Playlist, 23 May 2010

The Show
We were delighted to have special guest Space Disco Jeff aboard the Moonbase for tonight's show. Apart from space disco, we also had chiptune/8bit music, soundtrack music from Henry Mancini, Singapore A-Go-Go and plenty more.

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium told us tall tales about Pac-Man, pink Hitler and scientific sarcasm.

The Music
1. Henry Mancini: Star Trek from Mancini's Angels & The Theme Scene
2. Dick Doerschuk: Scenic Route from Liquid Sunshine
3. Telex: Eurovision from Neurovision
4. DMX Krew: All Aboard from The March to the Stars
5. The Ritchie Family: Quiet Village from Disco Discharge Diggin' Deeper
6. Bundes Jugend Jazz Orchester (directed by Peter Herbolzheimer): Caravan from Focus On Vocals
7. Human League: The Dignity Of Labour, Part 2 from Reproduction
8. Tristram Cary: Music For Light from It's time for Tristram Cary
8. Phalangius: Percival Pembroke C1 from The Cambridge Library Murders
9. Brad Smith: Time from MOON8
10. The Ventures: She's Not There
11. Charlie Electric Guitar Band's Sound of Japan: Carnation from Singapore A-Go-Go
12. Henry Mancini: Car Wash from Mancini's Angels & The Theme Scene
13. Vivien Vee: Give Me a Break from Disco Discharge Euro Disco
14. Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw: Sweet Summer from Liquid Sunshine
15. YMCK: Hateshinaisekai
16. Hosokawa Fumie: Poupée De Cire Poupée De Son from Gainsbourg made in Japan
17. Billy Preston: Outa-Space (Single Version) from Cool - Funk

The Disinformation

• Google marks 30th anniversary of Pac-Man by changing its logo into a playable version of the game and here.
• Pink Hitler Ad Campaign Upsets Some in Italy
• Daleks going on UK tour
• Bouncy Castle Crashes International Regatta
• Bees Prefer Flowers with Caffeine
• £57.2m is lost down the back of British sofas
• Facebook Quitting Pledge Gaining Thousands of Supporters and here
• Cooey Cynthia. Creating Self-Replicating, Synthetic Life — Are We Now God?
• Austrian motorway bosses hire druids to drain negative energy from accident black spots
• Scientists develop algorithm to detect sarcasm in written text
• Ninjas come to the rescue
• Japan sends probe to Venus

Playlist, 18 April 2010

The Show
DJ Bongoboy was your musical guide for proceedings. On the show this evening we payed a return visit to the world of Ethiopian space jazz, listened to some recently reissued library sounds from KPM plus chiptune and of course something from The Herb.

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium, our chief of disinformation, told us all about moustaches, atheists and rabbit whispering.

The Music
1. Alan Hawkshaw: Action Replay from Speed and Excitement
2. Stan Hope and his A-Banda Brass: Dos Palomitas from Tijuana Party
3. Duke Ellington: Blue Pepper from Far East Suite
4. Mulatu Astatke: The Way to Nice from Mulatu Steps Ahead
5. Mulatu Astatke: Yègellé Tezeta from Ethiopiques Vol 4
6. Girma Beyene: Yebèqagnal from Éthiopiques Vol 8
7. Bullet (aka Alan Tew): The Heist (aka The Big One) from The Hanged Man
8. Peter Herbolzheimer: La Marcha from Big Band Man
9. Lemma Demissew: Adrashash Tèfabegn from Éthiopiques Vol 8
10. 8 Bit Chris: Rock Lobster
11. Sounds of Tomorrow: Pulse Rate from Sounds of Tomorrow
12. Johnny Pearson: Product Efficiency from Speed and Excitement
13. Kai Winding: Experiment in Terror from the Henry Mancini Songbook
14. Nick Ingman: Ride Of The Valkyrie from Terminator
15. Alemayehu Eshete: Tchero Aderi Nègn from Éthiopiques Vol 8
16. Mulatu Astatke: Boogaloo from Mulatu Steps Ahead

The Disinformation

• Woman wins $43 million jackpot, casino refuses to pay.
• Cliff Penrose: rabbit whisperer.
• Richard Dawkins Calls for Arrest of Pope Benedict XVI.
• Vogon poetry published.
• Woman Falls Off Wii Fit, Becomes A "Sex Addict".
• Handyman injured after chopping down branch he propped his ladder against.
• Important Cow Research Not Related To Their Farts & The Climate!.
• Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future.
• Lego Artisan Creates Endangered Species for Zoo.
• The Library of Congress is to archive every single public tweet ever made.
• Cycle for your supper at Swiss hotel and here.
• Mustache advocacy group seeks tax break.

Playlist, 01 November 2009

The Show
Hallowe'en may have been last night but the spooks and spirits are still lingering so on tonight's show we had some more haunting music. KPM have reissued 21 classic library albums. Yes 21. You might want to have a stiff drink at this point. What else, well Pixelh8 released a new digital-only album last night plus we'll have music from two of the greatest singer-songwriters who are both coming to Edinburgh this week: Daniel Johnston and Jimmy Webb!

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium, our disinformer-in-chief told us about DIY lessons, space carrots and The Magic Hoff ball.


The Music
1. The Ventures: Vampcamp from Batman
2. White Noise: Love Without Sound. They're playing live in London!
3. Pixelh8: Contains Mild Euphoria from new album And The Revolution
4. The High Llamas: Painters Paint from Cold And Bouncy.
5. Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw: Hovercraft from Synthesis
6. Jean-Jacques Perrey: Moog Indigo
7. The Brass Ring: Carrot Top from The Now Sound of the Brass Ring
8. James Clarke: Boogaloo Smith from Progressive Pop
9. Daniel Johnston: Casper the Friendly Ghost.
10. Gil Trythall: Wichita Lineman from Country Moog/Nashville Gold
11. Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny: Up, Up and Away from Incredibly Strange Music Vol 1
12. OOIOO: HONKI PONKI from ARMONICO HEWA
13. Peter Herbolzheimer: Blue Dervish
14. Keith Mansfield: Gold Medal - Middle Section from Flamboyant Themes Volume 1
15. Pixelh8: Out On The Floor from new album And The Revolution
16. Eric Framond: Bacchanale Chez Satan from Top Timing!

The News

• B&Q to give DIY lessons in school
• Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet and here
• Science creates 'no sick' roller-coaster meal
• Coming soon to the International Space Station: space carrots
• NASA to irradiate monkeys
• Barbie Ladies of the 80s dolls - Debbie Harry, Joan Jett and Cyndi Lauper
• The Kim Jong-il that Clinton met was a fake, says academic
• Mystery of Argleton, the 'Google' town that only exists online
• For the Auto-myso-phobic (fear of being dirty) and pan-tho-phobic (fear of suffering and disease): $900 motorized keyboard disinfects itself
• The New Magic 8 BALL: David Hasselhoff's iPhone app
• Mayor refuses to judge 'evil' Halloween pumpkin contest
• Deodorant didn't get him girls for last 7 yrs, so he's suing the manufacturer
• Bristol is the most unhygienic city in the UK

Playlist, 11 January 2009

The Show We had all sorts of tasty treats on the show tonight. We got our hands on the KPM All-stars gig CD we mentioned on last week's show. This coming Thursday marks the centenary of the birth of jazz drummer extraordinaire, Gene Krupa. And finally we have heard about a wonderful new covers/remix project featuring lots of cheesy covers of lots of cheesy 80s tunes. The Music 1. Esquivel - The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) (See It In Sound, 1960/1999) The fine folk at Jazzman Records have released another compilation of their 7" single reissue series in the form of a CD called Welcome to the Party. From it, we played a belter of a track by the master of Egyptian jazz: 2. Salah Ragab - Egypt Strut (Welcome to the Party, 2009) Bruce Campbell is coming to Edinburgh next month! I managed to track down an example of his vocal stylings - which begs the question when are you going to record an album, Bruce? 3. Bruce Campbell - Hungry Like The Wolf The Buffetlibre DJs have put together an amazing new project (Rewind 2) involving some 90 bands either remixing or doing cover versions of their favourite tunes from the 80s and 90s. This follows on from their original Rewind project which was put together last year. The most amazing thing is that it's non-commercial and you can download all the tracks entirely free of charge! Keeping with the Duran Duran theme of Bruce Campbell's effort, we played a nice and cheesy cover of a famous tune by that Duran side project Power Station: 4. Chin Chin - Some Like It Hot (Power Station cover) (Buffetlibre Rewind 2, 2009) Then it was time for the first selection of tracks from the KPM All Stars gig at the Jazz Cafe in 2006, these ones all by the great Alan Hawkshaw: 5. KPM All Stars - Dave Allen At Large (KPM All Stars Live At The Jazz Cafe 2006, 2009) 6. KPM All Stars - Grange Hill (Aka Chicken Man) (KPM All Stars Live At The Jazz Cafe 2006, 2009) 7. KPM All Stars - Countdown Excerpt Only (KPM All Stars Live At The Jazz Cafe 2006, 2009) 8. KPM All Stars - Channel 4 News At 7 (aka Best Endeavours) (KPM All Stars Live At The Jazz Cafe 2006, 2009) Thursday marks the centenary of the birth of Gene Krupa who was largely responsible for turning the drums into a solo-ing instrument as well as having a hand in turning the "traps" of old into the drum kit we recognise today: 9. Gene Krupa - Caravan (Mills-Tizol-Ellington) Live At The New School, 1973/1999) 10. Sergio Mendes - Bim-Bom (Four Sider, 1967) Dave Dee (of Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch fame) sadly passed away this week so we played a cover of one of their big hits: 11. Liberty Studio Orchestra - Zabadek 12. Stu Phillips - Sunday Art & Football (Surf, Sex And Cycle-Psychos: A Diverse Potpourri Of Antediluvian Film Music... 1967 Then it was time for a selection of tracks composed by Keith Mansfield from the Jazz Cafe gig, these ones all happening to be themes to TV sports shows: 13. KPM All Stars - Sports Medley (Big Match/Wimbledon/Grandstand) (KPM All Stars Live At The Jazz Cafe 2006, 2009) Next up we played another track from the Rewind 2 project: 14. Hexes & Ohs - Head Over Heels (Tears for Fears Cover) (BL Rewind 2, 2009) Stories of the golf clubs sending out sonic booms (see below) gave us an ideal opportunity to play a classic Tipsy track: 15. Tipsy - Space Golf (Trip Tease, 1997) 16. Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - The Spy From Outer Space (Destination Space, 2008) 17. KPM All Stars - Girl in a Sportscar (KPM All Stars Live At The Jazz Cafe 2006, 2009) With the news of Florian Schneider departing from Kraftwerk (see story below) we closed the show with a remix from the Rewind 2 project mentioned above: 18. Kraftwerk - Heimcomputer (Facteur vs Dubmood Remix) (Buffetlibre Rewind 2, 2009) The News

• Electric eight wheeled speed record
• Ultrasonic record cleaner
• Top 10 countries by Robot density
• Co-founder of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider, quits the band
• The future of music is secure thanks to Microsoft Songsmith. You can watch the jaw-droppingly twee ad here.
• Spiderman - the musical and here
• The Arctic Roll is back!
• Aliens hate wind-power and here
• Prize bull cloned 13yrs after death
• Playing golf could make you deaf
• Morris dancing may die out because it is "too embarrassing"
• Next-generation space toilet ready...in five years
• German computer geeks learn to flirt
• Squirrel-flavoured crisps