Saturday, May 26, 2018

NASA mix-tape listening party at nine

The signal was sent, the message received
No one expected, not once in their dreams,
They would ever live to see the day
To get a response from so far away
All based on a phrasebook they had sent
Packed up on a rocket, away it went
A circular, exquisite sound museum
And tasteful nudes. Oh, you should see 'em
Decoded at last. How extraordinary!
It simply requests, "Send more Chuck Berry."



9:00
1. Vangelis - Heaven and Hell, Part I - Reprise (1:42)

Yeah, so tonight, we're listening to the Golden Record that we shot into space. We sent a mix tape with nudes and a map to our house. Also, some of these are tracks I've played before in other shows. I have Feelings about this project and I have Feelings about this music.

3. Greeting From The Secretary General Of The UN (0:46)
4. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (2:43)
5. Mexico, performed by Lorenzo Barcelata - El Cascabel (3:24)
6. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, First Movement (8:51)
7. Peru - Panpipes And Drum Song (0:55)
8. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 In F, First Movement (4:44)
9. Bulgaria, sung by Valya Balkanska - Izlel Je Delyo Hagdutin (5:04)
10. Senegal, percussion - Tchenhoukoumen (2:12)
11. String Quartet No. 13 In B Flat, Opus 130, Cavatina (6:50)
12. Solomon Islands - Melanesian Panpipes (1:17)
13. J. S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude And Fugue In C, No. 1 (4:50)
14. Peru - Wedding Song (0:42)
15. Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring, Sacrificial Dance (4:36)
16. Holborne - Fairie Round, from Paueans, Gaillards, Almains, And Other Short Aeirs (1:19)
17. Java, court gamelan - Kinds Of Flowers (4:51)
18. Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Spring (3:16)

And the next track is one I have played many, many times before. When some other intelligence finds this record and plays it, if we're remembered for nothing else, let it be this.

10:00
20. W.A. Mozart - Queen of the Night Aria (2:57)
21. J. S. Bach - Gavotte En Rondeaux, from the Partitia No. 3 In E Minor For Violin (3:01)
22. Georgia, chorus - Tchakrulo (2:25)
23. Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture (2:53)
24. Azerbaijan Bagpipes - Ugam (2:37)
25. Australian Aborigine songs - Morning Star And Devil Bird (1:29)
26. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven - Melancholy Blues (3:10)
27. China, Ch'in, performed by Kuan P'ing-hu - Flowing Streams (7:48)
28. Japan, shakuhachi, performed by Coro Yamaguchi - Cranes In Their Nest (5:08)
29. India, Raga, sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar - Jaat Kahan Ho (3:37)
30. Papua New Guinea - Men's House Song (1:25)
31. Zaire - Pygmy Girls' Initiation Song (1:00)
32. United States - Navajo Night Chant (1:01)
33. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (3:23)
34. Greetings In 55 Languages (4:25)
35. UN Greetings / Whale Greetings (4:05)

Hey, now I'm just playing stuff. People are asking for stuff.

36. Carl Sagan ( ft Stephen Hawking ) - 'A Glorious Dawn' (Cosmos Remixed) (3:32)
37. J.S. Bach--Tomita - The Sea Named Solaris (3:21)
38. Tomita - The Belt (2:41)
11:00
39. Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans - Why Go Up There? (1:47)
40. Murmurs Of Earth - The Sounds Of Earth (12:26)
41. Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No. 19 (1:47)
42. Utah Saints - Trance Atlantic Flight (7:07)
43. Utah Saints - Sun (2:12)
44. Utah Saints - Massive (5:44)
45. Utah Saints - Something Good '08 (High Contrast Remix) (5:06)
46. Amon Tobin - Bedtime Stories (3:44)
47. Manebe Tanayuki - The TV Show (3:06)
48. Emily Heller My Brain (from Good For Her) (2:06)

Someday, aliens are going to show up and want to suck a human brain of all its knowledge. If we're lucky, it will be me, and I'll infect them with my ADD.

49. Perez Prado - Mambo # 5 (VERSION ORIGINAL) (2:49)
50. Ken Nordine and Towa Tei - Sound Museum (4:31)