Midnight
Radio

Sink into this plush couch while Strange Days plays on mute and somebody talks about the Information Superhighway.

1. Dr. Atmos & Oliver Lieb - Music to Films Movement V
2. Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - Silent Intelligence V
3. Bedouin Ascent - Mammon
4. Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor - Protection
5. B12 - Radiophonic Workshop

Ruminations on being enchanted, disenchanted, and hopefully back again—featuring a very special theological meditation.

1. XDCVR - Psalm 68
2. Luke Slater - Love (Burial Remix)
3. Sun Electric - Episode VI
4. Blawan - 993
5. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie

A dedication to the Richie Hawtin's Concept records where an offset snare becomes high drama.

1. 96:01 01:00
2. 96:01 02:00 VR
3. 96:05 09:00
4. 96:05 10:00
5. 96:07 13:00

Inspirational music and a pair of slow-motion bangers from '82 in an episode about art and death.

1. Bertrand Belin - Choses Nouvelles
2. Füxa - Dirty D
3. Damien Jurado & Richard Swift - Radioactivity
4. Cliff Martinez - Abscess
5. The Cure - Plainsong

Slow grain pulse and dub that strips the world down to studs while we practice the lectio divina with a deep winter chug.

1. F.U.S.E. - Night Drive
2. My Friend Earl - Snowblow
3. Monolake - Cyan (44% slower)
4. Tropic of Cancer - Dive
5. The Field - Leave It (31% slower)

Glittery future-shock goth-punk for these days of intense digital pleasure that masks a psychosocial collapse.

1. Liars - No. 1 Against the Rush
2. Cold Cave - Double Lives in Single Beds
3. Telefon Tel Aviv - You are the Worst Thing in the World
4. The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea
5. Adult. - Tonight We Fall

hurchy drone and astronaut music with the serene energy I fantasize about cultivating in the first minutes of a new year.

1. Kali Malone - Spectacle of Ritual
2. Abul Mogard - Desires Are Reminiscences By Now
3. Autechre - VLetrmx21 (65% slower)

Vocal workouts and hopeful classics with notes on robot spouses and the future of friction.

1. Julianna Barwick - Prizewinning
2. Matchess - Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes
3. Vril - Infinitum Eternis Anime
4. Rhos Male Voice Choir - Psalm 23

Slow motion Breakfast Club anthems served with tornados, egg foo young, and trashed algorithms.

1. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (38% slower)
2. Will Web - Spacewalk (30% slower)
3. Swans - Leaving Meaning (20% slower)
4. Pole - Hafen (40% slower)
5. Aphex Twin - #1 (Cliffs) (42% slower)

An ode to Michael Clayton and the giddy illusion of renewal before death.

1. Richie Hawtin + Thomas Brinkmann - 96:12/24:00 VR
2. HTRK - Poison (Mika Vainio Remix)
3. TM404 - 202/303/303/303/606/606
4. Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering
5. µ-Ziq - Peppermint Aero Manzana

Notes on time and strangeness paried with an hour-long soundtrack for a photography exhibition

1. James A. Reeves - The Heart Keeps Time

Last night I dreamt my mother was alive and serving a delicious tea brewed from stones.

1. Slowdive - Machine Gun (50% slower)
2. Belong - A Walk (22% slower)
3. Autechre - Bronchusevenmx24 (25% slower)
4. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow (45% slower)
5. cv313 - Depths of Perception

Nothing but the Chromatics in a megamix so glossy it's nearly lacquered—plus notes on the Mariana Trench and unbearable weather.

1. Chromatics - Lady Night Drive
2. Chromatics - The Page
3. Chromatics - Running up that Hill
4. Chromatics - The Sound of Silence
5. Chromatics - Disintegration

Five new favorite songs that make these days feel worthwhile.

1. Biosphere - The Way of Time
2. Romance - Leave Her to Heaven
3. Minor Hexachords - Minor Concession
4. Sa Pa - Nonspiration
5. Rue des Garderies - Jiddu

Late-night chatter mixed with low-key classics that drift in and out of focus like dreams do.

1. Abul Mogard - Staring at the Sweeps of the Desert
2. Black Polygons - Incarnat
3. Seefeel - Rupt (Cut Mix)
4. Transient Waves - Soulspace
5. Intrusion - Love in Lofi

Hunting for freedom through repetition.

1. Jana & El Nashmy - 3al Bayez
2. DVA Damas - Wet Vision II
3. Drissi El-Abbassi - Zedti Laadab Aliya
4. Broken English Club - Prayer Space
5. Plastikman - Contain

Forty minutes of marine-themed dub techno surrounded by big pine and cold water.

1. Loscil - Drained Lake
2. Porter Ricks - Nautical Dub
3. Polmo Popo - Aqua
4. Variant - Ocean's End Revisited
5. Deepchord - Oceanic

Here I am, astral projecting in 1983 to bring you five sun-bleached slabs of summertime music.

1. Gnod - Peace at Home
2. Anna Domino - Everyday I Don't
3. Mystic AM - Caravanserai + Den of Thieves
4. Googoosh - Gol Bi Goldoon
5. Polmo Popo - Kiss Me Again and Again

At some point the screen became the world and now we're haunting it.

1. Suicide - Cheree
2. Variant - Foil
3. M83 - Don't Save Us From the Flames
4. Gerry Rafferty - Down the Line (30% slower)
5. Basic Channel - Inversion (46% slower)

The ghosts of old standards, summoned for whatever comes next.

1. Elvis Presley - Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
2. Bobby Vinton - Sealed With a Kiss (20% slower)
3. Drugdealer - Wild Motion
4. Naomi Akimoto - 十六夜の月
5. M83 - Moon Child

Heavyweight dub and the horror of insatiable desire.

1. Ghost Dubs - Chemical (18% slower)
2. Pole - Berlin
3. Biosphere - Houses on the Hill
4. Basic Channel - Radiance I (31% slower)
5. Thomas Brinkmann - Maschine

The first gods were probably born in dreams.

1. Charlie Megira - Tomorrow's Gone
2. Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya - Hounds of Heaven
3. Ensemble Economique - Your Lips Against Mine
4. Windy & Carl - Lighthouse
5. Füxa - Dreamlanding

Goma ritual chants, tape hiss, static, and reverb—an offering of static and fire.

1. A drum loop from Woob's "Odonna"
2. Goma ritual chants, tape hiss, static
3. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Adelaide
4. In-house synthesizers and a kick drum

Bad fortunes are tied to a rack while a Buddhist chant bleeds through my favorite song of the year.

1. Unspecified Enemies - Romance in the Age of Adaptive Feedback
2. 2814 - 新宿ゴールデン街
3. Sugar Plant - Happy

High walls surround the Confucian temple because you must work for the knowledge within.

1. Yu Ching - Love
2. 姚苏蓉 - 磁性的迷惑
3. James Chen - Summer in Taiwan
4. Dirty Beaches - Low Rider / I Dream in Neon
5. Alex Zhang Hungtai & Tseng Kuo Hung - Ten Swords

Broadcasting from somewhere between the bells of a temple and the heat of a night market.

1. Datacide - Flowerhead
2. Matchess - Of the Living
3. Leyland Kirby - They Are All Dead
4. Datacide - Deep Chair

A tribute to David Lynch that roams through ruined ballads and slow-motion noir.

1. Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme
2. Rebekah Del Rio - Llorando
3. Roy Orbison - Crying
4. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (23% slower)
5. Julee Cruise - Falling

Where the reverb is heavy and the souls are haunted.

1. Jeanette - Oí Tu Voz
2. Jessica Pratt - Life Is
3. Hasnah Haron - Hanya Padamu
4. Dirty Beaches - True Blue
5. Connie Francis - Siboney

I'm returning to my spiritual practice of slowing techno down to a crawl.

1. TM404 - 202/303/303/303/606/606 (43% slower)
2. Topdown Dialectic - A4 (44% slower)
3. Echospace - Aequinoxium (48% slower)
4. Von Schommer - Wuerfel Version (45% slower)
5. IMAX - Concorde (47% slower)

Dedicated to the American tradition of talking to God through car-wreck calendars and junkyard rockets.

1. Earth - Coda Maestoso in F(flat) Minor
2. The Field - Made of Steel, Made of Stone
3. I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
4. Joy Division - Day of the Lords
5. Temple Ov Saturn - Last Stand at Ankh Sanctuary

The first day of a new year, and I'm thinking about accidental laughter and holy imperfection.

1. Love, Inc - Life's a Gas
2. Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
3. Japancakes - Handguns & Firearms
4. Chantssss - Swan
5. DjNiraha & Lale Pishmari - Lali Lale

Sing along: "If snow was black, I'd wear black shades and drive a black car."

1. Mike Dunn - God Made Me Phunky
2. SoleTech - Sole Waves
3. Detroit Grand Pubahs - If Snow Was Black
4. Quarks - I Walk (Superpitcher Schaffel Mix)
5. Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak II

A Very Kind Listener requested a soundtrack to accommodate a slowly breaking heart.

1. Kim Sun + Shin Jung Hyun - The Man Who Must Leave
2. O.V. Wright - Everybody Knows
3. Chen Mei Feng - 誰能知道我的情
4. Dilber Doğan – Yıkılla Köyler
5. M83 - Farewell/Goodbye

Because true freedom is not thinking about the president every day.

1. Muslimgauze - Ryoji Ikeda Remix #6
2. Panasonic - Pan Finale
3. Ectomorph - Crawl of the Cthulu
4. Demdike Stare - Metamorphosis
5. Grungerman - Fackeln Im Sturm

As we teeter on the edge of an unpleasant future, here are five of the most reassuring songs I know.

1. Union Jack - There Will Be No Armageddon
2. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Floating in Space
3. T. Rex - Cosmic Dancer
4. Air - Le Soleil Est Près de Moi
5. Gyeongsu & June - Lead to Curse

A soundtrack for C. to paint to. She likes synthesizers that tilt toward the tragic but has no patience for treacle.

1. Cliff Martinez & Gregory Tripi - Sister
2. The Black Dog - Vertical Grip on Reality
3. Romance - Never Will/Hymn to the Sea
4. Dedekind Cut - De-Civilization
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Moya

A half-speed electronic classic from 1994. Embrace speed. Groove on distraction. Find god in the liquid crystal glow.

1. Richie Hawtin & Pete Namlook - A Million Miles to Earth (57%–89% slower)

Analog media is better for hauntings.

1. Gas - Pop 02
2. Aphex Twin - #19
3. Midwife - Forever
4. Sonic Youth - Superstar
5. Seefeel - Filter Dub

Anything worthwhile rests on a knife's edge. I like to think of this zone as the Tannhäuser Gate.

1. Blanck Mass - Chernobyl
2. Alessandro Cortini - Gira
3. M83 - On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain
4. Kristoffer Lo - Front Row Gallows View
5. Bremen - Entering Phase Two

Pitched-down electric classics circa 1998. Slowing down my favorite songs has become a spiritual practice.

1. Richie Hawtin - 07 13-00 (54% slower)
2. Pole - Modul (56% slower)
3. Autechre - Yulquen (48% slower)
4. Basic Channel - Radiance II (44% slower)
5. Plastikman - Consumed (50% slower)

Some songs for a midnight drive like neon washing across your hood.

1. Glass Beads - City of Anger
2. Tropic of Cancer - Court of Devotion
3. Robert Görl - Mit Dir
4. Chromatics - Lady Night Drive
5. Tomo Akikawabaya - A Dream of No Pillow

It's tempting to classify Death Prom as nostalgia but it is a haunting.

1. Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best
2. The Larados - Now the Parting Begins
3. Annie Rae - Bang Bung Ranggaek
4. Suicide - Surrender
5. Richard Swift - Would You?

Kicking off with a stone summertime classic and mountains of glorious reverb.

1. Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children of America
2. Sugar Plant - Rise
3. Actress - Hubble
4. Suicide - Cheree (Remix)
5. Füxa - Karmaloop