Deedlecast

The holidays are firmly behind us and 2009 is stretched out before us. With all of today's uncertainties, it is like a whole new planet.  This week, join DJDeedle in the airlock as we step out on to the surface of Planet X.  

Just a warning: on while on Planet X you may experience high energy particles and a couple of rude words.

With all the things 2008 threw at us, what 2009 has in store for us is anybody's guess. One thing is for certain though: DJDeedle will continue to bring you the mixes and mashes you've come to expect, and many you'd never have guessed, every Friday. In 2009, as in '08, '07, and '06, DJDeedle's got your musical needs covered.

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.

Even if your are like DJDeedle, and find the holiday season somewhat vexing, this time of year has its own magic, totally apart from any religious nonsense.  DJDeedle hopes this little twisted carol puts you in the right frame of mind to enjoy the season in your own way.  

If you just can't get enough of DJDeedle's holiday magic, check out these ghosts of Deedlecasts past.

 

Holiday Fruitcake

There are as many ways to love New York as there are things to

love about New York.  One of the things DJDeedle loves about New York

is its sound.  In the same way the city's diverse inhabitants mix and

mingle in to make New York one of the most extraordinary places on

Earth, the diverse sounds and musical styles of the city, from the

refined and classic to the gritty and cutting edge, come together into

something compelling and fresh.  Just how do you love New York?Warning:  New York style language throughout this Deedlecast.

crys·tal·ize (krst-lz)

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

2. To make clear and more comprehensible, and to take on a definite meaning.

DJDeedle liberally applies the Crystal Method to create a hard, ordered repeating pattern extending in all auditory dimensions.

This Deedlecast contains a couple of clearly rude words.

UPDATE 12/24/208:  This Deedlecast was featured on Synthopia.com, a portal devoted to electronic music. Check it out:  http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2008/12/24/the-deedlecast-free-mashups-and-mixes-via-dj-deedle/

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\

1: a large suitcase

2: a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms or words (as smog from smoke and fog)

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.

Regardless of whether you are hepcat or a square, this week, DJDeedle's got you covered and will get you into this 21st Century reinterpretation of the Hepcat Club.