What is the Deuce Project?

The Deuce Project is a program that has been running on 89.1fm in Kalamazoo for about 10 years. We play music that contains references to sci-fi, science, mathematics, or anything in that vein. The songs' connection can be via the lyrics, band name, song name, album name, or sometimes just the general aesthetic of the song. Please enjoy. [Banner Image: 1947 by Aurorabomb]

Friday, May 30, 2008

Take Me To Your Leader: An Intergalactic Tale Of Intrigue



2-Hour Long Podcast (320 kps)


This episode has a couple of weird technical glitches in it. I am still not sure what caused them.


Playlist

Part 1 (192 kps)
Tobiah - I Don't Really Exist
Belle and Sebastian - A Space Boy Dream
Roky Erickson -Alien I Creator (alternate version)
MC Chris - Fette's Vette
Rob Crowe - Jedi Outcast
Gloria Lambert with Richard Maltby - Moon Man
Mr. Bungle - Golem II: The Bionic Vapor Boy
Aesop Rock - Mars Attacks
The Amino Acids - Fear the Future
VHS or Beta - Bring on the Comets
Krakatoa - Space Conqueror
At The Drive-In - Ursa Minor
Calvin Harris - Electro Man
The Stark Reality - Rocket Ship

Part 2 (192 kps)
Jim Noir - Computer Song
Twin Tiger - Invisible Zombies
Sufjan Stevens - Regarding the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois
Cloud Cult - Alien Christ
Devo - Space Junk (EZ Listening Version)
Giampiero Boneschi - Saturn's Ambush
Deltron 3030 - Battlesong
Brainiac - I, Fuzzbot
Roky Erickson - Creature With The Atom Brain
Selby Tigers - Droid
Buddy Clinton - Take Me to Your Ladder, I'll See Your Leader Later*
Add N to (X) - Take Me To Your Leader
King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
King Geedorah - Fazers
Nino Astronauta - Cosmonauta
Dominic Frontier - The Outer Limits End Theme

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tokyo New Wave Robots and The Mad Scientists Who Love Them




This show originally aired on April 26. There is a feature on the Tokyo New-Wave explosion that was influenced by Plastics.



Full show MP3 (320 kps)

Playlist:

Part I(192 kps)
1. Tobiah - I Don't Really Exist
2. Frodus - Explosions
3. Anti-Pop Consortium - Technocracy
4. Polysics - Uno Dos
5. Cosmic Vampires - Cosmic Laser
6. Mathematicians - Binary Girl
7. Old Time Relijun - Maenaeds in the Android Brothel
8. The Groovie Ghoulies - 50,000 Spaceships Watching Over Me
9. The Vitamin String Quartet - Silver Rocket (Sonic Youth Cover)
10. Plastics - Robot
11. Polysics - Good (Plastics Cover)
12. Polysics - Rocket
13. Spoozys - Its Only a Droid
14. Sven Libaek - Quasars
15. RIAA - Mechanical Robot Man
16. Lost Acapulco - Roqeta to The Moon

Part II(192 kps)
17. Phoenix Orion - Jedi Mastery
18. Dan Deacon - Never Do That (Mars)
19. Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Venus Ambassador
20. Ron Grainer - Hope Springs Eternal
21. Rob Crewe and Charles Fox - Barbarella
22. Hanson Brothers - My Girlfriend's a Robot
23. Madlib/The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - One for Monica
Lingus Band
24. Six Finger Satellite - Love via Satellite
25. The X Bolex - Gravity Merchants
26. Space Alphabet Album- Radiation
27. Lemon Jelly - Experiment No. 6
28. The Legendary Pink Dots - Close Your Eyes, You Could be a Space Captain
29. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - UFO Tofu

Robotic Exo-Skeleton

This article on new human exo-skeleton technology was submitted from our good friend Amytronic, a sleeper agent that lives amongst you.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/15/robotic.soldier.ap/index.html

Podcast production has been slow and really there is no excuse. The J-Unit hivemind has been easily distracted lately and we have been tweaking it in order to get it back up to full productivity. The unrealistic goal of this week? Put out the three missing podcasts that are owed. We will see if this comes to fruition.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Peter Thomas - Warp Back to Earth Video




This is from the 1999 release Warp Back to Earth 66/99 on bungalow records. This is amazing.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Motherboard Day!

Greetings Fellow Synthoids,

If your RAM is sufficient, then you are aware to be kind to your Motherboard this day of May 11, 2008 in human time. Your Motherboard houses your CPU and tenderly directs the flow of information to all of your primary systems. Your Motherboard cannot be replaced.

RUN 80 Appreciation, 8, 1

If capable of emotion, instruction: "Happy" Motherboard Day.

From Space,
R.Vector-9

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Auditory Library Entry: Man in Space With Sounds




In the Earth-year of 1962 C.E. Seattle hosted a World's Fair. Attendees at that fair were given the opportunity to ride in the futuristic bubbleator for a 21-minute tour of the future...or at least that is what the exhibit promised. The bubbleator itself was a spherical plastic elevator that could hold 150 passengers.(pictured below)

While on the bubbleator passengers saw visual images meant to display the progress of man. Starting with the Acropolis, passengers saw images ranging from bomb shelters to bombshells (Marilyn Monroe...with an A-bomb cloud behind her), and beyond. All the while, their ears were met with the music of Attilio "Art" Mineo and a cheery disembodied voice introducing the various sights. Of course, the passengers also had a guide wearing a shiny silver helmet telling them more information, but it seems that the wonder of the music can be felt without such prattling on.

The recording is great. The strings sound traditional at first and then suddenly you are confronted with the sounds of different oscillators and the occasional theremin. Bubbling electronics against the backdrop of deft-orchestration. Truly beautiful and fun stuff.

Subliminal Sounds rescued this almost forgotten recording and we at The Deuce Project highly-suggest that you purchase the album if you enjoy it. Here is that link again in case you didn't notice that 'purchase' is blue and underlined: Subliminal Sounds

The Bubbleator


Album Download:
With Original Vocals*
Without Vocals*

[The vocals are the voice-overs that were played during the World's Fair]

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Ape Shall Never Kill Ape, Ape Shall Always Kiss Man.



Ape Shall Never Kill Ape. Man Shall Always Kiss Ape.
(The split mp3s have a 128 kps bitrate, the full show has a higher quality 320 kps bitrate)

Playlist

Part 1
Tobiah - I Don't Really Exist
Atom Bomb Pocket Knife - Gamma Rays Forever
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Jukebox Rock
Mad Capsule Markets - Cistim K0nflict
Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge
The Bloody Hollies - Satanic Satellite
Delta 72 - Satellite
Monster-a-go-go - Amazons From Outer Space
Clock Hands Strangle - Redshift
Edan - Making Planets (Feat. Mr. Lif)
The Bloodthirsty Lovers - 1000 Light Years From Home
Starkiller - Starkiller

Part 2

Ernest Gonzales - While on Saturn's Rings (Daedulus Remix)
The Flaming Lips - Kim's Water Melon Gun
Dodo - Electric Love
They Might Be Giants - Planet of the Apes
Ron Grainer - The Spirits Still Linger
Cornelius - Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
The Metrolites - Cocktails on the Planet of the Apes
The Mummies - You Must Fight to Live on the Planet of the Apes
The Dickies - Gigantor (live)
Leonard Nimoy - Beyond Antares
Soul Coughing - Supra Genius
The Misfits - I Turned Into A Martian
Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Venus Ambassador
Stereolab - Escape Pod
Tiny Masters of Today - Hologram World (Feat. Karen O and Nick Zinner)
The Advantage - Contra (Alien's Lair)

Full Show (Pts 1 and 2 in 320kps)