Full Moon Music.
We’ve always featured darkness since our very first broadcast on Omega WUSB. By our fourth show, we came close in completing our first full-fledged darkness set in a more dis-organized era when we were still trying to figure ourselves out. Back then, ‘darkness’ meant any amount of well-known industrial, metal, and electronic acts with an evil, deviant, or negative tinge to it. Think Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA, Whitehouse, Godflesh, NON, and etcetera. We finally achieved full force during a bonus summer broadcast (#21) and since then things evolved in how we did those shows. We’ve made a point in doing at least one but no more than two of these dark broadcasts per year, usually in the winter as it’s the best weather, and that’s not including the Halloween broadcasts we’ve done. That’s a whole other class in itself.
It wasn’t until November 2017 when I attended Hospital Productions’ 20th anniversary, a night I’ll never forget. It was the culmination of nine months of benefits and stay-at-home recovery from three life-saving shoulder surgeries. It felt so good being in my element in Brooklyn (Greenpoint) with all the industrialists, goth girls, and noise aficionados dressed in black. Ten hours of paying personal tributes to Dominick Fernow and his label made me realize there was more to look forward to. It’s something never experienced on Long Island, and don’t even get me started with what that “culture” consists of.
That event left a lasting impression on me. If the label had its’ magic on me with Cocaine Death, then I was totally mystified with its’ own showcase. Even everything surrounding it - the train rides, playlists, playbacks, the weather - felt significant to me. And then some. The following month, Omega WUSB opened up the winter broadcasting season / year with more Hospital Productions and Sacred Bones music to air. Both of those labels had their 20th and 10th label anniversaries respectively and we loved what they’ve released. Philip Best’s Alien Existence and a shipment of RRRecords’ cassettes and vinyl arrived at the residence; both which made me feel proud of myself. By Year Six, Omega WUSB was more focused in playing darkwave, synthwave, soundscapes, and even witch house. As the colder months progressed, I discovered a Brooklyn goth girl who followed me and liked my posts on the regular. She was that rare person I really identified with and gave me a serious run for my money like no other.
Through all the euphoric ups, heartbreaking downs, and greyscale steadies, the show must go on. The events of Hospital Productions and identification still surround me. They are a reminder of who I am, where I’m from, what I look forward to, and who I associate with. The darkness broadcasts still go strong and we look forward in doing them like you wouldn’t believe. By now, Omega WUSB has been more organized. Of all the different genres we play, we make it a point to do these dedicated darkness sets when the weather’s suitable and as long as the music’s current. Aside from that, we still run dedicated bonus (and even our one-and-only deluxe Leap Day) noise shows and we aim to make all of our other goth rock, black metal, classic industrial, minimal, and other midnight finds when and where applicable. All of our listeners know that organizing at least 15 different genres and making them all fit is a challenge.
This past winter, we aired one broadcast of dark electronics from Avon Terror Corps and the L.I.E.S. label, doom metal, no-tech, and some textural noise. Somehow we fell into the rabbit hole of darkwave, synthwave, minimal, and EBM and we’ve had enough for a great three-hour idea. With WUSB’s ethos of independent radio and our ethos of everything new, current, and relevant, we had a case to go off-the-board.
Here’s what I / we’ve been feeling and experiencing for the past four winters. This soundtrack supplements the pristine spectre of full moons and constellations in the clear frigid black skies, plus all the positive events that still stays with me make for a distinct spell I can call my own. No Wax Trax, no Bauhaus, The Cure, The Cramps, Siouxsie Sioux, or Depeche Mode. No doubt they’re all legends, but not every tracklist or mix has to be that way. Everything found here is current and on a different level. If at any time I need to get myself up, I’ll reach back to this and know I’ll come back to something I can call what’s mine.
Drift.: “Social Front”
Body Of Light: “Let Me Go”
Beta Evers: “Move In My Body Rhythm”
Makina Girgir: “Livides Clartes”
Kontravoid: “10,000 Voices”
La Scaltra: “Rhythm Of Our Dead Hearts”
Vore Aurora: “In Out And Thru”
Void Vision: “Body Says”
Aurat: "Shaitan”
Violet Tremors: “It’s So Good”
Popsimonova: “No Contact”
U.Z.O. / Uho Za Oko: “Medsvetovje”
Colouroid: “Eye Shadow”
Boy Harsher: “Tears”
Crazy P: “The Witness”
Molchat Doma: “Sudno (Boris Ryzhy)”
Hante.: “One More Dance”
Jennifer Touch: “Chemistry”
Minuit Machine: “Don’t Run From The Fire”
Figure Study: “Interaction”
Drift: “Calculations”
Las Eras: “La Esclava”
Gold Zebra: “Invisible Disorder”
Brusque Twins: “What Else Is There To Say?”
Schonwald: “Rays”
Dolina: “Sorrow”
Technoir: “Dying Star (Mesh)”
Sally Dige: “Forget Me”
Drab Majesty: “Cold Souls”
Opale: “Sparkles And Wine”
Boy Harsher: “R.O.V. (New Beat)”
Minimal Kommando / Andreas Ohler: “Minimal Waver”
Linea Aspira: “Hinterland”
Rue Oberkampf: “Tokyo”
Marie Davidson: “Balade Aux USA”
Xeno & Oaklander “Sentinelle”
Aurat: “Pari”
Flesh Of Morning: “Death Becomes Bitter”
White Hex: “Paradise”
Kindest Cuts: “Cold Eyes”
Phosphor: “Another Time”
Girl Pusher: “Where The Fuck Is My Ambulance?”
Debby Friday: “Treason” (f. Lana Del Rabies)
Lana Del Rabies: ”Darcy” (Lav Andula RMX)
NGHTCRWLR: “Firestarter”
Zonal: “System Error” (f. Moor Mother) Wrecked
JK Flesh: “In Your Pit”
Ciarra Black: Stasis
Filmmaker: “The Love Market”
Provoker: “Theme”
Parole E Azioni: “Karaoke Night track #1″
Aurat: “Ilzam”
Essaie Pas: “Danse Sociale”
Drift: “Say It Right”
Deep Red:“Pray For Death”
Ciarra Black: “Dupont Street”
Cabaret Nocturne: “Moon Invaders”
Boy Harsher: “Tears” (Silent Servant RMX)
Kanga: “Going Red”
Promiseland: “Take Down The House”
Lead Into Gold: “Hard Won Decay”
Rosa Damask: Heroes
Zanias: “Follow The Body”
Azar Swan: “Jungle Law”
Canal Street Electronics: “By The River”
Salford Electronics: “Deconstruction”
JK Flesh: “Trinity”
Ron Morelli: “Disappearer”
KVB, The: “In Deep”
White Ring: “Shaken To Sleep”
Pink Turns Blue: “I Coldly Stare Out”
Cabaret Nocturne: “Blind Trust”
Figure Study: “Wait”
Boy Harsher: “L.A.”
Soma Sema: “Artificial Heart”
Natural Assembly: “She Walks In Beauty”
Void Vision: “The Source”
KVB, The: “Afterglow”
John Carpenter: “Vortex” (Uniform RMX)
Emptyset: “Dissolve”
Consumer Electronics: “Co-Opted”
Alan Vega: “Prophecy”
Ninos Du Brasil: “Em Que O Rio Do Mar Se Torna”
Vatican Shadow: “Weapons Inspection”
Molly Nilsson: “A Slice Of Lemon”
Lebanon Hanover: “Babes Of The 80′s” (Tobias Bernstrup RMX)
Urochromes: “Night Bully” (Boy Harsher RMX)
Body Of Light: “Holding You”
Broken English Club: “Channel 83″
White Ring: “Leprosy”
Flesh & Peaki: “Veiled”
Ghxst: “Ride”
Strahinja Arbutina: “You Don’t Need This In Your Life”
Mirrors For Psychic Warfare: “Tomb Puncher”
Ron Morelli: “Golden Oldies”
Azar Swan: “Silent Like A Father”
Boy Harsher: “Face The Fire”
Clay Rendering: “The Pest”
Ron Morelli: “Radar Version”
Vatican Shadow: “Take Vows”
Silent Servant: “The Silent Attractor”
Ninos Du Brasil: “Vagalumes Pirilampos”
Lust For Youth: “Display”
Gary War: “Don’t Go Out Tonight”
Appetite: “Bordeaux Gallow”
Believer/Law: “Foxhole Prayers”
Ciarra Black: “Series Of…”
Silent Servant: “Dissociation”
Vatican Shadow: “Interrogation Mosaic”
Boy Harsher: “Pain”
Contrepoison: “Heartbeat”
Led Er Est: “Scissors”
Molly Nilsson: “I Hope You Die”
KVB, The: “Always Then”
Princess Century: “Crummy Bones”
Natural Assembly “Life Blossoms”
Adult.: “Dance Avoid”
Grun Wasser: “The Deep”
Believer/Law: “Ashes”
Military Position: “Babes Ov Babylon”
Drvg Cvltvre: “Waging A War Against God”
Actress: “Dancing In The Smoke”
Peaches: “Convincing People”
Grimes: “Genesis” (Blvck Ceiling RMX)
Algiers: “Death March” (Prurient RMX)
Rrose: “Surgeon General (Her Insides Laid Bare)”
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