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49. #MikeOldfield - Tubular Bells, 1973.
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There are two fictional radio transmissions that always chill me to the bone.
People who know me will know exactly what I am talking about, and can switch channels now. :)
One is from the cover of a science fiction game, the other from a song.
Let's talk about the game first.
Traveller is the granddaddy of all science fiction role-playing games. Influenced heavily by Andre Norton and the Golden Age of SciFi, it was first published as three little black books that came in a little black box.
On the cover with "Traveller" in red, and "Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far Future" beneath it in white.
Above that though, was one of the most attention-grabbing fragments of text ever. It was a radio transmission:
"This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone...
Mayday Mayday... we are under attack... main drive is gone... turret number one is not responding... Mayday... losing cabin pressure fast.. calling anyone..please help... This is Free Trader Beowulf... Mayday"It paints a bleak picture of a lone ship in the depths of space, out of luck and out of time. Does the crew have any chance at all? Even after decades, this chokes my throat and brings tears to my eyes.
The second is from the Mike Oldfield song Five Miles out. It is also a mayday call. But this time it is the weather that is the enemy. "Mayday mayday mayday
Calling all stations
This is Golf Mike Oscar Victor Juliet
IMC cu nimb icing
In great difficulty
Over"Here we have a little Beechcraft 18 caught up in a thunderstorm it has almost no chance of dealing with. But the pilot is going to do his best to try and get help from the ground.
The ATC is doing their best, too, but it is not looking good "Victor Juliet your identity I have lost in the violent storm. Communicate or squawk emergency."
Telling the pilot that they only got part of the message, and asking for more information - or for the plane to switch its transponder to the emergency channel 7700.Again, someone alone in an untenable position, doing their best to get help and to hang on as long as they can.
And yes, they have been inspirations for me.
So folks, are there any fictional radio transmissions that always get to you? Or have inspired your own writing?
#TravellerRPG #MikeOldfield #FiveMilesOut #Music #SciFi #RadioMessages #Writing #Gaming #TTRPG
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Que els d'Opus One han muntat un senyor concert per l'eclipsi de Tubular Bells + Hergest Ridge + Ommadawn 😱😱😱 I a sobre gratis!
Em queda una mica lluny, però sé que em segueix gent que li queda a prop (Palència). I també l'enregistraran. Més info: https://www.opusone.cat/es/post/el-concierto-del-eclipse
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Als alter Gen-Xer höre ich in meinem geistigen Ohr diese Meldung natürlich jedes Mal, wenn sie auftaucht, auf die Melodie von "Shadow on the wall"
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CW: AI Generated Art
Does anyone here get vivid visions while listening to #MikeOldfield music? I do. Here’s my vision from the end of #Ommadawn Part 1.
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Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (Virgin VR13-105, 1973)
I bought this because I’m an idiot and was thinking it was the main sample on the Orb’s “Fluffy Little Clouds.” Not even close. (That’s Steve Reich/Pat Metheny.) This is the Exorcist soundtrack and I hate it. Not my deal. At all. (It’s probably alright if you’re *super* high.)
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Tubular Bells 2026 from the BBC Proms 🤘
https://youtu.be/JEquvyaBCLI [ 7' 54"]
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Ik heb nog maar het begin gehoord en het lijkt erop dat ze Mike eer doen.
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BBC Proms 2026 - Tubular Bells
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JEquvyaBCLI&is=9yTiS35Gt3F6FDaJ
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Tubular Bells and its various sequels and versions is a bit like the MCU. You can listen to each of them and enjoy all your favorite characters, uhm, I mean themes, reappear in exiting variations and combinations.
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LP-Radiowerbung (November 1989) trifft Plattenschrank:
Ronny's Pop Show 14 (CBS)#compilation #sampler #cbs #ronnyspopshow #kaoma #lambada #blackbox #rideontime #technotronic #tinaturner #mikeoldfield #martika #toysoldiers #lizaminnelli #honesty69 #frenchkiss #millivanilli #radio #radiowerbung #ads #radioads #vinyl #record #1989 #80er #80s
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#music #MikeOldfield #tubular #bells
Слухаємо: https://youtu.be/_86Gm9iclAgНе забувайте стежити за нашим музичним каналом [Музика на хвилях піратського Радіо 390]. Зі швидкістю ноти. Музичні треки: https://tinyurl.com/signal-music-wave
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TNO – Metonymy
#Alternative #JeanMichelJarre #MikeOldfield #Vangelis #VintageSynths #genesis #progressive #synth1 #tangerinedream #Lille
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
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TNO – Sounds in the Chroma Key
#Alternative #Enigma #JeanMichelJarre #MikeOldfield #Vangelis #ambient #chillout #lounge #progressive #psychedelic #Lille
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
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TNO – Etheration
#70s #Alternative #MikeOldfield #Vangelis #VintageSynths #instrumental #progressive #tangerinedream #Lille
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
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On May 15th, 1953: #MikeOldfield, British musician and composer (Tubular Bells), born in Reading, Berkshire.
#HappyBirthday #73 ⊹₊⋆🎂💐🎉₊°⊹ -
#WenkoffRetro No. 318 🎶❤️
#retromusicKlidný pátek s hudebním kalendářem! 🤞
Dnes slaví 73. narozeniny *Michael Gordon Oldfield*!
*Mike Oldfield*, nar. 15.5.1953, je 🇬🇧 multiinstrumentalista, skladatel a producent, který zásadně ovlivnil podobu moderní hudby propojením rocku, elektroniky, folku a vážné hudby.
Profesionální dráhu zahájil již v r. 1967 v sourozeneckém folkovém duu *The Sallyangie* se sestrou Sally. Skutečný zlom však nastal v r. 1973, kdy vydal své první sólové album *Tubular Bells*. Toto monumentální instrumentální dílo se stalo prvním titulem nově vzniklého vydavatelství *Virgin Records* a díky své kvalitě (a použití úvodního motivu ve filmu Vymítač ďábla) se stalo celosvětovým fenoménem.
Mike je známý svou schopností ovládnout desítky hudebních nástrojů. Jeho styl se v průběhu dekád proměňoval od progresive rocku a symfonických skladeb přes new age a ambient až po pop-rock 80. let.
Dosud Mike vydal 26 studiových alb. Za zmínku stojí ta nejzásadnější:
- *Tubular Bells* (1973): Definující dílo jeho kariéry.
- *Ommadawn* (1975): Je považováno za vrchol jeho folkově-etnických fúzí.
- *Crises* (1983): Obsahuje jeho největší komerční hit, popovou klasiku „Moonlight Shadow“.
- *The Songs of Distant Earth* (1994): Průkopnické dílo v oblasti digitální produkce a sci-fi atmosféry.
Za *Tubular Bells* získal v r. 1975 cenu Grammy za nejlepší instrumentální kompozici. Kromě toho je držitelem mnoha zlatých a platinových desek po celém světě.
V současné době žije Mike v ústraní na Bahamách. Jeho posledním velkým studiovým počinem bylo album *Return to Ommadawn* (2017). Ačkoliv fanoušci stále doufají v dokončení projektu *Tubular Bells 4*, Mike se věnuje především soukromému životu a k veřejnému dění se vyjadřuje jen zřídka.
My si dnes dáme po ochutnávce z jeho 8. a 9. alba.
Fajnoví šmekři si zřejmě dají nějakou kompozici v kuse. Já taky, jen co si uvařím ☕ a sednu k práci.Enjoy! ♥️🎶
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Found myself listening to Mount Teide by #MikeOldfield. Never been one of my favourites - weird rhythm signature, a bit diddly bomp, but quite pleasant for all that.
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Secrets y Far Avobe the clouds en directo 2 veces seguidas en el año 98.
Oír esas campanadas en directo tuvo que ser increíble. -
Alte LP-Radiowerbung (Dezember 1983) trifft Plattenschrank:
Super Hit News (K-tel)
Sprecher: Werner Reinke#compilation #ariola #hitnews #mikeoldfield #lionelrichie #trio #eltonjohn #cultureclub #boytronic #döf #peterschilling #majortom #menwithouthats #pop #rock #ndw #synthpop #80er #80shits #altewerbung #radiowerbung #radio #radioads #werbespot #flashback #throwback #retro #vinyl #wernerreinke
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#nowplaying während der #abendrunde mit #django
#MikeOldfield - #incantations , Pt. III
Großartige Scheibe -
"Family Man" is a #popRock song written by #MikeOldfield, Tim Cross, #RickFenn, Mike Frye, #MorrisPert, and #MaggieReilly. It became a hit song in 1982 for Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly as the vocalist. #DarylHallAndJohnOates achieved success a year later with their cover version. In 2009, Maggie Reilly recorded another version of the song for her solo studio album Looking Back Moving Forward.
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"Family Man" is a #popRock song written by #MikeOldfield, Tim Cross, #RickFenn, Mike Frye, #MorrisPert, and #MaggieReilly. It became a hit song in 1982 for Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly as the vocalist. #DarylHallAndJohnOates achieved success a year later with their cover version. In 2009, Maggie Reilly recorded another version of the song for her solo studio album Looking Back Moving Forward.
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Beneath a Steel Sky – Cleave Review
By sentynel
Including “for fans of” is pretty common when marketing a band. But is it actually a good idea? Promo text that reads “for fans of [the biggest bands in this genre]” is the worst offender—why wouldn’t I just listen to those bands? I’d rather hear what makes this band stand out. But listing more interesting little-known bands only helps if the audience have heard of them. Anyway, this is post-metal band Beneath a Steel Sky, and they’re for fans of Isis, Cult of Luna, Cave In, Russian Circles, Mogwai… and the rather more obscure Aereogramme.
Beneath a Steel Sky play a less genre-faithful take on post-metal than I had therefore been given to expect. Cleave is spacier and dreamier than the comparisons to Isis and Cult of Luna might suggest, to the extent that in places it reminds me of stoner/psychedelic bands like Dead Meadow (“Vanguard”). There’s lots of reverb-soaked clean vocals, synth washes and floaty guitars (“The Sky Above the Port Was the Colour of Television, Tuned to a Dead Channel,” “Quetzalcoatlus,” …). The Mogwai comparison hints at this, but unlike Mogwai, they are not boring. Like Aereogramme and Mogwai, they are Scottish, and there’s a definite spacey/stonery Scottish post-* scene they fit into. Likewise, in places, in song construction and style, they also remind me of fellow Scots Dvne—for example, the mixed down clean vocals in “The Sky…”, or the clean/harsh vocal duets in a few places (e.g. “Vanguard”). This twist on the post-metal formula works well for them.
There’s some great songwriting on Cleave. There are some really pretty melodies woven into the dreamy atmospheric sections (“Vanguard,” “Quetzalcoatlus”). They make good use of their six (!) musicians with some complex multi-part sections (“Cyclical Dunt”). “The Infinite Silence That Follows the Absolute Truth” does a very Mike Oldfield-like job of layering onto a simple repeated motif for most of the song’s build. Of course, this is post-metal, so the big metal crescendo after all the build-up is a staple. While they never really stray from the genre template, they do it well. The big riff and soaring melody line on “Quetzalcoatlus” is a highlight, and closing track “The Becoming” is absolutely gorgeous.
One quirk of the production is that whoever did the mixing is a really big fan of the pan slider. Nearly every song has sections with instruments panned nearly all the way to one side or the other. I don’t hate the effect in general, but it’s a bit overused, and the couple of songs that start with fully panned guitars (“Everyone You’ve Ever Known,” “The Infinite Silence…,” “The Becoming”) keep making me think my headphones have broken. There’s also a fade-out ending on “Vanguard” which comes across as a bit of a cop-out. Gimmicks aside, the production does a good job of balancing a lot of parts and maintaining the dreamy feel, although as usual, it didn’t need to be a DR6.
There’s not a huge amount of new ground being broken Beneath [this] Steel Sky, but they successfully bring their own identity to a crowded genre nonetheless. The spacy, somewhat psychedelic take on post-metal both differentiates them and makes Cleave a surprisingly warm listen despite the usual bleakness of post-metal. The songwriting is consistently strong, and with a tidy 40-minute runtime and a great ending, it’s a very satisfying listen.
Rating: Very Good
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Ripcord Records
Websites: beneathasteelsky1.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/beneathasteelskyband
Releases Worldwide: January 24th, 2025#2025 #35 #Aereogramme #BeneathASteelSky #BritishMetal #CaveIn #Cleave #CultOfLuna #DeadMeadow #Dvne #Isis #Jan25 #MikeOldfield #Mogwai #PostRock #PostMetal #Review #Reviews #RipcordRecords #RussianCircles
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Mike Oldfield ft. Maggie Reilly, Moonlight Shadow, 1983 ... https://cctm.website/mike-oldfield-ft-maggie-reilly-moonlight-shadow/
#mikeoldfield #maggiereilly #moonlightshadow #cctmwebsite #fediradio #musica
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Oggi mi va di sentirla a loop, forse perché vorrei che questo sol leone fosse coperto da una bella eclissi 😃
Devo dire il video, ma soprattutto la canzone, sono invecchiati molto bene 😉 -
Emily Linge - Moonlight Shadow
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The #UnsolvedCase of a #Fake #Human #Fossil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdfKh5NSk6Y&ab_channel=PBSEons
#PiltdownMan #Hoax #PiltdownHoax #PiltdownManHoax #HumanOrigins #Fossils #FossilBones #HumanFossil #HumanFossils #Paleontology #Dawson #CharlesDawson #ArthurConanDoyle #ConanDoyle #SirArthurConanDoyle #DNA #MikeOldfield #TubularBells