In this rebroadcast from our first episode, we take a look at the first segments by Faust (aka Jer, the American counterpart to that gentleman villain Mr VI, of Cultivating Madness) and True.

Dealing with utilization of the tools in ourselves and centering in order to better understand how those tools can be used, it seemed a little fitting to us that these be placed together.

Also, there's a short intro by our "illustrious" curator/producer, with some details on future projects for the Mayhem crew.

With closing music by White Trash Shaolin and our opening track is by:

Download "Hope The Light" (mp3)
from "Subterranean Kicks"
by The Furze
Three Sixty Records

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More On This Album

This is a rebroadcast of the first podcast in the MayhemRadio series Recreating Reality, from our very own contributor Rose. First uploaded a year ago, this provides an excellent ground work for many of the concepts and ideas which Rose has touched on over her last two segments.

In this podcast she examines the phenomena known as synathesia and what it means to the philosophic idea that reality is in the eye of the beholder.

With music by Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads

Ok, ok. We know we told you he'd shut the hell up after the last one. And he did. Sort of. This one's not about stories at all. It's about data, patterns, and the information that's born from them. See? It's different. This is a classic mayhem extract from the original, recorded over a year ago. We promise the next one will have a different voice. Till then, show Barroom some love.

Download "Blood On The Banisters" (mp3)
from "The Incredibly Strange People Who Stopped Living And Became..."
by The Creeping Cruds
SPAT! Records

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Background music by Locust Toybox

Fellows, friends, and other well wishers...

He finally shut the hell up.

In this final installment, Barroom Hero goes after the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and America's amazing lack of guilt for its direct hand in those two crimes.  Why is it that Germany goes after Holocaust deniers, but the Smithsonian tells outright falsehoods (read: lies) about the only aggressive use of an atomic bomb?

But he only uses this as a springboard to go into the deeper ramifications of national myths, and what they do to us as individuals (whether we like it or not).

Music: Undefined by Cassock

Sergio Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto 2 in C Minor

And I'm not referencing the band that is my most secret and guiltiest of musical pleasures.

Instead, it's something much cooler.

What if you could encode almost any information you desired into memory? What if the only thing standing in your way was your own sloppy neural house keeping?

In this, his second episode on neural hacking, Cassock explains and gives you a detailed howto on just that. He covers mempegs, a system for accelerated learning and memorization, and goes specifically into the Journey system. This system is used by the select few of the world who have practiced enough to memorizes thousand digit long number string in under and hour.

Get out your neurological brooms and dustbins, people, because this definitely shouldn't be missed. Music by Welder

Download "The Heart" (mp3)
from "Vines & Stream"
by Welder
Cyberset Music

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“There is nothing permanent except change.�

-Heraclitus of Ephesus

Need we say more?

Yes, we probably do. Especially if you're to download the latest installment of the Mayhem Radio Podcast Project.

Don Genaro lends us his wisdom and experience in this episode, which has been a long time in coming... both the episode, and his loan.

If we seek to make change, we must first make it in ourselves. Along the same lines is the assertion of the teacher Confucius that man must build character before he is able to put his house in order, and rulers must put their houses in order before they may set their kingdoms right.

What does this mean for us?

Listen and find out.

Thus concludes "Up Against a Wall." Following the earlier line paved with the previous two episodes, VI and Jer continue discussing the "nature of fear" in magick, the focus of liberation, and even the primacy of sex/sex magick.

Music by:
Azathoth: Amaranth

Previous Episodes:

Cultivating Madness: Up Against a Wall Part 1
Cultivating Madness: Up Against a Wall Part 2

Memory is one of the most potent tools man uses in his survival.

Here are three questions.

How did you survive that last predator's attack? How did you find enough money to make rent the last time something like this happened? What did you do for lunch this time last year?

Honestly, though, only two of these three are probably easy for you to answer. You probably don't remember the events from exactly a year ago.

But what if you could?

In the first of hopefully many contributions, Cassock gives background, theory, and practice on how an individual could make it a possibility. By coupling memory with imagination, he explains how you can make memorization on demand, and therefore into an even more potent and user-friendly tool.

ALL Music by Locust Toybox

This week's segment comes from that loveliest of flowers, The Rose.

Our own reality doesn't come spontaneously from nowhere. It is, instead, a combination of our own imaginative creation and reactive creation to others around us. As we travel though this cosmically large manic depression we call life, we hit beautiful high and the darkest of lows... how we deal with them determines what reverberations are sent through the tangled and delicately balanced web in which we exist, and whether they pull others up with us or drag them down to us.

Don't miss this show, folks, or you just might entangle others in a web of your making.

With Music by Die Warzau

In Barroom Hero’s last installment, he talked about stories.  Stories, stories, stories.  He seems to think that's all our personality's made of.

Is he right or wrong?  No way to tell, really, since it's all just conceptual.

Now, as promised, he delivers a short audio essay on symbols and why they’re so damned powerful.  Why they pull us every which way even if we don’t realize it or want them to.

If you enjoyed the first part of Stories, don’t miss this, the second installment.

Music by The Uncontrollable Urge

Dearest Listeners:

Our apologies for the tardiness of your receipt of this, the 9^th installment of Mayhem Radio (dear fucking god, i can't believe i've made it this far with my liver in tact). It was due to unforeseen circumstances involving several ladies of the night (hookers), a casket (to be honest, just the body we found in the casket), a tortoise, a hare, and a hat (the casket occupant's, not my own). Respectfully, we submit this short segment to you, our fans, and hope that it meets your discerning tastes and expectations of MRPP.

Two score and about twelve weeks ago, we broadcasted this week's segment. Because the internet occasionally, but by no means often, eats things you feed to it, MRPP brings Metamicrophone to you again.

Heavy on pros for discourse and discussion, and light on cons. But we make no claims otherwise. This is an argument FOR discourse, not a report on it.

So listen. Enjoy. Spread it.

Think for yourself. Question Authority.

Signed �The terrified and slightly hungover curator of MRPP�

A long time ago, in a digitally distributed network much like our own, there lived a group of people called the MayhemRadio Podcast Project. And they produced quality alternative media, the likes of which the interwub had never seen before!

Their curator was a virile... er... virulent drunken bastard. His name was the Barroom Hero. And he had a podcast on the importance of stories.

Not kiddie stories, either. But, rather, the nasty adult sort that we tell ourselves (not erotica, either, ya perv). Stories like: we needed to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, or the Native Americans didn't really deserve the land we have now, the war on terror is real, or our lives aren't really wasteful and full of misery.

And it was ever so much fun!

With Music by the most fascinating Mr. Lund

Jeremy and VI continue on their tirade of evil, discussing and comparing first rituals, initiations, the fear element... And continue on with recitations of Aleister Crowley's bastard status (at least on Jer's part), the Death Posture, and disentanglement from society.

Musically, we head back to the 1998-era industrial with a track by the short lived, but expertly achieved band, NCC.

Music by:

NCC Weitrack

MRPP salutes and remembers Robert Anton Wilson:

RAW, as many of us fondly knew him through his writings, recordings, and speaking engagements, is the subject of this week's segment.  He recently went on that great sabbatical in the sky (the one that hopefully will never come to you, friends), but Robert Anton Wilson shall not be forgotten.  RAW never lost his optimism or jeux de vive, whether he was fighting the lingering effects of his childhood polio, mourning his daughter, or saying farewell to his wife.  And he dedicated his life to teaching us how to do the same.

And, for that and all the other amazing things you taught us, we salute you RAW.  If you've made it to the eighth circuit, as we all hope, then you might reading this right now and listening to your own words in this podcast.

That's right, folks, we've got some cuts from an overview by Robert Anton Wilson of the 8 circuit model.  And they're choice, mind you.

Also, here's some links for your eyeholes:  Robert Anton Wilson's home page & his blog.

You can purchase the source for this overview from his home page, by the way. 

Our intro track, titled Hillbilly Hermetics, was provided by Saigon Brothel.  This is a one shot recording specifically for MRPP and is only available here, but there's plenty of other stuff for your enjoyment back at his homepage and myspace profile.

As always, please visit the MAYHEM II forums on myspace.com

 

Keep climbing the mental circuitry ladder, people!

A classic Mayhem segment from the first episode.  We've carved it from the belly of the beast of that first episode, which is pretty fitting for this installment.  Because what says incantation of the dweller at the crossroads more than the word "carve"?

It's a trip in the wayback machine, to a land of blues, booze, necromancy, and hillbillies!

ENJOY!

Brought to you by the fine folks at MAYHEMII

Update 2/2/07:

I've just been informed that Bishonen Kozo aka Ryan Valentine has a new zine out:

Zenarchist Sutras

Synchronicity:  Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.

Rose delivers a short essay on synchronicity, Jung's idea of the collective unconscious, and changing yourself to understand the world around you. 

Don't miss this one, Folks, and don't get tangled in the web either.

Creation... for ages mankind has obsessed over it. Did it come from a spontaneous quantum event or from God's right hand? Whatever the case, we can tell you what's happened since then, at least after the first trillionth of a second.

And don't you want to know how you got here? In this show, you'll learn all about the cutting edge principles of the Big Bang. Is it truth? Or is it just some wild tale that the Atheists made up to piss off the Creationists? Tune in and discover your cosmic origins.

Cultivating Madness continues where it left off - now featuring the vocal talents of British Gentleman and sometimes mystic, Mr. VI, the insanity can continue. Fear and initiation begin this three-part series of unadulterated drinking, rambling, sampling, and smiling with uncertain glee. We promise to disappoint. Or at the very least, try our best to let you down.

Music by:
SpiritSpiderS - Holographic Universe.



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