mix post: the intergalactic edition

I don't know whether it's the fact that I'm not used to seeing so much sky, or whether the aerospace industry is somehow seeping into my subconscious, but this edition of the mix post is dedicated to songs (and bands) in space. (Previous edition: Impatience.)

Alina Simone - Love and Rockets

The Apes - Beyond Beyond

Ballboy - Leave the Earth and Take a Walk into the Sunshine

Big Star - Take Care

Casio Casanova - Cosmos

Gorillaz - Every Planet We Reach Is Dead

Madagascar - All That Spring You Could See Halley's Comet

The Memory Band - This Is How We Walk on the Moon

The National - Looking for Astronauts

The Planet The - You Absorb My Vision

Yellow #5 - Moon Man

Via said the gramophone, fluxblog, FD5000, *sixeyes, The Hype Machine, aurgasm, Em P Me, Pitchfork, songs:illinois, Mystery & Misery et al

"And where are the scientists, Southern California's most precious crop, who have shaped its rocket-propelled postwar economy? In fact, the fate of science in Los Angeles exemplifies the role reversal between practical reason and what the Disneyites call 'imagineering.' Where one might have expected the presence of the world's largest scientific and engineering community to cultivate a regional enlightenment, science has consorted instead with pulp fiction, vulgar psychology, and even satanism to create yet another layer of California cultdom."
- Mike Davis, City of Quartz
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