PMB033 Tick Tock Twang: Jon Brooks, Helmut Zacharias, Supercasanova, Boots Randolph, Frente Cumbiero

This week's show attempts to straddle the worlds of alarm clocks and twanging surf guitar. Alarm clocks are provided by the Advisory Circle's Jon Brooks who has somehow managed to craft an entire album made entirely from the sounds made by a Braun AB-30 alarm clock. The twanging guitar comes from Stories in Sound and the Surf Teens. In between that we also have another track from Helmut Zacharias, two tracks from a West Coast band who are new to us at the Moonbase, Supercasanova, a welcome return of skweee and a cracking piece of electronic tropicalia from Frente Cumbiero.

The Dalek Vicar also returns with a reading from the Haiku Solar System.

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The Music

1.	Supercasanova: Bud's Big Beat from In a Space
2.	Helmut Zacharias: Limehouse Blues from Tea Time In Tokyo/Melodien Aus Berühmten Filmen
3.	Stories In Sound: Space Battle from Intoxica! Strange and Sleazy Instrumental Sounds from the SoCal Suburbs
4.	The Surf Teens: Intoxica from Surf Mania
5.	Jon Brooks: An Explanation of Techniques (Part 1)
6.	Jon Brooks: Wanduhr Weltzeit from Music For Dieter Rams
7.	Frente Cumbiero: Pitchito: Sofrito from Tropical Discotheque
8.	Easy & Centre of the Universe: Burkina Faso from Museum of Future Sound 3
9.	Jon Brooks: Zurück Zum Puren, Zum Einfachen from Music For Dieter Rams
10.	Jon Brooks: An Explanation of Techniques (Part 2)
11.	Boots Randolph: Desafinado from The World of Boots Randolph
12.	Supercasanova: Bonafide from Music to Shop By

The Unnecessary News

• Pony seen in hospital and pub
• Human-powered helicopter breaks flight record
• The Pencil Sharpener Museum
• Official US Government Website Provides Advice on Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse (I checked this is real)
• Dutch Students Create World’s Largest NES Controller
• 'Exploding' watermelons in China

PMB032: Bob Dylan at 70

On the show this week we wish that grandfather of the modern folk song, Bob Dylan, a very happy 01000110th (that's 70 for you decimal heads) birthday. Every track on the show this week (with one exception) is a Dylan composition, though the arrangements are not necessarily ones he would approve of, being as they vary from big band now sound, through hysterical spoken word to steel drum and chiptune. However, we feel that without exception they enhance and greatly improve on the original.

MC Zirconium warns that a large dog with eyes the size of saucers once haunted this area.

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The Music

1.	Alan Lorber Orchestra: Don't Think Twice from Bob Dylan - Times They Are A Changin'
2.	The Spokesmen: Love Minus Zero No Limit from The Dawn of Correction
3.	George Olsen and his Music: Sax-o-phun
4.	William Shatner: Mr. Tambourine Man from The Transformed Man
5.	US Navy Steel Band: Blowin' In the Wind from Blowin' In the Wind
6.	Duane Eddy: All I Really Want to Do from Duane Does Dylan
7.	Nob Dylan & His Nobsoletes: Rainy Day Women #138 & 3 from Positively 12 Stiff Dylans!
8.	Acker Bilk: Lay Lady Lay from All the Hits Plus More
9.	seece:Blowin' in the wind
10.	The Gene Norman Group: Masters of War from Dylan Jazz
11.	Sebastian Cabot: Like A Rolling Stone from A Dramatic Reading With Music
12.	The Tony Hiller Orchestra: The Mighty Quinn from Where the Rainbow Ends (Lungo la Senna)

The Unnecessary News

• Wearable cat ears react to feelings by reading brainwaves
• Samoa travels into the future (by one day)
• The average Brit breaks the law 21 times per year
• Germany Hosts Big Nose World Championship
• World Figure Skating Championship 2011: Super Mario on ice
• Arrestee had pre-emptive apologetic head tattoo

Featured Spots

Dalek poetry, Crackly corner* and the Sea of Tranquility.

*from the library of congress national jukebox.