{"id":3285,"date":"2020-05-10T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2021-07-02T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T03:47:58","slug":"soundwave-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-6\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 6 : JAMES CURCIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is James Curcio.<\/p>\n\n

I met James years ago back when I was hosting the small WORLD podcast. I was part of the second wave of podcasting and I was small WORLD as the punk rock Fresh Air. If by punk rock, you mean badly played music on out of tune instruments. Anyway, James Curcio was one of my guests and I believe we we talked about his book, Join My Cult!<\/a><\/p>\n\n

During the course of producing small WORLD I noticed that James would pop up again again in various circles. Into culture jamming? James was there. Interested in philosophy. James is your man. Writing? James. Music? James again. Magick? Also James.<\/p>\n\n

When I was putting together a list of guest deejays for SOUNDWAVE I included James because I was curious what kind of mix he\u2019d put together. I suspected it would be a playlist that included Coil<\/a>, Current 93<\/a> and Dead Moon<\/a>. You know, some sort of musical art project attempting to turn lead into gold. Instead, I got a mix of David Bowie interspersed with industrial and Nordic folk music. Did not see that coming.<\/p>\n\n

Before I let James introduced this week\u2019s show, I want to thank everyone who is listening to the show and the kind words they\u2019ve shared. I just ask that you do it in on iTunes. Leave SOUNDWAVE a quick review and whatever algorithm Apple uses pushes the show up their podcast charts. SOUNDWAVE is a super niche show so I don\u2019t expect that it\u2019d take much.<\/p>\n\n

Come back next week. Out guest deejay will be electronic musician Frank Riggio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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This mix was probably inspired by spending 3 years writing and researching MASKS: Bowie & Artists of Artifice<\/a><\/em> (especially the themes that come up in this long-form blog post, Masks All The Way Down<\/a>). But it\u2019s not a \u201cBowie mix\u201d as such: mortality, futility, transience, being lost in the simulacra, isolation during coronavirus\u2026 and some great beats. Everything in our lives feel so fragile now, but of course the truth is it always was. The outro track is an original remix of Nine Inch Nail\u2019s \u201cMe I\u2019m Not\u201d that I did like 10 years back, and some live studio outtakes from a mushroom party.<\/p>\n\n