Today's musical landscape would be much different if not for the Supremes, and particularly, Diana Ross.  The Supremes were the most popular "girl group" of the 1960's, and the most successful vocal group of the period after the Beatles.  The Supremes released hit after hit, charting a dozen number one hits between 1964 and 1969.  Ultimately, in 1969, the original group split up, with Diana Ross going more or less solo, touring as Diana Ross & the Supremes, though without Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson. 

The influence of the Supremes was vital in shaping the Motown sound and R&B. Similarly, the influence of Diana Ross and her solo work on R&B and Disco cannot be understated.  The sounds they pioneered can be found throughout today's music, and modern musicians, both female and male, owe them a debt of gratitude for their groundbreaking work. This week, DJDeedle salutes the queens of popular music, both as a group and in their solo careers, the supremely special Supremes.

Tempo Ordinario:


Brace yourself.  This week's Deedlecast is definitely no ordinary tempo. 

DJDeedle has always found something magical about juxtaposing the high-tech and the low-tech, the synthetic and the organic.

DJDeedle's friends at Miniot in Holland have obliged DJDeedle's fascination by fashioning a case for his iPod Touch out of mahogany.  And to top it all off, they have stenciled the DJDeedle logo into the lid. 

There's nothing better than a nice slice of pie.  DJDeedle has loaded up this week's serving with many electronic layers, both familiar and new, and all wrapped the flaky crust you've come to expect.

With the economy in the toilet, gas prices at an all time high, rising inflation, falling wages, the housing bubble burst,and the stock market sagging, consumers are really feeling the pinch.  DJDeedle is implementing his own stimulus package, slashing tempos, dropping keys, and cutting and splicing, well, everything.

Midsummer is here, and the sultry nights set the mood for a different, slower, relaxed sound. 

Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" is one of the most recognizable and most popularly sampled tracks.  The original song was a huge hit in 1981 and 1982, no-doubt aided by the advent of MTV.  DJDeedle takes liberties with "Genius of Love," mixing in a flair here and there, as well as Gringo Star, Party Ben, Fergie, and Seal.

 

On July 15, 1960, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States.  In his address to the convention in the packed Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, he declared, among other things, that "the new frontier is here whether we seek it or not." 

In honor of President Kennedy's brave rhetoric that day, DJDeedle sends you to the very edge.  The new frontier is here. 

It's our country's birthday, but the presents are all for you!  With appropriate fanfare, DJDeedle serves you the fireworks, the icing, and the cake.

There's no Yankee Doodle here, just the songs you love.  With a fanfare, there's no end to what you can do. 

I know it's short notice, but if you happen to be free tomorrow night, Saturday the 28th, please join DJDeedle at the Duplex Diner for delicious food, cocktails, and live Deedlecast.  DJDeedle tunes will be starting at 9:30 and will continue until close.

2004 18th Street NW (18th and U Streets)

The Duplex and DJDeedle ask that you kindly leave your firearms at home.

Just a year ago, on June 29, 2007, Apple shocked the world with the introduction of the ultimate hand-held gadget to date -- the Iphone.  And next week, Apple will release it's second edition of their ultimate do-dad. 

The Iphone is a unique phenomenon in the culture: simultaneously pretentious and geeky.  Its sleek tactile functionality has made it almost a fetish for owners, and powerfully envy inducing for the rest of us.  Though DJDeedle and the Long-Suffering-One have been helpless to resist the multitude of other Apple products, both computers and ipods, we have thus far resisted the Iphone Borg implants.  We've managed this for two reasons:  (1)  the Iphone is locked to AT&T wireless service; and (2) we like our ipods, and we like our cell phones, but we do not want them to be the same device.  The last thing DJDeedle needs is phonecalls interrupting his musical bliss.

This Deedlecast is dedicated to both the Iphone haves and have-nots

A recording made by Thomas Edison in 1877 has long been thought to be the first artificially recorded sound.  It turns out, the first recordings were made in 1860 by Frenchman, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, using a Phonautograph.  The recording medium was merely paper covered in soot, so the sound literally emerges from smoke.   As a result of advances in audio technology, these phonautograph recordings can now be heard again using lasers which do not damage or degrade these precious artifacts. 

This Deedlecast starts with the very first sound every recorded using the phonautograph (albeit altered quite a bit by dj magic).  There are some other similarly altered phonautographic bits and pieces sprinkled throughout the show.

Learn more about the phonautograph.

DJDeedle loves the summer, but it's only the second week of June and already the summer's become cruel.  Happily, DJDeedle's longtime friend, and an extremely talented musician, Walter knows how to take Deedle's mind of the heat.  Walter is acquainted with not just DJDeedle, but other more bona fide musicians, and took the liberty of forwarding his Brion's mix/remix of Sean Paul's unreleased "Me Luv."  Of course, Deedle couldn't help himself and presents "I Am Me Cruel Summer Love," comprised of Brion's  "Me Luv" (with Sean Paul) v. Massive Attack's "I Am" v. Ace of Base's "Cruel Summer".


Many thanks, Brion, Walter, and, of course, Sean Paul.  When "Me Luv" is released, please buy it! 

DJDeedle welcomes you to the Fractal Lounge:  a setting of unusual melodies and intricate repeating patterns evolving into something entirely different and surprising. 

A fractal often has the following features:

• It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
• It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
• It is self-similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
• It has a simple and recursive definition.^[2]

Let's turn our attention to humankind's favorite subject, SEX. 

This Deedlecast contains adult themes and may not be suitable for listeners of all ages.

DJDeedle presents some appropriately mixed music for these mixed-up times. 


Caution:  This Deedlecast contains some terms inappropriate for mixed company. 

NOTE: Reposted due to technical difficulties.

It's Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer season.  While Memorial Day is supposed to be a holiday commemorating American men and women who have died in military service to their country, most of the country takes the opportunity to ignore the more serious aspect of the holiday, and take the weekend to get loaded and have a good time.  Please feel free to enjoy your Memorial Day holiday, get loaded, and have a good time.  Just don't forget all those service members we've lost, and those still at risk.  This Deedlecast is dedicated to them.
 




Special Note:  What could be more American than Tammy Wynette?  The late (yet immortal) Ms. Wynette makes a guest appearance this week on Deedlecast along with her friends, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs or KLF) in DJDeedle's special arrangement of a surprising classic. 

DJDeedle brings it -- the biggest beatdown around.  Can you take it? 

Friday's Deedlecast, "What Lola Wants," featured a mash of Mika's "Relax (Take It Easy)."  Who knew Mika was so popular?  Several requests this weekend have convinced DJDeedle to go through his Mika bits and bytes and give you another, extended, flavor of "Relax." 

You've got to learn a little trick whereby a man climbs up above his fellow man.  The trick is not who does what, but who does what, when. 

All the while, though, keep in mind the biggest trick of all:  



Caution:  Lola wants some rude language here and there.

DJDeedle studios has been bombarded with high energy particles.  This Deedlecast is a high energy transmission from DJDeedle Studios directly to your ears. 

Inspired by a good friend's, and fellow BBC fan's, blog post about BBC News' revamped image, title music, and opening sequence, this is a mix of three of the incomparable David Lowe's BBC sequences, and seven other BBC 24 News countdowns, announcements, and stings from the early 80s to the present.

Don't forget, the next Deedlecast airs on its usual Friday, and the next news bulletin is at the top of the hour.

This week, DJDeedle serves a special hot plate of delicacies and old favorites. 

Bon appétit!

Inspired by countless trips on Washington, DC's underground transport system, the "Metro," this Deedlecast attempts to capture the comical and frenetic quality of both the system and its patrons.  Just put on your mp-3 player, sit back, relax, and watch the people (and your wallet, purse, and other valuables).  Like the people on the Metro, this podcast is quite the variety, and you never know what's coming next. 

A word of advice for our visitors in our fair city for the National Cherry Blossom Festival (March 29 - April 13, 2008): please be kind enough to let people exit the train before trying to enter, and remember to stand on the right and walk on the left of the escalators. Also, no eating, drinking or loud music either!

Here's a little rearrangement/reinterpretation of Télépopmusik's "Breathe."  The radio/album edit was used in a 2002 commercial for the Mitsubishi Outlander.  I'm not sure if anyone bought the car because of the wonderful song, but I'm sure Télépopmusik sold a lot of albums because of the commercial. 

This rearrangements contains extesive elements of another of Télépopmusik's songs from their Genetic World album, "Love Can Damage Your Health," a Deedle favorite some of you may remember from the February 16, 2007 episode of Deedlecast, Ambience Chasers.  

This Deedlecast is filled with the worst of the bad: thieves, deadbeat dads, dirty old men, heartbreakers, pimps, Michael Jackson, of course, and not a few rock stars.

Be warned, though, as we all know - Bad boys use rude words!

To round out your full dose of Depeche Mode, DJDeedle presents his remix of "Dream On." 

For those of you who still haven't had your fill of Depeche Mode for the week, check out "Everything Counts" - Deedle's Housecleaning, Part 1

A life lived to its fullest inevitably means the occasional broken heart.  The immediate aftermath, the rebound, is guaranteed to be a touchy and quixotic period.  DJDeedle brings you the unique sound of the rebound. 

DJDeedle welcomes you to the wrong side of Hollywood.  A neighborhood of  murders, where even the roaches spit out paperclips.  And outside every porchway there is a small dish of food that is eaten by morning, we presume by a cat.  It is the whorehouse district of Los Angeles, which is right off of Hollywood Boulevard and Western.  An action spot.

If you happen to be tuning in, friendly NY cab driver, thanks for exposing me to Kofi B, and please let me know if what I've done to his tunes amuses.

It's time to slow down, relax, take off all the harsh edges.  DJDeedle presents a Pan-Sonic Incident, capturing the rich, warm sound not often present in the age of digital jazz and hip-hop. 

Although DJDeedle hasn't bought into this theory yet: for decades, audiophiles have believed that any sound piped through an amplifier using fragile, short-lived vacuum tubes becomes silkier and richer, even digital sound, and sound in compressed formats like mp-3.  Your humble DJ would be interested in hearing from any Deedlecast listener who happens to use a vacuum tube-based amplifier to listen to today's offering. 

Very likely by the time you are reading this, the long suffering one and I will be well on our way to our annual pilgrimage to Kauai.

No need to worry, though. Your superstar DJ has stocked up on Deedlecasts; and you can count on your weekly episodes even while DJDeedle basks on the beach.

What's this funny music on Deedlecast?  Shaking things up a bit, a rock show is what we've got for you.  A rock n' roll Deedlecast?  It may smell a little funny for a Deedlecast, but a little rock and metal is nice for a change.

Note:  This rock show may have a couple of foul smelling words in it. 

Everyone loves the music of the 80s.  For those of you who, like Deedle, just can't get enough 80s music, here are links to a host of 80s heavy Deedlecast episodes and some 80s singles:

April 18, 2008
Blue Plate Special

March 21, 2008
Policy of Truthiness

February 1, 2008
Insomniac 80s

January 26, 2008
Gangsta Amadeus (Single)

January 26, 2008
Relax (Deedle's Flavor Mix) (Single)

December 31, 2007
Bluest Monday (Single)

December 29, 2007
Crowded House of Rattlesnakes  (Single)

December 26, 2007
Everything Counts (Deedle's Plenary Mix) (Single)

November 23, 2007
Chains of the Familiar

October 5, 2007
Kiss FM

September 21, 2007
Shouting at Me

July 13, 2007
Saved by Don Quichotte (Single)

May 11, 2007
Reagan Mixed and Remixed

April 6, 2007
Madonna's America

March 9, 2007
Miss Jackson

November 26, 2006 (single)
She Blinded Me With Saturday All Night Long

September 15, 2006
Dash and Daring-Do

September 8, 2006
Most Sensational Inspirational Celebrational Muppetational...

September 1, 2006
Its Would Be, It Would Be So Nice

June 9, 2006
Like It Was Yesterday

April 7, 2006
Show Respect for Michael

March 2, 2006
The Miracles of Computer Technology

When the day's over and city's asleep and quiescent, DJDeedle finds his muse. Most people count sheep when they can't sleep.  DJDeedle counts beats and measures.

This week's creation of Deedle insomnia is designed to remind you why we were all sleepless in the 80s.

Another 80s single.  Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" with a little help from Nelly, Ludacris, Luniz, et al.

Here's a special mix of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 1980's classic "Relax," along with Etienne de Crecy, and David Craig (with a little help from G.H.P.).