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Nicola Cruz

[162173 Ryugu]

162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cg, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a G-type asteroid.

Ryugu was discovered on 10 May 1999 by astronomers with the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research at the Lincoln Lab’s ETS near Socorro, New Mexico, in the United States. It was given the provisional designation 1999 JU3.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) spacecraft Hayabusa 2 was launched in December 2014 and successfully arrived at the asteroid on 27 June 2018. It is planned to return material from the asteroid to Earth by the end of 2020.

The Hayabusa2 mission includes four rovers with various scientific instruments. On 21 September 2018, the first two of these rovers, which will hop around the surface of the asteroid, were released from Hayabusa2.

On September 22, 2018, JAXA confirmed the two rovers had successfully touched down on Ryugu’s surface. Three images were published; two during descent to the asteroid and one after MINERVA-II1A touched down. This marks the first time a mission has completed a successful landing on a fast-moving asteroid body.

TRKLST:

  1. Andi Otto – Bow Wave (Nicola Cruz Remix)
  2. Ground a.k.a Gr◯un土 – Azido
  3. Egadz – Bombs
  4. Floating Points – Silhouettes (I, II & III)
  5. Mala – Calle F
  6. Photek & Kuru – Fountainhead
  7. Pixelord – Bodø (Pavel Dovgal remix)
  8. Breakage – Dedication
  9. Randomer – Brunk
  10. TMSV – Stress
  11. London Modular Alliance – Saunton
  12. Lakker – Oktavist
  13. TMSV – Back Off
  14. JD. Reid – WOLARN
  15. TH7 IMMORTXLZ – MYSTICXL VOYXG7

[Do Androids Dream]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retitled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth’s life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war. Most animal species are endangered or extinct from extreme radiation poisoning, so that owning an animal is now a sign of status and empathy, an attitude encouraged towards animals. The book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner, and many elements and themes from it were used in its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is tasked with “retiring” (i.e. killing) six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-par IQ who aids the fugitive androids. In connection with Deckard’s mission, the novel explores the issue of what it is to be human. Unlike humans, the androids are said to possess no sense of empathy.

  1. Ramin Djawadi – Seven Nation Army
  2. Thievery Corporation – It Takes A Thief
  3. BéTé – Ponto das Caboclas (BéTé Re-Edit)
  4. Aphrodelics – Rollin’ On Chrome (Wild Motherfucker Dub)
  5. Inner Science – Bright Note
  6. 84PC – Shkarim Ba Afela
  7. Massive Attack & Azekel – Ritual Spirit
  8. Lagartijeando – Tecnoticlan (Spaniol Remix)
  9. Venice – 03. 30th Century 1
  10. Beauty and the Beat – Harer Nama
  11. Lapa – Stoika (Feat. Random Rab)
  12. Desert Dwellers – The Great Mystery
  13. GOLEM – Westing House
  14. DJ Krush – Emission Nebula
  15. Blue Sky Black Death – In A Trance (Instrumental)
  16. Nicola Cruz – Rio Branco

[Superflares]

Superflares are very strong explosions observed on stars with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares. The stars in this class satisfy conditions which should make them solar analogues, and would be expected to be stable over very long time scales. The original nine candidates were detected by a variety of methods. No systematic study was possible until the launch of the Kepler satellite, which monitored a very large number of solar-type stars with very high accuracy for an extended period. This showed that a small proportion of stars had violent outbursts, up to 10,000 times as powerful as the strongest flares known on the Sun. In many cases there were multiple events on the same star. Younger stars were more likely to flare than old ones, but strong events were seen on stars as old as the Sun.

  1. VOLO – Fade to Light
  2. Nosaj Thing – Sister
  3. Nicola Cruz – Bruxo (JAJA Remix)
  4. винер – винер – 1018
  5. Dday One – Heiwa
  6. drwn. – movin’ quickly w. d c n t
  7. AFTA-1 – D. Ross
  8. Flamingosis – otaku mode (feat. Birocratic)
  9. L’Orange & Mr. Lif – Strange Technology (feat. Akrobatik & Gonjasufi)
  10. XXYYXX – DMT
  11. Bry.Zen – VOID((∆))
  12. zeroh – Sorted
  13. The Heavy Twelves – Dripz (BREAK)
  14. Kaya Project – Dark Roads (Desert Dwellers Remix)
  15. Lagartijeando – La Memoria del Viento (Matanza Remix)
  16. The Herbaliser – Submarine
  17. Bomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session TM)
  18. Gramatik – Obviously (Instrumental)
  19. Lagartijeando – Camino en Llamas (Barda Remix)

 

[Cassini]

Cassini launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on 15 October 1997, Cassini had been active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn, studying the planet and its system since entering orbit on 1 July 2004. The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and June 1999), Earth (August 1999), the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter (December 2000). Its mission ended on 15 September 2017, when Cassini flew into Saturn’s upper atmosphere and burned up at a very high temperature, in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn’s moons, some of which have active environments that could potentially bear life. (At that point Cassini lacked sufficient power to leave the Saturn system so it could only be left in orbit where it might collide with a moon or be destroyed). The mission is widely perceived to have been successful beyond expectation. Cassini-Huygens has been described by NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director as a “mission of firsts”, that has revolutionized human understanding of the Saturn system, including its moons and rings, and our understanding of where life might be found in the Solar System.

Cassinis original mission was planned to last for four years, from June 2004 to May 2008. The mission was extended for another two years until September 2010, branded the Cassini Equinox Mission. The mission was extended a second and final time with the Cassini Solstice Mission, lasting another seven years until 15 September 2017, on which date Cassini was de-orbited by being allowed to burn up in Saturn’s upper atmosphere.

The Huygens module traveled with Cassini until its separation from the probe on 25 December 2004; it was successfully landed by parachute on Titan on January 14, 2005. It successfully returned data to Earth for around 90 minutes, using the orbiter as a relay. This was the first landing ever accomplished in the outer Solar System and the first landing on a moon other than our own. Cassini continued to study the Saturn system in the following years.

At the end of its mission, the Cassini spacecraft executed the “Grand Finale” of its mission: several risky passes through the gaps between Saturn and Saturn’s inner rings. The purpose of this phase was to maximize Cassini‘s scientific outcome before the spacecraft was destroyed. The atmospheric entry of Cassini effectively ended the mission, although data analysis and production will continue afterwards.

TRCKLST:

  1. Haloed – Esper
  2. somejerk – Savage
  3. Anomalie – New Space
  4. MACROSS 82-99 – Fugaz (feat. mothica)
  5. The Polish Ambassador – Ritual Revival
  6. Deeb – Fluid Dynamics
  7. Kuartz – She Want A Condo In New York
  8. Dday One – Everyday
  9. Chairman Maf – SMiLES
  10. Madvillain – Accordian (Instrumental)
  11. Nicola Cruz – Invocacion
  12. Jay Dee – Lightworks
  13. Danny Brown – Grown Up (Instrumental)
  14. Danny Brown – Grown Up
  15.  Birocratic-Sombre
  16. Pretty Lights – Lost and Found (ODESZA Remix)
  17. La Fine Equipe – Move Out
  18. Waajeed – The Doo Wops
  19. Commodo – Itchin
  20. Nosaj Thing – Nowhere
  21. Waajeed – The Dragon
  22. Jay 5ive & Kromestar – Wishful Thinking (Om Unit remix)
  23. DJ Krush – 光路 Kouro – Optical Path

[Voyager]

Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. Having operated for 40 years and 10 days as of September 15, 2017, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and return data. At a distance of 139 AU (2.08×1010 km) from the Sun as of July 1, 2017, it is the farthest spacecraft from Earth as well as the farthest man-made object. It is also the most distant object in the solar system whose location is known, even farther than Eris (96 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU).

TRCKLST:

  1. Cotonete – Earth Overshoot day (P. Scott sistrumremix)
  2. Ccolo – Immortal Birds Diwali
  3. Jay Dee – Nowadayz (Instrumental)
  4. Mophono – Lump Sum Slum Lord (Dabrye Remix)
  5. Harmonic 313 – Call To Arms
  6. Collective Resonance – ±±DING±± – Drafting
  7. Smog
  8. Egadz – Dripz
  9. Kognitif – Kognitif – Chillin’ On The 90’s
  10. GUMI – Never Ending Story
  11. THE CREW – THAVIUS BECK “Spectacular Vernacular”
  12. The Spy from Cairo – Sirens of the Nile
  13. Von Party – Cobra Kush (Feat. Naduve)
  14. Montezumas Rache – Wu Du Wu
  15. Tehu – Ernst Strngs
  16. Nicola Cruz – Espìritu de Protección

 

 

[Solar Eclipse]

On Monday, August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse, frequently referred to as the “Great American Eclipse“, was visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. In other countries it was only visible as a partial eclipse

TRCKLST:

  1. Deft – Blue Jasmine
  2. Nicola Cruz – Invocacion (Uji Remix)
  3. Dday One – Contaminated Energy
  4. Dabrye – Making It Pay
  5. dj mitsu the beats – b.o.t.m.beats52
  6. L’Indécis – Urban Canopy
  7. Mike Forst – Who’s on the Mayfair
  8. cestladore – Lassitude Luxuriate
  9. Juj – Mbira Spirit
  10. Sofa Surfers – Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Mix)
  11. L’Orange & Mr. Lif – Antique Gold (feat. Chester Watson)
  12. DJ Krush – Zen Approach Featuring Black Thought
  13. Jay Dee – The Red
  14. Dday One – Drum In The Day, To Sing At Night
  15. Chairman Maf – SINCERE SOUP
  16. Depeche Mode – Useless (K&D Session TM)
  17. Buddha Bass – Enigmatica (Desert Dwellers Remix)
  18. TH7 IMMORTXLZ – POLT7RG7IST

[Cataclysmic Event]

NASA has reported a catastrophic event is taking place in space, but scientists are still investigating what exactly has happened or happening. Mysterious flashes of X-rays beamed towards Earth before vanishing just 24 hours later, leaving scientists to investigate the source. Initial findings suggest it came from a “completely new type of cataclysmic event”. The phenomenon was captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, stemmed from a galaxy 10.7 billion light years away. The X-ray source, is located in the sky known as Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S).

TRCKLST:
01.LORN – VESTIGE I
02.Alix Perez – Ghosts
03.Ivy Lab – Forex VIP
04.Signs – Paper Bag
05.Noisia – Mantra (Mat Zo Remix)
06. Noisia – Miniatures (MonoPoly Remix)
07.Space People – Wet ft. Nasty Nigel
08.Abnormal – Gang Starrs From Another World
09.yunis – yunis – Make It
10.Shades – Sleaze w/ Ivy Lab
11.Om Unit vs Kromestar – Solar Cyle (Melody Mix)
12.Nicola Cruz – Bruxo
13.Liquid Bloom & Numatik – Stand With Us To Bless The Waters (Twin Shape Remix)
14.Sicaa – Altitude
15.Pavel Dovgal – VHS
16.Chairman Maf – LiTTLE WHiTE LiES
17.My Kingdom – Missing Earth
18.Djemba – All Ages
19.Nicola Cruz – Tzantza
20.Rebel Musical – Black Sun