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The October 2024 Halloween Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: “Jack, You’re Dead!”
Ahbury Heights: “Sleeping With a Knife”
Nox Novacula: “Wolves”
Virgin in Veil: “Shattered Glass”
Dinah Washington: “My Man’s An Undertaker”
Die Sexual: “On This Night (BlakLight Remix)”
Echoberyl: “The Fortune Teller”
Bessie Smith: “Haunted House Blues (Digitally Remastered)”
The Cemetary Girlz: “I Was Born… (To Be Cold)”
Curse Mackey: “Mutatis Mutandis (Ketvector Remix by Ketvector)”
Twin Temple: “Lucifer, My Love [Explicit]”
Specimen: “Sharp Teeth, Pretty Teeth (12″ version)”
Faetooth: “She Cast a Shadow”
Heela: “Fuck You Meow”
The Rectors: “Take You To Church”
Unboned: “Disguise”
Rival Cults: “Murder Nation”
Stoneburner: “Destroy Devour 2024”
The Palace of Tears: “An Echo in Time”
LEATHERS: “Day For Night”
eX-Tradition: “A Total Lifespan”
Angelspit: “Sleep Now”
Kay Starr: “Headless Horseman”
Horror Vacui: “Lost”
Unwoman: “Veteran of the Psychic Wars”
True Body: “Spirit City”
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees: “With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm”

The September 2024 “Return to 1984” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Siouxsie And The Banshees: “Dazzle”
The Gun Club: “The Stranger in Our Town (Remastered)”
Xmal Deutschland: “Mondlicht”
Skinny Puppy: “Smothered Hope”
Scratch Acid: “Greatest Gift”
The Ramones: “Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)”
Echo And The Bunnymen: “Silver”
Butthile Surfers: “Lady Sniff”
Front 242: “Special Forces (Remastered)”
The Fall: “Oh! Brother (Remastered)”
Depache Mode: “Blasphemous Rumours”
Meat Puppets: “Split Myself In Two”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: “Two Tribes”
Reagan Youth: “Degenerated”
The Pretenders: “Show Me”
Ultravox: “Man of Two Worlds (2009 Remaster)”
Dead Can Dance: “In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated (Remastered)”
John Carpenter: “The Fog Main Title Theme”
Hüsker Dü: “Something I Learned Today”
Bananarama: “Cruel Summer”
R.E.M.: “So. Central Rain”
Romeo Void: “A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)”
Cocteau Twins: “Lorelei”
David Bowie: “Blue Jean (1999 Remaster)”
OMD: “Tesla Girls”
The Human League: “The Lebanon (Remastered 2003)”
Cabaret Voltaire: “Sensoria (Remastered)”

The August 2024 “DEATH to the SUMMER” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Intro:
Chant: “Dead Muse”


Set One:
Bill Leeb: “Terror Forms (Feat. Shannon Hemmet)”
Fluid Ghost: “I Don’t Feel Safe”
Ashbury Heights: “Spectres From the Black Moss”


Set Two:
Void Palace: “Machine of Vision”
Then Comes Silence: “She Loves The Night”
Astari Nite: “Necessity Meal”
Dark Sinfonia: “Lurking On The Hill”

Set Three:
The March Violets: “Hammer the Last Nail”
iamnoone: “In fear (DMX RMX)”
Scandy: “Crush On A Robot”

Set Four:
Liz Lamere: “Vibration”
eX-Tradition: “The Rot (Of Wealth)”
Hollow Howl: “Ursa”
Radar Eyes: “Dreaming of Giants”

Set Five:
Haex: “Daggers”
Mesmer’s Ghost: “Gothic Sunset (DI Auger Lament Configuration Remix)”
Selofan: “Love’s Secret Game”

Set Six:
Die Sexual: “Bound, I Rise”
Angelspit: “Vena Cava”
black lung: “the golden age of heliogabalus”
The Temptations: “I Wish It Would Rain”


Set Seven:
Nghtly: “Take A Revenge Again”
Dame Area: “Si no es hoy cuando es”
State Of The Union: “Bad Flowers (Aircrash Bureau Remix)”
Trepaneringsritualen: “Feral Me (Codex Empire Remix)”

The July 2024 “Let’s Punch Timer” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Intro:
spankthenun: “Blak Out The Sun (Moris Blak)”

Set One
ACTORS: “Dead Inside”
Night in Athens: “Pressure”
THENAVE: “Middle (Mental Discipline Remix)”

Set Two
BELLHEAD: “No Big Deal”
Ashes Fallen: “At The End of All Things (G.W. Childs IV Mix)”
Caput Medusae: “Eerie Dance”
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood: “Some Velvet Morning”


Set Three
Crystal Geometry: “Money has no smell”
Frontal Boundary: “Without a Chance (C-Lekktor Remix)”
Leaether Strip: “Filling the Graves (Sine Division Remix)”


Set Four
Gentleman Junkie: “No God”
IAMX: “Neurosymphony”
The Damned: “Alone Again Or”
The Stooges: “T.V. Eye”


Set Five
16volt: “The Infernal Paramour”
Cyanotic: “Information Overload (Same as Always)”
Encephalon: “Last Day At The Institute”


Set Six
Lila Ehjä: “Bats”
Cyberaktif: “Bitter End”
Ex-Hyena: “Shapeshifter”
Fever Ray: “What They Call Us (Âme Remix)”


Set Seven
HOSTILE ARCHITECT: “ANYTIME FITNESS (SUPPLEMENTAL MIX)”
Into The Pale Abyss: “Murderwave”
Slighter: “Forcefield Operative (TeknoVore Remix)”

The June 2024 “Old Timey Radio” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Intro:
Krystal System: “Master and Servant”

Set One:
klack: “Let’s Go To Berlin!”
Crisk.: “Beute”
Assemblage 23: “Love My Way (1998)”

Set Two
Renonce: “Fracasse”
Renonce: “Faille”
Big Black: “Jordan, Minnesota [Explicit]”
Big Black: “The Model”

Set Three
Go Fight: “Give the People What They Want (Pure Pain Mix)”
MVTANT: “Kanashibari”
Dark Chisme: “Lucretia My Reflection”

Set Four
Sebastian Komor from Icon Of Coil and Moonitor & Zombie Girl: “Creepy Crawler”
Gost: “The Prowler”
Live Not On Evil: “SHAKE”
The Faces of Sarah: “…Baby One More Time”

Set Five
Creux Lies: “Renegade – (Pixel Grip Remix)”
DANCE WITH THE DEAD: “Eyes of Madness”
Alien Sex Fiend: “Five to One”

Set Six:
Häxa: “Månen (MONOMORTE Remix)”
All Your Sisters: “Come Feel”
Pineal Ventana: “Shauna Doll”
Collide: “white rabbit”

Set Seven:
Houses of Heaven: “Strange Temptation”
Alcest: “Percées De Lumière”
Kælan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson: “Körkarlen”
Laibach: “Across the Universe”

The May 2024 “Demons of the Prairie” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Intro:
The Cassandra Complex: “Mouth of Heaven”

Set One:
Crime of Passing: “Damrak”
Houses of Heaven: “Dissolve The Floor”
Sadness Isolation: “Direct Lines”

Set Two:
HEALTH: “HATEFUL”
Caput Medusae: “Überfan”
Hante.: “Quiet Violence”
Numb.er: “Again”

Set Three:
Rosegarden Funeral Party: “Doorway Ghost”
Lene Lovich: “Ghost Story”
Void Vision: “In 20 Years (Extended Version)”

Set Four:
HUIR: “Vital”
Ego Likeness: “Crossed”
The Vanishing: “Lovesick”
Ritual Howls: “Dark Ceiling In Tennessee”

Set Five:
The Cemetary Girlz: “The Last Kiss”
Velvet Acid Christ: “The Dead (Death Wish Mix)”
TRAITRS: “Sea Howl”

Set Six:
Bestial Mouths: “INNARDS (ACTORS REMIX)”
Shadowplay: “Two Sides”
Corker: “The Cold Air”
Screams For Tina: “Eleven Eleven”

Set Seven:
Ceremony Shadows: “Resistance”
Selofan: “Glassplitter”
ATTRITION: “The Black Maria”
Diamanda Galás: “Let My People Go”

Everything Sounds Better in Edgar Allan Poe’s Basement

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A short while back I paid a visit to the Edgar Allan Poe house here in lovely Philadelphia. This visit was prompted by my nephew, Jeff, whom you might know from the cover of the Dead Milkmen’s “If I Had A Gun” Single.

Jeff is nearly forty now, so just let that sink in.
Anyhoooo, while I was there I made sure to record an impulse in in EAP’s basement and…
What’s an impulse?
I’m so glad you asked! An impulse is usually a short percussive sound (I.e. A handclap or a snare hit) that is then imported into a convolution reverb tool such as FL Studio’s “Fruity Convolver“

You then apply this reverb to an instrument or vocal and the convolution reverb applies the properties of the space you recorded the impulse in to the sound and viola! You’re jamming in Poe’s basement. Or you’re jamming with your viola in Poe’s basement. I get confused, so maybe this will help clear things up.
Below is the impulse I recorded in Poe’s basement:
Poe_Basement.wav
Here is a set of drums playing a beat dry – no reverb has been added:
Drums_Dry.mp3
Now, here’s the same set of drums as if they were being played in Poe’s basement:
Drums_Poe_Basement.mp3

I’ll be sure to add the Poe’s Basement impulse to the Free Sounds section of this site along with any other impulses I have in my convolution library – including my own basement.
in the meantime, you can grab the EAP Basement Impulse from the link above.
You’re welcome, America.

Phun Philly Phact: My friend MC Lars, an enthusiastic Poe fan, once tried to jump the fence surrounding the Poe house before Dean Clean and I pulled back to safety,

The April 2024 “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Intro:
Kolchak – The Night Stalker – Main Theme
Anja Huwe: “Living In The Forest”

Set One;
Die Sexual: “Need To Sin”
Petrified Entity: “Doomscrolling”
Xmal Deutschland: “Incubus Succubus”

Set two:
Haunt Me: “Bésame”
Ike Yard: “Dancing + Slaving”
The KVB: “Labyrinths”
Dermabrasion: “Goblin Dance”

Set Three:
Notausgang: “Malphas*”
Pixel Grip: “Bet You Do.”

Set Four
Aesthetic Perfection: “No Boys Allowed”
Confines: “Every Day The Warehouse Shook”
New Model Army: “Coming Or Going”
Gibbous Moon: “Ayadda”

Set Five
Them Are Us Too: “Floor”
Assemblage 23: “This House Is Empty [Coldkill Remix]”
La Mverte: “Nigredo feat. JC from Vox Low”

Set Six
Twin Tribes: “Cauldron of Thorns”
Bella Lune: “Perpetuate”
Screamers: “Magazine Love”
Coffin Pricks: “Group Home Haircut”

Set Seven
The Ire: “Bacchic Danse”
Order of the Static Temple: “Shadow and Agony”
Rhino 39: “Marry It (Hell Comes To Your House 1981)”