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Another new track for Unauthorized subscribers. This is a mellow alternative mix.
How can I be lonely with the devil in my ear?
Seems he’s got the only voice I’m ever gonna hear.
How can I be losing with the devil at my side?
We’re just out and cruising on a midnight ride.
I’ve just finished a new mix of Neptune with which I’m very pleased, but I’m not going to release it until I finish a few of the other mixes. However, I have put two new Vibe Patrol trax up on UATV for subcribers who are so inclined to listen to and download. One is the Watership Down-inspired The Shining Wire, while the other is a more traditional love-angst song called This Crack in My Heart, which has several mixes. The version here is the Nothing More mix.
Tonight we’ll be doing the final Not-Weekly Meme Review of 2024 on the Darkstream. You know the drill. One meme per customer. Give it a name or it will probably be overwritten by someone else who couldn’t be bothered to do so.
This is a very different sort of Christmas carol. It’s probably not at all to your taste, and certainly isn’t one you’ll hear any carolers ever sing, but it’s reflective of a Christmas sermon I heard many years ago by Greg Boyd, one which I’ve never forgotten, about the more somber aspects of Christmas. You can listen to it on UATV.
The Word Descended
God made real
A child is born
For his ordeal
A cleansing flame
The sacrifice
To free Mankind
He paid the price
Last night I introduced two new Christmas carols on the Darkstream, one original and one a very different take on a very traditional classic. Both are very much in line with what Owen and I discussed three years ago about the decades-long secular subversion of Christmas music and our desire to do something about that. They’ll be released to the public later this month, but UATV subscribers can download high-quality MP3s now.
Now roads are clear of snow
The world has changed completely
Yet there is one thing we know
A son was born uniquely
It’s Jesus Christ we celebrate
His coming is the reason
Everyone around the world
Welcomes Christmas season!
About three years ago, Big Bear and I were talking about Christmas carols and lamenting the fact that so many of them, including several that were our favorites, were inspired by a spirit of anti-Christian subversion. Many secular carols, including a number of genuinely great songs such as Winter Wonderland and White Christmas, were written and pushed by Hollywood with the specific intention of replacing the traditional Christmas carols that are focused on the Christian purpose of the holy day, or “holiday” as we know it now.
I mean, Silver Bells has always been a particular favorite of mine since childhood, and yet, it’s essentially a song about an urban shopping experience. It’s not exactly The Messiah or Adeste Fideles.
I made a few desultory efforts at penning something, but never really got around to doing anything with it until recently. But now that AI music has added turbo warp speed to one’s compositional capabilities, I was able to finish a Christmas carol entitled This Very Night, and since Vibe Patrol follows the Psykosonik tradition of producing at least five very different mixes of every single, two of them are already up on UATV for subscribers to hear and download. I’ll be making the other mixes and additional new carols available over the next three weeks. The Christmas Bear mix is, of course, for the Bears, toe express my appreciation for Big Bear and his tremendous community, hence the one line that would tend to strike anyone else as a bit, shall we say, prosaic.
My old friend and bandmate graciously gave me permission to release COSMIC TRIGGER in all of its manifold varieties as I see fit, so I’ll be putting some of the mixes up on Spotify soon. But UATV subscribers don’t have to wait, as they can listen to all three of the modern mixes already.
And yes, Cheerleader Candy is exactly what you suspect and fear it might be. It might be worth recalling that I’m from an award-winning 90’s techno band that never hesitated to release – never mind record – six or seven very different mixes per single. So if you haven’t subscribed to UATV yet, what more could you possibly be waiting for?
People are threatening to stage an intervention, but I refuse to even slow the aural assault. After introducing not one, not two, but THREE new editions of FOUR MORE YEARS on last night’s Darkstream, including the specifically-requested Health and Human Services mix in honor of the new appointee, I followed up with what may well be the best edition yet.
We may have to record that one with Booster Patrol in addition to the Storm mix we’re already doing just because the guitars are so amazing. We may put some of them on Spotify and whatnot eventually, but they’re already available for Unauthorized subscribers in the Voxiphonic section.
That’s not all of them, those are just the four new versions. This may seem a little strange, but I’m simply just continuing the old Psykosonik tradition of providing a ludicrous number of remixes of our singles; after our second single, Welcome to My Mind, was released, the singer of a local band called HALO congratulated us on what he thought was our new album, saying that he really liked how we’d gone with what he thought was a themed approach to the CD. But his confusion was justified; about the only similarity between the Anaesthesia mix and the Sonik Bender mix were the lyrics and the choral vocals.
UATV is just getting better and better. Come join the party. Tell me which one is your favorite on SG. And since I forgot the Japanese name of the song, here’s my favorite flute solo that I referenced on the Darkstream as well as the autism study inspired by The Irrational Atheist that was mentioned.
This one will be launched on tonight’s UATV-exclusive Darkstream. If you haven’t subscribed yet, do it and join the party. I guarantee it is not at all what you’re expecting.
Over 140 viewers tuned into last night’s political reaction stream. And tonight we’ll wrap up part two of the UATV-exclusive commentary on the Global Realist Faction’s Jeffrey Sachs explanation of why the Neo-Liberal Rules-Based World Order has failed and who was really responsible for the war in Ukraine. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do so and join us tonight at 7 PM Eastern!
And we’ll also debut a new technometal mix of FOUR MORE YEARS.