Category: Eric Din

Berkeley Cat Records has a Halloween song. How did it happen? Oh, mysteriously, of course, but there it is!

The download on Bandcamp there costs a whopping FREE until the day after Halloween, and then it’ll be a buck. Or an eye of newt.

Halloween Everywhere was composed and decomposed shortly before October 31, 2025, by Eric Din from an idea from Matthew King Kaufman. These two have collaborated on a number of songs along the way, but never a Halloween one, to our knowledge. In fact, this is a first for Berkeley Cat Records as well. Just in time for tricks and pies, have at it!

Berkeley Cat Records cannot verify the veracity of any of the statements herein, but we HAVE signed up diligently, for Ska Yodeling lessons.

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Our very own Eric Din is up to his record-making shenanigans again, this time in a folk-rocky mood. Per the artist, “I don’t believe I’ve made a rain song, before. Well, now I have!” We applaud this and also laud the excellent attire on Berkeley Cat himself, who adorns the cover. May the rains come when you need them, literally, metaphorically or however you like. Here is Just Waiting For The Rain

Reprinting from our mewsletter:

AND in the spirit of completion, on this lovely foggy morning, I just uploaded my This Worldly World album to the streaming services of the worldly world. It’ll land in said places in the next few days and then you can play it in your Pandora and Spotifys and Apples and Oranges. OK, no oranges but DEEZERs, yes Deezers! Gesundheit.

The pieces we were waiting for, before taking this momentous leap, were some voice memos from a few of our pals, who dutifully chimed in on “Whoops, this is the wrong future,” for the fade-out on track 14! The finale, if you will. Took me a minute to mix that all to my liking, and I enjoy the result, and hope y’all might as well.

The whole album will also remain in perpetuity, apocalypses notwithstanding, at our beloved Bandcamp! At which, it happens to be Bandcamp Friday. Bandcamp is not a streaming service, it is a different thing in this worldly world.

There it is ^ ! Not terribly hard to find.

I decided a little while ago, after MUCH contemplation and consternation, to release Berkeley Cat Records’ records to ALL of the streaming outlets, AND Bandcamp. There are some good arguments for NOT doing it this way, and argue with myself I did, but this is my conclusion, and I doubt I’ll change my mind on the subject.

Can I share this exciting moment with you? I do get a thrill out of this..

That’s the last step in the Distrokid interface, after the songs are written, recorded, mixed and mastered, puzzled and pawed at, played with and pondered, the great heave-ho to send them up from this bedroom producer’s desk into the streaming wilds. I LOVE some aspects of The Future! Heck, we talk on video like freakin’ Star Trek with friends a thousand miles away, there’s just so much cool about our present day. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens, but did he have ANY FREAKING IDEA what was coming?! I cannot know.

Near the end of my song, Dystopian Hot Mess, I sing, “..And baby we’re so blessed, if we only knew it.” This album is informed by everything that’s happening, good and bad, crazy and sane, the worldly world through my often astonished eyes. I hope it gives you some laughs and smiles along your journey.

And off I go, for a little river adventure with my esteemed colleague and UpTones fellow, The Rev. Paul Jackson! Who knows, maybe we’ll come up with a tune? It’s been known to happen.

Carpe Diem,

Din

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Good lordy. Din has been at it again. In the artiste’s own words:

“I had earlier planned to have a big party for my 60th (15 X 4!) B-day, but with all happening in the world rn wasn’t in the mood to really organize that. Instead I’ve been enjoying some little celebrations with friends & fam here and there, and continuing my normal tomfoolery. One thing I continue to enjoy is making new songs, and this one cracked me right up. I hope it also give you a chuckle or even inspires dancing with your cats and doggies in the kitchen. Or Parlour. Shouldn’t we have parlours? I think so. Play ska and carry on <3”

We agree with Eric that there should be parlours. And ska. Perhaps the occasional Ba-LON.