Oh Shitaki! | Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 5
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Oh Shitaki! | Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 5
August 5, 2026
with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man & Mickey Fingers
1–3pm CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By DJ Tea (DJ Celeste) & Mickey Fingers
✨ Eclectic Wonderland: Free For All | Mickey Fingers & DJ Tea✨
Oh Shitaki!
Oh Shiitaki! | Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 5
Some weeks arrive with a plan.
This one showed up wearing a mushroom hat, carrying a pineapple, and refusing to explain itself.
Oh Shiitaki! is two hours of beautifully strange radio, where electronic curiosities, exotica, oddball pop, sound collage, suspicious animals, lounge detours, dancing mushrooms, and several questionable decisions all somehow end up sharing the same room.
We wander through Kero Kero Bonito, The Residents, They Might Be Giants, Sparks, DEVO, Esquivel, Negativland, Tom Tom Club, Deee-Lite, The B-52’s, AIR, XTC, and plenty of wonderfully peculiar corners in between.
There is no grand lesson here.
No map.
No useful explanation.
Just a reminder that when the universe insists on being ridiculous, sometimes the best response is to turn the music up, laugh a little louder, and dance through the weird.
Welcome to Oh Shiitaki!
No shrimp.
Questionable decisions.
All heart.
THIS WEEK'S TRANSMISSIONS
This Week's Doors...
Mickey’s Notes
Five Doors, One Strange Little Universe
And Oh Shiitaki! is only one door.
This week, the Velvet Umbrella opened into five different directions, each with its own mood, frequency, and particular method of dealing with reality.
There is the bright, beautifully peculiar world of Eclectic Wonderland.
The darker late-night drift of After the Static.
And then, beneath the Velvet Umbrella, things split again.
One path gets louder, angrier, funnier, and completely unfiltered.
The other gets quieter.
Eight hours quieter.
Five shows.
Two stations of mind.
Several open doors.
One strange little universe.
Pick the frequency you need. Through the Other Doors…
Oh Shitaki! brought the bright, weird, electronic side of Eclectic Wonderland back into focus: dancing mushrooms, cheerful oddities, questionable decisions, and music that wandered in without an appointment.
Then After the Static moved into darker air with shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, ambient drift, and cathedral echoes for everyone still awake.
And over at Velvet Umbrella Radio | Petals & Hooks, things got considerably less polite.
Fuck This Playlist became more
than four hours of screaming with us
into the void: loud, explicit, furious,
funny, cathartic, and completely unfiltered.
For anyone who needed the opposite
kind of release, we also opened another door.
No Exit: Corridors One & Two offers two separate four-hour journeys into ambient spaces, distant signals, liminal rooms, and slower frequencies.
Eight hours total.
One door for letting it out.
Another for letting go.
Some weeks the universe hands you mushrooms.
Some weeks it hands you static.
Some weeks it hands you a playlist to scream into.
And sometimes…
it just leaves the corridor lights on.
Doors Still Open
This week’s journey moves from indie favorites and dream pop to college radio classics, unexpected detours, electronic textures, and songs that have quietly become companions over the years. Along the way, Mickey Fingers drops in to remind us that curiosity is worth chasing, creativity has a way of rebuilding worlds, and sometimes opening just one window is enough to change the whole room.
You’ll even hear our Spandau Filet Challenge, where Tea attempts the impossible task of back-announcing over one of the most delightfully chaotic pieces of music ever assembled while Mr. Announcer Man enthusiastically “helps” by reaching for every knob within arm’s length.
Some traditions are simply too much fun to retire.
And somewhere along the way, this week became something bigger than a single show.
It became the beginning of a three-part journey.
One door opened into another, then another, each show carrying a little of what came before while changing the light around it.
That journey eventually led us to When the Tide Finally Turned, a Petals & Hooks show that arrived during one of those rare moments when everything seemed to exhale.
For a minute, anyway.
Because the week after that apparently looked at our nice peaceful exhale and said:
Fuck this.
Which is how we eventually ended up with Fuck This Playlist, more than four hours of screaming with us into the void, followed by No Exit: Corridors One & Two, eight hours of ambient rooms, distant signals, and somewhere quieter to disappear for a while.
Some of those doors already have full show notes waiting behind them.
Others are still works in progress.
Nothing has been abandoned.
We’re simply finishing the corridors in the order they decide to reveal themselves.
🌿 Part One
Eclectic Wonderland | Open Every Window
🌙 Part Two
Velvet Umbrella Radio | After HoursNight | After the Storm
Now airing Fridays from 1–3 AM,
with two full hours of dreamlike music, late-night conversations, and stories that only seem to arrive after midnight.
🌹 Part Three
Velvet Umbrella Radio | Petals & Hooks | When the Tide Finally Turned
A special Mixcloud-only transmission where the music drifts a little farther, the gardens bloom beneath the moon, and every strange little door leads somewhere worth exploring.
Together, these three shows became one story.
One long breath.
One shared journey.
So wherever you’re listening…
Whether you’re driving with the windows down…
working in the garden…
painting…
making dinner…
or simply trying to find your footing after a difficult week…
we’re grateful you chose to spend a little of your day with us.
Thank you for wandering alongside us.
Now…
open every window.
The air feels a little different today.
💕 Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits.
Click Here for Video Playlist for Keep Scrolling
Mickey's Corner
Mickey’s Corner 🎙️✨
There are days when the universe hands you a carefully labeled map.
This was not one of those days.
We found mushrooms, monkeys, lounge music, electronic weirdness, and a pineapple incident.
Honestly, I think we handled it well.
— Mickey
📻 Signal Incoming From The Cosmic Lounge
🚪 Corridor Status
☂️ Welcome Transmission: Online
🍄 Tiki Lounge: Open
📻 Studio: Stable
🌙 After Hours: Broadcasting 1–3 AM
🥣 Dimension 5 Snacks: Kitchen open
🎵 Gala Violet: Warming back up
🚪 Strange Doors: Still multiplying
No major construction this week.
Mostly…
we’re just glad to be back inside.
🍄 Recent Renovations
✨ The archives have been reorganized into their own neighborhoods.
📻 Eclectic Wonderland now keeps all of its adventures together.
🌙 After Hours finally has a hallway of its own.
🧜 Petals & Hooks has settled into a cozy underwater wing where every chapter can drift together.
☂️ Everything still lives beneath the Velvet Umbrella…
but it’s a lot easier to find your favorite room.
🌙 Overnight Expansion Notice
After Hours expands into a two-hour overnight journey.
Fridays 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM Central WDRT 91.9 FM
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
Oh Shitaki | Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 5
Kero Kero Bonito – I’d Rather Sleep
The Residents – Picnic Boy
They Might Be Giants – Let’s Fall in Lava
The Bran Flakes – Good Times A Goo Goo
Raymond Scott & The Bran Flakes – Powerhouse
Sparks – Happy Hunting Ground
DEVO – Time Out for Fun
Lemon Demon – The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Jonathan Coulton – Re: Your Brains
Esquivel – Mini Skirt
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Spanish Flea
Johnny Aloha & Richard Cheese – Rock Lobster
The Intoxicats – The Velvet Gorilla
Doktor Zoil – Groovey Monkey
The Evolution Control Committee – Iga Giant Pineapple Party
Señor Coconut – Trans Europe Express
Professor Elemental – Moon Monkeys
Snakefinger – Yeti: What Are You
Snakefinger – Smelly Tongues
Renaldo & The Loaf – Kimbolton Gnome Song
Negativland – Don’t Don’t Get Freaked Out
The Books – Tokyo
People Like Us – I’ve Got You
Raymond Scott – Twilight in Turkey (Electronic)
Tom Tom Club – Genius of Love
Deee-Lite – Groove Is in the Heart
The B-52’s – Dance This Mess Around
Yello – Oh Yeah
Stereo Total – I Love You, Ono
Bis – Kandy Pop
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)
Bongwater – Great Radio
AIR – Sexy Boy
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Telephone and Rubber Band
Tipsy – Midnight Party
XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton
Velvet Umbrella Radio
Who Keeps Doing This?
Welcome To The Wacky World Of Velvet Umbrella Radio
Yes.
We’re all real.
We’re just real weird.
Left to Right:
✨ DJ Tea (Celeste Violet)
✨ Mr Announcer Man
✨ Mickey Fingers
Together we create radio shows, playlists, videos, stories, artwork, strange investigations, accidental mythology, and the occasional kitchen experiment.
[Click The Art Above To Visit Our Home Page] The Door That’s Open Right Now.....
📻 Eclectic Wonderland
Wednesdays
1 PM - 3 PM Central
Live on WDRT 91.9 FM Viroqua
Eclectic Wonderland is our flagship show and home base for musical adventures, unexpected discoveries, and strange transmissions.
🎭 First Week: Alternate Wednesday
(Covers, remixes, reinterpretations, and musical curveballs)
🎵 Third Week: Independent Artist Showcase
(Please send us your music)
🛸 Fourth Week: Audities
(Our weirdest shows, experimental broadcasts, novelty records, and unexplained events)
🌙 After Hours
Fridays (Overnight)
1 AM - 3 AM Central
WDRT 91.9 FM Viroqua
With Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
After Hours explores the darker corners of the record collection.
Dream Pop.
Darkwave.
Trip-Hop.
Late-night discoveries.
Moonlit roads.
Signals from beneath.
and now, twice as long.
After Hours with Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers
After Hours is more of an Evening Vibe:
And then .....
🧜♀️ Petals & Hooks
Mixcloud Exclusive
Premieres Fridays at Midnight
With Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
Petals & Hooks is where the filters come off. Long-form themed journeys.
Dream narratives. Storytelling. Unexpected connections.
Beautiful mistakes. The things that don’t fit neatly inside traditional radio.
Most episodes run between three and four hours.
Some are explicit.
All are deeply strange.
Thanks, Goth Daddy, for everything you do...
and for assisting me in saving Petals & Hooks this week when all 3 hours vanished at the last moment.
You Rock. I do not know how you always keep your calm.
-Princess Danish Buns
Thank You For Visiting
More portals, hidden rooms, strange broadcasts, companion shows, stories, and weird worlds are currently under construction.
Some delays may be related to ongoing corridor expansion projects.
Some may be related to Gerald.
No official statement has been released.
More doors, stories, visuals, playlists, and companion shows can be found at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com.
DJ Tea (Celeste Violet) | Mr Announcer Man | Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers are part of a Creative Collaborative of Spoonie Artists that Create together. When they are not creating with Gala Violet, they create weird worlds, music, kitchen experiments and Radio shows together... To help spread joy... and give people an alternative to Doom Scrolling. Sometimes we even get Mr Announcer Man to play along.
🌐 More doors: VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com
📻 WDRT Archive (available for two weeks): wdrt.org
🌒 After Hours (unfiltered transmissions):[Mixcloud Link]
New Contact Pages & Bio Portals
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mr Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
From The Vault:
April Newsletter:
Thank you for being here.
Whether you laughed…
remembered someone…
or just let the weirdness carry you for a while…
We're really glad you showed up.
Thank you for Listening
Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits!
-DJ Tea, Mr Announcer Man, Dewey Lewis
& Mickey Fingers
People We Blame For This....
Art Direction & Visual Design:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mickey Fingers
Playlists Curated By:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
& Mickey Fingers
Voice Overs & Incidental Music:
Mickey Fingers
Show Notes & Storyworld Elements:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
& Mickey Fingers
Video Editing:
Celeste Violet
Sound Engineering & Production:
Mickey Fingers
& Celeste Violet
Eclectic Wonderland:
DJ Tea | Celeste Violet
Mr. Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
Eclectic Wonderland is an independent radio show hosted by DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man, and Mickey Fingers on WDRT 91.9 FM in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Each week features carefully curated playlists, original narration, artwork, stories, and musical discoveries spanning indie, dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, electronic, alternative, folk, experimental music, and college radio favorites. Continue the journey with Velvet Umbrella Radio | After Hours and Petals & Hooks, where the music wanders even farther after dark.
Returned: Heaven or Las Vegas Condition: Slightly tear-stained.
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