Hello, almost forgot this encore, the music of Babylon 5 which has been almost completely from the hands of one man, Christopher Franke. The original pilot film had music composed by Stewart Copeland of The Police. When the show was picked up as a weekly series, Copeland was unavailable, so Christopher Franke of Tangerine Dream was hired. Franke was the composer for all five seasons of Babylon 5, three of the television films, and the Lost Tales DVD. When Straczynski obtained funds to create a new producer's cut of the pilot film, the original Copeland score was replaced with a new score by Franke. Over thirty soundtrack CDs have been issued featuring Franke's Babylon 5 compositions.
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Chris Franke - The OST Babylon 5 Suite ( 100mb) Born in Berlin, Germany in April, 1953, Christopher Franke studied classical music and composition at the Berlin Conservatory. At that time he was influenced by such composers as Krzysztof Penderecki, John Cage and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and was actively involved in rock and jazz music.
Together with his composition teacher, Franke set up a sound studio within a Berlin music school. The experimental excursions resulted in a project that evolved into the Berlin School of Electronic Music. It was there that Christopher Franke met Edgar Froese and became a member of the group Tangerine Dream. He pioneered the fascinating soundscapes of the Moog Synthesizer and explored the Moog Sequencer creating driving, hypnotic rhythm patterns. One year later, Franke brought Peter Baumann into the band. Between 1970 and 1988, Tangerine Dream released 37 albums and composed scores for more than 30 feature films, including "Legend", "Sorcerer", "Thief", "Firestarter", and "Risky Business".
After leaving the Group in 1988, he released his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway" in 1991. That same year he founded the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra and opened a new, much needed recording studio in Hollywood as he became a successful film music composer on his own. In 1993, Christopher started the record label, "Sonic Images Records", and subsequently released numerous studio recordings and soundtracks. He has composed the music for feature films, such as the blockbuster "Universal Soldier", as well as for television, including the cult Sci-Fi series "Babylon 5". 1997 witnessed the release of Franke's critically acclaimed "The Celestine Prophecy - A Musical Voyage", a companion CD to James Redfield's best selling book "The Celestine Prophecy".
More recently, Franke completed the score to the epic "Tarzan and the Lost City", the influential documentary "What the Bleep do we know?", the hit-movie "Hooligans" starring Elijah Wood and the new Sci-Fi movie "Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales".
Hello, the sun has come up this morning and that means its oficial...summer has started ! I hope you all get to enjoy it, for those on the southern hemisphere no need to sulk..time flies and in 6 months its summer there aswell. Now then today continue with last weeks post..History of Ambient series 2 & 3..should do well in the background in the evening in the garden..this kinda music really sounds best outside so drag your speakers out into the garden and enjoy..
01 - Baaba Maal - Call To Prayer (3:52) 02 - Brian Eno - Tal Coast (5:06) 03 - Amorphous Androgynous - In Mind (5:26) 04 - Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Part 2 (Edit) (6:32) 05 - David Sylvian - The Healing Place (5:16) 06 - Grid - Crystal Clear (Clear, Like An Unmuddied Lake) (Edit) (6:12) 07 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Nuages (2:08) 08 - Fripp & Eno - Wind On Water (5:15) 09 - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Wildlife (8:11) 10 - Jansen / Barbieri - When Things Dream (2:39) 11 - Gong - Magick Mother Invocation (1:33) 12 - David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Bringing Down The Light (8:14) 13 - Jah Wobble - Not Another (3:12) 14 - Guo Brothers - One Flower (1:31) 15 - God - Black Jesus (6:34) 16 - Brian Eno & David Byrne - Mountain Of Needles (2:33)
01 - Shu-De - Sygt, Khoomei, Karagyraa (Styles Of Throat Singing) (1:09) 02 - Bruno Spoerri & Irmin Schmidt - When The Waters Came To Life (4:23) 03 - David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Darshana (Re-Constructed By FSOL) (9:53) 04 - William Orbit - Gringatcho Demento (6:20) 05 - Rain Tree Crow - Red Earth (As Summertime Ends) (3:34) 06 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Last Emperor - Theme Variation 1 (2:19) 07 - Robert Fripp - 1988 (10:27) 08 - David Sylvian - Epiphany (1:28) 09 - Amorphous Androgynous - A Study Of Six Guitars (3:08) 10 - Trisan - May Yo I (5:48) 11 - Bill Laswell - Kingdom Come (7:27) 12 - Seigen Ono - You Will Be Alright (2:43) 13 - Laraaji - Meditation #2 (7:34) 14 - Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man (9:54)
15 - Michael Brook With Brian Eno And Daniel Lanois - Distant Village (3:56) 16 - Holger Czukay , Jah Wobble , Jaki Liebezeit - Mystery R.P.S. (No. 8) (8:23) 17 - Prince Far I - Throw Away Your Gun (Dub) (4:30) 18 - Brian Eno , Harold Budd - Wind In Lonely Fences (3:40) 19 - King Crimson - Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds) (4:44) 20 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix) (5:29) 21 - Stephan Micus - Concert For Gender, Shakuhachi And Zither (Excerpt) (1:21) 22 - Robert Fripp / Brian Eno - Healthy Colours III (5:35) 23 - Future Sound Of London, The - Cascade Parts 2 & 3 (13:26) 24 - Robert Quine / Fred Maher - Summer Storm (4:00) 25 - Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Rising Thermal 14° 16' N; 32° 28' E (2:43) 26 - David Sylvian ∙ Holger Czukay - Mutability ("A New Beginning Is In The Offing") (Excerpt) (8:43) 27 - Brian Eno 2/2 (9:28)
Hello, today Babylon 5 Season 1, Signs and Portents comes to an end, lots of events setting the stage for Season 2, The Coming of Shadows where things start getting ugly. Now i'm not sure whether i will continue posting Babylon 5 asi feel the response has been unclear to me, those that have been following should make themselves noticable, if i hear nothing from you all there's not much reason to continue now, is there? Anyway Transgloballs will take a summerbreak after the 22nd.
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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
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S01E22 Chrysalis
Negotiations between the Narn and Centauri over territorial claims to Quadrant 37 are getting nowhere, and it looks like G'Kar has the upper hand on Londo. Morden, the elusive man who once asked Londo and G'Kar what they wanted, appears out of nowhere and offers Londo the opportunity to take credit for a solution to the Quadrant 37 problem that will tip the scales in the Centauri's favor, a solution which Morden and his unspecified associates will provide at no cost.
Garibaldi follows a tenuous trail of clues to a man named Devereaux, who warns that the security chief is getting into something too big for him. As it turns out, this is true - Garibaldi discovers evidence that Devereaux may be an Earthforce special agent, and finally stumbles across a plot to assassinate the president of the Earth Alliance. He pays for this discovery dearly when one of the conspirators, Garibaldi's trusted friend and second-in-command of B5 Security, shoots him on the back.
The Shadows are cast upon Quadrant 37, utterly annihilating every trace of the Narn presence there in mere seconds. Delenn goes to Sinclair to discuss at last the Battle of the Line and his capture, but his priority must be to find Garibaldi. Delenn is risking her life and Sinclair's to reveal the mystery to him, and warns that she has little time left. Garibaldi, dying, warns of the plot to kill the president, but his warning is too late, and Earthforce One is destroyed and Vice President Clark is sworn in as president hours later. All this takes place against the backdrop of new years eve 2258.
Hello, Babylon 5 season 1 is almost done, final cliffhanger episode is coming saturday, todays show is a mixed bag of life on Babylon 5.....
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S01E21 The Quality of Mercy
Ivanova discovers that Dr. Franklin has been operating a free clinic for dwellers of Down Below, the area of Babylon 5 where most of the unemployed eke out a poverty-stricken existence, and that he's been using some of his medlab supplies to do so. Not much later, Franklin himself learns of another free clinic being operated aboard the station, one which promises to heal everything. Franklin finds Dr. Laura Rosen, an aging physician who has discovered an alien device with an unknown origin that seems to remove illness, disease and debilitation harmlessly. Dr. Rosen herself is slowly dying of a terminal illness, but does not use the machine on herself.
Meanwhile, convicted murderer Karl Mueller is sentenced to have his personality mindwiped and reprogrammed so he may serve a useful function in society. Prior to the wipe, Talia must scan him so she can compare his thoughts before and after the wipe to verify the success of the operation. What she finds in Mueller's mind horrifies her, then he escapes his guards....... Oblivious of all this Lennier gets taken by ambassador Molari for a night in "the town" that turns out very illuminating for him in many ways....
Hello, well as announced last week today we have the final episode of the Professor and his KENT team. It's unclear whther there will be a 4th series not to worry the talk is now of adapting it's success into a tv series so i would think it unlikely that we've heard the last of Nebulous and his crew...
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Nebulous 18, Us And Phlegm
When 99 percent of the nation's workforce phone in sick, Nebulous- the only K.E.N.T. member still in perfect health- comes face to face with a very unpleasant alien life form in the form of the Phlegmbions (A phlegm/mucus hybrid)... allied with none other than his childhood doctor, Doctor Beep. Special Guest Star David Tennant.
Hello, hooray let the show begin and the Sundaze start, and i have some great music today, first up Kit Watkins his Though Tones 2 album may at times come close to Eno's work but Kit is a skilled musician who knows what he's doing..Visit his website or Watkins You Tube page plenty more than this album from this versatile and eclectic musician/composer...
Kit Watkins was born to a couple of classical piano teachers in 1953 in Virginia, not surprisingly he studied piano at home from ages 5 through 13. During his teen years, Kit was drawn to rock music and click for larger became a driving force behind a series of local bands, playing organ, synthesizer, and flute, as well as singing lead. By age 18, he was discovering his own writing abilities. He soon joined up with the band Happy The Man (HTM) which was forming at the local university. It was with HTM that Kit honed his skills in composing, performing, arranging, and producing. During its six years, the band recorded five albums, including two produced by Ken Scott and released on Arista Records. In 1979, with HTM unable to get a new record controct Kit got an invitation to join the British band Camel , dissatisfied with his opportunities in the band he left 1 year later, though he did join them on several tours of the UK, Europe, and Japan from 1980 through 1982.
In the early '80s, Watkins began building his own home studio and produced consistently inviting music that draws on his first-rate keyboard skills and his keen ear for sonic detail. Kit’s solo career began in 1980 with the self-produced album Labyrinth, released on his own Azimuth Records label. The album won him 5th place in Keyboard magazine’s Annual Readers’ Poll Awards for keyboard album. He recorded and performed with drummer/percussionist Coco Roussel during this period. During the 80s, Kit continued to produce solo and collaborative albums, some click for largerreleased on his own label, while others were picked up by larger independent labels. In the early 90s, Kit formed a new label, Linden Music, which released a number of his new ambient recordings, as well as CDs by Robert Rich, Jeff Greinke, David Borden, and others. When in 96 distribution fell away the label fell too. Unsurprisingly Kit has been a great fan of the internet as artists like him get a chance being heard with all the distribution models available now.
In 2001, Kit performed a milestone concert in Philadelphia for The Gatherings series, hosted by Chuck van Zyl of Star’s End Ambient click for largerRadio. It was Kit’s first performance in 20 years, and his first ever as a solo artist in a new genre. In preparation for this concert, Kit began learning and using an electronic wind instrument as the focal point of his stage performance. He finds this instrument far more expressive and liberating than electronic keyboards, especially for melody and solo work. The Gathering CDs/DVD are available at the Kit Watkins shop.
Kit Watkins is continuing to record and release new works from his private studio in Brattleboro, Vermont.The music of Kit Watkins can be heard on-line at KitWatkins.com, as well as on such broadcast radio shows as Hearts of Space, Star’s End, and Echoes. Kit Watkins.Com lots of streamed music and even free downloads from his discography..good website well worth a visit
The second volume in Kit Watkins's Thought Tones series continues the exploration of mysterious abstract soundscapes intended to assist "creative thinking, contemplation, imagination, and other forms of direct and indirect perception." .
01 - Tone 6 (16:19) 02 - Tone 7 (12:09) 03 - Tone 8 (13:47) 04 - Tone 9 (11:47) 05 - Tone 10 (13:15)
Thoughtone 1 -(128k quality) download is available for free at Watkins website
The Virgin Ambient Series was a series of albums released on the UK Virgin Records label between 1993 and 1997. A Brief History of Ambient was the first one and it's success carried the 24 albums that were released in the series, 13 of which compilations. Obviously this is not a complete history by any means , but Virgin trying to prove they were into ambient way back when the term didnt even exist..That said as an ambient compilation it's rather diverse, which is a good thing, ambient isnt necessarily meditation music.... Well you can pick and choose after you got it all..for free
01 - Harold Budd - Flowered Knife Shadows (7:05) 02 - Tangerine Dream - Thru Metamorphic Rock (Edit) (9:46) 03 - Robert Fripp / Brian Eno - Evening Star (7:30) 04 - Amorphous Androgynous - Mountain Goat (4:28) 05 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sea Of Vapours (3:49) 06 - Hawkwind - The Forge Of Vulcan (3:01) 07 - Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub Mix) (10:35) 08 - Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) (4:11) 09 - Richard Horowitz - Marnia's Tent (2:58) 10 - Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri - Rapido De Noir (6:32) 11 - Ashra - Kazoo (5:36) 12 - Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Their Memories (2:38) 13 - Grid - Leave Your Body (4:46) 14 - Christopher Franke - Electric Becomes Eclectic (3:39)
15 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Edit) (10:25) 16 - Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Delta Rain Dream (3:20) 17 - William Orbit - The Monkey King (4:49) 18 - Gong - Castle In The Clouds (1:02) 19 - Hawkwind - Lifeform (1:40) 20 - Laraaji - The Dance #2 (9:04) 21 - Sheila Chandra - Sacred Stones (5:26) 22 - Michael Brook - Earth Floor (4:44) 23 - Faust - Läuft, Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Läuft (3:19) 24 - Jon Hassell - Gift Of Fire (4:41) 25 - Material - The End Of Words (3:46) 26 - Edgar Froese - Panorphelia (9:35) 27 - Roger Eno - Voices (2:15) 28 - Holger Czukay - Träum Mal Weider (7:21) 29 - David Sylvian - Home (4:14)
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When 99 percent of the nation's workforce phone in sick, Nebulous- the only K.E.N.T. member still in perfect health- comes face to face with a very unpleasant alien life form in the form of the Phlegmbions (A phlegm/mucus hybrid)... allied with none other than his childhood doctor, Doctor Beep. Special Guest Star David Tennant.
