released August 25, 2023

1. An Otherworldly Light Theme - Dronologue

Composed and performed by Michael G. Maxwell and Robert Schneider using VCVRack software modular synthesizer and a non-Pythagorean musical scale based on logarithms.

Copyright © 2023 Maxwell-Schneider (ASCAP)

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2. Trek Lite - Azalia Snail

produced by Azalia Snail

recorded & mastered by Adam Lasus at Studio Red

Az: omnichord, percussion, synthesizers, drums

Dan West: bass

© 2023 DanAzaliaTunes (ASCAP).

“As the world gets ever more heavy, remember to trek lite”

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3. Picard Eye 3 - Remote Observer

Written and performed by Remote Observer

Instrumentation:
JX-8P
cg delay 1022
ms20
ms50
rev2
dotcom
system 500
ob-6
homemade spring reverb

Copyright © 2023 Benjamin Phelan (BMI)
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4. Unsolicited Theme For TV Powww! - R. Sloan Simpson

R. Sloan Simpson - lead and rhythm guitars, synths, organ, drum programming

Adam Hebert - bass guitar

© 2023 Love You So Good Music (BMI)

I was nine years old in 1982 when the movie Tron came out. Pac-Man was huge, but as a nine-year-old living in Ft. Benning, GA I didn't get to go to arcades yet. Neither my family nor any of my friends' had Atari or Intellivision, but they had an Intellivision at the studios of WLTZ, the NBC affiliate broadcasting from neighboring Columbus. During the "Tom & Jerry" show each afternoon a couple segments of "TV Powww!" were included, and one day I was called to be a contestant.

"TV Powww!" featured local kids who'd submitted their phone number via postcard playing a video game broadcast over live television by saying "Pow!" into the phone at just the right moment to blow up an asteroid. The show's host pressed the fire button on an Intellivision controller at the same time (or as close as possible), and if you were lucky you hit the asteroid and scored a point.

As you can imagine, I was not lucky, and neither were lots of other kids. There were no warm up rounds, there was a delay in the TV broadcast, and it depended on the reflexes of both the contestant and the host. I received the consolation prize of a 2-liter bottle of Coca-Cola (which came in a glass bottle in those prehistoric times) and a coupon for a free round of mini-golf. But that afternoon has stuck with me for over 40 years as sort of a symbol of the excitement of the new technology that was beginning to arrive and would explode during our Generation X lives.

I'm still terrible at video games, but I started writing music in middle age. I can't recall if "TV Powww!" had a theme song. I imagine it did, but given its meaning to me as a portent for the amazing tech to come, I thought it deserved a really epic theme song (even if the show hasn't aired in decades). Maybe someone will revive it, and they could use this "Unsolicited Theme For TV Powww!"

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5. Hidden Beam - Naqada

Joe Lindsey - synthesizer, electronics, composition, production

Amanda Lindsey - Archaeological Advisor

Recorded 2018

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6. Electric Kangaroo - Dan West

Dan West - synths, programming, spoken word

Recorded and Mixed at MT Studios Burbank, CA
Matt Thorne - engineer

© 2023 Professor Sci Fi Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved.

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7. Fwiyerhawks of Wulba - Remote Observer

Written and performed by Remote Observer

Copyright © 2023 Benjamin Phelan (BMI)

Instrumentation:
Cable-Nelson
Cable-Nelson (prepared)
duct
Dimension D clone
homemade SDC
Roland 505 VCF

8. Xystronian Mixing Bowl in 000 - Joe Lindsey

Joe Lindsey - software synthesizer, composition, production

Here is a field recording of a Xystronian kitchen appliance, believed to be a communal mixing bowl with the capacity to feed several hundred. You can hear the low resonant frequency of the bowl itself along with pseudo-random melodies that appear to be tuned in the Xystronian 000 pentatonic scale. Distortion in the recording could be attributed to deterioration of the device over the years, operator error, or more likely, overzealous gain setting on the recording device.

Recorded 2023