RC 279: Froopy - Hitchhiker's 40th Edition from Radio Clash Podcast: - London-based global music podcast feat. covers, mashups, remixes, and bootlegs since 2004.

On Thursday Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams reached 40 on Thursday, the first radio broadcast was 8th March 1978, and there is a new ‘Hexagonal Phase’ to celebrate.

So as well as it being #h2g2week on Radio Clash, this edition is celebrating the music of Hitchhiker’s, related space and electronic themes interspersed with interviews with the writer and creator, Douglas Adams, and of course Arthur, Marvin, Ford, Trillian and Zaphod…

This was recorded on Friday, and have to say the Art of Noise gig was amazing – bumped into some old mashup friends, DJ Food / Kev was DJing, and it was great to finally see Anne, JJ and Gary do Close to the Edit. I danced like a loon! (and yes Max and Paul Morley made appearances via video).

P.S. I forgot to explain the title…it’s a word I made up a child reading HGTTG, ‘froopy’ which was like ‘hoopy’ and used to say it all the time…it was my word for something that was cool or great.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle – Hitchhiker’s Guide (2:04:42, 188Mb)

Douglas Adams – An Updated Guide
Eagles – Journey Of The Sorcerer
Videogame Orchestra – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Theme
The Eagles – Journey of the Sorcerer (Kung Fu Lemon Remix)
The Art Of Noise Featuring Max Headroom – Paranoimia (7” Mix)
VC People – Dance Macabre [The Reflex Quick Edit]
Colorado – Space Lady Love
Bicep – Opal (four Tet Remix)
Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix – Burru Saturday
Marvin – Marvin the Paranoid Android
Marvin The Paranoid Android – Marvin I Love You
Shadow FX – Full Floyd Rig
Pink Floyd – Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Fluffy Cloud Version)
The Terrorist – Sing Time (Original Mix)
Rolo Tomassi – A Flood of Light
Pene Corrida – Freestyler
Mansun – Disgusting
Gardens & Villa – Gypsy
Erik Nordgren – Crazy Robots
György Ligeti – Continuum
Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene, Pt. 1
Tomita – The Engulfed Cathedral
Absolute Elsewhere – Moon City
Roberto Gerhard – Campanalog
György Ligeti – Lontano
Paul Draper – Friends Make the Worst Enemies

(Artwork is based on the amazing work by Ian Wright of Hipgnosis on the paperback and album…Really inspired me as a kid, artist and as a designer now, given they were working in pre-digital times)