Saint Jerome in His Study by Caravaggio

Midnight
Radio

Notes on surviving the 21st century and a mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.

Caravaggio, Saint Jerome in His Study (1604)

Night owls play a crucial role in the survival of animals that live in groups. These species fare better when some members watch over the others at night, a trait that has persisted from the ice and stone ages through these days of neon and sodium light. The sentinel hypothesis is a love poem to the long-haul truckers and security guards, the swing shift nurses and factory workers, the insomniac writers and music-makers. We are descendants of the honorable night watchman.

Inspired by the Electrifying Mojo, Midnight Radio is a short burst of late-night reverberations, recommendations, and a five-track mixtape delivered ’round midnight on the 1st and 15th of each month.

Darkly Euphoric
Midnight Radio 38

Darkly Euphoric

Jan 15
Glittery future-shock goth-punk with a Very Special Guest

The title of tonight’s episode comes from Mike Doyle, a variant on Bruce Sterling’s 2009 announcement at a conference in Copenhagen that days of dark euphoria were upon us: intense digital pleasure that masks societal crisis.

  1. Liars - No. 1 Against the Rush
  2. Cold Cave - Double Lives in Single Beds
  3. Telefon Tel Aviv - You are the Worst Thing in the World
  4. The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea
  5. ERAAS - Fang
  6. Adult. - Tonight We Fall
  7. A Place to Bury Strangers - Love Reaches Out
Hallucination Soundtrack
Midnight Radio 32

Hallucination Soundtrack

OCT 15
Woozy reverberations for your next vision quest

Last night I dreamt my mother was alive and serving a delicious tea brewed from stones. I woke up pondering the feedback loop of life: is there anything we eat or drink that wasn't once alive?

  1. Slowdive - Machine Gun (50% slower)
  2. Belong - A Walk (22% slower)
  3. Slowdive - Mousakka Chaos (20% slower)
  4. Autechre - Bronchusevenmx24 (25% slower)
  5. Sosena Gebre Eyesus - Save Us From Our Death
  6. cv313 - Depths of Perception (Excerpt)
  7. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow (45% slower)
  8. My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental B
The Red Curtain
Midnight Radio 17

The Red Curtain

MAR 1
Angelo Badalamenti, Chris Isaak, Julee Cruise

A tribute to David Lynch that roams through ruined ballads and slow-motion noir.

  1. Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme
  2. Rebekah Del Rio - Llorando
  3. Dean Hurley - Night Electricity Theme
  4. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Constant Fear
  5. Roy Orbison - Crying
  6. Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet
  7. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (23% slower)
  8. The Paris Sisters - I Love How You Love Me
  9. Julee Cruise - Falling
  10. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
  11. Roy Orbison - In Dreams (20% slower)
  12. Rod Modell + Taka Noda - Untitled 2