Come the genomic utopia, we will still be faced with the complex, troubled human beings whose lives and behaviors have been forged in the same old messy melange of interfacing variables -- biological, yes, but also sociological, cultural and psychological -- such that at some point in their lives they drink or take drugs too much.
The top all-rounder of the group is the Eleuthera ($50), a melange of 12- and 18-year-old single malts that tinges sweet Highland malts with a hint of Islay smoky peat.
You can almost smell the bohemians' garrett, though almost is quite enough given that it would be a heady melange of woodsmoke, woodworm, stale wine and old socks.
Their 1999 album 69 Love Songs may not have been the most musically groundbreaking in recent memory – although its melange of low-rent electronica, Broadwayish ballads, old-fashioned indie and ukelele doesn't sound like anything else – but it may be the most sustained example of bravura songwriting: three hours during which the quality hardly drops below stunning.
About two-thirds of the radioactive waste at the West Valley site has been contained in the solid glass blocks, but the remaining waste includes radioactive sludge in rusting underground tanks and the contents of two nuclear waste dumps, which hold a melange of chopped-up casings for fuel rods, old gloves and other debris.
These little mutations all contributed to the evolution of Hudson Mohawke's trademark sound: a vivid, psychedelic melange of J Dinstrumentalnstrumental hip-hop, space-age R&B, bass boom and old-school rave euphoria, garnished with effervescent FX from unexpected sources ("I used my iPhone to record the Australian traffic-light noise because it sounds like lasers," he grins).
The lineup was a melange of libertarian-leaning pundits and conspiracy theorists, including former Trump advisor Roger Stone and Alex Jones of InfoWars.
What if each fresh round of colonisation or settlement brought with it its own gods from the old country, who took root in this fertile soil of the New World, creating a melange of home-from-home pantheons?
The cozy sofa and chair, the tall, mews-facing window and the floor-to-ceiling melange of paintings, movie posters and memorabilia evoke a kind of gracious, well-brought-up bohemianism more often encountered in the Old World than the New.
Eighteen-year-old Archie Marshall has been steadily garnering acclaim under his stage name, King Krule, for his hazy, dark melange of sounds: a touch of new wave guitar, some synths, a hint of dubstep, a bassy vocal growl.
