No Show Tonight, 8/6/2023"

Half Machine Lip Moves won’t be on air this week. This past week was pretty hectic. I didn’t have time to prepare a pre-recorded show, and I have to be at work pretty early tomorrow, so I can’t do the show tonight. We’ll be back soon with a new show.

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Episode 229: 7/30/2023

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We’re back after a few weeks off! We warmed up with some fresh new tracks. Then Operator OT got a bit lazy and played the tracks that were in his DJ sets at the last Club Nevermore, plus a few extras to pad it out. Then we closed with a mix of shoegaze, experimental, comfy synth, and ambient tracks.

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Episode 228: 7/2/2023

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We began this show with a set of brand new songs. Our friend Dianne joined us and we played sets of industrial, goth, darkwave, post-punk, etc., with an underlying theme of America and patriotism, because this was near the Fourth of July. Then we finished the show with a set of experimental and shoegaze songs.

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No Show Tonight, 7/16/2023

Half Machine Lip Moves is taking this week off. We’ll be back on air soon with a new show. Also, the podcast from our last show hasn’t been edited yet, but that will be taken care of and it’ll be posted sometime later this week.

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Operator OT Setlists From the July 8th Club Nevermore

I wanted to say thanks to everybody who came out to Saturday’s Club Nevermore event—and thanks to Nevermore for having me! My set lists are below the cut.

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Episode 227: 6/25/2023

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We played some new post-punk, goth, and darkwave tracks in the first set. The second set went heavy on new industrial tracks. We followed that with a set of goth tracks. Then we played some synthpop songs. We played a set of post-punk tracks in the fifth block, then we finished the show with some psychedelic dirge and shoegaze tracks.

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Episode 226: 6/18/2023: A Warning From the Sun - 2023 Summer Solstice Show

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We started this show with some brand new tracks that debuted on the show. The rest of the show had a theme of summertime, beaches, etc., because Summer Solstice is coming up this Wednesday. We began with a set of goth and post-punk tracks, then there was a block of of industrial and synthwave tracks. That was followed with a set of noisy tracks, then we got experimental in the midnight block, and we wound things down with a set of shoegaze and ambient songs with a summer theme.

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Operator OT's Set Lists From Club Nevermore on June 10, 2023

I wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to Club Nevermore Saturday—and thanks to Club Nevermore for having me! My set lists from that night will be under the cut…

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No Show Tonight (6/11/2023)

Half Machine Lip Moves will be off air this week. We’ll set up a replay for the usual time. We’ll be back next Sunday, June 18th, with a new show at the usual time and place, 10 PM-1 AM CT [11 PM-2 AM ET/8-11 PM PT/03:00-06:00 UTC] on KUHS-LP 102.5 FM Hot Springs and kuhsradio.org.

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Episode 225: 6/4/2023

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We started this show with some fresh new industrial, goth, and darkwave songs. Then we played a set of synthpop and minimal wave tracks, including some requested ones (thanks, Amanda!). We followed that with a set of goth, darkwave, and synthwave with a vague underlying summer theme. That was followed with some goth and darkwave tracks from around the world. The fifth block was a set of psychedelic-leaning post-punk, and we finished the show with a set of shoegaze tracks.

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