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Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse

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Project Moonbase is filled with music to surprise, delight and occasionally horrify you. Made by someone who really cares (and his prisoner). We bring you music you’ve never heard before that will put a smile on your face, open your third eye and make you dance. We love space age bachelor pad music, library music, charity shop cheese, hauntology, ping pong stereo, moog music, sitar-driven psychedelia, lounge, the retro-futuristic, contemporary electronica, soundtrack music, radiophonics, eur ...
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This week we celebrate the life and work of one of Britain’s greatest big band leaders, soundtrack composers, library music composers and time/mind-bending musicians, Basil Kirchin. Hull City of Culture 2017 recently put on a weekend of the great man’s … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We’ve neglected the world of geometry for far too long and so this week we thought it time we brought you the latest developments in shapes. Most of the tracks on the show are about specific polygons and, because we … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Every season we have one or two theme-free shows where we bring you some of our favourite recent discoveries. For this first show of “likes” in Season 3, we have synthwave, darkwave, retrowave, lollywave, breakcore, j-pop and no doubt many … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Following on from our interview with Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman earlier in the year, we caught up with these two fine gentlemen again towards the end of 2008 to talk about the second album they made together, Destination Space. … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Following on from our interview with Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman earlier in the year, we caught up with these two fine gentlemen again towards the end of 2008 to talk about the second album they made together, Destination Space. … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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In 2008, Jean-Jacques Perrey and his musical partner Dana Countryman appeared at the first AV Festival, which took place at the Sage, Gateshead in March of that year. In the afternoon, Jean-Jacques presented a lecture talking about his life of … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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This week it’s all about the light and the dark or, more specificaly, the black and the white. Some have controversially argued that this might be a companion show to our Rainbow Collection. But nothing could be further from the … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Gradually emerging from hibernation, the crew aboard the Moonbase bring you a suitably low-key start to Season 3 with a selection of soothing tunes to ease you into the new year. Listen now: Your browser does not support the audio … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Patron saint of the show, Jean-Jacques Perrey, recently moved on from this planet to spend eternity with the stars. His music was a perfect example of all the things we love at PMB: humour, virtuosity, ping-pong stereo, the Moog synthesizer, … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to pop on the marigolds, arrange a selection of cleaning products on the worktop and get scrubbing before also giving yourself a good hose-down. Yes, on this week’s show we celebrate cleanliness and the art of attaining cleanliness. … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time for the second in our series all about personal pronouns and this week it’s all about YOU, dear listener. Yes, for this show we move to the second person but without trying to point the finger. We cover … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s all gone a bit Upside Down at the Moonbase for our Halloween special this year as we take inspiration from spooky hit TV series Stranger Things. Yes, it’s an all-retrowave trip back to the imaginary 80s with zombies, werewolves, … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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After the world’s longest first Season (of 273 shows no less!), we thought it time to regroup and recalibrate. So, feeling reinvigorated after a few weeks working out in the mind gym, we present the first show in Season 2! … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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As if we didn’t have enough series on the go at the moment, we’ve taken the foolhardy decision to kick off another one, this collection all about personal pronouns. That’s “he” and “she” to you and me. But before straying … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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The dinner gong has been rung, dear listener, as we invite you to join us for a sumptuous three-course banquet here on the moon. For those unaware of ‘mukbang’, we were inspired to put this show together by the YouTube … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to pay our second visit to the world of all things cute. Primarily Japan but we have a couple of exceptions to the rule. Prepare to enjoy a majorette with sticks for arms, dancing vegetables, a celebration of … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We’ve reached the end of the rainbow (collection), dear listener, with a show all about the rainbow itself. It’s been an emotional journey, with a fight almost breaking out on the question of whether we should do a show about … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Before you think we’ve gone ultra-niche and come up with a set of tracks about spiders in Tokyo who are specialists in conservation, no, dear listener. No, this week’s show is a chance for us to catch up with some … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We’re heading back to the imaginary 80s again this week, dear listener, with a retrowave show all about getting the hell out of here. Yes, it’s time to escape! It’s also time to enjoy a truly global selection of tunes, … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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This week, dear listener, we start a new cut-out-and-keep series all about the days of the week. Perhaps contentiously, we start with Monday. Recognised by many as the first day of the week, we do also appreciate that for large … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to enjoy a refreshing, ice cold glass of milk, dear listener, as we open the carton and pour out chiptune, retrowave and radiophonics. We have a commercial break and there’s also the soundtrack to a highly instructive video … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We’re back to the fake 80s for this week’s show, dear listener, with our first concept album: a whole show about driving, at night, in a Delorean. We have a fist-pumping selection of retrowave and synthwave from around the globe, … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Yes, it’s the long awaited return of our cut-out-and-keep Rainbow Collection with the almost last show in the series. As we approach the end of the visible spectrum, we arrive at plumptious purple, with a show of fake 80s, very … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to chip away at the huge mountain of new arrivals here at the Moonbase, dear listener, with a show of new release, new reissues and tracks it’s just taken us a while to notice. We have some 80s-era … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We’re hurtling back millions of years for this week’s show, dear listener as we bring you a show all about terrifying lizards. There’s music from Vancouver, which may or may not have a beach, improvised music from Trondheim, Nazi dinosaurs … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to celebrate the work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the show this week, dear listener. We have a Moonbase classic from the patron saint of PMB, Jean-Jacques Perrey, as well as some Indian retro-futurism from … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We’re still full of the joys of spring here on the moon, dear listener as we bring you a show all about blossom and the trees which produce it. The fruiting seed for this idea was the arrival of a … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We return from our recent hiatus with an admittedly somewhat deranged chimera of a show for you, dear listener. This is two themes for the price of one as we bring you a show about both country music and the … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to catch up with some new releases and reissues on the show this week. We have a couple of new reissues from Dutton Vocalion, including a version of show favorite Caravan which we’ve inexplicably neglected up until now. … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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This week we celebrate the work of the construction industry, with a show all about bricks and mortar. We have humoristic music from Russia, library music simultaneously from France and Belgium, Japanese rap from London, twinkly electronics from Canada and … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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This week we take a good look behind the mask, with a selection of music which isn’t quite what it appears to be on first listen. We have Frenchmen pretending to be Japanese, a Japanese man pretending that Duke Ellington … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to take another trip back to the imaginary 80s with, ironically, some of the newest music we’ve ever played on the show. We have highly-polished, adrenalin pumping tunes from such epicentres of 80s music as Milwaukee, the Isle … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We return to our journey through the rainbow this week, dear listener, with an all-blue edition of the show. But rest assured that, while the theme might be blue, the music itself is very much up-beat. We have some French … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We kick the new year off by blasting away the cobwebs with some splendid reissues and new releases. We’ve got French space disco, a lost retro-futuristic relic from 1977, British exotica, Italian space-themed cinematic funk, something from Manchester’s answer to … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time for an extremely sweet edition of the show, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of some of our favourite boilings. PLEASE NOTE: Any connection to the festive season is purely coincidental. Listen now: Your browser does … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Continuing on our journey through The Rainbow Collection, we reach that most verdant of colours, green. You’ll hear slightly creepy library music from the UK and France, a brand new release from Ghost Box and no less than four German … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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This week we explore the sunny uplands of our journey through the rainbow, dear listener, as we reach a colour associated variously with amusement, harmony and, er, envy, namely yellow. We have some 60s J-pop, a German pretending to be … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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We take a break from our trip through the colours of the rainbow this week, dear listener, with a trip around (some of) the capitals of the world. We hope it proves to be as much of a journey of … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Hot on the heels of last week’s red show comes the next colour in The Rainbow Collection, namely orange. We have a surprisingly high representation of French music this week, dear listener, in particular French musicians pretending to be from … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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This week’s show sees the beginning of a new series we are calling The Rainbow Collection with each show in the collection taking one colour as its theme. We start our journey at the lower end of the visible spectrum … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Time to catch up with some of our favourite new releases and reissues of recent weeks, dear listener. We have the new single from Swedish exoticists Joe Davolaz (featuring vocals from Kumisolo), a track from former Auteurs front man Luke … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Continuing our seemingly obsessive interest in modes of transport – and to show that we do listen to you, dear listener – we present this week a selection of tunes on the subject of bus travel, a theme indirectly requested … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Welcome to a truly diabolical edition of the show, dear listener. Yes, that’s right, it’s time to fill the house with cobwebs, turn all the lights out and hope that a mob of sinister children (dressed, inexplicably, as superheroes) don’t … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to get out on the high road, dear listener, for our altogether more high-octane follow-up to last week’s bicycle special. So put your leathers on and join us as we take you – at moderate speed – down … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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After all the high-speed action of the last couple of weeks, it’s time to take a rather more sedate approach this week with a show all about the gentle art of bicycling. We aren’t talking middle-aged men in lycra here, … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Many listeners will have wondered why last week’s all-motorway show singularly failed to play a version of that krautrock classic, Autobahn. Well now the secret machinations at work here behind the scenes at the Moonbase can be unveiled to reveal … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to take to the open road, dear listener, as we celebrate the thrill of endless miles of tarmac, green verges and service stations unfolding before you on the motorway. This episode of the show will also help you … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to stretch the legs and embark on a journey out of town into the country – and back again – on this week’s show, dear listener. Inspired by the imminent release of Vic Mars bucolic new LP, The … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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Join us, dear listener, on a long-overdue journey through some of the brightest stars in the night sky and discover just how easy-going this whole astronomy thing really is. You can also look forward to a future show complementing this … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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It’s time to explore the ambivalent world of the left and the right on the show this week, dear listener. We were considering doing a show of left tracks -vs- right tracks but, strangely enough, most song-writers out there seem … Continue reading →By Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse
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