And we turned our backs on the sun

New podcast up now. Going a bit more in the darkwave/goth direction this time round (more relatively recent stuff at that), also the rank nepotism direction (that’s people I actually know behind Sequential Zero). Playlist:

    1. Sims, Breaking the Ice
    2. Night Battles, Curse the Day
    3. Esben and the Witch, Marching Song
    4. Massive Attack & Mos Def, I Against I
    5. The Soft Moon, Zeros
    6. Puritans, God of the Gutter
    7. Black Cab, Underground Star
    8. Ital Tek, Cobra
    9. Drab Majesty, Cold Souls
    10. Wovenhand, Field of Hedon
    11. Sequential Zero, The Banishing Spell
    12. The Faint, Violent
    13. Sextile, Into the Unknown
    14. Death Index, Ego-Dance

Someone’s gone liquid in the sheets

And now for the next installment of this podcast thing, going a bit heavier on the electronics and early industrial this time round. Playlist below.

    1. Severed Heads, Hot With Fleas (original version)
    2. Clock DVA, Beautiful Losers
    3. Abwärts, Beim erstenmal tut’s immer weh
    4. The Neon Judgement, Chinese Black
    5. Yellow Magic Orchestra, Stairs
    6. John Foxx, No One Driving
    7. Hula, Tear-Up
    8. Simple Minds, Careful in Career
    9. Danse Macabre, ECG
    10. Liaisons Dangereuses, Peut-etre… pas
    11. Yello, Lost Again
    12. Single Gun Theory, Open Grave
    13. Depeche Mode, Photographic (album version)
    14. Department S, Going Left Right

The return of the ICG podcast!?

It’s 15 years today since The Cerebro-Vascular Accident. To mark the occasion of me somehow not dying on June 9 2009, I have for some reason decided to reanimate my music podcast… I actually first attempted such a thing about ten years ago, and started the Inanimate Carbon God one in 2016 as a semi-regular thing, produced 83 episodes of the thing until 2021 which is fairly impressive for me… then rebranded it and tried presenting it more like the radio show I used to do with voice links and a theme I’d bodgied together, and tried to make it regular too… but I soon found writing and recording a back-announcing script was a layer of production I could no longer be arsed with, so that was that. ICG redux, therefore, is going back to its roots of 15 songs per episode (or however many comes closest to an hour) with none of that fancy vocal stuff from me. And probably only semi-regular again. Here’s the playlist for the first one, which you can hear via the widget thing above.

    1. Chrome, Danger Zone
    2. The Adverts, On the Roof
    3. Flowers, Sister
    4. Xmal Deutschland, Augen-Blick
    5. Iggy Pop, China Girl
    6. Public Image Limited, Memories (single version)
    7. Joy Division, Heart and Soul
    8. Gang of Four, Capital (It Fails Us Now)
    9. O.A., Great White Hope
    10. Echo & The Bunnymen, No Dark Things
    11. The Lines, Background
    12. The Saints, New Centre of the Universe
    13. Joe Jackson, Got the Time
    14. The Damned, I Believe the Impossible
    15. MX-80 Sound, Someday You’ll Be King

Hand-staple-forehead time!

Tomorrow is World Goth Day, and for its 13th anniversary I decided to do my first mix in quite a long time. Accordingly, I present you with some of my own favourite tracks in the goth/darkwave/whatever vein from the last 13 years (Cult Strange have the newest song on here, having only come out less than three months ago). 20 tracks and 75 minutes.

    1. Sounds Like Winter, The Life of the Just
    2. The Damned, Spirit Evocation
    3. Soviet X-Ray Record Club, Good Things
    4. Cult Strange, Slave to the Algorithm
    5. Gemini, Down Ballarat
    6. Elysian, Twist of the Knife
    7. Play Alone, Black Glass
    8. Masses, Blind
    9. Alaric, Alone
    10. Traitrs, Gallows Hill
    11. Secret Shame, Chaining Eris
    12. Black Angel, Walk Away
    13. Poison Culture, Nihilistic Tendencies
    14. Spectres, Longinas
    15. Occults, Sex After Death
    16. Puritans, Sacred Cow
    17. Den, Deep Cell
    18. Lock Howl, Graveless
    19. Death Church, Choking Nation
    20. Killing Joke, Into the Unknown

Enjoy. I insist.