M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - March 23rd, 2016
Whats Being Mixed?
By DJ Useo
When I sit down to hear a mashup, I want to hear whatever the DJ chose to work with, not what they think I want to hear. I don't look for tracks with artists I love. It doesn't have to have well known sources, or especially top 40 ones. It seems I'm in the vast minority in that respect. Most people are looking for mashups with their favorite artists. I still really like the new tracks I found today. Let's take a look & see what artists some of these fine new mashups use.
01 - Simon Iddol - "Need Fire Tonight" ( Phonat vs Latroit ft INXS )
( soundcloud.com/simoniddol/simon-iddol-need-fire-tonight-phonat-vs-latroit-ft-inxs )
02 - DJ Nerd42 - "Castle Of Furious Glass Angels" ( Linking Park vs Rob Dougan )
( soundcloud.com/nerd42/06-dj-nerd42-castle-of-furious-glass-angels-linkin-park-vs-rob-dougan )
03 - Dunproofin & HJ - "Queen" ( Years & Years vs HJ vs Dunproofin )
( soundcloud.com/dunproofin/queen )
04 - SimGiant - "Wanna Bust Ghosts" ( Spice Girls vs Ray Parker, Jr )
( hearthis.at/simgiant/spice-girls-vs-ray-parker-jr-the-living-tombstone-wanna-bust-ghosts/ )
05 - ArthurTheBootleg - You Make Papi Dance ( Ari Ozawa vs Cobra Starship ft Sabi )
( hearthis.at/arthurthebootleg/arthurthebootleg-you-make-papi-dance/ )
06 - Happy Cat Disco - "Octahate Can Change The World" ( Big Sean vs Ryn Weaver )
( hearthis.at/happycatdisco/big-sean-vs-ryn-weaver-octahate-can-change-the-world-mashup/ )
07 - DJ J-Brew - "Ju5t the Way A11-S7ar5 Ar3" ( Final Version ) ( Smashmouth vs Bruno Mars )
( hearthis.at/djjbrew/just-the-way-all-stars-are-rough-draft-3/ )
08 - Enrico Persi - "Sun Goes Down" ( David Guetta vs Showtek vs Magic! & Sonny Wilson )
( hearthis.at/mNWKMkL4/david-guetta-showtek-sun-goes-down-enrico-persi-mashup/ )
I quite liked all of these, & I reckon you will too. The thing about mashup deejays is they have a honed sense of what makes a killer bootleg mix. It comes from years of music saturation, & from seeing first hand what people respond to. More musings on mashups next week.
Latest DJ Useo Thing - I played the CRUMPLSTOCK 2099 festival in 83 years. Here's the 2 live sets I did. The preview set is all others mashups, & the second one is all my own mixes. They are both other worldly. I hope you stream, or download. ( or share online )
01 - Crumplstock 2099 Preview Mix -
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-crumplstock-2099-preview-mix/teB/ )
02 - Crumplstock 2009 live mix -
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-crumplstock-2099/ )
Ps. Come to Austin, Texas for the annual South By South West SXSW Festival. We're having a blast!
( www.sxsw.com/ )
Try the SXSW Unofficial torrent files with tons of mp3's from the featured artists. It's the bomb!
( www.sxswtorrent.com/ )
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Josh Marshall: The Cuck Stops Here (TPM)
… Trump got close to nothing in the funding bill meant to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. He ended up crying uncle or "no mas" on virtually all his demands. Let's go down the list. …
Michael Gerson: Trump's 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history (Washington Post)
Trump gained a kind of perverse energy from the rolling waves of hatred, culminating in the reading of racist song lyrics comparing his targets to vermin. It was a speech with all the logic, elevation and public purpose of a stink bomb.
Rob LeDonne: "Michael Moore: 'Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate. Trump knew that'" (The Guardian)
The Oscar-winning documentary film-maker discussed the president and the continuing relevance of Bowling for Columbine at the Tribeca film festival.
Greg Sargent: Why did Trump win? New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer. (Washington Post)
One finding from the polling stands out: A shockingly large percentage of these Obama-Trump voters said Democrats' economic policies will favor the wealthy - twice the percentage that said the same about Trump.
Michele Hanson: Why won't prudish Brits recognise the bidet's brilliance? (The Guardian)
This great innovation of bathroom hygiene has, like so many European favourites, fallen out of favour. This is a bum deal.
Šarune Mac: 10+ Of The Funniest Wikipedia Edits By Internet Vandals (Bored Panda)
With so much fake news floating around these days, it's difficult to know just who and what to believe. While Wikipedia is usually a solid source of factual information, from time to time people slip some alternative facts in there too. From Charlie Sheen being half man, half cocaine to American Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky being a humanoid evolution spawned in the bowels of Poseidon, you never can be too sure if what you're reading is 100% truth.
David Barnett: James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Narnia - the books we most pretend to have read (The Guardian)
Fleming, Tolkien and CS Lewis are the authors that people most claim - falsely - to have read. But why? And how does this year's most-fibbed-about list compare with those of previous years?
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Moving Speech About ACA
Jimmy Kimmel
After his incredibly moving opening monologue last night about his newborn son's open heart surgery and his support for the Affordable Care Act, late night host Jimmy Kimmel got a tweet from the man who made it happen, former President Barack Obama.
In case you haven't seen the monologue (and truly, it's a must-watch), Kimmel reveals that his son was born with a heart defect that required emergency open heart surgery. After thanking the wonderful doctors and nurses who saved his son's life, Kimmel talked to his audience about the incredible importance of the ACA.
"If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to - it shouldn't matter how much money you make," the tearful host said. "I think that's something that whether you're a Republican or Democrat or something else, we all agree on that."
"No parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child's life...it just shouldn't happen," he pleaded.
Obama, seeing Kimmel's impassioned speech (which, again is a must-watch), responded in a tweet Tuesday afternoon.
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Won't Run Ad
CNN
Donald Trump's (R-Crooked) supporters are accusing CNN of censorship for not airing an advertisement touting the president's accomplishments, which the network said Tuesday it rejected because it was its own form of fake news.
The ad from Trump's campaign - he became a declared candidate for reelection in 2020 on Jan. 19 - says that "America has rarely seen such success" and lists a series of actions from the first 100 days of his presidency.
"You wouldn't know it from watching the news. America is winning, and President Trump is making America great again," the ad says. The faces of NBC's Andrea Mitchell, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and CBS' Scott Pelley are shown onscreen behind the phrase "fake news."
CNN said it requested the campaign remove the "false graphic."
"The mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false and per policy will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted," CNN tweeted in response.
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Strike Averted
Writers Guild
A tentative deal was reached between screenwriters and producers Tuesday, averting a strike that could have crippled TV and film production.
The three-year agreement, which requires ratification by members of the Writers Guild of America, was confirmed by the guild and producers' spokesman Jarryd Gonzales shortly after the current contract expired early Tuesday. The deal came after a flurry of last-minute bargaining, conducted during a media blackout that offered no tangible details about whether picket lines would go up until after midnight Tuesday.
In a memo to its members, the guild said gains were made across the board, including contributions to the union's health plan that should "ensure its solvency for years to come" - an issue that writers considered key.
The union said it also made strides in pay for series with fewer episodes per season, and in residuals. Members overall will net $130 million more over the contract's life than they were expected to accept, according to the memo.
The agreement spares the late-night shows that would immediately have gone dark without writers, and allows the networks to pursue their schedules for the upcoming TV season without interruption. Movie production would have felt a strike's sting more gradually.
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Lawsuit Begins
Eminem
They may not have lost themselves in the music or the moment but a judge and nine lawyers in a New Zealand courtroom did listen politely to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" as a copyright trial involving the country's ruling political party began Monday.
The Detroit-based music publishers for Eminem are suing New Zealand's conservative National Party, alleging the soundtrack for a 2014 election campaign ad copied the rapper's acclaimed 2002 song. Titled "Eminem Esque," the track has the familiar urgent, pulsing beat of the original.
The party has previously said it purchased the track through an Australian-based supplier and doesn't believe it has infringed anyone's copyright.
In 2014, when the case was filed, lawmaker Steven Joyce said he thought the use of the song was "pretty legal," and that Eminem's team "are just having a crack and a bit of an eye for the main chance because it's an election campaign." That response was widely ridiculed, including by comedian John Oliver on "Last Week Tonight."
"Pretty legal? That's not a concept that exists. That's like being sort-of dead," Oliver joked on the show.
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'Fox Is State-Run TV'
Rupert
In an interview with "The New Yorker Radio Hour" broadcast over the weekend, CNN president Jeff Zucker derided Fox News as a propaganda outlet for the Trump administration, while claiming his own network was the only cable news outlet broadcasting "the truth."
Asked for his assessment of the cable news landscape in the era of Donald Trump (R-Fabulist), Zucker began his reply by saying: "Obviously Fox News is, uh," then paused for more than 11 seconds. "So, look, there's three cable news networks. Certainly in primetime and in the morning, Fox is state-run TV and is extolling the line out of the White House."
Zucker said MSNBC "has become the opposition" and CNN "is seeking the truth."
"Do you think the other two networks are not broadcasting the truth?" the New Yorker's David Remnick asked.
"Well, I think that there are clear agendas at work at the other cable news networks depending on their political points of view," Zucker replied.
Rupert
Can No Longer Rely On U.S. Leadership
UK
Britain can no longer rely on U.S. leadership on Middle East policy and must work more closely with Europe to ensure the Iran nuclear deal stays in place, among other policies, a committee of lawmakers said in a report on Tuesday.
The deal between Iran and six major powers restricts Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international oil and financial sanctions.
During his U.S. presidential campaign, Donald Trump (R-Crooked) called the agreement "the worst deal ever negotiated" and his administration has launched a review of whether lifting sanctions is in the United States' national security interests.
"We can no longer assume America will set the tone for the West's relationship with the Middle East," said David Howell, chairman of the British parliament's House of Lords International Relations Committee.
"The new U.S. administration has the potential to destabilize further the region ... The U.S. President has taken positions that are unconstructive and could even escalate conflict," it said.
UK
'Seductive' Dress
Malaysia
A 12-year-old girl was barred from a Malaysian chess tournament over her "seductive" dress, her coach has claimed, igniting public outrage against the organisers of the competition in the Muslim-majority nation.
The Malaysian Chess Federation on Tuesday said it would investigate and denied that religious sensitivities had prompted the decision to exclude the young player, as it seeks to curb the public backlash.
In a widely-shared Facebook post, trainer Kaushal Khandhar said his pupil felt "harassed and humiliated" after being forced to withdraw in the middle of the the National Scholastic Chess Championship on April 14.
The girl had been told her knee-length dress was "seductive and a temptation from a certain angle far, far away", he said in the post on Thursday, demanding an apology from the organisers.
Malaysia is generally regarded as a moderate Muslim country, but fears have grown in recent years that it is becoming increasingly conservative.
Malaysia
Ditch Weed Found In Casket
Arizona
Border Patrol agents have seen numerous ways people try to smuggle drugs across the Arizona border in recent years. They can now add marijuana hidden in a casket to the list.
Agents working an immigration checkpoint in southern Arizona said they stopped a hearse last weekend and found 67 pounds of marijuana inside a mahogany coffin.
The multiple bricks of marijuana had an estimated street value of more than $33,000, Border Patrol officials said Monday.
The hearse carrying the casket was stopped Saturday evening on State Route 80 near Tombstone.
Arizona
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 24-30. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.52 million.
2. "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 10.38 million.
3. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.63 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 9.29 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.12 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 9.08 million.
7. "Little Big Shots," NBC, 8.89 million.
8. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.74 million.
9. "Survivor," CBS, 8.50 million.
10. "Hawaii Five-O," CBS, 8.06 million.
11. "Madam Secretary," CBS, 7.88 million.
12. "NCIS," CBS, 7.30 million.
13. "Mom," CBS, 7.06 million.
14. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 7.02 million.
15. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.91 million.
16. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.91 million.
17. "Bull," CBS, 6.79 million.
18. NFL Draft (Round 1, Thursday), ESPN, 6.70 million.
19. "The Great Indoors," CBS, 6.38 million.
20. "The Big Bang Theory" (Special), CBS, 6.37 million.
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