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PMB236: Galactic Vendetta (T.P.S, Tommy Watt, John Baker, Concretism, Hong Kong In The 60s, Stereolab, David Youd, Alan Jefferson, Occam’s Laser)

August 16, 2015 19:01 - 56 minutes - 70.7 MB

Time to catalog and file away some of the new releases which have arrived via the inter-space vacuum tubes over the last few weeks, dear listener. We hear from some mysterious Austrians, there are a couple of tracks resulting from … Continue reading →

PMB235: Happy Anniversaries 1 to 10 (Pérez Prado, The High Llamas, Chicks on Speed, The Wiggles, Vic Mars, AKB48, Moon Wiring Club, Thy Slaughter, Minio Georgiev, Dizzy Gillespie)

August 09, 2015 21:10 - 59 minutes - 75.1 MB

Ten anniversary gifts for the price of one this week, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of musical anniversary gifts from paper to tin. As there are gifts going up to the 90th anniversary, you can look forward … Continue reading →

PMB234: And So To Sleep (Jeff Bridges, Pye Corner Audio, David McCallum, Raymond Scott, Matt Berry, Peter Herbolzheimer, Lullatone, Henry Mancini)

August 02, 2015 21:03 - 59 minutes - 70.6 MB

It’s time to pop the jim jams on, dear listener, for a thoroughly deserved lie-down after last week’s frenetic show. Yes, it’s all about snoozing this week – but please do try to stay awake until the end of the … Continue reading →

PMB233: Kawaii (Sexy-Synthesizer, Anamanaguchi, BABYMETAL, RUBY-CATMAN, Buono!, Kero Kero Bonito, Towa Tei, Aoki Misako/Lolitina, Cristina Quesada, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, YMCK)

July 27, 2015 00:05 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB

It’s time for possibly the sweetest show we’ve ever put together up here at the Moonbase, with an hour of some of the cutest pop we’ve ever clapped our ears on. Inevitably, most of the tracks this week hail from … Continue reading →

PMB232: Musical Origami (Syd Dale, Paolo “Apollo” Negri, The London Snorkelling Team, Pye Corner Audio, Jon Brooks, Hallowed Bells, AM & Shawn Lee, Lullatone, The Twelve Hour Foundation, The European Soundstage Orchestra)

July 21, 2015 00:17 - 58 minutes - 76.9 MB

There has been another deluge of terrific new releases and reissues reaching us here at the Moonbase over the last couple of weeks, dear listener, so this week’s show is a chance to catch up. We book-end the show with … Continue reading →

PMB231: Painting and Decorating (Birds ‘n’ Brass, Mike Sammes & The Mike Sammes Singers, T.O.Y., John Barry and His Orchestra, subPixel, Wallpaper, Mordy Laye and the Group Modular, Broadcast, Suzanne Ciani, Piero Umiliani)

July 12, 2015 20:05 - 57 minutes - 76.6 MB

Following on from our DIY special a couple of years ago, this week’s show takes a closer look into the paint bucket with a selection of tunes that we hope will make your decorating projects a little easier to bear. … Continue reading →

PMB230: National Anthems of the World (Felix Akoteh, Django Reinhardt, Z Digital, Cwossie, Botswana Police Band, Sifare Band, Slevisham, Tikoling Primary School, Global Bhutanese Community Colorado, khmermovie999, Mongolian History Channel, The Brazilian Brass Band, SPG Chanel College, Dean Shostak, Stewart Russell, Jackson Parodi, DeroVolk, Karlheinz Stockhausen)

July 06, 2015 21:42 - 1 hour - 74.4 MB

A globe-trotting edition of the show this week, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of lesser-known national anthems as well as some eyebrow-raising versions of better-known anthems. Listen now: Your browser does not support the audio element. Download … Continue reading →

PMB229: Return to Pakistan (Ahmed Rushdi, Azhar Hussain, Jupiters, Sachal Studios Orchestra, A.Nayyar, Noor Jehan, Strings, Tafo Brothers)

June 21, 2015 19:38 - 57 minutes - 74.8 MB

After far far too long, dear listener, it’s time for a long-awaited return trip to the archives of EMI Pakistan and their huge vault of cheesy space disco, electronic folk tunes and great 80s-style music from the mid 90s. … Continue reading →

PMB Bonus Show 04: Swedish Space Disco (The Frank Popp Ensemble, Stefano Torossi, Logic System, Max Roach, Sapan Jagmohan, Ananda Shankar, Jimi Tenor and Kabu Kabu, Cornelius, The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra, France Gall, Serge Gainsbourg)

June 07, 2015 21:00 - 1 hour - 1 Byte

No new show this week, dear listener, as your hosts have been summoned by the Galactic Space Council to explain why there hasn’t been much steel drum music on the show recently. To keep you amused in the meantime, we’re … Continue reading →

PMB228: Nice Chaps (Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam, Listening Center, Comic Wow, Sachal Studios Orchestra, Roy Lanham, The Jokers, Orgasmo Sonore, Songorchestra, Dolly Dolly, Box and Banjo Band, 1905 81-key Marenghi Organ)

June 01, 2015 00:01 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB

Time to catch up with some new releases, reissues and recent arrivals here at the Moonbase. We have another track from the new album by patron saint of the show Jean-Jacques Perrey, two examples of twanging guitar, the sound of … Continue reading →

PMB227: Jet Set (Jimi Tenor, Barry Gray, Dave Pike, Roger Miller, Gerry Butler, BOAC Flight Crew, Stelvio Cipriani, Massonix, Karim Shahabuddin, Marcos Valle, Bert Kaempfert)

May 24, 2015 16:47 - 54 minutes - 72.2 MB

It’s time to put your arm-rests down, stow your tray-table and make sure your seat back is upright as we prepare to take you on a journey into the stratosphere. We have a most stimulating program of in-flight entertainment planned … Continue reading →

PMB226: Welcome to Prison (Ron Grainer, Gil Trythall, Enoch Light, TheLegendOfRenegade, The Alan Ainsworth Orchestra, Brian Bennett, Yakuza Heart Attack, Bernard Herrmann, Stelvio Cipriani, Tehran Vocal Ensemble)

May 17, 2015 16:36 - 50 minutes - 66.5 MB

It’s time for one of our hard-hiting shows, dear listener, where we explore a serious topic of the day by means of a selection of easy listening music. This week we’re exploring the very limited confines of incarceration. So please … Continue reading →

PMB225: A Walk in the Moon Forest (Cornelius, Lawrence Welk, Piero Piccioni, Beate Kittsteiner, Jonny Trunk, Ivor Cutler, xyce, Laura Huxley/Russ Garcia/DJ Bongoboy, Robert Maxwell, The Go! Team, The Polynesians)

May 10, 2015 18:30 - 49 minutes - 63.3 MB

It’s time to take a stroll in the woods, dear listener, as we try to identify the Oak, the Sycamore, the Chestnut, the Willow and even the, er, swaying Palm. We also have an exclusive guided arborial visualisation in the … Continue reading →

PMB224: Ersatz 80s (Power Glove, Rodion G.A., PROTODOME, Dario Russo, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, datassette, YACHT, United Simesky Institutes, Geoff Bastow, Occams Laser, OGRE)

May 03, 2015 23:58 - 54 minutes - 73.8 MB

It’s time for our third trip back to the fake 80s this week dear listener. Some, all or none of this week’s music may or may not originate from the 80s. But those tracks which aren’t really 30 years old … Continue reading →

PMB223: Reptile Ruckus (Bernard Herrmann, Bernard Gerard, G Gekko, Acidic Glitter, Henry Mancini, Les Bass Harmonistes, Alan Haven, Stelvio Cipriani, Tipsy, Herbie Hancock)

April 26, 2015 20:55 - 53 minutes - 68.6 MB

Having previously wrestled with snakes and amphibians, we thought it time to complete the trilogy with a show all about the rest of the cold-blooded family of critters. We have giant lizards, crocodiles, alligators, turtles, an iguana, a chameleon and … Continue reading →

PMB222: Ironic Viking Pillow (Stardrive, Stelvio Cipriani, Moondog, John Dankworth Big Band, Chick Vekters, Orlando, Alex Puddu & Edda Dell’Orso, Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam, Keith Mansfield, R. Stevie Moore, Lord Sitar)

April 19, 2015 17:11 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB

This week we present a selection of some our favourite new releases, reissues and discoveries, many of which have been brought to our attention by you, dear listener! You’ll hear tracks from: a new compilation of work by Italian soundtrack … Continue reading →

PMB221: Beside the Seaside (Mark Sheridan, Delia Derbyshire, The Conch Man, Karl Swoboda, Esquivel, Eletronico, Alan Hawkshaw, Tipsy, Johnny Hawksworth, Johnny Gwendy)

April 12, 2015 21:43 - 50 minutes - 64.4 MB

Get the sand between your toes, dear listener as we take you for a musical stroll along the shore on our seaside special. We start with the oldest track we’ve ever played on the show, being the original version(!) of … Continue reading →

PMB220: Fruit Cocktail (Les Baxter, Johnny Pineapple, Perrey & Kingsley, Data 70, Oranj Symphonette, The Dankworth Big Band, Reg Wale Orchestra, Lullatone, Raymond Scott, Titanic, Hugo Montenegro, Frank Zappa)

April 05, 2015 20:30 - 56 minutes - 79 MB

Having recently brought you a show about root vegetables, we thought it wise to present a show dedicated to the altogether sweeter, zingier world of fruit. You’ll hear easy listening mangos, electronic apples, spaghetti oranges, Harry limes, bitter lemons, Norwegian … Continue reading →

PMB219: The Moonbase Manifesto (Enoch Light, ComputeHer, James Clarke, Vic Hammett, Jean-Jacques Perrey/Dana Countryman, Kim Loy Wong, Maddalena Fagandini, Como Carousel, Esquivel, The Mike Sammes Singers & The Ted Taylor Organsound, Wing)

March 29, 2015 21:26 - 56 minutes - 75.8 MB

With the next general election only a matter of weeks away, we felt it was time to set out our stall to you, dear voters, by presenting a series of what we hope will be compelling musical arguments. By the … Continue reading →

PMB218: Variable Currents (datassette, Dieter Reith, Weave of K., Yvette Horner, The Pattern Forms, Jean-Pierre Decerf, Steve Moore, Disasterpeace, John Carpenter)

March 22, 2015 23:11 - 58 minutes - 78.9 MB

It’s time to catch up with some of our favourite recent releases and reissues to reach us here on the Moon. We’ve got business funk from an extraordinary new collection from datassette, some German space disco from an associate of … Continue reading →

PMB217: Hello Old Chum (Elaine And Derek, Teresa Brewer, Homer & Jethro, Paul Eachus & Dodworth Saxhorn Band, Kemialliset Ystävät, Arthur Lyman, Françoise Hardy, Barbariki, France Gall, University of Memphis Bottom Line, Las Jilguerillas)

March 15, 2015 22:35 - 58 minutes - 77 MB

This week’s show celebrates simple human friendship, whether that be expressed with a firm shake of the hand, a slap on the back or perhaps even, perish the thought, a hug. We have some borderline terrifying children singing about Jesus, … Continue reading →

PMB Bonus Show 03: Yma Sumac (Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Brian Blessed, Barry Gray, Yma Sumac, Leila, Ananda Shankar, The Free Pop Electronic Concept, Chaquito, Tipsy, Mr Hopkinson’s Computer)

March 08, 2015 18:47 - 1 hour - 121 MB

Due to commitments elsewhere in the galaxy, we are not able to bring you the scheduled show this week, dear listener. Instead, we take a trip back in time to the days we were doing the show on local radio. … Continue reading →

PMB216: Rough Diamonds (Tätärä, The Ventures, Scott Ludwig & Maximillian, Leo Diamond, The Bird & The Bee, Les Baxter, Marty Gold, William Shatner, Roy Budd, Harry Partch, Ferrante & Teicher, Dario Russo, Esso Steel Band)

March 01, 2015 20:17 - 53 minutes - 68.5 MB

This week’s show is part of our series on minerals and precious gems. We aim to eventually cover all the minerals and gems known to science. Look forward to our all-quartzite show. For our look at the world of diamonds, we have German … Continue reading →

PMB215: It’s About Time (Mickey Katz, Hot Butter, David McCallum, The Twelve Hour Foundation, Raymond Scott And Go Home Productions, Dick Hyman, Dondero High School, Geoff Love, Art Van Damme, The Moog Cookbook, Ruth White)

February 22, 2015 22:58 - 58 minutes - 81 MB

We thought it was about time we took a good long look at, well, time, here at the Moonbase. We were prompted to do so by the work of film-making duo Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared who produce short films … Continue reading →

PMB214: Chinese Zodiac – Year of the Goat (Belbury Poly, Ananda Shankar, Pandora Orchestra, Johnny Hawksworth Orchestra, Lenny Dee, Yvette Horner, The Belafonte Singers, Mandingo, Tony Carey, Maxo, DJ Rekha, Señor Coconut, Balsara & His Singing Sitars)

February 15, 2015 20:39 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB

Thursday sees the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Goat. We had thought of doing an all-goat show but there’s a disappointing lack of good goat-based music out there. So instead we take you on … Continue reading →

PMB213: Revenge of the Robots (Kim & Buran, The Aquabats!, 8-Bit Arcade, Meridian Brothers, Logan 5, I Am Robot And Proud, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, The Earthlings, Quinton Sung)

February 08, 2015 20:53 - 57 minutes - 74.9 MB

We have already done a whole show about robots (PMB049 to be precise) but it’s quite hard to keep them down and so we welcome our future overlords back for a second bite at the cherry. There’s music from behind … Continue reading →

PMB212: Faxes, Filing and Photocopies (Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw, G Gekko, Les Ambassadeurs, International Paper Company, Dick Walter, Raymond Scott, Positive Affirmations, Tristram Cary, Network Music Ensemble)

February 03, 2015 00:23 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MB

It’s time to pop open the filing cabinet and leaf through some of your favourite faxes, dear listener, as we bring you a show celebrating the exciting world of office life. We have lots of pumped-up executive library music, a … Continue reading →

PMB211: Root Vegetables (Modular, Lord Rockingham’s XI, Susan Christie, Chuck Mitchell, Fred Astaire, Teaitu & L’Orchestre Les Tropiques, Dorothy Dino Rice, Bobby Troup, Dick Hyman)

January 25, 2015 20:43 - 1 hour - 78.5 MB

Switch the oven on and get your peelers ready, dear listener, as we bring you a show dedicated to those hearty members of the plant kingdom, root vegetables. Thanks to Space Disco Jeff for suggesting this week’s theme which has … Continue reading →

PMB210: Futurism, Energism, Bambooism (Paul Hart, Sharda, The Soulless Party, Dario Russo, Cavern Of Anti Matter, The Advisory Circle, Teisco, Brian Bennett, Conrad Wedde)

January 18, 2015 21:21 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB

Time to catch up with some new releases and reissues on the show this week, dear listener. We have a couple of selections from what we hope will be an ongoing series of reissues of the Bruton Music Library by … Continue reading →

PMB209: Pylons and Power Stations (John Baker, Josephine Premice, Barry Gray, Raymond Scott, Concretism, Ceephax, Yakuza Heart Attack, Sabrepulse, General Electric, christ.)

January 11, 2015 19:59 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB

A potentially highly dangerous show this week dear listener as we embrace two of our great passions: pylons and power stations.

PMB208: Dial M For Moonbase (Rose Murphy, John Baker, The Jolly Boys, Grupo Yndio, Anyta et son orchestre, Gillian Hills, Quartetto Cetra, Lys Assia & Jack Ledru Et Son Orchestre, Project: Pimento, DJ Bongoboy, Maurizio Moricci & Paolo Russo)

January 04, 2015 20:46 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

Put your headsets on, dear listener, and prepare to record this week’s show for training purposes as we bring you a show all about telephony. We’ve got theremin, sax-sational library music, telephone-inspired music from around Europe, inter-dimensional mento and the … Continue reading →

PMB207: Moon Metal (Tracy Thornton, The Raleigh Ringers, Hugo Strasser, Family Jules 7x, Shred Guitar Eric, Camille and Kennerly, Wing, Dread Zeppelin, Rob Scallon)

December 29, 2014 17:03 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

It’s time to climb into your spandex onesie, strap on some studded leather braces and put on a pair of highly polished chrome slippers as we bring you our long-awaited all-METAL special. We have alternate versions of metal classics by … Continue reading →

PMB206: Merry Everything to You – Xmas, Hanukah, Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, Winterval, Festivus, Chrismakah, Kwanzaa, Moon-Kwanzaa and Decemberween (Devo, James Last, Baoulé Singers, Edd Byrnes, Arthur Lyman, Arthur® and Friends, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, The Christmas Revels, David Cain and Ronald Duncan, Ambrose and His Orchestra, Norris The Troubador, Warner Jepson, Joel Kopischke)

December 22, 2014 13:49 - 53 minutes - 67.3 MB

Wishing all of our listeners a very Happy Xmas, Hanukah, Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, Winterval, Festivus, Chrismakah, Kwanzaa, Moon-Kwanzaa and Decemberween. Yes, for this week’s show we’ve pulled together musical celebrations for as many types of mid-winter festival as we could, … Continue reading →

PMB205: Super Excellent Awards 2014 (Sammy Burdson, Tim “Love” Lee, Gene Rains, Eric Siday, Concretism, The Raleigh Ringers, Suzanne Ciani, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Dario Russo, William Onyeabor)

December 15, 2014 19:02 - 1 hour - 90.2 MB

Join us in the giant silver geodesic Presentation Dome, dear listener, as we present awards to some of our favourite reissues and new releases from the last 12 months. We’ll post a full list of all the awards on the … Continue reading →

PMB204: Spoken Word (Peter Wyngarde, Jayne Mansfield, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Unwin, Felix Kubin, F.C. Judd, Raymond Scott, Jim Henson, Sonja Neuman, Ken Nordine, William Shatner, Laura Huxley, Tristram Cary, Rick Jones, Hawkwind, Brian Blessed)

December 07, 2014 19:09 - 59 minutes - 78.5 MB

This week’s show comprises a star-studded line-up of thespians, philosophers, bards and boffins who variously demonstrate the power of the spoken word.The idea for this week’s theme came from listener Dolly Dolly David Yates. It seems to have uncorked a … Continue reading →

PMB203: Bongos A-Go-Go (Ray Barretto, Les Baxter, Terry Snyder, Jack Burger & Danny Gould, Jack “Bongo” Burger, Serge Gainsbourg, Sammy Davis Jr, Jack Costanzo, Chaino, Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica)

November 30, 2014 20:18 - 56 minutes - 76.5 MB

Get your fingers loosened up, dear listener, as we bring you a frenzied fiesta of bongo drumming. Having said that, as you will discover, in the right hands the world of the bongo can in fact be a seductively smooth … Continue reading →

PMB202: The Classical Dimension (Portsmouth Sinfonia, Les Baxter, S.P. Balasubramaniam, S.Janaki, The Galactic Light Orchestra, Apollo 100, Nick Ingman, Enoch Light, The Swingle Singers, Gershon Kingsley, B. Bumble & The Stingers, Walter Murphy)

November 23, 2014 21:58 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB

It’s time to polish your conductor’s baton, dear listener, as we bring you an all-classical edition of the show. Featuring work by Borodin, Bach, Beethoven. Mozart, Grieg, Dvorak, Wagner and Debussy, arranged for Moog synthesizer, big band, disco symphony orchestra, … Continue reading →

PMB201: Highly Fertile (Laurie Johnson, Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa, Hailu Mergia & The Walias, Noisewaves, Mouse On Mars, Concretism, Blueblut, The John Warren Orchestra, William Onyeabor)

November 16, 2014 17:22 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB

It’s time to catch up with some of our favourite new releases and reissues on the show this week, dear listener. We have a couple of tracks from one of the terrific compilations being put out by Bob Stanley on … Continue reading →

PMB200: Dual Duel (George Shearing, Dick Hyman, France Gall, Hosokawa Fumie, Orquestra Som Livre, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Wing, Joe Loss & His Orchestra, The Sound Of Silverstones, Götz Alsmann, Jean-Jacques Perrey, The Raleigh Ringers, Bill Ware w/Marc Ribot, Scott Ludwig & Maximillian, Mel Tormé, Lassigue Bendthaus, The Muppets, Gro Anita Schønn, Inger Lise Rypdal & Stein Ingebrigtsen, Cornelius, Esquivel, Stevie Wonder, Amorphis, Project: Pimento, Vincent Bell, Klaus Wunderlich, Richard Hayman, Pascal of Bollywood, Sam Butera & The Witnesses)

November 09, 2014 22:59 - 2 hours - 197 MB

Well dear listener, that moment has arrived – we have reached the 200th edition of Project Moonbase! We would like to take this opportunity to mop away a tear and thank all of our loyal listeners who have stuck with … Continue reading →

PMB199: Where There’s Muck There’s Brass (The Button Down Brass, Tätärä, Sam Pilafian, Peter Herbolzheimer, Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra, Shake Keane, Alan Hawkshaw, The Brass Menagerie, Dick Schory, Doc Severinsen, Klaus Weiss Orchestra)

November 02, 2014 12:42 - 1 hour - 84.6 MB

It’s time to purse your lips and blow, dear listener, as this week on the show it’s all about the brass. Yes, we have everything from trumpets to tubas, trombones to French Horns and we even have a bit of … Continue reading →

PMB198: ABBA An Alternative History (Fadi Natour, Salma & Sabina Agha, grovephil, Sergio Presto, Wing, Volebeats, The Monks Of Moramanga, Banda Sairu, Yngwie J. Malmsteen)

October 26, 2014 18:33 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

This week on Project Moonbase we’re paying tribute to Swedish pop sensations ABBA, largely inspired by one our extremely talented listeners producing a truly dazzling arrangement of Dancing Queen for musical saw, tuba, accordion and ukulele. We also have some … Continue reading →

PMB197: A Guide To Modern Caravaning (The Three Suns, East Bay Banjo Club, Ferrante & Teicher, Carpenters, Piero Umiliani, Vinnie Bell, Dinah Washington, Gene Rains, Les Paul, John Buzon Trio)

October 19, 2014 19:22 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB

Long-term listeners of the show will be aware that the primary “show tune” at the Moonbase is, allegedly that Juan Tizol/Duke Ellington classic, Caravan. However, we rarely seem to actually play it on the show these days so we thought … Continue reading →

PMB196: Other Voices (Grandma Lo-Fi, Reg Owen, Dario Russo, Big Boss Man, Brooks and O’Hagan, Listening Center, Karl Hector & The Malcouns, Dario Russo, Gene Rains)

October 12, 2014 23:48 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB

We’re back after a couple of weeks of space admin to bring you a selection of our favourite new releases and reissues, including two new tracks on Ghost Box, a lo-fi grandma, some previously lost classic-era exotica and a couple … Continue reading →

PMB Bonus Show 002: Stevie Wonder (Henry Jerome, Peter Herbolzheimer, Nestroyer, Chutima Duang Porn, The Simonsound, DMX Krew, The Lloyd Miller Trio, Messer Chups, Dana Countryman, RD Burman, Hugo Montenegro, Fred Frith, Jarvis Cocker/National Trust, Belbury Poly, bit face, Wevie Stonder, The Moog Cookbook, Ray Cooper, Alan Haven)

October 05, 2014 11:18 - 1 hour - 140 MB

For the second of our two trips into the Moonbase archive we head back to May 2010 for a show which celebrated the 60th birthday of Stevie Wonder. So we have several great arrangements of tunes by Stevie Wonder as … Continue reading →

PMB Bonus Show 001: Lalo Schifrin (Dick Hyman, Francesco De Masi, A. Allesandroni, Bill Cosby, Lalo Schifrin, Tätärä, Shawn Lee, Alan Hawkshaw, Gunter Kallman Choir, Geoff Love, Cal Tjader, Salaam Remi, Balkan Brass Band, Gordon Langford, Pierro Piccioni, Bryan Rodwell, Ron Goodwin)

September 28, 2014 20:11 - 2 hours - 137 MB

Unfortunately, for the next two weeks your two regular hosts are otherwise engaged – there’s a lot of space filing to catch up on, you know. For that reason we thought we’d make available a couple of shows from the … Continue reading →

PMB195: Silver Apples of the Moon (James Last, Peter Reno, Stereolab, A Silver Age, Aavikko, Lenny Dee, Silver Apples, Tod Dockstader, William Shatner)

September 21, 2014 15:39 - 53 minutes - 74.5 MB

Following on from our show all about gold, we thought we should take a look at another precious metal, silver. So we have a very shiny selection of tunes for you this week, dear listener covering early electronica, musique concrete, … Continue reading →

PMB194: The Scottish Referendum – A Musical Antidote (Daniel “Kuhneghetz” Ohlsson, The Chalkwell Ladies Drum n Bass League, Lord Laro, Dean Park, Wilbert Harrison, 2manydjs, London Toy Machine, Dieter Reith, Elevators, Bruce Haack)

September 14, 2014 19:14 - 1 hour - 84.1 MB

With the Scottish Referendum only four days away we thought we might offer up a musical antidote in the form of a show which attempts to bestride several topics including Scottishness, unity, independence, positivity, negativity and neutrality. All hopefully without … Continue reading →

PMB193: Hello Whovians (Hyperdust, Bill McGuffie, Roberta Tovey, Don Harper, Jon Pertwee, The Ron Grainer Harpsichord Group, Delia Derbyshire, D34DP1X3L, Malcolm Lockyer, Chameleon Circuit, Neil Norman, Brian Hodgson)

September 07, 2014 19:03 - 1 hour - 1 Byte

Inspired by the arrival of a very generous gift from listener Neil. Oh and the new Peter Capaldi regeneration. We thought it time to celebrate Doctor Who. So we have some very hard to find obscurities from the Whovian musical universe … Continue reading →

PMB192: Moving Shadows (disrupt, Boss Kite, Poly, Azhar Hussain, Occam’s Laser, Eric Siday, Don Harper, Walt Rockman, GOTO80)

August 31, 2014 20:24 - 57 minutes - 74 MB

Some new releases and reissues for you this week dear listener. We have a track from a compilation celebrating ten years of chip-dub label Jahtari, a track from the fourth volume of skwee from Swedish label Flogsta Danshall, an 80s … Continue reading →

PMB191: There Goes The Sun (Uschi Moser, Vinnie Bell, Alan Hawkshaw, Don, Mort Garson, Kenny Graham, Im_a_Track_Man, Birds ‘n’ Brass, Alan Haven, Lullatone)

August 24, 2014 20:33 - 57 minutes - 75.4 MB

Having done shows about the solar system (PMB144: The Planets) and of course the moon, we thought it about time we dedicate a show to our nearest star. So to that end we bring you a selection of sun-drenched tunes, … Continue reading →

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