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Heated curlers and tongs at the ready as we explore the world of hair care on this week's show. We have hairy music from George Wright, Adderall Canyonly, Jimmy Fallon, Bruce Springsteen(!), New Pants, Dr Lonnie Smith, Mort Garson and Tipsy, In addition to all the piliferousness, we also have a track from the new Belbury Poly album and a seasonal track from the latest reissue from Trunk Records. There's also a track from India's only psychedelic rock band (allegedly).

Heated curlers and tongs at the ready as we explore the world of hair care on this week's show. We have hairy music from George Wright, Adderall Canyonly, Jimmy Fallon, Bruce Springsteen(!), New Pants, Dr Lonnie Smith, Mort Garson and Tipsy, In addition to all the piliferousness, we also have a track from the new Belbury Poly album and a seasonal track from the latest reissue from Trunk Records. There's also a track from India's only psychedelic rock band (allegedly).

Tonight's show features the work of the "Delia Derbyshire of the Atari generation", namely Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne Ciani was a pioneering composer of electronic music making use of banks of modular synths, in particular Don Buchla's generative synthesis systems. She also created her own "voice box" and used all of this equipment to compose music for adverts, corporate logos and of course the Xenon pinball machine. We also have more from F.C. Judd, a new release from Jon Brooks, a Mooged-up version of Caravan, some ambient exotica from G.E.S., an 8-bit version of an 80s detective series and another track from Music Minus Music.

Tonight's show features the work of the "Delia Derbyshire of the Atari generation", namely Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne Ciani was a pioneering composer of electronic music making use of banks of modular synths, in particular Don Buchla's generative synthesis systems. She also created her own "voice box" and used all of this equipment to compose music for adverts, corporate logos and of course the Xenon pinball machine. We also have more from F.C. Judd, a new release from Jon Brooks, a Mooged-up version of Caravan, some ambient exotica from G.E.S., an 8-bit version of an 80s detective series and another track from Music Minus Music.

On tonight's show we wish a very happy 80th birthday to one of the greats of movie music making, John Williams, by playing a selection of his best-loved themes. Being Project Moonbase of course, very few of the tracks are actually performed by the great man. We've tried instead to find as many different approaches to his music as we could. It would appear, though, that the opulence and majesty of John Williams' music tends to attract fans of the glitter ball more than any other genre. So as a result this evening's show is rather disco-tastic.

On tonight's show we wish a very happy 80th birthday to one of the greats of movie music making, John Williams, by playing a selection of his best-loved themes. Being Project Moonbase of course, very few of the tracks are actually performed by the great man. We've tried instead to find as many different approaches to his music as we could. It would appear, though, that the opulence and majesty of John Williams' music tends to attract fans of the glitter ball more than any other genre. So as a result this evening's show is rather disco-tastic.

It’s time to put on snorkel and slippers (is that right?) for an undersea adventure with Project Moonbase. Yes, every track on the show this week has an underwater theme. with music from Al Caiola, Stereo Total, Les Baxter, OMO, Dolphins into the Future, Korla Pandit, Sven Libaek, Jürgen Müller and Gil Evans.

We also have a bit of a Moonbase exclusive from Logan 5 and our App of the Week this week is the faithful emulation of that iconic 80s sampling synthesizer, the Fairlight CMI.

 

Listen now:

The Music

1.

Various Artists: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea from 100 Greatest TV Themes

2.

Al Caiola: Underwater Chase from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 8: Cocktail Capers

3.

Stereo Total: Kappa Works in the Factory from Underwater Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

4.

Dolphins Into The Future: Onset – Beyond Clouds from …On Sea-Faring Isolation

5.

Les Baxter: The Ancient Galleon from The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter

6.

Logan 5: Atlantis

7.

OMO: ROV from The White Album

8.

Sven Libaek: Sounds of the Deep from Inner Space

9.

Korla Pandit: Tales Of The Underwater Worshippers from Exotica 2000

10.

Jürgen Müller: Sea Bed Meditation from Science of the Sea

11.

Gil Evans: 1983-A Merman I Should Turn to Be from Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix

 

App of the Week

In 1979 Peter Vogel came up with the Fairlight CMI, one of the first sampling synthesizers and an instrument which largely defined the sound of 1980s electronic pop. Over 30 years on, it’s now possible to get all the functionality of the Fairlight into your iPhone or iPad with this Fairlight app. However, if you’d still like to own an actual Fairlight CMI, you’re in luck because Vogel has put that back into production too. However, you’ll need around $30,000 to get your hands on one.For considerably less you can purchase the Fairlight app. There are two flavours, the regular version and the “Pro” version. Our advice is to start with the basic version and then upgrade to Pro if you want the full Fairlight experience. But you can see the differences in each version by compare the features.

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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 (and old) as we highlight a few of the flurry of new releases which have already popped out this year. So you can look forward to hearing tracks from a great new compilation of recordings by lost British radiophonic pioneer Fred Judd as well as new tracks from the Moon Wiring Club and Pye Corner Audio. We also have a few selections from a new compilation by Andy Votel of electro-magnetic poly-pop, robotic rock and modern day mechanical music.

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 (and old) as we highlight a few of the flurry of new releases which have already popped out this year. So you can look forward to hearing tracks from a great new compilation of recordings by lost British radiophonic pioneer Fred Judd as well as new tracks from the Moon Wiring Club and Pye Corner Audio. We also have a few selections from a new compilation by Andy Votel of electro-magnetic poly-pop, robotic rock and modern day mechanical music.

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, programming yourself and computing in German.