PMB016 Spinning Wheels of Steel: Sounds Galactic, Bruce Haack, Basil Kirchin, Jah Wobble, Marisa, Jamaican Steel Band, Firebrand Boy, Alan Tew

On the show this week we introduce a new irregular feature called Classic Steel where we'll try to play a classical (or a classic) favourite arranged for steel drums as often as we can. We also have some Galactic Sounds, another track from the latest Basil Kirchin soundtrack reissue on Trunk records, we'll be celebrating the imminent 40th anniversary of the release of Get Carter, hearing some Glaswegian chiptune as well as lots of other nutritious nuggets for your ears to chew on.

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium will also be telling us about cold fusion, luke-warm fusion fusion and fusion that's just right.

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The Music

1.	Sounds Galactic: Spinning Wheel from An Astromusical Odyssey / Nova - Sounds of the Stars
2.	Bruce Haack: Rubberbands from Hush Little Robot
3.	Jah Wobble: Get Carter from Get Carter
4.	Marisa: Ceu e Mar from Bis - Bossa Nova: Marisa
5.	Jamaican Steel Band: Calypso (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) from Steel Band Music of the Caribbean
6.	Basil Kirchin: The Freelance 1 from Primitive London	(CD)
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7.	Firebrand Boy: Forest Dub from Ultrachip VS Forest Closure
8.	Sounds Galactic: Mon Etoile (My Star) from An Astromusical Odyssey / Nova - Sounds of the Stars
9.	Alan Tew: I'm A Believer from This Is My Scene

The Unnecessary News

• Bottomless subway riders strike again in New York
• Unluckiest house number is 243
• Laser cannon set to blind pirates
• The New BMW Brick series
• 10 Christian Christian names
• Dalek and gold dentures left in hotel rooms

PMB015 Caterina Valente: A Woman Born for Music

On this week's show we wish a belated Happy 80th Birthday to that polyglottal pop princess, Caterina Valente, by playing lots of tunes by Ms Valente and her associates. We'll also be hearing from Italian prog horrorists, Goblin, who are playing in Glasgow next month and we have another track from the soundtrack to Copacabana by Tim Gane and Sean O'Hagan.

In addition the music, MC Zirconium will be telling us all about losing weight the easy way, banishing grey hair and eating your own weight in Tunnock's Tea Cakes.

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The Music

1.	Orchester Werner Mueller: Bodybuilding from The In-Kraut
2.	Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra: Malaguena from Fiesta De Carnaval
3.	Caterina Valente: Similau from Caterina Valente Vol. 2
4.	Johnny Keating: The Sacrifice from The Keating Sound & Straight Ahead
5.	Goblin: Death Dies from The Fantastic Journey of Goblin
6.	Caterina Valente: Precipitevolissimevolmente from I Successi Della Grande Valente
7.	Tim Gane & Sean O'Hagan: Les Parapluies D'ostende from Copacabana OST
8.	Caterina Valente & Edmundo Ros: Saudades Da Bahia from Fire & Frenzy
9.	Robert Maxwell: The Breeze and I from Shangri-La
10.	Caterina Valente: Blueberry Hill from Funky Fräuleins: Female Beat, Groove, Disco, Funk In Germany 1968-1978

The Lost News

• Police banned 'eggs is eggs' in case it offended infertile women, officer claims
• Rare Brain Disease Makes Woman Fearless
• Only 1-in-10 do the job they wanted as a child
• Could remote French village be "alien UFO garage" awaiting Armageddon?
  
• New Zealand Military Releases Alien Files
• I'd Rather Not Learn: Korean Robot Teachers

PMB014 Goodbye Girl: West Midlands Retro-Futuristic Pop

On the show this week we celebrate the life of Broadcast's Trish Keenan who, quite unbelieveably, passed away on Friday. Broadcast were the epitome of retro-futurism and were doing "hauntology" a good decade or more before the term was coined. Their music sounded like it was recorded in a parallel splintered dimension of space crystals. Broadcast were also, in our humble opinion, the greatest of the plethora of bands exploring this sonic landscape which sprung up in the West Midlands in the mid-90s.

DJ Bongoboy was lucky enough to meet Trish and James from Broadcast in 2008 and was able to tell them how much he loved their music. Trish will be greatly missed by all inner and outer space travelers.

So on this week's show you can expect to hear lots of Broadcast as well as lots of music by friends and contemporaries of Broadcast.

In addition to the West Midlands Retro-Futuristic Pop, MC Zirconium will also be telling us that he's not a witch, he's nothing you've heard, he's you, you.

Listen now:


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The Music

1.	Broadcast: Man Is Not a Bird from Haha Sound
2.	Seeland: Local Park from How to Live
3.	Christine O'Donnell: I'm Not a Witch (excerpt)
4.	Basil Kirchin: Primitive London 1 from Primitive London
5.	Herbie Mann: Our Man Flint from Our Mann Flute
6.	Broadcast: Winter Now from Haha Sound
7.	Plone: Marbles from For Beginner Piano
8.	Pram: Track Of The Cat from Dark Island
9.	Roj: Bongo Workout from The Transactional Dharma of Roj
10.	Belbury Poly: Farmer's Angle from Farmer's Angle (Revised edition)
11.	Broadcast: Microtronics Twenty from Microtronics Vol. 2
12.	Broadcast: Goodbye Girls from Tender Buttons

The Unnecessary News

• Witches threaten Romanian taxman after new labour law
• FAB!
• Angry ATM
• Actor makes 'grow beards for Belgium' appeal
• Pigeons fetch auction record
• Scientists Planning Mission To Probe Uranus