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PMB066: Year of the Dragon (F C Judd, Moon Wiring Club, Pye Corner Audio, Suzanne Ciani, Paddy Steer, Hollywood Strings, Rod Hunter, Dragon Age,Modern Talking, New Pants,Las Trillizas De Oro)
A very Gong Xi Fa Cai to all our listeners ...
A very Gong Xi Fa Cai to all our listeners this week as we wish a very belated Happy Chinese New Year to you all. This year is the Year of the Dragon and so we've chosen that as one of the themes this week. The other theme is all things new ([...]
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PMB065: Introduction to Personal Computing (Perrey & Kingsley, Wing, The Bran Flakes, France Gall, Bruce Haack, Covox, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, John Baker, Gianni Safred, Jonathan Gibbs)
This week on the show we kick off a new ...
This week on the show we kick off a new occasional part-work series of shows in which we aim to introduce listeners to the exciting new world of personal computing. This week's topics include computer safety, jazz computing, computer romance, p[...]
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PMB064: The Birds (The Advisory Circle, Spacedog, Moondog, Julie Andrews, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Neal Hefti, Rick Jones, Ivor Cutler, Jim Fassett)
Prompted on the one hand by the inclusion of an ...
Prompted on the one hand by the inclusion of an owl-themed track on the new Spacedog album and on the other by a seagull-themed track on Jonny Trunk's recently released collection of music and songs used in Fingerbobs, we thought it an appropri[...]
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PMB063: Punk’s Not Dead (The Wurzels, Tracy Thornton, Coconami, Bruce Graham, Boop Beep Beep Boop, The Swing Easy Orchestra)
Chiefly inspired by the remarkable discovery of a whole album's ...
Chiefly inspired by the remarkable discovery of a whole album's worth of punk covers played on the steel drum(!), we decided it was time to dust off the ripped tartan trousers and attach chains of safety pins to our lab coats as we turn the who[...]
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PMB062: Fantastica (Russ Garcia, Spacedog, Jeroen Tel, Polysick, Gianni Rossi, Mr Chop, Noel Boggs, Barry Stoller)
This week we pay tribute to one of the giants ...
This week we pay tribute to one of the giants of space age bachelor pad music, Russ Garcia. Garcia had a very illustrious career as an arranger and orchestrator but he is probably best loved for his 1959 album Fantastica which was one of the first s[...]
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PMB061: Bubble and Squeak (William Shatner, Little Roy, Oxykitten, Rufus Harley, Mrs Miller, Eric Winstone, The Ravens, Muzzy Marcellino)
After gorging ourselves on some great music throughout 2011 we ...
After gorging ourselves on some great music throughout 2011 we thought it seasonally appropriate to collect together some of the tracks which didn't make it into some of the shows last year but which are nevertheless great pieces of music.
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PMB060: Gajan Kristnaskon (Booker T and the MGs, Georghe Zamfir, Sean O'Hagan, Tracy Thornton, Natalia Paruz, The Mistletoe Disco Band)
Festive lunar greetings to all our listeners for this week's ...
Festive lunar greetings to all our listeners for this week's all-Christmas special! On this week's show we bring you a selection of well-known Christmas favourites played in some very unusual ways. We have a version of the Twelve Days of C[...]
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PMB059: Electrickery (Bruce Haack, Raymond Scott, Wing, Pye Corner Audio with The Advisory Circle, Any Meecham, C-Jeff, Killer Watts)
Make sure you're standing inside a Faraday Cage for this ...
Make sure you're standing inside a Faraday Cage for this episode of Project Moonbase, dear listener as we bring you a show themed around the world of dangerously high-voltage electricity.
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PMB058: Wind Up Toys (Plone, Toy, Vic Mars, Lullatone, Pascale Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Raymond Scott, Klangverstedet, Felix's Machines)
The release of the rather lovely new album by Japanese ...
The release of the rather lovely new album by Japanese duo Lullatone (Soundtracks for Everyday Adventures) prompted us to seek out a selection of tracks either made with or inspired by toy instruments, clockwork machines and circuit bent toys. By a[...]
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PMB057 Och Aye The Moon (Acapulco Brass, Roger Whittaker, Caribbean Session Musicians, Telly Savalas, Ivor Cutler, Ken Mullen, Tartan Brass)
As you will know, dear listener, the Moonbase periodically detaches ...
As you will know, dear listener, the Moonbase periodically detaches itself from its lunar moorings and hovers over various parts of Scotland. We therefore thought it was about time we played a selection of tracks inspired in some way by that great c[...]
