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How to Become a DJ – A Short Biographical Sketch
My path towards becoming a DJ began early. Possibly as early as age 2 or 3. In this old family photograph you can see me around age 2 intensely listening to music on an old monaural phonograph of my mom’s. My mom is fond [...]
Twenty-Nine Years Ago I Was On The Air And Playing…
I’ve kept neatly hidden away a series of notebooks which contain nearly all my WXYC airshifts between late 1982 and mid 1984. (I wish I had ones dating back to my start there in September 1980, but not so.) WXYC was in a transitional [...]
Review: Quickies For Several New Adds
Here are a few words about a handful of albums recently added to the playlist at Deeper Into Music Radio. These new adds are not necessarily new releases, but they are new to the daily DIM rotations.
First, Manchester Orchestra. No doubt you already know that [...]
Amy White, Deeper Into Music Contributor, is an artist and a writer based in Carrboro, North Carolina. She writes about art for The Independent Weekly and works in her studio at a bend in the Haw River in Saxapahaw, NC. Amy also blogs about breakfast, coincidence, and funny stuff.
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Siouxsie Sioux - Best Of
Siouxsie Sioux was a pop singer of a different order. I could never really imagine her as real. Siouxsie never seemed of this world but rather came off as a mythic figure, a being who perhaps landed on the planet and reverberated music back to us as a transcendent means of intergalactic communication. Her cover of the Beatles’ Dear Prudence is a sober, almost dirge-like reiteration of the original. There’s something literal about it, as if Siouxsie believes it’s a song that must be sung and understood by humans in order for us to evolve according to some predestined cosmic agreement.
Siouxsie gives her best approximation of being earthbound but she’s obviously not from around here as she intones the lyrics, originally written by John Lennon for Mia Farrow’s sister Prudence at an ashram in India where she spent days on end meditating in isolation. The question is whether enlightenment arises from separating oneself from this world or communing in the light of day with others. Siouxsie’s impassive delivery suggests she floats outside of the two sides of this question, calling Prudence to come out and play without any sense of urgency. “The wind is low/the birds will sing/That you are part of everything/Dear Prudence won’t you open up your eyes?”
I don’t know where she is now, but I prefer to imagine Siouxsie somewhere across the universe, having implanted her messages into our collective consciousness and now having moved on to other realms. “Look around, round, round round round…”
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