Sundaze 1417

Hello, the coming month it's all about elektrolux's space nights

Space Night (full title: space night - All-tag nachts) is the name of a German television program in the early night/morning hours each day. It is a mixture of chill-out-music and images of the earth as seen from space interspersed with informative broadcasts. It was started by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in 1994 and is now broadcast by BR-alpha, .....N'Joy

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Space Night started in 1994 as a replacement of the test cards which were broadcast on BR at night until this time. The idea originated in the fact that the German satellite ASTRO-SPAS (see STS-80) had recorded many hours of video footage in space. The BR received this footage, edited the material and added downtempo spherical music.

As BR did not want to show the same pictures 7 days a week, both NASA and ESA as well as the German Aerospace Center were addressed. They offered more hours of footage from in and around space, which were thusly included.
Cult status and music.

The broadcast quickly turned into a cult: At raves in the mid-90s it wasn't unusual to show the images of Space Night on big TV-screens. Early in the morning after the rave it was often used to calm down, especially from 1996 and later, as Space Night's sound changed through the musical guidance by Alex Azary (a European chill-out-DJ), who provided a more electronic background music. This was a logical step that originated from Alex Azary. He headed the Club XS in Frankfurt where "chill out nights" started in 1990, supported by spherical music. Alongside, pictures of Space Night were shown, albeit the playback was a little bit slower than in the original program. The images did fit well to the then new music-genre and Alex thought it would be a good idea to show it to the people at BR. A meeting in Munich followed where he could convince them to try something new.

The compositions are also available as separate CDs, the mixdown starting from the album "Space Night II" is done by the German music label Elektrolux. In the meantime, twelve CD-albums with music to the television series have been published, with three of those clearly differing in musical style. While "Space Night Vol. 1" is an album featuring pop music, "Space Night Vol. 10" features Jazz music and "Space Night Vol. 12" is a double CD with classical music. A DVD titled "Best of Earth-Views" is also available.

After a change in tariffs by the GEMA, BR stated they would not want to continue Space Night starting in January 2013, due to the drastically increased royalties. Hence the series was ended on January 8th 2013. Numerous viewers engaged BR to continue Space Night by using GEMA-free music. The station decided to undo the cancellation, first by rerunning older episodes starting on February 25th, 2013 and to later broadcast new episodes starting in autumn of 2013. To accomplish this, BR will use music with Creative Commons licensing, encouraging their viewer to upload their favorites.

The restart was scheduled for November 1st, 2013. It had to be postponed to November, 15th, because NASA was not able to provide the necessary graphical material, due to the Government shutdown in the United States

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The first Space Night sampler is a bit of a one-off as it's an album featuring relaxed pop music, its mainly included here for completist sake..

VA - Space Night Vol. 1  (flac 362mb)

01 Vangelis - Conquest Of Paradise 4:46
02 Mike Batt - Caravan On The Move 4:00
03 Paul Brannigan - Field And Stream 2:31
04 Mike Oldfield - Hibernaculum 3:28
05 Genesis - Carpet Crawl 5:09
06 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Sebastian 5:41
07 City Of London Sinfonia - Pavane 6:18
08 Rosenstein/Wagener - Clouds 6:43
09 FAR Corporation - Stairway To Heaven 5:55
10 B-Tribe - You Won't See Me Cry 3:54
11 Electric Light Orchestra - Ticket To The Moon 4:05
12 Hans Zimmer - Leaving Wallbrook/On The Road 2:49
13 Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise 5:20
14 Paul Brannigan - Human Emotions (Warm, Evocative) 2:46
15 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale 4:03

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VA - Space Night Vol. 2 Alpha (flac  384mb)

1-01 Sensorama - Echtzeit 6:45
1-02 Move D - Amazing Discoveries 8:32
1-03 Nightmares On Wax - Nights Introlude 4:35
1-04 Fila Brazillia - A Zed & Two L's 6:40
1-05 Heights Of Abraham - Sportif 7:18
1-06 System 7 - Interstate (Doc Scott Rmx) 6:06
1-07 Golden Girls - Kinetic (Morley's Apollo Mix) 5:26
1-08 Siram - Endless... (QuiGong Mix) 6:09
1-09 Bix - Piano For The Moment 6:27
1-10 Drax Ltd.I - Parnophelia 4:09
1-11 Taklamakan - Taklamakan 6:20
1-12 Yulara - Invoking The Spirit 0:37
1-13 Speedy J - Treatments / Fill 17 3:14

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VA - Space Night Vol. 2 Beta (flac 386mb)

2-01 Insect Jazz - Wildflower 5:33
2-02 Subsurfing - The Number Readers 5:37
2-03 Audio Science - 2½ Orbits Later 5:02
2-04 Full Moon Fashions - Magic Morning 6:29
2-05 The Orb - Earth (Gaia) (Edit) 7:54
2-06 Leftfield - Song Of Life (Underworld Rmx) 4:34
2-07 Saafi Brothers - Supervision 5:22
2-08 Fresh Moods - Rhythmbreeze 7:32
2-09 Z-Plane - Smokey 7:38
2-10 Cold - Strobe Light Network 5:00
2-11 Global Communication - 14:31 (Reload Remix) 5:20
2-12 Aural Float - Introspection 7:39

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