The Dark and Subversive Mix (8-11-01)

01. Aquasky Vs. Masterblaster - Frequency

02. T-Boy - Monkey Spank

03. Oz & Storm - Street Knowledge

04. Player 1 - Into The Darkness

05. Galvani & Circuit Breaker - Look Like A Girl

06. Hedrock Valley Beats - Radio Beatbox (Phantom Beats mix)

07. The Spoon Wizard - Shoe Monkey (Phantom Beats mix)

08. T-Power - Running (B.L.I.M mix)

09. Groundloop - Jaws Of Mylor

10. B.L.I.M & Chris Carter - I Robot

11. Lee Coombs & The Drumattic Twins - Tribal Tension

12. Vigi & Flip - Freak Frequency (Unbalanced mix)

13. Freq Nasty - Move Back

14. Buckfunk 3000 & Aspects - All Terrain

15. Soul Of Man - Killa Brew (Killa mix)

The Delicate Sound of Flannel (2001)

Side A (May 2001)

01. Kraymon - Somehow Green

02. Friskee Feat. Vee - I Like The Way (Plump DJs mix)

03. Freestylers - Now Is The Time

04. Starecase - Other Side Of The Line (General Midi mix)

05. Elektronauts - Bumper (Plump DJs mix)

06. Leftfield - Dusted (Tipper Mix)

07. Sourmash - Pilgrimage To Paradise (B.L.I.M.'s Bourbon Bass mix)

08. Kraymon - Got To Get Busy

09. Anthony Rother - Red Light District (B.L.I.M.'s Pro Mix)

10. Scratch D Vs H-Bomb - Red Pill

Side B (June 2001)

01. Stisch - JFK

02. PMT - Gyromancer

03. Apex - Symmetry (Nubreed mix)

04. ILS - Sabotage

05. Deiaskaust - Latitude By Observation (Tipper Mix)

06. Tipper - Dissolve Out (Buckfunk 3000 mix)

07. B.L.I.M. - Filterzon (T-Power mix)

08. Quivver - One Last Time (Lee Coombs Mix)

09. Raw Deal - Headless Horseman Rides Again (B.L.I.M. mix)

Schizoid DJ-Funk (2001)

Side A (3-26-2001)

01. Mad Dogz - Better Make Room

02. Leftfield - Afrika Shox (Jedi's Elastic Bass mix)

03. Aquasky - Bodyshock (Adam Freeland mix)

04. Uberzone - The Brain

05. Steve Reich - The Desert Music (Freq Nasty & B.L.I.M. mix)

06. 2 Phat Cunts - Ride

07. Freq Nasty - Pure Evil

08. Fatboy Slim - Bird Of Prey (Darren Emerson mix)

09. Lunchbox Ain't Home Right Now

Side B (3-26-01)

10. Paul Jacobs presents Soul Grabber - Motorcross Madness

11. DJ Dan Presents Needle Damage - That Zipper Track

12. Jark Prongo - Movin' Thru Your System

13. Leftfield - Afrika Shox (V.W. mix)

14. Timo Maas - Ubik (The Dance)

15. Moby - Porcelain (Futureshock mix)

16. BT - Mercury And Solace (Quivver Mix)

17. Faithless - God Is A DJ (Monster Mix)

Optimus Prime Killed in Heroic Battle

Autobot City, Wisconsin

On Tuesday, the leader of the Autobots, a group of freedom fighters who for five years have been using Earth as a base of operations, died in battle. Optimus Prime, age 250,000 years, was heroically defending Autobot city when he met with the leader of the Decepticon sect, Megatron. The usurper who has been responsible for the deaths of at least thirty thousand people in his attempts to colonize Planet Earth and absorb North America’s vast amounts of the element “Energon” (Eg), Megatron has been plotting for years to dominate the universe. Once converted from liquid form to solid form, Energon is a potent dietary product for Autobots and Decepticons alike. If harnessed and controlled by Megatron and the Decepticon menace, the Autobots would be helpless and weak ,and the world, along with the rest of the universe, would be in peril.

On Tuesday morning, at 4:08 AM eastern time, Megatron and his forces intercepted an Autobot vessel on its way to Autobot city. The small crew was immediately neutralized, making the ship a perfect “Trojan Horse” for Autobot City. Upon its arrival, the ship made it past Autobot sensors undetected. The attack began with the “Shot Heard Around Wisconsin” as it was referred to by an area man who was fishing near the city. Hot Rod, a young Autobot, noticed the damages done to the vessel, and fired upon it, beginning the greatest battle Earth has ever know. Optimus Prime received a distress call soon after, and mobilized his forces from his home planet of Cybertron, which the Autobots had recently recaptured from the Decepticons.

The battle waged on for long hours into the morning, until Optimus Prime arrived at 10:08 A.M eastern time. Upon his arrival, the city had been dominated by Megatron and his forces. Sources say Prime converted into his secondary vehicular mode and heroically defeated several Decepticon soldiers. At some point in the battle he ran into Megatron. The fight lasted approximately five minutes, until Prime was injured by five massive blows to the chest and shoulder areas. Reports indicate that he suffered intense structural damage culminating in massive tubing and engine failure. He was pronounced dead at 1:14 PM eastern time. Plans to bronse him and erect his body as a statue in the middle of the city are being discussed.

“It was really awful.” Said Ultra Magnus, newly appointed leader of the Autobots. “I’ll try my best to uphold his honor and courage. I hope I can. And when our darkest hour hits, thanks to Optimus, and the power he gave me with the Matrix of Leadership, I think I’ll hold that honor well. It looks pretty simple. You just fit your fingers in the grooves and pull outwardly! Bumblebee could do it!”

After the fateful battle between Prime and Megatron, Optimus was carried to the city’s emergency ward, whereupon he accepted his fate and appointed Ultra Magnus the new leader. Perceptor, the only available physician at the time, knew upon immediate examination that Prime had only moments to live. “I fear the wounds are fatal,” he said to the surviving members of the autobot force. According to Perceptor, there was massive damage to Prime’s Energon Receptors, located at his waste. The hull of his waste had been penetrated by what was identified as a spark,or a quick laser knife that was kept in hiding by Megatron until the ideal moment.

“The fight was awful,” said Kup, a member of the Autobots who has been a soldier since Prime’s inception. “It was basically a fight to the death. That’s what Prime wanted, I think. We’ve been terrorized and oppressed by these rebels for years and years. When they broke off from the Autobots to form their militia, Cybertron was never the same. We were a peaceful people. But some people just want more. Prime knew that if he could destroy Megatron once and for all, the Decepticons would be no more. I hope now that the tables were turned, that’s not the case for us.”

The Cybertronion wars seem over on Earth, but apparently they are not over for the Autobots. An unidentified entity is approaching Cybertron, and Megatron is still at large. “We don’t know what to think of the enemy. Are they dead? Are they mobilizing? I hope they’ve been quelled.” said Blaster, a longtime citizen of Cybertron. But there are few signs of the enemy, and now according to one member of the Autobots, the Autobots don’t have a competent leader to replace Prime. “Magnus is going to lead us to death. I know it. I could be a better leader than him any day. I hope that Matrix backfires on him. The Bastard.”

According to everyone who knew Optimus Prime, he was a great leader. According to everyone who witnessed the horrifying battle, Prime’s arrival was what quelled the Decepticon attack. “Prime did it. He jammed the tide,” said Kup. Prime’s legacy will be carried on by everyone who knew him. In the words of Spike, the Wisconsin man that first met the autobots upon their arrival, and has been with them since, fighting in their war, “The Human Race need never fear, as long as Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots.”

For Best Results, Use Drugs (2000)

Side A (9-5-2000)

01. Pills - Garden Party

02. Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim's Oldskool mix)

03. Moby - Bodyrock (Hybrid mix)

04. Paul Jacobs Presents Soul Grabber - Motorcross Madness

05. Trip Theory - Time's Up (Bomb remix)

06. Orbital - Nothing Left (Tsunami One mix)

07. BT - Dreaming (Libra Mix)

08. Orinoko - Vila Nova

09. Hybrid - Theme From Wide Angle

Side B (8-1-2000)

10. Leftfield - Afrika Shox

11. Keoki - Wicked (Micro mix)

12. Uberzone - The Freaks

13. Sasha - Rabbitweed

14. Cirrus - Stop And Panic (Coffee Boys Mix)

15. The Catalyst - Lay It Down

16. Hybrid - If I Survive

17. Azzido Da Bass - Doom's Night (Timo Maas mix

18. BT - Fibonacci Sequence

19. Paul Van Dyk - Another Way

Candy Hearts

Flannel Channel

For Best Results, Use Drugs (2000)

Schizoid DJ-Funk (2001)

The Delicate Sound of Flannel (2001)

The Dark and Subversive Mix (8-11-01)

Improvised, Error Bedraggled Ride Tape (2001)

Live at Chuck's 2002 (Download it Here!)

The Gospel of Subsonic Funk (2002)

Jesus Christ, My Ears (2006)[Podcast Available]

Derridiculous Ghettoblaster (2007)[Podcast Available]

Halloween Mix 2007 (Podcast Available)

Topper Ranking: Janeogold (2008)


All sets compiled and mixed by DJ Flannel Boy on Gemini or Denon CD-Players, because I come from the streets.


Interest in these sets can be satisfied by sending a message to jesse.williams@gmail.com. We'll work somethin' out.

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Pirates, as a series, could be the most oddball, ADHD adventure American audiences are ever going to get, or at least let's bloody well hope so. If you've heard the unanimous criticism of this one, that is of its being so convoluted as to make deciphering it beside the point, well, one can't proceed with even a minor discussion of it without acknowledging plain fact.

It brings you nine pieces of eight, all right. It brings you at least two more after that. It throws in one too many shifts in alliance, five or nine too many betrayals/comeuppances, and then discards them all. The total would be rubbish were it not such a trifle of a plot, trifle of a love triangle, though probably the Best Wedding Ever at the climax (climices?), and it's still so much to deal with that you despair early in following it. One could only be a churl, however, to make too much of that. American critics, for instance, distracted from their sugar-rush of an apparently very strong Cannes this year, are being awfully churlish. It's tedious, but here's a list of what keeps us in our seats:

- The best cinematography and set design of the entire series, and that's saying something. This is the kind of film that owns its epic scope instead of simply aspiring to it. From the marvelous Singapore sets and costumes to the round table room at the pirate conclave, it's all such obviously hard work, but they make it look way too easy.

- Johnny Depp in Davy Jones's Locker cum 2001: A Space Odyssey-style hallucination involving the rock.

- Geoffrey Rush's wild, wandering eyes and his scene snatching, focus purloining prancing.

- Keith Richards, having shown up requiring no assistance from makeup or wardrobe, offering his living room for the Pirate Conclave.

- Stumpy-Jam-Eater-Villain (East India Company Stooge) acquiring a role (and consequently real screen-time) in the action worthy of Tom Hollander.

- Did I mention the best wedding that will EVER happen?

- Reservoir Doggy-Style shootout.

And there are more. It's too long. Too convoluted. There's no need for another. Doesn't matter, there'll be more. Still, pack the kids into your land rover and hustle on down, abacus in tow. These are mad, bizarre films and they have a certain charm. I haven't been an evangelist for them, but I'm moved to point out their strengths. Strange though, that the more digitized the series has become, the less funny it's been, consecutively. There's a thought.

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