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First Broadcast : Saturday 5th October 2024 Running Time: 58:00
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It all starts getting real now as A.I. Hal shares with us the secret history of Preesall Town Council's Mars 24™ space program! Learn about inspirational figures like Carl Sagan, Norman Thagard and Wesley Crusher; hear an unlikely clip from Jeopardy, a brilliant lecture on population control and Skit get the animal sound wrong again; marvel at messages from aliens, the sheer cheek of Somerset Council's rival bid and enjoy some sounds so cool they make absolute zero seem like, well, not so cool...
01. Wilfried Hanrath vs Magic Bullet - The Electric Age Reprogrammed (7:17) This inventive German musician has appeared on the show before, but this particularly links back to last year's Xmas bash, for which he contributed a nice take on "Silent Night" and his 'fun mix' of Wham's "Last Christmas". Amazingly, after the broadcast, Wham's original hit the no. 1 spot in the UK charts for the first time since its release 39 years earlier! Jokingly (honest), I asked Wilfried if he fancied doing a 'fun mix' of one of ours, so you know where to put your money for the 2063 UK Xmas no. 1, huh? This excellent remix is available on Plataforma Records "Noise Around The World Volume 12"... https://plataformarecs.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-noise-around-the-world-vol-12 https://wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com
The second of the three extraordinary space themed works from this talented electronic musician that we remixed into "Astra Cum Distorta", but really need to be heard in their original form, the final one coming next month. This track was "Dedicated to space explorers - human or otherwise... who took the first tentative steps, wandering off the shores of the great Cosmic Ocean, as Carl Sagan described it, not only a unique scientist, but who also managed to capture and convey the poetry in scientific and space exploration." From his 2014 album, "Explorers"...
Oh yes, the underground legend from Taped Rugs and Herd Of The Ether Space is back again, but he just does stuff that fits in so well! As the man himself puts it; "An old solo cassette thing that gets to the meat of the matter directly." The cassette in question was titled "Knocking At My Consciousness Door" (try saying that when you are seriously drunk!) (*I'm not seriously drunk, it's 10 o'clock in the morning, I just wanted to make that clear), released on Ecto Tapes in 1995, or 'back in the day' as I like to call it. The track is a reference to Norman Thagard (pictured right), who became the first American to go into space on a Russian craft the same year. They were talking to each other then. And as nice as it would be to link to a cassette on here, I've not worked out how to do it as yet, so... https://auralfilms1.bandcamp.com/album/charles-rice-goff-iii-biography 04. UNIT - Earth Is Finite (10:23) Including 'Dies Irae' and 'The Calculation'; an absolutely inspired musical lecture on the folly of our planet's continuing population boom. Based on data from the 1980's, the infamous calculation predicts an unsustainable 50 billion people by the year 2181. Not being a big fan of crowds, I'm kinda pleased I won't be around by then. Worth pointing out this is not the same UNIT who help out Doctor Who on occasions (that's just pretend stuff on telly, sorry, and anyway, the Doc would have solved this problem aeons ago, and David Tennant was the best, bags no returns). Nope, there's no Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart behind this one, rather one Andy Martin, he who spent the 80's with anarcho-punk legends, The Apostles, and the 90's with Academy 23 (who once did an album with Konstruktivists who had a tape on M&E, small world, but I wouldn't like to walk it). Originally from their 43rd (!) album, "Road Bridges Space" (2019), currently back at ya on pStan Batcow's "Godspunk" series. Sorry about the clown picture, they scare me too... https://pumf.bandcamp.com/album/godspunk-volume-twenty-six-double-album https://andymartinsunit.bandcamp.com
Download your souvenir copy of "The Earth Is Finite", the United Nations Intelligence Team Lecture 2010 by Prof. A. Martin here
o 05. Kathodos - A Message Sent To Earth (6:19) "(🪐*planet with rings emoji) Video for 'A Message Sent to Earth'," began the social media post by Lavinia Mari, "(🌎*planet Earth emoji) a great one for anyone who wants to hear my sexy speaking voice (😛*tongue poking out emoji)." My curiosity was piqued, I watched, I liked (check it out), I made contact, no mean feat considering the ringed planet Kathodos is many many light years away, a little beyond the route of the 5c bus from Knott End, which actually terminates at Blackpool, which is not even outside the solar system. Though I bet the Cleveleys News lot would argue about that. But I digress, which is most unlike me. The track is from their current album, "Parasomnia Pavor Nocturnus", released on Slithering Black Records of Rhode Island (wonder if they know Peter Griffin?), though the band are from Kansas City in Missouri. Missouri? Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS4qveh1034 06. The Bavarian Illuminati - Strange Meeting (6:00) Well this is a serious gem, bought to our attention by one Timo Pääkkö, compiler of the vinyl (sigh) album, "They Never Made It: Volume 2" for Psychotron Records, which sounds like our kind of label! As the title implies, this limited edition album is made up of obscure and forgotten items of joy by artists who clearly deserved more recognition than they apparently got. Timo describes The Bavarian Illuminati as "an early 70's German hard rock power trio", but with the twist of delivering World War I poetry over it. Bizarrely, it works. They only ever produced the one EP, "Pickelhaube, Skull and Bones", a rare copy of which surfaced in 2020 and fetched the best part of GBP £7,000 via an online auction! If you want a copy of this limited edition LP, you'll be pleased to hear it's not gonna cost you anything like that. NB: We'd just like to avoid accusations of nepotism by pointing out that label boss Psychotron Pete had nothing to do with Magic Moments At Twilight Time. But with a name like that, we would have been happy to make him the Honorary Member for Sutton Coldfield... https://psychotronrecords.co.uk/product/they-never-made-it-volume-2/ 07. Mutant Beatniks - Starbug (8:28) A 'band' with an ever changing international line up, created by none other than Shaun Robert, the man behind the excellent musique concrète compilation series on his Institute For Alien Research label. This track comes from an album called "Animal Farm", released in 2021 on the Illinois based Oxidation label. A lot of Shaun's stuff is what often gets described as a hard listen, but I love it. I also love the apocryphal tale of an 80's party being ruined when a Mutant Beatniks tape was accidentally picked from a random pile! The man has been pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable as music for as long as I've known him, and that goes back as far as 1992 with a factor X cassette release on M&E. Long may it continue... https://oxidation.bandcamp.com/album/animal-farm https://mutant-beatniks.bandcamp.com/music https://shaunrobert.bandcamp.com/music 08. Astral Magic - The Final Party (4:29) Yeah, we keep coming back to this easy on the ear Finnish cosmic rocker, but Mika Laakso (ex Dark Sun) is just so damned spacey, so I'm not apologising. And there will be more! This track comes from the album "End Of Time", recorded and mixed through 2020-21, but not released on Bandcamp until this year. And prolific? As said Bandcamp proudly states; "It is common to have a new release every month." So there you go, visit often... https://astralmagic.bandcamp.com 09. Magic Bullet - Holier Butterscotch (0:00.05) Yes, seriously, five hundredths of a second (told you we'd done shorter than last month's two second closer), recorded specially for the Ukrainian based and appropriately named Very Small Records (a sub label of Genetic Trance for those keeping score), and there are 132 'albums' and counting on their Internet Archive site. You'll find our little masterpiece on one called "The Floppy LOL". Or you could spend around two minutes of your life listening to their entire back catalogue. Um... probably won't be able to do the "oh my god I forgot to play a Magic Bullet song" again next month. I mean, honestly... https://archive.org/details/@very_small
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