The Face of Evil

“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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Mutant Cylons

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

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Radiophon-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

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Delia 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...

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Distant 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...

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Message 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...

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Essay 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...

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You 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...

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The 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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This 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...

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Veronica 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...

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Vulcanic 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...

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Boomerang 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...

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Nashville

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...

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THE 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...

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… 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

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IC 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...

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Telemachus

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...

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Giraffes 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...

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Change 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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