It's Independence Day weekend, and many of you will likely be off to the beach or otherwise chasing the sun. So, this week DJDeedle provides you with a little collection of tunes to make both your journey and your destination enjoyable, even if following the sun doesn't figure into your plans.

Ian Fleming's James Bond is not the most complex of characters.  But the franchise of films has given us some of our most memorable cinematic moments and cultural clichés.  Time marches on for everyone but James Bond, who never seems to get older (except for that unfortunate return of Sean Connery at 53 in Never Say Never Again).  The Bond fighting megalomaniac billionaires and malevolent governments in 2009 hasn't changed much since Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), though the world has changed drastically from those Cold War Ian Fleming days.  The whole Bond milieu is a parallax, where the character of James Bond is an almost fixed point with the world moving rapidly around him. 

This week, DJDeedle takes some of the iconic Bond themes and sounds as his fixed point and moves the musical world rapidly around them.  And because going to the movies just isn't the same without it, if you listen carefully, DJDeedle's even thrown in the popcorn. 


A word of warning:  This Deedlecast contains some rude words, for your ears only.


NOTE:  This Deedlecast was featured on the synth and electronic music site, Synthopia - the place for synth and electronic music news.  Check it out: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/06/27/007-james-bond-electronica-megamix/

Caffeine, everyone's favorite psychoactive stimulant, can have a profound effect on the human brain and psyche.  It picks us up when we are down, speeds us up when we are slow, can cause and cure headaches, can leave us jittery and on edge, and sometimes drops us just as quickly as it picks us up. This Deedlecast is a fully caffeinated blend designed to have a similarly profound effect.  Careful, you might find yourself addicted.

June is Gay Pride Month, and this weekend in Washington, DC is Capital Pride weekend.  Though some even in the gay community think that the time for pride parades and festivals has passed, given the the civil rights gains and losses of the past year, it's more important than ever to be visible and demonstrate our renewed determination. This is the 21st century and civil rights are the killer apps we all need in equal measure, regardless of your operating system, gay or straight.  This weekend, go gay.  It's better than sex.  Just a note:  this Deedlecast contains some strong emotions, sentiment, and language.  Also, remember - parties and festivals are the only kinds of gay bash allowed - ever.

News that Vince Shlomi, aka the "Slap Chop guy" or the "Sham Wow guy," was arrested for felony battery when a game of slap and tickle with a Miami prostitute turned violent, prompted DJDeedle to take some liberties with Slap Chop guy's infomercial.  Actually, DJDeedle took liberties with a youtube spoof, Slap Rap Featuring Vince (Slapchop Remix), that takes its own liberties with that famous infomercial to hilarious effect.  This show also features a musical take on Christian Bale getting slap happy himself and throwing a superstar sized tantrum.   DJDeedle strenuously opposes and abjures violence of any kind, particularly by infomercial and film stars with inflated egos.  So, this week, let's all get a little slap happy at their expense. 

DJDeedle's so pissed off about the outcome of the Proposition H8 case in California that it's just put him off of weddings altogether.

Though Plan 9, implemented today, is a good start, DJDeedle thinks it's never too early to escalate. So, here's a special single lashing out at the unfairness of it all.  Listen and rage against the unbearable whiteness of weddings.

Though we may have crashed and burned in our fight against the bigotry in California, it's a nice day to start again. 

We have lost our fight against California's hateful Proposition 8 at the polls and in the courthouse.  DJDeedle thinks it time to pull out all the stops for a change of plan against Prop 8.  It's time for Plan 9. 

It's sad that this was necessary, but we warned you.  Sleeper cells, get to work.   Unleash Plan 9, the ultimate gay bomb. 

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer season.  So, on this holiday, it's time to switch gears and think about cookouts, trips to the pool and the beach, and tall cool cocktails to cut the heat.  While you are enjoying the summertime pace, and the traditional activities of the season, here are some summer toe-tappers to keep the rhythm right DJDeedle style. 

We Americans love our pop stars.  But we are a fickle people, and today's idol is tomorrow's faded fashion.  This week, DJDeedle brings together some of our stars of the moment with pop idols from the past, some of whom may have outlasted their fifteen minutes of idolatry and become infamous classics. 

The Cylons were created by man.

They rebelled.

They evolved.

They look and feel human.

Some are programmed to think they are human.

There are many copies.

And they really know how to throw down.

Get your inner Cylon on. 

Let the attack begin.


Warning:  This Deedlecast has some fracking feldercarb language in it. 

At last, you truly can enjoy the silence.  DJDeedle gives you the silent treatment the way it really should be served:  Dramatic. Very dramatic. 

"Hi fi" is a term used by audiophiles to refer to high quality reproduction of sound, so free of noise and distortion, and so highly tuned with accurate frequency response as to be extremely faithful to the original performance. 

Though the component songs in this Deedlecast certainly were never performed quite like this originally,  DJDeedle stays faithful to their original spirit and provides them to you in virtual hi fi.

This week DJDeedle turns technological lemons into a sweet surprise.  DJDeedle invites you to the Print\Jam.  Let the machines do their thing, and some familiar things may turn out in ways you'd never expect. 

Everyone's story deserves a happy ending.  But when it looks like that it's just not in the cards, sometimes you just have to pull one from thin air. 

All's well that ends well.  And above all, no matter how fictional, end it well. 

DJDeedle's back from the beach, back to work, totally jetlagged, and feeling a bit like  zombie.  But that's not so bad.  Despite their somewhat deserved reputation for being dead and spending most their time wandering the Earth eating people's brains, Zombies have a culture of their own, and often they really know how to seize the moment and party.  This week, soak up some Zombie culture.  It's anything but dead. 

A word of caution: This Zombiecast has a couple of rude words in it - but what do you expect from dead people?

The nation's elites, from politicians to leaders of business and finance, have been caught playing fast and loose with the rules.  More serious than smoking in the gym and calling the English teacher "Daddio," they've tarnished our national reputation, run up our bills, robbed our savings, and stalled our economy. Now that it's time to take them to task, they've all come down with Charlie Brown Syndrome, crying, "why is everybody always picking on me!?"  While we contemplate how to punish these scoundrels for their misdeeds, let's enjoy a little music, wait for our piece of the stimulus package, and watch the chickens come home to roost.

A different sound, a change of style. Sooner or later, it happens to everyone. Sound collage, experimental melodies, classic songs made over, and some tinkering with the sublime sonics of the master of ambient drone, John Pemble.  DJDeedle uses some of Pemble's sublime sonics as the canvas on which to paint other melodies and mysterious, but beautiful, sounds. 

Can't get enough of John Pemble, check out his site and buy his sonics at Johnpemble.com.

Can't get enough of Deedle mashing John Pemble's sonics, check out Deedle's John Pemble mash, Out of Time v. Intimate Softness.

As you listen to this week's Deedlecast, DJDeedle is very likely making the long journey across time zones from Eastern to Hawaiian.  With the start of daylight saving time last week, and all these time zones to consider this week, telling time is getting a bit confusing.  It doesn't matter what time it is or what time zone you happen to be in, because this week everyone is on Coordinated Universal Time.

 

Next Friday, DJDeedle leaves for two weeks in Kauai.  But before then, there is much to do, work to be done, Deedlecasts to to be polished and posted.  Such a busy period requires a little self-imposed discipline.  This week DJDeedle subjects you to a strict regimen to keep you focused, on task, and above all things, busy.  DJDeedle demands determination and results.  Come correct and get wise to this track.  Step to it, yo!

What do Peter Gabriel, Human League, Don Ho, Timo Maas, and the Monkees have in common?  Ordinarily nothing.  DJDeedle couldn't let Charles Darwin's 200th birthday pass without involving all those artists in some shocking monkey business. 

Happy belated birthday, Charles.  We owe you for your brilliant theory that makes all modern biology possible, and for all the shockingly fun monkey business it has caused. 

Though DJDeedle isn't one to glom on to movies just because they win awards, for some weeks since the movie's release, he's been captivated by the music from Slumdog Millionaire, this year's Oscar winner for Best Picture, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.

This week, DJDeedle takes liberties with the movie's score as well as the sounds of the subcontinent, from Bhangra to Bollywood. 

Computers, the internet, and digital technology have altered forever the relationship between musical artists and their fans and listeners.  Digital artists, particularly bootleggers, have altered this relationship further using computers to rework classics and forgotten favorites, weaving them into the unique 21st Century sound, not quite old, and not entirely new.

The "download," the essential ethereal link between you and DJDeedle, is the last step in the creative process.  Without the magic of the download, Deedlecast would not be possible.  This week's Deedlecast salutes the efficient and effective system by which you get your weekly dose of the 21st Century sound. 

"Downloading" marks the third anniversary of DJDeedle's podcasts. For 156 weeks now, DJDeedle has brought you the freshest sounds around, indulging his passion for mashup, remix, sound collage, and electronic esoterica. The some 6,240 minutes of thus far of Deedlecast have been a joy to fashion and provide, and DJDeedle looks forward to many many more.  So, once again, this week, as with that week in February 2006 and every week since, face the music with DJDeedle.  

A few rude words in this download. 

Today is George Washington's birthday, and yesterday was Abraham Lincoln's.  On Monday, because everyone likes a Monday off, we honor the births of these two American presidents who saved the nation from threats to its very existence.  Today, though, DJDeedle honors our new president, Barack Obama, who singlehandedly changed to tempo of the nation at this critical time.  For the next four years, maybe eight, we dance to the beat of DJ Obama.  

This week, kung fu fighting gets more than a little exciting.  One hit wonders, Carl Douglas and Vivian Hawke's somewhat culturally insensitive 1974 classic finds new life in the 21st Century, a skip into a brand new trip.

Join DJDeedle for the illest symphony.  Some old maestros meet the voices and rhythms of today.  Hemiola meets hip-hop.  A little Bach, a little Beethoven, a lot of unexpected and surprising sounds and voices - DJDeedle's Illharmonic orchestra. 

A word of warning: Some words in this Deedlecast might fog your opera glasses. 

This week, the unique sounds of Deedlecast return to Body Smith, DJDeedle's training gym.  Deedle's tunes have been missing from the gym for some months while Body Smith made some modifications and upgrades to its sound system.  Now, as before, at various times throughout the day, new, unaired Deedlecasts, as well as some old favorites can be heard on both floors throughout the 14th Street location.  If you hear something that's not what you expected, expect that it is Deedlecast.  

No need to pull out your change for this jukebox.  The tunes are on DJDeedle.   This week DJDeedle brings you a selection of heroes of the jukebox

Isn't it lovely when things work well together?  This week, DJDeedle brings together some primarily 80's sounds whose simple interaction should provide just the touch of excitement you need to pull you out of your day-after-holiday doldrums. 

crys·tal·ize (krst-lz)

1. To coalesce into an extremely hard, ordered repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions.

Musicogenic epilepsy is a form of reflex or affective epilepsy, and involves autonomic, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional reactions to selected musical stimuli.  The associated musicogenic seizures are generally believed to be caused by the juxtaposition of musical sounds and frequencies that are incomprehensible to the human brain, or that evoke emotional reactions shocking to the psyche. 

Sound frightening?  It's just the normal state of things on Deedlecast, and this week's Deedlecast is designed to get all your synapses firing:  This is your brain on music.  If you happen to be prone to such seizures, please refrain from enjoying Deedlecast while driving or operating heavy machinery.  

Also, if a rude word or two flips your switch, be warned there are a few in this show. 

Portmanteau

port·man·teau \pört-ˈman-(ˌ)tō\

noun

Inflected Form(s):

plural port·man·teaus or port·man·teaux \-(ˌ)tōz\

Etymology:

Middle French portemanteau, from porter to carry + manteau mantle, from Latin mantellum — more at port

This week's show takes a quieter, mellower tone. The components of this Deedlecast are each blends of two or more distinct sounds or songs, portmanteaux themselves.

In fact, even the words Deedlecast and podcast are portmateaux.

Once the cornerstone of hand-made mixing, the art of the mixtape essentially has been lost, a casualty of sometimes cruel technological progress and fickle fashion.  Somehow, a drag-and-drop iTunes playlist just doesn't have the magic of a lovingly and painstakingly crafted mixtape labored over for hours in unglamorous real-time analog.  The casette tape has gone the way of the dodo, and even the compact disk rides off into the technological sunset. 

But there is life after life for the mixtape in the virtual afterworld: a place where every song is selected with utmost care, enjoyed in real-time, every minute savored, and variety and innovation transcending what many saw as the cramped and archaic medium of the cassette tape.   DJDeedle presents the mixtape essentials.  A salute to cassette culture. 

Caution:  As with any good mixtape, there are few choice words in this one.

Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies -- knock me your lobes.

Hipster or Hepcat, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early '40s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including their manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes.

What does it mean to be hip? The hip thing is to be able to perform the exactly appropriate action at all times, and that not easy, daddio. When in doubt, be cool. That's all there is to it.

DJDeedle's friend, Nick, has launched a tasty new website all about food.  Nick calls his creation, "Macheesmo." 

What is Nick's website all about? 

What does "Macheesmo" mean?  Let Nick tell you:


Get your Macheesmo on at:  http://www.macheesmo.com/

Just in time for Halloween, DJDeedle toys with the laws of nature, and with his own hands constructs a musical mash monster by sewing together pieces of other people's tunes and charging them with a sudden flash of inspiration.

It's alive!  ALIVE!