Episode 230: 8/20/2023

Half Machine Lip Moves logo with ‘#230’ on it.

We started this show with some new industrial and synthwave tracks. We followed that with a set themed around heatwaves and summertime, because we’ve been broiled under a heatwave recently. The three sets that after that featured songs which were followed by an aritst who took their name from the previous song. Then we wound things down with experimental and ambient tracks.

  1. Half Machine Lip Moves Introduction [0:00:00 - 0:06:33]
  2. 3Teeth: Drift (Drift, 2023, Century Media) [0:06:33 - 0:10:31]
  3. Unitcode:Machine: Cold (Feat. Stabbing Westward) (Cold, 2023, COP International) [0:10:31 - 0:15:26]
  4. Damien Hearse: Hard to Be a God (Hard to Be a God, 2023, Self-Released) [0:15:26 - 0:18:53]
  5. Rabbit Junk: Fight Me, Erebus (Fight Me, Erebus, 2023, Fixt) [0:18:53 - 0:22:45]
  6. 2Forks: Take It (Take It, 2023, Self-Released) [0:22:45 - 0:25:42]
  7. Front Line Assembly: Heat Wave (Reclamation, 1997, Roadrunner Records/Metal Mind Records) [0:28:51 - 0:34:12]
  8. Ohgr: Sunburn (SunnyPsyOp, 2003, Spitfire Records) [0:34:12 - 0:38:23]
  9. KrashKarma: Cruel Summer (Cruel Summer, 2019, Self-Released) [0:38:23 - 0:41:28]
  10. Fucked Up: I Hate Summer (Couple Tracks, 2010, Matador) [0:41:28 - 0:43:42]
  11. Dance With the Dead: Sunset (Out of Body, 2013, Neuropa Records/Self-Released) [0:43:42 - 0:47:31]
  12. Missing Foundation: Boiling Hot (Nature is Watching You, 2018, Humanity Records) [0:47:31 - 0:50:44]
  13. Ritual Howls: A Safe Haven From the Sun (A Safe Haven From the Sun, 2019, Felte Records) [0:50:44 - 0:54:52]
  14. Television: Marquee Moon (Marquee Moon, 1977, Elektra) [0:58:33 - 1:09:06]
  15. Marquee Moon: Desert House (Desert House, 1995, Alice In… Records) [1:09:06 - 1:13:44]
  16. Christian Death: Spiritual Cramp (Only Theatre of Pain, 1982, Frontier Records/L’Invitation Au Suicide/Future Records/Vap/Normal/Epitaph) [1:13:44 - 1:16:38]
  17. Spiritual Cramp: Phone Lines Down (Nah, That Ain’t It/Phone Lines Down, 2023, Blue Grape Music) [1:16:38 - 1:18:38]
  18. Bauhaus: Sanity Assassin (Bauhaus 1979-1983, 1985, Beggars Banquet) [1:18:38 - 1:22:34]
  19. Sanity Assassins: Already Know (Sanity Assassins, 1991, Full Circle) [1:22:34 - 1:25:10]
  20. Rubella Ballet: Arctic Flowers (Never Mind the Day-Glo Here’s Rubella Ballet, 2010, Overground Records) [1:29:18 - 1:33:29]
  21. Arctic Flowers: Hallow Water (Straight to the Hunter, 2018, Self-Released/Contraszt! Records/Bat-Cave Productions) [1:33:29 - 1:35:23]
  22. Sisters of Mercy: Adrenochrome (Some Girls Wander by Mistake, 1992, EastWest/Merciful Release/Elektra) [1:35:23 - 1:38:17]
  23. Adrenochrome: The Pallbearer (In Memoriam, 2022, Self-Released/Symphony of Destruction) [1:38:17 - 1:40:59]
  24. Sex Gang Children: Into the Abyss (The Singles 1982-1984, 2018, Cleopatra) [1:40:59 - 1:43:28]
  25. Into the Abyss: Banner of the Fray – Alternate Single Version (Gothic Rock 2: ‘80s Into the ‘90s Compilation, 1995, Cleopatra/Jungle Records) [1:43:28 -1:48:01]
  26. Joy Division: Ice Age (Still, 1981, Factory) [1:48:01 - 1:50:19]
  27. IceAge: Ecstasy (You’re Nothing, 2013, Matador/Escho/High Note Records) [1:50:19 - 1:52:46]
  28. Siouxsie & The Banshees: Slowdive (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, 1982, Polydor) [1:56:52 - 2:01:04]
  29. Slowdive: Skin in the Game (Skin in the Game, 2023, Dead Oceans) [2:01:04 - 2:04:54]
  30. Xmal Deutschland: Qual (Fetisch, 1983, 4AD) [2:04:54 - 2:08:33]
  31. Qual: Life in the Mirror (Tenebris in Lux, 2021, Operation Qual Records) [2:08:33 - 2:12:18]
  32. No More: Suicide Commando (7 Years – A Compilation 1979-1986, 1990, Roof Records/Roof Music/Rustblade) [2:12:18 - 2:15:37]
  33. Suicide Commando: Hellraiser – Psychopath 01-Version (Hellraiser, 2000, Metropolis/Dependent) [2:15:37 - 2:20:33]
  34. Aleksis Tristan Shaw: The Crypt (Dark Ambient Soundscapes, 2023, Self-Released) [2:23:47 - 2:26:36]
  35. Coil: Batwings (A Liminal Hymn) (Musick to Play in the Dark Volume 2, 2000, Chalice/Threshold House/Dais Records) [2:26:36 - 2:38:07]
  36. Imaginary Softwoods: Diagram of the Universe (The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods, 2023, Mineral Disk/Self-Released) [2:38:07 - 2:46:28]

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Flyer for Friday Night Frights at The Labyrinth. The flyers lists all the Friday Night Frights events for the year 2023. The August edition is on Friday, August 25 and is a screening of She Beast.

The August edition of Friday Night Frights is Friday, August 25. This month is a screening of She Beast. More info can be found on this Facebook event page

The Labyrinth is at 619 South Spring Street in downtown Little Rock. An embedded map with directions is below.


Flyer for Dystopia Productions Goth Summer Event, with DJ Evonech, DJ Graveyard Gloria, and DJ St. Faust. Saturday, August 26th at Black Lodge Video, 405 North Cleveland Avenue in Memphis. 10 PM, ages 18+, $12 admission/cover charge.

Dystopia’s Goth Summer event, with DJ Evonech, DJ Graveyard Gloria, and DJ St. Faust is Saturday, August 26th at Black Lodge Video in Memphis. More info can be found on this Facebook event page.

Black Lodge Video is located at 405 N. Cleveland Avenue in Memphis. Here’s an embedded map with directions.


This is a flyer for Club Nevermore Coven: A Private Dance Party Celebrating The Craft. The text says, “Saturday, September 9th. Details will be forthcoming.”

Club Nevermore’s September event is Saturday, September 9th. More details are forthcoming; we’ll share them when they’re revealed. (We don’t know everything yet.)