SONG: “Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: Squid Pro Crow.

SOURCE: Based on “Exotic creatures discovered living at deep-sea vent in Indian Ocean”, Guardian, 28 Dec 2011, as used in the post “Creatures of the Dragon Vent”.

ABSTRACT: This song was a result of a thing that I found [...]

SONG: “Rocket Africa.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans in space”, CNN, 4 Oct 2011, as used in the post “From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)”.

ABSTRACT: I thought the African Space Research Program really needed an anthem. So [...]

When he’s not playing electric guitar with a bow, the Led Zeppelin virtuoso makes stranger noises:

The one that bears his name:

That’s where electronic music began.

SONG: “Shining Stone (Calcite Double Refraction).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Magical Viking stone may be real”, The Telegraph, 2 Nov 2011, as used in the post “How Vikings found the sun”.

ABSTRACT: Viking navigators. I wanted to make a song that sounded like a saga. Like an ancestral [...]

That’s how The Telegraph puts it. “Boffins” (a lovely word) helped the band Marconi Union design a song so relaxing, you shouldn’t put it on your car stereo:

Dr David Lewis-Hodgson, from Mindlab International, which conducted the research, said: “The results clearly show that the track induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested.

“Brain [...]

SONG: “Move It Close to You.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed man touch girlfriend”, CBS News, 10 Oct 2011, as used in the post “Touching robot fingers”.

ABSTRACT: It’s funny – whenever I play this song with just an acoustic guitar, it kind of [...]

Giant Squid is a doom metal/sludge rock band (with a cello) that writes songs about humpback whale tongues and the violent mating habits of sharks.

Plus, their songs have marine species’ Latin names as subtitles. Plus plus they have T-shirts based on Ernst Haeckel illustrations.

Their latest album is only five tracks long, but goes on for 35 very [...]

SONG: “Turn Me Inside Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Gut instinct: Tantalising evidence that intestinal bacteria can influence mood”, The Economist, 3 Sep 2011, and “Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?”, Wired, 26 Aug 11,as used in the posts “Antibiotics: not so good for you” [...]