Batcave Redemption Radio - Old-School Dark Alternative Internet Radio

[GhostontheNet]

Batcave Redemption Radio is a Gothic, Industrial, Darkwave, Post-Punk, New Wave, & Electro Internet radio station anyone can access and listen to by clicking on this link. I am the owner of the station and I maintain the playlist. I control the horizontal and the vertical. Now that I have returned to Theology Web, I would like to share my eerie sonic vibrations with you. At Batcave Redemption Radio, "we" focus on radiating the aftermath of the strange experiments and bizarre mutations of the 80's Post-Punk scene in general, and the spooky but soothing dark romantic musings of the Gothic subculture in specific. But as Bela Lugosi's celluloid apparition knows, you can teach an old bat new tricks. So too, away from the prying eyes of a world that consented to listen to dreadful and ghastly melodies masquerading as music, a loosely knit collection of enterprising musicians have set about tweaking the older forms and giving them an invigorating electrical shock to prove to the world that these undead musical genres are not stale and decrepid, but fresh and terrifyingly relevant to a new generation. Batcave Redemption Radio draws its name from the infamous London nightclub for Post-Punk children of the night known as The Batcave, where the Gothic subculture began and spread to an unsuspecting world. The "redemption" in Batcave Redemption Radio, meanwhile, is fivefold;

1. We will resurrect and revive the musical forms of the old-school dark alternative underground to provide a viable alternative to the bland and distorted vibrations sent out by the mass media. We will not consent to reinforcing the dull rhythms of normalcy and the status quo, but will expand your horizons and possibilities beyond what you thought was possible. We will broadcast music of the highest quality that will make you wonder why you ever listened to mainstream radio in the first place.
2. We will broadcast hope and comfort to anyone afflicted by sorrow, pain, grief, loneliness, doubt, and despair. We will prove that hope is not an illusion constructed by those who refuse to face the harsh realities of life, but a living and breathing reality that provides a powerful source of inspiration to weather the storms of existence.
3. We will broadcast spiritually invigorating music to attune and align the soul with ultimate Truth and Reality. We will not consent to reinforcing dehumanizing philosophies that define the purpose of life in terms of transitory pleasures or possessions, but will encourage you to seek something greater.
4. We will labor for the redemption of the oppressed of this world out of bondage by exposing their oppression to the world. We will remain honest about the injustices and harsh realities of this world while shining a candle to light the way to a better world.
5. We will serve the risen Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, who works for the redemption of a world that groans and labors lost in the dark. We will not consent to reinforcing the complacent attitude of mainstream western Christianity, but will endeavor to model Jesus' radical invitation, challenge, summons, and welcome to the oppressed and the bereaved, the outcast and the sinner, to those who hunger and those who seek.

So, if any of this interests you, the reader, and you would like to tune in to the station, you may do so by clicking on this link. I hope you enjoy listening. For my next post, I will post the playlist I broadcast on the station up to the present, so stay tuned.

[GhostontheNet]

Here is the station playlist as of May 10th, 2008. I will update this thread as I make new additions to the station.

Now Playing on Batcave Redemption Radio:

Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine I,
Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine II,
Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox,
The Awakening - Sacrificial Etchings,
Front242 - Front By Front,
Skinny Puppy - The Singles Collect,
Leper - Kreischen,
Rasputina - Transylvanian Regurgitations,
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always,
Cleopatra Records - Gothik,
Beauty For Ashes - My Secret Sin,
The Cure - Disintegration,
Lycia - Estrella,
Switchblade Symphony - Sinister Nostalgia,
RED+TEST - The Fall of Man,
Cold Fusion Records - Moonlight Cathedral,
Cold Fusion Records - Lunar Eclipse,
Joy Division - Permanent,
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Best of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds,
Alien Sex Fiend - The Singles 1983-1995,
Lycia - The Burning Circle and then Dust,
Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier,
Front Line Assembly - Civilization,
Front Line Assembly - Maniacal,
Front Line Assembly - Vanished,
Simple Shelter - A Phoenix From the Ashes,
The Echoing Green - The Winter of Our Discontent,
The Echoing Green - The Evergreen Collection,
Bella Morte - Bleed The Grey Sky Black,
Dead Can Dance - A Passage in Time,
Rasputina - The Lost & Found,
Evanescence - Evanescence,
Evanescence - Sound Asleep,
Faith & the Muse - Evidence of Heaven,
Batzz in the Belfry - Sparks Fly Upwards,
Snog - Snog Vs. the Massive Faecal Juggernaut of Mass Culture,
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park,
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland,
Audio Paradox - The Iniquity of Time,
Christian Death - Death Club 1981-1993,
Eva O - Demons Fall For an Angels Kiss,
Faith & the Muse - Annwyn, Beneath the Waves,
Voltaire - Then and Again,
Faith & Disease - Beneath the Trees,
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth,
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery,
Joy Division - Closer,
Project Pitchfork - Chakra:Red,
Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Best of Siouxsie & the Banshees,
Batzz in the Belfry - Batzz in the Belfry,
Dead Artist Syndrome - Devils, Angels & Saints,
Dead Can Dance - Memento,
Front242 - Mut@ge Mix@ge,
Visionaire - Within the Arcanum Hall,
Collide - Chasing the Ghost,
Paradoxx - New Devotion,
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Remnants of a Deeper Purity,
Mentallo & the Fixer - Where Angels Fear to Tread,
Mentallo & the Fixer - Love is the Law,
Frolic - To Dream, Perchance to Sleep,
Cybershadow - The Birth of the Future,
Lacrimosa - Inferno,
Evanescence - Origin,
ThouShaltNot - You'll Wake Up Yesterday,
KMFDM - Money,
Autovoice - A Living Death,
Noise Unit - Voyeur,
Mentallo & the Fixer - Commandments For the Molecular Age,
Stromkern - Armageddon,
Lycia - A Day in the Stark Corner,
Asleep By Dawn Magazine - DJ Ferret's Underground Club Mix #1,
Asleep By Dawn Magazine - DJ Ferret's Underground Club Mix #2,
The Last Dance - Now & Forever After,
The Last Dance - Once Beautiful,
Screaming For Emily - Malice,
Ministry - Early Trax,
Stromkern - Reminders,
Bauhaus - Crackle,
Skinny Puppy - B-Sides Collect,
Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right,
Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker,
ThouShaltNot - The Holiness of Now,
ThouShaltNot - The White Beyond,
TrueTunes Music - We the Living Volume Three,
Dead Artist Syndrome - Happy Hour,
Front Line Assembly - The Best of Cryogenic Studios,
Clan of Xymox - Farewell,
Clan of Xymox - Breaking Point,
ThouShaltNot - Land Dispute,
Front Line Assembly - Implode,
Front Line Assembly - Epitaph,
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju,
Star Industry - Velvet,
Front Line Assembly - Everything Must Perish,
Mentallo & the Fixer - Return to Grimpen Ward,
Mentallo & the Fixer - Burnt Beyond Recognition,
Mentallo & the Fixer - False Prophets,
The Awakening - Ethereal Menace,
Tearwave - Tearwave,
Stromkern - Light it Up,
45 Grave - Sleep in Safety,
Projekt Records - A Cat Shaped Hole in My Heart,
Projekt Records - The Projekt Almost Free Record,
Cocteau Twins - The BBC Sessions,
The Cure - Faith,
Red Lipstick Death - Battle for Blood,
Leper - Nameless,
Collide - Vortex,
Prodigal Brothers w/ Chris Lindsay - Scream Justice,
How to Avoid Art - How to Avoid Art,
Paradoxx - Atomika,
Jihad - Dora Blue,
Jihad - A Prayer In The Night,
Stromkern - Stand Up,
mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes,
Adom9 - Deluge,
New Order - Low Life,
Redemption - Home,
Spiritual Bats - Sacrament,
Covenant - Skyshaper,
Benestrophe - Auric Fires,
Benestrophe - Sensory Deprivation,
The Cure - Pornography,
Wedding Party - Anthems,
I-Dragon-I - I-Dragon-I,
Killing Joke - Revelations,
Headnoise - For Now We Know: In Part 1,
Headnoise - 99 and Wanting,
Tears for the Dying - EP III,
RED+TEST - A Battle For Souls,
RED+TEST - Inhuman,
Siouxsie - Mantaray,
Dagavaq - Dagavaq,
Faith & The Muse - The Burning Season,
Bella Morte - As The Reasons Die,
Specimen - Electric Ballroom,
London After Midnight - Violent Acts of Beauty,
Tragic Black - The Decadent Requiem,
All Gone Dead - Fallen & Forgotten,
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense,
Mad At The World - Mad At The World,
Joy Electric - CHRISTIANsongs,
Globalwavesystem - Life Equals Death,
Globalwavesystem - HypercriteP,
Zombina & The Skeletones - Halloween 2007 EP,
Enkil's Eye - Sad,
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures,
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine (Volume 1),
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine (Volume 2),
Clan Of Xymox - Twist Of Shadows,
Lycia - Empty Space,
David Bowie - Low,
Devo - Devo Live 1980,
Gang Of Four - Return The Gift,
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister,
U2 - War,
Scarlet's Remains - The Palest Grey,
David Bowie - Reality,
Delerium - Karma,
Delerium - Poem,
Delerium - Nuages Du Monde,
Blue Stone - Worlds Apart,
The Cruxshadows - DreamCypher,
The Cruxshadows - Sophia,
The Brothers Martin - The Brothers Martin,
The Echoing Green - Songs of Innocence & Experience : Hope and Science,
The Echoing Green - The Story Of Our Lives,
AFI - Sing The Sorrow,
Delerium - Chimera,
Cell Division - Chymeia,
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant,
Front Line Assembly - Millenium,
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,
Talking Heads - Remain In Light,
The Awakening - The Fountain,
Psalters - Divine Liturgy of the Wretched Exiles,
The Eternal Chapter - The Eternal Chapter,
Azam Ali - Elysium for the Brave,
The Police - Ghost In The Machine,
Lycia - Tripping Back Into The Broken Days,
Higher Love - Higher Love,
Cult Of Jester - Funkatron,
The Machine In The Garden - XV,
The Awakening - The Fourth Seal Of Zeen,
New Order - Get Ready,
Mortal - Nu-En-Jin,
Bella Morte - The Quiet,
She Wants Revenge - This Is Forever,
Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune,
Enigma - The Cross of Changes,
Enigma - A Posteriori,

[Number Six]

Bookmarked.

Looking at your playlist, you should maybe consider adding some songs from Type O Negative's latest album Dead Again (if cursing doesn't bother you... a few songs are clean I think).

[GhostontheNet]

Bookmarked.

Looking at your playlist, you should maybe consider adding some songs from Type O Negative's latest album Dead Again (if cursing doesn't bother you... a few songs are clean I think).

Thank you!

I'm afraid I'm unimpressed with the new Type O Negative album because the rhythms and guitar-riffs are too generic to pull me in to its efforts to create a sonic illusion of mystery and suspense (and that's before a single lyric has been spoken). But if its any consolation to you, I have had my eye on some hard-rockin' Gothic albums like Go Away White by the Bauhaus and Razor Burn by The Awakening.

[Dee Dee Warren]

don't left adrift see this thread

[Dee Dee Warren]

listening now

[Number Six]

Thank you!

I'm afraid I'm unimpressed with the new Type O Negative album because the rhythms and guitar-riffs are too generic to pull me in to its efforts to create a sonic illusion of mystery and suspense (and that's before a single lyric has been spoken). But if its any consolation to you, I have had my eye on some hard-rockin' Gothic albums like Go Away White by the Bauhaus and Razor Burn by The Awakening.

Yea, I figured it wasn't your type. Their brooding/darker stuff was back when Peter was an atheist.

I've never heard of those other bands, I'll have to check them out.

[GhostontheNet]

don't left adrift see this thread

Don't let who see this thread? At any rate, I hoped you enjoyed listening.

[GhostontheNet]

Yea, I figured it wasn't your type. Their brooding/darker stuff was back when Peter was an atheist.

I've never heard of those other bands, I'll have to check them out.

Ah yes, the old primal screaming at the sky? I recall hearing Type O Negative many years ago on the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack. Their singer sounded more like a reptile than a man at that point. It's good to hear Peter has had a change of outlook. Don't get me wrong, I would probably be more impressed if I wasn't already broadcasting 5 solid days of Gothic music and related genres. As it stands, when someone like me hears music like that, it's like scratching off a list of predictable Gothic music cliches I've heard a thousand times. I guess it goes with the territory of trying to make your music have mass appeal while drawing on music unfamiliar to the masses.

P.S. I read that Tara Vanflower of Lycia makes a cameo on track five of that album. If you like her singing, you may wish to check out her work with Lycia.

[Adrift]

Don't let who see this thread? At any rate, I hoped you enjoyed listening.

Too late.

Great playlist

[Dee Dee Warren]

[GhostontheNet]

Too late.

Great playlist

The bouncers let you in here?

Thank you very much! I see that this is familiar musical territory for you. Somehow this doesn't surprise me. To "judge" by appearances, you look like you could attend any gothic, punk, or post-punk event without a single soul "batting" an eye.

[Adrift]

The bouncers let you in here?

Thank you very much! I see that this is familiar musical territory for you. Somehow this doesn't surprise me. To "judge" by appearances, you look like you could attend any gothic, punk, or post-punk event without a single soul "batting" an eye.

I've actually interviewed some of the bands in your playlist when I edited Automata magazine a couple years back, and I know at least one of those bands personally. I don't really listen to much faith-themed goth anymore, but the bands you have listed are pretty swell. I hear the Awakening are going to play at this years Cornerstone... It'd be nice to see Ashton and company, but most of the music at the event doesn't do anything for me (how many Christian screamo bands does the world need?)

At 20 years old it looks like you have pretty well rounded tastes, really nice to see.

[GhostontheNet]

I've actually interviewed some of the bands in your playlist when I edited Automata magazine a couple years back, and I know at least one of those bands personally. I don't really listen to much faith-themed goth anymore, but the bands you have listed are pretty swell. I hear the Awakening are going to play at this years Cornerstone... It'd be nice to see Ashton and company, but most of the music at the event doesn't do anything for me (how many Christian screamo bands does the world need?)

At 20 years old it looks like you have pretty well rounded tastes, really nice to see.

Ah, so you edited Automata magazine back in the day? It can indeed get boring just listening to the music created by one small niche of the goth scene or related genres, but taken as a whole they can always be counted on for boundless creativity. I personally always make additions to the station based on current preoccupations, whatever exactly they happen to be at the moment. In my broadcasting, I like to defy the boundaries and barriers that seperate people, especially that ridiculous iron wall the semi-Enlightenment "erected" between the sacred and secular. I'd rather be like John Lydon of The Sex Pistols who visited Berlin while cold war paranoia was still going strong, and proceeded to record a song in which he makes the Berlin wall look ridiculous and gleefully chants "I'm going to go over the Berlin wall! I'm going to go over the Berlin wall! I'm going to go over the Berlin waall!!!" From its roots in the romantic and dark romantic movements up to the present day, the gothic subculture offers powerful tools for erasing such barriers. Ashton Nyte and his band The Awakening has always been a powerful, innovative, and spirtually vibrant band that provides an excellent model for a Christian musician authentically thriving in the goth scene. Likewise, I've been a fan for a long time and I look forward to the opportunity to see them at Cornerstone if I am able to. I think you had better look at the Cornerstone schedule again - there's plenty for a fan of Gothic, Industrial, Punk, and Post-Punk music to appreciate. Besides The Awakening, I noticed there's Leper, Headnoise, Grave Robber, Sanctum, the Psalters, mewithoutYou, The Last Hope, and Flatfoot 56.

Thank you! Between my dad's background in music and sound, from which he raised me with a lot of excellent music, and my own personal dilligence in musical exploration, it was inevitable that I would have well-rounded tastes by this age.

[Adrift]

there's plenty for a fan of Gothic, Industrial, Punk, and Post-Punk music to appreciate. Besides The Awakening, I noticed there's Leper, Headnoise, Grave Robber, Sanctum, the Psalters, mewithoutYou, The Last Hope, and Flatfoot 56.

Thank you! Between my dad's background in music and sound, from which he raised me with a lot of excellent music, and my own personal dilligence in musical exploration, it was inevitable that I would have well-rounded tastes by this age.

Headnoise, Sanctum and the Psalters would be nice to see again. I'm not familiar with Grave Robber, mewithoutyou, or The Last Hope. I'll have to check them out, but I think my Cornerstone days are on hold for awhile.

Dad's are great at getting us into music, aren't they? If it was up to my mom I'd probably be listening to Conway Twitty and the Beach Boys