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#061 - Music Special no. 17 - Halloween 2021 - Science Fiction

The GribCast

Release Date: 10/31/2021

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#061 - Music Special no. 17 - Halloween 2021 - Science Fiction show art #061 - Music Special no. 17 - Halloween 2021 - Science Fiction

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Please enjoy our new Science Fiction themed Music Special, hastily made especially for Halloween 2021!  We have some Synthy Punk Rock, Star Trek and Star Wars accordion covers (including a song of the ewok people), Synthwave, Progressive Rock, Avant Garde Rock, Experimental Music, Atmospheric Black Metal, Electronic Music, Ambient & Dark Ambient, and even a couple of actual short stories by Fredric Brown and Philip K. Dick, along with some music inspired by PKD, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stanislaw Lem.  Bands/Musicians included: Brutal Jr., T.C. Costello, Vampire Step-Dad, Rand Kelly, Robert Reed, Dynatron, Efilheim, The Rezonator, Fraticornicos, SoniSierra, Tre Roland, Body 13, RPWL, Hollow Water, Last Flight to Pluto, A_dontigny, Oeuf Korreckt, Flowers for Bodysnatchers, Wave Assembly, Ocean in a Bottle, Kolyder, Galactus Zeit, Aureole, Lychgate, Voidsphere, Lumnos, and Subscape Annex.

You can find related videos in the GribCast Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu4Ei7kM19lRYgjdQSi0Q6YDJQvgAahgK

Cuneiform Records on FacebookTwitterYoutubeBandcamp, and http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/

Broken Sound Tapes on Facebook and Bandcamp

Silber Records on bandcampfacebook, and http://www.silbermedia.com

Retro Promenade on FacebookBandcampSoundcloud (includes the Time Slap Podcast), Youtube, and Twitter 

Blood Music on BandcampFacebookYoutube, and http://www.blood-music.com/

Music in this episode

  1. Brutal Jr: It Stood in Fear (intro) (2:13)
  2. Brutal Jr: OC-666 (3:32)
  3. Brutal Jr: Live Forever, Make it Better ft. Jason Wornoff (2:42)

From the album Party Garbage

Brutal Jr on Facebook and Bandcamp

The Party Garbage LP is a glitched transmission that follows the titular character, OC-666, after returning to their home planet from an undisclosed mission. While grateful to return home to their loved ones, the planet has become ravaged by greed, pollution, and excess, enabled by unsatiated despots and theocrats. Demons thrive in this milieu by selling and encouraging addiction to a drug known as Party Garbage, leading to unregulated mutation amongst the planet’s inhabitants. The lead single, Live Forever, Make it Better finds OC-666 rebounding from the pits of despair filled with hope and armed with a plan to save their imprisoned family inthecity, only to ultimately find themselves inthetrenches of all out war.

  1. Vampire Step-Dad: Homecoming (4:45)
  2. Vampire Step-Dad: Everending Stories (5:59)

From the album Sanguine

Vampire Step-Dad on BandcampFacebookInstagram, Soundcloud, & Youtube

http://vampirestepdad.com/ 

Watch Connected on Amazon

  1. Rand Kelly: Moog Trek Into Darkness (1:13)

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcTb_GhwEwQ

Rand Kelly on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXPKEd-H9fShjvKeg1M-xDQ

  1. T.C. Costello: 1 (0:42)
  2. T.C. Costello: 2 (0:51)
  3. T.C. Costello:: 3 (0:52)
  4. T.C. Costello: 12 (0:57)
  5. T.C. Costello: 13 (0:57)
  6. T.C. Costello: 14 (1:13)
  7. T.C. Costello: 15 (1:16)

From the album: schnitzel frenzy - Field Recordings from the Alpha Quadrant

T. C. Costello on Facebook and Bandcamp

  1. Robert Reed: Theme from Dr. Who (2:31)

From the album: Theme From Doctor Who

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROSOZKEPUk

Robert Reed on Bandcamp

  1. Fredric Brown: Experiment (3:13)

A Librivox recording read by Roslyn Carlyle

Original Available Here: https://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-051-by-various/

  1. Dynatron: A New Place (1:36)
  2. Dynatron: Close Encounter (6:21)

From the album Origins

  1. Dynatron: Surveillance (4:53)

From the single Surveillance

Dynatron on BandcampFacebookTwitter, and Soundcloud

  1. Efilheim: Space Cadet (4:36)

From the album Psycho Lover

Efilheim on Twitter, Soundcloud, and Bandcamp

  1. The Rezonator: Robot Junkyard
  2. The Rezonator: Journey Off World

From the album Of Unknown Origin

Rezonator on Instagram, Soundcloud

When the distant Future arrives...
As the dusk of Cybernetics saunters by...
Will your Origin save or betray your reality?
The choice may not be yours
Are you a survivor?

Retro Promenade Presents
The Rezonator - Of Unknown Origin

Inspired by the worlds of The Terminator (1984), Stuart Gordon's From Beyond (1986) & Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall (1990), Of Unknown Origin is an adventure into Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, and the metaphysical multi-dimensional questions we all must face when we define our realities.

"Open Your Mind" - Kuato, Total Recall (1990)

  1. RPWL: A New World (8:38)

From the album Tales From Outer Space

https://www.rpwl.net/

  1. Hollow Water: Day In Day Out (5:08)
  2. Hollow Water: The Quantum Mechanic and the Map Collector

From the album Rainbow’s End

Hollow Water on Facebook and Bandcamp

The Rainbow's End album has a sci-fi theme involving three acquaintances who form a team and search for a rainbow which stays all the time. They embark on a comedy adventure which leads to a strange dimension where light does different things to here on earth.
An essential part of the concept is the album packaging which utilises a 20-page CD booklet with an eight page comic book drawn by Aidan Kelly (UK).
  1. Last Flight to Pluto: Masheena (8:51)

From the album A Drop in the Ocean

Last Flight to Pluto on Facebook and http://www.lastflight2pluto.com/

  1. Fraticornicos: Control proctológico en el espacio exterior (6:52)
  2. Fraticornicos: Ovni tuning y accesorios (3:20)

From the album Todo este spam es para ustedes

  1. Fraticornicos: Ta peguahê poraitê ka aguype (Bienvenido al monte) (3:51)
  2. Fraticornicos: Ogaygua (Familia) (1:46)
  3. Fraticornicos: Kaguy ndi rrúda (Caña con ruda) (2:26)

From the album Avant Guarani

Fraticornicos on Facebook, Soundcloud, and Bandcamp

  1. SoniSierra: Yônu Jàam! (4:53)
  2. SoniSierra: Udle Kuhle! (2:03

From the album Æfrica

  1. SoniSierra: Scenes from a Slow-Motion Restaurant (3:51)
  2. SoniSierra: Alphabetical Onions (1:40)
  3. SoniSierra: Guitarcheological Digging in Pathaan Suid (2:30)

From the album Sonisierra

  1. Tré Roland: Rock (Part 2) (13:17)

From the album Tré Roland

Tré Roland on FacebookBandcampSoundcloudYoutube, and Twitter

  1. Philip K. Dick: Beyond Lies the Wub (16:15)

A librivox recording read by Gregg Margeurite

Original available here: https://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-015/

  1. A_dontigny: Lies Incorporated (2:40)
  2. A_dontigny: Ol’ Charlie Falks (2:39)
  3. A_dontigny: Omphalus (2:55)

From the album Sine Fiction vol.XVIII) Lies, Inc. (Philip K. Dick)

A_dontigny on Twitter, Soundcloud, and NoType

  1. Galactus Zeit: Aramchek (4:07)

From the album Sine Fiction vol. XIII) Radio Free Albemuth

Galactus Zeit on NoType

Sine Fiction on NoType: https://notype.com/en/drones/e/2/Sine_Fiction

  1. Body 13: Hurting Each Other (21:25)

From the album #078: Sailors on the Spaceship Earth

Body 13 on FacebookBandcamp, and archive.org 

  1. Aureole: Cosmos Untaught (7:10)

From the EP Alunarian Bellmaw

Markov Saroka on Bandcamp

  1. Lychgate: Hither Comes the Swarm (7:37)

From the album The Contagion in Nine Steps

Lychgate on Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp, and http://www.lychgate.net/

  1. Voidsphere: The Void Senses (21:02)

From the album To Sense | To Perceive

Voidsphere on Bandcamp

Prava Kollektiv (aka ПРАВА КОЛЛЕКТИВ) on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pravakollektiv

  1. Lumnos: Melíflua I - Among The Stars Of Ressurection (10:24)

From the album Among The Stars Of Ressurection

Lumnos on FacebookInstagram, and Bandcamp

  1. Oeuf Korreckt: The Nine Billion Names of God (7:01)

From the album Sine Fiction vol.VIII) The Nine Billion Names of God (Clarke)

on NoType

  1. Flowers for Bodysnatchers: Monophonic Conversations (5:42)
  2. Flowers for Bodysnatchers: Half Broken Horses, Pt. 2 (1:35)
  3. Flowers for Bodysnatchers: Little Apocrypha (4:21)

From the album S O L A R I S

Flowers for Body Snatchers on FacebookYoutube, and Bandcamp

  1. Wave Assembly: Transit of Jupiter (7:01)
  2. Kolyder: ASMR for Robots (12:41)
  3. Ocean in A Bottle: Floating in Space with Harold Budd (10:16)
  4. Subscape Annex: Visitation (17:17)

From the compilation Droneuary 2021

Wave Assembly on Facebook and Youtube

Kolyder on Bandcamp

Ocean in a Bottle on Facebook and Bandcamp