Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 3

I'll keep it brief again here. While I'm not too familiar with most of the tunes presented at this Mashuptown link, it's 23 songs that are either mashups or remixes, so that should satisfy your desire for tunes from him. The comments sections has links to some other sites that will provide tunes, so that's something you should look at too.

I'll be back the 4th of July weekend with at least one relevant mashup to the holiday.

Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 2

I'm pressed for time now so all I have to say is that to look and download a mashup that I wrote about last summer that involves MJ and The Pussycat Dolls and it did the miracle of making the latter actually tolerable, go here.

I'll be back tomorrow and that'll be more substantial of a post than this one.

Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 1

To copy and paste from my other music blog:

Well, I certainly wasn’t planning on doing another one of these so soon but of course with the big news that broke early yesterday evening for me, it’s something that I feel I have to do. Now, without taking into account how he was in real life-and it’s obvious that whether or not you believe those charges against him (I probably should look more into those cases before deciding one way or another, but I’ve heard that those accusers and their families were less than credible, so who knows what the truth actually is), he had obvious mental problems-you have to say that he made some incredible music. I have no idea whether or not those child molestation charges were true but either way it’s sad that he had an abusive father and ended up being messed up in the head from spending most of his life being a celebrity; as it’s been proven MANY times before, being a celebrity, especially these days with those awful cockroaches known as the paparazzi, seems like it’s not even worth it as it’s caused many casualties and people dying way too young with all the press and attention forcing people to do-as Michael did-to turn to drugs and alcohol and that along with whatever mental illnesses he always had, and it’s unfortunate that someone who was so talented and made some great music in the 70’s and 80’s lost his mind, allegedly did some horrific things, and even without that, just acted *strange* and his music career wasn’t the same. I don’t know if I can faithfully say “RIP” to him for obvious reasons but I’m still shocked that one of the most important figures in music history passed away unexpectedly.

Between that, Farrah Fawcett passing away on the same day after having to fight cancer for the past few years, Ed McMahon a few days prior, David Carradine dying and the way that happened, the death of Japanese wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa (a big deal to me) and the fake rumors yesterday about both Jeff Goldblum *and* Harrison Ford passing away, and it’s been quite the unfortunate month.

So, today through Sunday I will point out some mashups that involve him; of course, due to the number of great pop/R&B songs he created, there hasn't been a lack of great tunes involving his music.

Tonight I'll point out two tunes that I enjoy a whole lot. The first one is from DJ Party Ben. At this link you can hear Promiscuous With You, which is a combo of MJ's Rock With You and Nelly Furtado/Timbaland's Promiscuous Girl; it was quite the feat in that I don't really care for the latter but combining it with that Jackson song made it pretty great.

The second tune is Saysayism Allstar Jam, from DJ Lobsterdust. At this link you can download the tune, which has the music from the MJ/Paul McCartney song Say Say Say and adds in a bunch of vocals from artists old and new. It's very groovy.

I'll be back tomorrow with at least one new mashup.

It's Not The Pyts

With this post I will mention a DJ I stumbled upon while looking at BeeMP3 for a particular song on there-oh what a night-and I found a mashup from a DJ I had not heard of before. I went over to his page and I'll present to you Mr. Pytski, from The Netherlands, or Holland if you will.

Looking at his Mix Downloads page you'll see that he has a large list of mashups he created. Clicking on each link offers up some details on the song (always a nice touch), a download link and the ability to stream the song before downloading it. I'm sure you'll find something that you'll like. I like Walk This Way, Don't Bring Me Down and I'm So Excited In Da Club, in particular.

I'll be back Friday the 3rd with a mashup that I hope will be related to the big day on the 4th.

Check Back Tomorrow Night

The latest thing to impede my doing this on time is that on a whim I decided to head on down to the Miami area on Friday, mainly due to boredom and me needing to do something out of the norm. I got back Saturday night, only to go to a wrestling show, so on Sunday and Monday I had to write about both experiences for my other pages, and then today I was occupied with something else, but I got some unexpected good news so in a bit I'll be going out on the town... point is, I'll be back tomorrow night to do this, I promise.

Electric

Today I decided to reference something I mentioned awhile back, but this time add a little more to it; hey, I’m stumped as to what else to talk about, so that’s what I’m going to do. I spent some days thinking about what song I should pick. I finally went with one that I can still listen to today and never get tired of.

I first talked about it in this post from the last day of 2008, which was really a few links that brought you a cornucopia of the best mashups from last year. The one I’m going to talk about is number 2 on this list. It’s a combo of Justice’s remix of MGMT’s Electric Feel and Notorious B.I.G.’s Nasty Boy. As for each group, Justice is a group that I should go ga-ga over but they’re hit and miss with me. Some of their stuff is great but sometimes I’m “meh” to it. MGMT, though, is a band that I think is crap all the time, and Justice’s remix of that tune improves it 1000 fold. Mixing it with the vocals from Biggie is pretty sweet and while I’m mainly familiar with this one song when it comes to the oeuvre of Brooklyn's ddpesh, that tune is a great one to remember from him. I also think that there need to be more blending of rap and electro.

I'll be back this upcoming weekend with another song.

What Will Happen To Me Next?

Unfortunately, I had yet more stuff that I had to deal with which delayed me posting anything here, including some idiot impersonating me on a bad local messageboard! I had to write and mention it on my pages, first off, then register for that site to prove that the impostor was indeed that... so yeah it's been a hassle.

So, I'll keep it simple here and tell y'all about a site I found just recently which is a nice place for the newest mashups, especially if they're from the Netherlands. Yes, a Dutch blog about mashups! It's Mashup Facts. While part of it is in Dutch so thus most of you can't read it, it is still easy enough to find songs, whom they're by, and download them. So, enjoy.

I'll be back this weekend, unless more calamities pop up, that is.

Social Networking

Just to let you know, for purposes of MySpace/Facebook blogs and Livejournal wrestling posts (although probably once in awhile I'll mention the music pages) go to twitter.com/blairpac to check out my thoughts; I'm still not a big fan of that site and a lot of it is BS (especially with the "celebrity tweets", most of whom are by their handlers rather than the celebrity themselves) but I'll still try it out, if only for a little bit.

Still, I'll be back this weekend; I've just been way too tied up as of late to concentrate on this. Sorry. But, I will post a new song that I'll talk about this weekend.