An Important Announcement

As you can tell from recent history, it became harder and harder for me to do this, so I decided to change things around and I'll stop updating this blog. I won't take this down, though; I'll keep it up for perpetuity for people to look at and download stuff at anytime. My new movie blog is here, so please check that out.

Who Doesn't Love This Song?

If you’re wondering why I’m posting this now when I said that I was going to be on my trip, it got bumped from me leaving yesterday to me leaving this Sunday; don’t ask for the full story, but complications happened which prevented me from leaving when I was scheduled to; in hindsight the new days I’m gone may work out better for me anyhow. I’ll keep it short and sweet.

While I was looking for songs to put on a burned CD or two for my trip up north, I stumbled upon a mashup from DJ Erb. At his downloads page, you can spend either 50 cents on a particular tune or you can just download the free ones available.

The song in particular I'm pointing out is his mashup of one of the greatest songs of all time, Radar Love (who doesn't love that tune?) featuring vocals from two of the most popular rappers that appear in mashes, the Beastie Boys and Ludacris. It's good stuff and I think that more mashes need to be done with Golden Earring's classic song.

As my trip starts on the 2nd I'll be taking much of this month off. My next post here won't be until the weekend of August 22nd.

Steve Harris Is A Believer

I know, a day late, a dollar short, and all that. I'll do one last post by the 28th of July before I leave for my Illinois trip.

I got a tip on a new song from a local wrestling messageboard, of all things. A big fan of Iron Maiden made a post which was of a YouTube video of a new mashup involving that band and... The Monkees!

It's from a DJ I've talked about before, DJ Schmolli. You can download the song at his blog here. Hearing Bruce Dickinson singing over the oldies standard is quite surreal, yet great at the same time.

A Trio of Interesting Albums

As I'm exhausted tonight I'll keep it pretty brief. Right now at Mashuptown is a trio of albums that, while I haven't really listened to any of them yet, all sound intriguing.

ToTom doing an entire album of Bob Dylan mashups is certainly unique and it's a great idea.

DJ Zebra doing an entire album based on Woodstock is also a great idea, as hey next month is the 40th anniversary of that wonderful weekend, if you can believe it.

Finally, an entire album based on electro songs done by a variety of DJ's... thumbs up from me.

I'll be back next weekend.

Check Back Here This Upcoming Weekend

Unfortunately yet another calamity happened to me this past weekend; remember how I got a cheap computer around Thanksgiving due to problems with the old one and how it would be a temporary fix until the summer when a new one could be bought? Well, the 4th of July the cheap computer crashed and as it was a holiday I had to wait until Sunday to get a new one; I got a Hewlett-Packard and that should be better than the cheap one. But, that screwed up my schedule and thus I'll have to post something new this upcoming weekend.

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.