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

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

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)

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)

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.

Postcard from a Small Town

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Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Age of Consent - 1984)
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Touch - 1983)
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (Into the Gap - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Watch Me Bleed (The Hurting - 1983)

Soft Cell - Frustration (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (Some Great Reward - 1984)
Ramones - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Road to Ruin - 1978)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue (Crocodiles - 1980)
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Meat is Murder - 1985)

Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days (Book of Days - 1989)
New Order - Elegia (Low-Life - 1985)
Japan - Burning Bridges (Gentlemen Take Polaroids - 1980)
Duran Duran - Edge of America (Big Thing - 1988)
Yaz - Winter Kills (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)

Bonus video time!
Jimmy Somerville performs a stripped-down, acoustic piano version of "Smalltown Boy" in 2014:

New SPC ECO Video - "Push"

New Spiritualized Track & More

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Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space (Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space - 1997)
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (The Modern Lovers - 1976)
Galaxie 500 - Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste (The Modern Lovers cover) (Today - 1988)
A Place to Bury Strangers - Tried to Hide (13th Floor Elevators cover) (The Psychedelic Sounds of the Sonic Cathedral - 2010)
The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster (The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators - 1966)
Butthole Surfers - Gary Floyd (Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac - 1984)

Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Crazy For You (Slowdive cover)

Medicine - Something Goes Wrong (The Buried Life - 1993)
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes (Loveless - 1991)
Sonic Youth - Antenna (The Eternal - 2009)
Spacemen 3 - So Hot (Wash Away All My Tears) (Playing With Fire - 1988)
Spiritualized - Broken Heart (Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space - 1997)
Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Things (Sweet Heart Sweet Light - 2012)

Bonus Video Time!

More than a video, this is a harrowing short film featuring the song "Hey Jane" from Spiritualized's new album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light. Lou Reed would be proud:

Bonus Video Time!

The Crocodiles performing "Mirrors" live in studio:

New Ringo Deathstarr Video

This brand new video features RD bassist/vocalist Alex Gehring being, well, sexy.

Ringo Deathstarr - Two Girls

Bonus Video Time

This makes me deliriously happy; Chapterhouse performing "Breather" live:

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 05-05-10

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The Cure - The Figurehead
Bauhaus - God in an Alcove
Christian Death -Burnt Offerings
Station Break - The Cure - The Final Sound
Sonic Youth - Rats
The Stone Roses - Made of Stone
The Sisters of Mercy - When You Don't See Me
Psychic TV - Horror House
Station Break - Plateau - Creeper
Massive Attack - Daydreaming
Tricky - Ponderosa
Baxter - Television
Portishead - Elysium
Client - Drive
Station Break - Kraftwerk - Metal on Metal
Galaxie 500 - It's Getting Late
Slowdive - She Calls
My Bloody Valentine - Blown A Wish
Lilys - It Does Nothing for Me
Station Break - Gary Numan - Bleed
Jesus and Mary Chain - In the Black
Ministry - Revenge
Skinny Puppy - Deepdown Trauma Hounds
16 Volt - Will
Pailhead - Man Should Surrender
Damage Manual - Bagman Damage
Station Break - Coil - Box Theme
Curve - Want More Need Less
Chapterhouse - In My Arms
Cocteau Twins - From the Flagstones
Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death

Bonus Video Time: The Jesus and Mary Chain with Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval:

Dulce Sky covers Ride

Ride is one of my favorite bands (Nowhere rarely leaves my car) and it's nice to hear a band cover them eloquently and with fidelity. Check out this video from Dulce Sky, performing the "Vapour Trail" b-side "Unfamiliar":

Coffinshakers Video

I'm a late comer to this, but boy am I impressed:

Upload Issues

So, a problem I've encountered over the last month is an inexplicable inability to upload the podcast properly to archive.org, who graciously host each episode. Uploading from the KISU station computer seems to work fine while my work and home computers upload only blank space. The punchline of all this is that the podcasts will probably have to be posted on Sundays rather than Thursdays. I don't know if that actually effects anyone, but I thought I'd mention it.


In the meantime, here's one of my favorite songs, "Mercy Seat" by Ultra Vivid Scene: