This is an archive of playlists from our previous shows. Most of our older shows are available in podcast form.
Episode 110: The Third First-Ever Half Machine Holiday Show - 12/22/2019
Our third holiday show had a bit of a rocky start, but we pulled through with a mix of Christmas tracks. Then we had a set of morbid holiday songs and a couple of tracks in honor of Hannukah. That was followed with a Winter Solstice-themed mix of post-punk and black metal. We played a set of “Christmas Mourning” songs. We followed that up with a set of tracks about/referencing Krampus. Then we ended the show with a mix of somber and raucous holiday music.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah—or Happy Wednesday if you celebrate neither of those!
Episode 109: 12/15/2019
We began this show with a set of new tracks, including a couple of local artists. Then we heard a requested drum and bass track and a set of EBM. That was followed with a block of heavy industrial. We played a set of minimal wave/coldwave after that, which was followed with a set of spacey and noisy tracks. Then we wrapped things up with some wintry-feeling ambient tracks.
Episode 108: 12/8/2019
We started this episode with some industrial tracks. That was followed with a set of Depeche Mode covers, in honor of Club Nevermore’s upcoming Depeche Mode December event. After that we went on a dungeon synth adventure, and we closed the show with a set of minimal wave and noisy industrial.
Episode 107: 12/1/2019
We started this one with some industrial and requested tracks. That was followed with a set of EBM, and a set of industrial black metal. We followed that up with a set of post-punk, a minimal wave set, and closed with a mix of requested metal, a couple of tracks about shopping in “honor” of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and closed with some ambient.
Episode 106: 11/24/2019
We started this show with some new-ish tracks from local artists. That was followed by a set of post-punk tracks from Eastern Europe. Then there was a set of industrial and dark EBM tracks. We followed that with a set of new beat and EBM. Then we played a set of goth tracks and what’s been dubbed “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet.” Then we played some songs referencing Thanksgiving and wrapped things up with a couple of autumn-themed ambient tracks.
Episode 105: 11/17/2019
We started this show with some new post-punk tracks. That was followed with a set of mostly recent noise rock tracks. The third block started with some new Mortiis and we played some industrial metal tracks. Then we played a set of post-punk and new wave tracks by artists from behind the Iron Curtain, which were left out of last week’s show due to a lack of time. We got weird in the midnight block with a mix of requested stuff and goofy tracks. Then we ended the show with two songs made on the one and only ANS synthesizer.
Episode 104: 11/10/2019
We commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in this episode, by playing tracks from artists that were from behind the Iron Curtain. We started the show with a set in which we went back in time by dancing to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 1989 anti-communist revolution, went back to the Cold War and met with someone from the DDR (Eastern Germany), who took us through Checkpoint Charlie. Then we started the show proper with post-punk tracks by artists from Poland, Hungary, and Soviet Russia. We followed that with synthpop and new wave tracks from Soviet Russia, Romania, and Soviet Latvia. The last set had some Hungarian punk rock, and experimental music from Soviet Kazakhstan and Eastern Germany/DDR.
Episode 103: 10/27/2019 - 2019 Halloween Show
This was our 2019 Halloween show, which was a pre-recorded episode because I wanted to go to a show that night. We began this episode with a set of songs that alternated between darkly funny and atmospheric. That was followed with a set of tracks from horror movie scores and soundtracks. Then we played a set themed around vampires, which was followed by a block of deathrock and post-punk. The midnight block was a set of morbid and dark death industrial, then we closed the show with a set of fun tracks.
Episode 102: 10/20/2019 - 2019 Dark Ambien(t) Special
We kicked off our 2019 dark ambient episode with a set of spooky dungeon synth tracks. We followed that with a couple of blocks of dark ambient tracks, which was followed with a set of tracks themed around aliens and abductions. Our midnight block was a set of ominous death industrial tracks, then we closed the show with a set of autumnal-themed tracks in honor of our favorite season.
Episode 101: 10/13/2019
We started this episode by debuting our new show intro, then played a set of local darkwave artists. That was followed with an EBM set. We played a set of industrial after that, which was followed by a set of post-punk and deathrock. We played a set of songs themed around werewolves and lycanthropy at midnight, in honor of it being a full moon in October, and we closed with a set of horror movie-inspired music and synthwave.