Over the Edge
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Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air from a variety of formats and equipment. There is a plan and there is no plan. The mix consists of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. OTE sometimes employs “Receptacle Programming,” which means you.
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Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 9
Our selective overview of the Universe and its other life expands to comedy with The Firesign Theatre’s “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” plus intermixing two 50’s documentaries on the flying saucer flap from America and Britain, lots of Pink Floyd, and Wobbly can’t borrow my Booper. 3 Hours.
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 8
Back to unidentified flying life in the Universe and what that makes us feel about everything. Bits from “Moonrock Footnotes #13” continue, along with what the Bible says about flying saucers, old radio science fiction and documentaries about same, scientists describing the Universe, and songs that are trying to get to a point too big … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 7
Suicide Man, himself, shows up for a live, 3 hour talk show about the universe. We take calls and discuss the many mysteries of space as we understand it, which isn’t that much as it turns out. An unusual encounter with Suicide Man, one of our oldest and most dedicated callers to Over The Edge. … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 6
Sightings and saucers continue with a lengthy and detailed account of the icon-forming Roswell saucer crash in ’47 and all the lore about it that followed. Mixed in is an OTE episode from 2001, “Moonrock Footnotes #13, which contains a lot of original scripted fiction of mine built around some old radio fiction about scientists … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 5
Films and their projectors spin at the center of this second look at saucers flying in the ‘50’s. A ‘50’s dramatized documentary film, “The Truth About Flying Saucers,” plays pretty straight for its historical interest, intruded upon only by “novelty” songs of the day on the subject and Receptacle callers. “What is this, science fiction … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 5
This one is all about the flying saucer rage of the 1950’s. All the material comes from the 50’s, including a Long John Neble historical overview of the whole flap, first person encounter accounts, descriptions of various crafts seen, 50’s science fiction drama acknowledging this emergence of aliens in our culture, and 50’s songs on … Continued
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part 4
Astronomers and scientists continue describing the physics of the Universe and its contents, including the space race and its probes, Mars and its exploration, the positioning of human religions in all this, and plenty of space songs and receptacle callers throughout. 3 Hours
Over the Edge – “Universe” Part Two
This extended universal episode begins with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon backing up our universal commentators on the Universe and anything in it. Astronomers and scientists discuss planets, stars, distances, and luminosity as observed and measured out there in the big black. From the history of human space exploration to simultaneous space song … Continued