The music used by The Economist newspaper to open and close a podcast is by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, called Perpetuum Mobile. It's on several albums, one of which is Preludes Airs and Yodels (A Penguin Cafe primer).
Why post this? Because I couldn't find this information when searching the web and never got a response from the Economist when I wrote to ask them the answer. Many thanks to David MacKay for identifying the track.
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You rock! Downloaded the album now.
Nice work.
Thanks a bunch. Couldn't find this anywhere.
THANK YOU! I can't tell you how many times I've entered a query such as this and gotten nothing!
THANK YOU! I googled it to find out and your blog popped up. Thanks a lot for looking into this and posting it so other people wont have to go on the same hunt to find out.
Thanks for the lead, I've been trying to find this music for quite some time.
I'm also finding the rest of your blog quite interesting as well.
Absolutely awesome. I have been entranced by this music for months, but only now have I been able to identify it for myself. As already stated by others, my sincere thanks.
Hi! I just heard an Economist podcast and that music is beautiful, motivated me to get out of bed, get laptop and Google it. Nothing readily came up until I entered right combo of keywords and your blog came up. Thanks for sharing --E
Thanks for identifying the music!
Thank you!! Now I know the name of music.
I came here by google :)
this is exactly the information I wanted! Thanks so much
Jennifer
thank you!
It reminded me of the music from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio plays.
Many thanks!!
Google + bloggers like you answer so many of my questions- I've been wondering about this song for a while.
This is yet another proof for the fact that blogs make the world a better place! Thank you so much for finding and publishing this info - now I can stop listening to those ten seconds over and over again... (my girlfriend already started questioning my sanity ;-> )
Florian
Thanks for the research! Here's the link to the song in iTunes: Perpetuum Mobile.
Thank you so much for posting this! I downloaded the Album as well. I first heard this song several years ago, then heard it again on the Economist podcast and had to have it!
Thanks again!
Tom, New York City
Thank you! I'm pretty sure I've heard this music elsewhere -- This American Life, perhaps?
thank you very very much
i am in love with this music
Thanks for that! I, like those above, googled and found your post.
I've been wondering what the name of this song is for years. I first heard it back in the 90s during an episode of Nova. Thanks for posting the information.
Ah, the Internet wouldn't be the wonderful one-stop instantaneous gratification machine it is without wonderful people like you posting info like this! Grazie! Always thought the music was Economist's in-house podcast music, until I also heard it on This American Life. I've been looking for it for about, well, one second, thanks to you! --Jenny, Los Angeles
YEEE HAAA like teh others I was always curious what that song was and i wasw desperate to find out... you've done a great service my friend
thanks :-)
I also heard it somewhere else recently...on a commercial maybe?
oh oh! it's on This American Life once and awhile.
I have been searching for this music since hearing it in PBS documentary about the World Trade Center. Thank you for identifying it. Absolutely magical!
Thanks mate ;)
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Thank you so so much!
thank you! it is on an episode of this american life entitled "tales from the net" and i've always wondered what the song was!
Thank you very much
Another big vote of thanks. I haven't downloaded the track yet but I assume we're all talking about the same mesmerizing piece of music. I was similarly driven crazy by the music in the trailer for the movie Sunshine (Clint Mansell, "Requiem for a Dream") and found a good place to look for this stuff is:
http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/
Happy listening y'all!!!
Thank you. I heard that piece about 5 years ago and have always wondered what it is. Now, if I could only identify the similar piece from series 2 of the UK Apprentice :(
Thankyou my fellow economist.
Here's a great adaptation of that song by André F. Chocron: http://funkybrickbakery.com/2009/01/20/bars-tones-by-andre-f-chocron/
Congratulations used a nice music
Brilliant, thanks for finding this!
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