January 18, 2011: Mark the Occasion

The day "before" the broadcast was both Martin Luther King Day (US) and the birthday of Art (Universe). We marked the day by playing some great moog music and otherwise inspired work, including a whole side of Terry Riley... oh! that rainbow! 

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I also couldn't let the occasion pass without providing some content for other Canadian Bloggers, hence the Belafonte, the Mayfield and the Hancock.

The Robot News was genuinely alarming, check out the full video of P.W. Singer's talk at the Dangerous Ideas Festival here.

I also mentioned the recent Kepler discovery of a rocky exo-planet. This is huge (figuratively) as was this other discovery of a MEARTH which is also huge (literally). We are closing the gap to finding evidence of extra-terrestrial life, possibly the only entities who can save us from the coming robot revolution.

The Kepler Team, which includes a tall Latvian-Canadian,
found this rock in space (artist's rendering). 
Way too hot for us, but at least we could stand on it.

Quite a day!

Set List

Artist - Track - Album

Look Over Yonder - Harry Belafonte - Swing Dat Hammer

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air - A Rainbow in Curved Air

Gershon Kingsley -  Miracles - The First Moog Quartet

Robot News

P.W. Singer - Wired for War [talk] - Dangerous Ideas Festival

Song for New Moms:

Curtis Mayfield - We Gotta have Peace - Roots

Honey in the Bee Box - Sun Ra & his Arkestra [Crystals] - Interplanetary Melodies Vol. 1

Songs for Astronomers

Spaceship Lullaby - Sun Ra & his Arkestra [Nu Sounds] - Interplanetary Melodies Vol. 1

Islaja -  Dadahuulet - Keraaminen Pää

Herbie Hancock - Promise of the Sun - The Prisoner

Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band - A Rainbow in Curved Air