Electronic Encounters

An entirely FREE album put together by The Soulless Party of music inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind featuring many of our favourite artists including Dolly Dolly, Monroeville Music Center, Pye Corner Audio, Sublevel and many more.

You can download the album from the project's Bandcamp page.

We'll be featuring this album extensively on a future edition of Project Moonbase. So watch the skies...

Cassette edition prototype

For the first time we see an actual image of the much anticipated (and possibly never-to-exist) Project Moonbase Special Cassette Edition.

This strictly limited edition, one of a kind collectable, family heirloom and cassette could be yours if the public at large - This means you - can convince us to bring it out of the project moonbase test labs and into the real world. You may be saying to yourself "but Project Moonbase, I do not own a cassette deck." well, this is the perfect reason to correct that obvious oversight. Look at it, just look at it in all it's retro old-time, yesteryear-of-graphic design glory.

Each cassette will be lovingly mopped across DJ Bongoboy's brow, to help infuse it with his musky scent and MC Zirconium will shed a single perfect tear, symbolising his sorrow about being held against his will on the moon.

So let us know if you desire to have this unique treasure/cry-for-help, fill in the handy questionnaire and let your voice be heard.

PMB043 Pills Pills Pills (Alan Lorber, Alan Hawkshaw, Mel Blanc, The Uncle Brothers, Supercute, Nurse With Wound, Wing)

Time to tackle another Big Theme on the show this week. Yes, we thought it was high time we tackled the intoxicating world of drugs. This was largely prompted by a rather wonderful new single from teenage sensation SUPERCUTE! which gently mocks the classic anti-drugs song.

We also have tracks from, amongst many others, Alan Lorber, Alan Hawkshaw, The Uncle Brothers, Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, er, Nurse With Wound and, yes, once again a track from Wing! You can also hear what several of the key players in Looney Tunes cartoons have to say on the subject.

Listen now:

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Alternatively, download the MP3 directly.

The Music

1.	Alan Lorber Orchestra: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds from Lotus Palace
2.	Mel Blanc: Bugs Bunny from Get Off 2
3.	Alan Hawkshaw: High Driver from Dramatic Funk Themes Vol. 1
4.	The Uncle Brothers: Just Say No to Drugs from Songs for Schools: Positive Choices
5.	SUPERCUTE!: Dumb-Dumbs
6.	Los Banditos: Heroin from Beatclub
7.	Mel Blanc: Daffy Duck from Get Off 2
8.	Rajput & The Sepoy: Up, Up & Away from Incredibly Strange Music (Vol. 1)
9.	Harry "The Hipster" Gibson: Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine from Cocaine Blues
10.	The Choice: Choose
11.	Mel Blanc: Foghorn Leghorn from Get Off 2
12.	Nurse With Wound: Ketamineaphonia from Huffin' Rag Blues
13.	Wing: Stop The Nonsense (Stop Smoking Crack) from Stop The Nonsense

The Unnecessary News

• Well It's About Time! Titanium drinking straws
• Sheikh Hamad carves two-mile-long name in sand
• Compostable swimsuits
• 10-year-old girl is world's youngest sake expert
• BBC cuts 'could see return of the test card'
• Police start giving angry drunk people lollipops to calm them down

Choose!

This week's show (which will be out later today) is all about intoxication, hallucination and mind alteration as we tackle another Big Theme, namely that of DRUGS.

It's amazing how many truly terrible anti-drugs songs have been made over the years (particularly in the 80s). So as a teaser for this week's show, here's what we think could be the worst/best example of this genre of music:

If anyone knows anything about this project and whether the "band" released anything else of equal magnificence, do please let us know.

NASA Graphic Standards Manual — 1976

What with the final shuttle flight and all, NASA has been in our thoughts. Frankly, NASA is always in our thoughts. Thoughts like "Can I get a pair of adult sized NASA space-suit pyjamas?" or "Where can I buy rolls of NASA wallpaper?" That's why I was delighted to see pictures of their 1976 graphics manual over at www.aisleone.net. Now at least I'll know the correct branding when I knit my own NASA TV blanket and slipper combo.