Deedlecast

This week's Deedlecast steps out of our normal space-time continuum, and explores other dimensions -- dimensions unbounded by the spatial length, depth, height, and durational constraints we live in every day. Join DJDeedle as he goes interdimensional.

This week, there's a new sound in Funky Town.  It's the finale of 80s in April.  Once again, DJDeedle rewinds you to the sounds of the 80s, but with a 21st Century flavor.  

In the 1980s, the days of the record album were eclipsed by the cassette tape, with a new kind of hiss, fast forward, and rewind.  The age of the boom box dawned, and soon we were almost entirely off the record.  

This week DJDeedle, through digital means, pulls some of those sounds previously trapped in desultory analog off the record and off the tape, bringing them together, minus the hiss, with sounds of a new era.  Love it or hate it. Say what you want about 80s music, it's all off the record. 

DJDeedle remembers fondly that day back in the 80s when video killed the radio star.  Music videos were something new and amazing, and MTV arrived on the scene to provide them to us on cable. But not for everyone. One had to beg the local cable company to carry MTV.  

To be truly part of the MTV generation, one has to remember the excitement when MTV dawned, and VJs ruled the television, serving us hour after hour of brit pop, synth pop, new wave, rock, and even some mainstream rap (and ultimately some hip-hop).  New artists, like Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Bryan Adams, and Thomas Dolby arrived on our screens, daily.  And groups like Yaz, U2, Duran Duran, Wham, the Cure, the Smiths, and the Police echoed from every school dance, prom, and boom box.  

This week, DJDeedle salutes his generation, the MTV generation.  We're responsible for all those one-hit wonders from the 80s we now hear in elevators and waiting rooms everywhere.  

Perhaps slightly more that most Deedlecasts, this week's show may have you thinking "WTF?" Well, April Fool's Day was yesterday, and DJDeedle can't let that pass without subjecting you to a collection of gems. And yes, there is even some tango.

Keep you ears alert for the sensual groove of DJDeedle's friend Harold Pichol.  Harold's story, along with his other musical and artistic works  (in their unmashed form) are available at his website: http://www.haroldito.com. Check him out.

Also, you can follow him on twitter: @Har0ld

Cassette tapes may be a thing of the past, but the spirit of the custom made mixtape finds new life this week. Remixes made just for you - just without the tape hiss.  So good you'll want to rewind and listen again and again.   

Need more DJDeedle mixtape?  Try:  Mixtape Essential

Sometimes computers can be a menace, simultaneously taking over the world while at the same time teetering precariously and threatening to crash and take our civilization and all our hard work down with them. Last week, we worked out the glitches.  This week we deal directly with the computer threat itself.  

Even the smoothest running system can encounter a glitch or two. In digital music, bit rate reduction, digital distortion, hardware noise, computer bugs, crashes and system errors can ruin an otherwise flawless musical composition or performance, and be the source of endless agony and frustration.  But sometimes, used in the right way, glitches can work a kind of magic on an otherwise mundane sound.  

What is interesting about the glitch aesthetic is that it is hard to tell sometimes what sounds are "erroneously" produced, and which are intentional.  

This week's Deedlecast is presented in its unedited entirety, glitches and all, and hopefully better for it.  

For more DJDeedle glitchcore try:

Print/Jam

DJDeedle's on his way back from paradise to reality, and finding the culture shock quite trippy.  What better way to trip out than to trip digital?!  

See you on the other side.