Name just about any modern constitutional controversy—abortion, civil forfeiture, gun rights, immigration, etc.—and chances are that the Fourteenth Amendment is playing a big part. After all, if you are suing a state or local government under the federal constitution, you’re usually making a claim under the Fourteenth Amendment. But you can’t fully appreciate the Amendment’s modern significance without delving into its origins. In Episode One, we do just that, but by way of a story you’ve probably never heard before—through the story of a little known American hero named John Rock:
 
It’s February 1, 1865. President Lincoln has just signed the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. But a crowd of reporters and onlookers have gathered instead at the Supreme Court to witness John Rock, a Boston attorney, sworn in to the Supreme Court bar. The moment was as dramatic and historic as they come; John Rock was the first African-American to admitted to argue cases before the Court, and he was sworn in before some of the very same justices who had ruled just a few years earlier in Dred Scott that blacks could never be citizens.

Ep 1 - Before the Fourteenth: John Rock and the Birth of Birthright Citizenship

Psyrchus Praximus Productions (PPP) are recordings and projects initiated and/or produced by Ted Keylon at The Lab in The Bomb Shelter, Electrical Octopus, South Wing, and Ghost Ship Studios. They generally fall within experimental, noise, rock, loud, electronic, psychedelic, and some acoustic categories and I, Ted, am usually either playing ukulele, drums, bass, vox, assorted noise-makers (Evan Mitchell’s electric suitcase, the Schprong Box (my design), optical air effects, dual oscillating Yamaha Portasound synth, circuit bent HR-16 drum machine, ADHD Glitch Synth circuit, Crank Sturgeon noise boxes, body contact glitch circuit board, metal pipes, automobile radiator, cheap grandfather clock guts, Illy 10 pound coffee cans from Capitol Cafe in Springfield, IL circa 1997, through boutique and indie pedals such as GutterNoize,  Death by Audio, Electro-Faustus, Earthquaker, JHS, and Electro Harmonix, etc. or any combination thereof) recorded on a full spectrum field recorder or Linux DAW (Ardour), otherwise known as The Penguin.

I also collect other local music I find on SoundCloud that is safe to play on FM for my show Tuesday nights at 10pm Chicago Time on WQNA-DB, 'Esoterica' and the local segment at 11:11pm CST, 'Music From the 89th Parallel,' just go to 

http://listen.scbradio.org 

I also do a SoundCloud podcast RSS feed version of 'Esoterica,' that focuses on independent and unsigned experimental music, called 'Esoterica Special Edition': 
http://thespectra.net/podcast 
https://soundcloud.com/ted-keylon/sets/esoterica-special-edition-1

*High quality (HQ) recordings on digital audio workstations (DAW) are indicated as well as *Lo-fi (LF) and all other recordings fall somewhere in the middle. If a track contains many songs or pieces on one file it is labelled as a *Set (SET) and select parts of sets are *cuts (CUT) though not all cuts are indicated as such. Various revisions on HQ recordings on the Penguin indicated with "r1,' 'r2,' and so on.  All recordings are digital source unless otherwise noted. Tracks that are *not radio safe (NRS) are also indicated. *Other People's Projects on SoundCloud (OPP) are identified accordingly on playlists that include them. 

NOTICE: SoundCloud is now encouraging upload of high res files instead of mp3s so I will be selectively upgrading many tracks and they will be indicated with (:AIF) If there is a track you would like me to upgrade right away, let me know.

PPP is the audio part of the Spectra Network and involved with WQNA-DB/SCB's Esoterica program, its local segment, Music From the 89th Parallel, (Local music from Springfield and the surrounding area), and Esoterica Special Edition, the podcast version of the show that focuses on independent and unsigned experimental music.

Projects featured include:

Active-
Noom Yooze - (Trippy Harse Noise)
Blaque Rabitt - (psych rock alter ego of Sweet Bippy)
Shezarr's Folly (combination of projects into a supergroup-sucks up other project's material like a black hole-produces hybrid offspring shown in the name on playlists such as: 'sWEET FOLLy' and 'Shezarr's Meow')
NOXOMUS - (Noise/Harsh Noise)
Dr. Simultaneous Meow - (Noise solo)
Katzen Bippy - (Sweet Bippy making noise)
kow-PANG - (Noise Techno)
The Avant National Guard (tXAXNXGX) - (Noise/Krautrock)
Bass Bippy - (Sweet Bippy with bass)
Sweet Bippy - (Uke Fuzz Post Ho-Down Noise Rock)
Black Ops - (Covert Alt Rock)
Labscape - (Sound Scapes)
Scuba Guru - (Techno Jazz)
Ted Keylon's One Man Band - (Quirky Interpretations)

Inactive-
Crimes Against the Moonlight - (Leonard Cohen Songs)
Hemlock Tea - (Psychedelic Oblivion) now OPP do a search
Phyljesster St'Bone - ((Improv Rainjer Possession))
Lowdmouth Bippy - (Improv Noise Uke/guitar jams)
GNAT - (Techno)
HOt Båg O' DOnuts - (Funky Psychedlic Rock)
The Crybabies (Funky Live Rock)
Space Madness (Experimental Rock/Techno)
The Lonesome Roses - (Dark Swing)
Défense de Fumer - (Improv Grooves)
Toy-bot - (Experimental Lo Fi)

Ep 1 - Before the Fourteenth: John Rock and the Birth of Birthright Citizenship

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