Playlist, 19 April 2009

The Show On tonight's show: we finally got round to celebrating the life of recently departed giant of film soundtrack composition, Maurice Jarre, we played a couple of tracks from the recently released Switched-on Bob, more music from the forthcoming Emperor Machine album, Ethiopian space-jazz courtesy of Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics and lots more besides. The Music We opened the show with a couple of tracks supplied by our charity shop digger-on-chief Fuz: 1. Billy May - St Joe Mo 2. Duncan Lamont - Eruption Following news of space pants (see below): 3. The Brass Menagerie - Hot Pants (Brass Menagerie 1973, 1973) Then it was time for the first of two tracks from a great new collaboration between the master of Ethio-Jazz and vibraphonist, Mulatu Astatke, and London nonet The Heliocentrics: 4. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Cha Cha (Inspiration Information 3, 2009) 5. Cal Tjader - Philadelphia Mambo (Black Orchid, 1956) A new release from one of our followers on Twitter: 6. P.T. Walkley - The Lucky Ones (Mr. Macy Wakes Alone, 2009) 7. Mel Torme - Bonnie & Clyde (The Music Goes Round, 1968) Following the story about Woody Harrelson -v- Zombies (see below) we took the opportunity to play the first of two tracks from a great new compilation of Mooginess: 8. Messer Chups - Zombie in Mini Skirt (Switched ON BOB A Tribute To Bob Moog, 2009) Then it was time for the first of our tributes to the recently departed Maurice Jarre with a track from the second movie he scored back in 1959: 9. Maurice Jarre - Les yeux sans visage (Ma période française, 1959/2006) 10. Dick Hyman - The Shadow Of Your Smile (Happening!, 1966) We are delighted to have a preview copy of the new Emperor Machine album and played: 11. The Emperor Machine - Silvercape (Space Beyond the Egg, 2009) Time for more Maurice Jarre: 12. Jack Marshall and Shelly Manne - Lawrence of Arabia (Sounds!) And another track from Switched-on Bob: 13. Grand David - Herpex Delux (Switched ON BOB A Tribute To Bob Moog, 2009) Following the news about Strathclyde police officers going all Jedi (see below): 14. Mark Shakespeare - Star Wars Second track from the new collaboration between Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics: 15. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Fire In the Zoo (Inspiration Information 3, 2009) And we closed the show with our third and final piece of Maurice Jarre - on sitar! 16. Balsara and His Singing Sitars - Lara's Theme (Golden Hits) The News

• Pirate Bay guilty verdict
• Swedish Pirate Party membership surges after Pirate Bay verdict
• New NASA node name not Colbert and here
• Japanese scientists working on odour-free space pants
• Moral flap of the week: "Brain scientists" claim that Twitter is bad for your mental health - and morality!
• Lego launching range of electronic gadgets for kids
• Woody Harrelson mistakes photographer for zombie and attacks him
• Turn your mobile phone into a microscope with this unobtrusive add-on
• Opening of world's first cloud viewing platform marred by good weather
• TV theme tunes are more popular at funerals than hymns
• Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
• Saudis ban "offensive" car number plates such as those containing "USA"
• Quietly sedate your kids with nitrous oxide while they play video games using the inconspicuous "PediSedate"
• Jedi Police: 8 Strathclyde police officers are Jedis and here

Playlist, 12 April 2009

The Show On tonight's show: Easter Bunnies, tracks from the new Holden album, something from Mike Batt(!), ukulele, organ, Moog and a couple of tracks from the still-to-be-released new album from The Emperor Machine. The Music We started this Easter show with a brace of bunnies: 1. Metrophonics - Close Up (Charles Wilp: Michelangelo In Space - The Bunny Remixes, 2000) 2. Tipsy - Bunny Kick (Uh-Oh!, 2001) Next up a track from the brand new album by Holden: 3. Holden - Mia (Fantomatisme, 2009) Followed by another piece of French pop - complete with ukulele: 4. Mareva Galanter - C'est Bon (UkuYéyé, 2006) @Mike_Batt started following me on Twitter so to mark this auspicious event we played this next track. Shortly afterwards, he stopped following me on Twitter. I'm not sure if the two are related: 5. Synthesonic Sounds - Superfly (The Easy Project - 20 Loungecore Favourites, 1973) As a certain car manufacturer has decided to use a song by The Free Design to promote their latest vehicle we felt it was time play a song by this wonderful band: 6. The Free Design - Canada In Springtime (There Is A Song, 1972) 7. The Bran Flakes - Dance Of The Sugarsnap Fairy (I Have Hands, 2008) Following the news of the "surprise" premiere of the new Star Trek movie (see below) we played possibly the only guitar version of the theme tune: 8. The Ventures - Star Trek (Batman Theme & TV Themes) 9. The Emperor Machine - The Frontist (Space Beyond The Egg, 2009) 10. Bill Bockey - Berk (45 single) 11. Tony Hatch & The Satin Brass - Codename (Sounds Of The 70s, 1970) We meant to play this next track on last week's show - oops! 12. Jack Parnell - Cha Cha Rock (Trip to Mars, 1958) 13. Bert Kaempfert - Cha Cha Brasilia (That Latin Feeling, 1964) Then we returned to the new Holden album: 14. Holden - Longue Est Ma Descente - Fantomatisme - 2009 Followed by a track which we meant to play on last week's show marking what would have been Joe Meek's 80th birthday: 15. The Sharades - Dumb Head (Let's Go! Joe Meek's Girls, 1995) Our roaming charity shop digger, Fuz, sent us a truly extraordinary version of the theme to the Godfather: 16. Harold Smart - Love Theme from the Godfather (Love Sensations) And we closed the show with another master of the organ: 17. Dick Hyman - The Third Man Theme (The Man From O.R.G.A.N., 1965) The News

• An Easter Egg that is also a sound investment
• Gadget of the week: A Diamond Tester
• 100 years of toast
• Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creater Passes Away and here
• Honda is going dog friendly with the Element
• This week in idiotic transport #1 - Project P.U.M.A
• This week in idiotic transport #2 - The Chariot
• NASA astronaut goes Tweet Tweet
• Swedish parishioners unveil Lego statue of Jesus - AP
• What would Jesus tweet?
• Scientists create no calories chocolate whiff
• Polish politician fumes over "gay" elephant in zoo
• Court fines mother for phoning son too much
• Leonard Nimoy springs surprise on trekkies in Texas by showing them the new movie and here