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1.1.2016 – 8.13.2016

Releases 1-1-2016 to 8-13-2016.pdf

“I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time traveling. They are excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback — of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, to, of an imminent smash. As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing. The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day. I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air. I had a dim impression of scaffolding, but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things. The slowest snail that ever crawled deshed by too fast for me. The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye. Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars. Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.” H.G. Wells ‘The Time Machine’ – first published in 1895

All of the songs on 640.089 were either purchased legitimately or were offered for free. For more information about the music featured on this collection, please click on the band names in the list below.

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640.089 (click the arrow below to play)

Maybeshewill – Farewell, Sarajevo [00:00]
Caspian – Sad Heart of Mine [05:14]
cataya – sombre sommeil [09:42]
Compass & Knife – The Setting of the Old Sun [18:50]
Mr Dog The Bear – Sawubona Sikhona [23:51]
Waking Aida – Jilted Surfers [29:32]
Fleur de lis – Blaa [35:01]
Sejd – Båtsman [39:10]
All shall be well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well) – Some Speak of the Future, Others of the Past [46:21]
Ranges – They Denied That Wishes Were Horses [53:55]
Shy, Low – Nostos [58:35]

640.089 playlist.pdf

The Sea of Izabella was considerably colder than Candy had expected. It was gaspingly cold; iced-to-the-marrow cold. But it was too late for her to change her mind now. With the ball knocked out of the cup by Mischief’s bullet, the Sea of Izabella was retreating from the jetty at the same extraordinary speed at which it had first appeared. And it was carrying Candy and the John brothers along with it.

The waters seemed to have a life of their own; several times the sheer force of their energies threatened to pull her under. But Mischief had the trick of it.

“Don’t try to swim,” he yelled to her over the roar of the retreating seas. “Just trust to Mama Izabella to take us where She wants to take us.”

Candy had little choice, she quickly realized. The sea was an irresistable power. So why not just lie back and enjoy the ride?

She did so, and it worked like a charm. The moment Candy stopped flailing, and trusted the sea not to harm her, the Izabella buoyed her up, the waves lifting her so high that on occasion she caught sight of the jetty and the lighthouse. They were already very far off, let behind in another world…

Clive Barker ‘Abarat’ 2002 Harper Collins Publishers

We Lost The Sea – A Gallant Gentleman [00:00]
We Stood Like Kings – Volchovstroy [06:04]
Alma – The Lighthouse [15:23]
Spurv – Passacaglia (fugler med ord i nebbet) [21:16]
A Shelter In The Desert – Todo podrá estallar, pero siempre habrá una adelfa que nacerá de entre los escombros [35:29]
Signal Hill – Freelance Forest [44:22]
New Century Classics – Post-Cards [51:51]
Aesthesys – Scrolling In Mind Images Of The Past Day Before Falling Asleep [57:30]
…Of Sinking Ships – Comforted By Predictable Current And Tide [62:00]
Tides From Nebula – Let It Out, Let It Flow, Let It Fly [68:40]
Goodbye, Kings – Memoire [73:40]

All of the songs on 640.088 were either purchased legitimately or were offered for free. For more information about the music featured on this collection, please click on the band names in the list above.

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640.088 playlist.pdf

640.2015  new releases  |  discoveries  |  miscellaneous

2015 releases.pdf

With the year 1926 came an outstanding event in Baldwin’s history, for at that time the Works was ready to build its sixty-thousandth locomotive. To symbolize this event President Samuel M. Vauclain planned and built a huge three-cylinder compound, high-pressure locomotive. It was of the 4-10-2 type and closely resembled engines with this wheel arrangement on the Southern Pacific Railroad. To safely accommodate the high boiler pressure of 350 lb. per square inch, a water-tube firebox was used.

The Baldwin 60000 was designed to be the best locomotive ever made. It weighs about 350 short tons, including tender, and can pull a load of up to 7,000 short tons. Its top speed is 70 mph (110 km/h). 60000 was very innovative, carrying unusual technology, including the water-tube firebox. This was intended to improve efficiency, but the tubes tended to burst inside the firebox. It is also a compound, expanding the steam once in the inside cylinder and then again in the two outside cylinders. Although compounding increased efficiency, it was an extra complication that the US railroads had mostly rejected by the middle twenties. Also, the weight and length of the engine was too much for all but the heaviest and straightest track.

This locomotive was experimental and was meant to be the model for future development.

All of the songs on 640.087 were either purchased legitimately or were offered for free. For more information about the music featured on this collection, please click on the band names in the list below.

From the book The Locomotives that Baldwin Built by Fred Westing (Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania)

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Mooncake – Rf 104  [00:00]
Maïak – I Am Not a Man, I Am a Free Number  [11:13]
Astralia – Heading Home [22:24]
Listen, Earth – Antioch  [29:40]
End Year – post-script  [36:57]
Sleepstream – The Nacre Top of The Sky  [42:28]
Black Clouds – Divide (It’s Not As If We Mattered, Part 3)  [50:35]
Jakob – Resolve  [55:55]
This Patch Of Sky – Time Destroys Everything, But Our Foundation Remains  [65:09]
Rumour Cubes – Research and Destroy  [73:11]
NOMADS – Sunset on The Range [78:26]
Whale Fall – The Madrean  [84:20]

640.087 playlist.pdf