This week brings us some sad news
Isao Tomita has died
It never did sound like a real flute
But we all know that he tried.
1. Tomita - Snowflakes are Dancing (2:12)
Tomita died this week. He was super-old, so it's not that sad. We're going to play moog music.
9:00
3. Money Mark - Nanobot Highway (2:40)
4. They Might Be Giants - Baroque-Hoedown (2:44)
5. 33 - Abominatron (2:53)
6. Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert - You Moog Me (3:30)
7. Perrey-Jean Jaques - E.V.A. (3:09)
8. Pierre Henry (mza-acid) - Psyche Rock by Pierre Henry 1968 Philips 4FE8004 DeccaMk1 (2:55)
9. Electric Skychurch - Endless Horizon (I Love Bob Mix) (3:13)
10. Devo - Mongoloid (3:44)
11. Pete DeVriese - You Have Been Selected (3:52)
12. Kid Koala - Drunk Trumpet (3:55)
13. Gary Numan - Cars (3:57)
14. Bostich - Realistic Source (4:00)
15. Stereolab - Variation One (4:01)
16. Baiyon - Mixed Waste 4.2 (4:12)
17. Charlie Clouser - I Am A Spaceman (4:37)
18. Isao Tomita - Chinese Traditional - Chinese War Lord Going Home (4:30)
And, yes, I know this track got way too much play, but it's still good.
10:00
20. Emerson, Like & Palmer - Lucky Man (4:37)
21. Tortoise - Beautiful Love (4:42)
22. Meat Beat Manifesto - Unavailable Memory (4:54)
23. The Moog Cookbook - Bob's Funk (5:11)
24. The Album Leaf - Micro Melodies (5:28)
25. Roger O'Donnell - Another Year Away (5:29)
26. Vangelis - Alpha (5:46)
27. Psilonaut - The Sentinel (6:04)
28. Bootsy Collins And Bernie Worrell - When Bernie Speaks (6:48)
29. New Order - Blue Monday (7:29)
30. Wendy Carlos - Biblical Daydreams (2:06)
31. Tangerine Dream - Midwinter Night (4:39)
We actually took a vote on this. I could play The Planets or Pictures at an Exhibition and--even though I played Planets
last month--everyone voted to hear it again. That is because it's one
of the best things Tomita ever did. This is the full version.
11:00
33. Tomita - Planets (introduction) (2:04)
34. Tomita - Mars, The Bringer Of War (8:51)
35. Tomita - Venus, The Bringer Of Peace (8:34)
36. Tomita - Mercury, The Winged Messenger (4:40)
37. Tomita - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (6:41)
38. Tomita - Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (8:02)
39. Tomita - The Belt (2:41)
40. Isao Tomita - Neptune: The Mystic (6:51)
41. Isao Tomita - Uranus: The Magician (2:14)
42. Yes - Close To The Edge (18:38)
