The Space Library

Transmission 2.8

I had a little break between posts but here’s the next in the 2.0 series of The Space Library – previously only broadcast on the sadly departed Basic.fm. A fair bit of Library, or Library-ish things, below and there are some newbies to the Library including Pole, Crepuscule’s The French Impressionists, Johanna Group, The Bugaloos, Jerry Goldsmith,Michel Fugain, Garvarentz, Stu Phillips and Grauzone. I even snuck in a Human League B-Side that still slays.

Transmission 2.7

Here's the latest selection from the Space Library - carefully curated and a little bit spacey. The wondrous Kahimi Karie gets us started with a lovely electronic puzzle called 'Blue Orb', a short diversion into the world of Stereolab then leads us into Patrick Cowley's porn soundtrack music (believe the hype, it's excellent). I'll skim through the rest but Family Fodder again prove that they were the band that should have received far more accolades - and the same goes for the Gentle People whose 'Superstar' mixes a deep space ambiance with E.L.O. vocoder processed vocals. Let's do this.

Transmission 2.6

This program is usually made in Australia, however this episode was made in Japan. Well, not really, but I was in Japan at the time it went to air so indulge me. The playlist for Transmission 2.6 was entirely music by Japanese artists with a small bit of poetic licence to include Kraftwerk singing in Japanese (which lead nicely into P5 sampling the same song). There's some funny nonsense from the likes of Picky Picnic and Hikashu, a knockout piece from the Crue-L Grand Orchestra selected by the superb Kahimi Karie for her Crystallization compilation album, the odd bit of anime music, the delightful bedroom recordings of Akane Hosaka, Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda, and Sketch show, the band that reunites Haruomi Hosono & Yukihiro Takahashi (2 thirds of Yellow Magic Orchestra). 1 - Technopolis - Yellow Magic Orchestra (Solid State Survivor - 1979) 2 - Untitled 1 - Space Machine (Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter - 2001) 3 - Space Travel with Teddybear - Elektel (Space Travel with Teddybear - 2002) 4 - My Toast Time - Picky Picnic (Ha Ha! Tarachine - 1985) 5 - Silent Object - Masami Tsuchiya (Rice Music - 1982) 6 - Oriental Melon Man - Asei Kobayashi & Micky Yoshino (Hausu - 1977) 7 - Muscles and Fruits - Hikashu (Hikashu History - 2001) 8 - The Metamorphosis - Chumei Watanabe (Uchuu Keiji Gavan (aka 'Space Sheriff Gavan') - 1982) 9 - Dentaku - Kraftwerk (Pocket Calculator - 1981) 10 - Contact - Pizzicato Five (Romantique '96 - 1995) 11 - Theme From Take-Off (Magic Sunset) - Yoshinori Sunahara (Pan Am: The Sound Of '70s - 1998) 12 - Cannival Carpenter (Type G) - Crue-L Grand Orchestra (KAHIMI KARIE Presents Crue-L Crystallization - 2006) 13 - Small Circular Motion - Yuka Honda (Memories Are My Only Witness - 2002) 14 - Chronograph - Sketch Show (Loophole - 2004) 15 - White Sun - Akane Hosaka (Electric For Small Drop Channel - 2004) 16 - Girl Friend - Hajime Tachibana (Bambi - 1991) 17 - Intro - 7000 of Dragoon - Iwamura Manabu (This Is How I Feel About Jazz - 2000) 18 - Catwalk (Saint Etienne Remix) - Pizzicato Five (Great White Wonder: Rare Masters 1990-1996 - 1996) 19 - The Womb - Hajime Yoshizawa (Violet Lounge - 2001)

Transmission 2.5

Birds. Clocks. Lurid colours. What does it all mean? I don't know, why are you asking me such things? Let's strap in for the latest transmission for the Space Library, the repository of all things musically rather wonderful, many of which have been forgotten. No longer. Deux will coax you in with a 7" single b-side, really, this much excellence consigned to a flipside? There should be a law. From there it's all manner of groovy choral from The Free Design, Fad Gadget in a hospital, German space exploration via television, Broadcast making an audio stew of the music of Miki Furukawa, the Future Bible Heroes at their most heartbreaking-ist, and Hugo Montenegro wants to be a cowboy. And, scene. 1 - Game & Performance - Deux (Felicita - 1983) 2 - The Symbols Ring - The Free Design (There Is A Song - 1972) 3 - Crack In The Concrete - Fred Frith (Gravity - 1980) 4 - No Testament - Wim Mertens (Motives For Writing - 1989) 5 - Arch of the Aorta - Fad Gadget (Fireside Favourites - 1980) 6 - Three-Five-Zero-Zero - Mort Garson (Hair Pieces - 1969) 7 - Sing - Sing - Eurythmics (In The Garden - 1981) 8 - Philter - Fantastic Plastic Machine (The Fantastic Plastic Machine - 1998) 9 - In Den Kosmos - Stern Combo Meisse (Kosmos - Soundtracks of East Germany's Adventures in Space – Compiled 2001) 10 - Technical Drawing - Vic Mars (Curriculum for Schools and Colleges: Volume 1 - 2012) 11 - You Pretend to Be the Moon (Future Bible Heroes - Memories of Love - 1997) 12 - Ascending Shapes - Brian Bennett (The World Around Us - 1979) 13 - Islands In The Sky - Roger Joseph Manning Jr. & Brian Reitzell (Logan's Sanctuary - 2000) 14 - Coffee & Singing Girl!!! (Broadcast Remix) - Miki Furukawa (Coffee & Singing Girl!!! - 2006) 15 - Dielettrico (Dielectric) - Valvola & Dj Spectra (A Disappointed Love Wish A DesenSitized Robot - 2001) 16 - Hang 'Em High - Hugo Montenegro (Hang 'Em High - 1968) 17 - Sommeil - Outputmessage (Nebulae - 2006)

Transmission 2.4

Strap yourself in, it's going to be a bumpy ride. We start with Shock, everyone's favourite New Romantic robot dancers (a hotly contested accolade), Family Fodder at their most delightful, and finally some more of the magnificent Danielle Dax. I went to her flat once, remind me to tell you about it someday. Saint Etienne spook it up for Peter Thomas and John Foxx's masterpiece The Garden simply dares you not to love it. Dares you. 1 - Dream Games (Extended Version) - Shock (Dynamo Beat - 1980) 2 - Ulrike - Der Plan (Die Verschwörung - 2004) 3 - The Sun On The Sea - Deux Filles (Double Happiness - 1983) 4 - Coral - Family Fodder (Coral - 1982) 5 - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Was Afraid To Ask (Love Theme) - Ferrante & Teicher (Hear & Now - 1972) 6 - A Million Angels - Severed Heads (Since The Accident - 1983) 7 - Pathway Six - Pye Corner Audio (Black Mill Tapes Vol.3 - 2012) 8 - The Spoil Factor - Danielle Dax (Jesus Egg That Wept - 1984) 9 - La Chanson Des Granges Brulées - Jean Michel Jarre (Les Granges Brulées - 1973) 10 - Active - Dark Party (Ghostly Swim - 2008) 11 - Theme From Tall Dark Stranger - Brenda And The Beach Balls (Volume One - 1986) 12 - Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt - Ingfried Hoffmann (Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt - 1972) 13 - Judo - François De Roubaix (L'Homme Orchestre - 1970) 14 - Strait Jacket - Giuliano Sorgini (The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue - 1974) 15 - Chaos In The Gym - Saint Etienne (Warp Back To Earth 66/99 - 1999) 16 - Intermission Exercise - Roj (The Transactional Dharma Of Roj - 2009) 17 - The Garden - John Foxx (The Garden - 1981) 18 - Nikon 2 - Kahimi Karie (I Am a Kitten: Kahimi Karie Sings Momus in Paris - 1995)