Category: anonradio

ASFO 2022–12–24

Christmas Eve, and I am hard at work in my workshop… no, not at the North Pole! Have you met me? As you might infer from my frequent allusions to tapping off gigawatts of heat from large nuclear power stations, I prefer warm conditions. On the subject of “peace on Earth, goodwill toward men”, I contemplate the opportunities for peace which lie before us.

A selection of pin-back badges carrying space- and atomic-energy-themed US postage stamps, mostly from the 1960s
Not exactly masterpieces of graphic design, but it s a start!

Supplementary Show

2022–12–30 The remainder of Chapter 5 of Rockets by Willy Ley, and the first part of Chapter 6, “Success, Failure, and Politics”

Luv’n Time International Episode 5 (2022-12-23)

Archive Download

  • Harry J All Stars – Liquidator
  • Bobby Womack – Across 110th Strreet
  • Archie Shepp – Attica Blues
  • James Brown – Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
  • Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
  • Johnny Jenkins – I Walk On Guilded Splinters
  • Dorothy Ashby – Soul Vibrations
  • Idris Muhammad – Power Of Soul
  • Gil Scott-Heron – Lady Day and John Coltrane
  • The Wild Tchoupitoulas – Meet De Boys On The Battlefront
  • Isaac Hayes – Hyeprbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
  • Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Bits In Stereo – 2022.12.18

Tracklist

  • Martin Eyerer – Bloop (Original Mix), (link)
  • Cheric – The Fallen (Original Mix), (link)
  • NYBZ – Enter The Void (Original Mix), (link)
  • Daniel Dubb & m.O.N.R.O.E. – Little Helper 343-1 (Original Mix), (link)
  • Embassy – Ursula (Original Mix), (link)
  • Naethan – Oblivion (Original Mix), (link)
  • We Need Cracks – Auster (Original Mix), (link)
  • Daniel Steinberg – No One Can Change Me (Nick Holder Remix), (link)
  • Kintar – Yamana featuring Romana (Original Mix), (link)
  • Nonku & Hyenah – Soak It (Andre Lodemann Remix), (link)
  • Escenda – Out Of Moves (Kastis Torrau Remix), (link)
  • Jack De Marseille – Lovely (DJ 3000 Remix), (link)
  • Cortese – Girls Like You featuring Emma Cannon (Original Mix), (link)

Available for download in the archives.

ASFO 2022–12–17

Two quotations, one moral imperative, and a great deal of extraneous noise form the matter of this show. I explore the problems, and some alternative views, of the concept of energy efficiency. This is overall a very tub–thumpy episode, in which I repeat a few key phrases over and over again instead of properly expounding my views. Partly that was due to frustration at the noise, the source of which I need to properly work out, if I am going to broadcast remotely with my netbook.

Supplementary Show

2022–12–20 Belatedly realizing that I didn’t really do anything for the 75th anniversary of the first artificial Earth satellite, back in October, I read the preface, by Hermann Oberth, from a 1956 book entitled Satellite! by Erik Bergaust and William Beller ― which leads me down the rabbit–hole of explaining why Oberth could legitimately be called a “Nazi rocket scientist”, and thus to Chapter 5 of Rockets : The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere (third printing with additional information, 1945 January) by the great Willy Ley, The Battle of the Formulae. More of that anon.

Noise, Electronics and Code

A weekly event of electronic music in all its form.

Live coding, Algorave, electronics toys, softsynth, experiments at the edge of the software and hardware world.

We like to focus on improvised creation, but everyone is welcome to perform and experiment on their platform of choice.

Luv’n Time International Episode 4 (2022-12-16)

Archive Download

  • The Budos Band – Up From The South
  • Marva Whitney – Unwind Yourself
  • George McCrae – I Get Lifted
  • The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun
  • The Fatback Band – Yum Yum (Gimme Some)
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights
  • Roy Ayers – The Boogie Back
  • Anderson .Paak – Come Down
  • The Honey Drippers – Impeach The President
  • King Curtis – Memphis Soul Stew
  • Dyke & The Blazers – Let A Woman Be A Woman, Let A Man Be A Man
  • Myra Barnes – The Message From The Soul Sisters, Pt. 1 & 2
  • Cymande – Bra
  • Funkadelic – Can You Get To That
  • Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers)
  • The Turtles – I’m Chief Kamanawanalea (We’re The Royal Macadamia Nuts)

ASFO 2022–12–10

Intercontinental air travel having its usual effects on me, compounded by having to be up early in the morning for an Apollo 17 commemorative event (see me at about 1h20m in), doesn’t make for the most coherent show I’ve ever presented. But I think there may nevertheless be a few items of interest, first and foremost, correspondence! from SDF user eskill. There is also some mention of possible upcoming program content, and new propaganda materials and merchandise I have planned. (Does anyone have a suggestion on an alternative to Etsy?) And the geopolitics of fossil fuels, the hollowness of climate commitments, and the possibilities of real progress through committed engineering effort, attract my attention once more.

Scan of a card with, drawn on it in pen, the words "Man and Atom" in a blocky style, with "92 U" inside the "o".
“Man and Atom” logo drawn by eskill

Supplementary Shows

  • 2022–12–13 Mostly a reading of the last chapter of Commonsense in Nuclear Energy (1980) by (Sir) Fred and Geoff Hoyle. This is itself composed primarily of excerpts from The Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles, illustrating the life of George Stephenson, and in particular the Rainhill Trials which established the position of the locomotive or travelling engine as the key to world transportation. (The reference in the text is to a 1968 edition of this 19th century work.) I also read the preface and the very short first chapter of this very short, trenchant book. If it weren’t in hard covers I’d be inclined to call it a tract.
  • 2022–12–16 Off to a rocky start, but I decided to re–read the bit from Flight Into Space by JN Leonard which got chopped up by a malfunctioning archiver a couple of months back. I occupied the remainder of the time with some extracts from Vignettes in Nuclear Medicine by Marshall Brucer, MD, which are interesting for the way they illustrate the development of scientific practice, in a lively style with personal reflections from someone directly involved in the work.

Luv’n Time International Episode 3 (2022-12-09)

Archive Download

  • The Coasters – Down In Mexico
  • The J.B.’s – The J.B’s Monorail
  • The Blackbyrds – Rock Creek Park
  • Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
  • Liquid Liquid – Cavern
  • Bobby Byrd – Hot Pants
  • Janko Nilovic – Xenos Cosmos
  • Roy Ayers – Aragon (from “Coffy”)
  • Bob James – Nautilus
  • The Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
  • Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Hihache
  • Skull Snaps – It’s A New Day
  • 20th Century Steel Band – Heaven and Hell Is On Earth

Bits In Stereo – 2022.12.04

Tracklist

  • Massano – The Feeling (Original Mix), (link)
  • Recondite – Warg (Original Mix), (link)
  • Damabiah – Irminsul, Le Pilier Du Monde (Andrew Bayer Remix), (link)
  • KAS:ST – Hold Me To The Light featuring Be No Rain (Tale Of Us Remix), (link)
  • Bicep – Glue (Original Mix), (link)
  • ARTBAT & CamelPhat – For A Feeling featuring Rhodes (Extended Mix), (link)
  • Undercatt – Britannia (Original Mix), (link)
  • MIICHII – Are You Serious (Original Mix), (link)
  • Arm In Arm – Hunger For Your Vibe (Moonwalk Remix), (link)
  • JEI BLVCK – Waiting For You featuring Shawni (Original Mix), (link)
  • Sebastian Weikum – Midnight Train (Original Mix), (link)
  • Faithless – God Is A DJ (David Guetta Extended Remix), (link)

Available for download in the archives.