Episode 254: 6/23/2024

This episode was our 2024 Summer Solstice special. We began with a set of goth, post-punk, etc. tracks with a theme of heat, etc. because it’s been pretty hot recently. The second set was a mix of goth, post-punk, and industrial songs with a theme of summertime. The third block was a mix of synthwave, post-punk, and punk that was themed around beaches, and surfing, because that’s a summertime thing. And the fourth and final set was a mix of experimental and ambient tracks about summer.

1. Half Machine Lip Moves Introduction
2. March Violets: It’s Hot (The Botanic Verses, 1993, Jungle Records/Cleopatra)
3. The Mission UK: Heat (Children, 1988, Mercury/Vertigo/Polygram)
4. Missing Foundation: Boiling Hot (Nature is Watching You, 2018, Humanity Records)
5. Multiple Man: Hotter Than Hell (New Metal, 2017, DKA Records/Paradise Daily)
6. Bauhaus: Endless Summer of the Damned (Go Away White, 2008, Bauhaus Music/Cooking Vinyl/Let Them Eat Vinyl/Selecta)
7. A Neon Rome: The Magical Summer of ‘85 (New Heroin, 1986, New Rose Records/Fringe Product/Right Side Records)
8. Rosetta Stone: Summer (Foundation Stones, 1993, Cleopatra)
9. Der Noir: Dead Summer (A Dead Summer, 2012, RBL Music Italia/Bloodrock Records)
10. Chemlab: The Summer of Hate (Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar, 1993, Fifth Colvmn Records/Devotion/Metal Blade Records/Invisible/Armalyte Industries/Distortion Productions)
11. Destryur, STRNGR, Cobra Wipeout: Terror Beach (Night at the Grindhouse: Part II, 2021, NewRetroWave)
12. Dreamcrusher: Goths at the Beach (Suicide Deluxe, 2014, Hausu Mountain)
13. Maniac_2084: Beach Body Ready…To Die (Summer Terror, 2021, Self-Released)
14. Iron Curtain: Miami Beach (Artifact, 2008, Pylon Records)
15. The Cramps: Surfin’ Dead (Smell of Female, 1983, New Rose Records/Big Beat Records/Enigma Records/Dutch East Wax Records/Vengeance Records)
16. Night Birds: Killer Waves (Fresh Kills – Vol. 1, 2011, Grave Mistake Records)
17. Sutcliffe Jügend & Prurient: End of Spring (End of Autumn, 2008, Troubleman Unlimited)
18. Coil: Bee Stings (Summer Solstice: Bee Stings, 1998, Eskaton)
19. Mushroom Grandpa: Summer Rain (Sleep in Herbs, 2021, Self-Released/Black Casket Records/Steel Martyr)
20. Library Tapes: Evenings in June (Summer Songs, 2020, 1631 Recordings)
21. Celer: Summer Suite (Mostly Summer, 2016, Self-Released)

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