#PumpUpThaVolume: February 4, 2025 ♬

[0] You said that the competition in San Antonio was a dance competition?

[1] Yes.

[2] And it was that you danced the moonwalk?

[3] That's right.

[4] Are you still able to moonwalk?

[5] Oh.

[6] Inappropriate circumstances.

[7] My wife says inappropriate circumstances.

[8] Please fire up our bigger song.

[9] something else in, I guess.

[10] Electro Liners on Media Monarchy.

[11] Crazy Train, not a cover.

[12] Dan Wearit and Jim Hopkins.

[13] That one goes back to 1995.

[14] I've got a brand new 2024 reissue, but I'm playing it on a classic Tech 12 SL 1200 MK2, as should be.

[15] Mint Condition MC 064 vinyl 12 inch reissue remastered UK.

[16] May 8th, 2024, gifted to the kingdom and autographed and personalized by Jim Hopkins.

[17] One half of Electro Liners.

[18] Huge thanks to Jim and Electro Liners.

[19] And a huge thanks to Danny, man. He sends good shit to me. It says to DJ Top Jimmy, pump up the volume.

[20] I am and I shall.

[21] I've got another personalized by the artist LP sent in from Danny as well.

[22] That one is backed up on the tarmac.

[23] Got a lot of music for you here in the Media Monarchy Kingdom.

[24] I am James Evan Palato.

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[32] February 4th, 2025.

[33] If you believe them.

[34] They tell me it's a Tuesday.

[35] Tuesdays mean technology news in the morning.

[36] I'm really getting into Stephen Levy's book, Hackers from 84, I think.

[37] Trying to find more about the Tech Model Railroad Club, but we can discuss that some other time.

[38] We're done with the technology talk.

[39] It's time for techno music.

[40] Thumping, bumping, electro -techno sounds.

[41] I got good stuff for you.

[42] Did you ever play Xenon, the pinball machine?

[43] I did not, but we'll listen to some of it.

[44] By the legendary Susan Shiani at the end of this episode.

[45] Her music.

[46] For the 1980 pinball machine, Xenon!

[47] In between the classic electro, brand new shiz, and we will chill bill with New Zealand -based DJ Bosnich and Senoy, Nick Storing, Anastasia Zems, and Splitterzel.

[48] Colorado's Alm Lab, we will take a spiral walk with the Netherlands duo, but we'll get it going again with just a real...

[49] real great electro -pop kind of thing.

[50] You know, anytime I mention their name, I always go, where's your lockdown now?

[51] That was really when I first started to pay attention to the London duo Real Lies.

[52] Because remember, real eyes, real eyes, real lies towards horses.

[53] This is Media Monarchy.

[54] Monarchy.

[55] On Media Monarchy, that's the name of the Netherlands -based synth -pop duo, A Spiral Walk.

[56] With a pretty sweet cut called Dig.

[57] Wrapping up your first two -song set here on a Techno Tuesday.

[58] Getting it started off right.

[59] Producer Sean was trying to put like a slow ambient thing there.

[60] Second, we gotta start off strong.

[61] Boom.

[62] Great new stuff from Real Lies.

[63] Before that, Towards Heroes is the name of the London duo's new single.

[64] And again, everything will be written up in your show notes.

[65] You don't have to remember.

[66] realizing all the real lies.

[67] Who got Michigan yesterday?

[68] Come on, you guys.

[69] We got to work on constantly building the perfect music set.

[70] And if we're going to make it to the quiz bowl, what construction toy was designed by the son of Frank Lloyd Wright?

[71] Pretty much got two guesses.

[72] Come on, you know.

[73] Show your resilience.

[74] That's the cut coming up from Splitterzel.

[75] Portuguese -German duo.

[76] You better believe it gets the red underline.

[77] But first, let's head up to Colorado.

[78] I don't know if I'll see any baseball.

[79] Be fun to go to the spring training shit down in Phoenix.

[80] Or, of course, the wanger.

[81] Sympathetic Response is the just -released eight -song digital album by the Colorado -based project known as AlmLab.

[82] A -U -M -L -A -B.

[83] Portal Coil Monarchy.

[84] media monarchy Damn, it's already over.

[85] I was trying to talk with my friend Gardner about where the gelatin is stocked in his Canadian grocery stores while also discussing my love for Total Recall, RoboCop, Die Hard.

[86] Did you ever see Run?

[87] Patrick Dempsey?

[88] So good.

[89] I'd love to get the rights to that soundtrack.

[90] You know, for Monarchy Records.

[91] Splitterzell on Media Monarchy.

[92] S -P -L -I -T -T -E -R -Z -E -L -L -E.

[93] Splitterzell.

[94] Self -titled LP by the Portuguese -German duo Pedro Pestana and Sidney Jaffe.

[95] It's out on Fuzz Club.

[96] Resilience was that cut we just closed out with.

[97] We're only halfway there.

[98] Living on a musical prayer.

[99] I'm your radio butt -butt James Ovenpilato.

[100] On lab before that.

[101] A -U -M -L -A -B.

[102] Hey, and our buddy Clint Torres is going to see some...

[103] spring training over in gilbert hi gilbert portal coil ah i have to say it again like mortal coil can't trick a trickster my dad would always say dang mcg got it it was lincoln logs i was thinking erector set It's tough finding like sci -tech questions on Trivial Pursuit All -American 1993.

[104] Chintzing on the amount of cards in the box.

[105] Rusty posted a picture.

[106] He's got the other box of cards from the All -American edition.

[107] Yeah, it's like a bag of chips.

[108] It's like fucking half air.

[109] Ah, but ain't that America.

[110] And my implication this morning when I was talking about...

[111] I should do a flipped schedule and go on the air at 9 p .m. my time.

[112] I would still, like, drink and smoke through all that.

[113] So that's what would make it fun.

[114] Allegedly.

[115] Oh, yeah.

[116] What trophy ended up in Marielle Lemieux's swimming pool in 1992?

[117] I am number one.

[118] Remember, I also told you that yesterday morning.

[119] We get to hear some classic pinball music at the end of this episode.

[120] Still got a ways to go with some electro.

[121] Don't get electro -macuted.

[122] Nick Storing.

[123] Out of Canada.

[124] Grief.

[125] They're really invading our pump -up volumes.

[126] Ah, here we go.

[127] We got music from a Russian.

[128] There we go.

[129] Russian composer and musician Anastasia Zems.

[130] Is that the Baroness?

[131] This is on a just -released Various Artists Compilation album called Perks, P -E -R -C -S.

[132] It's available via the Montevideo Uruguay -based label called Uruguay.

[133] You know, like you are gay.

[134] Does he treat you right, Anastasia?

[135] Ask Media Monarchy.

[136] to Media Monarchy with James Evan Pilato.

[137] Media Monarchy.

[138] Yeah, I like Patrick Dempsey.

[139] So what?

[140] At least those two movies.

[141] Rocks of One from Nick Storing, lead singer to preview, Mirante.

[142] Upcoming ninth album by the Canadian composer and musician Nick Storing, S -T -O -R -R -I -N -G.

[143] Wrapping up another awesome thumping, bumping set here on a Techno Tuesday.

[144] Dude, RBL.

[145] I know, I was going to say Loverboy 2.

[146] It's no accident, it's Media Monarchy.

[147] Anastasia Zim's on top.

[148] Does he treat you right?

[149] The instrumental from Russian composer and musician.

[150] And I only probably really learned how to say Montevideo from Damon Albarn.

[151] He says it in something.

[152] It's maybe on his cellar record, Everyday Robots.

[153] I'm James Evan Palato, your everyday radio in the Media Monarchy Kingdom.

[154] You know, at least Monday through Friday.

[155] Hey, huge congrats.

[156] Tomorrow we'll do it upright, but huge congratulations to George Strait for Hip Hop Artist of the Year.

[157] Old Time Radio coming up next hour.

[158] Fudge Trudy got, of course, appropriately.

[159] The Canucks should know.

[160] That's the Stanley Cup.

[161] Floating in Mario Lemieux's swimming pool in 1992.

[162] Why, yes, I am in first place in monarchy hockey.

[163] What Atlantic State's Grand Strand Beach stretches for 60 miles along its coast?

[164] Doing the best I can here with any kind of sci -fi, sci -nature kind of questions.

[165] Not a lot of, not real strong on the sciences here in the All -American Trivial Pursuit.

[166] It's like I made them or something.

[167] Last set?

[168] Yeah?

[169] Okay.

[170] I was never huge into pinball machines.

[171] They're amazing and beautiful.

[172] And super steampunk, and I wouldn't turn one down to have it here in the Media Monarchy Kingdom.

[173] So I never played Xenon.

[174] Also, it came out when I was three.

[175] Did you ever been to Ground Control?

[176] There's some good pinball action at multiple places back in Portland.

[177] At least there used to be.

[178] I assume they're still there.

[179] Crackheads don't really want pinball machines.

[180] We will go back to 1980 at the end of this episode.

[181] I like to kind of, you know, slip in lots of throwbacks, no matter what day it is.

[182] However, your penultimate cut.

[183] First release of 2025 by Sanoi, S -A -N -O -I, accompanied by fellow New Zealand -based DJ Bosnich.

[184] That's Bosnich.

[185] It's out on Loop Recordings.

[186] Hey, chill, Bill.

[187] It's Monarchy.

[188] Tilt.

[189] Susan Ciani, Xenon Long Effects, composed by sound designer and synth pioneer Susan Ciani, C -I -A -N -I, using state -of -the -art synth clavier synthesizer tech for the Xenon Pinball Machine, developed by Greg Kamek and released in 1980 by those beautiful bastards at Bali.

[190] The EP Xenon, a collection of three tracks, the full extent of the sound effects for the Xenon Pinball Machine, presented in an isolated form for the first time, All is now available via the artists.

[191] All up on Bandcamp.

[192] And I was wondering, how much of this music did the pinball machine play?

[193] Were people like, shut the fuck up.

[194] Sano and Bosnich before that.

[195] A huge thanks to producer Sean for some bleepy bloops.

[196] Click those links.

[197] Support those independent artists.

[198] Tell them you heard it on Media Monarchy.

[199] Hell, they might hear it of us.

[200] I played the Pac -Man arcade cabinet dealie that's not quite real size at Best Buy the other day.

[201] It's not bad, like responsive -wise in the movements, and it didn't feel like a chintzy piece of crap.

[202] McG got South Carolina, and you will get old -time radio next hour, and we'll switch it up on Wednesday.

[203] That'll be food news and country music, but let's shut it down.

[204] February 4th, 2025, cyberspace war, pump up the volume, top Jimmy, slinging that chip since 9 -11 -05.

[205] You know, like McG says, don't hate the media.

[206] Become the media.

[207] Take care.

[208] You're listening to Media Monarchy with James Evan Pilato.

[209] I just want to hear the music, that's all.