Tag: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Antony Szmierek
As played on the latest podcast, just checking out Manchester rapper Antony Szmierek‘s tracks – one about Ventolin (oh hai fellow asthma sufferer) with a wonderfully trippy middle eght, and this summer woozy banger from last year – The City Is Safe With You about I suspect the re-opening of cities post lockdown….but it’s also…
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H2G2 Theme on a music box
This is what I am here for. As advertised the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (H2G2) theme (aka Bernie Leadon of Eagles fame with ‘Flight of the Sorcerer’) on a music box with added illustrations on the score by Luminous J aka Andy Riley. Wonderful.
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The Tripping Forecast
Back to lighter and less serious times (although I suspect now that was just a freak pause), this mix from Rob Manuel as l_o_n_g_w_a_v_e is indeed a radiophonic trip. Very hauntological and nostalgic in the vein of The Focus Group and others recreating library music and ‘logotones’ and radio idents for the teens..Given that this…
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RIP Marvin (Stephen Moore)
Life? Don’t Talk To Me About Life…RIP Marvin – he’s finally gone to silicon heaven. Stephen Moore who voiced Marvin The Paranoid Android in Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy TV and radio series (and thus is the only Marvin to me) has sadly died aged 81. Marvin is and was a hero of mine, I…
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RC 279: Froopy – Hitchhiker’s 40th Edition
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…
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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reaches 40
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet where on 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th March 1978 a radio program went…