Kaleidoscope Reverie: Audities & Random Acts of Music

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Kaleidoscope Reverie: Audities & Random Acts of Music

Welcome to this week’s musical adventure!

Today’s mix, Kaleidoscope Reverie, is a swirling tapestry of nostalgia, dreams, healing, and joy.

It’s a journey through memories old and new, stitched together with a playful spirit and a lot of heart.

This mix was created during a time of deep reflection, blending family memories, present challenges, crazy dreams, and a beautiful reminder I found in a letter I wrote to myself months ago.

Music has a way of helping us process, heal, and find joy even in the midst of it all.

I hope these songs offer you a little escape, a little smile, and a little spark of wonder.

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Set 1: Peeking Through the Kaleidoscope

• 180 D’Gs – Intro (Everything’s Going Fine)

(A warm welcome — a little wink that even when it’s messy, everything’s okay.)

• The Bran Flakes – Good Times A Goo Goo

(Whimsical and wobbly joy!)

• Mister Rogers – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

(Gentle grounding — a reminder we’re in this together.)

• Raymond Scott / Go Home Productions / The Bran Flakes / The Evolution Control Committee-Powerhouse

(A mash-up wonderland — vintage electronics and modern collage art collide.)

The simple joys spiral outward into slightly more psychedelic daydreams…Second Break

Set 2: Psychedelic Daydreams

• The Dukes Of Stratosphear – Collideascope

(A technicolor trip through time and sound.)

• David J & Tim Newman – Raintown

(A moody, rainy afternoon memory.)

• I Monster – Colourspill

(Dreamlike electronics spilling across the soundscape.)

• Melodysheep – Oh My!

(Cosmic wonder with a smile.)

• DJ Me DJ You – Soul Transportation

(Hop in — we’re hitching a ride on the soul train.)

• Bruce Haack – Electric To Me Turn

(Vintage futurism — pure playful weirdness.)

• Wax Tailor – Fear of A Blind Planet

(A moody, cinematic beat to drift on.)

• Raymond Scott – Twilight In Turkey (Electronic)

(Exotic, hypnotic, slightly bizarre — like a dream you can’t quite explain.)

As the dream deepens, we wander into stranger territories…

Set 3: Into the Funhouse Mirror

• Tally Hall – &

(A quirky, catchy little intermission.)

• Renaldo & The Loaf – Meanings Of W.E.I.R.D.

(Taking “weird” to the next level — with love.)

• The Olivia Tremor Control – Paranormal Echoes

(Ghosts of sounds from another dimension.)

• GLaDOS & Jonathan Coulton – Still Alive

(An anthem of perseverance… with sarcasm.)

• Plundersonics – Mutants Here I Come

(The mutants have entered the chat.)

• Negativland – Death Is Optional

(Reality bends — who says the rules are real?)

Shaking off the dust of the absurd, we stumble into the bittersweet heart of the reverie…

Set 4: Shadows and Light

• Negativland – Don’t Don’t Get Freaked Out

(Friendly reminder: it’s all just a ride.)

• Not Quite Normal – Disembodied Body Boy

(Whimsical horror with a beat.)

[A special thanks to Dr. Demento, The Demented Music Database, and Christopher Bay for locating and sending me this catchy tune that was stuck in my head after anesthesia.]

• They Might Be Giants – Dead

(Dark humor and catchy existentialism.)

• Love And Rockets – If There’s A Heaven Above (Canada Mix)

(Longing, searching, yearning upwards.)

• They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse In Your Soul

(A lighthouse of joy in the dark — light your little blue canary!)

• Lemon Demon – Touch-Tone Telephone

(Eccentric genius dials in.)

• Geneva Jacuzzi – Casket

(80s art-pop weirdness in a neon coffin.)

• People Like Us – Calling

(Signals from the great beyond.)

• Lazy Flies – Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft

(A final transmission: come in peace.)

• The Bran Flakes – Rodeo Butterfly

(Galloping off into a technicolor sunset.)

One last surreal adventure — a time-traveling exhale…

Set 5: Time Travelers, Letters, and Lullabies

• Asteroid City Cast – Dr Alien (Who Art In Heaven)

(A cosmic prayer whispered into the stars.)

• Donzii – Crash Landing (Mr Twin Sister Remix)

(Floating down, dazed but dazzled.)

• Miracle Music – Time Machine

(Tumbling backwards and forwards through memory.)

• Wax Tailor – Que Sera

(What will be, will be — sung from the stars.)

• The Bran Flakes – Friendly Persuasion

(A gentle nudge towards kindness.)

• Mister Rogers – You Are Special

(Ending as we began — with pure, simple love.)

• Raymond Scott & The Bran Flakes – The Toy Penguin

(A sweet mechanical finale.)

• Professor Elemental – All In Together (Feat. Tom Caruana)

(The final rally: we’re all in this together.)

• People Like Us – Til The End Of Time

(Carrying the reverie out into the infinite.)

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