Month: April 2025

Objects In Mirrors Episode 53: “The Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place” (2024-04-29)

  • 65daysofstatic – Radio Protector
  • Explosions In the Sky – The Only Moment We Were Alone
  • God Is an Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright
  • Bowery Electric – Fear of Flying
  • This Will Destroy You – The Mighty Rio Grande
  • Red Sparowes – In Illusions Of Order
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor – East Hastings
  • Stereolab – Come and Play In the Milky Night

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Episode 1136 – 2025/04/27

Video + Audio:

Audio Only:

Tracklist:

00:33 New Scene – Out Of Control (Belgium Mix)
07:10 Front Line Assembly – Attach Decay
10:54 Time Modem – Mantel Der Nacht
14:30 Ministry – We Believe
18:18 Master Program – Total Fire Ant Control
22:27 Cybex Factor – Android
26:07 Recall IV – Contrast (Boing Mix)
32:08 Hypnopedia – Hypnopedia (The Hypnopedia Mix)
36:59 Klangwerk – Warte Bis Es Dunkel Ist
41:12 Tragic Error – Tanzen
43:59 Time Modem – Intensive World
48:12 Nexus – Nexus 6
51:38 Ministry – Effigy (I’m Not An)
55:14 Red Flag – Russian Radio (Razormaid Mix)

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Episode 1135 – 2025/04/26

Video + Audio:

Audio Only:

Tracklist:

00:30 Mentallo & The Fixer – Ancient Languages (Remastered)
05:38 Plastic Noise Experience – Tatenheit
09:44 The Cassandra Complex – I Believe In Everything
12:47 Severed Heads – Propellor (NYC 12”)
16:51 Vomito N*gro – Nova Beat
19:42 S.P.O.C.K. – Force Of Life
23:01 Psychopomps – Never Forgive! Never Forget!
26:39 U-Tek – Das Mass Der Dinge
31:20 Nostromo Dept. – Evolution (Dali S Mix)
35:54 Cyberaktif – Paradissiets
39:55 Gaytron – This Is My Tekkno
46:04 Poupée Fabrikk – Keine Zukunft
48:07 Plastic Noise Experience – Plugged
55:20 Août 42 – Right Thing

ASFO 2025–04–26

You can’t apply technological solutions to social problems — has there ever been a statement so widely and sententiously repeated, and so blatantly false? Also, the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster ; the world mourns a high–school teacher from Argentina ; progress toward blast №3 ; more on “nuclear batteries” ; and I talk a little about currency reforms.

Supplementary Show

2025–04–29 “Because man’s legs are so short and the planet Earth so big and because the few areas around it where he could find immediate vital support in his early days on the planet amounted locally to less than 5% of the earth’s surface, man has mistakenly identified himself during the past eight millenniums with the rooted vegetation rather than with the mobile vertebrates of which type he is a member.” Continuing with Utopia or Oblivion, we have the whole of Curricula and the Design Initiative, and a first part of Design Strategy.

Objects In Mirrors Episode 52: “The One That Comes After 51” (2025-04-22)

  • The Budos Band – Up From the South
  • Cibo Matto – White Pepper Ice Cream
  • Air – Alone In Kyoto
  • Arling & Cameron – Voulez-Vous?
  • United Future Organization – Fool’s Paradise
  • Mexican Institute of Sound – Es-Toy
  • Peter Bjorn and John – Amsterdam
  • Nicola Conte – Bossa Per Due
  • Broken Social Scene – Looks Just Like The Sun
  • Arcade Fire – Creature Comfort
  • Blur – The Universal
  • TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
  • Massive Attack – Risingson

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Episode 1134 – 2025/04/20

Tracklist:

00:37 Parade Ground – Fall Incognito
03:52 Gina X Performance – Babylog Generation
07:56 Ruins – Pure Desire
11:43 Ticket to Wonderland – Wired
15:25 In Aeternam Vale – Peur Aveugle
17:27 IKO – Digital Delight
23:04 Chrome – Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King
25:56 Jeff and Jane Hudson – Fat Of The Land
29:16 Alan Vega – Body Bop Jive
33:50 Chris & Cosey – October (Love Song) (Five Mix)
37:31 Geneva Jacuzzi – Technophelia
39:36 Martin Dupont – No Hands
41:11 Xeno & Oaklander – Nuage d’Ivoire
44:28 IKO – Radioactive Mis
49:37 Sympathy Nervous – Khahi Cloud

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Episode 1133 – 2025/04/19

Video + Audio:

Audio Only:

Tracklist:

00:36 Lara Jones – Depressed RN
02:41 Mareux – Spectral Tease
07:27 Oppenheimer Analysis – Cold War
12:37 Boy Harsher – Fate
16:40 Kraftwelt – Deranged (Uberzone Remix)
20:05 The Assembly – Stop / Start
22:41 Crystal Castle – Crimewave
26:40 Ladytron – Little Black Angel
29:56 Loose Tapestries – Fantasy Man
31:32 Jean-Jacques Perrey – E.V.A.
34:36 Binärpilot – Popcorn
38:20 Skyline 1985 – Dystopia
42:14 Air – Alpha Beta Gaga
46:31 Marsheaux – Eyes Without A Face
51:10 Tre Lux – Never Let Me Down Again
55:01 Deux – Let’s Go! (In The City Mix)

ASFO 2025–04–19

Stardrive! When will we get it, and how? Perspectives on a “nuclear battery” and an “all–woman spaceflight” ; a little more about tariff and non–tariff trade barriers and their utility, the adage “de minimis non curat lex”, and the straw–man of the “US–made iPhone” ; and likely–final remarks on the gold standard.

Supplementary Show

  • 2025–04–22 “Evolution is not confined to the organic man, but consists of the combined man and his environment.” The title piece from Utopia or Oblivion (1969) by R Buckminster Fuller. Also a recommendation for another book, Carry On, Mister Bowditch (1955) by Jean Lee Latham.
  • 2025–04–25 “Either war is obsolete, or Man is.” Conclusion of Utopia or Oblivion, but not of Utopia or Oblivion. Fuller discusses the reasons for failure of past forms of utopianism, and the radical differences in circumstances today.

Objects In Mirrors Episode 51: “Regularly Scheduled Programming” (2025-04-15)

  • Fairport Convention – Tale In Hard Time
  • Jessica Pratt – Life Is
  • TV on the Radio – Second Song
  • Big Thief – Certainty
  • Bartees Strange – Hold the Line
  • Billy Bragg & Wilco – Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
  • Weyes Blood – Grapevine
  • Tom Waits – The Heart of Saturday Night
  • Japanese Breakfast – Kokomo, IN
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff – Pyramid Scheme
  • Soccer Mommy – M
  • Mitski – I Bet on Losing Dogs
  • Broken Social Scene – This House Is On Fire
  • The Weather Station – Subdivisions
  • Tim Buckley – Once I Was