PARANOIA SOUNDSYSTEM

2010-11-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

Meat BLING? What the hell?!?

Bicycle Link Pandant

2010-11-03T11:03:00.000-07:00

Interesting: a pendant made like bike chian links.

Paranoia Mixtape #2

2010-01-15T19:46:00.000-08:00

Winter stinks, huh? Maybe not for Florida, but in the Northeast is sure sucks the life out of you. But lo, verily the Assodiated DJs of the Usonian Soundsystem bring YOU, the listener, Paranoia Mixtape #2: WINTER ABLUTIONS, a warm bath of beats & bass bubbles, to thaw your numbed wint'ry state.
Good luck until spring.
Download Paranoia Mixtape #2 Here!

Tracklist is as tracklist does:
Intreaux Paranoide
Connie Price & The Keystones feat. Soup - Put Your Weight On It
the Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Boards of Canada - Kid for Today (Usonian Dub)
Boullion - Get Familiar
Jneiro Jarel & Dr. Who Dat? - Doinis
Southside Movement - I've Been Watching You (So Whatcha Want Experience)
Roots Manuva - Juggle Tings Proper (El P Mix)
Funkadelic - I Just Wanna Know if It's Good To You
Anti-Pop Consortium - Volcano (Four Tet Remix)
Doves - Firesuite
Elektro4 - Tree Views to a Secret
Goldfrapp - Number One
Flying Lotus feat. Dolly- Boberta Flack
Quasimoto - Axe Puzzles
Architeq - Birds of Dub
South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Jokers of the Scene Trancehall Remix)

Palsy, batik

2009-12-08T21:22:00.001-08:00

It's christmas miracle! The Paranoia Soundsystem may be, shall I say, dormant for now. HOWEVER! That hasn't stopped the Associated DJs of the Usonian Sounsystem from unearthing this SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MIX of source tracks from the classic album Paul's Boutique: PAUL'S TECHNIQUE!

Just 28 tracks....Stay tuned for Side B
King Tim III - The Fatback Band

Jazzy Sensation - Afrika Bambaataa

Sport - Lightnin' Rod

My Philosophy - Boogie Down Productions

I'll Bet You - Jackson 5

Funky Drummer - James Brown

No Matter What Sign You Are - The Supremes

Hot & Nasty - Black Oak Arkansas

Come Let Me Love you - Jeanette Lady Day

Bug Love Starski, Live at the Disco Fever

So Ruff, So Tuff - Zapp & Roger

Party Time - Kurtis Blow

The End - The Beatles

Sgt. Pepper's Reprise - The Beatles

Put On Train - Gene Harris

Its Hot Tonight - Alice Cooper

Magnificent Sanctuary band - Donny Hathaway

Daddy Rich - Rose Royce

Ebony Jam - Tower of Power

Into The Night - Sweet

Soul Skimmer - Alan Moorehouse

Yo Yo - Rose Royce

Holy Ghost - The Bar-Keys

New Rap language - Treacherous Three

Last Bongo in Belgium - Incredible Bongo Band

Rien Ne Va Plus - Funk Factory

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

Hey, I'm real sorry, but...

2009-09-21T09:19:00.000-07:00

I'll be the first to admit, I put yuou all on the Island of Lowered Expectations, and her it is all ראש השנה. So here's what I propose: I'll make some mixes, and I'll post 'em. For you.
For ALL of you.
Holla back.
Woof!

Jesus Effin Christ!

2009-08-31T11:18:00.000-07:00

Sorry everyone...
Look, head injuries come and head injuries go. And I got such a busted up bean I can't hartly remember that guy what gives me my freakin coffee every day, y'know? I just forget stuff. Like posting to the blog, 'specially since my show on WMCB is on a long hiatus.
Like I says, head injuries.
I'mna try to post more shows, etc. So stay tuned.
I just forget stuff. I can't hartly remember that guy what gives me my freakin coffee every day, y'know?
-anon X

After the "After the Fall": June 30 Segment 2

2009-06-30T19:47:00.000-07:00

The fun goes on, but don't take my freakin word for it:
6) Venitian Snares - 12
The dopest remix of the old Pointer Sisters Sesame St. choon I know of. Let it wash into your privates. I'm still on me D&B kick, let it go, bro.
7) Roni Size - New Forms (feat. Bahamadia)
8) Trans Am - Futureworld
I can't believe I found this CD again. Early 2000s nostalgia, freakin me out all over the place.
9) Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush
10) Tortoise - Ry Cooder
Overlaid at the end with a monologue from the seminal "How to Talk Hip" album. It gets a little muddy. It was an experament, ok? I was drizunk on life. Fuggedaboudit.

After the fall: June 30, segment 1

2009-06-30T19:37:00.000-07:00

This week's show is a STONE DOOZY! I'm freakin serious here, i was playin' it for the wife and she didn't even leave the room. For like 7 minutes. Which is a record, lemme tell yez.
SO it is as follows:
1) PLUG - Me & Mr. Jones
2) Amon Tobin - Nightlife
So I was on a D&B kick. Sue me, jerkwad. I like that crap, ain't no one tellin me what to play, y'know? But out of respect...
3) A tribute to Mr. Billy Mays: Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
layered into
4) Grizzly Bear - Showtime (Phillip/Billy Jeans Mix)
5) Tall T & The Touchers - Touching the President (Usonian Dub)
5 tracks - but so much comedic glory & honorable. Seruiously, give it a listen with your ear holes

Hysteria!

2009-06-26T13:36:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson is dead again? Funny, I was unda the impression that guy biffed it in 1984 when that Pepsi commercial blew him up. I mean, c'mon, look st the evidence:
1)BAD was not recorded by the same person as Off The Wall.
2)This says the rest:

They tried to make the replacement look like him, but that poor lady got effed the eff up.
SO! RIP Michael Jackson August 29, 1958 - January 27, 1984

Up & Adam

2009-06-16T09:26:00.000-07:00

Don't follow me on Twitta, cuz I ain't there.
SO I woke up from a 3 day bender & says to myself, I says "Oh shit! It's Tuesday!", and as any damn fool know, Tuesday's when the Paranoia Soundsystem goes out on the airwaves. And as some damn fools know, it ain't a live show. I record it beforehand on one of them "lap-top" computers. Only I spent the last 36 hours stealing & drinkin Aqua-Net with Sal, my old parole officer. So I whipped up half a show real quick.
Half a show! That's a WHOLE HOUR of musical entratainments! So what about hour 2? I dunno, what about it? I'mna rerun an old show. Don't get alll hyphy, it's still gonna be good. Just recycled .
Hour 1 as follows:
Part 1 In which we get all sleepy & opiated
1) BeBe Roche - "Alone"/Jo Ann Garret - "Walk On By"
Hands down, my #1 favorite version of Walk On By. I prefer the Issac Hayes vibe, but he sounds like a pussy singin it, and a man with a basso profundo like that ain't no pussy. SO I love this version. You can almost hear the bassist nodding off on the junk.
2) The Specials - "Ghose Town"
3) Fink - "Pretty Little Thing"
Possibly swerving uncomfortably close to WRSI "River Music", but it's still a great example of acoustic funk. And the River ain't cracked it yet (probably too mysoginistc).
4) DJ Food - "The Sky At Night"
Dig that crazy transition into
5) Doves - "Firesuite"

Part 2 In which our party gets going, only to be crushed again by Part 3
1) Coldcut - "Just for the kick"
2) Fischerspooner - "Amuse Bouche"
3) Karsten Pflum - "Sv_Gravity"
4) Massive Attack - "Risingson"
5) The Knife - "The Bridge"
6) Sparklehorse/Danger Mouse - "Revenge (ft. Wayne Coyne)"
And it's worth noting that, after much prompting, I tried the traditional DJ style on this section, telling the linteners what the hell I'm playing. I ain't feelin' it. But feedback is welcome.
-Anonymous X

For context's sake

2009-06-12T06:52:00.000-07:00

To be clear: the show broadcasts, for now, on Tuesday nights on a tiny station in a tiny town. SO when I say "It's tuesday, I'm in Greenfield", and you know both of these things to be false, well, now you only have your lack of attention to blame.
Someday I'll have to start making temporally vague shows.
-Anonymous X

Maiden Voyage! (part two)

2009-06-11T21:55:00.000-07:00

Yeah, so I'm posting this one segment at a time.
See, the show is 2 hours, right? Only thing is, I make it 30 minutes at a time. That 4 30 minuteses, chump. That's how I makes the show. And thats how I post it. Someday this'll all be grownsed up into like a regualar itunes podcast, and I need to do it this way. For the RSS or some shit.
I dunno.

As follows:
9. Herbalizer "New & Improved"
10. RJD2 "Silver Fox"
11. Unknown HS 70s Soul Band "Admiral Halsey/Uncle Albert"
12. Reginald Milton & the Soul Jets "Clap Your Hands"
13. Eletro4 "Tell Her"
14. Madvillain "Great Day Today"
15. Boards of Canada "Diving Station"
16. Blonde Redhead "Magic Mountain"
17. The Books "A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation"
18. Radiohead "Pyramid Song"

Stay tuned for Part 3! And more new shows! And stuff!

Maiden Voyage! (part one)

2009-06-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

Part one of our first show. Yeah, it has some wrinkles, but so do most, uh, ladies of the night. Know what I'm sayin? This is some historical shit here, kids. You can look back on this and say, "In August 08, this where the shit jumped off. Radio Style!"

So what did we play?
1. Deodato "Zarathustra"
2. Stereolab "Metronomic Underground"
3. Quasimoto "Come On Feet"
4. De La Soul "Ooodles of Os"
5. Tower of Power "What is Hip?"
6. Groove Armada "Dusk You & Me"
7. Menomena "Ghost Ship"
8. Gorillaz v. Spacemonkeyz "Banana Baby"

No new now.

2009-06-08T13:12:00.000-07:00

SO yeah, there was no show last week. My buddy Clancy got somethin stuck in his nose, and it took all night to stop the bleeding. And, you know, that happened, so I was pretty out of it.
Besides which, I don't really believe anyone listens to it (and if anyone does, they do not come here and read the blog, and if they do THAT that they don't leave comments). Its like when I was a bouncer for that gentlemans clup in Brockton back in '83, only the ladies was a bunch of dried out old apricots and no one came to watch 'em. Cuz they was old. ANd so they'd put on their tunes and dance and strip and we wasn't allowed to watch cuz the boss didn't like payin us and givin us a free show.
Do yourself a favor, listen to my dried out show. It ain't so bad.

MEanwhile, i got a problem lettin off the SHIFT key when I type capitalized words. I ain't typed the word SO at the beginning of a sentence and had it come out "So" in a long time. Unless I stop and go back and fix it. But I am a lazy man, and I do not choose to do that, my friends. SO it continues.

Also, what's the deal with definite articles? When we was lookin for a car last weekend the dealer says "Well, have you looked into Sedona?" and I clock him one cuz Sedona is my sister's mutt and I ain't that kinda guy, and I says to him, I says "What you think I am, some sick caninocologist?"and I start to realize "Oh hey, he a) prolly doesn't even KNOW Sharice or her dogs or how she trained Montana to smoke them misty Menthol 120's she likes, and B) there's a KIA called A Sedona, and we at the KIA place. ANd he's holding his face and cryin. If he'd said THE Sedona, I'd have known what he was talkin about, only he didn't. He just said "Sedona" like it was a name. And I only know 2 chicks named Sedona, and one of 'em's dead. SO let this be a lesson, folks. Articles are your friends. Just cuz it's a product dont mean you got some license to speak like a goddamned baby. AN iphone, THE Nintendo Gameboy, et cetera. "What's that thing?" "Oh, it's iphone. you talk here. call to friend. bwah, want bottle!"
Me too, baby. Me too.

Red Light, Green Light! 5-26-09

2009-05-25T21:05:00.000-07:00

The showzen for May 26, 2009
This one's special, cuz an entire HALF of the show is new for this week. The ENTIRE FIRST HALF! Brand new! Love it or leave it, babby, this shizz is for real.

SEGMENT 1
1 - Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush
Which segues with all the grace of me at the water slides to
2 - Miss Kitten & The Hacker - You & Us
3 - Fischerspooner - Money Can't Dance
4 - Hakea - Thano
5 - Jack Conte - Hollywood Endings
6 - DJ Food - Break
7 - MF Doom - Vinca Rossa
What happened to the electro dance party? I'll tellyawhat: I lost interest. That's my whim.
SEGMENT 2
1 - Voodoo Dreams - Les Baxter (Señor Coconut remix)
2 - Ken Nordine - Island
Yeah, I played this last week. I like Ken, I'll play him next week too. That buttery voice. Oooh. I've got more, but I'm way stuck on the Island lately.
3 - Connie Price & the Keystones - Get Thy Bearings
4 - Amon Tobin - One Small Step
5 - Zero 7 - Truth & Rights
6 - The Eclectic Mouse - Pre-Dawn Reprospective Chant
7 - Chaffey College Jazz Ensemble - Imagination Flight
Which, yeah, as sets go starts off weird and gets weirder. That's OK by me, and it's the point to the whole show anyway. Frankly, I never really expect anyone to listen to the program (speak up if you been checkin' it out), but I know I do. For the first time in my life, I'm guaranteed at least 2 hours of radio I would want to listen to, dig?
Segments 3 & 4? Some recycled shows. I'll update as soon as I pick some. C'mon guys, they're still good!

Goin' to the show! May 19, 2009

2009-05-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

Aight kids: here's your playlistipus to the best of my abilities....
SEGMENT 1
1) Amon Tobin - Nightlife
2) Bonobo (feat. Bajka) - Nitelite (Zero dB Vox Remix)
3) Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite
(Humorous Promo)
4) The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
5) Thievery Corporation - 38-45 (A Thievery Number)
6) Quasimoto - Basic Instinct
This is, of course how to take a good party vibe & ruin it: while the DJ is playing some drum & bass dance your ass off shit, break out a blunt. Then it gets all reggae & downtempo & then someone puts on the weird underground hip hop & no one's having a party, it's becomes a sit around and wait for the tater tots to get hot affair. This is a common theme to the show: starts out fun, and then I lose energy looking for fun shit to listen to.
SEGMENT 2
1) Ken Nordine - Island
2) No Requests Sound System - Heartbroken
This my JAM, doggie. Anyone who pays attention to the UK pop charts might recognize the clever cover of T2's pop sensation, but to me it'll always be a goofy dub plate from space.
3) Devendra Banhart - Carmensita
4) Easy Star All Stars - Climbing up the Walls
5) Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song (Butthole Surfers remix)
Who drops Jane's Addiction into a show like this? I do, emmereffer. I do. You got a problem wit that? Write me a letter.
5) MGMT - Time to Pretend
6) An instrumental of nathanial Merriweather's Strangers on a Train takes us out to...
SEGMENT 3
1) South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Jokers of the Scene Trancehall Remix)
2) The Stylistics - People Make the World Go 'Round
(Humorous Promo)
3) Zero 7 - You're My flame
Flowing akwardly into
4) Squarepusher - Windscale 2
5) Portishead - Only You
6) Burial - Prayer
SEGMENT 4
1) Portishead - Machine Gun
It is imortant here to point out the very illusion that IS the Paranoia Soundsystem: It ain't a live show. I make it in 30 minute segments whenever I have time, mix 'em up & drop off 2 hours of show every tuesday. There, now you know. Thus, Portishead ends up 1 soung away from Portishead. Pfft, so it goes. Sometimes songs repeat during shows. I try to avoid it, but it happens.
2) Laika - Out of Sight & Snowblind
3) Flying Lotus - Interference
4) Amon Tobin - The Nasty
5) Grizzly Bear - The Knife
6) Boards of Canada - Left Side Drive
7) And somehow Burial gets stuck taking us out again. So I like dubstep as an outro. Like I said, write me a goddamned letter.

On honesty, continuity & respecting the lis-ten-nuh.

2009-05-22T11:05:00.000-07:00

Goddamn! Pow, baby, right? Right!
What the hell was I talkin' about? Oh yeah.
Radio. Radio, baby! Bada-Bing! You follow me? No?
Aight.
See, I gots a little trouble starting things off, and this is the first post. There ain't no freakin CONTEXT you know? I mean, yeah, blog related to the show and all. Only I ain't got the playlist so I ain't gonna try to say nothing about what was on this week, capisco? And there ain't no other POSTS. So here we go: Free association freakin' city. Maybe we get some freakin' context outta this, maybe not, and maybe it give me somethin' to babble about next week, you know?
And the show anyway, right? Who listens to this goddamned thing? Well buddy, I'll tells ya who: I do. I try top get the wife to listen, but hey, you knwo, she don't like the same music I do . Hell, before my goddamned head injury I wasn't listening to this shit. Frank Sinatray, baby! Yeah! Only now I can't stand that crap and I keep sleep-buyin' crap orffa I-tunes with all that computer drum crap in it. Hey, what can you do right? I'll tellyawhat....I dunno. The kids listen to some funky ass stuff these days.
SO here's the deal: you like listen to the show, cuz it ain't gonna last forever, with the understanding that it ain't what it seems, adnd I'll try to expand on the freakin thing here. Aight? Aight.
I need a coffee.
-anonymous X