M Is FOR MASHUP - December 10th, 2014
Mashup Showcase Hits The Airwaves
From DJ Useo
Well, you know I love me some fine bootlegged mashups. I would never have written this weekly column for seven years if I did NOT! Over the ten years of mashing I've done, I've discovered, ( & sometimes even interacted with ) innumerable talented home producers. That's why I decided to do a new 30 minute, bi-weekly podcast featuring only one mixer per show. The only theme I ask for is that the guest pick the tracks themselves, insuring that the show portrays them in the light they like best. The shows will keep me warm in "my old age". lol.
Now, it's not so easy to select approximately 27 minutes worth of tracks, not when you have a hundred or so lovely tunes in your back catalogue. It is fun, & rewarding though, so that reveals the second motivation of mine in releasing this series. I'm hoping to motivate the talents I like best into enjoying their output, & maybe even inspire MORE MIXING! So far, I've made nine episodes, with the next due to drop on the 15th of December. It's hard to describe exactly how happy I feel when I hear the shows afterward. All I know is it's mighty tough to keep from changing the pace to weekly!
As I look back over the shows so far, I observe that they maintain an excellence throughout. None of them use the same source musicians, for the most part, but each has honed their sense of great music into an audio rapier sharp enough to cut even the dullest ear. All of the shows have detailed playlists, & links to the mixers' sites, so you can obtain the broadcast singles, & tons of other tracks not heard in the show. Here's a full chronological & numbered list of all the shows so far. You can stream, or download the shows, so you can collect them all.
Mashup Showcase Number 00 - DJ Useo
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/mashup-showcase-number-zero-dj-useo )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/07/mashup-showcase-podcast-premiere.html )
Mashup Showcase Number 01 - Voicedude
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/mashup-showcase-w-dj-useo-number-01-voicedude )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/08/mashup-showcase-podcast-f-voicedude.html )
Mashup Showcase Number 02 - oki
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/mashup-showcase-w-dj-useo-number-02-oki )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/08/mashup-showcase-podcast-f-oki.html )
Mashup Showcase Number 03 - DJ Spider
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/mashup-showcase-number-03-dj-spider )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/09/mashup-showcase-number-03-dj-spider.html )
Mashup Showcase Number 04 - DJ Le Clown
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/mashup-showcase-number-04-dj-le-clown )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/10/mashup-showcase-number-04-dj-le-clown.html )
Mashup Showcase Number 05 - Lizzart
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/05-mashup-showcase-lizzart )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/10/mashup-showcase-number-05-lizzart.html )
Mashup Showcase Number 06 - TjT
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/06-mashup-showcase-tjt )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/11/mashup-showcase-number-06-tjt.html )
Mashup Showcase 07 - Solcofn
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/07-mashup-showcase-solcofn )
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/11/mashup-showcase-07-solcofn.html )
Mashup Showcase 08 - G4Gorilla
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/08-mashup-showcase-g4gorilla )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/12/mashup-showcase-07-g4gorilla.html )
Mashup Showcase 09 - MP3J
Coming December 15 2014!
If you like one of these shows, you'll love them all! So much more could be said about each individual producer, but the music says way more than I ever could, & it says it better. You'll be surprised how fast a 30 minute show flies past. You'll be longing for more! Then, there's the fact that good mashups always leave you loving to hear the source songs again.
You'll experience the phenomena yourself. Grab them all, they'll get you through the year end holidays in a great way.
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Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is
overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate
button on bartcop.com
But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note
isn't going to directly reach all of Bart's fans. So if you can repost
it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we
figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just
over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So
here's the signup link for this email list.
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Blames Atheist Conspiracy
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Despite being panned by professional critics, Cameron, who played Mike Seaver on "Growing Pains," is convinced that his film's painfully low rating from IMDB users is the result of "haters," "pagans" and an atheist conspiracy that was allegedly hatched on Reddit.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: New England vs. San Diego, NBC, 21.15 million.
2. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 15.14 million.
3. "The OT," Fox, 14.75 million.
4. NFL Football: Miami vs. N.Y. Jets, ESPN, 11.75 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 11.58 million.
6. "Football Night in America, Part 3," NBC, 11.51 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.48 million.
8. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.28 million.
9. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.23 million.
10. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 10.62 million.
11. College Football: Florida St. vs. Georgia Tech, ABC, 10.15 million.
12. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 9.64 million.
13. "Christmas at Rockefeller Center," NBC, 9.52 million.
14. "Peter Pan Live!" NBC, 9.21 million.
15. NFL Football: Dallas vs. Chicago, NFL Network, 9.11 million.
16. "I Love Lucy Christmas Special," CBS, 9.06 million.
17. "Modern Family," ABC, 9.02 million.
18. "CMA Country Christmas," ABC, 8.9 million.
19. "Survivor," CBS, 8.71 million.
20. "The Mentalist," CBS, 8.7 million.
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In Memory
Mary Ann Mobley
A former Miss America who went on to appear in movies with Elvis Presley and make documentary films around the world has died.
A spokesman for the University of Mississippi confirms Mary Ann Mobley Collins died Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California. She was 75.
Danny Blanton of Ole Miss says Collins was close friends with the university chancellor. She graduated from Ole Miss in 1958, the same year she won the Miss America crown.
She became an actress a few years later, with credits including such TV shows as "General Hospital," Diff'rent Strokes," and "Perry Mason," and films such as "Girl Happy" with Presley and "Three on a Couch" with Jerry Lewis. It was on that film she met her husband, Gary Collins, who died in 2012.
Mary Ann Mobley
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