With Magic Junk Radio 10 just a black lion short of a Voltron, we decided to release a B-Side remix to start the fires going a bit on the Magic Junk campgrounds. Hell, this remix is so crazy, it’s causing me to overuse the metaphor.
Anyway, this remix missed getting on MJR 9, but didn’t quite fit with the material that’s going to be on 10. So since it was actually a “request” by one of our fellow podcasters out there in cyberspace, we have decided to give the remix its’ own entry. And I didn’t even have to pull Courtney Cox out of the audience to do so.
About two weeks ago, Radiohead released individual instrument stems for their song “Nude” from the album “In Rainbows” that anyone could use to remix in GarageBand, ProTools, Logic, etc. The rules were to re-interpret the song, using any means necessary, but the song had to stay copyrighted sample free, no disintegrations.
Being the remix junkies that we are (and since we enjoy challenging each other), we gave in to the addiction and started remixing “Nude” on Saturday night. Mark downloaded the stems, started playing around, and then challenged me to follow suit. Once the two of us had earphones in, we were clicking away in GarageBand, and we tried not to listen to each other’s songs before they were more than 50% complete. We were both happy with the results and for the fact that both songs sounded completely different!
Each can best be described as an eclectic maelstrom of… oh, wait… that’s Magic Junk Radio. Seriously, we have taken our individual styles from MJR to remix “Nude” to the best of our abilities. What you see below is our individual interpretations of Nude. Click the widget to vote for us, and YES, you can vote for us both. Give the Somrod duo your support, vote from every computer you have. Thanks! Cheers.
If spending your lunches, nights, and weekends sitting in front of a laptop writing a work of fiction could be considered a vacation — then metaphorically, we’re in the middle of the Hawaiian Islands, baby. You remember us! Magic, Junk, and Radio! Here we are! At this very moment, we’re basking under the Maui sun, our debt to society paid in full!
So consider this a postcard. Sure, we aren’t returning to full-time work. But we wanted to drop a little note to let you know we’re still alive. And what better symbol of 1980’s American pop culture to skewer with our remix prongs than the mega-mustached Tom Selleck as Magnum, P.I., and his quirky pop theme song.After spending the night in the MJR Sound Lab with the lightly Newcastled technicians, the emerging sonic result is called:
Rumor has it that the acronym stands for F#@%ing Extreme Private Investigator, but we cannot confirm or deny such horrifying gossip. After all, we were last season’s winners. Huh? What’s that you say? We’re not. Oh dear.
While all of my tracks are really B-sides in a way, I designated a specific track for a multi-person podcast created by Temple Stark from Blogcritics.org. Since the track fell between MJR 1 and 2, it subsequently became a B-side. Go to blogcritics.org to check out the inaugural Blogcritics podcast.
Just in case you were curious: while Temple loosely defined the track as my “relationship with Blogcritics”, or that I… “leave my writing to your imagination”, that’s about half-right. Those original lyrics were written in November 2002 on a notepad, while I was waiting for friends in Penn Station, NYC. Obviously, at the time, I had nowhere to write. When I caught Temple’s message asking for submissions, I thought this one fit my time at Blogcritics, since for the past 6 months I’ve been posting, BC has given me ‘a place to write’. For that, I am grateful, and tip my astral hat.
Here’s the complete blurb from 11/23/02: A place to write, a flat surface upon which I scribble away the secrets of the universe, an etching of my meticulous nature in the dead wood of a tree once planted by an undisturbed acorn. A place to write my bible, where thousands of idiots will pray to the composition they can never hope to understand. A place to write is where I fight my war, a pen is my sword, and I shall off every last head of my enemies. Every last one.
Magic Junk Radio is strong enough for a man, but made for a womanizing super-powered space alien. All music and sounds are produced digitally, except for the humble vocal stylings of Mark Sahm with input and conversation from his lovely wife, Ms. S-Rod.
Magic Junk Radio is created for sheer entertainment value. No funds are generated. Feel free to download and share. Then get back to your brainwashing, monkey.
