Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews

## Support TransOhio!In this episode, we’re back to checking out a bunch of great live and URL sets from Sanctuary 2025, a charity show for the TransOhio Emergency Fund organized by Nostalgia Lounge in March of 2025. We go through sets that cover everything from classic vaporwave, to house and techno, breakcore, and beyond. Join us on our musical journey through Sanctuary 2025!Artists! If we have not gotten to your set or if you have a public link to your Sanctuary 2025 set that we missed in either episode please let us know! We just want to make sure you get the credit you deserve. Thanks to everyone for their hard work contributing to this and other charity shows.Sanctuary 2025 Part OneEpisode 126: A Sanctuary SamplerOutro SampleSEIKO М А Ш И Н А from 👁点击と👁 by 👁‍🗨📲Artists DiscussedStar-K MusicViolet AngelMajestic 12FIJI島の水FrankJavCeei-NoTRUMAN!ImCoPav👁‍🗨📲Dreaming Diary / Digital SexceladonDREAM SuiteSevag HZICO’S MUSIC BOXWVSQDHYDROPLANED INTO A FALSE REALITY!Known Publicly Available SetsStar-K Music Sanctuary 25 URL Mix by Star-K MusicViolet Angel @ Sanctuary Live 2025 🏳️‍⚧️ 3/29/25 Majestic 12 @ Sanctuary Live by Majestic 12SANCTUARY '25 LIVE SET by FIJI島の水TRUMAN! - Sanctuary Live 2025 URL Set // Live Vaporwave Lofi House DJ SetceladonDREAM Suite Sanctuary 25 SetZ-KO - Nostalgia Lounge: Sanctuary 2025 (DJ Set, 3/30/2025)WVSQD Sanctuary 2025TRUMAN! - Sanctuary Live 2025 URL Set // Live Vaporwave Lofi House DJ SetAdditional Links𝙩𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣'! 016Solodolo84 on Hot Takes PodcastCreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on BlueskySupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon

Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for us to gather around the Bandcamppole and celebrate the working artists of the world with our May new music episode. We’ve once again (completely unplanned!) have selected albums that represent both the comfort and the anxiety in vaporwave. First, we’re checking out the smooth and lush classic vaporwave of celadonDREAM Suite’s sophomore album. Then we’re going on an adventure with some glitchy and eclectic space ambient courtesy of ZIAD!. We hope you join us and give these albums a listen!Albums DiscussedCes Nuits Glamour by celadonDREAM SuiteCaptain Market's Nuclear Winter by ZIAD!Shout-Outs!Look Outside on SteamThe brilliance of Eyeliner's BUY NOW by Liam MurphyＶＡＰＯＲ ＭＥＭＰＨＩＳ | Phonk Vaporwave TapeNovachord Experiments by HainbachmobygratisNeon Nights Episode 156 - 04/22/25Additional LinksI'll Be Quiet Music VideoceladonDREAM Suite on YouTubeKaizo Slumber’s SlumberWebKaizo Slumber on BandcampCreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon ## Support the TransOhio Emergency FundIn this episode, we’re starting our series covering as many IRL and URL sets as we can get our hands on from Sanctuary 2025. Sanctuary is a charity show put on by Nostalgia Lounge (run by Crystal Eternal) to raise money for the TransOhio Emergency Fund. It was a huge success and featured music from dozens of artists highlighting numerous genres from vaporwave and future funk to industrial and breakcore.Remember: We will be covering more sets in the future so if we didn’t cover your set in Part One fear not! We’ll get to it.Music SampledDJ CENA - Sanctuary Live '25Sanctuary Sets DiscussedFrozenBabylon x crispy_doodles @ Sanctuary 2025Mr. Hoosteen - Live @ Sanctuary '25KJ VALIUM LIVE AT SANCTUARYFEST COLUMBUS OHIOBrickmason x crispy_doodles @ Sanctuary URL 2025V I A @ sanctuary live ‘25 urlNyoka Shoje - Sanctuary 2025 Live SetDJ CENA - Sanctuary Live '25YUNG SHIRO 白 - Nostalgia Lounge Sanctuary Live Event (breakcore DJ set) CreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Hello! We’re starting a new project this month. We have almost 50 bonus episodes on our Patreon. The goal is to get these older bonus episodes out from behind the paywall. So travel back in time with us for poor recording setups, bad editing, out of date opinions, and so much more!Original Show Notes:Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Well friends, it seems like nothing gets us into a long conversation like the historical and sociopolitical landscape of corporate art, aesthetics, and marketing. We talk about everything from the post-WW2 rise of popular luxury to the current hellscape of flat purple vector people.Definitely check out the CARI link below and let us know your favorite styles.As always thank you so much for your support.Music Sampledｓａｔｕｒｎ　ａｕｄｉｏ　ｓｙｓｔｅｍ　ｄｅｍｏｎｓｔｒａｔｉｏｎ　ｃａｓｓｅｔｔｅ　茨ヱめ畝ヹ by wilson arcadeAdditional LinksThe Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute - CARINote: The original “Your Face Here” page on Airbnb Design is gone.Blame Corporate MemphisPopuluxe on WikipediaWhy do "Corporate Art Styles" Feel Fake?Corporate Art Style - Know Your MemeWill that ‘big tech art style’ become the comic sans of art styles?Corporate Music - How to Compose with no SoulWe Are Sears 1986.mpgCreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our April New Music episode! This time around, we’re breaking the rules a bit by discussing three albums. Your three course meal starts with some classic USPS inspired vaporwave, moving on to an eclectic selection of chill experimental ambient before finishing things off with a moving tribute to the music of Twin Peaks. We hope you join us in checking out these albums and support the artists below!Albums DiscussedU.S. Mail by opal東京Living Rooms (Bonus Tracks Version) by Nobey OneThe Big Dream - EP by Faint WavesCreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on PatreonIn this episode, we’re checking out listencorp, a long-running magazine that covers vaporwave and electronic music. Each of their six issues features long-form articles, artist interviews, album reviews, and a whole bunch of great art and graphic design. We read through all of them and sat down to discuss our favorite articles. Grab their digital bundle on Etsy and join us! P.S. The ‘plosive suppression on this recording is wilding and sometimes “listencorp” sounds like “listencore.” Sorry! However you pronounce it, definitely go and support what they’re doing!Outro SampleUn futuro posible 2008 from Un futuro posible 2008 by The City ReviewerSupport listencorp!listencorplistencorp on Etsylistencorp on Utopia DistrictCreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon You should know that this episode was divinely ordained. The Discogs article below was posted by a listener on our Patreon Discord at the precise moment Birk was listening to a related album and thinking about this episode topic. As a result, you have to listen to us work our way through the landscape of Japanese Ambient in the 80s and 90s. We talk about the music of the time and how it might have arisen from changing material and technological conditions, the importance of funding cool art, and its resurgence in popularity over the past few years. Outro SampleSeiko 3 from Music For Commercials by Yasuaki Shimizu Read these Articles!Exploring Japan’s Ambient Music Boom of the ’80s and ’90sThe Sabukaru Guide to Japanese Ambient MusicHow Japanese Ambient Music Became a Thing in AmericaKankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990Kankyo Ongaku: A Brief History of Japanese Ambient MusicA Beginner’s Guide to ’80s Japanese Ambient MusicSpace and Certainty: On the Rise of Japanese Ambient Music CreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on PatreonIn this month’s new music episode, we’re exploring the anxiety/comfort duality in vaporwave as it appears across two amazing albums. Join us as we discuss the wonderfully anxiety-inducing Cursed Mall from AWITW and then go on a soothing cosmic voyage with Blueberries on Mars by 猫 シ Corp.Shout Outsninja tape by 直子coedforeign transmission by JPEGSTRIPESHands United: Echoes of Equality by Utopia DistrictCRYSTAL PEPSI Employee Training Video (1992)"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙑𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚?" @ MAGFest 2025Liminal Ambient: Gen Z's Answer to LoFiAlbums DiscussedCursed Mall (The Soundtrack) by AWITWBlueberries on Mars by 猫 シ Corp.CreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re discussing the 2024 album Passion by D.J. VLK. This amazing display of plunderphonics is made entirely using samples from the forgotten paranormal soap opera “Passions.” We talk about the show itself, the plight of memory-holed media, and the exploration of others' memories through art. This is a wonderful and weird album that you should definitely check out.Music DiscussedPassion by D.J. VLKSupplemental LinksHappy 25 Years to the Most Unhinged Soap Opera of All TimeRemembering Passions | Put it on Peacock!CreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Support Night Clerk Radio on PatreonIn this episode we’re digging into Solarpunk, a multi-media art movement that aims to build a vision of a more optimistic future, free from the crushing doom of environmental collapse. We talk about the movement, some example media, and our thoughts on movements becoming aesthetics. So, come in from your rooftop garden and join us as we take a more hopeful view of the future.Music SampledLight Blending In - Snowy Sunset from Solarpunk: A Possible Future by Various Artists Media DiscussedSolarpunk: A Possible Future by Various Artistsピアノの独り言 by desert sand feels warm at nightSolarpunk: A Container for More Fertile FuturesSolarpunk Futurism Seems Optimistic and Whimsical. But Not Really.Solarpunk as an Optimistic Vision of the Future: An IntroductionSolarpunk: Notes toward a manifestoGames tagged Solarpunk on itch.ioSOLARPUNK – Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of YestermorrowDark EcologyMan Living in a Sustainable & Innovative Earthship Home - Full TourEarthship Underground House Tour- Sustainable and Net Zero Living... CreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky