The Fusion Reactor #250 - Take A Break

I've been tossing around the idea, and I've decided to take a break from doing The Fusion Reactor. This unspecified break will last until I change my mind. It seemed like episode #250 was a good place to leave off.

Take A Break Today (7" Single) (*) - Triumvirat 3:45
Adenosine Breakdown - Blotted Science 3:10
Hard Break - Science NV 3:17
Proggy Mountain Breakdown - Guitar Garden 3:41
Daybreak - Eloy 3:41
Breakdown - Parsons, Alan 3:52
Can't Break My Heart - Powell, Doug 4:10
Daybreak - Visual Cliff 4:13
Cellist Takes a Smoke Break - Kalon 4:55
Breakthrough (With Sinead O'Connor) - Wright, Richard 4:20
I'm Trying to Contain an Outbreak Here and You're Driving the Monkey to the Airport - Forever Einstein 4:26
Breakdown - Horne, Jim 4:31
Daybreak Delight - Passport 4:39
Lunch Break: Peak Hour - Moody Blues 5:29
Outbreak Monkey - Foster, Jack III 6:17
Breake Through - Gong 6:56
Break It Down - Levin, Tony 7:03
Breaking The Spell - Pendragon 9:19
Outbreak - Chambers, Dennis 10:58
When The Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment 16:58

The Fusion Reactor #249 - Don't Touch That!

I have a little translator that goes between Spanish and English. It's the very cheap model, and it isn't very good. My friend wanted to look up how to say something ordinary and very helpfully told him how to say "May I smell it?" or "May I touch it?"

Tonight's show is based on things that might not be so good to touch. But then again, maybe they are OK to touch, we just have the idea that they're not.

Frog	Isotope	2:27
Snake Oil	Tony Williams Lifetime	6:30
Snake	Passport	4:39
The Flyman and the Snake	Timothy Pure	5:21
Snakes Got Legs	Michael Manring	5:00
The Worm	Steen Grøntved	5:04
The Snake	Joe Satriani	4:43
Engembert the Inchworm	Sun Caged	4:36
Diet Of Worms	Doug Powell	5:04
Snakes And Apples	Kit Watkins	9:34
Grow Worm	Sleeping People	4:19
Snake Charmer	Byron Nemeth Group	8:23
Quantum Leapfrog	Proto-Kaw	5:44
Worms	Medeski Martin & Wood	5:06
Terra Sancta	Frogg Cafe	9:42
Land Of The Bag Snake	Soft Machine	5:07
Blood Of The Snake	Derek Sherinian	6:09
Shiny Golden Snakes	Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic	3:06
My Dear Wormwood	Echolyn	3:36
T-Tigers & Toasters	Mahogany Frog	11:11

The Fusion Reactor #248 - Opposites Attract

I'm still in Peru, but I thought it would be fun to bring you some polar opposites for this show. For example, I normally live in the northern hemisphere, but Peru is in the southern hemisphere. But I'm not playing any Rush this show.

Big Church	Martone	6:01
Little Church	Davis, Miles	3:17
Overland	Ad Infinitum	8:43
Underland	Sleeping People	3:22
Overture 2015 (instrumental)	Scenery Channel	5:20
1984 Overture	Wakeman, Rick	3:52
Hold On	CAB	4:38
Let Go	Sol Surfers	8:05
Sister Andrea	Mahavishnu Orchestra	8:45
Brother John	Satriani, Joe	2:11
Answer	Forwardhead	4:13
Questions	Holdsworth, Allan	4:07
Lost	Bozzio Levin Stevens	6:24
The Things I Found	Extol	6:24
Course Epique	Outre Mesure	10:36
: A Short Essay	Echolyn	4:36
Loudest Shop Vac In The World	Don Caballero	8:56
Quiet Stalker	Violent Silence	18:02

The Fusion Reactor #247 - The Fusion Reactor Powers The Universe

You wondered what the universe ran on, didn't you? Well, it turns out that it runs on the stuff The Fusion Reactor puts out. Music, huh? Well, I got a telegram the other day saying that they needed more power because they're planning on something big. So instead of taking the week off while I was in Peru, I had to play these POWER-ful songs.

Firepower	Fripp, Robert & David Sylvian	10:27
Austin Powers	Machacek, Alex	6:04
Strong But Power Less	Osada Vida	6:25
The Power Of Emotion	Moraz, Patrick	6:01
Inside The Power	Unitopia	4:32
Power	Chaibaba	6:24
Power to Mend	Cryptic Vision	10:03
Bring Me to the Power	Yes	7:25
Power	Clarke, Stanley	7:22
Power and the Passion	Mastermind	12:47
The Power To Believe II	King Crimson	7:44
Antichrist II - The Balance Of Power	Saviour Machine	8:01
The Trilogy: I:Time II:Your Power III:Song of Victory	Pursuit	14:34
Powerless	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum	9:33

The Fusion Reactor #246 - Music To Go Somewhere With

In less than a week from this post, I'll be getting on a plane to go to Peru. I thought I'd put together a playlist of songs to go somewhere with. Traveling music, if you like.

Traveling Through Dangerous Scenery	Aireline	4:46
Soul Travels	Fonya	5:06
Five Travellers	Cold Fairyland	4:33
Cosmopolitan Traveler	Dixie Dregs	3:04
Traveller In Time	Uriah Heep	3:20
Arkansas Traveler	Fleck, Béla & the Flecktones	3:06
Travels With Myself - And Someone Else	Bruford, Bill	6:14
Time Traveller	Ivory	4:20
The Traveller's Lament	Magenta	1:18
Time Travel	Hiromi	8:37
Traveller	Currie, Billy & Steve Howe	3:22
Travelling the Great Race	Ozric Tentacles	4:07
Solo From 'More Travels'	Metheny, Pat	3:40
The Traveller	Passport	4:04
Traveler Waits For No One	5uu's	3:29
Astral Traveler	Yes	5:49
Mysterious Traveller	Weather Report	7:22
Traveling	Grobschnitt	6:46
The Best Way to Travel	Moody Blues	3:12
The Traveler	Livgren, Kerry	6:33
Traveling Ohm	Yahowa 13	7:23
Days Are Numbers (the Traveller)	Parsons, Alan	4:53
Fluff's Travels	Phish	11:39

The Fusion Reactor #245 - Good Thing, Bad Thing

This show plays off the improv game "Good Thing, Bad Thing." In the game, the players tell a story "round robin" style, only they must build on the story with one saying something good, and the next saying something bad. So obviously, the story has its ups and downs.

For the show, I tried to keep that theme going with positives and negatives, although so many of them depend on the situation. But here are the songs:

Waiting For Wonderfulness	Salem Hill	6:51
Air Over/Crossing The Line	Yamashta, Stomu	7:09
Hoping For A Miracle	Section A	9:20
Walking Backwards	Space Ritual	5:02
Waiting For A Miracle	Sudakow, James	5:39
Falling	Revelation Project	7:31
Light Gathering	Tunnels	6:10
Walking On The Wind	Spock's Beard	9:09
Alpine Skiing	Soniq Theater	5:30
Holding Thunder	Scale the Summit	6:46
Draining This Pond	Uz Jsme Doma	5:19
Chasing Rainbows	Reasoning, The	6:07
Holding On	Yes	5:25
Holding Back	Ten Point Ten	5:12
Setting Iron John Free	Watkins, Kit	7:23
Killing the Thing That You Love	Styx	5:36
Striking Out A Single Note For Love	Simon Says	11:08

The Fusion Reactor #244 - Things To Try This Summer

Here are some suggestions for things to try if you find yourself bored this summer. Some may be easier said than done, though.

Moving to Bohemia	Lee, Geddy	4:26
Falling Down, Rising Up	Manning	7:57
Dancing on the Wall	Iona	5:27
Walking Through Walls	Pravda	2:58
Awakening	Mahavishnu Orchestra	3:32
Watching Birds	Ponty, Jean-Luc	5:02
Aiming Higher	Narnia	5:14
Killing All The Flies	Mogwai	4:35
Traipsing	Lake Trout	4:33
Walking On The Moon	Kobayashi, Ron	6:57
Looking Thru	Passport	7:44
Dancing In The Dark	Pohjola, Pekka	5:40
Swingin'	Klock, Marc	5:14
Sliding And Gliding	Ozric Tentacles	4:53
Throwing Stones at the Wind	Pallas	5:16
Walking the Wire	Livgren, Kerry	3:47
Climbing Up The Walls	Radiohead	4:45
Moving Mountains	Kids In The Way	3:06
Walking From Pastel	Jobson, Eddie	2:04
Moving	Ra Quintet	4:43
Falling Down	Mosher, Scott	5:01
Leaving My Seat at the Table	Orphan Project	6:11
Dismantling Utopia	Metheny, Pat	6:53

The Fusion Reactor #243 - Would You Rather?

Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do. Sometimes when we're doing those things, we start to think "I'd rather be doing anything but this." But have you considered exactly what that other thing might be? Here are some possibilities, brought to you by some prog, fusion, and even jazz artists.

I'd Rather Be...	With...
Writing on the Wall	Belew, Adrian	3:57
Up and Running	Fleck, Béla & the Flecktones	4:26
Spending Time With You	Gabel, Derryl	5:26
Waiting For Farewell	Cold Fairyland	7:42
a. Searching For the Right Door - b. Spectrum	Cobham, Billy	6:34
Floating	Eloy	4:02
Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats per Minute	Don Caballero	5:49
Swimming In The Big Sky	Djam Karet	4:36
Swimming	Birdsongs of the Mesozoic	3:09
Remembering	Abercrombie, John	4:25
Going on 17	Goodman, Jerry	7:17
Drilling Holes Through Space	Collapsar	5:36
Stepping Through Time	Happy The Man	6:35
Shaking The Spirits	DiMeola, Al	6:31
Dancing On Frith Street	Bruford, Bill	4:15
Sailing	Harrison, Gavin & 05Ric	4:43
Feeling Funky	Crusaders, The	3:02
Breaking Glass	Bowie, David	1:53
Sailing on a River	Glass Harp	3:41
Bicycling In Bombay	Garaj Mahal	6:13
Streaming	Hoelderlin	7:13
Attaining	Coltrane, John	11:25

The Fusion Reactor #242 - The Light, Part 3

Finishing up the Light saga:

Available Light	Rush	5:05
The Perfect Light	Salem Hill	2:48
Arise Awake/Light Versus Darkness/Jim Jeannie	Santana, Carlos	6:12
Darkness and Light	Scelerata	5:54
Sunset Lights	Sfogli, Marco	5:38
Sacred Moon's Light	Sol Surfers	7:39
The Light	Spock's Beard	15:33
Underwater Twilight	Tangerine Dream	5:53
Trip the Light	Tripod	4:10
Light Gathering	Tunnels	6:10
In the Dead of Night/By The Light Of Day/Presto Vivace And Reprise	UK	13:09
The Invisible Light	Univers Zero	3:12
Uriah Heep	Light Of A Thousand Stars	3:57
Vangelis	Red Lights	3:55
Wingdom	Lighthouse Part II	12:29
Yes	Lightning Strikes	4:35
Z-Axis	Slow Glass/Smoke & Mirrors/The Light Of Other Days	6:24