Scared Mechanics Ep. 2: Strangest Dream
“Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re beautiful.”
- David Lynch
I still have my battered copy of the book.
David Lynch is not only one of my favourite filmmakers, but I will be forever grateful to him for turning me on to meditation.
His 2006 book, ‘Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity’, was a rumination on his discovery of the practice of transcendental meditation and how it’s expanded his consciousness and led to his best ideas.
His analogy of using meditation to ‘dive within’ and catch the bigger fish of creative ideas deep within has stuck with me ever since. Good ideas never come to me in a busy environment. I need to get out for a walk in nature or get some time to sit still and meditate, to open up the inner channels, to let the ‘big fish’ ideas come to the surface.
This month’s show is a late tribute to David Lynch, following his departure to the red-curtained stage in the sky earlier this year—a humble soul with extraordinary creativity. I owe him quite a lot for writing that book in particular. It found me at a particularly rough period in my life and was one of the lights that led me out of the dark.
All tracks in the first hour have the ‘Lynchian’ vibe. That particular mix of dark, menacing sounds, with distorted vocals, juxtaposed against 1950s pop.
The second hour is inspired by Boys Noize's set, opening for Nine Inch Nails on their tour. Dark electro and new beat sounds played under red lights; it struck me as what a nightclub in a Lynch Universe would feel like.
As ever, much power to èist radio elves for all the buttons pushed to bring this show to you.
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T R A C K L I S T I N G
HOUR 1
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Romance, Romance - Too Much Love
The Haxan Cloak - Consumed
Johnny Jewel - Tell Me (feat. Saoirse Ronan)
Leila - Don't Fall Asleep
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Sun
Aphex Twin - th1 [evnslower]
Smerz - Max
Tool - Disgustipated
Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons (LP Version)
Tool - Viginti Tres
Big Ned - Final Steps
Jerry Allen & His Trio - Always (Music Bed)
David Lynch - Weather Report 12/16/22
Julee Cruise - The World Spins
SUNN O))) - Sin Nanna
Chromatics - I'm On Fire (Acappella)
Chromatics - Into the Black
Colin Stetson - So Say the Soaring Bullbats
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul (feat. David Lynch) [Sparklehorse Mix] Trouble - Mother’s Gone
Tool - (-) Ions
The Cryin' Shames - Please Stay
Homin Lviv Municipal Choir - Vichnaya Pamyat
Burial - Forgive
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HOUR 2
Ted Milton - Love Is Like A Violēnce
BPM AM - Come To Me (Vocal Version)
Ambient Babestation Meltdown & Borai -My Heart My Motherboard
Damon Jee & Darlyn Vlys - Kronos (Wild Mix)
L&O - Even Now
In-D - Virgin In-D Sky's
Amnesia - Hysteria (Defcon Mix)
Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat (Instrumental)
Local Suicide & Skelesys - Faster Faster
16 BIT - Where Are You? (Instrumental)
Rein, Boys Noize - Reincarnate (Boys Noize Dub Mix)
Rein, Boys Noize - Release Me (Dub Instrumental)
Red Axes - Waiting For A Surprise (Kris Baha Remix)
Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental)
Chris & Cosey - Take Control
Suicide - Wild In Blue (2005 Remaster)
Nik Colk Void - FlatTime
Tronik Youth - Spirit Dancer
Fatal Error - Fatal Error
A Split Second - Flesh (Original)
Moderna & Theus Mago - Francesca (Wild At Heart)
Blanck Mass - Chernobyl
