Latest Hauntology Podcast Episodes
The Music of Dec-Affe-Inated Records
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - April 15, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon For our second episode of Record Label Month™, we’re talking about the Japanese label Dec-Affe-Inated Records. This private label is populated by the numerous aliases of a single artist whose music often focuses on themes of depression, isolation, and loneli...
The Music of Ill-Advised Records
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - April 01, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon For the month of April we’re talking about record labels of all kinds. In our first episode, we check out two albums from Ill-Advised Records, a record label focused on dark lo-fi and similarly dark-themed subgenres of haunted music. Join us as we celebrate...
New Music: Magnétoscope and Aquatic Galleria
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - March 18, 2024 13:00 - 36 minutesNew Music: Magnétoscope and Aquatic Galleria Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon On this month’s new music episode we’re checking out some excellent new vaporwave albums: Magnétoscope by ab97 and Aquatic Galleria by platinum towers, ホテル shampoo, & midnight première. Come join us and ch...
Utopia District’s 2023 Year In Review
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - March 04, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re digging into Utopia District’s 2023 Year In Review, a feature highlighting some of the best vaporwave (and associated genres) albums of 2023 as suggested by the community. Including our own Ross Payton! This kind of curation and highli...
New Music: Dated New Aesthetic and KEYGEN🔐
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - February 19, 2024 14:00 - 38 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re starting our 2024 project of trying to focus more on new releases. There’s no overarching theme or over intellectualizing, just talking about two albums from the past month or so that we really enjoyed. For our inaugural discussion, w...
The Music of Cryo Crypt
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - February 05, 2024 14:00 - 37 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’re back! We spent January delving into the content dungeons and we’ve returned with two great dungeon synth albums. In this episode, we’re exploring the music of Cryo Crypt, the dark fantasy/dungeon synth sister label of Cryo Chamber. We discuss the firs...
Vaporwave Christmas Compilations
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - December 18, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon On our last episode of the year, we spend far too much time opining about Christmas and not nearly enough time discussing these amazing Vaporwave Christmas Compilations. Thankfully, they are all linked below so once we’re done talking you can start listenin...
Japanese Signalwave
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - December 04, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s a well known fact that we love signalwave, not just because it’s great music, but because it also provides unique insight into how other artists process their own media and nostalgia. In this episode, we’re exploring signalwave produced by artists in J...
Rummaging Through The Discord
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - November 20, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon The community members on our Patreon Discord are constantly posting suggestions and recommendations for great albums of all genres. We’ve gotten into the habit of digging through them every six months or so and seeing what’s there. We cover everything from v...
Lost Media That Never Existed
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - November 06, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We love the concept of lost media that never existed. In this episode, we’re checking out two albums that present themselves as soundtracks or music to movies that never were. One album is the “restored” soundtrack to a lost horror movie, while the other sk...
Horrorsynth for Halloween
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - October 23, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re getting into Spooky Month proper by digging into genres of darksynth and horrorsynth. These are genres that neither of us are very familiar with, so as is tradition on the show we ended up picking two very different albums. Join us as...
Exploring the Hearts of Space
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - October 09, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re checking out Hearts of Space, a long-running ambient radio program hosted by Stephen Hill. We talk about our personal experience listening to the show, discuss the wide range of music played over the past fifty years, and the importanc...
Easy Listening Vaporwave
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - September 25, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re heading into Fall with some easy listening vaporwave from artists we discovered on our Vaporwave Up and Comers 2023 episode. Join us as we check out the music of Notorious Secret and Cinematic Sequences. Both albums are killer example...
End of Summer Jams
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - September 11, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re heading into the end of summer with two recent releases from artists we love. Join us as we check out the latest albums from Blank Banshee and 2 Mello. No clever meta commentary. Just great music. Music Discussed PHD - PORTABLE HEA...
The Music of VILL4IN Records
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - August 28, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Accidental record label month both continues and concludes with the music of VILL4IN Records, a record label that focuses on releasing independent and experimental vaporwave-adjacent music from barber beats to sovietwave to slushy and cosmic ambient. In thi...
The Music of Eighth Tower Records
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - August 14, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re digging into the music of Eighth Tower Records, a record label that focuses on “dark music and fiction.” We selected albums that were inspired by influential horror artists, Zdzisław Beksiński and Lucio Fulci. While they worked with v...
Vaporwave Up & Comers 2023
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - July 31, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’ve often lamented that it can be difficult to keep up with everything happening in a scene, especially one that is as actively evolving as vaporwave. Thankfully, Halcyon Tapes just released their “Vaporwave Up & Comers 2023” compilation. We spend this epi...
Folktronica Exploration
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - July 17, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re exploring the world of Folktronica, a genre that unsurprisingly features traditional folk instrumentation set against the rhythms and timbre of synth-driven electronica. To top it all off, it’s a genre that we know nothing about! So j...
Chopping for Tapes at K-Mart
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - July 03, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon The K-Mart tapes are a collection of 56 cassette tapes that were used to provide in-store music and announcements in the late 80s and early 90s. They were kept and archived by K-Mart employee Mark Davis who uploaded them to archive.org in 2015. These tapes p...
Summertime is for Summer Jams
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - June 19, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Summertime is for summer jams, so in this episode we’re checking out two recent albums from podcast favorites luxury elite and Limousine. Both albums, while being very different stylistically, capture particular emotional resonances that we both strongly ass...
Signalwave Redux
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - June 05, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re revisiting Signalwave, one of our favorite subgenres of haunted music. Specifically, we’re discussing the evolution of the genre as more new releases focus on the music and media of the late-90s/early-00s. Join us as we compare an abs...
Vaporwave and Virtual Reality
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - May 22, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Virtual reality, despite its recent success, has been a perennial retro technology for the majority of our lives. It represents a technological future that may never arrive and a past that never really happened. The hauntological nature of virtual reality ma...
The Music of Terror Vision
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - May 08, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutesThe Music of Terror Vision Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon The folks at Terror Vision, a boutique shop focused on preserving obscure genre films, recently released Copperhead, an early direct-to-video film made by Ross’s parents, on blu-ray. This release includes a restored version of th...
Architectural Horror and Vaporwave
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - April 24, 2023 13:00 - 48 minutesArchitectural Horror and Vaporwave Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we delve into the topic of architectural horror and its connection to vaporwave and other genres of haunted music. We explore the shared themes of disorientation, nostalgia, and the uncanny in both genres...
Spring 2023 Discord Recommendations
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - April 10, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutesSpring 2023 Discord Recommendations Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s that time of year again. It’s our biannual Discord extravaganza. We selected almost 20 pieces of music recommended by our patrons on the Night Clerk Radio Discord over the past few months and spent this episode goin...
The Music of Realm and Ritual
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - March 27, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon This week, we’re digging into the music of Realm and Ritual, an anti-fascist record label from Boston that focuses on cassette and other physical media releases of dungeon synth and black metal. For this episode, we focused on two dungeon synth albums that ...
Boss Fights and Save Rooms
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - March 13, 2023 13:00 - 41 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Caleb is back and this time we’re chatting about the original soundtracks to two very different games: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide and Signalis. These soundtracks represent two very different approaches to creating rich and varied scores that enhance the the...
Dark Ambient and Noir Jazz
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - February 27, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re diving into the world of Noir, film or otherwise, to discuss how it has evolved from cynical post-war artistic movement to bland genre pastiche. The modern euphemism for this process is “becoming a vibe.” We focus this discussion on t...
The Music of Null Object
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - February 13, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutesSupport Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Yet again, we’re ignoring Valentine’s Day and instead talking about the music of Null Object, the lo-fi/vaporhouse project of podcast favorite Jordan Bortner (a.k.a. 식료품groceries). We talk about the project, its associated music, and our personal experience...
Cryo Chamber’s Tsathoggua
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - January 30, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutesCryo Chamber’s Tsathoggua Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon As is tradition, we sat down with our friend Caleb Stokes to talk about the latest Cryo Chamber Lovecraft compilation, Tsathoggua! This joint effort of over 20 dark ambient artists on the Cryo Chamber label is an eclectic blend of...
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