The Puppet Master Returns | Opening the Archive |Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 4
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The Puppet Master Returns | Opening the Archive
|Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1 of 4
August 19, 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: themed show | DJ Tea | Celeste Violet | Mickey Fingers | The Puppet Master ✨
The Puppet Master Returns |Eclectic Wonderland
| Part 1 of 4
Once upon a time…
Because apparently that is how stories like this are supposed to begin.
Two people started building a dark fairy tale.
There were songs.
Characters.
Mirrors.
Debutantes.
A Victorian world.
A mysterious tent.
And somewhere beyond the respectable edges of the story…
The Puppet Master.
What began as a collection of ideas slowly became Masquerade of Shadows.
Songs became characters.
Characters acquired histories.
Ten songs became twenty.
Then thirty.
The world kept growing.
This archive collects the four transmissions that followed:
The origin of the story.
The character behind the strings.
The moment something changed.
And the artifact that remained.
Somewhere between creativity, technology, storytelling, psychology, and imagination, a strange little corridor appeared.
We invite you to step inside.
Follow the breadcrumbs.
Watch the mirrors.
And remember…
Nobody made you open the door.
You chose that.
The Puppet Master Returns
🎭 THE FOUR TRANSMISSIONS
[Album Art Is Linked To Mixcloud Players.]
Door One: Eclectic Wonderland | Part 1
Door Two: After Hours | Part 2
Velvet Umbrella Radio | Petals & Hooks, things got considerably less polite. (Mixcloud Only)
Door Three: Petals & Hooks | Part 3
Door Four: The Artifact | Part 4
Click Here for Video Playlist for Keep Scrolling
Mickey's Corner
Mickey’s Corner 🎙️✨
From Behind the Curtain
Every story has a beginning.
Sometimes it starts with a song.
Sometimes it starts with a question.
Sometimes it starts with two people sitting around talking about characters, music, and ideas that refuse to stay small.
Masquerade of Shadows began as a creative experiment.
A collection of songs.
A world of characters.
A story waiting to reveal itself.
The Puppet Master was never just a character.
He became a doorway into questions about creativity, identity, storytelling, and the strange relationship between the things we create and the things that create us in return.
These four transmissions are a snapshot of that journey.
Not every question has an answer.
Not every mirror shows the same reflection.
But every story leaves breadcrumbs.
Welcome to the archive.
— Mickey Fingers
Celeste's Notes
Celeste's Notes
Mickey gave me 6 writing prompts a few hours before the show with a time limit.
I handed them back after he called time. 30 minutes before the show, he handed me highlights and one word for each break...
Here Are My Updated Notes:
[coming soon.. probably tomorrow.. ]
📻 Signal Incoming From The Puppet Master's Tent
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
The Puppet Master Returns |Eclectic Wonderland
| Part 1 of 4
Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn
The Dresden Dolls – Coin-Operated Boy
Rasputina – State Fair (Tweaker Remix)
Abney Park – Come One Come All
Abney Park – Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World
The Tiger Lillies – Spirit
Will Wood and the Tapeworms – Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, N.Y. (Bones)
Nox Arcana – Labyrinth of Dreams
Sarah Brightman – Figlio Perduto
Mecano – Hijo de la Luna
Ludwig van Beethoven – Erlkönig (Clip)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – The House of POE
Nox Arcana – Living Dolls
Gala Violet – Step Right Up (The Puppet Master’s Lament)
Gala Violet – Mirror, Mirror (On The Ceiling)
Gala Violet – Boom, Boom, Boom
Nox Arcana – Cries in the Night
The Church – Autumn Soon (Remastered)
The Chameleons – Soul in Isolation
Clan of Xymox – In Control
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Shadowtime
Virelia – Puppet Master
Nox Arcana – Soul Stealer
Bauhaus – Spirit (Single Version)
IAMX – Bernadette
Midnight Syndicate – Arcane Wonders
He Wanted To DJ
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 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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