Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.com

Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.com

Project Moonbase is filled with music to surprise, delight and occasionally horrify you. Made by someone who really cares (and his prisoner). We bring you music you’ve never heard before that will put a smile on your face, open your third eye and make you dance. We love space age bachelor pad music, library music, charity shop cheese, hauntology, ping pong stereo, moog music, sitar-driven psychedelia, lounge, the retro-futuristic, contemporary electronica, soundtrack music, radiophonics, euro-pop, orchestral-pop, industrial-opera, hyphens, 8bit, chip tune, skwee, uneasy listening and steel drums. We’ve been known to salute the theramin, sidle up to an ondes Martenot and smile beneficently on the ukelele. Every episode includes the unnecessary news: the strange, the weird, the futuristic and the fun. Join us now and in the future!

  1. 03/17/2017

    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)

    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.

    57 min

  2. 03/09/2017

    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, Griff, Csum, Acts Travel, N99, Our Albert)

    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.

    53 min

  3. 02/16/2017

    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 TechnoMagic, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)

    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.

    1h 9m

  4. 02/08/2017

    Jean-Jacques Perrey Destination Space interview (part 2)

    Following on from our interview with Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman earlier in the year, we caught up with these two fine gentlemen again towards the end of 2008 to talk about the second album they made together, Destination Space. The interview was split over two shows and broadcast on a local radio station. Until now these shows have not been available as podcast. But that's all changed now.

    1h 57m

  5. 02/08/2017

    Jean-Jacques Perrey Destination Space interview (part 1)

    Following on from our interview with Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman earlier in the year, we caught up with these two fine gentlemen again towards the end of 2008 to talk about the second album they made together, Destination Space. The interview was split over two shows and broadcast on a local radio station. Until now these shows have not been available as podcast. But that's all changed now.

    1h 57m

  6. 02/07/2017

    Jean-Jacques Perrey AV Festival interview

    In 2008, Jean-Jacques Perrey and his musical partner Dana Countryman appeared at the first AV Festival, which took place at the Sage, Gateshead in March of that year. In the afternoon, Jean-Jacques presented a lecture talking about his life of music-making, where he also gave a demonstration of how to make a tape loop. Amongst many others in the audience for that talk were James Cargill and Trish Keenan from Broadcast and Dick Mills from the Radiophonic Workshop (who DJ Bongoboy ended up sitting next to). Later that day, Jean-Jacques and Dana took to the stage to perform some of Jean-Jacques' greatest hits, as well as some of the music they'd been making together. Before the evening show, we were lucky enough to spend some time with these two great gentlemen and recorded an interview with them. More information about their appearance at the AV Festival can be found here: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2008/events-exhibitions/radiophonia The interview we carried out at the AV Festival formed part of an edition of Project Moonbase which was broadcast in March 2008 but until now this show has not been available as a podcast.

    1h 59m

  7. 02/02/2017

    PMB S03E02 Black and White (The Tony Hatch Sound, Barry Gray, Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw, Birds ‘n’ Brass, Mandingo, Frank Hunter And His Orchestra, Kim & Buran, Meteor, Ìxtahuele, Orgasmo Sonore, Dario Russo, Snail’s House)

    This week it's all about the light and the dark or, more specificaly, the black and the white. Some have controversially argued that this might be a companion show to our Rainbow Collection. But nothing could be further from the truth! Look forward to some very easy listening, some library music, electronically-enhanced exotica and even some new releases.

    1h 1m

  8. 01/21/2017

    PMB S03E01 Low Energy (CaptainX, Joseph Vann, Iko Chérie, Snail’s House, Dario Russo, David Mellor, Ìxtahuele, The Hardy Tree, nightskys, Lullatone, Freschard, Vanishing Twin)

    Gradually emerging from hibernation, the crew aboard the Moonbase bring you a suitably low-key start to Season 3 with a selection of soothing tunes to ease you into the new year.

    1h 2m
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Project Moonbase is filled with music to surprise, delight and occasionally horrify you. Made by someone who really cares (and his prisoner). We bring you music you’ve never heard before that will put a smile on your face, open your third eye and make you dance. We love space age bachelor pad music, library music, charity shop cheese, hauntology, ping pong stereo, moog music, sitar-driven psychedelia, lounge, the retro-futuristic, contemporary electronica, soundtrack music, radiophonics, euro-pop, orchestral-pop, industrial-opera, hyphens, 8bit, chip tune, skwee, uneasy listening and steel drums. We’ve been known to salute the theramin, sidle up to an ondes Martenot and smile beneficently on the ukelele. Every episode includes the unnecessary news: the strange, the weird, the futuristic and the fun. Join us now and in the future!

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