Episode 171: 1/23/2022 - 2021 Review Special, Part 2

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The year 2021 had so many good darkwave, synthpop, post-punk, synthpunk, etc. tracks that we couldn’t fit them all into one show! We started this week’s show with a set of synthpunk tracks. Then we played a set of synthpop and darkwave tracks. That was followed by some EBM and industrial tracks. After that was a set of post-punk tracks. We went hard and heavy with some power electronics and death industrial at midnight, then we closed the show with a set of shoegaze tracks.

Half Machine Lip Moves logo with ‘#171’ on it.

  1. Half Machine Lip Moves Introduction [0:00:00 - 0:07:15]
  2. Silicone Prairie: Dance to the Beat (My Life On the Silicone Prairie, 2021, Feel It Records) [0:07:15 - 0:10:13]
  3. Cuir: Dégâts (Album, 2021, Rockstar Records/Offside Records) [0:10:13 - 0:11:45]
  4. Snooper: Pod (Snooper, 2021, Goodbye Boozy Records) [0:11:45 - 0:13:23]
  5. Freak Genes: Followed It Down (Power Station, 2021, Feel It Records) [0:13:23 - 0:17:01]
  6. Beige Banquet: Awake (Beige Banquet, 2021, Just Step Sideways/Mangel) [0:17:01 - 0:19:30]
  7. Ghoulies: Petey Jones’ Locker (Reprogram, 2021, Goodbye Boozy Records) [0:19:30 - 0:21:08]
  8. Isotope Soap: Autistic Eye (Autistic Eye, 2021, Push My Buttons Records/Self-Released) [0:21:08 - 0:23:05]
  9. Why Bother?: She’s Gonna Wake the Dead (A Year of Mutations, 2021, Feel It Records) [0:23:05 - 0:26:25]
  10. Aurat: Can You Hear Me? (Khaar, 2021, Self-Released) [0:32:52 - 0:36:08]
  11. Double Echo: Spectre (☾, 2021, Fabrika Records) [0:36:08 - 0:40:56]
  12. Kill Shelter & Antipole: Raise the Skies (A Haunted Place, 2021, Manic Depression) [0:40:56 - 0:46:13]
  13. Comfort Cure: Hands of Stone (Hands of Stone, 2021, Self-Released) [0:46:13 - 0:51:21]
  14. Zanias: Untethered (Unearthed, 2021, Fleisch) [0:51:21 - 0:55:48]
  15. Mach Fox: Hollow Moons (Hollow Moons, 2021, Self-Released) [1:00:27 - 1:04:12]
  16. Unitcode:Machine: Buy Me Now (Themes For a Collapsing Empire, 2021, Code Violation Media/Self-Released) [1:04:12 - 1:08:29]
  17. Stoneburner: A Year of Assassins (Apex Predator, 2021, COP International) [1:08:29 - 1:11:53]
  18. Hocico: Lost World (Lost World, 2021, Out of Line) [1:11:53 - 1:17:14]
  19. HIDE: Do Not Bow Down (Interior Terror, 2021, Dais Records) [1:17:14 - 1:20:10]
  20. Youth Code & King Yosef: Burner (A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression, 2021, Self-Released) [1:20:10 - 1:22:50]
  21. Illusionaut: Through the Trees (The New Body Electric, 2021, Spinning Inside Music/Self-Released) [1:28:50 - 1:33:58]†
  22. Palais Ideal: No Sign of Danger (Negative Space, 2021, Cold Transmission Music) [1:33:58 - 1:37:47]
  23. Vazum: Gallows (Gallows, 2021, Self-Released) [1:37:47 - 1:43:07]
  24. Black Rose Burning: Ever Fallen in Love? (The Wheel, 2021, Self-Released) [1:43:07 - 1:46:31]
  25. A Cloud of Ravens: When it Comes (A Different Kind of Midnight, 2021, Cleopatra) [1:46:31 - 1:49:57]
  26. ACTORS: Like Suicide (Acts of Worship, 2021, Artoffact Records) [1:49:57 - 1:53:34]
  27. Controlled Death: Hymn to Eternal Death Track 3 (Hymn to Eternal Death, 2021, Total Black) [1:59:39 - 2:01:29]
  28. Brighter Death Now: Personal Booby Trap (All Too Bad - Bad to All, 2021, Tesco Organisation/Cold Meat Industry) [2:01:29 - 2:06:24]
  29. Axebreaker: The Iconography of the Martyr (The Iconography of the Martyr, 2021, Diffuse Reality) [2:06:24 - 2:12:59]
  30. Koufar: For the Rest of My Life (Minority Report II, 2021, Phage Tapes) [2:12:59 - 2:18:49]
  31. Parannoul: Analog Sentimentalism (To See the Next Part of the Dream, 2021, Longinus Recordings) [2:23:44 - 2:28:05]
  32. Cold Gawd: Gin (Get Me the Fuck Out of Here, 2021, The Void Trademark) [2:28:05 - 2:33:24]
  33. Coaltar of the Deepers: Snow (Revenge) (Revenge of the Visitors, 2021, U-Desper Records/Needlejuice Records) [2:33:24 - 2:41:46]
  34. Buried in Roses: Descent (Buried in Roses, 2021, Swiss Dark Nights) [2:41:46 - 2:48:18]

† Local artist

Flyer for Club Nevermore’s ‘Matter of the Heart’ Event. In the center there is a heart with a skull inside it. The text says “Matters of the Heart. Club Nevermore Valentine’s. February 12, 2022. Goth and industrial, plus special performance by Illusionaut. $10 cover. Doors open at 8 PM. Ages 21+ only, at Area 51, located at 6511 Warden Road in Sherwood, Arkansas.

Club Nevermore’s next event, Matters of the heart is Saturday, February 12, 2022 at Area 51, located at 6511 Warden Road in Sherwood, Arkansas. This event will have DJ sets from DJ 10.29, DJ Graveyard Gloria, DJ Wilhelm, and DJ Operator OT, plus a live show by Little Rock’s Illusionaut. Doors open at 8 PM, cover is $10. Consult this Facebook event page for further info.

I (Operator OT) don’t necessarily condone taking the directions to Area 51 that Google provides—Google’s directions might get you stuck in an alley without an easy way out. This is what I advise…

For those travelling from Little Rock, take I-30 north to I-40 East, then turn onto Highway 67/167 North. Take Exit 4, Brockington Road. Get in the left lane and go north till you reach the traffic light at Brookswood Road. Turn left and go south for two blocks to Warden Road, which is a one-way road (and the access road for Highway 67/167 South). Turn right onto Warden Road and go south for about half a mile. Area 51 will be in the strip mall on the right, between a car dealership and a Waffle House. Enter Area 51 by going into Alibis Bar, which does the admissions for Area 51.

For those travelling from North Little Rock, get on JFK Boulevard and go north till you reach East Kiehl Avenue. Turn right and go east, following the signs directing drivers to Highway 67/167 South, which will turn right onto Warden Road.

Or use the embedded Google Map below to find directions.