Escape Pods

26/11/2021

Escape Pods – Helena Hauff

Helena Hauff is simply one of the most exciting DJs on the planet, playing a mix of; electro, techno, acid house and EBM in energetic vinyl only sessions.

Originally from Hamburg, Helena learnt her trade as a resident DJ at the intimate Golden Pudel Club before venturing out to tour the world. She’s played at renowned festivals including Movement Detroit, Sónar Festival Barcelona and Field Day London. In 2017 she became the first-ever female DJ to be awarded the prestigious ‘Essential Mix of the Year’ by BBC Radio 1.

Helena has a unique sound as a music producer with three highly acclaimed albums under her belt recorded for Ninja Tune, Dark Entries Records and Werkdiscs - preferring a 'less is more' approach to sound design using analogue machines. Helena also curates and runs her own excellent Return to Disorder record label that has featured releases from; UMWELT, Nite Flight, L.F.T and dynArec.

Helena is well known for keeping away from social media, smart-phones and all the trappings of 21st century life, yet still manages to survive perfectly well... Looks like we’re going to have to fit in a crate of records or two in the back as The Hauff joins us for Escape Pods…

Helena Hauff - Escape Pods Selections

Blast Off: Iggy And The Stooges – Gimme Danger
Zero G: Global Communication – 14:31
The Planets: Alex Stark – In the Night
Final Contact: The Exaltics x Helena Hauff – Creatura
Alien Worlds: Transllusion – Bump It
Platinum Disc: Nina Simone – Black is the Colour of My True Loves Hair

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26/11/2021

Escape Pods – King Britt

Originally from Philadelphia King has followed many paths in music over a career spanning 3 decades from; being the tour DJ for Grammy Award winning hip-hop group Digable Planets to co-founding O**m Recordings with Josh Wink, to writing as Sylk 130, making hundreds of remixes and becoming an academic.
King’s current position is as a teaching professor at the University of California San Diego. One of the courses King teaches at UCSD is called Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in electronic music, it’s a new course devised by King that has included Questlove, Sun Ra Arkestra and Goldie dropping in as guests. King’s exploration of Afrofuturism began much earlier including ‘A Night of Afrofuture’ that took place at MOMA PS1 in New York City back in 2014.

It’s been an incredible journey from East to West coast and everywhere in between and we’re keen to find out more about it all on Escape Pods trip into space.

King Britt - Escape Pods Selections:

Blast Off: Silence
Zero G: Tahoe - Dedekind cut
The Planets: Fhloston Paradigm - Letters of Past feat Pia Ercole
Final Contact: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll 

Alien Worlds: King Britt & Jeffrey Xing - A Discovery (A Lullaby from the Crossing Mix) 

Platinum Disc: Alison Moyet - Skipping Stones (King Britt presents Sylk130)

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26/11/2021

Escape Pods – Paul Hartnoll (Orbital)

Paul is one of the most highly respected electronic music producers on the planet, best known for Orbital – the band started with his brother back in 1987.

Orbital have created some of the most memorable moments in dance music with an array of classic records over the years including Chime, Belfast and Halcyon On + On - becoming one of the only electronic music bands alongside The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy to make it onto the main stages of major festivals. Including a game changing performance on the NME stage at Glastonbury Fest in 1994, which has been listed as one of the 10 top sets of all time played at the famous festival. Paul even performed ‘Where is it Going’ with Professor Steven Hawking at the opening ceremony of the London Para Olympic games.

Paul Hartnoll has also pursued a solo path during times away from the band - making music with artists including Robert Smith from The Cure and Vince Clarke from Depeche Mode and Erasure. He’s also an absolute gentleman and a scholar...
Paul’s Escape Pods selection features an unreleased live recording of the Dr.Who Theme realised by Delia Derbyshire Day and performed with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop live on the main stage of Bluedot Festival.

Paul Hartnoll - Escape Pods Selections:
Blast Off: Focus – Hocus Pocus
Zero G: Harry J & The All Stars – Liquidator
The Planets: Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened
Final Contact: Crasswords – Systemic Death
Alien Worlds: Delia Derbyshire – Dr. Who Theme (Orbital x BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Live at Bluedot Festival)
Platinum Disc: Ralph Vaughn Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Turn on, tune in, space out…

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05/11/2021

Escape Pods – Daniele Baldelli

Daniele Baldelli is best known as the creator of the Cosmic sound named after his DJ residency at the legendary Cosmic Club in Italy in the late 1970s. Baldelli’s story as a DJ began even earlier in the late 1960s at the Tana, Tabu and Baia Degli Angeli clubs where he pioneered many DJing techniques independently of the more widely recognised New York disco scene. Perhaps the most unique technique he employed in his sets was to change the speed of records, mostly from 45rpm to 33rpm, to find songs that sounded entirely different for the Cosmic dance floor.
Daniele continues to be a prolific producer as he enters his sixth decade in music with a run of records under the Cosmic Temple name and continues to DJ in clubs and festivals worldwide…
Daniele Baldelli - Escape Pods Selections

Blast Off: The Stooges – Down on The Street
Zero G: Weather Report – Boogie Woogie Waltz
The Planets: Loleatta Holloway – Hit and Run
Final Contact: Kissing the Pink – Mr Blunt – 33 Cosmic Sound
Alien Worlds: Daniele Baldelli – Isotropofunk
Platinum Disc: Killing Joke – Requiem

Iggy Pop KillingJokes Kissing The Pink Weather Report OpenLab

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29/10/2021

Escape Pods – Keith Tucker

Keith Tucker aka K-1 is the co-founder of AUX88 -the Detroit band that pioneered the electro bass sound from the city.

Keith Tucker K1 is a prolific producer that makes techno as Optic Nerve and electro as Alien FM. Even after three decades in the game Keith has a relentless drive to make new music. Most recently Optic Nerve released ‘Uncharted’ on iconic Axis Record label. Keith has also found time to collaborate as K1 with another Detroit legend Gerald Donald from Dopplereffekt and also with Carl Finlow as CFKT.

Keith founded Direct Beat Classics and Puzzlebox Recordings, running the labels with a DIY ethic that involves everything from designing the music to releasing the music.

Keith also produces the K1 agenda series of films that offers studio production tips and tricks for aspiring artists.

Keith Tucker - Escape Pods Selections

Blast Off: Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
Zero G: Strand - Tensioner
The Planets: Model 500 – The Passage
Final Contact: Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Alien Worlds: Reel by Real & Anthony Shake Shakir - Serene
Platinum Disc: John Lennon – Imagine

KraftwerkOfficial Juan Atkins Jeff Mills AUX88

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25/10/2021

Escape Pods ventures into the heart of rural Michigan for a chat with John Shepherd.

You may have come across John over lockdown if you saw the excellent short Netflix film, ‘John was trying to contact Aliens’. If you haven’t seen it we definitely recommend checking it out.

Long story short, and it is a long story indeed spanning over three decades, John learnt how to build powerful high voltage transmitters that could broadcast radio signals into space. He then set up a DJ studio and played music over the rig with the hope that someone out there was listening.
The name for the project was S.T.R.A.T, which stood for Special Telemetry Research and Tracking and the radio shows were broadcast from Earth Station One. John Shepherd had become the world’s first cosmic DJ.

John Shepherd - Escape Pods Selections

Blast Off: John Serrie - Flight Path
Zero G: John Scott Shepherd - Floating in 3D
The Planets: Sun Ra - We Travel The Space Ways
The Planets (bonus): Can - Moonshake
Final Contact: Brian Eno - Signals
Alien Worlds: Peter Baumann - Cascade 39
Platinum Disc: Suspended Memories - First Blessing

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15/10/2021

On this episode Escape Pods catches up with a true pioneer of dub reggae – Scientist

Scientist is one of the original creators of dub music, responsible for engineering many of the crucial dub studio techniques in the 1970s that are now used in nearly every musical genre.
Scientist was entrusted with the keys to King Tubby’s Dromilly Avenue studio in Kingston, Jamaica and took over the recording and production of many reggae greats including; Barrington Levy, Linval Thompson, Johhny Clarke, The Roots Radics and Augusto Pablo.

Scientist went on to be behind the mixing desk at another legendary Reggae studio - Channel One become embarking on his own highly successful career as a recording artist releasing hundreds of dub records over the decades.

Scientist - Escape Pods Selections

Blast Off: King Tubby – The Roots of Dub
Zero G: Mad Professor meets Scientist - Banga Mary Mix 2
The Planets: Scientist - Taxi to Baltimore Dub
Final Contact: Scientist - Beaming
Alien Worlds: Scientist meets the Space Invaders – Laser Attack
Platinum Disc: Scientist & Roots Radics – Earth

The Scientist King Tubby: The Dubmaster KING TUBBY Mad Professor Roots Radics Johnny Clarke Linval Thompson

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08/10/2021

Escape Pods moves over to California this week for a show recorded with the trail blazing American composer and pioneering sound designer Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne is known as the Diva of the Diode for her lifelong dedication, passion and promotion of Buchla synthesisers.

Alongside recording over 20 studio albums and picking up 5 Grammy Award nominations, Suzanne also set up her Ciani-Musica that became the number one production house for sound design and musical effects for TV & Film in New York City.

There’s a special moment to look out for in this episode where Suzanne plays an impromptu piece on her Buchla live on air.

Suzanne Ciani - Escape Pods Selections
Blast Off: Suzanne Ciani - Liberator
Zero G: Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube
The Planets: Floating Points - Argente
Final Contact: Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Alien Worlds: Neuronium - Mystykatea
Platinum Disc: Suzanne Ciani - Velocity of Love

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Good to see Suzanne feature on Ambient ‘0’ from from Coldcut released this week. And do check out the excellent Sisters with Transistors film.

Suzanne Ciani - Diva of the Diode Floating Points OpenLab Finders Keepers Records

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06/10/2021

Ok so Escape Pods is now all set up on Spotify now if that's your preferred way to listen to podcasts. Going that way first on the major platforms as you can use Anchor which allows for music being played on podcasts by linking into Spotify plays. Kinda cool as that was a big stumbling block for a Music x Talk show...

Anyway you can now follow Escape Pods and have every episode delivered into your Spotify...

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Listen to Escape Pods on Spotify. Escape Pods - a musical journey through the cosmos. Hosted by Ben Randm & Ralph Lawson Each episode a guest is offered an Escape Pod to leave our world behind. We ask them what music they’d put on their headphones as they; Blast Off, Experience Zero G, Flyby The P...

01/10/2021

Houston - we have lift off…

The first ever episode of Escape Pods hosted by Ben Randm & Ralph Lawson launches is now available. Fittingly we look at the pioneering work of the late Delia Derbyshire with Caro C.

Caro is the instigator behind Delia Derbyshire Day, an electronic music charity that champions female artists past, present and future. Delia was an English musician and composer who carried out groundbreaking work in the field of electronic music as a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s including realising the electronic arrangement of the timeless Doctor Who Theme. Delia’s work has influenced many prominent musicians including; Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital among many others...

Here’s how Escape Pods works - each episode we ask our guest to select music for a trip into space. We ask them “What’s on your headphones” for; Blast Off, Zero G, The Planets, Last Contact and Alien Worlds as well as a contribution for our Escape Pods Platinum Disc. Here are the first every choices from Caro C:

Blast Off: Delia Derbyshire - Dance from Noah

Zero G: Suzanne Ciani - Seven Waves:Birth of Venus

The Planets: Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils & Golden Sands

Final Contact: Inner Zone Orchestra - People Make The World Go Round

Alien Worlds: Gene Page - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Platinum Disc: Delia Derbyshire - Delian Mode

Platinum Disc (honorary bonus track):
Delia Derbyshire & Ron Grainer - Doctor Who Theme

Caro C Delia Derbyshire Day Carl Craig BBC Radiophonic Workshop Doctor Who

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29/09/2021

Many thanks Decoded Magazine for featuring Escape Pods...

https://www.decodedmagazine.com/ralph-lawson-and-ben-randm-launch-new-podcast-and-radio-show/

DJ and presenter Ralph Lawson and stand-up comedian, presenter, and DJ Ben Randm, today announce the launch of their new podcast

23/09/2021

Escape Pods - a musical journey through the cosmos.

Hosted by Ben Randm & Ralph Lawson

BenRandm Ralph Lawson

12 Episodes from September 30th - Every Thursday 2000 CET
On OpenLab

Each episode a guest is offered a seat on an Escape Pod to leave our world behind. We ask them what they’d put on their headphones as we; Blast Off, Experience Zero G, Flyby The Planets and make Final Contact before venturing on to explore distant galaxies and discover Alien Worlds. We then ask them to select a favourite piece of music to add to our Escape Pods platinum disc and one image, sound or experience of Earth to take with them on their journey.

We delve deep into the guest’s musical selections and explore the artists behind the records. Along the way we find out more about our guests own experiences on our pale blue dot and ask them about hopes and dreams for humanity as we venture into space...

Enjoy the trip.