Author: Berkeley Cat Records

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Berkeley Cats Go Maaad

Episode 3 find the Podcats going off the deep end. Round the bend, if you will. Unhinged, purrhaps. Peanut butter optional.

Featured musical biscuits include:

Ridiculous by The Uptones
(Moose, Bennie, Paul, Tim, Jeanne, Adam, Scott and Din)

Pogo Dancing In My Sleep and Much Better, by Eric Din

Can’t Stop by Two-Stone Killers
(Michael Valladares and Eric Din on this track)

Gearing Up For a Breakdown by HOBO
(Ben Eastwood, Paul Jackson, Tom Pope and Eric Din)

Baggagemaster, Sound Pressure, and 4:20 @ 7 Pools, by Stiff Richards
(Tuan Titlestad, Ben Eastwood, Paul Jackson and Eric Din)

Credits may be incomplete. If so, please forgive us, we’ve gone mad.

Tomcatfoolery

Tomcatfoolery and caterwauling! This episode contains songs from your host Eric Din, plus Matte Martin, The Recyclists, and The Uptones. It’s an “Every Day is Earth Day” SPECIAL!

Click thru these to find lyrics, song credits and suchwhat.
Suchwhat is not a word. But neither is podcats.

The Recyclists – Tumblin’ Down
Matte Martin – Bridge
Eric Din – Always For A Moment
The Uptones – Faith (and a little snippet of Rude Boy at the end)

Talkin’ To The Wall

Here’s a track I made with the help of Moose, Thomas, and Adam, all members of the Uptones at various times. A Mini-Tones, if you will! We did this remotely, as these things go nowadays, in our respective houses and studios, tracks careening through the Interwebs like on Star Trek transporters run amok. Lyrics and credits below. Feel free to share any ol’ which way if ya like, even on.. the WALL!!
-Dinbot

Talkin’ To The Wall

I don’t ever want to be what you want me to be
I don’t ever want to see what you want me to see
I’m not what you think I am I see your evil plan
I don’t ever want to be what you think that I am

Oh oh, appearances deceiving
Oh oh, I’m talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, yellin’ at the wall

I don’t ever want to lie I do it every day
My life is a fiction now a farce in every way
Staring down the selfies will you like me when I’m dead
There’s no antidote now for what they put in my head

Oh oh, staring down the selfies
Oh oh, and talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, I’m climbing up the wall

I don’t ever want to be what you want me to be
I don’t ever want to see what you want me to see
I’m not what you think I am I see your evil plan
I don’t ever want to be what you think that I am

Oh oh, appearances deceiving
Oh oh, I’m talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, talkin’ to the wall
Oh oh, delete it from the wall

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Eric Din – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass and Vocals
Moose Lethridge – Acoustic Lead Guitar and Vocals
Thomas White – Drums
Adam Beach – Tenor Sax
Produced, mixed, and otherwise cat-handled by Eric Din

© 2021 Dinwiddie / Lethridge
King Roy Music, BMI

Cats in a Pod

Berkeley Cat Records has a podcats. Everyone has a podcast. We have a podcats. Episode one is up and jammin. We’re delighted with the early response and invite you to give ‘er a listen and if ya like, omigarsh, a share! Songs from The Uptones, Russ Ellis, Jay Lane, Matt Jaffe and Eric Din herein, with commeowentary from your host, Eric Din.

Songs in this episode:
Our first Podcats has music from The Uptones, Matt Jaffe, Russ Ellis & fam, Jay Lane and yours truly your host, Eric Din.

Songs in this episode:

  1. Keep Pushin’ – The Uptones
  2. Get Out Of My Way (original version) – The Uptones
  3. I Can See It Now – Eric Din
  4. Stoned On Easter – Matt Jaffe
  5. Apollo 11 – Russ Ellis (Feat. Bella Ellis)
  6. New Variant – Jay Lane

Links! We have links. Here are links. Lynx, rather.
Russ Ellis
Matt Jaffe
Jay Lane
The Uptones
Eric Din

Push the Better Button – Maxi-Meow-Mix Single from Eric Din

I am thrilled to share with you this Berkeley Cat Records Maxi-Meow-Mix Single of Push the Better Button! I wrote the song in November of 2020, and with the help of some great old friends and bandmates, this happened. Hope you enjoy! Credits and lyrics below. Feel free to share. And remember, it works on everything!

Eric Din – Guitars, Bass, and Vocals
John Mader – Drums
Paul Jackson – Keyboards and “Beeper Box” Mix
Charles Stella – Vocoder and “Interstellar” Mix
Michael Valladares – Organ, Dumbstruck Whites, and “Shut Up and Dance” Mix
Michael Rosen – “Maxi Mix” and additional mixing
Artwork by Shannon Wheeler
Produced by Eric Din for Berkeley Cat Records

© 2020 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

Push the better button
Push the better button
Push the better button
The voice was out of tune
But now it’s o-kay
Push the better button
Shooting for the moon
And now it’s so great
I don’t care
Who’s playing first or last
I just like
To mix it on my laptop
You can try
To autotunafish
But when you’re done with it
You should try this

Push the better button
I cannot wait
For the inevitable blissful state
A super-genius in my own mind
I push the better button
It works ev-er-y time

I don’t know
If anyone can hear
I don’t care
The party’s up in here
Having fun
In my imagination
Gettin’ freaky in my audio station
Push the better button
Play that funky bass line
And two electric gee-tars
Push the better button
Twangin’ at the same time
Drinking club soda and lime

Push the better button
So easy to do
No pressure, you better,
We depend on you,
Hey, is this my good side?
Is this a better light?
Push the button
And make our dreams come true

Push the better button
Problems fading fast
Push the better button
Now it’s gone viral (oh noooo!)
Push the better button
History’s in the past (fake news!)
Push the better button
Now we put it on blast
Push the better button
It is to laugh
We’re destined for destiny
What can go wrong?
Push the better button
Wow, this works on everything!
Push the better button
Now you give it a try
Push the better button
Hmm, let’s see now, I would like
A new president, a sweet girlfriend
World peace, and bunny slippers!
Is it too much to ask?
Don’t answer that,
Push the better button
Eureka! At last!
Push the better button
Brilliant, remarkable!
Outstanding, stunning, exemplary, amazing, magnificent! Unfreaking believable,
Oh my gawd! It’s so awesome, I can’t even stand it, it’s too much, stop.. don’t.. push..
the better button
We will have to do studies on this matter
There is no greater example of great examples
Maximize it, quantize it,
I am the button presser!
Live in cyberspace
Telecon-fer-encing with our loved ones and dates
Push the better button
Yes, we kick it solo
Mix it and we fix it and we do like we know, so
Push the better button
Rockin’ til the dawn
Neighbors put a sign that said
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Push the better button
Come over, we love you,
Push the better button
We want to get know you
Push the better button
In the dark before the dawn
Push the better button
In the year that we been gone
Push the better button
In the dark before the dawn
Push the better button
In the year that we been gone
Push the better button

Eric Din – Guitars, Bass, and Vocals
John Mader – Drums
Paul Jackson – Keyboards and “Beeper Box” Mix
Charles Stella – Vocoder and “Interstellar” Mix
Michael Valladares – Organ, Dumbstruck Whites, and “Shut Up and Dance” Mix
Michael Rosen – “Maxi Mix” and additional mixing
Artwork by Shannon Wheeler
Produced by Eric Din for Berkeley Cat Records

© 2020 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

Jupiter Girls now streaming – aaaand a new DUB version!

Today Berkeley Cat Records is thrilled to announce the availability of Jupiter Girls by Eric Din on the streaming services. First released in November 2020 exclusively on Bandcamp, this original song is now in Pandora, Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, and some other gizmos as well. So exciting. MORE exciting is that there’s a wild and fab new DUB MIX from Eric’s fellow Uptones founder, Charles Stella, as part of the streaming release. We invite you to have a listen and share it up any ol’ which way you may like to! For streaming links, which went live, oh but mere seconds ago, you may go HERE. So easy.

For the story behind the song and the full credits, hava look at the original Bandcamp post, HERE. Magic.

So why streaming services? Why, you ask? Why did we go to the moon? Why do people climb Everest? For exactly no good reasons. Why do cats play with little bits of string? Because it’s there, Aluishis, because it’s there.

A note on the dub mix! If you dig Charles Stella’s dubalicious dubbings you may also enjoy his mix from earlier in 2020, of People I May Know.

There that’s pretty good for one Caturday. Wishing you all a mighty fine and healthy start to 2021.

-The very extensive and carefully vetted staff at Berkeley Cat Records

Oom Chugga Remix # 5 (by J​.​K Ellis)

On this the first Caturday of a new era, we are proud to present this exciting new entry in the Oom Chugga Remix Challenge, from J.K Ellis. As we had hoped at the beginning of this endeavor, each version in this series has been inspired and unique. Young Joshua Ellis expands on this, taking the audio in new directions. It’s a remarkable sound collage that reframes the original stems in brilliant and unexpected ways. Have a listen and a share, do!

It’s worth noting here that at age 20, Joshua is by far our youngest remix contributor so far.  For behind all this was Russ Ellis’ inspiration to employ his original song, Oom Chugga, toward inspiring and motivating young people to register and vote. This is effort is ongoing, and of course our fun remix challenge is just one small piece of a much larger picture. All together, when we engage, we can win. Let’s win some more. Here’s to the youth. Here’s to the future. Love from all of us at Berkeley Cat Records.

-Eric Din