Sundaze 1420

Hello, despite making Messi the best payed soccer player on Earth at a mere 20 million Euro's a year, admittedly a number the 1% can only smirk about, he wasn't able to deliver Barcelona the title tonight-just one goal would have been enough. Wouldn't put any money on Argentina winning the World cup, the little man is over the hill and now he's become a familyman he's got more important issues. The FA cup went to Arsenal ah yes can't have those provincials from Hull get away with it-they nearly did. It needed overtime to break their resistance 108th minute 108 one of those mystical numbers...same happened in Germany where the draw managed to have it's best two teams meet in the final, like they did a year early but that was the championsleague final, and again the cupfinal between Borrussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich was decided by Arjan Robben who scored in that 108th minute. It had been an epic battle again.


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.

At the 40th anniversary of the Perry Rhodan series in 2001 there was a 'Perry Rhodan-Space Night'. Cover art by the artist Johnny Bruck (who produced the cover artwork for Perry Rhodan) was shown with modern techniques to animate still pictures, there were galaxies, planets, spaceplanes, men und aliens - a visual journey through the Perry Rhodan universe with the known music of Space Night .... N'Joy



Following the broadcast, which was repeated for several weeks, a DVD with the title space night presents: Perry Rhodan 40th Anniversary - Special Sci-Fi Edition and a double album with the music was created. (see below)


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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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Perry Rhodan, the most successful science-fiction saga of the world, now a special edition, which keeps the high quality standard of the other episodes appear effortless. From the 24 tracks protrude especially songs like "Moon Sequence" by The Herbaliser, the downbeat masters of the British Ninja Tune label, also in 1999 for the first time published "Walk Into Space Pt. I + II" by Mo 'Horizons, and electrical champion Anthony Rother with his bathed in extremely dark sound clouds "Data Bank / Nuclear winter" out.

On the second CD of the assembled with a lot of feeling for the right Space Music double album especially the hypnotic soundscapes by Gabriel Le Mar on "Slo Mo", which gently in the morning breeze gliding grooves of Wamdue Project on "Floatin 'World" and Moby's are wonderful relaxed-designed trip to the far reaches of the electronic sounds and rhythms in "Summer" among the highlights. -

VA - Space Night Vol. 7 Alpha (Perry Rhodan)  (flac 375mb)

01 The Herbaliser - Moon Sequence 6:16
02 Bullitnuts - Heavy Air 6:57
03 George Pallikaris - Insearch Of 3:31
04 Mo' Horizons - Walk Into Space Pt. I+II 6:52
05 Amphotic - Marsbeat 5:24
06 Nihilist - Aurorix 5:39
07 Audiodrop - Lonesoft 10:03
08 The Sushi Club - Nichi-Yobi 5:30
09 Global Youth - Connected Views 8:13
10 Azure Taint - Boogielotion Pt. II 5:22
11 Resistance D - Low Signal 3:24
12 Anthony Rother - Databank/Nuklearer Winter 4:26

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VA - Space Night Vol. 7 Beta  (flac 426mb)

01 Gabriel Le Mar - Slo Mo 7:05
02 Unknown Origin - Place The Bass 6:00
03 Amphotic - Sternenschrei 7:11
04 üNN - Blue Sky 6:12
05 Wamdue Project - Floating World 5:37
06 Quantum Leap - Dark Angel 6:57
07 Sounds From The Ground - Drugstore 6:46
08 Skylash - Dream De Menthe 7:24
09 Moby - Summer 3:21
10 Biogen - Afloat 5:53
11 Aural Float - A.F. Study II 6:22
12 Atomix Avenue - Spacebar 3:58

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It's amazing really, that the very decried as CSU Bavarian Radio Television sends his viewers nightly Space trips. But maybe you think yes in Munich, the mix of space images and ambient music is a sufficient substitute drug that makes the consumption of illicit substances superfluous. The music of an eighth "Space Night" double-CD compilation, compiled this time by Alex Azary (Aural Float), sends the listener in any case to a perfectly legal natural high (or low - depending on how you want to see it). In the relaxed therefore flowing tracks from acts such as Boozoo Bayou, Sven Van Hees and Groove Armada arms are heavy, the eyes close, and breathing is sooooo slow. And just then it shall so be safe as well. Many previously unreleased tracks by the way. Suitable for world travelers, Space fetishists or deep sea fans alike.

VA - Space Night Vol.8 Alpha (flac  461mb)

01 JFC - Point Lookout 5:28
02 Boozoo Bajou - Yma 5:57
03 Sven Van Hees - Too Many Cpt. Beefhearts 4:40
04 Rescape - Cafe Hörbar 3:57
05 Fresh Moods - Shiny Cage 7:33
06 Nu-Moon - Green Sand 6:31
07 Tosca - Busenfreund (Baby Mammoth Rmx) 7:01
08 Zen-Men - Photonic Piano Waves 5:38
09 Guardner - Someday In My Life 5:40
10 Pineapple Corner - Easy Fly 4:00
11 Phonosynthese - Schwerelose Rose 5:12
12 Sniper Mode - Glow 4:58
13 Index ID - Neuland 3:44
14 Max Melvin - Seaside 6:00

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VA - Space Night Vol. 8 Beta (flac 442mb)

01 üNN - Starlight 6:02
02 Jens Buchert - Sunrider 5:14
03 The Sushi Club - Shiosai 5:05
04 Quantum Leap - Sofa Music 6:07
05 International Observer - Flip Flop Cemetery 6:00
06 Chin Chillaz - Konkret 6:00
07 PFL - Mohinis Dub 4:58
08 George Pallikaris - Woman 7:12
09 Groove Armada - Lazy Moon 6:18
10 Zoomin' Feat. Fay Saphirah - Purify Myself (Instrumental) 4:09
11 Naoki Kenji - The Island 5:07
12 Planet Lounge - Ocean Drive 5:45
13 Nor Elle - Desert Storm 8:25

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