"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."  Carl Sagan, "Cosmos"

Cosmology is the study of the universe and humankind's place in it.  When DJDeedle was a  young geeky human, one of his heroes was the famed astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, Carl Sagan.  Your humble deejay even had the fortune to meet Sagan, and hear him speak just a year or two before the astronomer's unexpected death in 1996. 

This week, the week of Sagan's November 9 birthday, DJDeedle salutes him with a tapestry of sound that, like the cosmos, is fluid, but lumpy, sometimes dark, and sometimes sublimely beautiful.  This Deedlecast starts with Sagan's voice, and ends with a DJDeedle remix/mashup of two youtube creations, a moving and haunting tribute to Sagan and his work, "Cosmos," and an ode to science and man's place in the cosmos, featuring Sagan and his colleague scientists, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 

Tomorrow is Halloween, and DJDeedle has produced a Deedlecast to frighten and delight.  The horror movie genre has brought us so many deliciously terrifying moments, Deedle just couldn't pass up exploring the music of horror film. 

Need to keep that terrified feeling?  Try these Halloween themed Deedlecast specials from years past:

Note: "Horrify" was featured on the most excellent blog, Synthopia, today!

This week DJDeedle plugs you into the Groove Electric; a dynamic sound designed to energize you during these short autumn days. 

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This week, we're on full automatic in the hands of the computers.  Just sit back, and let DJDeedle and his processors do all the work.  Just sit back and enjoy the ride. 

Through the magic of Twitter, DJDeedle's had the great fortune of finding the work of Harold Pichol.  Harold's musical creation, "Capucine," has a sensual groove, and DJDeedle just couldn't resist tinkering with it, and mix/mashing it with Madonna's sensual groove, "Substitute for Love."

Harold's story, along with his other musical and artistic works, are available at his website: http://www.haroldito.com.  Check it out.

Also, you can follow him on twitter: @Har0ld

Come into Deedlecast Laboratories and hear what DJDeedle's cooked up for you.  This week, it's a collection of beats ranging from the rock, reggae, and R&B variety to beat break, metal, dub, hipop, and jazz. 

Remember, as Richard Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the Bucky Ball,  famously said, “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”

This week's Deedlecast experiment is just one of those unexpected outcomes.

Though the tunes in this Deedlecast have nothing to do with Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie, North by Northwest, the show starts with one of DJDeedle's favorite cheesy Cary Grant double entendre movie lines.

Heroes, the NBC television series people who possess unique genetic mutations giving them unusual, sometimes bizarre, abilities, returns for its new season on Monday.   

This week, DJDeedle uses his bizarre abilities to bring you your very own hero effect. 

We are a country of icons.  Yet we only seem to really see them after they've gone.  This week, DJDeedle mixes and mashes up icons of song, stage, and screen.  Woven into the fabric of American culture, these voices and sounds help to define who we are, whether we like it or not. 

It's Labor Day weekend, the traditional, as opposed to astronomical, end of the summer season.  We have this weekend to relax before our hectic Autumn schedule begins.  So, DJDeedle's decided we all need to chill out, and he's got just the sound to put you there.  This week, DJDeedle sets you adrift in the key of A major. 



 

August is almost over, but the summer heat is still sultry and intense. Time to play some hookey, skip home room, and jump into the deep end where its dark, cool, and just slightly dangerous. 

Come on in.  The water's fine.


If you just can't get enough of the heat, you can also try "Global Warming."
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"Evergreen" by Faithless is just one of those songs that speaks to DJDeedle, tugs at the heartstrings, and has begged for a DJDeedle remix for a number of years. So, at long last, here it is.

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair held on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock forty years ago changed the history of rock and roll.  For better or worse, the 32 acts in the Woodstock concerts captured the zeitgeist of the age with the diverse sounds of rock legends like Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, etc.  Though four decades have passed, and a fickle music industry and fans have diverged from the sound of 1969, the sounds of the 60s still live today as echos in modern rock, and modern rockers owe much to their Woodstock forebears.  Like the those at Woodstock, rock music has mutated, transformed, adapted, and survived.  This week DJDeedle salutes not Woodstock, but rock music itself, punk, metal, Brit, garage, grunge, indie, and even electronic.  The sound of this week's Deedlecast is rock music, but the flavor is definitely DJDeedle.  Enjoy this rock block.  

DJDeedle invites you to look into the eyes of the dragon.  In the dragon's lair all things meet their opposite. The future and the past, desire and regret, knowledge and oblivion, and of course love and . . . Well, you get the picture. 

Over thirty years ago the first digital arcade games took the U.S. and the world by storm.  Pong and Space Invaders revived the long moribund arcade industry, and spawned a digital revolution.  These early two-dimensional games set the game industry on fire, and the world would never be the same again. 

This week, DJDeedle harkens back to those early days with a little digital invasion of his own.  What digitalism did for games, digitalism has done to music as well.

It's time to be invaded. Are you ready?

For those of you who just can't get digital enough, check out "Twisted Digital" from September of 2007. 

Social networking is among the many things, like identity theft and pop-up advertising, made simpler and easier by modern digital technology.  It is not that we didn't meet people or stay in touch with friends and family before the internet connected us all to spam and Youtube. But with all this new connectivity, even staying in touch with people and meeting new people has been streamlined and systematized, and made almost instantaneous and compulsive.  The trouble is that with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and all the other networks, being privy at all times to our connections' many thoughts, moods, exclamations, whims, concerns, causes, photos, home videos, humors, disappointments, and the other detritus of the human endeavor can be vexing and overwhelming to say the least.  

Though we've famously been warned against it, DJDeedle's just a little proud of this techological terror he's constructed.  "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, with a little technology and techno added in by DJDeedle. 

Just a warning: It's Nine Inch Nails, you know, so there are some technically rude words in this single.

Artwork: Concept by DJDeedle, prodigious Photoshop skills courtesy of Chris Spinosa

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.  Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night become the touches of sweet harmony."



Some of these songs have been touched lightly, some have been shoved around a bit.  All have been touched in some way or another.  Let the sweet sounds of music creep into your ears. 

This week, DJDeedle invites you to step into the white room with black curtains near the station to experience the high times. 

Though High Times span generations, the clock always reads 4:20, and it's perpetually the time of the season to indulge in a little California dreaming.  Just a word of warning as you listen to this Deedlecast, there are a couple of rude words, and always remember what the doormouse said, "Keep your head!" 

Ladies and gentlemen, synchronize your watches.  This week DJDeedle reaches across time to tie together the old and the new, the fresh and the dated, bringing them into precision alignment. 

Warning: you may hear some rude words from time to time in this Deedlecast. 

Lots of old favorites packed in this single: Lauryn Hill, Roberta Flack, the Fugees, Phil Collins (in his Genesis days), Coolio (feat. L.V.), Bach, et al. 

Just good old fashioned fun, newly fashioned.

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.