This month's show is a space special! Hooray! Telepathic communication with aliens and moon frisbees are dealt with, dismissively in some cases. Friend of the podcast, Dr Martin Austwick is on hand to provide August's full play and we announce the winner of our Geek Like Me mini-album competition. If you want to hear more about the science behind Martin's song 'Luminiferous Aether', check out Jim's sneaky bit of moonlighting on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast. Or see our last post for some live snippets from Martin's Wilton's Music Hall performance at Geek Pop Live in March.

There are full-length versions of some of this month's songs on Spotify (you'll also find some spacey extras suggested by our listeners). Download links via iTunes/Soundcloud/Bandcamp below:

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu

Jupiter - Neue

The Commander Thinks Aloud - The Long Winters

Moon Song - House of Strange

Luminiferous Aether - Dr Martin Austwick (full play) (and here's the album)

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Dudes! It's another packed show with snowflakes, space elevators, some tough decisions to be made in an extended Geek Poll and a live session from the awesome Bronze Medallists, recorded in their garage. Don't say we don't love you.

Check out full-length versions of this month's picks on Spotify or Mixcloud. iTunes links below:

2 Atoms in a Molecule - Noah and the Whale

Crystalline - Telegrams

Space Elevator - Glen Phillips

Radiation - I Am Kloot

LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Mathematics (Kitschen Version) - Bronze Medallists

And they made *another* rather lovely video to go with it.

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We're ba-aack! (Again.) Did you miss us? Well, luckily for you, this is a bumper edition, featuring crocodiles, the moon, radioactive children and none other than the Rapconteur himself, Baba Brinkman. His album The Rap Guide to Evolution has been turned into an awesome video project, and the live show will soon to be taking to a stage just off Broadway. There are snippets from the interview in the show, but you can also listen to the full version here or on MixCloud.

Our June Spotify playlist is right about here. To download the tracks for keeps, use the iTunes links below.

Roundy Round - Monty Harper

Country Low - The Foxes

Chemistry - Semisonic

The Kids Are Radioactive - Misty's Big Adventure

Performance, Feedback, Revision - Baba Brinkman (full play)

And for the FULL Baba interview, click here.

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Yo! Podcast listeners! If you've been listening carefully you'll know that Geek Pop Podcast host Hayley is getting wed this month. So instead of making a podcast for you lot, she'll be lazing on a Sardinian beach. This means for the first time since before July 2009, there is no podcast... or at least, no normal podcast. We have, however, put together a little package of best bits to tide you over. It contains such memorable times as the fabled "fly" episode and snippets from our interview with Martin Noble from British Sea Power. And if that's not enough, why not delve into our archives yourselves? We'll be back in June. See ya! (Oh and here's a Spotify list for this episode).

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We're back after all the excitement of the 2011 Geek Pop festival, with silly things like babies in boiling tubes, frog wrestling and Arnie, and sensible things like maths and a whole segment devoted to the great Yuri Gagarin. Plus, Jim says "schmo". And don't forget to vote in the GEEK POLL! below.

If you're after our April Spotify playlist, it's here. There are only two songs on it, 'cause this month's tracks are slightly skewy. But if you want to download them in iTunes, some of the links are below.

The Mathemagician - You & The Atom Bomb

Mama Steel - Ariel Archer (Soundcloud)

The Quest for the Golden Frog - Professor Elemental

Radio Gagarin - Karmadillo (or get the whole mini-album!)

Gagarin’s Way – Dr Stu & the Neutron Stars (Exclusive) - download as zip

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The Geek Pop 2011 festival is go! Our highlights include the awesome Jeffrey Lewis headlining at The Tetrahedron, a song about Professor Brian Cox and a musical rendition of the Fibonacci series. Listen below, download for free via our iTunes feed, or jump to virtual gigs for artists on our highlights playlist by clicking on the arrows.

Free downloads of over 40 Geek Pop 2011 songs are available online at the 2011 festival site.

Thanks to our sponsors Graphic Science and the British Science Association for their support.

For six bonus tracks including Spirit of Play’s ‘An Element Sends A Postcard Home’, download the Geek Like Me mini-album at geekpop.bandcamp.com for just £4. Geek Pop will donate a third of the profits to a fund for new science-inspired music.

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The subject of robots explored through song! What could be geekier? We had so many suggestions for this podcast we couldn't fit them all on, but here are our top tunes. As always, don't forget to vote in the Geek Poll - this month we ask you to pick the coolest science fiction robot EVER (below).

We also preview the 2011 Geek Pop festival, with clippage from MJ Hibbett and a full length Lardpony track. (Ex-Lardpony member Vom Vorton will be taking to the Comical Flask stage in March). Get tickets for our launch party here.

The February Spotify playlist is here. We're also putting together a Robot Song Spotify list including all the suggestions we couldn't use. But if you want to download this month's tracks in iTunes, click on the links below.

Dirty Robot - Arling and Cameron

I Am Not a Robot - Marina and the Diamonds

Build the Robots - Dr Steel

Robot Rock – Daft Punk

Robot Son - Lardpony (full play)

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Happy New Year! This month in the podcast we get to grips with The Future, both technologically and science... fictionally, as we discuss dystopian futures, the many forms the coming apocalypse could take and what albums we'd want with us on a space trip.

The crew has finally entered the digital era, with some new sound recording equipment, but do bear with us as we haven't quite figured it all out yet.

Conversely, this month's live session is from the distant past - the other half of a live session recorded by Spirit of Play in March 2010. (See the March 2010 live session for the first half).

The January Spotify playlist is here. But if you want to download the tracks on iTunes, click on the links below.

All of One is the Other - The Most Serene Republic

Citizens of Tomorrow - Tokyo Police Club

The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design - Rodney Crowell

One Night in Space - Tangerine Dream

Live session: M - Spirit of Play (listen here)

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It's the Christmas podcast! Complete with sleigh bells, a baby and Christmas dinner, not to mention Christmas spirit in the form of ethanol. Plus, we speak to Jon Butterworth, who's been involved in making an album with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, and discuss snowflakes the size of milk pans.

This month's live session isn't *technically* live but it was recorded exclusively for us, for the purpose of our Christmas podcast. And it is AWESOMELY geeky. Thanks to Declan Fleming for that.

Sadly, this month's playlist was a bit obscure for Spotify, so you'll only find one song on the list, but here it is! You can download a few more of the tracks on iTunes.

Vitamin - Kraftwerk

Points Of Order – The TLAs (details of album release here)

Machines (Back To Humans) – Queen

Snow – Arran Arctic

Live(ish) session: I Wish I Had A Smaller pKa – Declan Fleming (listen here)

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And as an added incentive, we've put together an extra 3 minutes of unheard audio from the podcast, just for those who donate. It's a bit silly, but you might like it. Just follow the link back to the site once you're done donating.

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