Star Wars Imperial March for Two Floppy Drives

It's turning out to be a good night for minimal arrangements of well-known TV and movie themes. What could possibly be better than a video involving Star Wars *and* floppy disks?

Source: Matrixsynth

Hawaii 5-0, Manually

For no other reason than that it made us chuckle and we feel confident it will have the same effect on you, dear listener, here is an extraordinary arrangement of the theme to Hawaii 5-0 for a pair of human hands:

If you've recorded your own manual arrangement of a classic TV or movie theme, do please let us know.

Source: @WFMU

PMB048 Smells Like Moon Spirit (Mambo Kurt, The Sparteens, The King, Little Roy, Kazyutron, Charles Bradley, 2 many djs)

It's time for some shameless opportunism on the show this week as we jump on the bandwagon of celebration taking place to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind. As with our previous track-for-track covers of Kraftwerk's Man Machine and the Beatles' White Album, we believe we can improve on the original. So for this show we have cracking cover versions of 9 of the 13 tracks on the album, covering genres as far flung as German lounge, Basque doo-wop, Russian chiptune and even some reggae from Kingston Jamaica.

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The Music

1.	Mambo Kurt: Smells Like Teen Spirit from Spiel Heimorgel Spiel
2.	The Sparteens: In Bloom from Grandes Exitos Del Ayer
3.	The King: Come As You Are from Gravelands
4.	Burton Greene: Breed from The Cocktail Tribute To Nirvana
5.	Little Roy: Lithium from Battle for Seattle
6.	Vitamin String Quartet: Polly from VSQ Master Series: Nirvana's Nevermind
7.	Kazyutron: Territorial Pissings from
8.	Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band: Stay Away from SPIN Presents Newermind: A Tribute Album
9.	Rockabye Baby!: On a Plain from Lullaby Renditions of Nirvana
10.	2 many djs: Smells Like Booty

The Unnecessary News

• Ernest Shackleton biscuit from 1907 South Pole expedition to sell for £1,500
• Dino Feathers Found In Amber
• Hugh Laurie is most watched man on television
• 50 New Planets Discovered, Possibly Including Habitable 'Super-Earth'
• People Who Are Afraid of Wi-Fi Have Found a Town in West Virginia That Bans Wireless Signals for 13,000 Square Miles
• Meet the world's largest natural afro hair-do

Smells Like Teen Spirit - One Man Band Style

As an aperitif for this week's show due out later today (which is a shamelessly opportunistic celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind) we present an extraordinary piece of work from an enterprising young fellow from Wisconsin called Rockresurrected:

Our favourite part of this arrangement is the music box mechanism being played by a miniature hand-punched pianola roll (keep an eye on the top-right corner). Another very appealing aspect to the video is that it starts with a cassette. Mmm... cassettes...

PMB047 Electric Rain (Gil Trythall, Sun Ra, Art van Damme, Coda, Perrey & Kingsley, Gordon Langford, Tony Hatch, Coda, Korla Pandit, Sachal Studios)

We're getting all seasonal on the show this week as we take the weather, or more accurately the various forms of precipitation, for our musical theme. This was largely inspired by another track on the recently released Sachal Studios album where former Lollywood orchestra members were brought out of retirement to perform a selection of jazz standards. In this particular case, Misty. As well as mist we also have fog, rain, dew and associated paraphernalia.

PLEASE NOTE (22/10/2011): The original version of this podcast was missing an entire track: SUGAR HAIR RAINBOW GIRL. This was MC Zirconium's response to DJ Bongoboy's playing Giant Claw in PMB046. Mysteriously, however, this track didn't make it into the podcast. While some cynics may conclude this was merely DJ Bongoboy's attempt to bury SUGAR HAIR RAINBOW GIRL in a burning pit of lava without even giving it an airing, he refutes any such outrageous suggestion. In any case, the track has now been inserted and an updated version of this podcast can now be streamed or downloaded using the options below (the fixed section begins at 46:45). If you subscribe to Project Moonbase using iTunes, please delete PMB047 and then right-click on the podcast and opt to "Show all available episodes".

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The Music

1.	Gil Trythall: Foggy Mountain Breakdown from Country Moog / Nashville Gold
2.	Sun Ra and the Blues Project: Penguin's Umbrella from Batman and Robin
3.	Art Van Damme: A Foggy Day from Art Van Damme - Swinging the Accordion On MPS
4.	Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent: Morning Dew from The Two Of Us
5.	coda: Chocolate Rain
6.	Perrey & Kingsley: Umbrellas Of Cherbourg from The Out Sound From Way In!
7.	Gordon Langford: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head from The Amazing Music of the Electronic Arp Synthesizer
8.	Korla Pandit: Stormy Weather from The Grand Moghul Suite/The Universal Language Of Music
9.	SPARKLE SHINE WAVE FORCE: SUGAR HAIR RAINBOW GIRL
10.	Sachal Studios Orchestra: Misty from Sachal Jazz

The Unnecessary News

• Bouncy castle church brings inflatable sermons to remote congregation
• Psychologist: Leaders Are Four Times as Likely as the Average Person to Be Psychopaths
• Scratch & Sniff Business Suit
• Security contractors fail to pull leg
• Panda-monium Reigns in Flagstaff, Arizona
• Domino's Pizza opening store on the Moon — the Moon!