Sampling

Apollo 11: Eagle Has Landed (Extended)

Apollo 12: Cardiac Sim

JFK: Return Him Safely to Earth

JFK: We Choose the Moon with Apollo 11 Launch

JFK: We Choose the Moon

Mercury 9: Astronaut Cooper Comments

Farcaster

This vintage recording recently found in the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory audio archives comes from NASA's first successful communications satellite, Project Echo. The project involved bouncing radio signals off a 10-story-high, aluminum-coated balloon orbiting the Earth in 1960. This form of “passive” satellite communication – which they dubbed a “satelloon” -- was an idea conceived by an engineer from NASA’s Langley Research Center and a project managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. JPL sent and received signals through two of its 85-foot-diameter antennas at the West Coast Goldstone tracking station in the Mojave Desert.

The first transmission was sent on Aug. 12, 1960, between Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., and Goldstone. This recording was released as part of a technical report on Dec. 1, 1960. It includes a greeting from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, explaining how Echo fits into the U.S. program of peaceful space research accessible to other countries, and a message from then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson imagining a “not too distant future when one man, one program, can be seen and heard simultaneously in every living room of the world.”

NASA's First Communications Satellite: Project Echo

Available for purchase here: https://organise.bandcamp.com/album/demiurge

Seatoller

Never Getting It Back

cover: Erika Szurcsik
mastering: Erik Bánhalmi

Alpár aka Hungarian Bálint Zalkai, is the co-founder of ‘Farbwechsel’, the Budapest based record label, and his own recordings of electronic compositions (often built upon random looping sequencers in a minimalist style) are key to the label’s release output thus far. His goal as he sees it is to “catch a random pattern, loop it and build up a piece with that randomly pulsing theme. Just let to flow the voltages and sound waves and try not to disturb them or change their basic behaviours”.

The two tracks here were recorded with this approach very much in mind. The atmosphere of 'Mejiro' is “not unlike a bird observation. Attempting to find the right spot, getting closer and closer to the bird, which almost controls you and your movements as you attempt to near it”. Whereas 'Wakayama' is a more direct piece, and maybe the most melodic song Alpár ever recorded. While 'Mejiro' is a woozy, cautious piece, ‘Wakayama’ is like a tropical fruit or the ume, (the japanese apricot); colourful and full of flavour yet -with thanks to- the slowly humming theme in the background, an element of sourness grips you at the back of your tongue as it ends!

Limited to 250 copies.

Wakayama

Released on Kahvi Callective's 'One Synth' various artists album. 

https://kahvicollective.bandcamp.com/album/one-synth

One Synth

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Ghosts

Second collab with The Fade Beta, you can find their awesome music here:
https://soundcloud.com/thefadebeta
their track "Secret Window":
https://soundcloud.com/thefadebeta/secret-window
and their latest album:
https://thefadebeta.bandcamp.com/album/yesterdays-eden
always thank you my friends!

secret window

The Fade Beta - Secret Window (Dr. Crow, i presume? remix)

You might think you know Earth, but astronaut’s views from outer space help us see our world in a whole new light.

On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 1 - An Astronaut's View of Earth

Farmers rely on the accuracy of a crucial NASA and USGS mission, Landsat, to make decisions about crops. Those decisions have far-reaching implications that can impact what you see on your dinner plate!

NASA's Curious Universe: From Space to Farm

We hike in the Australian Outback with Abigail Allwood to visit the most ancient fossils on Earth, and track the imprint of life over space and time with David Grinspoon.

Season 3, Episode 9 - Life Bound

Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.

Mercury 9: Astronaut Cooper Comments

NASA

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