This is an archive of playlists from our previous shows. Most of our older shows are available in podcast form.


Episode 80: 4/14/2019

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We started this show with some electro-industrial tracks. OT talked a bit about the previous night’s Club Nevermore (spoiler: it was a success!), then we went into a noise rock and no wave set. That was followed up with a deathrock and post-punk set. Then we had an experimental and noise set themed around black holes in honor of the recently released photos showing the event horizon of a black hole. The midnight block was a trip into the death industrial mortuary, and we closed with a block of bright ambient.

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Episode 79: 4/7/2019

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This was our Women’s History Month episode, playing artists who are women or groups fronted by women—which was delayed by our brief hiatus back in March. We started with some industrial tracks. Then we were joined in the studio by Gary of Club Nevermore, Arkansas’s brand-new goth-industrial club night which debuts on April 13 (this coming Saturday) to talk about it, and played two blocks of post-punk, dark punk, and deathrock in honor of that. That was followed by a block of minimal wave/synthpop; a block of heavy industrial, power noise, and power electronics. Then we closed with a block of ambient tracks.

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Episode 78: 3/31/2019

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We returned from a two-week break with an all-German show.* We started with some brand-new Rammstein and a Bettina Köster track, then we started the main act with EBM and power noise; a block of synthpop and NDW/German New Wave; a block of female-fronted post-punk and goth; a block of requested experimental and Krautrock/Kosmische; and an ambient closing block.

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Episode 77: 3/10/2019

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Our longtime listener and friend Molly from Northern California joined us in the studio for one of the funnest and longest episodes of the show to date. We started with a set of EBM and industrial, then there was a block of industrial metal. We followed that with a set of music by artists that will be playing in Hot Springs at this year’s Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival. We played a set of music from albums that were recorded or released in 1977 to celebrate our 77th episode. Then we had a set of noise, and an excerpt from a long Coil track. We then had an hour of overtime, in which we heard Krautrock/kosmische, a bit of Anatolian rock, Russian post-punk, and noise rock and ambient.

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Episode 76: 3/3/2019

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We began this show with some EBM and Belgian New Beat tracks. Then we had a “darkwave and whatever” block. We followed that with a tribute to the late Andy Anderson, and a block of psychedelic noise rock and a spacey-prog rock track featuring Andy Anderson. Then we had a block of crunchy lo-fi industrial, and we closed with a set of dark ambient and ambient drone.

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Episode 75.5: 3/1/2019

I went to hang out and co-host Finally Friday with Sonny Kay on 3/1/2019. Then, because the hosts of the show that’s normally on after Finally Friday couldn’t make it to the station, I was on air for two hours (10 PM-12 AM). I didn’t have anything planned, so I threw this one together on the fly.

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Episode 75: 2/24/2019

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This show happened on International EBM Day (24/2), so we had a block of old school-style EBM, dancefloor-friendly EBM (you’ll have to supply your own glowsticks for this one), and a set of dark EBM. Then, we shifted gears and played some death industrial and power electronics in honor of the Brighter Death Now/Steel Hook Prostheses show in Austin that night, and closed with a block of dark ambient.

Big shoutout and thanks to Mach Fox of Zwaremachine for making us a show ID!

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Episode 74: 2/17/2019

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We opened this episode with some new stuff from Front Line Assembly and Xotox, and a Hide Track. Then we had two blocks in memory of Phil Western (RIP), featuring tracks he worked on with Skinny Puppy, Plateau, and Download; and a block of tracks from some of his solo works. Then we had a mini-block of listener-requested block themed around war, and some post-punk. Then we had a block of dirty lo-fi industrial noise, and closed with a block of synth noise.

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Episode 73: 2/10/2019

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This is our second Valentines/Anti-Valentines Day Special. We started with a requested Phil Western song (RIP), then we started the show proper with a couple of post-punk and minimal wave songs about breakups. Then there was a block of songs themed around loneliness and alienation. That was followed by a block of tracks about misanthropy and hatred, then a block of revenge and retribution song. We had a special block at midnight about uh… black gloves and discipline. Then we closed with a block of songs about “love” or whatever.

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Episode 72: 2/3/2019

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This show started with industrial and a few of OT’s favorite Teengenerate tracks. That was followed by a block of minimal wave, and a set themed around owls in honor of the day’s Superb Owl. There was a set of tracks from some of Lee Renaldo’s solo work after that, in honor of his birthday. That was followed by a block of shoegaze and some dreamy ambient and experimental tracks in the final block.

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