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, 16 May 2010

The Show
DJ Ebony was your musical guide for proceedings. On the show this evening we celebrated Stevie Wonder's recent 60th birthday by playing some versions of his tunes. We also had Thai pop, chiptune, more from The Simonsound and of course something by The Herb.

In addition to the music, MC Ivory, our chief of disinformation, regaled us with tales of skips, skippy and Soviets.

The Music
1. Henry Jerome: Uptight (Everything's Alright) from Ultra-Lounge: On The Rocks, Pt.1
2. Peter Herbolzheimer: Little Joe from Big Band Man
3. Nestroyer: Meet my laser from Spaceventure
4. Chutima Duang Porn: Fon Tok Leaw: Siamese Soul from Thai Pop Spectacular 60s-80s Vol 2
5. The Simonsound: It's Just Begun from Reverse Engineering
6. DMX Krew: Memory Theme from The March to the Stars
7. The Lloyd Miller Trio: Ando Le from The Lloyd Miller Trio EP
8. Messer Chups: Tchaikovsky Beat from Cafe Sputnik
9. Dana Countryman: Cocktails In Space from Switched on Bob A Tribute To Bob Moog
10. RD Burman: Unknown Incidental Music (Teesri Manzil) from Bollywood Funk Experience (compiled by Jonny Trunk & Joel Martin)
11. Hugo Montenegro: Superstition from The Vibe! Vol 6
12. Fred Frith: King Dawn from To Sail, to Sail
13. Jarvis Cocker/National Trust: Patterson's Spade Mill - Strap Press from Time To Think
14. Belbury Poly: Farmer's Angle from The Willows
15. bit face: Autodrastic
16. Wevie Stonder: Tapsus from The Bucket
17. The Moog Cookbook: Free Fallin' from The Moog Cookbook
18. Ray Cooper: Caravan from Everybody's Cup of Tea
19. Alan Haven: You Are The Sunshine Of My Life from Organ Spectacular

The Disinformation

• Piece of Isaac Newton's apple tree going into space and here.
• Worried your baby might be possessed? Why not allow a Spaniard dressed as a devil sort it out for you.
• Happy 50th birthday, laser beam.
• Enjoy a Communist Trade Union holiday.
• Can the Lada make a British comeback? and here.
• Skippy, skippy, skippy the lawn mower replacement. and here.
• Robot conducts wedding in Tokyo.
• Bootsy Collins launches online "University of Funk".
• Thanks to Jarvis Cocker you can now enjoy the sound of the Billiards Room at Upton House without having to leave your armchair.
• While away an evening counting craters on the moon.
• Has Voyager 2 been hijacked by aliens? (via Fortean Times)
• Bill Gates Wants to Zap Your Balls!!

Playlist, 02 May 2010

The Show
DJ Bongoboy was your musical guide for proceedings. On the show this evening we heard music from Syrian superstar Omar Souleyman, selections of new reissues from Jonny Trunk, the world of Strange Life Records, a morsel or two of chiptune plus of course something by The Herb.

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium, our chief of disinformation, told us some eye-brow raising tales about Sir Clive Sinclair, cheese confiscation and sheds.

The Music
1. Birds 'n Brass: In The Summertime from Soundsational Sort of Soul
2. The Ventures: Summertime from Mashed Potatoes And Gravy
3. Omar Souleyman: Leh Jani from Highway to Hassake
4. Norrin Radd: Nucleation of a Child Universe from Anomaly
5. Legowelt: Bermuda Triangle Golf Course from Amiga Railroad Adventures
6. Peter Herbolzheimer with the Rhythm Combination and Brass: The Catfish from Live Im Onkel Pö
7. Kenny Graham: 2 West 46th Street from Moondog and Suncat Suites
8. Asha Bhosle & Kishore Kumar: Typewriter Tip Tip from Bollywood Funk Experience
9. Harold Nono/Hidekazu Wakabayashi: Akarui Akari from eponymous album
10. Hong Kong In The 60s: Footsteps from Willow Pattern Songs
11. ZX Spectrum Orchestra: X + X from Basic Programming
12. Satomi Taniyama: Phillipine Sea from Portopia
13. Elíza Geirsdóttir Newman: Eyjafjallajökull
14. Omar Souleyman: Don't Wear Black:Green Suits You Better from Highway to Hassake
15. Kenny Graham: Tropical Sun from Moondog and Suncat Suites
16. Isan: Channel Ten from Glow In The Dark Safari Set

The Disinformation

• UPDATE: Earth not destroyed by boobs
• Nursery staff confiscate two-year-old's cheese sandwich
• Man spends days lapping the Isle of Sheppey thinking he's going round the UK
• Election Alternatives 2010: Potholes to peace - more unusual pledges
• Sumo wrestlers try to make babies cry
• British men spend a year of their life in a shed
• World land speed record lawnmower revealed
• Sir Clive marries Commodore 64 owning lap-dancer
• The "Better Marriage Blanket"
• “God told me to rob this bank!”
• Boy Scouts of America introduce "video gaming badge"

Playlist, 25 April 2010

The Show
DJ Bongoboy was your musical guide for proceedings. On the show this evening we featured music from Tristram Cary, Bruno Spoerri, Giorgio Moroder and of course something from The Herb.

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium, our chief of disinformation, told us to beware of aliens, tea and racist spread.

The Music
1. Kai Rautenberg & Orchester Jürgen Ehlers: Moon Mission from The In-Kraut Vol 2
2. Alan Haven: St Elmo's Fire from St Elmo's Fire
3. Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley: The Little Man from Mars from the In Sound From Way Out
4. Tristram Cary: Divertimento from It's time for Tristram Cary
5. Bruno Spoerri: Les Electroniciens frm Gluckskugel
6. Peter Herbolzheimer the Rhythm Combination and Brass: These Boots Were Made for Walking from Big Band Man
7. Vinnie Bell: Tea for Two from Sixteen Big Hits
8. Johnny Pearson: Mini Motoring from Speed and Excitement
9. Tristram Cary: Torture SFX Part 1 from It's time for Tristram Cary
10. Peer: Dance 2 from Dances
11. Hugo Strasser: Black Night from The In-Kraut Vol 2
12. Gannon: Toy Volcano from Toy Volcano
13. Bruno Spoerri: Lilith - The Dance from Gluckskugel
14. Tristram Cary: Sputnik Code from Sebastian OST
15. Flying Lotus: Unexpected Delight (feat Laura Darlington) from 1983
16. Alice Coltrane: Sita Ram from Translinear Light
17. Keith Mansfield: Teenage Villain from Beat Incidental
18. Giorgio Moroder: Battlestar Galactica Suite from Music From "Battlestar Galactica"

The Disinformation

• Marmite -vs- The BNP
• Highland beast and here
• Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens
• We knew it! Tea 'healthier' drink than water
• Police encounter drunk woman bitten by parrot, yapping dogs, thrown inhaler, etc.
• And finally, Long biscuit break
• Iceland Volcano Probably a Prelude to 10X Eruption - a Whopper!!
• Boobquake - Iranian cleric's theories to be put to the test
• Singa-longa-glacial-pronunication - if you're having problems pronouncing the name of that volcano
• Animalia immigration: Yankee tree rats, you’re Brits now
• Slimmers who are served food by a fat waiter are more likely to over-indulge
• At last - you can now get a moustache for your car

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.