Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong | Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 2
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Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong| Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 2
September 9, 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: Alternate Wednesday | DJ Tea | Celeste Violet | Mr Announcer Man | Mickey Fingers
Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong| Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 2
Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong
Sometimes a show begins with a grand concept.
Sometimes it begins with a carefully plotted theme, a notebook full of ideas, and a very responsible amount of preparation.
And sometimes...
Mickey and I look up from whatever strange little project has swallowed the week and realize we have approximately half a show idea.
That was this week.
Mr. Announcer Man, however, had a playlist.
Not a small playlist.
Not a polite playlist.
A sprawling, several-hours-long pile of remixes, alternate versions, club mixes, strange edits, familiar songs wearing different shoes, and enough material to keep a small radio station occupied well into next Tuesday.
So naturally, we said yes.
Then we started cutting.
And moving.
And listening.
And changing our minds.
And putting things back.
And eventually, somewhere inside all that beautiful musical clutter, a show appeared.
Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong.
A collection of songs that refused to stay exactly the way we remembered them.
Which, honestly, feels appropriate.
Because some weeks are like that too.
You start with one version of the plan...
and by the time you get to the other side, everything has been rearranged.
Not ruined.
Just remixed.
And sometimes the alternate version turns out to be the one you needed.
That feels like the right front door to me. 💕📻✨
Thank you Mr Announcer Man
Click Here for Video Playlist for Keep Scrolling
Mickey's Corner
Mickey’s Corner 🎙️✨
The Alternate Version
There’s something strangely reassuring about an alternate version.
Same song.
Same bones.
But somebody moved a few pieces around and suddenly the whole thing means something different.
A drum hits harder.
A guitar disappears.
A voice gets buried deeper in the mix.
Something that used to feel bright becomes a little dangerous.
Something you never noticed becomes the entire reason you keep listening.
People do that too.
We spend a lot of time pretending there is one definitive version of us.
The correct one.
The finished mix.
But I’m not convinced there is.
Maybe we’re all alternate versions.
Remastered every few years.
A few tracks removed.
Some noise cleaned up.
Other noise deliberately left in because it turned out to be part of the character.
Sometimes life hands you a remix you never asked for.
Plans change.
Things disappear.
Doors close.
Other doors show up where there definitely wasn’t a door yesterday.
And suddenly you’re standing inside a version of your life you couldn’t have predicted from the original recording.
That doesn’t always mean something went wrong.
Sometimes it just means the arrangement changed.
Maybe the trick is not trying so hard to restore the original.
Maybe the trick is listening long enough to discover what this version is trying to become.
Keep the strange parts.
They’re usually doing more work than you think.
Mickey Fingers
Still slightly rewired.
🖤📻✨
Celeste's Notes
Celeste's Notes
On Half-Baked Ideas, Giant Playlists & Letting Things Become What They Want
This week did not begin with a grand plan.
It began with too many projects, too many tabs open, and the sudden realization that Mickey and I had been so deep in building other things that this week’s radio show was still somewhere between “idea” and “well... shit.”
Then Mr. Announcer Man appeared with a playlist.
A very large playlist.
The kind of playlist that quietly suggests someone has been preparing for this exact emergency for years.
So we listened.
We cut.
We moved things around.
We kept the parts that made us grin.
We let go of the things that were good but didn’t quite belong.
And somewhere in the middle of all that, Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong found itself.
I love when that happens.
Not because scrambling is always fun.
It isn’t.
But because sometimes the thing you thought was unfinished is simply waiting for somebody else to bring the missing piece.
This week was collaborative in the best possible way.
Mr. Announcer Man brought the giant musical suitcase.
Mickey helped shape the strange little creature inside it.
And I got to stand in the middle of both of them and say things like:
“Okay, but what if we make it weirder?”
Which is apparently my spiritual gift.
There’s also something about this show’s theme that landed a little deeper than expected.
Remixes are strange that way.
You recognize the song...
but it isn’t exactly the version you remember.
And lately, I’ve been thinking about how often life does that too.
You rebuild things.
You move pages.
You change plans.
You revisit old stories.
You find yourself standing in front of doors you thought you closed months ago.
And suddenly something familiar is playing again...
only the arrangement has changed.
Maybe that is not always a bad thing.
Maybe sometimes the alternate version is exactly where the magic was hiding.
And speaking of old doors...
there are a few shadows beginning to gather around here again.
The Puppet Master has been unusually quiet.
Which, frankly, is more suspicious than when he is making noise.
We have not forgotten him.
We have not forgotten the Masquerade.
And as we get closer to Halloween...
I have a feeling the curtains may start moving again.
For now, though...
we are enjoying the remix.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for wandering through all these strange little rooms with us.
And thank you for letting things evolve.
Sometimes the best version is the one nobody planned.
-Celeste Violet
Still rearranging the furniture. 💕📻🎭
The Story Behind Waffles & Fish-Head Café
Before Waffles & Fish-Head Café became a place inside Dream Logic, it was just an inside joke.
A long, long time ago, Mickey Fingers and Celeste Violet were in the studio together, happ-slappy, playing around, making things, laughing at things that probably made considerably less sense to anyone outside the room.
Somewhere in all of that, Waffles & Fish-Head Café happened.
Mickey sent the original piece as a joke.
And then, because this is Eclectic Wonderland and apparently nobody was supervising us, one day it ended up on a show.
That should probably have been the end of it.
Instead, it became one of those tiny shared references that never quite disappeared.
Years later, while we were wandering through the impossible rooms of Dream Logic Part One, there it was again.
Waiting for us.
And somehow, in a show filled with black rainbows, moon monkeys, suspicious robots, ghosts, unreliable clocks, and dreams that remember things before we do...
Waffles & Fish-Head Café suddenly made perfect sense.
That may be our favorite kind of story.
The ones nobody deliberately creates.
They just keep coming back until one day you realize they have become part of the world.
And apparently, once a place becomes part of the world, it starts doing things without permission.
This week, pieces of the Café began showing up again.
A waffle here.
A fish head there.
A familiar little corner of the room turning up in places it had not been invited.
Which feels appropriate for a show about remixes, alternate versions, and familiar things returning in slightly altered form.
Maybe Waffles & Fish-Head Café is doing what all good imaginary places eventually do.
Remixing itself.
Maybe the jukebox has learned new songs.
Maybe the menu has changed.
Maybe one of the fish heads has started keeping notes.
We are not asking too many questions.
That is how you end up on the late-night menu.
😂🐟🧇✨
Enjoy!
-Mickey & Celeste
📻 Signal Incoming ....
DIMENSION 5 SNACKS IS BACK 🧁✨
Somewhere between rebuilding websites, making radio shows, opening suspicious doors, and wondering where entire pages disappear to when nobody is looking...
Celeste and Mickey have wandered back into the
Dimension 5 Snacks Test Kitchen.
We’ve been rebuilding another little corner of the universe that vanished during a move, and this time we’re letting it become what it probably wanted to be all along.
Less “health coach.”
More art project, snack laboratory, Spoonie survival kit, creative playground, and occasional frosting emergency.
Because food is part of the creative process too.
Sometimes it’s about nourishment.
Sometimes it’s about finding ingredients that work better with the bodies we happen to live in.
Sometimes it’s about making something gluten-free, nutrient-dense, comforting, easy, weird, beautiful, or simply possible on a low-energy day.
And sometimes...
you just need a fucking cupcake.
❤️
Most of what lives in Dimension 5 Snacks leans toward healthier, gluten-free food because that’s how we generally cook and take care of ourselves.
But we are absolutely not interested in turning every bite into homework.
Healing can involve vegetables.
Healing can also involve buttercream.
Both things may be true at the same time.
So we’re bringing the Test Kitchen back with a goal of sharing at least four gluten-free recipes every month, along with Spoonie-friendly ideas, experiments, kitchen oddities, comfort food, creative fuel, and whatever else falls out of the vending machine.
Which brings us to today’s first transmission...
❤️ GLUTEN-FREE RED VELVET CUPCAKES
Soft cocoa-red velvet cupcakes, fluffy vanilla buttercream, and absolutely no requirement that they justify themselves as health food.
Sometimes the mission is simply cupcake.
Pearl has apparently classified this particular experiment as:
Morale enhancement with frosting.
And frankly, we support the research.
Click the recipe art to open the full recipe.
❤️ Dimension 5 Snack Drop: Gluten-free red velvet cupcakes with cocoa, vanilla, and fluffy buttercream frosting. Not everything needs to be health food. Sometimes the mission is simply cupcake.
THERE MAY BE MORE FOOD HIDING IN HERE...
Not every recipe is going to sit politely on the counter.
Some of them are going to be tucked into the shelves, hidden in videos, buried under strange objects, or waiting behind whatever button looked least responsible to push.
The 5th Dimension Snacks vending machine is becoming one of those places.
Insert curiosity.
Receive wonder.
Possibly receive cookies.
No guarantees.
🍪📡✨
Psst...
There’s already another recipe hiding nearby.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Chewy. Nutty. Gluten-free. A little more nutrient-dense than your average cookie...
but still very definitely a cookie.
Because we have standards.
And cookies are one of them.
😂❤️
The jukebox starts playing alternate versions on its own.
The vending machine has a new button nobody remembers installing.
One of the fish heads seems to be facing the opposite direction every time somebody looks away.
And somewhere behind the kitchen, a red velvet curtain has appeared where there used to be a wall.
Nobody is opening it.
FRIDAY OVERNIGHT: ANGELS IN THE STATIC
Wednesday bends the songs.
Friday bends the signal.
After midnight, the familiar starts to drift a little farther from shore.
Darkwave. Post-punk. Electronic ghosts. Beautiful things moving between the stations.
Velvet Umbrella Radio | After Hours presents: Angels in the Static.
Every radio has frequencies between the stations.
Mostly static.
Mostly.
But every once in a while...
something answers.
Join Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers Friday overnight from 1–3 AM Central on WDRT Viroqua, 91.9 FM.
Leave the receiver on. Some signals are meant to be heard.
[you found a sneak peak. Lucky You]
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
Remixed, Rewired & Slightly Wrong| Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 2
The Cult – Assault On Sanctuary
The Fixx – One Thing Leads to Another (Radio Mix)
Real Life – Send Me an Angel (Giuseppe D Angelic Radio Edit)
Evan Blum & Michelle Raitzin – Endless Sky
Blur – There’s No Other Way (Blur Remix)
Love and Rockets – Sweet Lover Hangover (Remix)
Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod (Powerman 5000 Remix)
Filter – Hey Man Nice Shot (¼ lb)
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell (The Crystal Method Remix)
Iggy Pop – Lust for Life (The Prodigy Remix)
The Evolution Control Committee – Spandau Filet
Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing (12" Remix Version)
🍪 Dimension 5 Snack Drop: Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with maple syrup, walnuts, chia seeds, and dark chocolate chips. Dairy-free, egg-free, refined sugar-free, with a gluten-free option and absolutely no dried-fruit nonsense. Part 2
The B-52’s & DJ Cummerbund – Love Shack (Tik Toxic Remix)
The Shamen – Move Any Mountain (Progen 91) [Landslide Mix]
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Mix)
The Beloved – Hello (Honky Tonk)
The Stone Roses – Waterfall (Justin Robertson’s Mix)
Señor Coconut – Trans Europe Express (Cumbia Instrumental)
The White Stripes & The Glitch Mob – Seven Nation Army (The Glitch Mob Remix)
Daniel Ash – So Alive (feat. John Fryer)
Happy Mondays – Step On (2007 Remastered)
Fear Factory – Cars (Remix)
Devo – Whip It (Philip Steir Remix)
Marsheaux – A Photograph of You (Instrumental)
Big Audio Dynamite II – Rush (N.Y.C. Club Version)
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.
Other Doors Currently Open...
MORE DOORS OPEN NOW
Mickey’s Notes
We’ve been building more than a few strange little doors lately.
Some of them are already open. Some are still flickering in the hallway.
Before life went sideways for a bit, we had several show notes, experiments, and little pieces of the Velvet Umbrella universe in progress, including the three-part show from last week and another Petals & Hooks page.
They’re still coming.
Nothing disappeared.
We just had to let the studio breathe for a minute.
Consider this your friendly reminder that a work in progress is still work worth loving.
We’ll keep opening the doors as we finish them.
Meanwhile, 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.
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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