Dreamside Maroon

The 12th Annual Independent Games Festival has announced 12 finalists for their Indie Games Challenge. Amongst the 12 games is one designed by one of our close personal friends here at the Deuce Project. Former WIDR DJ Matt Anderson's team is up for an award for their incredibly fun and interesting game entitled Dreamside Maroon.
Here is a look at this beautiful game:


If you want to download the game and enjoy growing your own vine to the moon here is the place to go: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=8715

If you like the game as much as we do, go cast a vote or two for it here (also, check out all of the great finalists over there. This is a really solid batch of games this year): http://www.indiegamechallenge.com/home/

Milky Way Tollbooth Music

Milky Way Tollbooth Music
Original Air Date: Nov. 21, 2009
320 kbps version [2:00:55] 290.3mb
V02 [Avg. 219kbps] version [2:00:55] 191.1mb

This is a fun one from back in November of 2009. I'm still trying to catch up from '09 and I apologize for the lack of updates. I'd like to take a minute and thank anyone out there who is listening to this show via these podcasts. Stepping "out of character" for a minute, this show is something I really enjoy doing and put a lot of work into. It means a lot when I hear from listeners who enjoy the show. I've heard from listeners in Russia to California and I just want to let you all know I really do appreciate it and it blows me away that anyone takes the time to listen to these mixes. Also, if you make music that would be fitting for the show, contact me at the listed e-mail address and I'm happy to review stuff.

That said... on with the show:

[One quick note: I realize now that I really butcher pronouncing "Director Feline" it wasn't until just now that I realized it is Feline like a cat, not Fellini. So, if nothing else, enjoy making fun of J-Unit 1 for that. Enjoy that laugh, as soon Earth will fall by my mechanical hand.]

Playlist:

Tobiah - I Don't Really Exist

Kassin+2 - Futurismo

Squarepusher - Untitled

Enduser - Endya

Tim Henson - Glass Meat Clocks

A.K. Klowsowski & Pyrolator - China First on Mars

Air - Le Femme de'Argent

Clint Mansell - Welcome to Lunar Industries

Moggi - Futuristic Jam No. 1

Annette Funicello - That Crazy Place in Outer Space

Jeff Barry - The Face From Outer Space

Half Japanese - U.F.O. Expert

Supernova - Invasion

Honkeys - Intergalactic Cheese

The SG Sound - Cantina Band

Man...or Astroman? - Anoxia

Al Jacobson - Sputnik

Pram - Space Siren

Reverend Horton Heat - Like a Rocket

Guitar Wolf - UFO Romantics

Atlantics - War of the Worlds

Mort Garson - Walking in Space

Delia Derbyshire - Dr. Who Theme [1972 Delaware Version]

Attileo "Art" Mineo - Man in Space With Sounds

Don Spencer (maybe...) - Fireball XL15

Astronomers - Relay (Son of Telstar)

The Beta Band - Space

Fats Noel - Rocket Flight

Director Feline - Is This Outer Space

Wu-Tang - Deep Space [Jay Da Flex & Yoof Remix]

Illogic - Celestial Clockwork

El-P - Deep Space 9mm

Melvillain - Noise Annoys

A friendly heads-up to fans of good music/radio:

The infamous Melvillain has a new show that debuts tonight entitled Noise Annoys. It originally airs on WSU Vancouver's KOUG radio, but he will be archiving the show at the Melvillain blog.

Here's a sampling of one of his playlists:

“They Don’t Want Me” Call of the West (1980) Wall of Voodoo
“The Gift” White Light/White Heat (1968) The Velvet Underground
“Vitamin C” Ege Bamyasi (1972) Can
“Yer Blues” The Beatles (White Album) (1968) The Beatles
“Interzone” Unknown Pleasures (1979) Joy Division
“Lonliness” Half-Mute (1980) Tuxedomoon
“What Use?”Half-Mute (1980) Tuxedomoon
“Practice Makes Perfect” Chairs Missing (1978) Wire
“Stop Them Jah” King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1976) Augustus Pablo
“555 Dub St.” King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1976) Augustus Pablo
“Underground” Super Ape (1976) The Upsetters
“Pinch” Ege Bamyasi (1972) Can
“Sing Swan Song” Ege Bamyasi (1972) Can
“Oh, Yeah” Tago Mago (1971) Can
“Albatross” Second Issue (Metal Box) (1979) Public Image Ltd.
“Jerusalem” Learning to Cope With Cowardice (1983) Mark Stewart + Maffia
“As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade” As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to
Fade (1985) Mark Stewart + Maffia
“Give Youth a Chance” The Crack (1979) The Ruts
“Hero” Neu! ’75 (1975) Neu!
“Hallogallo” Neu! (1972) Neu!

Yeah. It is pretty darn good.

The guy has great taste and is incredibly knowledgeable. If you can tear yourself away from your favorite WIDR show I suggest wandering over to Mel's place and enjoying the sounds.

Amazing Blog

I fell in love with Rockabillyranch this week. There is so much good music here, from classic doo-wop to well, rockabilly, I can't suggest it enough. Do yourselves a favor and give it a whirl.

Dinner With the Dijiarns of Earth-5

Dinner With the Dijiarns of Earth-5
Original Air Date: September 19, 2009
320 kbps [2:03:08] 282.08 mb
VBR [2:03:08] 191.74 mb

Note:
I've provided links to more information about each of the artists in the play list. As always, if you dig the stuff, seek out and purchase the albums.

Tracklist:
Tobiah - I Don't Really Exist
Metroid Metal - Theme (NES)
Exilea - Metal Who
Bloodhag - Federik Pohl
Unknown - Acapella Doctor Who Theme
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife Part 1
The Incredible Moses Leroy - Beep Beep Love
Tracy and the Plastics - Quaasars
The Bongolian - Flight Through Five Galaxies
Marvin Gaye - A Funky Space Reincarnation (Alternate Take)
Goldenrod - Molecules
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Gods From Strange Planets
Sun Ra - Rocket Number 9
Tipsy - Space Golf
Smog - Teenage Spaceship
Aleksi Virta - Cosmos Bossa [album for free at this link]
Need New Body - Moondear
Solvent - An Introduction to Science
Two Lone Swordsmen - Machine Maid
Antipop Consortium - Born Electric
Delisa Derbyshire - Computermatic
Wagon Christ - Sci-Fi Staircase
Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
Hey Kid, Nice Robot - IO Caste
The Plastics - Robot
Polysics - Buggie Technica
Biddy Biddy Biddy - Gemeni Program Now!
Stark Reality - Rocket Ship
Antipop Consortium - Moon Zero XM
Kool Keith - Supergalactic Lover
Arling & Cameron - Space Beach

World Domination Xmas Mix 2009

World Domination Xmas Mix 2009 [Download Link]


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Greetings everyone. This is NOT the actual holiday special that aired last week. That episode will be coming soon, though unfortunately it likely won't be up before Christmas.

I wanted something to be posted though, so I put together this mix. This includes almost all of the holiday-related music I played on the Xmas show only as individual mp3s.

Before downloading the fun, please take some time to check out all my sources for this album. A special thanks goes out to the Franklin Mint Blog as he had some of the hardest to find space-related xmas stuff in his excellent compilations [Go get them right now and comment to show some love].

Tracks grabbed from The Franklin Mint:
Bobby Helms - Santa Claus and his Reindeer Space Patrol
Lawrence Welk's Little Band - Outer Space Santa [Update: I forgot to include this tune in the mix...so go to Franklin Mint to find this one :) ]

Track grabbed from WFMU's 365 Days Project:
Troy Hess - Christmas on the Moon

Big thanks to the contributors to the forums over at http://www.falalalala.com/ [The archived forums gave me some good ideas]

While it is everywhere in the blogosphere, I believe I found Meco's classic Star-Wars "Christmas in the Stars" at the Wonderful Wonderblog

The Gulag Picture Radio track appears on the free compilation Interplanetary Materials available at Comfort Stand Recordings.

I'm sure I've forgotten some sources (a lot of these tracks were grabbed years ago), but there you go. Go visit these sites, show some love, download this comp and enjoy!

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Playlist:
1. Meco - Christmas in the Stars
2. Sonny Cole - Santa to the Moon
3. Troy Hess - Christmas on the Moon
4. The Bellrays - Rocket Ship Santa
5. Gulag Picture Radio - WXRT (Christmas on the moon)
6. Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra - Winter Wonderland
7. Goodman & Buchanan - Santa & The Satellite (pt. 1)
8. Hal Bradley Orchestra w/ Patty Marie Jay - Space Age Santa Claus
9. Goodman & Buchanan - Santa & the Satellite (pt. 2)
10. Senor Tonto - Hooray for Santy Claus!
11. Bobby Helms - Captain Santa Claus and his Reindeer Space Patrol
12. Art Mooney & his Orchestra - Zoomah the Santa Claus from Mars
13. Goto80 - Last Christmas
14. Bruce Haack - I Like Christmas (robot version)
15. Tiny Tim - Zoot Zoot Zoot Here Comes Santa in his New Space Suit
16. Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
17. The Fleshtones - Hooray for Santa Claus!

Man, You Drum Like A Machine! Machine, You Drum Like A Man!

Man, You Drum Like a Machine! Machine, You Drum Like a Man! [Includes a tribute to Jerry Fuchs]

Original Air Date: November 14, 2009

320 kbps [2h1m28s]
Variable Bitrate Version [230 kbps average]

Episode Duration: 2h 1m 28s

In this episode we have a tribute to the great drummer Jerry Fuchs. Fuchs played for a number of bands, many of which we've featured on the show. Tragically, Fuchs passed on November 8th. Many know Fuchs as the drummer for the phenomenal bandMaserati, but during his career he also drummed for The Martians, Turing Machine, !!!, and the Juan Maclean. I hope if you weren't already a fan, this set will open your ears to some amazing music.

We also feature a couple of tracks from Piero Umilianni. We've played him before on the show, but recently the wonderful blog The Library Hunt unearthed a treasure trove of Umilianni that is well worth your attention. The Library Hunt is a great site for fans of classic synthesizer music. Not to be missed.

Lastly, this episode also features some of our favorite songs played by machines, or to steal a phrase from Music for Maniacs, mechanical music:

Cybraphon:

Near the end of the program we feature a track from Cybraphon entitled "Coxsackie." The Cybraphon is the work of an Edinburgh-based art collective Found. This thing is awesome. The Cybraphon itself is a wardrobe filled with over 60 robotic parts which work to play the compositions heard in the recording. The Cybraphon also monitors its popularity on social networking sites such as Facebook etc... and its current popularity ratings determine what tunes it plays. This is obviously an over-simplified explanation. For the real-deal explanation simply click on this paragraph and explore the site. [By the way, both EPs that are for sale are great and well worth it.]

Felix's Machine:

Also featured is a tune from Felix Thorn's project "Felix's Machine." The track played is an excerpt of the song "Macrolight." Felix's Machines are music playing sculptures. While fantastic sounding, the full-effect is seeing and hearing these sculptures at work. We've featured videos on the site before, but if you want to explore the world of Felix's Machines, simply click on this paragraph and enjoy. You won't be sorry.

*Note: The album art includes a photo of the Cybraphon's emotion gauge and the drums fitted with robotic parts are a section of one of Felix's Machines.

Playlist:

Tobiah - I Don't Really Exist

The Martians - Luna

Turing Machine - Robotronic

Turing Machine - Synchronicity III

Maserati - Monoliths

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

Metal Urbaine - Futurama

Polysics - P!

Polysics E.L.T.C.C.T.

The Vulcan Freedom Fighters - We Are the Metrons

The Blood Brothers - Laser Life (Nick Zinner Remix)

Digital Leather - Simulator

Digital Leather - Hologram [Urinals cover]

Timeblind - Time Dilated By Matter

Delia Derbyshire - Dr. Who Theme [Stereo Mix 1972]

Moggi (Piero Umilianni) - Gadget

Kaada - Mainframe

DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek - Space Cadet, Strength In Numbers

Modern Jazz Quartet - Visitor from Mars

Cybraphon - Coxsackie [Learn more about Cybraphon!]

Felix's Machine [Felix Thorn] - Macrolight [Link leads to an amazing video of this track]

Louis & Bebe Barron - Main Title from Forbidden Planet

Moggie (Piero Umiliani) - Officina Stellaire [Thank You Library Hunt!]

Hawkwind - Alien I Am [Roswell Edit]

Devin Townsend - Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!