Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews
Birk and Ross plumb the depths of vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Discover new music to listen to and find out why we're drawn to retro aesthetics and dark music.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 139
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
A Century of Mallsoft
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In this episode, we’re discussing the album Endless Mall by ECCO 深い夢, a massive mallsoft project consisting of one hundred tracks that cover a wide range of subge…
Climatewave For Real
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Climatewave is a subgenre of vaporwave that focuses on using samples from broadcasts of weather news and forecasts. We’ve previously discussed climatewave in the …
Springtime for Dark Ambient
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In this episode, we’re returning to one of this show’s core genres, Dark Ambient. We discuss two recent dark ambient albums and explore not only the music but the …
Exploring Naturewave
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Naturewave is a subgenre of vaporwave that explores the unresolvable tension between the development of technology and the impact that development has on nature. …
Discussing Chipmunks on 16 Speed and Sludge
Discord Spring Cleaning
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In this episode, we’re discussing the haunted plunderphonics project: chipmunks on 16 speed. These albums consist of pop covers, as sung by…
Discord Spring Cleaning
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In this episode, we listen to music recommended to us by listeners on our community Discord server. We cover everything from classic vaporwave albums to dungeon s…
Neil Cicierega and Plunderphonics
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The work of Neil Cicierega, from his ground-breaking Flash animation techniques to his music and mash-ups, is instrumental in building the foundation of Internet …
Post-Rock and Horror
Post-Rock and Horror
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In this episode, we examine the link between post-rock music and horror. We explore the ways in which the thematic elements of post-rock, such…
Signalwave
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Signalwave is easily one of our favorite subgenres of Vaporwave. The genre’s focus on sample curation along with its critique of nostalgia and consumerism makes i…
Cryo Chamber’s Dagon with Caleb
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It’s that time of year again. Dagon, the latest Lovecraft-inspired Cryo Chamber Collaboration, is out. Over twenty artists came together to produce this evocative…
Holiday Movie Party with Max
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We’re doing something a little different for the holidays! This episode we’re joined by Max from the Good Brews Bad Views podcast for a special holiday movie party…
Dancing to Vaporwave
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What does it mean for a song to be danceable? Does being “danceable” mean anything or is it too broad and personal? Can the term be applied to vaporwave? We’re no…
Culture Jamming and Vaporwave
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Culture Jamming is a reactionary protest against media and consumerist culture that employs a wide range of tactics from photoshopping logos to vandalism and ever…
Autumnal Dark Jazz
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As we head into late autumn, with long winter nights ahead, we find ourselves in need of new music appropriate to the mood of the season. Long and languid tracks s…
Spooky Month Spooky Music
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It’s our legally obligated spooky month episode! This month we’re revisiting two previously discussed artists. First up, the latest album from horror master and sy…
The Limits of Plunderphonics
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Plunderphonics is a genre of music in which the artist repurposes samples of other music in order to construct new tracks. In essence, using the music of other art…
The Vaporwave Iceberg
The Vaporwave Iceberg
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The “iceberg” is a meme template that has been used in countless subcultures to describe the descent of a fan from casual to obsessive addic…
Sounds of Tokyo-To Future Appreciation Episode
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Following up the 2018 release Memories of Tokyo-To, Sounds of Tokyo-To Future is the second Jet Set Radio inspired album by producer and composer 2 Mello. The albu…
Sleepy Summer Jams
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PRE-ORDER 2MELLO’S NEW ALBUM: SOUNDS OF TOKYO-TO FUTURE
To some artists, hypnagogic music is categorized as “classic”, “ambient” or “experimental.” To others, hyp…
Vaporwave and Analog Horror
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Over the last decade, a new type of horror has become popular on the Internet. Driven by largely anonymous crowds through social media and online communities. In t…