EPISODE 15: Bye Bye 25. AKA “the Jacques Cousteau episode” ft. Christof Migone, Larry Dolman, Mark Loeser, Alex Moskos and Virtual Borzeix

A year end celebration with the larger circle.

The theme: Terrifying in a beautiful instead of a dangerous way.

We start the episode under the icecap. We celebrate life in a subaquatic hydrophone terror attack by ghosts who remind us of the life-giving force of death in a connected world. It sounds joyful.

The Book of Revelation, written by stylophone, with no consonants, only vowels.

Intentional connections that open onto unintentional ones, via over-modulated saxophones.

We spend time unpacking "destitution", then Mark brings the esoterik cannon, full stop. Mahler leads to criminally neglected spiritual visitations from the Chicago dollar bins.

Solo unknowability ensues. Jacob drinks a huge milkshake. The other way of making music.
The fundamental music: The one person with their instrument once the energy grid collapses.

Neon hunks fashioning Flemish dance-folk stringed instruments on homesteads. Moskos suddenly appears. A very slow computer processing in a yurt, creating a virtual Borzeix. You don’t show up? You get represented anyway.

The world moves in predictable ellipses: Michigan > Africa > Montreal. The servers run hot making sound design from the future. Roger brings the now sound by looking backwards and forwards at the same time.

Octavia Butler-style benevolent aliens oversee the episode and monitor the controlled feedback.

Finally, we visit that guy in a basement at GRM for 25 years still trying to make a computer play like Charlie Parker.

2025: Strange resonance and bloody fingers.
2026: Things Have Got to Change!

We listend to:

1. Chester Beachell – Orcas and Belugas (excerpt)
2. Eyeless in Gaza – John Of Patmos
3. Sarah Clausen – Intro/Cry
5. Robert Lippok – Close
6. Donny Hathaway – I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry
7. Tal Coal – Cruèla
8. A Magic Whistle – My Cuckoo/We Fly/Secret Spring
11. Refuse Stealing Band – Ndirande (OJPB's Stealth edit)
12. Server Farms – With Fake Beach, Fake Sun
13. Archie Shepp – Things Have Got to Change

Shouts:

Chris Wrench, always

A phone call from below the arctic ice

MF. 10-11: Covid empty city recordings

Audre Lorde – Coal
RLW box set – Tulpas

Blastitude best of 2025

Refuse stealing band original clip

DJ PICA PICA PICA (aka EYEEEEEE)