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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 music, which DJ Bongoboy was lucky enough to attend. Inspired by that, we've put our own tribute together. There's music from every part of Basil's life in music, as well as tracks by bands who have been inspired by him.

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 like to order the world around us, the tracks about polygons are played with an increasing number of sides. We leave it to you, dear listener, to predict the upper limit to which we soar. WARNING: An assertion in the first part of this show could bring the world of mathematics crashing to the ground.

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 other musical genres which may or may not exist.

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. The interview was split over two shows and broadcast on a local radio station. Until now these shows have not been available as podcast. But that's all changed now.

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. The interview was split over two shows and broadcast on a local radio station. Until now these shows have not been available as podcast. But that's all changed now.

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 music-making, where he also gave a demonstration of how to make a tape loop. Amongst many others in the audience for that talk were James Cargill and Trish Keenan from Broadcast and Dick Mills from the Radiophonic Workshop (who DJ Bongoboy ended up sitting next to). Later that day, Jean-Jacques and Dana took to the stage to perform some of Jean-Jacques' greatest hits, as well as some of the music they'd been making together. Before the evening show, we were lucky enough to spend some time with these two great gentlemen and recorded an interview with them. More information about their appearance at the AV Festival can be found here: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2008/events-exhibitions/radiophonia The interview we carried out at the AV Festival formed part of an edition of Project Moonbase which was broadcast in March 2008 but until now this show has not been available as a podcast.

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 truth! Look forward to some very easy listening, some library music, electronically-enhanced exotica and even some new releases.

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.

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, tape loops, farmyard animals and even the electric sitar. This is our tribute to the great man - and such was the quality and quantity of his output that we've managed to put together a whole show of his music without playing a single track we've played on the podcast before.

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. We have some polished sunshine from the 1930s, Welsh brass, American bathrooms, two washing-related tracks from Japan, some clean retrowave and even a couple of commercial breaks.

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 both the singular and plural you in the show – see if YOU can spot which is which… Listen now: Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the MP3 The Music 1. Calibro 35: You Filthy Bastards! from Traditori di Tutti 2. Grizzler: You Got Blue Bits On You from Skweee Shanties: IV League 3. Diamondback Manhunter: This Is What You Came For (Cover) 4. DJ Bongoboy: Close To You Meltdown (feat. Stevie Wonder, James Last, Wing and Sir David Frost) 5. Dean Elliott And His Big Band: You’re The Top from Zounds! What Sounds! 6. Dorothy Ashby: You`d Be So Nice to Come Home To from In a Minor Groove 7. Alan Haven: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling from Organ Spectacular 8. Daphne Oram: Just For You (Excerpt 2) from The Oram Tapes Volume One 9. Robert Drasnin: You from Voodoo – Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East 10. Belbury Poly: Your Stories from Farmer’s Angle (Revised edition) 11. nmlstyl: Please Let That Be You from Weezer – The Second 8-bit Album 12. The Tony Hatch Orchestra: You’re A Star from Hit The Road To Themeland 13. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: Chanchankachanchan from Pamyu Pamyu Revolution Project Moonbase is listener supported. So next time you buy anything from Amazon, please go via our Amazon affiliate link. It won’t cost you anything, is totally anonymous and best of all it helps keep the show running. Thank you! The Unnecessary News That’s Nice: Artificial Intelligence ‘Nightmare Machine’ Knows How To Make Scary Photos Woman In China Gets Her 20 Boyfriends To Each Buy Her An iPhone 7, Sells Them All For Down Payment On House Lucky chicken finds fame in Japan

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, zombie werewolves, creeping terror and horror-based exercise.

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! There's no particular theme for this week's show. Instead it's a selection of some of our favourite new (and old) tracks which we've uncovered over the last few months.

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 into the second or third person, we thought it best to start with a show all about me, me, me.

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 phenomenom of 'eating broadcasts' made popular in South Korea in 2008. For the starter, we serve up French library music, Peruvian saxophony and some extreme soup. The main course is a double helping of sushi with a cheeseburger chaser. And for dessert we have a Japanese toy pudding, some French sponge from our patron saint and some deliciously homicidal ice-cream from Italy.