Before you think we've gone ultra-niche and come up with a set of tracks about spiders in Tokyo who are specialists in conservation, no, dear listener.  No, this week's show is a chance for us to catch up with some exciting new releases and reissues.

We open with a double-barreled blast of brass from London, followed by a track from the ridiculously-named Diamondback Manhunter.  There's also a track from the new album from Belbury Poly as well as the lead single from the debut album by Vanishing Twin.

The show closes with an extremely exuberant Moog workout, for which you might want to spend the show working yourself up.

PMB269 Tokyo Conservation Spiders (Hackney Colliery Band, Family Atlantica, Diamondback Manhunter, Beverely Sisters, Belbury Poly, Vanishing Twin, Tokyo Elvis, Occams Laser, The Bongolian)

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This week we celebrate the life and work of one of Britain's greatest big band leaders, soundtrack composers, library music composers and time/mind-bending musicians, Basil Kirchin.

Hull City of Culture 2017 recently put on a weekend of the great man's music, which DJ Bongoboy was lucky enough to attend.  Inspired by that, we've put our own tribute together.  
There's music from every part of Basil's life in music, as well as tracks by bands who have been inspired by him.

PMB S03E05 Basil: The Kirchin Experience (Ivor & Basil Kirchin Band, The Basil Kirchin Band, Johnny Keating, Broadcast, The High Llamas, Stereolab, Basil Kirchin & Jack Nathan)

We've neglected the world of geometry for far too long and so this week we thought it time we brought you the latest developments in shapes.

Most of the tracks on the show are about specific polygons and, because we like to order the world around us, the tracks about polygons are played with an increasing number of sides.  

We leave it to you, dear listener, to predict the upper limit to which we soar.

WARNING: An assertion in the first part of this show could bring the world of mathematics crashing to the ground.

PMB S03E04 Shapes (Michael Cole/Michael Jessett, Sellorekt/LA Dreams, i am robot and proud, The Pierre Arvay Orchestra, Jez Butler, John Baker, [PHYSICS], Bernie Green & His Orchestra, Harmonic 33, Gr

Every season we have one or two theme-free shows where we bring you some of our favourite recent discoveries.

For this first show of "likes" in Season 3, we have synthwave, darkwave, retrowave, lollywave, breakcore, j-pop and no doubt many other musical genres which may or may not exist.

PMB S03E03 Like (Tokyo Elvis, Robots With Rayguns, YMCK, Osaka Shunkashuto, S U R V I V E, The Karminsky Experience Inc, Le Matos, Leggysalad, Droid Bishop, Circus Brekovic, Venetian Snares, The Techn

PMB269 Tokyo Conservation Spiders (Hackney Colliery Band, Family Atlantica, Diamondback Manhunter, Beverely Sisters, Belbury Poly, Vanishing Twin, Tokyo Elvis, Occams Laser, The Bongolian)

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