This month, Mike of Burnlab, Dorkwave, Dethlab, Darkly Euphoric, The Satanic Temple, et al. brings a special hour of music to make terrorists, conservatives and all enemies of culture - from Kentucky to Syria - feel stupid and sexually confused. (And hopefully enjoyable and cleverly sequenced tunes for everyone else.)

1. Solid Space - Destination Moon [1982]
2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tattoo [1983]
3. Cliff Martinez - Do You Smell That [2015]
4. Cliff Martinez - If Anyman Thirst [2015]
5. Klara Lewis - Untitled [2014]
6. Klara Lewis - Msuic I [2014]
7. The Horrors - No Love Lost [2007]
8. The Horrors - Hysteria [2007?] 
9. Brainiac - Fresh New Eyes [1997]
10. Ideal - Erschießen [1981]
11. The Eccentronic Research Council - Welcome To Valhalla Dale [2015]
12. Grinderman - Evil (Factory Floor remix 2) [2012]
13. Bremen - Eclipsed [2015]
14. John Carpenter - Night [2015]
15. Bryan Ferry - Johnny and Mary [2015]


Space Museum 11/2015

My January 2016 mix is 25 The Magnetic Fields songs, because a) I'm on big Magnetic Fields/Stephin Merritt kick right now, b) it works out to just over an hour of fascinatingly varied music, and c) 25 is the second most ambigram-friendly/symmetric numeral pairing - a obvs nod to their opus.

The track selection are personal favorites, including both hits and oddballs, from their earliest recordings to most recent album.

1. Living In An Abandoned Firehouse With You [1991]
2. 100,000 Fireflies [1991]
3. Take Ecstasy With Me [1994]
4. Deep Sea Diving Suit [1994]
5. Swinging London [1994]
6. Strange Powers [1994]
7. Smoke and Mirrors [1995]
8. You and Me and the Moon [1995]
9. All the Umbrellas in London [1995]
10. The Book of Love [1999]
11. I Think I Need a New Heart [1999]
12. Asleep and Dreaming [1999]
13. Long-Forgotten Fairytale [1999]
14. How to Say Goodbye [1999]
15. Washington, D.C. [1999]
16. Underwear [1999]
17. Epitaph For My Heart [1999]
18. Heather Heather [2003]
19. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend [2004]
20. I Don't Believe You [2004]
21. Please Stop Dancing [2008]
22. The Dada Polka [2010]
23. Andrew in Drag [2012]
24. All She Cares About is Mariachi [2012]
25. The Horrible Party [2012]

25 Les Champs Magnétiques Chansons

1. Hackedepicciotto: All Are Welcome Here
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson: The Beast
3. Jeff Russo: Behind Blue Eyes (featuring Dan Stevens and Navid Negahban)
4. ADULT.: Perversions of Humankind
5, Jean Grae and Quelle Chris: Zero
6. Art of Noise: Close (To the Edit)
7. The Fall: Hit the North
8. The Coup: Oyahytt (featuring Lakeith Stanfield)
9. Jeff Russo: Fauxlero

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Space Museum 09/2018

Michael Doyle [Mike Burnlab] is a Detroit-based designer and cultural critic. He co-founded the DJ collectives Dorkwave and Dethlab. When not writing, designing interactive environments, record covers for Ghostly International, or collaborating with the likes of the Hypothetical Development Organization, he may be found playing music in dark rooms or organizing croquet socials in abandoned factories.


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