PMB022 Stylophonic: Jerry Allen, Hong Kong in the 60s, Yakuza Heart Attack, Brett Domino, Soulless Party, The Brooklyn Organ Synthesizer Orchestra

We believe in being guided by cosmic forces here at the Moonbase so we coudn't possibly ignore the arrival in the airlock this week of *two* new releases featuring that king of keyboard instruments, the Stylophone. For not only does the long-awaited debut by the Brett Domino Trio dedicate a whole medley to this instrument, but an epically analogue re-interpretation of Tubular Bells also features the instrument prominently. The show is a rather eclectically electronic one this week, with more from the debut album by Hong Kong in the 60s, a track from a new release by listener Soulless Party and a deliciously fresh slice of chip-prog from Yakuza Heart Attack.

But we do also find time for our new regular feature, Classic Steel, for those pining for the tinkling sound of the steel drum.

This week MC Zirconium also believes that ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes. It's rather hard work...

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The Music

1.	Jerry Allen: More from The Hands of Jerry Allen
2.	Hong Kong In The 60s: Diaryland from My Fantoms
3.	Yakuza Heart Attack: The Wet Heart from Dayton, Ohio Vol. 2
4.	Witco Desperadoes Steel Orchestra & Trevor "Inch High" Valentine: El Relicario from Desperadoes Steel Orchestra - Classical Transcriptions
5.	Brett Domino: 1980s Stylophone Medley from Songs Off Youtube
6.	The Soulless Party: Time Traveller from Exploring Radio Space
7.	Hong Kong In The 60s: Les Petits Chasseurs Au Bord Du Lac Lunaire from My Fantoms
8.	Joe McGinty and The Brooklyn Organ Synthesizer Orchestra: Tubular Bells from Tubular Bells

The Unnecessary News

• Hmmm how can we make skiing more dangerous... Jetpack propels skier to speeds of 47mph
• What is new in toast: Breville Radio Toaster
• The first 3D Star Wars movie gets a release date
• Chinese Psychologist Promotes Himself with Underwear Model
• "Sexting" make Oxford Dictionaries Online
• London Restaurant Sells Breast Milk Ice-Cream Called Baby Gaga

Moogular Bells

Over the last couple of decades, former Psychedelic Furs keyboard player Joe McGinty has been gradually amassing a truly envy-inducing collection of vintage keyboards. To demonstrate some of the classic and bizarre members of this collection, McGinty recently assembled 20 of New York's finest keyboard players to record an arrangement of that often schism-inducing piece of pop-prog, Tubular Bells. Before you run screaming from the drawing room, dear listener, we at the Moonbase feel sure that wherever you stand on Mike Oldfield you will be dazzled and tickled in equal measure by this wonderful performance.

You can watch the recording of the arrangement right here:

You may purchase the track on Amazon or iTunes.

This track is also featured in PMB022: Stylophonic, due out later this very day (13 March 2011).

Oh, by the way, if anyone knows what the cute little orange keyboard visible in the background above (and again at 4:12) is, we'd love to know.

Source: Matrixsynth

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, 05 April 2009

The Show Today would have marked the 80th birthday of pioneering producer/engineer/composer Joe Meek if he were still with us. So we played a few tracks by him. We also got our hands on a great new 6-CD set of Tony Hatch albums. So expect some quality Hatch cheese. Stereolab have decided to call it a day (at least for the time being) so we'll remind ourselves just how great a band they were/are. The Music We opened the show with another track from the Moog Cookbook's elusive third album, Bartell: 1. Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie (Moog Cookbook remix) (Bartell) 2. Jonny Trunk - Nest We Forgot (A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island, 2009) There's a great 6-album set of Tony Hatch albums out for a bargain basement price: 3. Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent - Morning Dew (The Two Of Us, 1968) 4. Moe Koffman - Curried Soul As mentioned above, Stereolab have decided to go into hiatus. Hopefully not forever but this news prompted us to feature a couple of our favourite 'lab tracks starting with one from their most recent album: 5. Stereolab - Neon Beanbag (Chemical Chords, 2008) Then it was time for the first of this evening's tracks by Joe Meek who would have turned 80 today if he hadn't really left this dimension: 6. The Tornados - Robot (Joe Meek - The Alchemist Of Pop, 1963) 7. Lloyd Cramer - Let's Go To honour the great Heinz Wolff who is coming to Edinburgh for the Science Festival: 8. Richard Denton & Martin Cook - The Great Egg Race (1979) News of the Orion space capsule (see below) prompted us to play this great Peter Thomas tune: 9. Tätärä - Orion (Next Show, 2000) 10. Geoff Goddard - Sky Men (Joe Meek - The Alchemist Of Pop, 1963) Then it was time for this evening's non-ukulele track: 11. Lonely Drifter Karen - This World Is Crazy (Grass Is Singing, 2008) 12. Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent - Don't Stop Now (The Two Of Us, 1968) 13. Robert Drasnin - Moorean Moonbeams (Voodoo II, 2007) Bat For Lashes is coming to Glasgow in support of her new album. Here's our favourite track from her last album: 14. Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do? (Fur and Gold, 2007) Followed by a track from which I think remains my favourite Stereolab album: 15. Stereolab - Miss Modular (Dots And Loops, 1997) We closed the show with a great track from the soundtrack to the latest Dreamworks movie Monsters vs Aliens: 16. The Buchanan Brothers - (When You See) Those Flying Saucers (Monsters Vs. Aliens (Music from the Motion Picture)) The News

• Israeli newspapers photoshop women out of cabinet
• Village mob thwarts Google Street View car
• Last chance to see: Playmobil Bible and here
• Obama's give Queen an iPod and here
• Michelle Obama and Queen hugging
• There's a guru, all she does all day is hug people.
• A Taiwanese farmer has adopted 12 wild pigs as pets
• Runaway scooter carries off old lady
• Day One of anti-piracy law: Web traffic in Sweden drops by a third
• Shoplifters can be cured with a pill
• Thief steals 68 tubes of toothpaste
• Mars 'journey' experiment begins
• International Space Station living quarters to be named "Colbert"
• Toilet row lowers space morale
• NASA unveils Orion - the successor to the Space Shuttle

Playlist, 29 March 2009

The Show On the show this evening we played more of the interviews we recorded at the first UK Maker Faire the other weekend, another track from the latest Monsterism compilation, another track from the Moog Cookbook's last album "Bartell", tracks from some new Dutton Vocalion reissues and much much more besides - including, of course, the ukulele. The Music To open, two tracks from the newly-reissued Beat at Cinecitta series to welcome MC Zirconium back from Italia: 1. Nora Orlandi - A Doppia Faccia (Beat At Cinecitta: Volume 2, 1970/1997) 2. Armando Trovaioli - L'arcidiavolo - L'arcidiavolo (1966) - - Beat At Cinecitta - Music from Italian 60s & 70s Cinema: Volume 3 - 1966 3. Guy Pedersen - Indian Pop Bass 4. Clubman - Round Up (Roaring Blue: Return Of The Instro-Hipsters Vol. 3, 2008) Dutton Vocalion continue to reissue some great albums: 5. David Carroll - Jungle Drums (Dance And Stay Young/The Feathery Feeling/Percussion In Hi-Fi) You can get this next track for free from Comfort Stand: 6. Jack Fetterman and the in Hi-Fi Music Direction - Acapulco 2000 (Two Zombies Later, 2003) 7. The Moog Cookbook - Novocaine for the Soul (Bartell, 2005) Following an interview from the recent Maker Faire in Newcastle with Mike Cook from the North of England Arduino Group, we played a geetar-based track to celebrate his great achievement, the Arduinocaster: 8. Guitars Unlimited - Expresso The Emperor Machine has a new EP coming out in April: 9. The Emperor Machine - Black Ken (Black Ken EP, 2009) Two tuba tracks: 10. Jack Parnell - When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba (Trip to Mars, 1958/2009) 11. Scotch & Soda - The Lonely Bull (Two Zombies Later, 2003) Then it was time for what is becoming a regular feature in the show, "ukulele corner": 12. J J Appleton And Tamara Hey - I Want You (Beatles Complete On Ukulele Vol 1, 2009) 13. Sophie Madeleine - The Knitting Song (LOVE.LIFE.UKULELE, 2009) Then we had an "interview" with the Tone Float from the first UK Maker Faire followed by a milk bottle themed track: 14. Saint Etienne - Milk Bottle Symphony (Tales from Turnpike House, 2005) We closed the show with another track from the latest in the Monsterism Island series of compilations put together by Pete Fowler: 15. Gruff Rhys - Wild Robots Power Up (A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island, 2009) The News

• Italian court says use of marijuana ok...for shepherds
• Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
• Grow bigger breasts with Stem cells
• ASTONISHING FINDINGS! People trip over pets! The solution: Don’t Do It!!!
• Take the hassle out of praying - pay a computer to do it for you
• 'Tickle monster' cleared by judge
• Sweden's "Pirate Party" Makes a Run for the E.U. Parliament
• BRING YOUR CELL PHONE TO THE OPERA, PLEASE
• German boffins decide revenge is inefficient
• Mend a broken heart - with aspirin
• And Indian boffins ponder how to cook up a good space curry
• Giant fire-breathing baby robot

Playlist, 09/03/08

FEATURED ARTIST: Jean-Jacques Perrey I had the privilege and pleasure of meeting one of my heroes, Jean-Jacques Perrey, last weekend when he appeared with Dana Countryman as part of the series of Radiophonia events run by the AV Festival in Gateshead. M. Perrey was gracious enough to spare some time for an interview and that interview was broadcast in tonight's show. If you missed it, tune into Leith FM again on Wednesday 20 March from 10pm-12am to hear a repeat of the show. The Music 1. The Moog Cookbook - Sweet Home Alabama (Ye Olde Space Bande: Plays Classic Rock Hits, 1997) 2. Stereolab - Variation One (Moog OST, 2004) 3. Charles Trénet - L'Âme Des Poétes (Charles Trenet - L'Ame d'un Poète) 4. Tom Siddevelt/Kid Baltan - Sonik Re-Entry (Electronic Toys 2, 1999) 5. Les Paul - Lover (Les Paul Now!, 1969) 6. Harry Breuer - Minute Merengue (Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 1, 1958/1993) 7. Jean-Jacques Perrey - Flight Of The Bumblebee (Moog Indigo, 1970) 8. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Theme (100 Greatest TV Themes, 2005) 9. Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Dance of the Hours (The Best of Spike Jones & His City Slickers, 1992) 10. Perrey & Kingsley - One Note Samba/Spanish Flea (Spotlight on the Moog, 1967) 11. David Chazam - La Cuenta Reves 12. Dana Countryman - Lovesick Martian Boy (Interplanetary Materials, 2004) 13. Le Tone - Joli Dragon (Le Petit Nabab, 1998) 14. Jean-Jacques Perrey/Dana Countryman - INTERVIEW (March 2008) 15. Jean-Jacques Perrey - La Panthere Cosmique (Moog Sensations, 1970s/2001) 16. The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra - Metal Swing Sing Sing (Tvpopmuzik, 2007) 17. Messer Chups - Bride of the Atom (Bride of the Atom, 2006) 18. Jean Jacques Perrey/Dana Countryman - Hernando's Hideway/Tico Tico (The Happy Electropop Music Machine, 2006) 19. John Buzon Trio - Caravan [Eat Static Remix] (v/a - Electronic Excursions In Hi-Fi Stereo, 1999) 20. Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A. (Moog Indigo, 1970) The News

• A Social Network For Babies.
• Spielberg may be launching a social network around the topic of UFOs and the paranormal.
• Snakebots (and here)
• 6 million people hurt in the UK last year while texting and walking
• London police: The war on... photography (and here)
• 30 years since Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made its debut on BBC radio
• Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, dies aged 69.
• Wink control
• One-way ticket to Mars
• Jules Verne space truck
• Gramophone-style speaker for your iPod (and here)