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


Episode 87: 6/9/2019

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We started this episode with industrial tracks that came out in the past year. After that was a block of belated requests and dark industrial. That was followed by a noise rock set. Then we did a set of post-punk. The midnight block was a mix of dreamwave, neofolk, and a little indie, then we closed the show with a block of tranquil ambient.

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Episode 86: 6/2/2019

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We started this one with a block of Japanese industrial. That was followed by a block of hot new industrial tracks that came out recently. After we played a block of recent (i.e., from this current decade) post-punk and darkwave songs. Then we went played a set of Japanese noise rock and death industrial, which was followed by a block of topical songs addressing the thirtieth anniversary of the Tianamen Square Protests and flooding along the Arkansas River. We ended the show with some space rock, early electronic, and a soothing ambient track.

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Episode 85: 5/26/2019

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This was our Japanese artists special, which was suggested by our friend Jason. We started with a block of industrial, going with a mix of recent and old school material. Then we a had a block of wild experimental noise rock, including rare live Melt Banana recorded here in Arkansas. That was followed by a block of noise, and then two blocks of psychedelic noise rock. Then we closed the show with an experimental and ambient block.

Update: The Lingua Ignota show in Little Rock that was mentioned in this episode was cancelled due to health issues. We’re wishing Krysten of Lingua Ignota a fast and full recovery.

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Episode 84: 5/19/2019

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This started off weird… I was late getting to the station and technical problems ate up half of the first block, but we persevered and made the show happen.

We started with Arctic Flowers covering Joy Division, in honor of the anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death, and Street Sects. Then we got moving with a set of darkwave and post-punk. That was followed by a set of danceable EBM. There was a block of blackened noise and power electronics after that. We played a set in honor of this month’s full moon, and we closed with a block of ambient.

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Episode 83: 5/12/2019

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We returned to the airwaves with some hot new EBM and industrial tracks. That was followed by a block of new post-punk and darkwave. Then there was an industrial set in honor of Mother’s Day. Things took a turn and went into a darker direction, with a block of power electronics, a tribute to the late Marco Corbelli (of Atrax Morgue/Slaughter Productions fame), and we closed the show with a block of dark ambient drones.

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Episode 82: 4/28/2019

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This episode started with some new and fairly recent electro sort-of industrial tracks, or whatever you call that stuff. Then we brought out a block of hot and fresh industrial and digital hardcore tracks. We had a darkwave block, which was followed by a trip down the rabbit hole of obscure minimal wave, post-punk, darkwave, and Soviet Russian synthpop tracks. We played some requests and songs to remember the thirty-third anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, then we closed with some chilled stuff and ambient. What even is this show?

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Episode 81: 4/21/2019

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We started our Easter Sunday show with some hot new industrial tracks. That was followed by an EBM set, then we had a post-punk and goth set themed around resurrection, in honor of Easter. Then we had a “darkwave and whatever set.” After that was a block of obscure post-punk, and we closed with a dark ambient set themed around springtime.

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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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