The Show
On the show this week we enjoyed a musical miscellany featuring several recent acquisitions found in local charity shops as well as some library music and a splash of Moog…
The Music
1. Keith Woodman’s Piccadilly Brass – Mexican Flier (On The Brink Return Of The Instro-Hipsters, 2007)
2. Alan Tew – Brazil (Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, 1977)
That last track was one of the tracks I picked up in a local charity shop recently and the album is worth getting just for the bizarre photo of Mr Tew on the back of the sleeve.
Next up, a brace of tuneless twanging, but great tuneless twanging it has to be said:
3. Puccio Roelens Orchestra – Detroit City (Ciao Musica, 2007)
4. Sukia – Vaseline & Sand (Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo – 1997)
The Large Hadron Collider is due to be fired up this week (see news story below) so we thought we would mark the occasion:
5. The Moog Cookbook – Black Hole Sun (The Moog Cookbook, 1996)
Two slices of latin loveliness:
6. Bill McGuffie – Begin the Beguine (When Lights Are Low, 1973)
7. Cal Tjader – Sally’s Tomato – Soña Libré
Thanks to Jeff for drawing my attention to this fabulous slice of space disco:
8. Alan Hawkshaw – The Speed Of Sound (Elaste Vol. 2, 2008)
9. Ten Plus (aka Alan Parker)– 9-10-Out (Watch With Teacher, 2008)
When Jeff was on the show the other week Jean-Claude Vannier was our featured artist and listeners may recall that M. Vannier worked with many great musicians including one Bernard Estardy:
10. Bernard Estardy – Cha Tatch Ka (Top Timing!)
11. Janko Nilovic – Hand In Hand (Last Impressions, 2007)
Wonderful news reaches us at Moonbase Towers of the imminent release of a new album by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman. To celebrate we played a track from the first album that they put out in 2006:
12. Jean Jacques Perrey with Dana Countryman – Atomic Twist (The Happy Electropop Music Machine, 2006)
Followed by some Moog-ska:
13. The Vulcans – Red Herring (Star Trek, 2005)
A recent trip to some local charity shops has thrown up some great tunes and here are a couple more:
14. Perry Botkin – Ode to Billy Joe (Folk Hits From Across the Sea, 1969)
15. Henry Mancini – Policewoman (The Cop Show Themes, 1976)
The long-awaited release of a DVD containing the amazing music videos by Cornelius is out so we played something by the great man:
16. Cornelius – The Microdisneycal World Tour (Sean O’ Hagan Mix) (Sushi 4004, 1997)
And to close, another track from the 10th anniversary reissue of Air’s Moon Safari which includes a whole load of remixes, rarities and radio sessions:
17. Air – Kelly Watch the Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix) (Moon Safari Remixes, Rarities and Radio Sessions, 2008)
The News
- British boffin working on robo-saucers
- Chemical coat to mean drier socks
- LHC due to be fired up on Wednesday
- And on a related topic: scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider
- Your taste in music says something about your personality.
- Edinburgh’s first number plate, yours for a quarter of a million
- Microsoft’s First Seinfeld Ad: Shoe Circus. My god it’s peculiar.
- Biggest iPod accessory…ever?
- Peanut Butter Machine
