Topic of the Week: Space Music from Undergound Houston - MyMoon
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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: SPACE MUSIC FROM UNDERGOUND HOUSTON
The Houston metropolitan area is a unique community that hosts Johnson Space Center in its southern corridor. Houston is also well known for its vibrant underground music scene. Surely there are musicians or NASA employees who have fuzed this unique environment into a work of art. Here are some musicians from the underground music scene or NASA community right here in Houston, Texas creating music that is spacey, futuristic,or just easy on the ears.
JayLotus
Philippe Edison is a Jazz Musician and Beat maker from Houston. You can check out his music profile here. The video below is a session of him mixing sound samples that looks pretty cool.
NASA Johnson Style
Im sure many people have seen the Johnson Space Center Pathways Interns video that is a parody to the most viewed video in Youtube history(Gangnam Style).
Slow King
Slow King (Mario Martinez) is from Houston and makes ambient and spacey beats. You can check out his music profile here 
This is just a small list of spacey music I like to listen to while I'm working or studying. What is your favorite spacey sounding song to listen at work or dreaming of the day humans will be living on the Moon?
Friday Feb-08-2013
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Dennis M J M.
Monday Feb-11-2013
great post. it is indeed interesting to me that there is a sort of genre of 'space' music. I like to listen to ambient space music stuff on youtube sometimes to pass out... interesting that an environment thought to be basically empty and lifeless speaks to us in such a way that we feel certain music is more 'spacey' than others. I wonder why or how this connection came about. Its also interesting to read about and listen to the "voices of the planets" like what does jupiter sound like from 100,000 KM out and stuff, every planet has its own "noise" and although its not very techno, its still neat to me ! :)
I personally always found dvoraks new world symphony 9th movement to get very "space conquest-y"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuqyfEyNXQo
skip to about 32:05 to see what I mean and think of yourself cascading through the atmosphere of a foreign world like a mandalorian warrior in a protective suit ala felix baumgartner for a few minutes...its a good ride ;)
Eve L.
Tuesday Feb-12-2013
Great post & lots of good suggestions!
I would have to say "Intergalactic" by the Beasties... :)
OR
'Cosmic Love' by Florence and the Machine if I'm feeling more mellow.
Not local but classic!
Dennis M J M.
Wednesday Feb-13-2013
the beastie boys initergalactic??! ... that takes me back ! my adult life makes more sense now. :P
Demarcus B.
Sunday Feb-17-2013
nice list of music. I didn't think about the old school stuff before I was born. Are we still doing the space music series?
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Nick A.
Sunday Feb-10-2013
I love space (and especially Moon) themed music! Or at least space-y :)
M83, named after a galaxy, is a big one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSReIRTcmWM
Lost Lander's name, logo, CD booklet, at least one of their songs are space-themed. Singer's a real big space geek:
http://lostlander.bandcamp.com/
http://lostlander.bandcamp.com/track/dead-moon
(Plus they're Portland-local :D )
Lykke Li did a series of music videos "from the Moon"---this one is great. Nice mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Hz2TEWW18