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    Half Machine Lip Moves Ep. 296: 2/1/2026: Operator's Choice 2026

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This week's show is our yearly Operator's Choice special, in which I get totally self-indulgent by playing some of my recent favorites or songs I really like. The first block was a mix of industrial, darkwave, and post-punk. The second block was mostly post-punk tracks taken from a mix of songs I made for listening to on a sunny winter's day. The third block was mostly punk and hardcore songs. Then we ended the show with some synthpop (and synthpop-adjancent) songs.

  1. Introduction
  2. HEXVHS: Cuts You Deep
  3. Autumn: Venice
  4. Holograms: Flesh and Bone
  5. Skull Family: Closed Caskets
  6. Let’s Active: Every Dog Has His Day
  7. Ides of March: On the Face
  8. March Violets: Hammer the Last Nail
  9. The New Day: Flames of Colors
  10. Fields of the Nephilim: For Her Light
  11. Flesh For Lulu: Postcards From Paradise
  12. Mumbler: Union Station
  13. Leatherface: I Don’t Want to Be the One to Say It
  14. Chest Rockwell: Wednesday
  15. Busy Weather: Soda Jerk
  16. Sheer Mag: Just Can’t Get Enough
  17. LAP: Miss Cokestand 1999
  18. Ugly Criers: Kick Down the Ladder
  19. Calabrese: Vampires Don’t Exist
  20. Control Top: One Good Day
  21. SSQ: Synthicide
  22. Futurisk: Split Second Decision
  23. C Z A R I N A: Exoskeleto
  24. Experimental Products: Sweet Rejection
  25. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: Break Through the Noise
  26. Prizm: Go Your Own Way


    Tracklist
    0:01    Intro -
    10:43    HEXVHS - Cuts You Deep
    12:48    Autumn - Venice
    16:52    Holograms - Flesh and Bone
    21:00    Skull Family - Closed Caskets
    23:52    Segues + Station ID -
    28:19    Let’s Active - Every Dog Has His Day
    32:40    Ides of March - On the Face
    39:35    March Violets - Hammer the Last Nail
    44:29    The New Day - Flames of Colors
    48:04    Fields of the Nephilim - For Her Light
    51:05    Flesh For Lulu - Postcards From Paradise
    54:42    Chapter - Segues + Station ID
    58:43    Mumbler - Union Station
    1:01:30    Leatherface - I Don’t Want to Be the One to Say It
    1:03:58    Chest Rockwell - Wednesday
    1:06:29    Busy Weather - Soda Jerk
    1:07:54    Sheer Mag - Just Can’t Get Enough
    1:10:45    LAP - Miss Cokestand 1999
    1:15:25    Ugly Criers - Kick Down the Ladder
    1:18:46    Calabrese - Vampires Don’t Exist
    1:21:51    Control Top - One Good Day
    1:25:14    Segues + Station ID -
    1:29:36    SSQ - Synthicide
    1:33:07    Futurisk - Split Second Decision
    1:36:38    C Z A R I N A - Exoskeleto
    1:41:12    Experimental Products - Sweet Rejection
    1:46:13    Brighter Than a Thousand Suns - Break Through the Noise
    1:50:07    Prizm - Go Your Own Way
    1:53:27    Chapter - Outro + Signoff


    Industrial, EBM, darkwave, goth, post-punk, post punk, gothic rock, goth rock, punk, punk rock, synthpop, synthwave
    • 142 bpm
    • Key: Bm
    • Hot Springs, AR, USA