Tonight's show features the work of the "Delia Derbyshire of the Atari generation", namely Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne Ciani was a pioneering composer of electronic music making use of banks of modular synths, in particular Don Buchla's generative synthesis systems. She also created her own "voice box" and used all of this equipment to compose music for adverts, corporate logos and of course the Xenon pinball machine. We also have more from F.C. Judd, a new release from Jon Brooks, a Mooged-up version of Caravan, some ambient exotica from G.E.S., an 8-bit version of an 80s detective series and another track from Music Minus Music.
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The Music
| 1. | Suzanne Ciani: Liberator Atari TV Spot from Lixiviation |   |  |
| 2. | Suzanne Ciani: Chevrolet Hot Streak from Logo Presentation Reels 1985 | ||
| 3. | Suzanne Ciani: Princess With Orange Feet from Lixiviation | | |
| 4. | F.C. Judd: Perpetua from Electronics Without Tears |  | |
| 5. | Suzanne Ciani: Inside Story' PBS TV Spot from Lixiviation | | |
| 6. | Suzanne Ciani: Clean Room' ITT TV Spot from Lixiviation | | |
| 7. | Himekami: Kaigoma from Himekami Master Pieces 3 |  | |
| 8. | Mark Evans: Caravan from Rock and Roll Moog Party |  | |
| 9. | Suzanne Ciani: Sunbeam logo | | |
| 10. | Suzanne Ciani: Time Magazine logo | | |
| 11. | Suzanne Ciani: Uniroyal logo | | |
| 12. | Guy Boyer: Aventure Et Tambourin from Music Minus Music |  | |
| 13. | Suzanne Ciani: Live Buchla Concert 1975 from Lixiviation | | |
| 14. | Peachy: Magnum 8bit | | |
| 15. | Jon Brooks: Zukunft Als Konzept (Reconstruction) (DJ Bongoboy edit) from Dieter Rams - Reconstructions | | |
| 16. | Suzanne Ciani: Black and Decker Slo Mo from Logo Presentation Reels 1985 | ||
| 17. | Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples: Irrelevant sound effect from More Circulations |  | |
| 18. | Suzanne Ciani: Columbia TV | | |
| 19. | Suzanne Ciani: Eighth Wave from Lixiviation | | |
The Unnecessary News
On tonight's show we wish a very happy 80th birthday to one of the greats of movie music making, John Williams, by playing a selection of his best-loved themes. Being Project Moonbase of course, very few of the tracks are actually performed by the great man. We've tried instead to find as many different approaches to his music as we could. It would appear, though, that the opulence and majesty of John Williams' music tends to attract fans of the glitter ball more than any other genre. So as a result this evening's show is rather disco-tastic.
