Half Machine Lip Moves

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0066/ | We started with a preview of new work by Susan of High-Functioning Flesh and a set of dark EBM. Then we played a block of artists that are brand new to the show. After that was a block of noise, industrialized black metal, and we closed the show with a dark ambien(t) jazz set.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0065/ | This episode started with a tribute to the late Pete Shelley (of British punk legends The Buzzcocks) by playing some songs from his solo works, including a track from his forays into experimental synth noise. Then we moved back into industrial by premiering a brand new track by Minneapolis’s Zwaremachine and a block of “pants with spare change rattling around in the dryer industrial,” some listener requests and noisy industrial, and we closed the show with set of post-industrial and ambient—or whatever you call that kind of stuff.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2Udt3Br | We returned from our Thanksgiving break. We started with 'the industrial wading pool' to help ease people in to the show. Then we went with a set of hard and heavy industrial metal, a block of dark and nihilistic industrial and EBM—I guess that's what I'd call it; I don't know how to describe this show much of the time—and a block of industrialized black metal. The midnight block was minimal wave and synthpop, and we closed with a block of shoegaze and ambient.

Full playlist at halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0063 | This episode started out with some new-ish industrial metal, then we went into a block of Central and Eastern European post-punk. Most of the rest of the episode leaned heavy on the heavy and noisy stuff—we had a block of "pants with spare change left in the pockets rattling around in the dryer" industrial, a block power electronics, and a block of noise before ending the show with a block of uh… a block that went from minimal wave to dark ambient.

Full playlist at halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0062 | This was a weird and short episode. We started with some industrial, OT talked about difficulties with our Facebook page, then we had a pandering set for our friends Amanda and Jason in South Carolina, then we continued the autumn ambient afterglow in the last hour.

Artists played: Ministry, Skinny Puppy, In Slaughter Natives, Danheim, Soriah With Ashkelon Sain, Desiderii Marginis, The Caretaker, Arcana, Between Interval, Library Tapes, Coil, Pulse Emitter, Danny Clay and Greg Gorlen.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2SOwVZ4 | Our old foes The Radio Gremlins returned to sabotage the show by breaking the microphone but we persevered and went on anyway. We started with industrial and post-punk tracks related to the upcoming election, the media, the downfall of society. Then we had a tribute to our friend DJ D, host of South Carolina's Dark Entries Goth Radio (which was a big influence on this show), and two blocks autumn-themed ambient to continue the autumn afterglow now that Halloween has passed.

Artists played: Die Krupps, Thorofon, Killing Joke, Funker Vogt, Missing Foundation, In Slaughter Natives, Atari Teenage Riot, Hypnoskull, Container 90, LOTION, DropDead, Wumpscut, Bile, Youth Code, Horror Vacui, Sopor Aeturnus, Cyan Revue, Christ vs Warhol, Mask For, Korbak, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Northaunt, Velvet Cacoon, Lycia, Caul, Tor Lundvall, Moss Harvest.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2PBk3a5 | Not only did we hit a milestone by reaching episode #60 but it's also the second Half Machine Lip Moves Halloween special. We started this episode with some industrial songs about the Halloween season. Then we had a dark punk and post-punk set, a deathrock set fresh out of the grave, an eerie horror set, a midnight block in the death industrial mortuary, and we closed with a block of fun goth.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2O4igp4 | It's late October so it's time for the spooky and atmospheric 2018 Dark Ambien(t). We began with a descent into the shadowy underworld of dark ambient, we had a rain-themed set, a block of music found while trawling through the dark ambient caverns of Bandcamp, made a trip into the haunted house where dark ambient and death industrial meet, a set of ritualistic dark ambient for the midnight block, and we closed with a set spacey dark ambient. We recommend turning out the lights out and listening through headphones, but that's your call.

Artists played: Olhon, Inade, ProtoU, Desiderii Marginis, SIJ & Textere Oris, Encomiast, Deleted Narrative, Ämsi, Exhumed Corpse, Subklinik, Brighter Death Now, In Slaughter Natives, Megaptera, Deutsch Nepal, Schloss Tegal, Sabled Sen, Overscape.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2NUeQ81 | We started this episode with a block of songs from new and upcoming releases. Things took a turn and went into a weird haunted off-kilter lo-fi direction, starting with no wave and atonal folk and then going into warped and haunted versions of more popular music. After that we went into experimental audio collages and took a brief look at the world of numbers stations, which was followed by phantasmal noise and ambient.

Artists played: VNV Nation, Holygram, Arctic Flowers, Street Sects, Author & Punisher, Sonic Youth, Jandek, The Caretaker, Pierrot Lunaire, The Everyday Film, Car Commercials, Sleep Chamber, Darksmith, Hair Police, Gaze Campaign, Wolf Eyes, Withdrawal Method, Relay For Death, Black Mountain Transmitter, The Mossy Throats, Michael Saunders.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2PIO6cI | This episode started with some L.O.T.I.O.N., which inspired a block of digital hardcore and techno-punk. Then we went into a set of crunchy power noise. That was followed by a darkwave/post-punk set of mostly recent material, incluing a track from the upcoming Holygram album. The next block started with a requested song from the new Author & Punisher album and a spacey set inspired by a friend in California who watched a Space X satellite launch. The midnight block brought a mix of strange experimental and horror movie music ('cause it's October), and we closed with selections from the October album of Aube's Millennium Collection.

Artists played: LOTION, Atari Teenage Riot, EC8OR, Alec Empire, Scumputer, Xotox, Imminent Starvation, Mono No Aware, Converter, Blessure Grave, Drab Majesty, Holygram, Cold Showers, Fearing, Author & Punisher, Chrome, Outer Space, Astro, Sleep Chamber, Umberto, Coil, Cyclobe, Doo-Dooettes, Aube.