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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty eight.

It’s the end of week four on the Isolation Radio show and the lockdown shows no sign of stopping the Melodic Randomiser from cranking out cracking tunes.

The first platter that matters today is from the 2006 album, Eye to the Telescope, by the extremely talented KT Tunstall, here’s “Silent Sea”

After which we jump forward to 2015 and a fine return to form for eccentric ’80s electro-poppers Blancmange and “Bloody Hell Fire”, from their Semi-Detached album.

Purely by coincidence, our final track is by another band from the same musical ouevre, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark; only this is one from back in 1981, and their second album, Architecture and Morality, this is the epic “Sealand”

I enjoyed that little trio, it made nicely eclectic listening. I hope you’ve been finding something to interest you in some of these musical sojourns into the past, I know I’ve heard a few things I haven’t played in a while.

We will do it all again tomorrow, but I bid y’all farewell and wish you health and happiness until then.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty seven.

So…this would be…Tuesday?

If it’s all merging into one huge mega-day and you don’t know your ass from your metaphor, never fear, the Isolation Radio show is on hand with its trusty accomplice, the Melodic Randomiser to bring you bang up to date…

…to 1994, with Everything but the Girl and possibly their most famous hit, “Missing”, from the Amplified Heart album.

Not changing the pace too much, we go back a couple of decades and slip across the English Channel to France, for some Jean Michel Jarre and “Oxygène, part IV”, from 1976’s groundbreaking Oxygène album.

https://youtu.be/5DDEl7JnWvo

And we end up in 1977 with the proto-Human League and a track from The Golden Hour of the Future, this is “Disco Disaster”

A strange mix, I admit, but that’s what it’s all about here on the Isolation Radio show and there’ll be more tomorrow.

Stay safe and love each other.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty six.

It’s still Monday, right?

Whew, that’s good, just time to squeeze in your daily dose of tunes from the Isolation Radio show, brought to you as ever by the magic of the Melodic Randomiser.

First we have “Love Me and Leave Me” from the Do It Yourself album by The Seahorses, solo project of Stone Roses guitarist, John Squire.

Next it’s Bomb the Bass and their classic electro dance single “Beat Dis”

Ending with a nice bit of motorik Krautrock from CAN and “One More Night” from their 1972 album Ege Bamyasi

And with that, I wish you goodnight sweet dreams and happy risings.

Keep healthy, stay safe.

Peace

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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

For today’s apaturial adventure, I asked you to come up with something for The Cosmic Photo Challenge which featured something Symmetrical.

Well, not being able to get out and about much, I spent time making a few imaginary buildings and pictures with a mirrored element to them.

Now it’s your turn to show us what kind of symmetry you captured over the weekend.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty five.

First out of the Melodic Randomiser box on the Isolation Radio show today is a track by a pioneering Jamaican production duo who helped popularise dub reggae in the ’80s, Sly and Robbie. This is “Back to Bass” from 1985’s A Dub Experience

Which is followed swiftly by a single from David Bowie‘s Low album, this is the timeless “Sound and Vision”

And we round off a short but sweet edition of your daily playlist with this offering from Grandaddy; taken from their Just Like the Fambly Cat album, this is “Elevate Myself”

And that’s your lot for this weekend, I hope you start the week happy and healthy and I’ll be back again tomorrow to serenade you further.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty four.

We’re well into the third week of the Isolation Radio show now and beginning the fourth week of lockdown, but the Melodic Randomiser is still on hand to soundtrack your weekend.

The first one out of the magical musical hat today is this Lynchian torch song from Chrysta Bell; the title track from her This Train album

https://youtu.be/NzKQVH3BeZA

Number two on this twenty fourth selection is from The Georgia Satellites‘ 1988 album, Open All Night, here’s “My Baby”

And the finale is from a band I’ve been a huge fan of for many years and have seen live countless times; Hawkwind, with a song about werewolves, from 1976’s catchily titled Thrilling Stories of Science and Fantasy: Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music album, this is “Steppenwolf”

Until tomorrow, when we’ll do this all again, be good to each other, stay safe and have a lovely Saturday night.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty three.

Welcome back to the Isolation Radio show, brought to you by the impenetrable machinations of the Melodic Randomiser and its chaotically arranged memory banks.

Bubbling to the surface of the data pool first today is a song called “Cacti”, from 2017’s eponymous first album by space rock merchants, Holy Monitor…

…continuing in a similarly out-there vein, with the frankly bonkers afro/prog/jazz fusion of Melt Yourself Down, we have a track from another self-titled debut; here’s “Kingdom of Kush”

And, just to change the mood a little, let’s have a bit of anthemic, new punk, from possibly my favourite of the many similar bands from the ’90/00s, Lit. Despite their adolescent sense of humour, they have a way with clever lyrics and catchy tunes; here’s one from the 2001 Atomic album, “She Comes”.

You’ll have to tune in tomorrow to find out what comes next in the chain, it could be anything so don’t touch that dial.

I hope your weekend has begun safely and in good health, let’s all keep that determination to beat this thing together, by staying apart.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty two.

What a beautiful day to still be alive! And what better excuse do we need than that on the Isolation Radio show, to play a few more unexpectedly selected tunes from the Melodic Randomiser?

Excuses, we don’t need no stinking excuses.

So let’s get on with it; starting with Underworld and a very early song from their 1988 album, Underneath the Radar, here’s the very ’80s “Call Me No.1”

Going back two years to ’86 now, for Talking Heads‘ True Stories album and a typically upbeat, afrobeat-tinged “Hey Now”

Then we head even further down the time tunnel, to 1980 and “The Spy in the Cab”, from Bauhaus‘ In the Flat Field album.

https://youtu.be/2PMNQmSavfM

Not the cheeriest note to end on, but variety is the spice of life, as Mr Heinz noted, 57 times.

Good to have you with me again today, join me in 24 hours for another spin on the virtual turntables and stay safe out there.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty one.

Shuffling ahead with today’s Isolation Radio show, the Melodic Randomiser‘s first choice for the day is another song from Crystal Fighters, this time from their 2016 Everything is my Family album; here is the official video for the joyous “Good Girls”

Then we have something by another of my long time musical heroes, the very epitome of the English pop music eccentric; Thomas Dolby, and the title track from his 1984 opus, this is “The Flat Earth”

More from Simple Minds now, from possibly their most iconic album, Sparkle in the Rain, let’s end today’s show with “Up on the Catwalk”

A fine selection, I think you have to admit, there has to have been something you liked in that terrific trio, surely…

If not, although I can’t imagine why that would be, you’ll have to join me tomorrow and seek out something that tickles your fancy there instead, won’t you?

Keep on keeping on, feel the love and let music be your anchor in these tempestuous times.

Peace

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