DEEP SCRATCH

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  • With John Sinclair And A Wall Of Legendary Guitarists

    With John Sinclair And A Wall Of Legendary Guitarists

    Jumping from an article in the Detroit Metro Times, about The Damned performing in Detroit, I was reminded of the session with Brian James, March 11th 2011 at Kingston College. The John Sinclair Beatnik Youth session.

    It was unforgettable and overwhelming, the sound, the characters around. The detailed liner notes of the CD listed all those on the session, and includes an extensive contribution by Mick Farren. My google search returned the usual AI summary, and I continued to “ask more questions”. The results below are accurate to my understanding, but then again, my remembrandts r’ a bit fuzzy.

    The rather simplistic, straight ahead facts about the session and musicians and tracks get it down. I’m reminded how I’ll never get to play on a live session like that again! Not least because Brian James and Keith Levene and Mick Farren and George Butler and Howard Marks and John Sinclair are no longer around, but…their recorded music and words and inspiration live with us, through us and all about us. If you don’t know find out. Testify!

    There’s still a lot of other musicians and contributors to Beatnik Youth who are not mentioned below, such as the drummer George Butler (who I had to nervously follow) and Howard Marks. Jesse Wood is also on the album! Holy smokes. What a band.

    To hear what it’s all about, or support visit:
    https://johnsinclair.bandcamp.com/album/beatnik-youth-2

    All Love, Steve Fly


    “The creation of Beatnik Youth was split into two worlds: a legendary live “wall of guitars” session, and a long post-production layering process done by producer Youth and engineer Michael Rendall, who integrated external guest samples and studio tracking. [1, 2, 3]

    The comprehensive list of musicians involved in the album is divided by their location of contribution: [1, 2]

    🏫 The Kingston College of Music Session (Live Tracking)

    These musicians gathered in person on March 1, 2011, to lay down the massive, live improvised grooves that formed the instrumental foundation for tracks like “Brilliant Corners”, and “Sitarrtha”. [1, 2]

    • Brian James (Guitar – The Damned / Lords of the New Church)
    • Keith Levene (Guitar – The Clash / Public Image Ltd)
    • Alan Clayton (Guitar & Vocals – The Dirty Strangers)
    • James Sedwards (Guitar – Nøught / Thurston Moore Group)
    • Steve Fly (Drums / Project Management) [1, 2]

    🎛️ Post-Production & Studio Additions (Not at Kingston College)

    These artists contributed either by having their work sampled and re-contextualized by Youth (often pulling from overlapping studio sessions), or by tracking their vocals/instruments directly at Youth’s private home studio: [1, 2]

    Jesse Wood – Guitar.

    Youth (Martin Glover) – Played bass on all tracks, programmed electronic layers, and acted as the main producer.

    Michael Rendall – Keyboards, synthesizers, and engineering.

    Bobby Gillespie – Lead vocals/guest vocals on “Culture-Cide” (pulled in from Primal Scream sessions).

    Primal Scream – Provided programming and instrumentation for “Culture-Cide”.

    The View – The Scottish indie rock band provided the prominent backing chorus hook on “Culture-Cide”.

    Howard Marks – Spoken word vocals on “War On Drugs” and “Culture-Cide”.

    Zodiac Mindwarp (Mark Manning) – Guest vocals.

    Mark Stewart – Guest vocals (The Pop Group).

    Robb Spragg (Larry Love) – Vocals on “Culture-Cide” (from Alabama 3).

    Angie Brown – Insidious soul choruses and backing vocals.

    drummer Steve Fly (Steven James Pratt) recorded his primary contributions during the March 1, 2011 session at Kingston College of Music. He served as a main drummer, project manager, and executive producer for the Beatnik Youth project. [1, 2]

    He plays drums on the following tracks:

    • “Brilliant Corners”
    • “Change My Life”
    • “Sitarrtha” (where he uses dampened sticks on the toms)
    • “Red Dress (Ruby My Dear)” (where he provides a softer, ambient jazz texture using brushes) [1, 2]
    Beatnik Youth by John Sinclair

  • MAMMALIAN: MODEL AGNOSTIC META MULTI AGENT LEARNING INTELLIGENCE AND NONFICTION (DEEP SCRATCH)

    MAMMALIAN: MODEL AGNOSTIC META MULTI AGENT LEARNING INTELLIGENCE AND NONFICTION (DEEP SCRATCH)

    I, Steve Fly, do not hold a Phd, but, I do refer to myself tongue in cheek as MPHDJ on occasion. The following is a presentation of a number of papers generated by Gemini Research,(MAMMALIAN) prompted by the current author, aimed at providing further context and content for consideration on behalf of those brave sleuths and long-game mystics who follow the tale of the tribe, and do what they can to forward the importance of the work of Robert Anton Wilson in 2025, his helpful contribution to keeping one’s sanity and sensibility alive and kicking with both feet. MAMMALIAN may also be considered auxilary text from the Deep Scratch universe so please feel free to jump around and use it as a reference guide.

  • Drone On Drone

    Drone On Drone

    Drone On Drone – Deep Scratch
  • DJ FLAI vs udio – HIP SLOP

    DJ FLAI vs udio – HIP SLOP

    Many of the great artists I admire said little about their work, leaving it to speak for itself. Generative AI provides a lens and amplifier to let what started as thoughts, evolve into sound waves and moving images. This is a part of the once fictional narrative of Deep Scratch (A Tribetable Novel). I’ve gone full pelt into the AI landscape and here present some of the highlights, as Hip Slop, a mux type.

    Read more: DJ FLAI vs udio – HIP SLOP

    Hip Slop is AI collaborative text to sound to video collage, as a beat tape, what was engineered to sound like a vinyl mixtape from 1999 or there abouts, the hey day of turntablism, old school boom bap, static, blunted beats, muted jazz, and weird lyrics. Note that all lyrics and turntable speak are original Steve Fly Agaric compositions, besides the few hallucinatory excursions into LLM garble-gumage. These audio selection were produced over the last 18 months, some AI remixed versions of old tracks, some only play out for a few bars, others are left alone.

    Many of these tracks are released via bandcamp in the Deep Scratch vs Udio series, here selected, mixed and blended using Djay (for I-Pad). No real turntables were harmed in the recording of this mix. No real singers, musicians, or real engineers were consulted, insulted or catapulted into orbit during this recording. This DJ Flai mix is a part of the Deep Scratch Universe. The Novel and accompanying works Deep Scratch Remix, and, Between The Groove, help add context. A DJ Mantis, DJ Tardigrade and DJ Fly become world champions in a human universe, but at what expense to the rest of humanity, history, time and spirit? Remind yourself this is science fiction, everything you see and hear is machine learning and neural nets, sewn together by the current author into sound things and moving light things, and any resemblance to real living things is purely coincidental. As a DJ and drummer, musician and writer my work entails building stronger ideas and methods and putting them into practice, performance IRL.

    I hope you strive for that too. In the meantime, as somebody who perpetually hears music and sees somewhat psychedelic visions, I shored a few from some deep dives, for your enjoyment, analysis and meditation. If the goal of the Deep Scratch project was musical time-travel, this mix demonstrates success in some sense. Outlines and new directions for The tale of the tribe. A snapshot from an alternate universe where turntables turn fables, narrative decodes, writes, reads. I hope this finds you well. All love. –Steve Fly

    deepscratch.net

    stevefly.bandcamp

    patreon.com/stevefly

  • BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    ON THE CUTS…

    Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

    As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.

    It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?

    What?

    BTG


    DS ONE – NEEDLE DROPS

  • DJ Steve Fly Presents – Chill Gatz (Vinyl Mix)

    DJ Steve Fly Presents – Chill Gatz (Vinyl Mix)

    Into the 90s crates of dusty mellow cuts, selected and mixed on the fly. File under downtempo trip hop, chill beats and instrumental healing tones. Excuse the wonky mixes and wonky turntable that decides when it wants to quartz lock, keeping me on my toes.

    Shout out to all Ninja and Mo-Wax heads, nods to the dope soundtrack beat necks. Featuring tracks by Funki Porcini, Raw Deal, Pressure Drop, The Heliocentrics, DJ Krush and more. Recorded 8th October, Amsterdam

  • Quarantino Sessions 08 – Village Ghetto Land (DJ MIX)

    Quarantino Sessions 08 – Village Ghetto Land (DJ MIX)

    HI,
    Sending musical comfort blankets to get you through the night. Express delivery courtesy of www.radiofreeamsterdam.org

    Recorded by Steve The Fly at Fly Agaric Studios, Amsterdam, with recordings by Ramsey Lewis, Cannonball Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Lou Rawls, Ella Fitzgerald, Clarke-Boland Big Band, Issac Hayes, Tortoise, Stevie Wonder, and Astrud Gilberto.

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    VILLAGE GHETTO LAND
    FLY BY NIGHT 359
    Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studios, Amsterdam, April 26, 2020 [20236]

    Ramsey Lewis: Uptight

    Cannonball Adderley: Walk Tall

    Freddie Hubbard: Surest Of Things Can Change

    Stevie Wonder: Venus Flytrap And The Bug

    Van Morrison: Coney Island

    Lou Rawls: You’re Takin’ My Bag

    Ramsey Lewis: Blues For The Night Owl

    Ella Fitzgerald: April In Paris

    Clarke-Boland Big Band: Fellini

    Issac Hayes: For The Good Times

    Lou Rawls: Yesterdays Dreams

    Tortoise: Swing From The Gutters

    Stevie Wonder: Village Ghetto Land

    Astrud Gilberto: All That’s Left To Say Is Goodbye

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/quarantino-08-36410896

  • 2020: SQUINTIN QUARANTINO (NEW BOOK OF POETRY, TWEETS, BLOGS)

    Support me at Patreon and get a PDF copy. Thanks for sharing.

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  • To The Five Cereals God

    Spring wind from the East
    Whispers of four seasons killer king at large
    Falling on deaf ears like snowflakes

    Flowers burst late winter messaging
    Sun’s fire and flood yin and yang
    Man’s dumb bones silent and thick
    The birds and bees return
    I sigh with pain and with relief
    The mountains and the milky way do not care
    For my mouthful of air
    When will I see my family again
    Who will we have become
    What of the badger fox and pheasant populations

    A Tsunami of novelty wash over gold
    Sunset on the horizon
    Its sudden beauty deceives man
    A novel king puzzle virus moves like a god
    Invisible almighty all-powerful creator and destroyer
    The slugs go about their twisted business
    Fish return to the river
    Men to their cave
    Sorrow on the air like bird song

    The countermeasures worse than the illness
    Thank goodness for Shen Nung
    The five cereals god
    Hemp cannabis and cheerfulness

    Funny thoughts dissolve
    As the long night approaches
    I start a poem and the moon sways
    Simple good health cheer for all
    May the cereal gods be bountiful
    May the rains not fail to fall
    May the greedy pulldown vanity
    Let us swear to meet again in the new world after
    Future

    –Steve Fly
    29/03/2020

  • Corona Cypher – First Thought Best Thought (Beatbox Poetry)

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    First thought best thought is a method of freestyle rhyme. Composed for my blog: https://deepscratch.net/2020/03/10/co…
    On March 19th I was fortunate to be able to record the words and a separate beatbox track at Ei-Complex studios with Tim Egmond.     #FlyQuark
    At home I mixed the beatbox and vocal tracks. Love, fly.

    Corona Cypher: First Thought Best Thought Feat. Squintin Quarantino.
    Words composed March 10th, 2020. Amsterdam. Recorded by Tim Egmond at Ei-Complex, Amsterdam. 19th March, 2020. Rough Mix by Steve Fly a.k.a Squintin Quarantino. Slice of lyrics…

    “…Make a new garden crew Do what you need to do to prevent flu Stay high, fly, CBDJ “Hi,” Feed your immune system with funny thoughts Play mind games and put out doubt with flames Quote facts and peer-reviewed names to reignite Each and every night unravel your talk tapes mi’ mates More toxic than J.P Morgan Monsanto and a five-year-old bag of rotten potato From the get-go King Virus by contamination Like the four horseman in the Tesco lasagna Animal traffick led to… Pick up the mic and go endemic to prevent panic With a goat, sceptre, and pot plandemic Slammdemic dem Murder virus sound Kill that virus sound Slamm Dem Pandem Mandem standin’ firm Throw water on it, fire, earth, blow it away? No gun or bomb can shoot this King dead Spreading like all memes trending at once, widespread dread All Ornette Coleman solo’s at once A William Gibson meets John le Carre’ finale’ Humanity run off down the motorway like a headless Pangolin Mis-identified as link between animals and humans (My Bad!) News and gov still manglin’ Vultures anglin’ Life lines be danglin’ Who’s who is handling? Ching Ming….CHING MING What good governance? Utterance, for a dollar, do a Johnson trap dance Pulling out while Cummings keeps on Cumming In Putin’s mouth Snivilization slouches further south No worries, it’ll soon come around Table turn around sounds fresh and loud Disperse to move the crowd, us discoronians stick apart Stay one meter away and claim your space Make your ritual space in that place Surround yourself with good omens Cleanse banish power up be here now Wash your hands and then touch your face Speak with sincerity, move with a trellis of lace, with grace Rhyme to climb into the head and bring relief Boost your immune system with some sexual relief No tissue, use a handkerchief Turn grief to a new leaf, good greaf? Sacrifice for greener futures That healthy planet for the young the dinosaurs refused? A death sentence for business The end of the dinosaur age is messy Goodbye T-Rex, goodbye Nessy Oil and fossil fuel industry made dust, past history Toxic debts and bonds fall like towers unwashed money Another bust boom bust boom! Evidence capitalist governmints made of sand-men Who do you trust? World market kept up by tent poles made of jelly and marzipan International unrestricted finance capitalism Pandemic running loose infecting humans for millennia, check it If Language is a virus from outer space so is money, burn it A Pangolin Bat broth dissolved trillions Gobble gobble gobble they earned it Hairs on the arms of billionaires and millionaires flare You can imagine them looking into space From a Yacht, that stare No blame, stop hating, we need to come together and stick apart And keep masterbating Wankers against the second come-king You’re gonna need pliers to get me out of bed Stuck to the sheets by my leaky prik-stick spread Who’s the illest now? Beat the virus Go wireless and tell a tireless solo choir-less let’s go Don’t fight forces use them, Learn to love the illness and embrace darkness in fullness And shine light, illuminate, stimulate sexdrive To produce white blood cells Mind body speech, word sound power, wash pray spit and shower Cleanliness is next to holiness, be the pollen and the flower Dethrone King virus and lock it away in a tinder box. Not from terrorists but bats and pangolin Pang, pang, pang, pang, with a pang and with a whimper Solidarity with all in discomfort from hunger loneliness Suffering from Corvid19, heartbreak or regular flu My thoughts and virtual arms just dropped the mic to hug you Fight back with A G C and T It’s only about 8 Kilobytes, put em’ up, Language is the key, break the spell do it well, duck, weave, duck duck invocation not required, they’re all around touch taste sound smell On earth and inner neurological spaces, as in heaven as in hell Places to bottle up solutions and write new potions To kill the King Virus and bring hope to nations Yes we can figure out preventative medicine Starting with high dose sessions of psilocybin Stay high and happy, positive, keep vibing Calling all gods and goddesses worldwide and beyond From the Compton Length to Hubble’s Red-Shift Under mountain, glacier and pond Give us a hond’ Every quantum super-computer and solid-state entity Each and every discarnate spirit, ghost, an angel hear me –Steve Fly Agaric 23. #DeepScratch #Plush