Author: dalecooper57

dalecooper57 may or may not necessarily be my real name, although I couldn't swear to it. An aging hippy living in Devon, I do all this stuff (and I do mean everything - blog, animation, music, photography, the lot) on my lovely smartphone because I started like that, and now I'm too stubborn to get a computer. I don't have a theme, because I don't see why I'd want to talk about the same thing all the time, so why only write about one thing? So if you like eclecticism, humour, nonsense, opinionated ranting, and occasionally educational stuff, you've come to the right place. Any and all feedback is welcome, both positive and negative, on the content, style and overall look of the blog. You keep following me, I'll keep telling you stuff, ok? Cheers, dalecooper57

#1linerWeds*: Wednesday Weirdness.

Here we are again, for what is probably the final dose (for now, anyway) of Wednesday Weirdness, as the guest features for Lockdown 2020 come to an end.

I have once more been hard at work in the Return of the Internet Nobody video editing suite, (a chair in the garden) to splice together an even more FX-laden audio visual spectacular; using a greatest hits collection of my animated Instagram posts which are all, need I remind you, made using only this same single photo, soundtracked with one of my remixes.

With any luck, normal service will resume next week.

#1linerWeds

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*ok, so it was one very long line, I’ll give you that.

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day forty nine.

Day 49 of our audio odyssey with the Melodic Randomiser and we’re on the downhill run of the Isolation Radio show.

Just a quick one, as I have two posts to fill today.

The first tune to grace your ears is by The Black Angels and comes from their Clear Lake Forest album. Here’s “An Occurrence at 4507 South Third Street”

Next up, another bona fide pop classic from the ’80s and Soft Cell; this is their huge hit single “Tainted Love”, from the Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret album

And we end with a bit of minimal techno from Lindstrom and “Gentle as a Giant”, from It’s a Feedelity Affair

Ok, gotta run, back tomorrow.

Do good, be good, stay safe.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser Isolation Radio day forty eight.

Hello again, welcome to the whatever-the-hell-day-it-is edition of the Isolation Radio show and our final week of tunes selected by the Melodic Randomiser.

First on the air today is James Yuill and a track from his These Spirits album, this is “Space Race”

Closely followed by the very peculiar Animal Collective and their album Painting With, here’s a song called “FloriDada”

And bringing up the rear, we have something from the original soundtrack of True Blood, this is the theme song by Jace Everett, the low down and dirty “Bad Things”

What a great threesome to add some spring to your…Tuesday(?) step.

See you tomorrow for more.

Let’s be careful out there.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day forty seven.

Looks like the final week of the strictest lockdown restrictions is now underway, meaning some of you may have returned to work already or are doing so in the next few days.

I shall not be going back until next Monday, as I’m not confident we are over the worst of it yet and I am still concerned about a possible spike in new cases over the coming week. That’s a risk I am just not prepared to take, due to Rhonda and Audrey both having health issues which put them at higher risk of serious complications from infection.

So the Isolation Radio show will continue until at least Sunday, because the Melodic Randomiser is still packed full of top tunes, such as…

…a song by Canadian oddballs, Men Without Hats, from their 1982 Rhythm of Youth album, here’s the quirky “Ideas for Walls”

After that we have a big slab of anthemic goth rock by The Sisters of Mercy, from their epic 1985 Floodland album, this is the excellent “Dominion”

And today’s third and final offering is another incarnation of Bill Nelson, this time with his short lived new wave outfit, Red Noise. This is a song from their only album, Sound on Sound, released in ’79, the slightly manic “Art, Empire, Industry”

I would like to take this opportunity to thank any of you who have tuned in for this journey through my musical memory banks, and I hope you’ll stick with me for the last few days of audio delights if you have the time.

Keep on staying safe and being good to each other, this thing is far from over and we all need to continue to do our part.

Peace

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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week concentrating on; My Summer space.

I think I might have gone ever so slightly mad in the last couple of months, if it wasn’t for our small oasis of green in the back garden, so I’m even more grateful for the sanctuary it provides at the moment.

Where is your special place to enjoy the sunshine, give us the tour…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day forty six


Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today, to get through this thing called life.
Electric word life, it means forever and that’s a mighty long time, but I’m here to tell you there’s something else…

…and that something else is day forty six of the Isolation Radio show, in the day of our Melodic Randomiser May 10th 2020.

We begin the Sunday service with a song by Ministry, from their 1989 album, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste; here’s “So What”, which contains lyrical imagery some of the more sensitive congregants may find disturbing.

A distinct change of tone now, as we sample a little New Muzik from 1981 and “They All Run After the Carving Knife”, from their second album, Anywhere

Now please could we all stand for the final hymn by Nine Inch Nails, from the gospel according to Pretty Hate Machine, this is “The Only Time”

A somewhat unconventional trinity, I’ll give you that, but we are a broad church and all musical genres are welcome, (having said that, there is a bowl of water by the door and I’d appreciate it if any Phil Collins, Queen or Sting could be left tied up outside) especially in these trying times.

I hope the rest of your Sunday is peaceful and relaxing, I’ll see you again tomorrow for more tunes and the weekly Cosmic Photo Challenge post.

Stay safe, fix up, look sharp, be kind.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day forty five.

What a beautiful day to be sitting in the garden with the Melodic Randomiser by my side, ready to provide a trio of tunes for today’s Isolation Radio show, easing you into your Saturday evening with…

…Belly and without doubt their most famous song, the single “Feed the Tree” from 1993’s Baby Silvertooth album.

Then we turn to Thomas Dolby for an ’80s pop classic, “Hyperactive”, from his 1984 The Flat Earth album

And we finish today with a 2001 track by Sum-41; “In Too Deep” from the All Killer No Filler album

That’s your lot for this sunny Saturday, I’ll be back for your musical Sunday sermon tomorrow.

Have as good a night as you can and stay safe.

Peace

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Cosmic Photo prompt.

Welcome to Friday’s regular prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, providing your inspiration for Monday’s show and tell post.

In another attempt at keeping it non-specific yet themed, to account for the current global socialising peculiarities, I’m giving you the task of capturing whatever you consider to be; My Summer space.

Not my space, you understand, that would be difficult and…a little creepy, but wherever you will be/would like to be spending your days of Summer.

Obviously gardens spring to mind, but I’m aware a lot of you may not have that luxury and might be dependent on other outside spaces, or may even be trapped indoors completely, so hopefully it’s inclusive enough for everyone.

See you on Monday or tomorrow for day 45 of the Isolation Radio show, either way, enjoy your weekend.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day forty four.

All the fours, 44, as they probably say in bingo, but here on the Isolation Radio show we only take three suggestions a day from the Melodic Randomiser and today’s first cut out of the box is…

…Hawkwind again, (the law of averages alone means they should pop up at least once a week) with a fantastic, shiny, chrome-plated space rock beast of a song from Sonic Attack, here’s “Living on a Knife Edge” from 1981

We follow them with a song from Tunng‘s 2010 folktronica album, …And Then We Saw Land; this is the official video for their rather lovely, hippity-hoppity, plinkity-plonkity, “Hustle”

And if they weren’t different enough from each other, how about rounding off this eclectic selection with some La Roux and Major Lazer‘s dancehall reworking of her “Bulletproof” single, from their 2010 collaboration, LazerProof

Nice mix, huh?

Yeah, I thought so, too.

Anyway, back with more tomorrow, now I think there’s a photo prompt for me to come up with.

Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe and be patient, we’ll get through this.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day forty three.

Good day to you, wherever you may be and welcome to another session with the Melodic Randomiser, surfing the waves of the ether via the Isolation Radio show for the forty third day running.

I have cheated slightly today, in that I have picked the first track myself as a tribute to Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, who sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 73. This is “Antenna” from their 1975 Radioactivity album

Then a band who I suspect don’t find themselves listed next to German techno pioneers very often; Blue Öyster Cult, with a song from their excellent 1980 album Cultösaurus Erectus, here’s “The Marshall Plan”

Taking us to the end of this listicle is a lady with a unique sound called Zsuzsanna Eva Ward. She goes simply by ZZ Ward and this is the title song from her 2017 Storm album

I hope you have a good evening, I’ll see you tomorrow for another wander through the memory banks.

Stay safe, stay strong.

Peace

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