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October 23 So you want to go to a haunted house, hmmmm? from Oct 22, 2026
Jacques Berrocal - "Conseil Des Ministres" - An afflicted man's musica box v/a
Idea Fire Company - "Table of Denial Orders" - Anti-Natural
Clark Ashton Smith - "Ode to the Abyss" - The Muse of Hyperborea
Ruth White - "The Irremediable" - Flowers of Evil
George Todd - "Satan's Sermon" - Satan's Sermon and Other Electronic Fantasies v/a
Diamanda Galas - "Litanies of Satan / Cris D'Aveugle (excerpted)" - Litanies of Satan / Saint of the Pit
Los Inciados - "Druidas Quiicos" - Druidas Quimicos
Fabio Fabor - "Acheron" - Pape Satan
Jean-Bernard Raiteux - "Kathleen & the Horses" - Les Demons OST
Moon Birds - "Nebuleuse" - MC-1/Astro 9
Horrific Child - "H.I.A. (excerpt)" - L'etrange Monsieurs Whinster
Salvatore Martirano - "L's GA for Gassed-Masked Politico, Helium Bomb, and Two-Channel Tape (exc)" - L's GA - Ballad - Octet
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169834
1 hr 17 min
October 18 More Sounds of Horror from Oct 16, 2026
Freddy Krueger - "Freddy speaks..." - NA
John Carpenter and Alan Howarth - "Suite A (bonus mix) excerpt" - Halloween II
Goblin - "Hell of the Living Dead intro" - Hell of the Living Dead
Pain Teens - "King Wicker" - ManIfestation
Rancid Hell Spawn - "The Ballad of Bud Dwyer" - Axe Hero
Misfits - "Halloween II" - Halloween
Tom Richards - "Pink Something (excerpt)" - Pink Nothing
Abruptum - "Vis Semina Dies Hora Dea Membra Corpora" - Evil Genius
Arne Nordheim - "Hovering" - Dodeka
Marcia Bassett - "In Process (excerpt)" - Undulating Akrasboning
Barbara, the Gray Witch - "Gray Witchcraft" - Barbara, te Gray Witch
Alberto Baldan Bembo - "Seq. 15" - Nuda Per Satan OST
Michelle Scullion - "Derek and the Astro Bastard" - Bad Taste OST
Michio Kumagai - "Katros" - Electronic Music from High Schools (V/A)
Beherit - "Black Mass Prayer" - Dawn of Satan's Millenium
Aleister Crowley - "The Call of The First Aethyr" - The Beast Speaks
Simon Boswell - "Aquarius Opening Titles" - Aquarius OST aka Stage Fright
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169628
1 hr 2 min
October 09 A Taste of Darkness from Oct 8, 2026
Strange - "Jimi" - Translucent World
Art Interface - "Beneath The Calm" - Subtle Hints
Asmus Tietchens - "Hydrophonie 8 (excerpt)" - Seuchengebiete 2
Tod Dockstader - "Song and Lament" - Quatermass
David Fanshawe - "Dawn Odyssey" - Last House On Dead End Street soundtrack
Carl Zitter - "Let Them Rise (excerpt)" - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things soundtrack
Sleep Chamber - "Green Sky" - Sacred and Surreal
Of A Mesh - "Crazy House" - Of A Mesh
Lustmord - "Ixaxaar" - The Monstrous Soul
Psychic TV - "Thee Dweller" - Allegory and Self
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169365
1 hr 11 min
October 02 Hear What You Believe, See What You Feel from Oct 1, 2026
Brainticket - "One Morning" - Psychonaut
Rudimentary Peni - "The Psycho Squat" - Death Church
Modulo 1000 - "Turpe Est Sine Crine Caput" - Nao Fale Fom Paredes
Rui Ferreira - "Um Sonho da Primavera" - unknown
Ralph Lundsten & Leo Nilson - "Mizar" - Elektronik Musik
Heldon - "Cotes De Cachalot À La Psylocybine" - Third "It's Always Rock'n'Roll"
Nuclear Crayons - "Blinded Youth" - Bad Pieces Seen Delivering The Foretold Conclusion Spin All When After Consummate Pieces Open
Corruption of Peace - "Bleeding Children" - Pusmort Sampler V/A
McKain / Smith / Walter - "Energy Around A Point" - No Tunes Rise From Blood
African Head Charge - "I Want Water" - Shrunken Head
Third Ear Band - "Mosaic" - Alchemy
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169139
1 hr 2 min
September 25 In the Shadow of the Sundial from Sep 24, 2026
Sven Wunder - "Magnolia" - Eastern Flowers
Perverts In White Shirts - "Come To Mommy" - CULTurally appropriated songs and revisited memories [Found on their bandcamp page]
Bizarre Ko.Ko.Ko. - "Retracting the Reflected Consciousness of All Having Come Into Being" - 00 Time
Matthew Young - "First Blood" - Recurring Dreams
Chaino - "Bongo Samba" - Night of the Spectre
Ghedalia Tazartes - "Tazartes' Transport 1" - Tazartes' Transports
Goblin - "Withy" - Contamination OST
Indians In Moscow - "I Wish I Had" - Indians In Moscow
Pelican Daughters - "The Haywain" - Fishbones & Wishbones
Felix Kubin - "Menthol Radio Swing" - Matki Wandalki
Group 180 - "Szemzo: Water-Wonder (excerpt)" - Reich / Rzewski / Melis / Szemző
Charanjit Singh ‎ - "Raga Lalit" - Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
Pink Industry - "Urban Jazz" - Who Told You, You Were Naked?
Arturo Ruiz del Pozo - "Selvynas" - Tránsitos Sónicos - Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)
Igor Wakchevitch - "Materia Prima" - Strain, Crack, and Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List (V/A)
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/168892
1 hr 5 min
September 18 When Life Serves You Radiation, Make Radiade! from Sep 17, 2026
Lou Höffner Trio Minus One - "Derrick 2000" - b/w Harry in Orbit
Current 93 - "A Sad Sadness Song" - Thunder Perfect Mind
Einstürzende Neubauten - "Ein Stuhl in der Hölle" - Haus der Lüge
Attrition - "Into The Waves" - In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts
DDAA (Déficit Des Années Antérieures) - "Path in the Wakasa Forest" - Action and Japanese Demonstration
Claudine Chirac - "Etudes" - Oh Fuck, I Can't Swim
Lilli Berlin - "Atomkraftteddy" - Süß Und Erbarmungslos
Trax - "Trax Co Mix 1" - Three Minute Symphony (V/A)
Franco Micalizzi - "Stridulum Theme" - Stridulum (The Visitor) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack In Full Stereo)
Cosmonauts Hail Satan - "Mystery Mountain" - b/w A Beautiful Girl Like You
Al Festa - "Robowar - 5" - Robowar OST
Force Ignore - "LAMS" - Anthology Of Persian Experiemntal Music Vol. II
Argo - "B2" - Discophonia
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/168655
1 hr 3 min
September 11 Neither Birds, nor Bards Sing Sardonic Songs from Sep 10, 2026
Nocturnal Emissions - "No Separation" - Viral Shedding
Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Walt Rockman - "Fairy Tale" - Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds
Dr. Know - "The Unknown" - This Island Earth
Langham Research Centre - "Money" - Tape Works Vol. 1
Mar-Vista - "The End of the Dream" - Visions of Sodal Ye
Helios Creed - "The Descent" - X-Rated Fairy Tales
The Metronomes - "Sex 1" - The Ballad of the Metronomes
Pierre Henry - "Mexique" - Fragments Pour Artaud / Prismes
Incredible Bongo Band - "In A Gadda Da Vida" - Bongo Rock
Pierre Vasseur - "Champ XIV" - "D'ailleurs" - XV Champs Introspectifs
Dome - "To Speak (excerpt)" - 4 Will You Speak This World
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/168401
57 min
September 04 The Last Woes Of Summer from Sep 3, 2026
Killer Watts - "Telstar" - Golden Hour Of Golden Instrumental Hits Featuring The Many Moogs Of Killer Watts
Monotonik - "Monotony" - Ex Yu Electronica, Vol. II: Industrijski Elektro Obvodi (V/A)
Bunkerstrasse - "Mirror" - Bunker
Thomas Brinkmann - "untitled" - Studio 1 - Variationen
Psyclones - "Prelude to Clubfoot" - Psyclones
Anthony Moore - "Mare's Tail part 1 (excerpt)" - Mare's Tail
Raúl Gómez - "Preludio De Un Amor" - Instrumental
Ananda Shankar - "Snow Flower" - Siatr Meets Moog
The Fibonaccis - "Terror Vision" - OST - Terror Vision
Scott Walker - "Jackie" - 2
Paul Leary - "The Birds Are Dying" - The History of Dogs
Coil - "Baby Food" - Unnatural History III
Frederic Viger - "Marathon Life" - Marathon Life
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/168158
1 hr 6 min
August 28 Free Floating Through Concrete from Aug 27, 2026
Petticoats - "Dreams" - Scaling Triangles 12" EP (V/A)
Imaginary Softwoods - "Remember Seeing It" - So Extra Bronze Lamp
Terminal Cheesecake - "Oily Bud (excerpt)" - Gateau D'Espace
Hans-Hendrik Wehding - "50 ' '" - Was?? / Proteinimperialism
Wilburn Burchette - "Regeneration" - Opens The Seven Gates Of Transcendental Consciousness
Mark Vernon - "Pollen Nap" - Unforced Errors
The Poppy Family - "Beyond the Clouds" - Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Ennio Morricone - "Dies Irae Psichedelico" - Escalation
Herve Ak - "The Closer" - Kompakt Total 8 v/a
Bo Anders Persson - "Proteinimperialism (excerpt)" - Was?? / Proteinimperialism
William Hellermann - "Ek-Stasis II (1970) for percussion, amplified piano & tape" - Ludus Primus / Kata / Ek-Stasis II / Chroma
Beatriz Ferreyra - "Rios Del Sueno: Rio De Los Pájaros Azules" - La Rivière Des Oiseaux
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/167930
1 hr 3 min
August 21 Sounds of Summer Haze from Aug 20, 2026
Saccharine Trust - "I Have..." - Paganicons
Juan Marcos Blanco - "La Manada" - Caballos
Mulatu Astatke - "Mulatu" - Mulatu of Ethiopia
Negativland - "Off-Air Comments no.1" - Over the Edge, Vol.4
Ennio Morricone - "Nadine" - Il Serpente (sndtk)
Selda - "Dost Merhaba" - Dost Merbaba
Chris & Cosey - "Arcade (extended version)" - Exotica
Raglani - "Science and Industry" - Give Wonder
Jean-Baptiste Barriere - "Regards" - Pandémonium: Ville Ouverte (Esquisses Pour Une Descente Aux Enfers)
Jon Appleton - "Chef D’Oeuvre" - Syntonic Menagerie
Brainticket - "Egyptian Kings" - Celestial Ocean
Los Iniciados - "Los Años No Pasan en Balde" - Druidas Quimicos
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/167685
56 min

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A comprehensive exploration of contemporary experimental, psychedelic, noise & other obscure music. Hosted by Andy Ortmann (curator of the Nihilist Records label and member of longtime noise…