Normality Partially Restored

One of the evil ghosts in the machine has been exorcised. The playlist is playing again. We have returned to our regularly scheduled noise. No more ads haunt our dreams. We have yet to restore our live broadcast capability. One thing at a time. We appreciate your patience.

The Moral of This Story Is to Never Leave the House

So. I announced some time back that I would not be doing any live broadcasts because I would be out of town. Well, I got back a week and a half ago, and since then Technical Difficulties and I have careened from disaster to disaster. Long story short: Power outage while I was gone resulting in server crash, followed by both of the software applications that I use flaking out on me in new and innovative ways. I am working to deal with this situation, but until I do, you all are going to have to content yourselves with the less extensive failover playlist I maintain on the Live365 servers. I don't think the Live365 folks will play ads between songs, but I can't swear they won't. In any event, I'm sorry about all this, and I hope we can all have our Technical Difficulties back before too many more days pass.

Yer pal,
CHR.

I'll Disappear

Technical Difficulties Live will be taking a brief hiatus in early July - there will be no live broadcast on July 4th or 11th. We will resume on July 18th. Until then, enjoy the ginormous playlist currently in rotation.

New Stuff - Adventures in Completism Vol. 4982

I've been scoping out Bandcamp lately, and I've picked up a few worthwhile things: the latest from Alter Der Ruine for example, and the end result of Hate Dept.'s unexpected resurgence last year.

Apart from that, I'm now up to date with Cracknation Records, including the new Cocksure EP, and the latest from Acucrack, Iron Lung Corp., and Czar, and I am now in possession of several artifacts from Caustic's expanding media empire, including the Coprophagia/Consummatia EP and the Causticles album.

Expect all of these to find plenty of room on TechDiff playlists, well into the foreseeable future.

Technical Difficulties Live Playlist - June 21, 2014

This one was on Saturday instead of Friday, due to jury duty.

Artist	Title	Album	Time
Foetus Interruptus	Don't Hide It Provide It	Thaw	4:28
Alter Der Ruine	Horizon Slide	I Will Remember It All Differently	4:48
Philipp Münch	The Anachronist	Into the Absurd	5:32
Moving Units	Everybody Loves a Star	Neurotic Exotic	5:09
Angel Theory	Every Time I Look at You	Electronic Body Matrix 1	4:07
Deutsch Nepal	Chatrine I (From Above)	Heilige Feuer	6:04
X Marks The Pedwalk	Nightfall	The Sun, the Cold, and My Underwater Fear	4:03
Antythesys	Hardcore Porno	Antythesys	4:04
Nullgrad	Alba Patera	The Shepherds Satellite	4:54
Ministry	Quick Fix	Box	4:11
Δaimon	Vargtimmen	Δaimon	3:29
Death In June	Fields	Burial	2:45
Hecq	Pulverized	Avenger	4:34
IAMX	Mercy	Kiss + Swallow	5:17
Die Sektor	Death at First Light	Applied Structure in a Void	4:56
Somatic Responses	Radiation Rhythm	Reformation	4:51
SM Corporation	Accentuate / Fire from Above	Strange Passion	4:46
Panic Lift	Pushed Aside	Is This Goodbye?	4:55
Varunna	Europa!	Cantos	2:38
The Damage Manual	Top Ten Severed	The Damage Manual	4:28
London After Midnight	The Christmas Song	Oddities	4:58
Der Plan	Geri Regi	Geri Reig	2:34
Tonal Y Nagual	Cog in the Machine (Clean Mix)	UMB - 10 Years of Transmission	4:34
Sister Machine Gun	Better Than Me	Burn	3:59
Crystal Castles	Sad Eyes	III	3:26
ELpH vs. Coil	Hysteron Proteron Jewel	Worship the Glitch	2:17
Radiana	Love Is Not a Crime	Radiana	4:10
The Twilight Garden	Violet	Hope	6:20
Last Days of S.E.X.	Never Mind the Pollocks, Here's the Jeff Koonz	Great Irony and the Politically S.E.X.plosive	5:20
KMFDM	Animal Out	Kunst	5:05
Rammstein	Links 2 3 4 (Westbam's Hard Rock Café Bonus Mix)	Made in Germany	3:40
Mind.In.A.Box	Transition	Revelations	5:55
Config.sys	Milly Ways	Disco Loud	4:25
Excessive Force	Ride the Bomb	Conquer Your World	5:02
VNV Nation	If I Was	Transnational	5:26
Anklebiter	Nested	Raintree	5:53
The Cure	Doing the Unstuck (Live at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, 1992)	Show	4:00
Essence of Mind	Sleep Now	Try and Fail	3:59
Thorofon	Flamethrower	Exkarnation	4:25
Front Line Assembly	Plasma Springs	Millennium	6:20
Throbbing Gristle	Cornet	Heathen Earth	4:39
Skinny Puppy	God's Gift (Maggot)	Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse	4:46
Shimri	Retrograde Motion	Lilies of the Field	6:40
Whore	Iron Star	The Pale Blue Dot	4:36
Sol Invictus	Hammer or the Anvil (Early Demo)	Against the Modern World	3:25
Download	Blotch	Lingam	5:27
Pennyliquid	Assimilate	Robot Dreams	6:24
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra	Melody Dean	Theatre Is Evil	4:02
Heimstatt Yipotash	Brick Boxed	Urban Night Motifs	3:21
Killing Joke	Absent Friends	Democracy	5:40
Cabaret Voltaire	Keep On	Keep On	3:32
Assemblage 23	The Last Mistake	Bruise	4:55
Rapoon	Hollow Blow	Melancholic Songs of the Desert	4:44
Saltillo	Gatekeepers	Monocyte	4:13
Leæther Strip	Dead Swan	Dark Passages + Seasons Change - I Don't	5:11
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation	Perverted Pleasure Party	Succubus	5:41
Golgatha	Waste Land - Cactus Land	The Waste Land	3:32
Front 242	Leitmotiv 136	Tyranny (for You)	3:13
Slogun	Trash / Aura Phase	Kill to Forget	11:59
Cryogen Second	The Electric Church	Anthem for the Great Self Destruct	3:51
Pigface	Little Sisters	Gub	3:05
Psy'aviah	Something Evil	Eclectric	4:30
Ghost & Writer	Never Take Fire	Red Flags	4:44
Lowness	Bridges	Undertow	8:54
Nitzer Ebb	One Man's Burden	Showtime	3:50
Hocico	3… 2… 1…	El Último Minuto Antes de Que Tu Mundo Caiga	5:05
Robotiko Rejekto	Love	Corporate Power	4:42
Morbus M.	Checkpoints	Forget the Past	5:37
Project Pitchfork	Quantum Mechanics	Quantum Mechanics	5:36
Index	Holistic Fibrosis	Ultra Hard Shadow	7:01
Einstürzende Neubauten	Negativ Nein	Strategies Against Architecture	2:23
Mechanical Cabaret	Don't Murder Me, I'm Drowning	Selective Hearing - Best of 2002-2012	5:00
Curve	Falling Free (Aphex Twin Remix)	26 Mixes for Cash	7:40
The Deadfly Ensemble	Concerning Two Lunatic Vagabonds of the Middle Ages	An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists	4:10
Rasputina	Loom	Great American Gingerbread	3:37
Dirk Geiger	Twin Flame (Tapage Remix)	Elf Morgen	4:15
Mico Nonet	Paper Sailboat	The Marmalade Balloon	2:36
Edward Ka-Spel	Mining a Dead Moon	One Last Pose Before the Ruin	6:54
Snog	The Ballad (Nude Acoustic Verandah Session)	The Dissolving Satellite of Egoism Overturned	2:54
Nine Inch Nails	The Downward Spiral (A Gilded Sickness)	Recoiled	8:01

Technical Difficulties Live Playlist - June 13, 2014

Artist	Title	Album	Time
Meat Beat Manifesto	Sound Innovation / Nuclear Bomb	Subliminal Sandwich	8:29
Covenant	Last Dance (Version)	Last Dance	7:20
Mika Goedrijk	Quiet Plan	Looking-Glass World	4:57
Iron Lung Corp.	The Blood	Body Snatchers	4:05
Velvet Acid Christ	Cyber Communists Plotting Red Revolt	Resist the Command	5:26
S.P.O.C.K.	Klingon 2000 (Radio Mix)	Another Piece of the Action	3:47
Reservé	Destination pour l'Inconnu	The Hidden Tapes	3:24
The PCP Principle	Unholy	Forms of Hands 10	4:50
Inure	Cold	The Offering	4:25
Front 242	Der Verfluchte Engel	Angels Versus Animals	6:35
Cyberaktif	Nothing Stays (Version)	Nothing Stays	3:48
Throbbing Gristle	Still Walking	20 Jazz Funk Greats	4:53
Snog	Adolph's Library	Babes in Consumerland	4:12
Pow[d]er Pussy	Reactiv8theindustry	Maschinenfest 2009	3:24
Weep	This Stolen Moon	Alate	5:55
Download	Manmade	III Steps Forward	4:02
Caustic	Bring Out Your Dead	The Coprophagia/Consummatia EP	4:39
Attrition	The Mercy Machine	The Hidden Agenda	5:14
Scorn	The Palomar	Stealth	5:55
Killing Joke	Jana	The Singles Collection 1979-2012	3:59
KMFDM vs. Pig	Secret Skin	Sin Sex & Salvation	3:38
iVardensphere	Ancients	Bloodwater	5:38
13th Monkey	Mister 29	Redefining the Paradigm of Bang	11:12
The Cure	Three	Seventeen Seconds	2:35
Nine Inch Nails	All Time Low (Todd Rundgren Remix)	Hesitation Marks	5:49
Front Line Assembly	System Anomaly	AirMech	5:03
VNV Nation	Secluded Spaces	Judgement	5:54
Cocksure	Klusterfuck Kulture (Acucrack Space Age Viking Remix)	KKEP	7:22
Somatic Responses	Repeated Human Error	Neon	6:12
I:Scintilla	Omen	Dying & Falling	4:11
IAMX	I Come with Knives	The Unified Field	4:21
Prometheus Burning	Miserchordia	Kill It with Fire	3:57
Known Rebel	Neigh	Hollow	4:38
Day Behavior	The Moments I Couldn't Save (Late Night in Athens Mix)	Have You Ever Touched a Dream?	4:21
Death In June	A Nausea (Totenpop Version)	The Snow Bunker Tapes	4:12
Involution	Licked On by Chicken	Involution	4:08
Raggedy Angry	Earthbound	Dead Beats	4:09
Officers	Another Long Year	On the Twelve Thrones	7:38
Nin Kuji	I Am the Myth	Sayonara	5:44
Ministry	Cold Life Dub	Twelve Inch Singles	6:23
Suicide Commando	Feeding My Inner Hate / Cut_Bleed_Eviscerate	When Evil Speaks	7:38
Cabaret Voltaire	Over and Over (Live at Sheffield Lyceum 27.08.82)	Archive #828285 Live	5:08
It-Clings	It-Clings Doesn't Give a Fuck (Oral Self-Dissection Mix)	I'm the Biggest Fucking Thing in the Whole Fucking World	4:30
Aurelio Voltaire	The Night (1988 Deathrock Version)	Raised by Bats	4:54
Wire Trap	In II Place	Futronik Structures Vol. 6	5:29
Psychophysicist	Biological Wavelength	Psychophysicist	3:23
Bile	Robots Ate My Baby	Coldwaves II Sampler	4:16
The Legendary Pink Dots	Day Zero	Remember Me This Way	3:26
Maschinenkrieger KR52 vs. Disraptor	Breakdown	Meltdown	3:34
The Birthday Massacre	The Dream	Nothing & Nowhere	3:54
Öhm	When Robots Fuck	Öhm	5:09
Leæther Strip	Invade My Body (Kant Kino Remix)	Mental Slavery	3:20
Oyaarss	Septembris / Un Saule Ausīs Dienvidos	Bads	8:03
Nightmare Noise Machine	Heretical Cyber Thrashing Atheist	K.I.F.T.H.	4:47
Bordel Militaire	Bonjour Tristesse	Bordel Militaire	2:34
7000 Dying Rats	Open the Realm (I Left My Keys in There)	Fanning the Flames of Fire	0:58
Angels Of Light	My Sister Said	The Angels of Light Sing "Other People"	4:11
Juno Reactor	To Byculla	The Golden Sun of the Great East	4:52
Slew52	Caramel	Catalog	13:24
Curve	Faît Accompli	Doppelgänger	4:40
Psyche	Eleanor	The Influence	4:20
Collide	Orgy	Bent and Broken	3:36
ADMX-71	The Delay of Flight 33	Luminous Vapors	6:18
Acucrack	The Swan	The Mawn Reproduction	4:48
Sol Invictus	Edward	The Cruellest Month	5:36
HPP	File Type: Unknown	Hard Pounding Percussion	5:09
Chrome	Half Machine Lip Moves	Half Machine Lip Moves + Read Only Memory	5:20
Society Burning	Waster (Stomp Mix)	Entropy Lingua	3:54
Einstürzende Neubauten	Der Tod Ist ein Dandy (Live in Kyoto, 23 May 1985)	Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt	6:19
Skyla Vertex	Urwerk: Der Funke / Das Feuer / Die Asche	Urwerk	13:30
Pigface	Blood and Sand (Live 1991)	Welcome to Mexico… Asshole	3:05
Unto Ashes	I Remember Happiness	Burials Foretold	4:45
Von Magnet	Bare Hands	Ni Prédateur ni Proie	4:08
Stone Breath	Page 43 upon the Wind	The Night Birds Psalm	4:56
Coil	Here to Here (Double Headed Secret)	Unnatural History	4:51
Pyrolator	Der Volksmund Wird Beatmet	Inland	4:20
Nocturnal Emissions	Kick in the Testes	Duty Experiment	3:06
Mushroom's Patience	Donkey from Mars	Jellyfish	4:42
c.db.sn	A Silent Sea	At the End of It All	5:56
Skinny Puppy	Shore Lined Poison (Live in Budapest, 2011)	Bootlegged, Broke, and in Solvent Seas	7:11

Technical Difficulties Live Playlist - May 30, 2014

Artist	Title	Album	Time
Ministry	Thieves	The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste	5:01
Heimatærde	Templerblut	Gottgleich	4:47
This Morn' Omina	Enuma Elish	L'Unification des Forces Opposantes	7:12
Dope Stars Inc.	Morning Star	Criminal Intents / Morning Star	6:07
Das Ding	H.S.T.A.	The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume Two	3:29
Caustic	Meat Market Carnivore	And You Will Know Me by the Trail of Vomit	3:45
Unter Null	Everything Counts	Re:Covered Vol. 2 - A Tribute to Depeche Mode	5:07
Inertia	Streaming	Universal Blood	4:57
16Pad Noise Terrorist	Darksteps	Utopia	4:13
Apoptygma Berzerk	All Tomorrow's Parties	The Apopcalyptic Manifesto	5:05
Clan Of Xymox	Blue Monday	Kindred Spirits	6:26
16 Volt	Dreams of Light (Nightmare)	The Remix Wars Strike 3 - 16 Volt vs. Hate Dept.	4:56
Monokrom	Wunk (Version)	Maschinenfest 2008	3:29
Ceoxime	Beg 'n' Plead	Theta	3:58
Adrian H & The Wounds	Nasty	Adrian H & The Wounds	4:08
Ben Lukas Boysen	Hoe Fight	Restive - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	2:03
Agent Side Grinder	Mag 7	Hardware (Sftwr Included)	7:26
Iiris	Unicorn	The Magic Gift Box	5:03
Balkansky & Loop Stepwalker	Bass Surgery	Adhesion	5:10
Kevorkian Death Cycle	Relax	A+O[m]	4:53
Aurelio Voltaire	"Poopin' on the Enterprise" / Worf's Revenge	BiTrekTual	5:11
The Dark Clan	Sick as Love	Electronic Saviors 2 - Recurrence	3:40
Haujobb	Control (Xabec Remix)	New World March	4:39
Skinny Puppy	Quiet Solitude	Back + Forth Series Two	4:44
Cranes	Leaves of Summer	Wings of Joy	3:44
Cut Hands	Nzambi ia Ngonde	Black Mamba	2:26
Collide	Slow Down	Counting to Zero	4:52
Front Line Assembly	Prototype	Echogenetic	5:36
Muslimgauze	Satyajit Eye (Reverse Mix)	Drugsherpa	3:46
Die Form	La Fille aux Yeux d'Or	Some Experiences with Shock	6:39
Twitch The Ripper	Safe House	Colorblind	4:42
Monstrum Sepsis	Less Is More	Movement	3:47
The PCP Principle	Perverse	Forms of Hands 09	5:15
Hate Dept.	Amanda Jones	New Ghost	4:48
Death In June	Rain of Despair	Nada Plus!	4:23
Psyche	Caught in the Act	As the Brain Collapses	5:39
VNDL	Recycle Theory (Parts 1 & 2)	Gahrena: Paysages Électriques	7:43
The Causticles	A Case for Hate Speech (First Amendment Vocal Version)	Eric Gottesman	3:50
The Nuns	Whore	Dark Awakening Vol. 4	3:52
Nine Inch Nails	At the Heart of It All	Further Down the Spiral	7:13
Wumpscut	Hallelujah	Women and Satan First	4:32
Unit:187	Lust Poison #9	Capital Punishment	5:11
OKK-ULTh vs. Ah Cama-Sotz	Prepare for the Final Awakening	Blood Will Tell	5:20
Front 242	Slaughter	Official Version	3:36
How To Destroy Angels	Too Late, All Gone	Welcome Oblivion	6:14
Throbbing Gristle	Dead on Arrival	D.o.A. - The Third and Final Report	6:09
KMFDM	Oh Look	Don't Blow Your Top	2:39
Nightmare Noise Machine	So Vile	Among the Dead	3:29
Aythis	Ether	The New Earth	6:34
Leæther Strip	Strap Me Down (Tæknopøp Version)	Retention No. 3	4:28
Coil	At the Heart of It All	Scatology	5:12
Volt 9000	Illuminist	Conopoly	3:51
µ-Ziq	Siege of Antioch (The Teknoist's I've Got Two I's in My Name Remix)	Trainwreck Magnetism	6:00
Bel Canto	Sleepwalker	Magic Box	4:50
iVardensphere	Of Ancient Reprise (Rad Bromance Mix)	I Dream in Noise - Remixes Vol. 2	6:11
Diaphane	Undefined	Samdhya	7:08
Autumm's Grey Solace	Tusk	Ablaze	4:21
Laibach	Meteorblitzkrieg Begins	Iron Sky - The Original Film Soundtrack	3:06
Konstruktivists	New York (Remix)	Glennascaul	5:14
Razed In Black	Erotic	Share This Poison - Retrospective	4:46
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult	Sex on Wheelz (Motor City Remix)	Sexplosion!	4:39
The Frozen Autumn	Victory	Chirality	3:09
Ctrlstic	Postmodern	Twenty Minutes of Motherfucker	6:15
Saemskin	Ode to G.G. Vol. II (hEADaCHE Remix)	Out of Phase - The hEADaCHE Remixes	3:52
Rein[Forced]	Amplified	X Amount of Stab Wounds in the Back	4:49
Empusae	Beauty of Decay	Mortusae	4:32
Killing Joke	Slipstream (Demo)	Inside Extremities - Mixes, Rehearsals, and Live	7:11
Dânnâgôischd	Ôichâbleddr onnd Ôichâsâmâ	Oak Folk	5:42
Pigface	Closer to Heaven (Acumen Sets the Controls for the Heart of the Sun)	Crackhead	6:17
Unwoman	Hurt	Uncovered	6:05
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Stranger Than Kindness (KCRW Session)	Live from KCRW	4:53
Nexus Kenosis	The Third Arrival	Elsewhen	4:03
Nebulo	Redkosh	Cardiac	3:10
The Cure	Anniversary	The Cure	4:22
Einstürzende Neubauten	Jet'm	Kollaps	1:24
Integral	The Past Is My Shadow	The Past Is My Shadow	9:20
Midnight Syndicate	Something Wicked	Born of the Night	3:03
Soriah with Ashkelon Sain	Ximehua	Eztica	8:40
Nurse With Wound	Eternity	Who Can I Turn to Stereo Etc.	9:15
The Legendary Pink Dots	One More Dimension	The Gethsemane Option	9:39