Lastday, Capricorn 29's. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins. Enter the Carousel. This is the time of renewal.

Welcome to the 23rd Century: A perfect world of total pleasure, With just one catch...

 

Don't even think about running.    Remember, be strong and you will be renewed. 

Dystopia never sounded so good.

 

 

There is an inexorable force in the cosmos, that begins where everything ends. 

We have never sent them directly, yet we know they are there, lurking win dark star clusters.  Or wandering the dustlands of the galaxies, where they prey on stars or swallow planets whole.  Our Milkyway may harbor millions of these massive black holes, the ultra-dense remnants of dead stars. 

There's evidence of something even more ominous. A breed of black holes that have reached incomprehensible size and destructive power.  Supermassive black holes.  They are out there, roaming the cosmos, eating planets and stars.  Cross the event horizon with DJDeedle and experience the true singularity. 

Remember, in space, no one can hear you scream.

When DJDeedle was a kid, he watched endless hours of the old television series Mission Impossible. This week DJDeedle tries to capture the cool modern jazz feel of the classic Mission Impossible television series, and the action-packed, fast-paced feel of the movie version of the Mission Impossible franchise. 

A word of caution: some rude words in this Deedlecast - PG-13.

Remember how much fun we used to have when we were under imminent threat of nuclear annihilation by the Soviet Union?  Well, it's about time we brought back the kind of fun only such an existential crisis provides. 

With fear of surprise attack back in fashion again, DJDeedle brings you some sounds for the new atomic age.  This week, DJDeedle makes rampant paranoia, coupled with useless advice from the government, fun again.  Remember, when the attack comes, duck and cover!  Or coat your house in plastic and duct tape! Or cry uncontrollably. Or something.  But have fun while you do it. 


Welcome to the new atomic age. 

Yazoo, also known as Yaz in the U.S., were an 80s English band formed by former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clark and singer Alison Moyet.  Their hits "Don't Go" and "Situation" made the group big in the U.S., but the band would soon split, and Moyet would move on to a successful solo career.  A long time fan of Yaz, DJDeedle put together this single, "Yaz Attack," comprised of "Don't go" and bits and pieces of "Situation" versus an assortment of other artists and songs in 2007.  It was not posted on DJDeedle.com then, and was mainly distributed to a few friends and fans.  DJDeedle has dug this classic mashup of classics single out of his deep freeze to 2010 and a much wider audience.

Does the first week of 2010 find you a little sluggish?  No need to worry. DJDeedle's got the shock to get your heart beating and your feet moving into the new year. 

The future is now on Deedlecast.  An event has has been triggered in the continuum, the t[w]imeline has been compromised.  A small parcel of t[w]ime, a window, has opened into the henceforward. A message, the Future Edition, has arrived from 2034.  No need to fear the future, though much of it may seem strange, it's sounds are more familiar than one would expect.

Though DJDeedle usually faces the music every Friday, this week and next, Deedlecast arrives on Thursday so your tunes will be handy for Christmas and New Year's Day. 

This week, DJDeedle indulges the audiophiles in the audience with a little of this and a little of that to test the highs and lows, and the limits and levels, of your system's woofers and tweeters.  So, if you happen to get a fancy new sound system, a new ipod, new speakers, or new computer from Santa, this week's Deedlecast uses the full range of sound and tone to ensure your new toy is up to Deedlecast standards.

It's the holiday season again.  While tradition can be fun, even the comforting and familiar Christmas sound could use a makeover.  This year, as in the past, DJDeedle reworks the holiday sound to feature the familiar and traditional with the new and unexpected. 

Check out DJDeedle's holiday offerings from years past.


Programming note:  since both Christmas and New Year's Day fall on Fridays this year, Deedlecast will air on Thursday (Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve) both those weeks!

As winter sets in, the days are short and the nights are long, the weather turns chill, and we find ourselves hard pressed to leave our comfy homes.  When the need to dance strikes, though, what are we to do?  Not to worry!  We can always dance to the the radio.  Not that crap that comes over the airwaves, though - DJDeedle's radio, DanceRadio. 

This week, tune to the groove, crank up this Deedlecast, and dance like no one's watching. 

Need more DJDeedle radio? Try:

Sometimes to get the result you want, you have to play a little good-cop-bad-cop, the hard with the soft, the rough with the smooth, the gentle with the cruel.  This week's Deedlecast plays all those cards and breaks down even the toughest veneer, the most hardened felon, the baddest riff, the blackest beat.  Before listening to this show, you may want to call your lawyer.  

This holiday week, DJDeedle dials the beat down a little. Or does he? This Deedlecast is all sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, and you'll never guess what's coming next. 

Technology is notoriously fickle.  What today is state-of-the art is laughably dated tomorrow.  Though the digital world may be moving from quaint 32-bit to zippy 64-bit, this digital deejay is in no hurry. 

Find all this computer architecture stuff a little mystifying? No worry.  Leave it all to DJDeedle - for now, your 32-bit DJ.  This week's Deedlecast weaves the old and the new, the digital and the analog, the electronic and the acoustic. The music may be virtual, but the DJ is very real. 

They've arrived unexpectedly, and it appears they'd like to stay.  Beware of visitors bearing gifts. 

This week, DJDeedle brings you the sounds you need to keep your sanity when it looks like there's no escape. 

A piece of Friday's Deedlecast, Cosmology, this single is 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.

The beauty of the song is not the voices and scraps of sound, but the way they are put together. 

"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. 

Need more musical volts?  Try:

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.