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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos #moonbaserecommends

Posted on June 1, 2014 by admin

The work of Alex Bellos inspired this weeks episode PMB179: What’s Your Favourite Number? We first found out about Mr Bellos and his work on Favourite Numbers on the splendid radiolab. He is also the Guardian’s maths blogger, a curator-in-residence … Continue reading →

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Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals #moonbaserecommends

Posted on January 23, 2014 by projectmoonbase

Steve Young and Sport Murphy are behind Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals, the book which inspired PMB160: Musical Industry. 250 glorious pages packed with gorgeous cover art, background information and lyrics for dozens of industrial … Continue reading →

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Passport To The Future: The Amazing Life and Music of Electronic Pop Music Pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey #moonbaserecommends

Posted on January 6, 2014 by projectmoonbase

We recently recommended pop music pioneer and patron saint of Project Moonbase Jean-Jacques Perrey’s late 60s collaboration with Gershon Kingsley (The Out Sound From Way In! by Perrey And Kingsley). In case you want to find out more about the … Continue reading →