“You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” -Doctor Who
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In honor of the return of Battlestar Galactica to TV, we present here, an MP3 of a timeless classic (from 1989) by Brown Cuts Neighbors: Mutant Cylons (from hell) Mutant Cylons (from hell) Donato brings the type of feeling to this tune normally reserved for
Read moreRadiophon-A-Tron
Speaking of Delia Derbyshire… Now you can make your own mega mix of the Doctor Who theme online. Delia mania is sweeping the earth! Find out more at Delia Derbyshire dot Org
Read moreDelia Derbyshire
Pioneer of electronic music who produced the distinctive sound of Dr Who Brian Hodgson Saturday July 7, 2001 The Guardian In 1963, soon after joining the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia Derbyshire, who has died of renal failure aged 64, was asked to to realise one of the first electronic...
Read moreDistant Bee Travel
Available now only on eBay – Steven Cerio’s See & Hear Book – Distant Bee Travel – including a CD by Steven’s band Lettuce Little Contributing to Lettuce Little are no less than four (4) members of Brown Cuts Neighbors – Jason Martin, James Kopta, Marc...
Read moreMessage to the People of the Future
The Brown Cuts Neighbors are 15 years old today… well, they would be, if they had not perished, along with their core creative force — James Kopta — in a cruel accident two years ago. I’m actually a day late writing this. The “Official” anniversary date is Halloween, for, on that day in 1989...
Read moreGeorge Washington’s 911th Dream
Is the new song by Jason Martin and it’s one of many worthy cuts on the new compilation CD We Want Our Country Back – dedicated to getting the pigs out of office. Get yours now
Read moreEssay on Jason Martin
Jason Martin is, in the expression of his personality through his art, a living relic. Last Thursday night, he was in his most apt context as a performer. The location: a museum on a hill in an urban wasteland with abandoned factories, well preserved historic districts, and modern corporate...
Read moreYou need to de-focus in a specific direction
you need to actually re-apply the established process this involves train tracks and test patterns/test cards tune in to the missing channels overload the inputs oversaturate as needed refine your diet make lists Overlay with lines and xeroxes on the landscape through physical and electronic...
Read moreThe Revolution is a Flaming Crock of Shit!
Don’t Buy it! Steve Earle is a tool of THE MAN! But, when he wants to say “Motherfucker” in front of a bunch of little kids at a free public event in downtown Albany, NY… that’s OK. As was seen 2 Summers ago in Washington Park. People sat quietly and attentively as...
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B-A-Bay B-E Bee B-I Bickee Bye B-O Boe Bicky Bye Boe B-U Boo Bicky Bye Boe Boo.
Read moreNEW Denim & Diamonds and Scott Smallwood CDs and classic Hail Mary 7″s now in the Shop!
Yes it is true. We also have the latest issue of Paper Rodeo (18), and the 7 song 7″ by Conniption.Consume now!
Read moreThis American Life ate my lunch money!
This American Life has again touched on our lives here in DeptEx land. Our old hometown of Schenectady, NY is featured in the October 15, 2002 episode (Thank to Ian Lynam for the tip!). What it Takes to Tromp Through the Desert. Al Jurczynski is the mayor of Schenectady, NY. For the past year...
Read moreVeronica Lake
was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1919 (some sources say 1922) with the birth name of Constance Frances Marie Ockleman. Her father worked for an oil company as a ship employee. While still a child, Veronica’s parents moved to Florida when she wasn’t quite a year old. By...
Read moreVulcanic lake,
the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. A dead sea in a dead land, grey and old. Old now. It bore the oldest, the first race. The oldest people. Wandered far away over all the earth, captivity to captivity, multiplying, dying, being born everywhere. It lay there now. Now it...
Read moreBoomerang Update
The Boomerang Project has been created to release previously unseen music and writing by the late James Kopta. There is a special section in the DeptEx shop devoted to James’ work. All money from the sale of these items goes in to the Boomerang fund. Now you can also support the project by...
Read moreNashville
I’m informed that this is the buckle of the bible belt. Yes. Here I am in Nashville, TN. It’s late on July 28, 2004. The first Brown Cuts Neighbors 7″ record, “Broken Down Like A Bean” (by all accounts a mastering disaster, but a strangely popular record) was...
Read moreTHE JOB
Recording engineers operate and maintain sound recording equipment. They may also work special effects equipment. These engineers install, test, repair, set up and operate the electronic equipment used to record and transmit radio signals. They regulate the signal strength, clarity and range of...
Read more… this and that …
The Denim + Diamonds EP “Street Medics Unite” is now out on Bloodlink Records.. pick your copy up at a show or look for it in our shop or your local music store by the end of the month or so… If you haven’t been to the Schenectady Museum yet to see “Factory Bands to
Read moreIC Vector (or Interval Vector)
An array of six integers representing the ic (interval class) content of a chord, where the first digit indicates the number instances of IC1 in the set, the second, IC2, third, IC3, fourth, IC4, fifth, IC5, and sixth, IC6. For example, is the ic vector for a major triad, showing that it...
Read moreTelemachus
STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: – Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he...
Read moreHave you noticed lately…
That the birds are starting to sound like cell phones?
Read moreGiraffes on Horseback Salads
The “Surrealist woman” is lying in the middle of a great bed, sixty feet long, with the rest of the guests seated around each side. Along the bed, as decorations, are a group of dwarfs caught by Harpo. Each is supported on a crystal base, decorated with climbing flowers. The dwarfs...
Read moreChange is comin’ down fast
Yes. You may have noticed by now we are heavily overhauling the DeptEx web experience. There is a whole new section for Magic Recording Eye already under way. Many more new things to come, and a serious face lift is being sculpted. But. RIGHT NOW! Check out the Sounds section for many selections...
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