Low

David Bowie meant so much to me that I cannot begin to express it vocally, in a show, or in a blog post. Or 10,000 of them. As such, I have decided I no longer wish to continue the program. Thank you to whomever or whatever has been listening these past years.
As a parting video, here's astronaut Chris Hadfield on recording "Space Oddity" on the International Space Station and Bowie's influence. Enjoy.

Your circuit's dead; there's something wrong.

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David Bowie - Starman (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 1972)
Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless (Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - 1974)
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play (Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 1967)
The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together (Flowers - 1967)

David Bowie - Andy Warhol (Bowie at the Beeb - 2000)
Lou Reed - Andy's Chest (Transformer - 1972)
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes (All the Young Dudes - 1972)
T Rex - Planet Queen (Electric Warrior - 1971)

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel[Truncated] (1999 - VH1's Storytellers)
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World (MTV Unplugged - 1994)
Morrissey - Drive in Saturday (Swords - 2009)
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions - 1989)

David Bowie - Sound and Vision (Low - 1977)
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind (Wild is the Wind - 1966)

Watch Beck turn "Sound and Vision" into an amazing spectacle of sound and vision:

And a piece of David Bowie's parting gift to us, "Lazarus":

Best of 2015 and Happy Birthday Bowie

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Ringo Deathstarr - Stare at the Sun (Pure Mood)
Swervedriver - Setting Sun (I Wasn't Born to Lose You)
Beach House - One Thing (Thank Your Lucky Stars)

Low - Gentle (Ones and Sixes)
Tamaryn - I Won't Be Found (Cranekiss)
SPC ECO - Out of My System (Smile EP)
Rachel Grimes - The Herald (The Clearing)

Gunship - The Mountain (Gunship)
Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away (Ten Love Songs)
Doldrums - Video Hostage (The Air Conditioned Nightmare)
John Carpenter - Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley Mix) (Lost Themes)
Lapalux - U Never Know (Lustmore)

David Bowie - Lazarus (Blackstar - 2016)

Bonus Video Time! David Bowie - Blackstar

Losing Today

For Athena.

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Patti Smith - Elegie (Horses - 1975)
New Order - In a Lonely Place (Movement - 1981)
The Smiths - Asleep (The World Won't Listen - 1987)

Guilford - Wolves (Wolves 7" - 2015)
Julianna Barwick - Waving to You (Nepenthe - 2013)
Chelsea Wolfe - Maw (Abyss - 2015)

Dum Dum Girls - Teardrops On My Pillow (Only In Dreams - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (Penny Sparkle - 2010)
Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering (Stop Suffering - 2015)

Slowdive - J's Heaven (Pygmalion - 1995)
A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda (He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms - 2008)

Low - DJ (Ones and Sixes - 2015)

Beyond the Wall of SPACE

Set your controls to the heart of the sun and let's take a journey 'round the galaxy:
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David Bowie - Space Oddity (Space Oddity - 1969)
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 1967)
Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home (Their Majesties Satanic Request - 1967)

Man, Or Astro-Man? - Rocketship XL-3 (Your Weight On the Moon - 1994)
The Ventures - Journey to the Stars (On Stage - 1965)
Comsat Angels - Red Planet Revisited (Fiction - 1982)
The Rezillos - Destination Venus (Destination Venus 7" - 1978)

Frankie Rose - Interstellar (Interstellar - 2012)
Air - Surfing on a Rocket (Talkie Walkie - 2004)
Galaxie 500 - Leave the Planet (On Fire - 1989)

Clint Mansell - Leaving Earth (Mass Effect 3 OST - 2012)
Brian Eno - Drift (Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks - 1983)
John Murphy - Sunshine Adagio in D Minor (Sunshine OST - 2007)

Elton John - Rocket Man (Honky Chateau - 1972)

And if all that talk of the infinite has got you down, don't frown; this Monty Python bit should take care of it:

Halloween Special 2015

Scream or Drownload

Oingo Boingo - Weird Science [short version] (Weird Science 7"- 1985)
Ramones - Makin' Monsters for My Friends (Adios Amigos - 1995)
The Dickies - Killer Klowns From Outer Space (Killer Klowns E.P. - 1988)

The Meteors - Corpse Grinder (Don't Touch the Bang Bang Fruit - 1987)
The Sonics - Strychnine (Here Are The Sonics!!! - 1965)
The Turtles - Buzzsaw (The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands - 1968)

Bauhaus - Nerves (In the Flat Field - 1980)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Halloween (JuJu - 1981)
Misfits - Halloween I (Halloween - 1981)
Misfits - Halloween II (Halloween - 1981)
Rudimentary Peni - Crazed Couplet (Cacophony - 1988)

Goblin Rebirth - Requiem for X (Goblin Rebirth - 2015)
Lazerhawk - Massacre (Skull and Shark - 2013)
The Cure - Subway Song (Three Imaginary Boys - 1979)

B-Movie - Scare Some Life Into Me (Nowhere Girl 7" - 1982)
TSOL - Silent Scream (Dance With Me - 1981)
The Damned - Plan 9, Channel 7 (Machine Gun Etiquette - 1979)

'Ave we got a video?

The Damned - Nasty (As seen on the Young Ones)

The Ramones - Pet Sematary

New Tracks for 2015

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Duran Duran - Paper Gods (Paper Gods - 2015)
Son Lux - Lost It to Trying (Lanterns - 2013)
Youth Lagoon - The Knower (Savage Hills Ballroom - Out 9/25)

I Break Horses - You Burn (Chiaroscuro - 2014)
Chromatics - Shadow (Dear Tommy - Out Sometime, we hope)
Tamaryn - Fade Away Slow (Cranekiss - 2015)
Beach House - Sparks (Depression Cherry - 2015)

Low - No Comprende (Ones and Sixes - 2015)
Widowspeak - My Baby's Gonna Carry On (All Yours - 2015)
DIIV - Dopamine (Is the Is Are - Out This Fall)
The Raveonettes - Summer Ends (Pe'Ahi - 2014)

Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden (Ende Neu - 1996)

From the Middle Room

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A Flock of Seagulls - Messages (A Flock of Seagulls - 1982)
Modern English - Someone's Calling (After the Snow - 1982)
Visage - Visage (Visage - 1982)
Talk Talk - Another World (The Colour of Spring - 1986)

DEVO - Gates of Steel (Freedom of Choice - 1980)
Berlin - The Masquerade (Pleasure Victim - 1982)
Ultravox - I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) (Rage in Eden - 1981)
Duran Duran - Night Boat (Duran Duran - 1981)

John Foxx - Night Suit (The Garden - 1981)
Gary Numan - The Image Is (We Take Mystery to Bed 7" - 1982)
Yaz - In My Room (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)
Tears for Fears - The Prisoner (The Hurting - 1983)

Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun (Whiplash Smile - 1986)
The Tourists - From the Middle Room (Into the Future 7" - 1980)

As an apology for the horrible Duran Duran pun I made in the show, hear a song from the new record!
Duran Duran - Pressure Off featuring Janelle Monáe and Nile Rogers (Paper Gods - Out 9/11)

Future Nostalgia

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Kraftwerk - Metropolis (The Man Machine - 1978)
John Foxx - Underpass (Metamatic - 1980)
Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps (Sweet Dreams - 1983)
Gary Numan - My Dying Machine (Berzerker - 1984)

Chromatics - In Films (Dear Tommy - Pending)
Blouse - Videotapes (Blouse - 2011)
I Break Horses (Chiaroscuro - 2014)

Goblin Rebirth - Requiem for X (Goblin Rebirth - 2015)
John Carpenter - Fallen (Lost Themes - 2015)
Lazerhawk - Lawless (Skull + Shark - 2013)
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Miami Lawmaker (Drokk - 2012)

Gunship - Tech Noir (Gunship - 2015)
M83 - Highway of Endless Dreams (Saturdays = Youth - 2008)

Bonus Video Time(s)! Check out these love-letters to the 1980s by London synth worshippers Gunship.

From A Whisper to a Roar

Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot (Wave - 1979)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - You're Lost Little Girl (Doors Cover) (Through the Looking Glass - 1989)
Blonde Redhead - No More Honey (Barragan - 2014)
Childbirth - Nasty Grrls (Women's Rights - out 9/18)

Mazzy Star - I'm Less Here (I'm Less Here RSD Exclusive 7" - 2014)
Widowspeak - Girls (All Yours - out 9/4)
Wye Oak - Civilian (Civilian - 2011)

PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan (To Bring You My Love - 1995)
Esben & the Witch - No Dog (A New Nature - 2014)
The Breeders - Roi (Last Splash - 1993)

Marissa Nadler - Solitude (Soundcloud Self-Release - 2015)
SPC ECO - What Is Worse? (Zombie EP - 2014)

Kate Tempest - Hot Night, Cold Spaceship (Everybody Down - 2014)

Bonus Video Time! Wye Oak - Mother (Danzig cover - probably the best Danzig cover ever)

New Tracks for 2015

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Son Lux - Ransom (Lanterns - 2013)
I Break Horses - Faith (Chiaroscuro - 2014)
Tamaryn - Hands All Over Me (Cranekiss - Out 8/28)
Sinead O' Connor - I Want Your (Hands On Me) (The Lion & the Cobra - 1987)
Polica feat. Justin Vernon - Tiff (Shulamith - 2013)

Lapalux - Don't Mean A Thing (Lustmore - 2015)
Slime - My Company (My Company 10" - 2015)
Keep Shelly in Athens - Benighted (Now I'm Ready - Out Sept. 2015)
Nicolas Jaar - No One is Looking at U (Nymphs II - 2015)

I'lls - Keep (Can I Go With You to Go Back to My Country - Out Aug. 2015)
Doldrums - Video Hostage (The Air Conditioned Nightmare - 2015)
Flume feat. Moon Holiday - Insane (Flume - 2013)

Bonus Video Time:
Lapalux feat Andreya Triana - Puzzle

Spring Chillout

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Blooms - Love (via Soundcloud - 2015)
Hundred Waters - Murmurs (The Moon Rang Like a Bell - 2014)
Nosaj Thing feat. Kazu Makino - Eclipse/Blue (Home - 2013)
Maya Jane Coles feat. Tricky - Wait for You (Comfort - 2013)

Young Magic - Holographic (Breathing Statues - 2014)
Lapalux feat. Andreya Triana - Puzzle (Lustmore - 2015)
Munchi - Madre, No Llores (Murda Sound - 2010)
Holy Other - Yr Love (With U - 2011)

Forest Swords - Irby Tremor (Engravings - 2013)
Clams Casino - Gorilla (Rain Forest - 2011)
Doldrums - Funeral for Lightning (The Air Conditioned Nightmare - 2015)
Son Lux - Easy (Lanterns - 2013)

Pastel Ghost - Clouds (Abyss - 2015) Depeche Mode - Uselink (Ultra - 1997)

Musica Ex Machina

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Kraftwerk - The Robots (The Man Machine - 1978)
Goblin - La Via Della Droga (La Via Della Droga OST - 1977)
Brian Eno - Under the Stars (Apollo - 1983)
David Bowie - Subterraneans (Low - 1977)

Sinoia Caves - Forever Dilating Eye (Beyond the Black Rainbow OST - 2010)
Pye Corner Audio - The Black Mill Video Tape (Sleep Games - 2012)
John Carpenter - Abyss (JG Thirlwell remix) (Lost Themes - 2015)

Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Exhale (Drokk - 2012)
Disasterpeace - Detroit (It Follows OST - 2015)
Disasterpeace - Lakeward (It Follows OST - 2015)
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Out (Ex Machina OST - 2015)
CUTS - Bunsen Burner (Ex Machina OST - 2015)

Symmetry - The Nightshift (Reprise) (Soundtrack for an Imaginary Film - 2012)
Chromatics - Shining Violence (Night Drive - 2007)

Bonus Video Time!
CUTS - 05

Bonus... TV show trailer time?

Post finals exaltation and inclement weather commiseration

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The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow (Louder Than Bombs - 1987)
The Cure - Fascination Street (Extended Mix - 12" - 1989)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Party's Fall (Tinderbox - 1986)
Echo and the Bunnymen - In Bluer Skies (Porcupine - 1983)

Galaxie 500 - Temperature's Rising (Today - 1988)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days (Darklands - 1987)
Cocteau Twins - Throughout the Dark Months of April & May (Victorialand - 1986)
Cranes - Rainbows (Forever - 1993)
Love and Rockets - Waiting for the Flood (Earth, Sun, Moon - 1987)

Curve - Coming Up Roses (Come Clean - 1998)
Depeche Mode - Heaven (Delta Machine - 2013)
SPC ECO - Hear Me Now (Art of Pop - 2014)
Slowdive - Country Rain (5 EP - 1993)

Outro - Massive Attack - Weather Storm (Protection - 1994)

Sun & Moon

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The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun? (Loaded - 1970)
Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe in the Sun (69 Love Songs - 1999)
Swans - God Damn the Sun (The Burning World - 1989)

Slowdive - When the Sun Hits (Souvlaki - 1993)
Primal Scream - May the Sun Shine Bright For You (Sonic Flower Groove - 1987)
The Verve - The Sun, The Sea (A Storm in Heaven - 1993)
Swervedriver - Sunset (Raise - 1991)
The Raveonettes - Sinking With the Sun (Observator - 2012)

Break - Ventures - Blue Moon (1961)

Frankie Rose - Moon in My Mind (Interstellar - 2011)
Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon (Blacklisted - 2002)
Ian McCulloch - The Killing Moon (Daytrotter Sessions -2010)

Love and Rockets - Holiday on the Moon (Express - 1986)
Young Magic - Drawing Down the Moon (Melt - 2012)

Jim Henson as Ernie - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (Sesame Street - 1978)

BtWoS 04-17-2015

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Doldrums - Blow Away (Air Conditioned Nightmare - 2015)
Crocodiles - Stoned to Death (Sleep Forever - 2010)
Swervedriver - Autodidact (I Wasn't Born to Lose You - 2015)
Dum Dum Girls - Lost Boys & Girls Club (Too True - 2014)

Still Corners - The Trip (Strange Pleasures - 2013)
m83 - Midnight City (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)
Symmetry - Cruise Control (Themes for an Imaginary Film - 2011)
Pastel Ghost - Shadows (Abyss - 2015)
School of Seven Bells - White Wind (Ghostory - 2012)

SPC ECO - Burn It Down (Art of Pop - 2014)
Forest Swords - Anneka's Battle (Engravings - 2013)
Hundred Waters - Xtalk (Moon Rang Like A Bell - 2014)
Purity Ring - Push Pull (Another Eternity - 2015)

Bonus Video Time!
John Carpenter - Night (Lost Themes - 2015)

Flexipop Retrospective

This week we take a look at the brief history of Flexipop magazine and the colorful 7" singles folded in its pages.

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The Jam - Boy About Town (Issue 02)
Madness - My Girl (Issue 19)
Hazel O'Connor - D. Days (Issue 09)
Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing (Issue 18)

Depeche Mode - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead (Issue 11)
Fad Gadget - King of the Flies (Issue 11)
Soft Cell - Metro MRX (Issue 12)
B. Movie - Remembrance Day (Issue 12)

Adam and the Ants - A.N.T.S. (Issue 04)
XTC - Looking for Footprints (Issue 16)
Haircut 100 - Nobody's Fool (Issue 17)
The Associates - Even Dogs in the Wild (Issue 20)

Bauhaus - God in an Alcove (Isssue 23)
The Cure - Lament (Issue 22)
Toya - Sphinx (Issue 08)

Marc Almond and Friends - Discipline (Throbbing Gristle cover - Issue 24)

Read an article about the magazine's history written by Flexipop co-founder Tim Lott here.

A colorful, glossy Adam Ant feature from Flexipop No. 4, March 1981:

New Swervedriver Record

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Swervedriver - For Seeking Heat (Mezcal Head - 1993)
Ride - Drive Blind (Ride EP - 1990)
Catherine Wheel - Texture (Ferment - 1992)

The Raveonettes - Killer in the Streets (Pe'Ahi - 2014)
Dum Dum Girls - Girls Intuition (Rimbaud Eyes 7" - 2014)
Thee Oh Sees - Web (Mutilator Defeated at Last - Out 5/18)
Ringo Deathstarr - God's Dream (God's Dream - 2014)

Television - Days (Adventure - 1978)
Mazzy Star - Things (I'm Less Here 7" - 2014)
J. Mascis - Fade Into You (Mazzy Star cover) (Fade Into You 7" - 2014)
Dean Wareham - Happy and Free (Dean Wareham - 2014)

Swervedriver - Setting Sun (I Wasn't Born To Lose You - 2015)
Swervedriver - English Subtitles (I Wasn't Born To Lose You - 2015)
Swervedriver - Days (Television cover) (Setting Sun 7" - 2014)

Existential Disco

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Doldrums - Loops (The Air Conditioned Nightmare - Out 4/7)
Crystal Castles - Vanished (Crystal Castles - 2008)
TR/ST - Slug (?)

Wife - Heart is a Far Light (What's Between - 2014)
Forest Swords - The Weight of Gold (Engravings - 2013)
Young Magic - Something in the Water (Breathing Statues - 2014)
Pye Corner Audio - Black Mist (Black Mist - 2014)

Chromatics - Just Like You (Dear Tommy - 2015)
Pastel Ghost - Clouds (ABYSS - Out 3/10)
Emiliana Torrini - Speed of Dark (Tookah - 2013)

Purity Ring - flood on the floor (another eternity - 2015)
Purity Ring - sea castle (another eternity - 2015)

Friday the 13th!

Happy Friday the 13th. Unlucky you, I'm uploading this one early.

Scream or Drownload

Harry Manfredini - Theme from Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Pseudo Echo - His Eyes (Autumnal Park - 1984)
A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares (Listen - 1983)
Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (Constrictor - 1986)

The Damned - Born to Kill (Damned Damned Damned - 1977)
Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear (Nothing to Fear - 1982)
The Ramones - Makin' Monsters for my Friends (Adios Amigos - 1995)
The Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight (Walk Among Us - 1982)

The Cramps - Eyeball in My Martini (Look Mom No Head! - 1991)
Adam and the Ants - Killer in the Home (Kings of the Wild Frontier - 1980)
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Goodbye Horses - 1988)

John Carpenter - Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley Remix) (Lost Themes - 2015)
Mogwai - Re-Remurdered (Blanck Mass Remix) (Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. - 2014)
Golden Boy feat. Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin (Or - 2002)

I love this interview (it's probably the best thing about Jason Takes Manhattan). I asked Kane Hodder last summer about it and he said before the interview, Arsenio was visibly spooked so Kane just had to mess with him. The sheer terror is especially evident near the end during the handshake. Watch and you'll see what I mean.