GoodCopBadCop

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.  

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Good_Cop_Bad_Cop.mp3

Smoke+Mirror

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_SmokeMirror.mp3

32-bit DJ

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_32-bit_DJ.mp3

The Visitation

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Visitation.mp3

Cosmology

"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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Cosmology_x.mp3

Horrify

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:

With My Own Hands

The Horror

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Horrify.mp3

Groove Electric

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:

Neon Sound

High Energy Transmission

Electric Pie

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Groove_Electric.mp3

Automatica

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Automatica.mp3

Capucine Substitute (Single)

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

Direct download: DJDeedle_-_Capucine_Substitute_Single_Edit.mp3

Binary Beat Experiment

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.

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Binary_Beat_Experiment.mp3

Iconoclast

"Every great truth begins as a blasphemy."  

-- George Bernard Shaw



"Irreverence is the champion of liberty." 
-- Mark Twain

Wednesday, September 30 was International Blasphemy Day,
the day to thumb your nose at religion.  Clearly something as fun as
blasphemy should not be confined to only one day. So, this week
DJDeedle touches the third rail of any discourse, religion.  Though
DJDeedle is most decidedly a skeptic and nonbeliever, utterly and
firmly unchurched, he realizes that artists throughout the ages,
including musicians, have included religious images and references in
their creations. 

Modern musicians from Depeche Mode to Johnny Cash and
the Doobie Brothers and Kanye West have included references to Jesus in
their works, and others like Jesus and Mary Chain and MC 900 Foot Jesus
even included everyone's favorite imaginary friend in their band names.
  If these august artists can take liberties with religion, so can
DJDeedle.   Exercising your freedom of and from religion can be fun,
and above all, entertaining. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Iconoclasm.mp3

North by Northwest

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.

Phillip Vandamm: What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?

Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival. 

This week's show is intended both to satisfy your overpowering interest in art, as well as helping you survive.

For those of you who, like DJDeedle, can't get enough of Alfred Hitchcock's genius, try Music for Murder, from June 22 of 2007. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_North_by_Northwest.mp3

Hero Effect

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Hero_Effect.mp3

Iconic

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Iconic.mp3

Adrift in A major

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. 
 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Adrift_in_A_major.mp3

The Deep End

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."
http://djdeedle.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=300867

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Deep_End.mp3

Evergreen (Deedle's Plenary Mix) (Single)

"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.

Direct download: DJDeedle_-_Evergreen_Deedles_Plenary_Mix.mp3

Rock Block

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.

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Rock_Block.mp3

Eyes of the Dragon

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. 

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Dragons_Dance.mp3

Digital Invasion

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.

Direct download: Deedlecast_-_Digital_Invasion.mp3