Seti-x -Scrambles Of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar -SEELAND CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Uranium Nations/Hello Children

1.2 Pulsar Plus

1.3 Thin Dark Night

1.4 Ill-Tempered Wedding

1.5 Visit to the Observatory

1.6 Rushing Streams

1.7 Men's House Stutter

1.8 Shakuhachi Mariachi

1.9 Just Cranes

1.10 Back in the CCCP

1.11 Countdown

1.12 Scrambles of Earth/What Earthlings Are Made of

1.13 Renaissance Faire Eject/Gasping in Twelve Languages

1.14 Queen's Queens

1.15 Fifth World

1.16 My Life in a Field of Sheep

1.17 Total Transmission

1.18 Psychlo Killer/Total Transmission

1.19 Fifth Dysphony

1.20 The Rites of Mars

1.21 I Am Getting Married in a Spaceship

1.22 Way Down

1.23 Interleave

1.24 Elegy for Pluto/Secretary General

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Remixed By The Extraterrestrials

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In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts, fastening to each a phonograph album containing sounds and music of Earth. In 2010, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile (Seti-X), a dissident offshoot of the better-known Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, received transmissions believed to be extraterrestrial remixes of these records. The Scrambles of Earth CD contains the 70 minutes worth of sound segments-that Seti-X has so far been able to reconstruct. The scientists of Seti-X, finding their colleagues skeptical and their institutions unwilling to vouch for or make available the sounds they had received, at first sought contact with the principality of Sealand, in hopes that this micro-nation dedicated to stewarding controversial data might channel extraterrestrial sounds to a broader public.

Total Time: 01:10:33 This album is built on a cute idea. Back in 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecrafts, each of which contained (among other things) recorded examples of music from Planet Earth's various cultures: some Bach, some Delta blues, some ABBA, instrumental performances from China and Japan, Georgian choral music, etc. The idea was that the music would be played into space by these two spacecraft and perhaps would be heard and maybe even responded to by alien beings of some kind. The cute concept behind this album is that aliens have heard the music and responded in the form of remixes, broadcast back through space and picked up by SETI-X (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile, "a dissident offshoot of the better-known Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"). But if the term "remix" leads you to expect something funky, or coherent, or even consistently interesting, think again: there are some fascinating moments, such as the clever "Psychlo Killer," which combines bits of Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" with elements of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth story) and the conventionally industrial-sounding "Fifth Dysphony" and "The Rites of Mars." But much of the rest of the program sounds randomly thrown together. The problem isn't that it's abrasive or difficult (though at moments it is both), but rather that it doesn't sound as if very much thought or care was invested in it. The album is OK as a passing curiosity, but it's not something you're likely to listen to more than once.

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SEE532.2

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