Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Galactic Travels Monthly Top 20 Report for February, 2006

http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2006/top20feb.html

WDIY 88.1 FM "Galactic Travels" Top 20 for February, 2006.
Shows #462 to #465; 2-February-2006 to 23-February-2006
Reported in non-ranked, alphanumeric order.
Compiled by Bill Fox
website: http://wdiy.org/programs/gt
RSS News Feed: http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/rss/enews.xml
Podcasts: http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/rss/podcasts.xml


ARTIST - ALBUM TITLE - LABEL
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Chad Hoefler - Quiet Glow - Lotuspike
Craig Padilla and Zero Ohms - Path of Least Resistance - Lotuspike
Create - From Earth To Mars - Groove
Gert Emmens - When Darkness Falls the Earth - Groove
Gert Emmens and Ruud Heij - Blind Watchers of a Vanishing Night - EH
Klaus Schulze - Dig It - Revisited
Klaus Schulze - In Blue; CD1 - Revisited
Klaus Schulze - In Blue; CD2 - Revisited
Klaus Schulze - In Blue; CD3 - Revisited
Loren Nerell, Steve Roach and Chuck Oken - Analogy Volume 1 - Groove
Mystified - The Hand of Jayanti - Blue Water
Polaris - Moo'n'sequences - none
Robert Rich - Electric Ladder - Soundscapes
Robert Rich and Ian Boddy - Lithosphere - DiN
Sound Solutions Inc. - SSI - Azra/Chlorophyll
Steve Roach - Immersion: One - Projekt
Thought Guild - Continuum - HRR
Various Artists - E-dition #11 - Groove
Various Artists - S/T - Die Stadt
Various Artists - The Walls Are Whispering Vol. III - EE Tapes

Galactic Travels Playlist #465 for February 23, 2006

http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2006/060223.html

Galactic Travels is an electronic, ambient, and space music show, that airs each
Thursday at 11:04 pm on WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in
Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, 92.9 FM on
Service Electric Cable, and webcasting on the internet.

Show #465 February 23, 2006

RECAP:
On this show, I concluded the month-long focus on Klaus Schulze. The Featured CD
at Midnight was CD3 from "In Blue" on Revisited Records. The Vinyl Starter was
"Live" by Klaus Schulze on Brain Records and released in 1980.

Klaus Schulze - http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2006/focus.html#feb

PLAYLIST:

11:04 pm
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ==================================
Klaus Schulze Sense * Live (Brain)
Polaris A Way Back Moo'n'sequences (none)
vidnaObmana and Opening Motives for Recycling (Soleilmoon)
Asmus Tietchens
Robert Rich Never Alone Electric Ladder (Soundscapes)
VA [Ian Boddy] The Mystic E-dition #11 (Groove)
VA [Robert Rich and Edge of Nowhere E-dition #11 (Groove)
Ian Boddy]
VA [Shifts] Vertonen 19 The Walls Are Whispering Vol. III
(EE Tapes)
Mikronesia Slow Bleeding Tissue Paper Ghosts(Gears of Sand)
Mikronesia Untitled Love Tissue Paper Ghosts(Gears of Sand)
Robert Rich and Geode Lithosphere (DiN)
Ian Boddy

12:00 am
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ==================================
Robert Rich and Stone * Lithosphere (DiN)
Ian Boddy
Klaus Schulze Musique Abstract In Blue - CD3 (Revisited)
Klaus Schulze Return of the Temple 2 In Blue - CD3 (Revisited)
Klaus Schulze Out of the Blue In Blue - CD3 (Revisited)

1:00 am

* = excerpt
VA = Various Artists (compilation)
++ = Advance CDR from Artist

NEXT SHOW:
On the next Galactic Travels, I'll begin a month-long focus on E-dition
Magazine. The Featured CD at Midnight will be the CD that came with issue #5.

The Vinyl Starter will be "Live" by Klaus Schulze on Brain Recrods and released in
1980.

Bill
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Host of Galactic Travels, an electronic, ambient, and space music show,
Thursdays at 11:04 pm EST/GMT-5:00 on WDIY 88.1 FM in Allentown and Bethlehem,
93.7 in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, 93.9 FM in Easton and Phillipsburg and
92.9 on Service Electric Cable. Listen on-line to WDIY at http://wdiy.org and
click on the LISTEN link or go directly to:
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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Afterglow Playlist for February 9, 2006

Afterglow is where I present an eclectic mix of genres with an emphasis on
Progressive Rock.

If you or your band have a version of the Genesis song, Afterglow, send it to me
and I will consider using it to start the program. If I use it, the band gets a
link on the Afterglow web site!

I also host The AM/FM Show every other Saturday morning and will be there on
Saturday, February 11.

Listen to WMUH on-line now.

    Show #175    February 9, 2006

8:00 am (Phase I: An Eclectic Mix of Genres)

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ================================
ShadowPlay 1 Afterglow none (none)
SonVer Anomina SovVer (Disconnected)
Ken Hatfield Delia Elena San Marco String Theory (Arthur Circle)
Ken Hatfield Mutaciones String Theory (Arthur Circle)
Ken Hatfield The Zahir String Theory (Arthur Circle)
Ken Hatfield The Book of Sand String Theory (Arthur Circle)
Geoffrey Armes Sun and Cloud Spirit Dwelling (none)

8:30 am (Phase II: Progressive Rock)

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ================================
Pulse Comfortably Numb CDR (none)
Pinnacle Information Overload Meld (Everything To Excess)
Rush The Camera Eye Moving Pictures (Mercury)

9:00 am (More Phase II: Progressive Rock)

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ================================
IZZ Deafening Silence My River Flows (Doone)
Eyestrings Dead Supermen Burdened Hands (Progrock)

9:30 am


* = excerpt
VA = Various Artists (compilation)
I host the Saturday AM/FM Show every other week where I play electronic,
ambient, spacemusic, Progressive Rock, and an eclectic mix of other genres. The
show airs from 6:00 am to 8:00 am on WMUH Allentown, 91.7 FM and on the
internet. I also host Afterglow every Thursday from 8:00 am to 9:30 am.

                  Show #82                   February 11, 2006.

During Phase I of this show, I continued the special on the sampler CDs that
come with each issue of E-dition electronic music magazine.


Phase I/Space:

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ================================
Steve Roach Immersion: One * Immersion: One (Projekt)
VA [Johannes Friends Edition #6 Sampler (Groove)
Schmoelling]
VA [Jovica Storer] Quark Edition #6 Sampler (Groove)
VA [Rogue Element] Thoughts for Dead Leaf Edition #6 Sampler (Groove)
Motion

Phase II/Eclectic:

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ================================
Louis Landon I Can See Unwind (LCI)
Fred Lykes In Dreams Star Bound (none)
Dougie MacLean Song for Johnny Inside the Thunder (Dunkeld)
Barbara Lusch Now, Baby, Or Never Barbara Lusch (Blush)

Phase III/Progressive Rock:

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ================================
IZZ I Move I Move (Doone)
IZZ Weak Little Lad I Move (Doone)
IZZ I Already Know I Move (Doone)
IZZ I Wanna Win I Move (Doone)
IZZ All the New I Move (Doone)
IZZ Deafening Silence My River Flows (Doone)

8:00 am

* = excerpt
++ = Advanced CDR from artist
VA = Various Artists (compilation)

I return to the AM/FM Show on February 25.

On the next show, I will continue the special on the sampler CDs that come with
each issue of E-dition electronic music magazine.

Friday, February 10, 2006

Galactic Travels Playlist #463 for February 9, 2006

Playlist On-line
Galactic Travels is an electronic, ambient, and space music show, that airs each
Thursday at 11:04 pm on WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in
Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, 92.9 FM on
Service Electric Cable, and webcasting on the internet.

Show #463 February 9, 2006

RECAP:
On this show, I started a month-long focus on Klaus Schulze. The Featured CD at
Midnight was CD1 from "In Blue" on Revisited Records.

The Vinyl Starter was from the two vinyl disc set "S/T" by Z'ev, John Duncan, Aidan
Baker and Fear Falls Burning on Die Stadt Records and released in 2006.

Klaus Schulze - http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2006/focus.html#feb


PLAYLIST:

11:04 pm
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ==================================
VA [Aidan Baker] Drone Four * S/T (Die Stadt)
Thought Guild Gentle Atoms Continuum (HRR)
Chad Hoefler Radiant Blue Quiet Glow (Lotuspike)
Gert Emmens When Darkness Falls When Darkness Falls the Earth
the Earth (Groove)
Steve Roach Immersion: One * Immersion: One (Projekt)

12:00 am
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
======================= ======================== ==================================
Klaus Schulze Inot the Blue In Blue - CD1 (Revisited)
Klaus Schulze Blowin' the Blues Away In Blue - CD1 (Revisited)
Klaus Schulze Blue Moods In Blue - CD1 (Revisited)
Klaus Schulze Wild and Blue * In Blue - CD1 (Revisited)

1:00 am

* = excerpt
VA = Various Artists (compilation)
++ = Advance CDR from Artist


NEXT SHOW:
On the next Galactic Travels, I'll continue the month-long focus on Klaus Schulze.
The Featured CD at Midnight will be CD2 from "In Blue" on Revisited Records.

The Vinyl Starter will be "Live" by Klaus Schulze on Brain Recrods and released in
1980.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

FoxNet News Service

FoxNet News for Thursday, February 9, 2006.
================================================================================
Welcome to FoxNet, the newsletter for information about my musical activities
such as Galactic Travels, Pulse, The Municipal Band of Allentown,
Pinnacle, andmuch more!

Please feel free to send me comments and unsubscribe requests. If there's
somebody who you think would like to receive these notices, please give them
my email address so they can contact me. If there's an item that you feel that
should be included, be sure to let me know that, too. Thanks!

Bill Fox
http://soundscapes.us/bill

QUICK LOOK

Today:
8:00 am - Afterglow on WMUH
11:00 pm - Galactic Travels on WDIY

Coming this week:
February 11 - The AM/FM Show; 6:00 am

Coming up:
February 26 - Emerald City at College Hill Presbyterian Church
March 5 - Allentown Festival of Bands
March 11 - Emerald City at Centre for the Arts on Main
March 16 - Malarky at Lacey's Pub and Grill
March 17 - Malarky at Impulse
March 17 - Emerald City at Sumney Tavern
March 18 - Emerald City at the Macungie Institute
March 19 - Malarky at the Willow Tree Inn
March 25 - Pinnacle Concert TBA

EVENTS ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

TODAY:

AFTERGLOW ON WMUH:
http://soundscapes.us/afterglow
================================================================================
Afterglow airs from 8:00 am to 9:30 am every Thursday morning. Tune in for a
delightful mix of eclectic musical genres including a healthy dose of
Progressive Rock. Tune in at 91.7 FM or on the internet at:
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/wmuh

Today's program will include music from the new CD "My River Flows" by IZZ, who
will be playing this Saturday night at the New Jersey Proghouse.

GALACTIC TRAVELS ON WDIY:
http://wdiy.org/programs/gt
================================================================================
Tonight at 11 pm on Galactic Travels, I'll continue the month-long Special Focus
on Klaus Schulze and more of his remastered works. The Featured CD at Midnight
will be disc one from "In Blue" on Revisited Records. The Vinyl Starter will be
from the two disk set "S/T" by Z'ev, John Duncan, Aidan Baker and Fear Falls
Burning on Die Stadt Records and released in 2006. For details, see the Special
Focus page at: http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2006/focus.html#feb

Galactic Travels is an electronic, ambient, and space music show that airs each
Thursday at 11:04 pm on WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem, 93.9 FM in Easton
and Phillipsburg, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, 92.9 FM on Service
Electric Cable, and on the internet.

COMING THIS WEEK:

THE AM/FM SHOW ON WMUH:
http://soundscapes.us/amfm
================================================================================
My next stint on the AM/FM Show will be this Saturday, February 11 at 6:00 am.
I will continue the special on E-dition Magazine's sampler CDs. I will also
play music from IZZ's new CD to set the mood for their concert at the New Nersey
Proghouse in the evening.

Tune in to WMUH Allentown at 91.7 FM, broadcasting from the campus of Muhlenberg
College. I alternate hosting the show with Bruce. When I am at the helm, the
show features electronic, ambient, and spacemusic at the beginning, an eclectic
mix of genres in the middle, and winds up with Progressive Rock. WMUH's web
site is http://www.muhlenberg.edu/wmuh

IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

EMERALD CITY:
http://soundscapes.us/emeraldcity
================================================================================
On Sunday, February 26, Emerald City will play at a special church service at
the College Hill Presbyterian Church in Easton.

On Saturday March 11, Emerald City returns to the Centre for the Arts on Main
Quakertown for a St. Patrick's Day concert. Show time is 8:00 pm.

Friday March 17, the Sumney Tavern in Lansdale will host an Emerald City gig.

Emerald City plays at the Macungie Institute Macungie on Saturday, March 18 at
7:30 pm.

Emerald City plays Celtic music, cross pollinated by an eclectic mix of music.
Just take folk, rock, world, country, film, and classical music and put it all
into an Irish Cuisinart set to frappé. THAT'S Emerald City!

Nora Suggs - flute; Greg Geist - guitar and vocals; Moe Jerant - percussion and
vocals; LA Williams - fiddle and vocals; Bill Fox - bass and vocals

MUNICIPAL BAND OF ALLENTOWN
http://MunicipalBand.org
================================================================================
After the short holiday break, the Municipal Band of Allentown has started
rehearsing for its summer concert series and, more immediately, the Festival of
the Bands concert, to be held on Sunday, March 5 at Muhlenberg College. Mark
your calendar now for this great event. Not only do the four city bands make
one glorious sound, but money is raised for an important, local charity.

MALARKY:
http://www.malarkymusic.com
================================================================================
Thursday, March 16, 10 pm - 1 am Malarky will start off their St. Patrick's Day
season at Lacey's Pub and Grill in Quakertown.

Friday, March 17, Impulse on Union Blvd. in Allentown (across from Agere) will
celebrate St. Patrick's Day in style with Malarky on stage.

Sunday, March 19, Malarky returns to the Willow Tree Inn on Ann St. in
Stroudsburg after the Stroudsburg parade. Call 570-476-0211 for reservations
and details.

You can hear Malarky in action at your private party. Contact Patti Foley Edgar
for booking by emailing patti@malarkymusic.com or calling 610-821-2746.

PINNACLE:
http://everything2xs.com
================================================================================
Check out our new MySpace page at http://myspace.com/pinnaclegroup

Pinnacle will play a concert in support of its second CD "Meld" on Saturday,
March 25 at the New Jersey Proghouse! We're practicing our asses off to play
some very complex material that is faithful to, yet independent of the CD. If
the CD is half as good as we think it is, then you're going to be in for a real
treat when the CD is ready! REAL SOON NOW!!!!

The CD was mastered at Star City Recording by Carl Cadden James (of InsideOut
recording group Shadow Gallery) under the supervision of legendary producer Jeff
Glixman (Kansas, Yngwie Malmsteen).

While you're web surfing, check out the Pinnacle WEB SITE!

Our first CD of five original tunes and one extra bonus surprise is available at
CD Baby! Check it out at <http://cdbaby.com/pinnacle>. You can also see any
member of the band to buy your very own copy of our first release called "A
Man's Reach..." We had fun putting it together and love the results. We hope
you will, too. You can read the CD's first public review at the ProgGnosis web
site:
http://www.proGGnosis.com/MUSIC_DBCDInfo.asp?txtCDID=8302
Their database has an artist listing for us, too, at:
http://www.proGGnosis.com/MUSIC_DBArtist.asp?txtArtistID=3541

PULSE
http://soundscapes.us/pulse
================================================================================
The next Pulse gig is scheduled for Saturday, July 22, starting 9:00 pm at the
Alburtis Rod and Gun Club. Don't worry. Now that we have a fine sounding demo
CD in hand, we'll be beating the bushes for more gigs before then! Meanwhile,
check out the new look at the website.

Former members of ShadowPlay, Strange Brew and the Critters have combined their
talents to form this high caliber Classic Rock band which features great dance
material as well as great listening music (ear candy!) by groups such as Steely
Dan, Santana, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Blues Brothers,
Joe Cocker, Beatles, and other top shelf groups. The group includes Greg Van
Allen (guitars and vocals), Rod Gilkeson (vocals), Bob Ashmore (Keyboards), Bill
Fox (bass and vocals), Billy Fenstermacher (drums and vocals), and Rob Stewart
(guitars, percussion, and vocals).

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

XEROID ENTITY:
http://xeroid-entity.com
================================================================================
Xeroid Entity is an electronic music ensemble consisting of Howard Moscovitz,
Greg Waltzer, and Bill Fox. Our debut CD is called "Moons of Saturn" and is
available at http://electro-music.com. We've captured a lot of good music at
our show at the Deer Head Inn and have released some of it on our second CD,
"Live at the Deer Head Inn."

WDIY FM:
http://wdiy.org
================================================================================
If you value the diverse voice of non-commercial public radio, then please do
your part by becoming a member. You can become a member of WDIY any time at
http://wdiy.org using the secure on-line pledge page. You can also renew your
membership, make an extra gift, or rejoin if you have let your membership lapse.
And it's TAX DEDUCTIBLE! For volunteer opportunities, call Alison at
610-694-8100 extension 8. YOU keep adventurous radio on the air that is live
and local. And you can hear WDIY simulcast on the internet, too!

HISTORICAL:

SHADOWPLAY:
http://soundscapes.us/ShadowPlay
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Jack : Bob : Colleen : Greg : Rod : Chuck : Bill
This progressive and classic rock band's first gig was at Bethlehem Musikfest,
the largest outdoor music festival in the nation. Although ShadowPlay has
disbanded, most of the members continue on.

Greg, Colleen, and Rod have formed a group called Trilogy. (See above.)

Greg, Bob, and Bill are playing in a Classic Rock band called Pulse.(See above.)

Bill, of course, sends you this message every week to keep you informed of all
the different things going on in his life.

THE CRITTERS:
http://soundscapes.us/critters
================================================================================
The Critters were uncaged for the last time at the Alburtis Rod and Gun Club on
October 16, 2004. Thanks to everyone who came out for our last gig and to
everyone who showed their support through the years. We love you.