Its been a very event filled couple of weeks. I took last week off to recharge and reevaluate what I do with RSA. I was feeling a little irrelevant, as I wonder from time to time if well my time has come. Facebook has taken care of the first part. I was very frustrated with the "return" on tagging bands in the RSA posts. So I'm not bothering anymore. Generating Amazon links that aren't used is a big time sink for me. So thats stopped as well. Rather than get frustrated with the whole experience and walking away from it, I'm just cancelling the aspects that "don't bring joy." So while I do talk a bit this week in greater depth about this stuff, lets not forget the purpose of RSA! Getting great new music to you!

State Of Anguish - Still The Same

Destroy Me Again - Tomorrow

Yohann Ko - UnVerso

Clan OF Xymox - Blood Of Christ (Matte Blvck)

Urban Matrix - Step Inside, If You Dare

KRSSV - Protones

Infected Sound Machine - Bad Pussy

Future Lied To Us - Searching

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I decided last night that I've sat on the Best Of show for 2024 too long. Lets get it out there so people can enjoy it! After painstakingly re-listening to every show from Dec'23 to Dec'24 I've come up with a list of I think were the best discs that passed through my hands in the last year. I always say its the hardest, yet most fun to do. A lot of listening, referring to notes I've made throughout the year, and then making some hard decisions. But I was quite happy that the stuff I had picked in my head as the year progressed didn't "fade" with each listen. I also took all of the "shackles" off and said "This show will be as long as it has to be." But it came in at about the same number of tracks and length as in most years. Its not about quantity, its about quality. So sit back and turn the volume up as we delve into the best of 2024!

Negative Format - Molecular Stability

Simon Carter - Fat One

Neuroticfish - How To Suffer

Nordika - Lost Generation

Aiboforcen - Executions (Life Before Death)

Mondtraume - Pictures Of You

Ashbury Heights - Sleeping With A Knife

Czarina - Exoskeleto

Train To Spain - My Spirit Is Free (Janousek Club)

Faderhead - Burn All Night (Electra Black)

Massiv In Mensch - Lonesome Lighthouse

DSTRTD_SGNL - Atmosfear

Teknovore - Oubliette

DHI - Chemical Land (1990 Mix Remastered)

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The last show before Christmas, and one more week until the 2024 best of show! I'm actually having real frustrating problems with Facebook now. Enough that if it wasn't for this show I'd be deleting accounts and groups and leaving the damn enshittified platform entirely. So looks like I'll be posting shit on my phone for the next few weeks while they figure out password recovery instead of sending people into looping menus. As always, show notifications are posted on BlueSky and Instagram as well. I also noted that ~300 emails have been "bounced" off the list, so who knows how people are finding this every week. Just subscribe with your favourite podcast app. But with frustration set aside for a moment, we've got some really great stuff for everyone, especially another Destroy Me Again track, as we got a lot of great positive feedback about the track we played last week!

Antibody - Vampire Frog (Teknovore)

First Aid Tech - Haute Tension

AD:Key - Deine Augen (Dee Jay Pari)

Conscience - Access Denied (Edit)

Chris Shape & Su Eko - Closely Tight

Interface - Winds From The West

Destroy Me Again - Altered State (Rotoskop)

Echodead - Out Of Control

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I slaved over a hot hard drive for an extra long time this week! Not only do I have this weeks show done for you all, but I have the 2024 best of show mixed. December 30th is going to be a good day for everyone to try out their new devices with a nice long show. This week we have a lot of great stuff, including a remix/cover that was brought to my attention on BlueSky. Get ready for everything from Futurepop to Synthpop to Stompy aggro techno!

Destroy Me Again - Unhappiness (Trance)

Volkoff - Awaiting

Wisborg - Kalt Wie Eis (Frozen Plasma)

Future Lied To Us - Complex

NeuroWulf - No Guiding Light

Schwefelgelb - Open World Game

Phase Fatale - Altars

The KLF - What Time Is Love (Bastian's World)

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So I've looked at the calendar and gotten RSA all planned out to the end of the year. The annual best of show is coming along nicely, and Monday doesn't fall on any holidays, so I won't really need to take a week off this year. I think I've already taken my statuatory 2 shows off this year, so the next delay probably won't happen until April/May. Anyone speak Polish or Ukrainian? I'll be in Warsaw and Lviv around that time. This week we go through some new releases as I try to get the show posted before Europe has dinner and drinks!

Frontal Boundary - Das Blut Infiziert

PreEmptive Strike 0.1 - Pause In Chaos Stop The Madness (Single)

DSTRTD_SGNL - Noise

The Cohrsi - Fuhl Mein Herz (Desastroes)

Darkness On Demand - Dust

Simon Carter - Moondancer (Stefan Netschio)

Interface - Zero Sum

State Of Anguish - Down Here

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Welcome to RSA episode #1415! I don't really keep track of stuff like that, every few years I'll check the spreadsheet and think "I've been doing this a while haven't I?" But it isn't inertia, I pretty much start every Tuesday on a new show and spend a few days listening to music. Its really not exactly what I'd call a hardship. Though I did realize that after last weeks extra long show, I have to start compiling the annual best of. I've gotten a good start on it, and am brainstorming ideas for the extra long theme show I always try to do during the membership drive. But we'll burn those bridges when we come to them. For now, enjoy early December!

Echodead - I Don't Like Humans

Solitary Experiments - Traumen (Neuroticfish)

Lifelong Corporation - Into The Night

Lights Of Euphoria - Surrender (Tunnel)

Uncreated - We Will Attack (Grendel)

Pulse Protocol - Heartbeats (Pulsating Orbital)

Rue Oberkampf - Solitude (Essenz)

Simon Carter - Let Me Sink In Shadows (District 13)

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So are you ready for a deep dive into the "oughties"? I think thats what the kids are calling the 2000-2011 time period these days. I'm not sure. Get off my lawn. But its been pointed out that I should do a special theme show where I focus on the first decade or so of RSA. While we started in 1998, I don't think the show reached its standard form until 2001. I think thats when we went for a straight "new material" focus as opposed to "whatever the hell I feel like" previous to that. So I spent a week or so getting a nice big list from the first 10 best of shows, and condensed them down to this theme show. I do try to get a superficial "Where are they now?" and give my thoughts, Maybe even an anecdote. But history is best left to historians. I just like to play music loud. So strap in for a very nearly 3 hour show, and lets see if we rediscover something together.

Stromkern - Re-Align (Seabound)

Exilanation - Infinity (Live Recorded)

Nebula-H - Mobilis In Mobile

The Crystalline Effect - When The World Ends (Blank)

Interface - North Star

Angel Theory - Black And Blue

Backlash - Alter Ego

Diskonnekted - After Einstein (Extended)

State Of The Union - Fall From Grace

Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Geschaeftsfrau

Negative Format - Origins

Auto Aggression - Das Nyquist Theorem

Alien 6 - Ice Machine

Bobby - So Many Scars (Dynamikk)

Obscyre - Liebe Und Wahnsinn

Mono Chrome - Sold

Morph - Banish Me (DJ Shadow)

Mechanical Horizon - Promise The Way (Tool Box)

Lost Signal - Drowning

Access Zero - Years Of Wasted Time

Real Life - Oblivion (Nevarakka)

Lost Area - Soulhunter (Accessory)

Conetik - Cold Star (Dead Eyes)

Syntax - Pray

Informatik - Flesh Menagerie

Culture Kultur - The Only One

Oomph - Augen Auf

Iris - Unknown (Sub Rosa)

Monofader - Mimic

Minerve - My Universe (Club)

Necessary Response - Tomorrow (Edit)

Fictional - Opportunities

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We're now in the hom stretch for 2024. I'm getting very close to completing the last theme show for the year, a 3 hour extravaganza I'm calling "Project 2011". We're going to dive into the shows played ~20 years ago and see how much has changed, how many acts are still around, and whatever happened to... This isn't even mentioning that some time in the next 4 weeks I have to get the annual best of show compiled. But I do enjoy getting out extra long shows at this time of year so everyone can have someething new to play on their new devices on Christmas morning!

Chains Of Agony - Munging (Tazento)

Avarice In Audio - Coffin On The Dancefloor

NeuroWulf - No Guiding Light

Freunde Der Technik - Peng!

Cryptic Echoes - Toxic Horizon

Malwere - It's All About Honour

Wisborg - Unter Menschen (Beyond Border)

Chris Shape & Su Eko - Nada

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This weeks show is dated for Monday, which is Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries, and Veterans day in the USA. This year I think more and more about my Grandparents as veterans, but what strikes me the most is having visited both Berlin and London in my lifetime, each time I visited I'd look up and picture the sky and imagine it black with bombers, fire and smoke. Its unfathomable now. Lets just hope that it always stays this way. But to show how far we've come lets give multiculturalism a spin by listening to great music from around the world!

Silicodisco & Bias - Primal Tension

First Aid Tech - Tech Under Your Skin

Phase Fatale - Lament Configuration

Amnistia - Phoenix Rising

Avarice In Audio - Faith

Czarina - Dark Star

Solitary Experiments - Every Now And Then (Machinista)

Insect Skin - We Are Lost (Again)

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We've finally caught up with the rest of the world. Time change was last night in North America, the USA changed the date a few years ago, and when the US has a cold, we sneeze. I do want to say good luck to my American friends this week. The whole world is watching. Nervously. Hell, we're going to have our own turn at trying to keep the far-right out of a majority government here shortly enough. But lets block out the real world for an hour and listen to some great new music!

Freunde Der Technik - Vielen Dank!

E-Lektrotreib! - Aussergewehnlich

Red Industrie - Forward (Extended)

BlakLight - A Stranger Calls (Rework)

Frontal Boundary - Shutting Down

Martine - Black Noir (Mach Fox)

Pulse Protocol - Heartbeats (Darkest Night)

KRSSV - Trampa

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