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Pat Cadigan is a renowned science fiction and cyberpunk author known for works like Synners and Mindplayers. In 2023 she released a novelization of the classic Japanese Ultraman TV series,…

Cyberpunk author Pat Cadigan shares her thoughts on the role of science fiction in society, her methods for thinking about the future, and which elements of the cyberpunk genre have become features of our everyday reality. Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, NY, and grew up in Fitchburg, MA. Attending the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship, she eventually transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her degree. Since embarking on her career as a fiction writer in 1987, her Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short stories have appeared in such magazines as Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as well as numerous anthologies. Her first collection, Patterns, was honoured the Locus Award in 1990, and she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992 and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools. Pat Cadigan moved to the UK in 1996 and now lives in London. Recorded live from the Science Museum, London on 26 October 2022. Find out more: futurespodcast.net Credits Produced by FUTURES Podcast Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason Follow Us Twitter: twitter.com/futurespodcast Facebook: facebook.com/futurespodcast Instagram: instagram.com/futurespodcast

Episode 283 - Dance Gavin Dance touring guitar player / singer and the mastermind behind Eidola is here! Andrew Wells joins the show, after recuperating from a broken tooth he cracked on a slice of 'za (actualy). Regardless, this is one of Andrew's most forthcoming interviews to date, finally discussing his role and status in DGD, the nuts and bolts behind the upcoming Eidola album (out on Rise Records Sept 17th!) and discussing his early life, including living in a van at age 16. Don't skip this one my Synners! Follow us on Twitch! twitch.tv/shanetold Brought to you by Rockabilia ! With over 500,000 unique band merch items, look no further! And use promo code SHANE to save an additional 10% off they're already low prices! Head over to rockabilia.com ! A huge shoutout to our new sponsor Heartbeat Hot Sauce! This stuff is AWESOME, so much flavour, so many awesome styles! Use promo code LSS and save 20% off your entire purchase! heartbeathotsauce.com Crypto-curious? Check out our sponsor Coinbase! I use them for my cryptocurrency investments! Go to coinbase.com/LSS and get $5 in free Bitcoin when you sign up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FIVE YEARS! It's an incredible milestone, and to be honest one I never thought I would reach! Thank you so much for the support and love... especially all my Synners in the All Access Club! To celebrate, Atreyu's Brandon Saller joins the show! A highly requested guest, coming on the show at a particularly wild time with unclean vocalist Alex Varkatzas departing the band, and Brandon getting out from behind the kit to front the band. In addition to that, we discuss the humble beginnings, their unexpected break-up and reformation, and what the future holds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is episode 23. We recorded it in one try this time. In this episode we talk about two games and one band. The games are Away: Journey to the Unexpected and Stories: The Path of Destinies. The baller band we're talking about is Gemini Syndrome. Title track "Out of Ashes" by Andy Rinaldi. Check him out at taskermorrissounds.com. Title art by Devious.Pixel. Check him out on Instagram. Sweet Jams: "Main Theme" "Boss Theme" "Home Theme" These are all from the AWAY OST. "Main Titles" "Redemption" "Impossible Love - Zenobia's Theme" "The Mad Rabbit - Lapino's Theme" "There was a Hero" These are all from the Stories OST. "Basement" This is by Gemini Syndrome and from their first album Lux. Find us on Facebook and join the podcast group to keep up with the goings on of the podcast. Blake posts art and fun stuff on our Instagram. I neglect our subreddit. r/twosmokingcontrollers Blake has been doing a few streams on Twitch. Play some Magic with him. Twitch.com/twosmokingcontrollers. And finally I've started a playlist for the songs we play on the show. You can find the playlist by searching the podcast name on Spotify. Check you fools later. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-controllers/support

Podéis escucharlo aquí.SpotifyIvooxLektuSegunda temporada Editorial ("Preguntas inútiles", de Miquel Codony).Reseña de Alexander Páez ("Synners", de Pat Cadigan).Reseña de Miquel Codony ("El secreto del orfebre", de Elia Barceló).BSO: Álbum "Up and Down Singles", de Robodub (Robodub is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.)

Episode 174 - Welcome to the first ever LIVE episode of the podcast, from Synnerfest 2.0 in Norfolk, VA!  Steve from Punchline was kind enough to stop by and have a chat with me and the Synners about tons of cool (AKA super nerdy) stuff like figuring out how many days old you are, Game of Thrones / Lost / Black Mirror, how we record our ideas on our phones, and if pineapple belongs on pizza.  Bonus:  We sing the first songs we ever wrote.   Happy 5000th day Liam!!     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 154 - Can't Swim frontman Chris LoPorto joins the show with his incredible and unique story and ride to success.  Originally a drummer playing gigs as young as 12 years old, Chris taught himself to play guitar and sing and made some demos in his free time.  These demos found their way into the hands of Jake Round of Pure Noise Records who took the project under his wing and allowed Chris to put a band together and start touring the world on the strength of their incredible first album.  Now 2 years later, Chris and the guys are about to release their sophomore effort, "This Too Won't Pass".   Please donate to the Wild Fire Relief Fund at calfund.org .  Send proof of donation to Synners4good@gmail.com and be entered for cool perks, including the chance to co-host an episode of this show, or have Shane write you your very own song!   Let's help make a difference Synners!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photograph by Michal Kawka This is the version of “Quintessential” that was performed during the Dead Poets Society’ 2002 west coast tour. This recording was made at the Zebra Lounge in Bozeman, Montana. The set featured the following songs:Fire Boltthe Voice of Ecstasythe Electric HazeSynnersCars (by Gary Numan)I Dream of Japan (at the movies in Tokyo mix)Tainted Love (by Soft Cell)I Don’t (Andrea’s Fault mix)QuintessentialWish (by Nine Inch Nails)Quintessential performed by:Keyboards and Synths: Boba Fett (Eric Mason Drake)Keyboards and Synths: Raven NightshadoDrums and Percussion: Wa ConnerQuintessential (live)Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

This is Raven Nightshado’s sultry and sexy remix of “After the Ball” that also appeared with “It’s  too late (dead poets society)” on Minefield’s Decomposition: Re-Inventing Minefield remix album that was released in 2003.“After the Ball (stark raven mad mix)”Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

Enjoy our live performance of “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell. This version was performed in Bozeman, Montana, circa 2002 with Raven Nightshado on vocals and synths, and Wa Conner on drums. If you enjoy The Dresden Dolls, you’ll probably enjoy this scaled down punk/cabaret arrangement.cover art by Raven Nightshado, cover design by Wa ConnerEpisode 9 - Tainted LoveSubscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

As many of you know the name of our band was inspired by the 1989 Peter Weir film starring Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, and Robert Sean Leonard. One of the first songs we created was “The Powerful Play”. It is the only song to date that has been directly inspired by the film. The lyric we used was derived from the scene in which Mr. Keating explains what poetry is all about. Moreover he explains how important it is to live a creative life that is filled with romance and meaning by quoting from Walt Whitman’s poem “O me! O life!” from Whitman’s 1900 edition of Leaves of Grass.By the way the podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts! You can also subscribe with any other RSS feed reader/pod catcher you choose.Episode 8 - The Powerful PlaySubscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

This episode features two Dead Poets Society remixes of songs by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, our 2005 remix of “Only”, and our 2008 remix of “Survivalism”.I also emerge from lurking and say hello.The podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts! This episode is posted there.You can also subscribe with any other RSS feed reader.Ep 6 - DPS: remixes and reflections - the nin editionSubscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

Enjoy our remix of Collide’s “Halo” from their 2000 album CHASING THE GHOST.  We made this remix at their request in 2003 to be considered for their remix album VORTEX but ultimately it did not end up on VORTEX. So enjoy this mix that is unavailable anywhere else.Collide - Halo (dead poets society mix)Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

We’ve all heard the cliche many times: life is full of surprises. This was never more true for us than during our experience that eventually led us to remix both versions of the track “After the Ball” and “Its Too Late” for Minefield in 2003. When we finished recording The Electric Haze in 2001, I had decided that I would make the album available online  rather than follow the traditional music label route that many bands were still clamoring for, which was to get an A & R guy from a label to notice your band and sell their music label on offering you a deal. Raven and I both knew from experiences of friends and family who had worked in the music industry that this was really not the best way to put out an album, particularly an album that was likely to fit into such a small niche of music. So we explored online, and eventually we settled on mp3.com and CDbaby.Mp3.com had this wonderful music community. Even cooler, they offered on-demand distribution, which would allow you to upload your songs and artwork, and they would manage the dirty details of manufacturing the CDs. In 2001 this was a novel idea that was only really beginning to pick up steam. Prior to that, it was nearly impossible for a musician (or an author for that matter) to have short runs (of fewer than 3,000 or more copies) of your work produced. Now, its just a matter of burning your own discs and/or uploading your music to any number of social networks, peer to peer, and musical services who make distribution much easier. While mp3.com handled manufacturing, they weren’t that great at selling the music of independent artists. We had heard that there was this new site around called CDBaby. The buzz among musicians was that this venture,  created and operated by Derek Sivers in Portland, Oregon was really the next best way to have your CD online after CDnow and Amazon.com. We setup an account and sent them a batch of CDs  to stock in their warehouse. When someone purchased our album from their site, they would go ahead and ship it out themselves and then credit our account with the sale, rather than wait for us to fill the order, as Amazon.com did at the time. Unbeknown to us, when our albums arrived at CDBaby, they were met and handled by a volunteer named Jett Black (not the porn star, BTW). He was passionately involved in the Portland, Oregon underground gothic, electronic, and punk scene. Jett was taken with our sound and went about trying to contact us via email and phone. Initially we didn’t know what to make of his highly complimentary emails. One reason for our suspicion with Jett had to do with experiences we had heard about fromother musicians who were encouraged to send their albums to retailers in foreign countries, only to discover that the recipients were not legitimate resellers, but rather enterprising pirates who used the albums as masters for which to rip their master tracks for illegal sale in their own country.  Eventually I spoke in person with Jett by phone and realized that his motives were quite innocent. Anyone who has met Jett, will tell you that he is one of the friendlies people you’ll ever meet.  Jett was big on introducing artists to one another, and before we knew it we had been invited to a dinner at the Kennedy School that featured a bunch of people from the goth scene. Steven Holiday, publisher of Gothic Beauty was there, as well as Portland and Seattle bands Written In Ashes, Abney Park, The Sins, and Haunted House. One of the perks at these dinners were the goodie bags that Jett and his wife Sonya would assemble. In each goodie bag were tons of stickers, free CDs, usb keys, marketing materials, and show flyers for everyone involved in the Portland and Seattle music scene, as well as a few other bands that were well known across the U.S.  (The Strand, Razed in Black, and The Cruxshadows were among those). In our goodie bag was “After the Ball” , a debut EP album by a budding young artist, Tamara Kent, who hailed from Canada.About a year later, Jett, who had heard our Depeche Mode and Madonna remixes, informed us that he had recommended our services to Tamara, who really wanted to hear what other people could create with her material. We accepted, and before we knew it we’d received these very nice and organized discs that contained all of the master tracks from the After the Ball EP (what people in the industry call stems).The remixes were due in short order, so Raven and I broke up the work among us. She took on “After the Ball” and I ended up with “Its Too Late”. I hoped with my version to capture the frustration, despair, and the resignation of the character in the song with the distorted vocals, and the vamping bass line was to symbolize the painful yearning heartbeat of a lost relationship.Wa Dead Poets SocietyMinefield - "Its Too Late (dead poets society)"Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

View from the stage as Hotboxed opens for Korn in Portland, Oregon Before I officially began recording and identifying myself as Dead Poets Society, I was producing and promoting concerts in the scenic Columbia River Gorge, which is located between Oregon and Washington. Roughly, every couple months in 1998 I would scrape together enough money to rent our local armory. I’d provide our sound system, create the posters, and  write the promotional copy for the press releases. In short, I would do all of the work behind the scenes that is necessary to make a concert flourish. Most of these concerts were performed by and for  young adults, who had few, if any, outlets to hear and experience live performances. There were so many bands who wanted to perform at these shows that I had to make the rounds to various rehearsal spaces to check out each band’s set list, and try to gauge their performance skill. In the end, three to five bands would get a chance to perform in front of an audience, with all expenses paid. One of these bands was HOTBOXED. At the time that I met them, the lineup was comprised of Ryan Mann on vocals, Dustin Williams on bass guitar, Joe Aguirre on lead/rhythm guitar, and Jason Lincoln on drums. I was told the group had formed spontaneously one day during lunch break at the local high school. Informal jam sessions performing mostly Rage Against the Machine and Korn covers led  the band to more serious rehearsals at Jason Lincoln’s parents house. There, they began the arduous task of learning to  write and perform their original songs. Ryan Mann (airborne) and Joseph Aguirre on guitar. One of the first songs they created was the disenfranchised teenage anthem, “Mohawk”. The title was chosen for its double meaning that made use of their high school mascot , The Indians, while also throwing a nod to the punk and hard rock music that they, and their newly acquired fan base enjoyed.  The song quickly became a fan favorite at concerts. Eventually the band put out their own four song EP, which strangely enough did not feature the song. I was fortunate to receive an MP3 copy of the song that had been recorded during the session that recorded the EP had been made. For years it was a fixture in my Winamp playlist.In late 2001 Ryan Mann had been kind enough to put down a scathing vocal track for our song “Synners”, which appeared on our second album, Deprogramming. He was intrigued by our eclectic sound, particularly the electronic, and industrial elements, and we both wondered if it would be possible to merge our sounds together. In the meantime, we were working with both Ryan and Sara (his wife to be) on a music video idea for Synners, so we put the musical collaboration on hold.Eventually, one night in 2003 after all the video work and touring had been completed for Deprogramming, I sat down by candlelight, fueled by a Caramel Mocha espresso and imagination, and cut together this remix that explores the sonic compostional differences between our two bands. The remix was debuted by Hotboxed to the public on an August evening in 2003 at a packed Civic Auditorium before the opening band went on.  I was tickled by the favorable response it received.That summer in 2003 Hotboxed would realize a dream of theirs and play an opening set for Korn at the Portland, Oregon stop on Korn’s tour. I hope you enjoy this remix!WaDead Poets Society Hotboxed - "Mohawk (dead poets society mix)"Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

Our remix of Madonna’s “Deeper and Deeper (dead poets society mix)” was originally made available to the public in December of 2001.  Enjoy this funky dance mix.Madonna - "Deeper and Deeper (dead poets society mix)"Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)

Wa completed the “I Feel Loved (dead poets society mix)”  remix in August of 2001. It quickly became and has continued to be the most popular remix we’ve ever done. Its popularity was such that it appeared on more than a few over the air radio stations around the country, as well as internet radio. Some folks have told us that they prefer this version of the song to the original that appeared on Depeche Mode’s Exciter album. You be the judge.Depeche Mode - "I Feel Loved (dead poets society mix)"Subscribe on:Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayRSS feed (for apps)