.ramdomthoughts.co.uk/ )
Meanwhile, I can't resist showing you the shows' playlist -
01 - Sugamotor - Ghost Hits The Fan
(Streetlife DJs vs Obie Trice, Dr Dre, Eminem)
02 - DJ Maggie - Paris Blah Blah
(Ke$ha feat 3OH3 vs Infernal)
03 -The Kleptones - Mad Groove
04 - Party Ben - Boulevard of Broken Songs 2010
(Green Day vs Oasis vs Tonka)
05 - Mr Wyse - Minimal Horse
(Laidback vs Skream)
06 - DJ Fac - Strike Da Monsta
(Monrose vs Culcha Candela)
07 - LeeDM101 - Debbie Does Dallas
(A Quick Flick Mix)
08 - MP3J - Ballad Of Lonesome Satisfaction
(Beatles vs Rolling Stones)
09 - DJ Zebra - Baba Africa
(The Who vs Zebra)
10 - DJ Lobsterdust - Dance Is The Drug
(David Bowie vs Roxy Music)
11 - DJ Gizmo - Under A Dream
(Red Hot Chili Peppers vs Tom Petty)
12 - DJ Useo - Learning To Rock
(Pink Floyd vs Burn In Noise)
13 - G3rst - Money In A Trashcan
(The Raveonettes vs NASA feat David Byrne)
14 - DJ Moule - Good Love, Good Rock
(Led Zeppelin vs Joan Jett vs Does It Offend You Yeah vs Peaches)
15 - Go Home Productions - Virgin O'Riley
(Madonna vs The Who)
16 - Nissque - Chopped And Written
(Just Jack vs T-Pain feat Ludacris)
17 - DJ Le Clown - Wicked Sarabande
(Haendel vs Busta Rhymes)
18 - Rappy - Hungry Like A Sandman
(A.R. Rachman vs Metallica vs Duran Duran)
19 - Biglerism - This Must Be It P!nk
(Röyksopp vs P!nk)
20 - Cervin - Allan's Hidden Past
(Björk vs Vitalic)
21 - Hollyridge Strings - Shaft
(DJ Dégueulasse Bonus Beats)
22 - DJ Prince - Soul Bossa Pop Lock
(Quincy Jones vs Nova Huey)
Mix Of The Week
Budtheweiser hits 'M Is For Mashup' again with his excellent '
Last Mix To Skaville'. You will know the joy of 2-tone tunes & more with this baby.
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Mashup Tip : Mashing is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century, so get to it.
Latest Useo Post
Well, damn iffen I don't love my new mashup 'Autopilot Computer Games '(Miss Kittin vs Yellow Magic Orchestra). They fit together so well, you suspect one wrote theirs while listening to the other. I actually heard from a couple people who didn't know either track & that surprised me as they were DJ's. I advise purchase of both source artists' records. Great stuff. Hear them mixed here - ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/02/autopilot-computer-games-miss-kittin-vs.html ) >
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Robert "Joe" Halderman, 52, entered the plea in a Manhattan court to attempted grand larceny after being accused of demanding $2 million to keep quiet about the late-night comic's workplace love life.
Halderman, a producer for CBS' "48 Hours Mystery," had mined information from reading his then-girlfriend's diary entries about her relationship with Letterman, her boss, authorities said.
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Can Keep Portfolio
Annie Leibovitz
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Leibovitz, 60, will retain total control of her multimillion-dollar portfolio under the deal she signed with Colony Capital LLC of Santa Monica, Calif., on Monday, said Richard Nanula, a principal with the firm.
Under the agreement, Colony will become the photographer's sole creditor and help market her archive of such provocative images as a nude John Lennon cuddling with a clothed Yoko Ono hours before his death, as well as a nude and very pregnant Demi Moore.
Leibovitz obtained an extension last year to repay a $24 million loan to a Manhattan firm, Art Capital Group, in a financial dispute that had threatened her rights to those images and others.
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Bad-Tempered Prince Sentenced
Ernst August von Hannover
Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband was convicted in Germany on Tuesday of a decade-old altercation in Kenya and fined euro200,000 ($270,000).
Hildesheim state court Judge Andreas Schlueter found Ernst August von Hannover guilty Tuesday of intentionally causing bodily harm to a Kenyan hotelier, German news agency DAPD reported.
The judge followed the prosecution's request and fined him the equivalent of 40 days of his salary, which the court estimated at euro5,000 daily. Ernst August has refused to disclose his finances to the court.
The 56-year-old great-grandson of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, was retried after being convicted in 2004 and fined euro445,000.
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Ernst August von Hannover
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for March 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Academy Awards," ABC, 41.7 million.
2. "Oscar's Red Carpet," ABC, 25.33 million.
3. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.56 million.
4. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 23.53 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 19.62 million.
6. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 19.42 million.
7. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 16.86 million.
8. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.73 million.
9. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 15.59 million.
10. "The Bachelor," ABC, 15.15 million.
11. "Barbara Walters Special," ABC, 14.99 million.
12. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14.87 million.
13. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.84 million.
14. "The Bachelor: After the Final Rose," ABC, 13.91 million.
15. "The Good Wife," CBS, 13.32 million.
16. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13 million.
17. "Survivor: Heroes and Villains," CBS, 12.72 million.
18. "CSI: NY," CBS, 12.35 million.
19. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 12.07 million.
20. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 11.83 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Edgar Wayburn
Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.
Wayburn, a physician who conducted his conservation work under the radar and largely in his spare time, spearheaded successful efforts to greatly expand national parks.
"He was the 20th century John Muir," Bruce Hamilton, the Sierra Club's deputy executive director, said in a statement. "He enlisted the help of presidents, cabinet members, powerful members of Congress, mayors and millions of Americans and would not take no for an answer."
Working with his wife Peggy, who died in 2002, Wayburn helped win passage of the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which created millions of acres of national parkland, almost doubling the system's land.
The Wayburns' work resulted in the creation and expansion of vast national parks in Alaska.
In the 1950s and '60s, Wayburn led the movement to create the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in and around San Francisco, a linked system of beaches, coastal woods and Alcatraz island.
Wayburn also helped in the 1962 creation of the Point Reyes National Seashore and the preservation of the Marin Headlands, the green rolling hills just north of Golden Gate Bridge.
President Bill Clinton awarded Wayburn the Medal of Freedom in 1999, the country's highest civilian award, saying he had "saved more of our wilderness than any person alive."
In his later years, Wayburn fought what he believed to be the "over commercialization" of Yosemite National Park.
Edgar Wayburn
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