M Is FOR MASHUP - November 16th, 2011
Mighty Mike Mashups
By DJ Useo
I get around on the net to bootleggers sites a bit. If there was ever the chance I might miss something, somebody would tip me off first. I'd hear "Hey Useo, Schmolli ( www.djschmolli.net/ ) has a great new multi-artist track out. Don't miss it!" .This is a wonderful thing for me. Many was the time miserable crap was coming down in my life, then some cool person lifted me up through a fantastic mashup. When I feel a bit stressed, I like to play G3rsts' 'Friends Around The Clock' (Bill Haley & The Comets vs The White Stripes), or his 'Bloom To Me' (Nirvana vs Koop). They have a good calming effect on me, & somehow remind me of a more healthy perspective towards life. Sounds preposterous, eh? But it's true.
My regular preference in most music is towards Louder, Rawer music, but manys been the time when a gentler, mellower song has defied that preference through intensity of emotion. You know what I mean, or why would anyone have bought Kiss' 'Beth'.lol. Maybe not the best example. ;)
When it comes to refined, mellower mashups you come to the generous mixing of Mighty Mike ( mightymikesnewboot.blogspot.com/2011/11/mild-things-downtempo-compilation.html ) . I've heard his tunes a fair bit, & even played them on radio shows. He regularly challenges me to enjoy music I pass over normally. It's a good feeling to make that musical hurdle of expectations & find likeability in formerly-dismissed areas. So, this last week there I was, a bit down in the mouth again. I log on to a fave bootleg forum & there's a full album from MM. It immediately intrigued me. I hit the links & decided to start playing it right away.
That sure turned out to be a good decision. The record had me in good spirits with tunes strongly -paired & mixed. & sure enough, Mighty Mike did the aforementioned activity wherein he challenged me to like stuff I hadn't before. Specifically it was 'La Vida Easy' (The Commodores vs Coldplay). I just never got on with that easy song. Immediately, as it was playing, the newly-added Coldplay vocals captured my attention in a good way, & the entire experience was totally pleasing. Strangely, the perspective shift provided by the genre clash allowed me to see the inherent charms of the Commodores. I often had wondered how they'd sold so many records.
The rest of the record continued the established pattern of Mighty Mikes' former appeal to me. The mixing was topnotch with well-devined pairings from a production voice of experience. His record, (a sequel actually) is called 'Mighty Mike presents : Mild Thing(s) 2 - a downtempo compilation (2011)'. Listen to it & you'll find great blends with John Lennon vs Van Halen, Bob Marley vs The Cure, & Counting Crows vs Buffalo Springfield, amongst many more.
( mightymikesnewboot.blogspot.com/2011/11/mild-things-downtempo-compilation.html )
It can be obtained for the princely sum of a right-click or two. Volume one is also splendid & available. The art of bootlegging is sustained mostly by pure love of music, & Mighty Mike shows that off well.Enjoy!
Mix Of The Week
DJ Israels' 'ATMOSPHERE WITH DJ ISRAEL - NOVEMBER' is electronic, funk, house, soul,& techno. Perfect for your musical enjoyment. Plenty of fine tunes in this baby from the likes of The Pipesmokers , Andrew Powell, Kaiserdisco, Sterling Ensemble feat. Donna Allen & Groove Armada. Say no more, eh?
Listen or download here
( dj1srael.podomatic.com/entry/2011-11-11T14_17_32-08_00 )
Mashup Tip : Save all your track mix files until well after you've released them. They may come in handy unexpectedly.
Latest Useo Thing
'I just freshly posted 2 swell new 80's mashups. One is '
Fame People Are People' (David Bowie vs Depeche Mode). I'm really happy with this one as it has selected instruments from both songs playing in tangent.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/fame-people-are-people-david-bowie-vs.html )
The second one I adore as well. Rarely will you hear two completely different songs play together as one. It's 'Bird Numbers Song' (Lene Lovich vs kraftwerk). Initial reaction is excellent. I reckon yours will be too.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/lene-lovich-vs-kraftwerk.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
The Supremes will never go out of fashion with mashup producers.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Scott Burns: Meet the Millionaire Teacher (AssetBuilder)
Imagine being a high school English teacher who saves and invests his way to being a millionaire by age 40. Impossible! Can't be done! Or, if it can, he must have some weird magic system for miraculous returns, a system that worked for him but won't work for anyone else. Wrong. It can be done. It was done.
Dan and Chip Heath: Four Excellent Habits (Slate)
The subtle skills that will give you a permanent edge in shaping your career or starting a new one.
Simon A Morrison: The eBay ambulance that went to Libya (Guardian)
Abdul Gargani wanted to help oust Gaddafi so he bought an ambulance for the rebels and drove it from his house in Manchester to his home country.
Ancient Ninja: Separating the Men from the Myth
You've seen these men in black everywhere, usually in a group, threatening a movie hero. But how much do you really know about the dark warriors of feudal Japan? It's time to separate the men from the myth.
A Small Mystery Hidden In Five Postage Stamps
In 1993 the Royal Mail in Great Britain issued a set of five se-tenant stamps to honor the legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The stamps depicted iconic scenes from 'The Reigate Squire,' 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' 'The Six Napoleons,' 'The Greek Interpreter,' and 'The Final Problem.'
Christina Ricci: 'I don't think anything I said was really dark' (Guardian)
She was known for her gothic roles and outrageous comments, but now Christina Ricci's all grown up, finds Emma Brockes.
Roger Ebert: Review of "Steve Jobs: The lost Interview" (3 stars)
If Steve Jobs was right in 1995 and the computer is the most important tool in the history of the human race, then he was the most important toolmaker. In that year he was in exile from Apple, fired by the company he co-founded, and running his own much smaller company named NEXT. Soon he would sell NEXT to Apple and become Apple's CEO. Ahead lay a new generation of Macs and iPhones, iPods and lots of cool iStuff.
Roger Ebert: Review of "Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life" (4 stars)
The documentary centers on two young men in prison. Michael Perry is on Death Row in Huntsville, Texas, America's most productive assembly line for executions, and on the day Herzog spoke with him had eight days to live. Jason Burkett, his accomplice in the stupid murders of three people, is serving a 40-year sentence. They killed because they wanted to drive a friend's red Camaro.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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took the day off.
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Comment
Dixie cups
You know Dixie is one of the Koch Bros. enterprises, thus supports evil on many levels.
Fondly ~d
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of
little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin -
Thanks, Doug!
Ewwwww!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly cloudy and cool.
It Rots From The Head
Rupert
Evidence is growing that hacking of both telephone voice mail and email was pursued by journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World for years after the arrests of a private detective and reporter who worked for the weekly tabloid.
As recently as last week, News International, publisher of Murdoch's remaining three British print publications, had maintained that phone hacking at the News of the World ceased in 2006, after police arrested the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
But during the opening session Monday of the parliamentary Leveson Inquiry, an investigation set up by the British government to investigate alleged abuses by UK media, the inquiry's chief counsel, Robert Jay, said British police investigating phone hacking at News International believed hacking had certainly begun by 2002 and continued "at least until 2009."
Jay did not elaborate on the nature of the evidence police had, except to say that this did not include voluminous notebooks maintained by Mulcaire which were seized at the time of his arrest in 2006.
Rupert
Letter Fetches $55,400
Beatles
Christie's auction house says a handwritten letter from Paul McCartney offering a Beatles audition to a mystery drummer has sold for nearly 35,000 pounds ($55,400).
The note, found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale, offered an audition to someone who had advertised their availability in the Liverpool Echo newspaper four days earlier. The unsigned ad said simply: "Drummer_Young_Free."
The letter was dated Aug. 12, 1960 - two years before the band bounced drummer Pete Best in favor of Ringo Starr.
Christie's said a European buyer made Tuesday's 34,850 pound winning bid over the phone.
Beatles
Bed Removed From Auction
Michael Jackson
The bed where Michael Jackson died is no longer for sale.
Julien's Auctions has removed the queen-sized headboard from its auction of items from 100 N. Carolwood Drive, Jackson's last residence.
Company president Darren Julien said Tuesday the mattress was never for sale, but he removed the carved headboard seen in evidence photos during the trial of Jackson's physician from the sale at the request of Jackson's estate.
The auction of art, furnishings and other items from the home where Jackson lived with his three children is set for Dec. 17.
Michael Jackson
Pfact, Pfiction & Pfarrert
Spec-Ops
The U.S. Special Operations Command is calling a former Navy SEAL's book bogus over its claims to describe the "real" version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
"It's just not true," U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Col. Tim Nye said. "It's not how it happened."
Laden with conspiracy theories and attacks on the Obama White House, Chuck Pfarrer's "SEAL Target Geronimo" claims an alternative version of the raid in which the SEAL team shot bin Laden within 90 seconds of arriving at the Pakistan compound where the al-Qaida mastermind was holed up.
Pfarrer claims the White House issued a fictional and damaging account of the raid that made the SEALs looks inept. He says President Barack Obama's speedy acknowledgement of the raid was a craven political move that rendered much of the intelligence gathered on the raid useless.
Pfarrer's account broke into Amazon's top 20 book sales list last week, and Pfarrer has appeared on Fox News, CNN and in other venues to promote it.
Spec-Ops
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Nov. 7-13. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: New England vs. New York Jets, NBC, 20.92 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 20.38 million.
3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 18.16 million.
4. "Country Music Association Awards," ABC, 16.4 million.
5. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 16.23 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.89 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.66 million.
8. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 15.07 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.71 million.
10. "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.07 million.
11. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 11.93 million.
12. "Football Night in America," NBC, 11.82 million.
13. "The OT," Fox, 11.8 million.
14. "Unforgettable," CBS, 11.72 million.
15. "Rules of Engagement," CBS, 11.57 million.
16. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.43 million.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.36 million.
17. "Once Upon a Time," ABC, 11.36 million.
19. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.299 million.
20. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 11.295 million.
Ratings
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