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This week's show is a sizzling selection of tunes designed to set you up nicely for the day, being as it is themed around the most important of meals, namely: breakfast. We have sausage, bacon, tomato, scrambled eggs and a variety pack of breakfast cereals. There's also toast, marmalade and, for naughty girls only, jam.

No particular theme this week as we catch up with some new releases and arrivals in the Moonbase airlock. Several of our highly talented listeners have sent us new releases including albums by The Soulless Party, Vic Mars and Peopleodeon. We also have new releases from Oxykitten, Giant Claw, Call Me Greenhorn and Atom TM. DJ Bongoboy was on a charity shop raid in Callander recently and came away with a Sounds Orchestral compilation and a collection of organ work by the founder of Radio 2's The Organist Entertains, namely one Robin Richmond. We also have a track from an LP by Japanese crooner Yoichi Sugawara which was kindly donated to PMB at our recent appearance at the Rites of Spring fund-raiser.

Inspired by several ophidian-themed tracks coming our way in quick succession, we decided to make this week's show all about snakes. You'll hear colubrine tracks by the likes of Kai Winding, Mandingo, Django Reinhardt, Doc Severinsen and many others. In amongst the herpetoid music there are also a couple of other tunes including a brand new release by the wonderful processed trumpet and drums duo Spaceheads and a chiptune track from a recent video game Fez, suggested by listener Matthew Schnapp.

On the show this week, despite the awful weather conditions currently being experienced here on the Moon, we decided to celebrate the first day of Spring by collecting together some of our favourite seasonal tunes. The tracks on this week's show are also some of the highlights of a recent set played by DJ Bongoboy at the annual fund-raising event for Scottish Arts Societies at the RSA in Edinburgh.

This week's show takes its title from a new reissue by the ever dependable Jonny Trunk whose latest reissue is Daphne Oram's first (and only) LP, an album which was recorded for use in schools. In addition to that we have another Trunk Records reissue, a new track on Finnish label Vauva, two selections from a two-fer reissue of mid-60s albums by trombonist Kai Winding (featuring none other than Jean-Jacques Perrey on ondioline), a week exclusive from listener Magnus Sellergren's new project Call Me Greenhorn, some 50s chiptune, Germans masquerading as Germans from the past and a track from the second volume in Soul Jazz's history of electronic music from Germany.

It was brought to our attention recently by regular listener Emma Bowen that a recent anniversary of some significance took place, namely the 75th anniversary of the creation of SPAM® by Hormel Foods. We therefore thought it high time we celebrated this auspicous event by selecting some of our favourite tunes about Spam and other delicious processed meats.

This week's comes as a result of a suggestion by listener Dr Rhubarb who astutely noticed our mentioning of the mange and dropsy in a recent edition of the show. In that same show we put out a call for theme suggestions and Dr Rhubarb pointed out that the mange and dropsy would themselves make an ideal candidate for a show theme. As a result you can expect an hour of music which is likely to make you want to itch, scratch and retain water. There is a brief interlude from illness as we bring you a brand new version of show favourite Caravan! WARNING: Dear listener, please don't do what we did in researching this show and go to either Google or Wikipedia to find out more about the mange or dropsy. At least not when you're just about to eat or have just eaten.

With horses being in the news for all the wrong reasons we thought it would be good to shine a more positive light on all things equine this week on the show. So we have a selection of classic 60s and 70s TV theme tunes to shows about horses (why were there so many?) and some horse-themed tunes by some of our favourite artistes. We also have another selection from the Mordy Laye album we've been dipping into and a track from the brand new album by Norwegian chip-prog specialists Pajjama.

This week's show will be particularly enjoyed by fans of aggregate as we set about mixing up some concrete, from tunes with a cement or concrete theme to some examples of musique concrete by the likes of Pierre Henry, Tod Dockstader, Fred Judd and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. We've also managed to shoehorn a little triptych of Quatermass-related tunes into the show, including a brand new track from Hong Kong in the 60s which comes from a cassette produced to accompany a monograph on the subject of one Nigel Kneale.

On the show this week we explore all things hiss, pop, crackle and muffle, with a selection of tracks which may have you questioning the fidelity of your hi-fi - or possibly your ears. We have tracks by Israeli retro-futurists Mordy Laye and the Group Modular, Belgian library musician, and global ethno-musicologist Joel Vandroogenbroeck. We have a track specially written for this week's show by the enigmatic AMS and this week's theme also gives us a chance to pay two (yes two!) return visits to the Tape Findings project as well as playing the brand new under the pillow single by Sleep Over.

A show of many parts this week for you dear listener. The show kicks off with a track from a project we recently blogged about: a meeting of minds between Swedish chiptune and German jazz. We also have an extraordinary version of Look of Love from a recent Martin Denny reissue on Dutton Vocalion, two tracks by friends of the show, a track from the new album by Hamilton Yarns, a track from volume 2 of the two-volume Electronic which Tod Dockstader recorded for library music label Boosey and Hawkes and plenty more besides. If anyone happens to know what we're referencing for the title of this week's show, do please get in touch. If you're the first person to work it out we'll see if we can rummage something out of the Moonbox for you.

Atoms at the ready as we bring you a show dedicated to the elements of the periodic table. The show features some of our favourite elements including Boron, Carbon, Potassium, Uranium and lots lots more. Every track on the show has an elemental theme with music from the likes of Boron, Barry Gray, Pye Corner Audio and Kev Hopper as well as a track from the long-awaited third album from Death By Chocolate. We're also delighted to be able to bring you another exmaple of education rap from LearnThruMusic. More information about the show can be found at: http://www.projectmoonbase.com/ The website's also also the place to go to purchase tracks played on the show and download podcasts old and new. If you would like to subscribe to the podcast, the easiest way is to subscribe via iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=510743312 Alternatively, you can add this address to your podcast/RSS feed reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/projectmoonbase Do also please follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/projectmoonbase We also have a Facebook page which you may care to "like": http://www.facebook.com/projectmoonbase And we even have one of those there email addresses should you wish to get in touch: show@projectmoonbase.com 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! Yours periodically, DJ Bongoboy and MC Zirconium

As we look out from the Moonbase at a lovely winter scene, we invite you to put on your winter thermals, dear listener, and join us in a celebration of all things snowy and icy. If you happen to be listening from an equatorial region or the antipodes, hopefully this week's show will have a cooling effect on your immediate surroundings.

This week on the show we have a choice selection of recent arrivals at the Moonbase including tracks from two new releases on Trunk Records, some German (or possibly Dutch) exotica from Tahiti, French library music, a track from the new Moon Wiring Club (featuring the recorder stylings of one Sarah Angliss), a sonic quiz courtesy of Wevie Stonder and a track by a former keyboard player from Rainbow (that's the band rather than the TV show).

In a change to the advertised programme, this week on the show we bestow a selection of awards in our inaugural (and hopefully annual) Super Excellent Awards ceremony. We shall be paying tribute to some of our favourite new releases, reissues and compilations which were released in 2012.