2020: Squintin Quarantino (Paperback 2021)

2020: Squintin Quarantino by Steven James Pratt

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Chill Gatz - DJ Steve Fly Agaric 23 (Live Audio Video 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.

https://deepscratch.net/2020/10/09/dj-steve-fly-presents-chill-gatz-vinyl-mix/

Fly By Night 297: Bregzit

Steve The Fly is playing selections from his own work in poetry & music in Episode 297 with assists from Vicente Pino and Tim Egmond.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

BREGZIT

FLY BY NIGHT 297

Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studio, Amsterdam, January 29, 2018 [19097]

Steve Fly: Brexit

Steve Fly: Brexit Paper

Steve Fly: Brexshit Battleship

Steve Fly: Great Britinn

Steve Fly: Kulture Criminister

Steve Fly: Liars For Hire

Steve Fly: Royal Crest Of Arms

Steve Fly: Shamebridge Analytica

Steve Fly: Westmonster Exshit

Steve Fly: Do Not Disturb Her (World Piss)

Steve Fly: Black Country feat.

Steve Fly: Ghetto Math (World Piss)

Steve Fly: Post Digital Daydream (For John Trudell)

Steve Fly: Shannon Von Neumann (World Piss)

Steve Fly: Year Of The Pig (2007) featuring Vincente Pino


A JOINT PRODUCTIONProduced by Steve “The Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam

Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair

Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

Special thanks to Tim Egmond


© 2019 Steve Pratt. Used with permission.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/fly-by-night-297-bregzit/

DJ Steve Fly - Amsterdam Sound Check

Schrodinger's Cat - Steve Fly Remix

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New Ninja Jamm shizz

Occupy (The Album) by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle

DJ Fly Agaric 23 (drums) Pinopinopolis (Guitar) - Doctor Marshmallow Cubicle

Dr marshmallow Cubicle - Bogius Jam III photos

Fly By Night Radio Show Archive

Fly By Night Archive

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    Fly By Night: Cosmic Hop
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    Fly By Night: Mohawk
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    Fly By Night: Epistrophy
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    Fly By Night: Ganjazz Pujazz
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    Fly By Night: Rollins Rollins Rollins
    Steve The Fly is rollin’ with Sonny Rollins and added cuts by Sun Ra, Shelley Manne, and the Gil Evans...
   
Fly By Night: Sonny Ra—Between Two Worlds April 30, 2014
    Fly By Night: Sonny Ra—Between Two Worlds
    Steve The Fly is swinging between the worlds of Sun Ra and Sonny Rollins with additional contributions by KonstruKt featuring...

    Fly By Night: Little Trigger Finger0April 23, 2014
    Fly By Night: Little Trigger Finger
    Steve The Fly leads off this week with a cut of his own and follows with David AxelRod, Medeski Martin...
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    Fly By Night: Tubby Dub Dub
    Steve The Fly is dubbing like crazy this week with cuts from Ry Cooder, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Killing Joke In Dub,...
   
Fly By Night: Doo Wop Mu Wanna0April 9, 2014
    Fly By Night: Doo Wop Mu Wanna
    Steve The Fly with a Doo Wop spectacular featuring Shirley Gunter & The Queens, The Drifters, The Cadets, The Platters,...
   
Fly By Night: Babs Moonlight Dream0April 2, 2014
    Fly By Night: Babs Moonlight Dream
    Steve The Fly delves into the jazz vocalese catalog with Eddie Jefferson, the Rasheed Ali Quintet, John Sinclair, Charlie Rouse...
   
Fly By Night: Mardi Ra2March 26, 2014
    Fly By Night: Mardi Ra
    Steve The Fly is ready to go with cuts from Dr John, the Hot 8 Brass Band, Explosions, Miles Davis,...
   
Fly By Night: Ice Age2March 19, 2014
    Fly By Night: Ice Age
    Steve The Fly investigates some of the darker aspects of our current Ice Age with selections by Dan Rather, Enio...

    Fly By Night: Trip Slop & Burn2March 12, 2014
    Fly By Night: Trip Slop & Burn
    Steve The Fly is spinning tunes tonight by John Sinclair, Charlie Parker, Funkadelic, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Wicked Knee, James...

    Fly By Night: Trigger Finger2March 5, 2014
    Fly By Night: Trigger Finger
    Steve The Fly has his finger on the trigger tonight with selections from Roberto Laneri & Fabio Sartori, John Cage,...

    Fly By Night 48: Evolving and Dissolving2February 26, 2014
    Fly By Night 48: Evolving and Dissolving
    Steve The Fly covers the spectrum from evolving to dissolving with a program of selections from Sarah Vaughn, Michael McClure...



    Fly By Night: G-Man Got The T-Man3February 19, 2014
    Fly By Night: G-Man Got The T-Man
    DJ Fly Agaric 23 serves up a mint menu of melodic jazz weirdness featuring Sun Ra, The Fugs, Kenny Cox,...
   
Fly By Night: Baraka’s Dream3February 12, 2014
    Fly By Night: Baraka’s Dream
    Steve The Fly dedicates this episode of Fly By Night to the legendary poet Amiri Baraka who died earlier this...
   
Fly By Night: New School Funk Rule3February 5, 2014
    Fly By Night: New School Funk Rule
    Episode 45 of Fly By Night features a selection of snap funk licks from Fly, with a healthy dose of...
   
Fly By Night: Homage To Chet Helms2January 29, 2014
    Fly By Night: Homage To Chet Helms
    DJ Steve Fly Agaric 23 joins Garaj Mahal and their other special guests on July 3, 2005 at the Tulsa...
  
 Fly By Night: No Parking2January 22, 2014
    Fly By Night: No Parking
    The bassist Liam Hanrahan and drummer Alan Hertz performed as a live improvisational duo called No Parking, and on this...
  
 Fly By Night: Garaj Mahal Halloween2January 15, 2014
    Fly By Night: Garaj Mahal Halloween
        Shortly after returning to California from a year living in New Orleans, Steve Fly joined Garaj Mahal for...
   
Fly By Night: Fly’s Bag January 8, 2014
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    While on his wayward adventures in America, Steve Fly Agaric 23 hooked up with drummer Alan Hertz and his band,...
   
Yeats & Crowley Funk: Fly By Night 394December 18, 2013
    Yeats & Crowley Funk: Fly By Night 39
    Steve The Fly is back with furter investigations into music & spoken word with performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Gil Evans,...
  
 Mayan Maximus Arkestra: Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 381December 11, 2013
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    Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra...
   
Beat America: Fly By Night 370December 4, 2013
    Beat America: Fly By Night 37
    Steve The Fly spotlights some of America’s great Beat literary legacy with performances by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen...
   
Giluminati Top: Fly By Night 360November 27, 2013
    Giluminati Top: Fly By Night 36
    Steve The Fly presents a Gil Evans spectacular with additional material by the Wild Magnolias, Edwards Generation, Gil Scott Heron,...
   
Globalization: Fly By Night 350November 20, 2013
    Globalization: Fly By Night 35
    Steve The Fly has his wings on tonight with this thrilling program of selections from Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gilespie,...
   
Finngers Fables: Fly By Night 340November 13, 2013
    Finngers Fables: Fly By Night 34
    Steve The Fly is winging through the night with this progam of extreme mental patience featuring selections by Steve Fly...
   
Gil Weed: Fly By Night 330November 6, 2013
    Gil Weed: Fly By Night 33
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 Alligator Wine: Fly By Night 320October 30, 2013
    Alligator Wine: Fly By Night 32
    Steve The Fly is spinning with distinction for this program of audio wierdness featuring Moondog, Dr John, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins,...









October 23, 2013
Let’s Go Mingus: Fly By Night 31
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Psychedelic Sallywag: Fly By Night 300October 16, 2013
Psychedelic Sallywag: Fly By Night 30
Steve The Fly is tripping tonight with an elogated segment by the great American poet Charles Olson and numbers by...

Mediatate Intergate: Fly By Night 290October 9, 2013
Mediatate Intergate: Fly By Night 29
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Kiss & Hug: Fly By Night 280October 2, 2013
Kiss & Hug: Fly By Night 28
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Illuminatus Triology: Fly By Night 270September 25, 2013
Illuminatus Triology: Fly By Night 27
Steve The Fly pays homagwe to his friend & mentor Robert Anton Wilson with an Illuminatus Trilogy abnd tunes by...

Diva Diving: Fly By Night 260September 18, 2013
Diva Diving: Fly By Night 26
Steve The Fly is Diva Diving tonight with cuts by James Blood Ulmer, Sarah Vaughn, Aretha Franklin, Julia Lee, Ella...

Something’s Going On: Fly By Night 250September 11, 2013
Something’s Going On: Fly By Night 25
Steve The Fly Is Flying By Night with a stellar program of selections by Robert Anton Wilson, Daddy Cleanhead &...

Tapping My Own Phone: Fly By Night 240September 4, 2013
Tapping My Own Phone: Fly By Night 24
Steve The Fly is tapping his own phone to come up with this week’s episode of Fly By Night, with...

Let’s Loot The Supermarket While We Have A Chance: Fly By Night 230August 28, 2013
Let’s Loot The Supermarket While We Have A Chance: Fly By Night 23
  The John Sinclair Foundation Presents LET’S LOOT THE SUPERMARKET WHILE WE HAVE A CHANCE FLY BY NIGHT 23 WITH...

North Ear Feast: Fly By Night 220August 21, 2013
North Ear Feast: Fly By Night 22
Steve The Fly is looking forward to the North Sea Jazz Festival again with music by Nina Simone, Medeski, Martin...

North Jazz Ear: Fly By Night 210August 14, 2013
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Spygate Swing: Fly By Night 200August 7, 2013
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Wizzy Dig: Fly By Night 180July 24, 2013
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Occupy Mendacity: Fly By Night 170July 17, 2013
Occupy Mendacity: Fly By Night 17
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Just A Little While To Stay Here: John Sinclair Radio Show 521

Just A Little While To Stay Here: John Sinclair Radio Show 521

Posted in: John Sinclair, John Sinclair Radio Show, Radio Free Amsterdam

Episode 521 is emanating from my regular stand at the 420 Cafe in Amsterdam, but contrary to my plans I’ll be leaving here tomorrow to stay in London until (and after) our Cannabis Cup party at the Akhnaton November 24. I learned when I arrived in the Netherlands yesterday that I’ve overstayed my welcome in he European Zone for the current six-month period that started with my arrival for the summer on June 21, so right now I’ve got two days left of the 90 allowed and I’ll have to return in two weeks to enjoy them here. Meanwhile I’ll be holed up at housedem.com in London, home of The Fuck You Sound, thanks to Caleb Selah & Co. Tonight at the 420 I’m playing music by the ReBirth Brass Band, tunes from Detroit by the Planet D Nonet, the Flying Crowbars, the  Butler Twins, and Laith Al-Saadi; music from Holland by the Misha Mengelberg/Piet Noordijk Quartet; tunes I picked up in Portland ME by  Angelica Sanchez and Melanie De Biasio; three cuts from my forthcoming Ironman album called Mohawk with Steve The Fly; and a send-off by Glen Andrews & the Lazy Six.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

JUST A LITTLE WHILE TO STAY HERE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 521

420 Café, Amsterdam, November 9, 2013 [20-1345]

[01] Opening Music: ReBirth Brass Band: Just a Little While to Stay Here
[02] John Sinclair Intro, ID & Opening Comments
[03] Planet D Nonet: Island in the Sun
[04] Flying Crowbars: Shake Me
[05] Butler Twins: The Butler Jump
[06] Laith Al-Saadi: What It Means
[07] John Sinclair Comments
[08] Misha Mengelberg/Piet Noordijk Quartet: Sugar ‘n Spice
[09] Angelica Sanchez: 514
[10] Melanie De Biasio: The Flow
[11] John Sinclair Comments
[12] John Sinclair: Bloomdido
[13] John Sinclair: Mohawk
[14] John Sinclair: Carolina Moon
[15] John Sinclair Closing Comments & Outro
[16] Closing Music: Glen Andrews & the Lazy Six Over In The GloryLand

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Hempshopper & Ceres Seeds, Amsterdam
Special thanks to Sidney Daniels, Steve The Fly, Caleb Selah, and Sensi Seeds

© 2013 The John Sinclair Foundation

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/just-a-little-while-to-stay-here-john-sinclair-radio-show-521/

4 and 20 beats

Kai 360

On April 1st 2013, I reconnected with my friend and mentor Kai Eckhardt and with the singer Sandhya Sanjana in Amsterdam to embark on a recording, tentatively titled 4 and 20 beat, due to its original 24 beat cycle sketched out by Kai.

The recording session was held at Quark studios in Amsterdam, where we gathered in the beautiful garden area of the studio and I explained my idea of creating a composition for a 360 panorama audio experiment. (Something along the lines of the website www.raw360.net that I have been developing alongside design scientist CHU).

Kai quickly understood my flow and sketched out an incredible 24 beat beat in his notebook. This syncopated poly-rhythmic loop acted as the frame upon which Sandhya and he applied matching vocal lines in the Indian spoken syllabic tradition.

In a bionic flurry of genius, Kai improvised a further nine overdubs, five on bass three on keyboards and one shaker loop. Each new overdub was a subdivision of the previous and some had a harmonic correspondence too resulting in a series of loops that are 24, 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1 beats long. Finally, Sandhya performed her soaring vocals and vitalized the twisting poly-rhythm with her long sustained focus.   

Two days later Quark and I arranged the loops and composed a song: 4 and 20 beat. Next I painstakingly cut a series of 72 bars tracks (3 x 24), including some new drum loops and turntable parts and narrative, so together with CHU we started experimenting with feed the loops into our 360 panorama platform. Once again CHU innovated the possibilities of 360 degree audio space.

Thanks for all the genius and innovative thinking that have made this idea come into being. However, this is only the beginning of an on-going series of musical experiments, i intend to apply the original 'tracks' made by Kai and Sandhya into a panorama.

Steve fly

www.raw360/4and20

www.raw360.net

Mirror in the Buurvrouw & Sod The Rich

http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2011/mirror-in-de-buurvrouw/

From CHU:

After the success of the previous wall, the good folk at De Buurvrouw asked me to back to decorate their main wall in the bar. The inspiration came from the famous song by The Beat ‘Mirror in the Bathroom’ (there’s a fantastic interview with Dave Wakeling about the origin of the songs’ lyrics, not what you think). More details, a few 360 degree panoramas and a video after the jump.

I set up a timelapse camera, capturing every 30 seconds or so. The video below also has a soundtrack made by Amsterdam’s own Dr Marshmallow Cubicle, featuring the many talents of another long time collaborator and dear friend Steve FlyAgaric Pratt with guitar by Vicente Pino.
http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2011/mirror-in-de-buurvrouw/


SODTHERICH by flyagaric23

Vinyl manufacture just down the road!

I was happy to discover the PLANT, only minutes away down the road. very cool.--Fly

Plant

Record Industry is situated in the Waarderpolder, an industrial area in Haarlem, very near to Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport. The factory building is 6500 m2 and facilitates both production and storage of compound and paper parts.

We have all departements necessary to produce a vinyl record - apart from printing of paper parts - under one roof.

Copyright © 2011 Record Industry - Izaak Enschedeweg 13 - 2031 CR Haarlem - The Netherlands




http://www.recordindustry.com/about-us/plant

Dr. Marshmallow Cubicle Queensday (flyer's by CHU)

DJ fly agaric 23 plays Jungle beats for you and your tube

September 23rd and the Coltrane Synchronicity 2010

Awake before 9, at 11 Jehovah's Witnesses at the door, I invite them in for a chat, and I find myself launching into theological, philosophical and linguistic conversation with the two ladies. The first grey lady remained quiet, and she had a rather raw looking complexion, while the other lady who was darker and younger was born in Portugal, I discovered, and she liked to talk and converse with me on some pretty far-out subjects.

I felt that we touched on some fantastic ideas, or due to the line of conversation, about books 'the bible' texts, and speech, and 'individuals' that embody that speech, text, book? and how that can be so.

I was pleased to say that the lady had a rather pluralistic approach, and on one occasion when discussing human beings and 'spirits' she referred to us as being both at the same time.

I stated that the bible must be translated into many languages, and the difficulty's that must appear in translation, especially if the translated language is believed by some, to contain the 'words' of god, a proposed almighty creator and ultimate truth teller. Well, I proposed, surely a language closer to the signs and symbols and structures and 'sense' radiating from the bio-organic natural world of seasons, species, earth and stars, would be closer to the 'process' of that God, as I perceived him/her? And so, it follows, for me, that ideogrammic, and pictographic languages, in that they are built upon naturally poetically occurring 'forms' and 'functions' in nature, over millennia, are closer to God than alphabetic 'forms' and 'functions'. Alike mathematical 'forms and functions' alphabet seems to depend upon specific contexts and very special conditions, basically you have to be 'in the know' to grok what the feck' the symbols refer too., whereas every  human being can recognize the moon, the sun, a tree, and the figure of a human being standing, sitting or bending over?

Early in the conversation, the sweet ladies did mention the 'devil' "whoops" I thought to myself at around 11.30 am, what will I say about the devil?, and it went a little something like this, but of course I am adding a little swank here, but generally I communicated my thoughts and can recast them here for you to decide how the conversation transpired.

I contended that 'the devil' could not be person, yet, the spirit of the devil could somehow infect a person, like simply having a particularly violent or self-harming thought, but where do these 'devil spirits' come from? God, genes, culture? And why do many religions personify 'Godliness and Deviliness' in human beings, when they should know better than to attach labels and terms so loaded with cultural bias and confusion to human beings, that I view as being able to 'tune into' personae, or different personality complexes, a myriad of radiant voices in synchrony singing or just humming a song of oneself. All spirits, beings and entities are out there and 'in here', or are available for those who wish to tune in. 'Tune in' to mean both; dial up your internet search engine and dial up your consciousness interacting processes. I didn't say that, I used more simple terms, but thats kind of what I meant.

I barely touched on the subject of Magick, yet throughout our conversation I realized that the methodology they may really be searching for is probably best found in the system of Magick, more or less the arts and sciences of manifesting 'reality' in conformity of will. Or about as close to direct experience, without exotic chemical aid, if you take human neuro-chemistry as not really exotic enough, that you can find, in my experience and opinion. I was going to recommend Enochian Vision Magick to the kind Jehovah's Witnesses, but I found that our freestyle speech, without really quoting sources, was not the speech/space/time to spring such a  concept. But was right there, poised in mind. The space between the study of language and the study of 'spirits' where the questions of authorship and origins come up, and how to best analyze them, seems to me fully explicated in Magick, I was reminded of this while talking to the ladies.


23 Coltrane

Today (I write this at 4.00 am) was significant to me for two reasons, before the odd conversation with the Jehovah's Witnesses; I moved most but not all of my belongings out of my apartment to a new one, and the 23rd of September denotes the birthday of John Coltrane, who I view to be a grandmaster of spirit language, along with the long list musical and cultural praises to him for his innovations to be found throughout music after the fact of 'Coltrane'.

I and I and I have had a running 'Coltrane synchronicity' noted in dream journals, pre-internet, and gradually building up intensity over the years. Today,for me, was right up there in the highest intensity region, out there in stellar regions where planets explode gasses escape, congeal, and new forms... today was a day of great Unity, at least in my life, and I intersected with what I consider the heart of the matter at hand: Internet, revolution, cognitive liberty and 'the tale of the tribe', and Coltrane.

I started what turned out to be a 58 minute mix with two copies of 'spiritual' by Coltrane, followed by Lenny Bruce on the verb 'to come', 'The drum thing' chased by the map world of the Universe otherwise know as 'Giant Steps', next 'Max Roach' with his classic and new favorite of mine called 'Nommo' (the name of a tribe said to be from the Sirius star system), Sun Ra interrupts the bass solo in Nommo to unwind 'the ridiculous I and the cosmic me' from the stylus needle point, taken from the re-issued 'Antique Black' treasures, Ra and Marshall Allen tear holes inspacetime and the tempt us back to Nommo, switching to Art Blakey and Jo Jones drum duo featuring Lord Buckley mixed in by the author, in jumps Thelonious Monk with 'April In Paris' followed by Trane's ballad 'easy to remember' 'Equinox' due to the fact that the vernal equinox fell on September 23rd this year of 2010. The final tune in the mix is 'A love    supreme'.

I should mention that during the recording, dedicated to and inspired by John Sinclair, he called to send good wishes, in fact it was during 'easy to remember'. I told John this, and greeted him with the news that he had cut into my 'live' Coltrane mix, and intersected with my trains of thoughts.

One hour after pressing stop on my recorder I was carrying boxes up and down stairs, moving apartment, a rather head numbing experience, seeing everything in boxes, hoping my ride would not get stopped somehow and all my shit get impounded, or some nightmare scenario, but this only lasted a while, and I was soon on the tram heading to work, leaving my new abode on the West side of Amsterdam.

Craphound.

On my feet at work, I even said to my colleague that I did not feel like I was in my own body, due to many thoughts about things associated with moving house, for the most part, but also what I viewed as the Jehovah's Coltrane Synchronicity, in my mixed up swirl of thoughts, smoke and peach juice. I think this was some feedback from what was about to transpire.

Around nine O'Clock things had calmed down a little at the cafe' after a slight surge of visitors probably due to the brief rain showers, but inside the cafe' things, to mean almost everything in my reality complex, changed, and changed utterly, at first the I-tunes juke box started playing up and spitting out the same few tunes over and over again, 'Mud Club and My Guitar wants to Kill your mama, both by Frank Zappa'. Then the lights start to flicker ever so slightly, like they do if you turn the dimmer dial too far up, but no one was near the light switches. The coffee shop cat started to 'meeow' and chatter his teeth while rolling on his back, something he never does like that.   

A plume of smoke rushed through the door like a funnel or bundle of smoke, and then outside the planet saturn with its tell tale rings and autumn colors hung right there just outside the front doors of the cafe, beaming through the doors the cluster of swirling lights approached my counter, I stood in amazement before the wonder and pinched myself.

"Oh, sorry" I said to the elderly French couple who were waving a ten euro note in front of my nose wanting to pay for their cake and mixed cigarette, "for a minute I thought I was inside a computer game, and you were not really here at all, at all, your and 'I' was a fiction, a kind of sequence to a dream, Oh, please excuse me". I felt a pressure on the right side of my forehead and that kind of slight muscle twitch you get sometimes.

The cluster of bright lights spoke and as it did so all the lights in the cafe' went out, the computer kicked off with a whizz bang, and the cat went silent. Minds merged and direct transmission began between beings and objects, a unity wave passed through the shop, the people and the chairs and tables, all things whirling and waltzing the dance of maya. The letters from the posters on the wall left the frames and drifted off the wall onto the floor and seemingly all over the place. Tiny elf chemists danced on the tabletop, turning pencils into roll-out projector screens that mice could carry. The ashtrays all began to melt into intricate wheels and cogs, slowly turning against the brown and gold brass light frames.

Table mats folded and shaped themselves into thousands of tessellation's, grids, maps, calendars, puzzles, origami games and yet still functional drinks mats. The water taps unhooked themselves and re-rooted their ways up and out the cafe' the rooftop where fresh rainwater could be gathered. I looked up and the ceiling and gone, removed, missing and replaced by a remarkable labyrinth of Escher like tessellation, but in fact you have a complete scale stretched model map of the Universe according to Hubble, thanks to sensible planning between photographic arts and tailor made printing.

Somebody reached for a lightbulb and ate it like it was a peach, it dripped like a peach and the young girl seemed to be loving it, and had an amber glow like that of the peach after eating,beaming with extra amber alabaster lights and shade foot stealth.

Today, I met the author and journalist Cory Doctorow at my workplace, and turned him onto some cutting edge media, and still held a pleasant and jolly conversation with him, who i view to be one of greatest active minds of our time. I had read his book 'makers' just a half of a year ago and became inspired by said book and of course, the work he does on behalf of EFF, and beyond. A personal hero, and the last person I was expecting to walk into my work place on Septermber 23rd. best wishes, steve

Fly's Sleeping Broadcast on Radiofreeamsterdam.

STEVE FLY’S SLEEPING BEAUTY

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Published: July 1, 2010 

Posted in: Steve FlyTags: amsterdam, Charles Mingus, Cosmic Couriers, Disco 3000, DJ Fly, Dj Fly Agaric 23, DJ Food, El Saturn/Art Yard Records, Fly Agaric Studio, Jimi Hendrix, John Barry, john sinclair, Kindred Spirit Records, Michael Ray, Parliament, Peter Thomas, Salah Ragab, Steve “Fly” Pratt, Sun Ra, Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra, Tascam mixer, The Heliocentrics, The John Sinclair Foundation, the Moonglows, the Pinkeye Orchestra, Vestax Turntables, Zoom H4

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
Fly Agaric Studio
Sunday, June 14, 2010
Amsterdam, NL.
STEVE FLY’S SLEEPING BEAUTY

DJ Fly presents Sleeping Beauty, a selection of vinyl cuts for an outer space journey featuring music by Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra, Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Salah Ragab, and Peter Thomas, plus some splintered vinyl fragments from DJ Food, The Heliocentrics, the Moonglows, Cosmic Couriers, and John Barry, plus a cut from John Sinclair & the Pinkeye Orchestra all mixed together. Dedicated to other worlds and to other weird playful words. Special thanks to John Sinclair and Kindred Spirit Records Amsterdam for most of the tasty plates I get to serve up into the ear.
“So here you are. As a listener, you hold documentation of the cosmic conversation. Astro-physics plus Egyptian hieroglyphics equal Space is the Place.”
—Michael Ray,
Notes to Sun Ra: Disco 3000
El Saturn/Art Yard Records, 2007
Playlist SLEEPING BEAUTY
[01] DJ Food: Colours Beyond Colours
[02] Sun Ra: Springtime Again
[03] Heliocentrics: Intermission
[04] Moonglows: Please Send Me Somebody To Love
[05] Sun Ra: Dance Of The Cosmo-Aliens
[06] Jimi Hendrix: The stars that play with laughing Sam’s dice
[07] DJ Food: A Trick Of The Ear
[08] Parliament: P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
[09] Charles Mingus: Oh Lord Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me
[10] John Sinclair & Pinkeye Orchestra: Nuclear War
[11] Sun Ra: Friendly Galaxy
[12] Norman Whitfield: UFO’s
[13] Peter Thomas: Stars And Rockets
[14] Salah Ragab: Ramadan in Space Time
[15] Sun Ra: Sleeping Beauty.

Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt
Recorded by Dj Fly Agaric 23 at Fly Agaric Studio, Amsterdam using
Two Vestax Turntables 1 Tascam mixer. Zoom H4 recorder.
Monday, June 14, 2010, 5:00-6.30 pm
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
© 2010 Fly Agaric 23. Used with permission.

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/steve-fly%E2%80%99s-sleeping-beauty/