Gio writes…
“Two months. The longest gap yet between transmissions, and the radio’s been busy. Midnight Climax arrives as our first double album – twenty tracks that feel like intercepted broadcasts from an alternative 20th century, where the groove was weaponised and funk became a form of social control.
“The retro elements aren’t nostalgic – they’re archaeological. These tracks sound like recovered audio from operations that left different fingerprints on history. Lofi grooves with sinister undercurrents, as if someone’s been conducting very sophisticated research into the relationship between rhythm and compliance.
“Psychoacoustic opens with over six minutes of what sounds like laboratory equipment learning to dance. The extended runtime creates space for frequencies to embed themselves in consciousness, while the funk elements make the process genuinely pleasurable. It’s remarkably advanced psychological conditioning disguised as vintage sounds.
“Third Chance for a Funky Romance and Subliminal Seduction establish the album’s seductive methodology. Both tracks pulse with retro charm that feels deliberately engineered – as if someone’s studied exactly which combinations of sounds bypass critical thinking most effectively.
“Stargate Lounge and Spellbinder’s Soulful Incantation form the album’s hypnotic core. The consistency suggests ritual, ceremony, systematic application of pleasure as control mechanism. Stargate Lounge in particular sounds like a track Other Quentin Tarantino would have used for Reservoir Dogs 2: Bark in Business.
“Often Heard Sounds and Naomi’s Potion explore the album’s pharmaceutical themes. Both tracks layer vintage sounds with what sounds remarkably like laboratory ambience – test tubes bubbling in 4/4 time, consciousness-altering substances set to irresistible grooves.
“Moonstruck Funk and Groovy Hallucinations showcase the radio’s mastery of retroactive timeline manipulation. These tracks feel like they’ve always existed somewhere in the collective unconscious, waiting for the right frequency to bring them into our reality.
“Greenwood Experiment stands as our longest transmission yet at over seven minutes of what can only be described as environmental funk. The track suggests someone’s been conducting very thorough research into how landscape and rhythm interact to produce altered states.
“The album’s final act – from Echo Chamber of the Mind through to Operation Midnight Climax – documents systematic approaches to consciousness modification through pleasure. Each track maps different psychological territories using vintage grooves as navigational tools.
“We close with Amnesia Again Maybe, a title that perfectly captures the album’s temporal uncertainty. You might forget you’re listening to experimental mind control music. You might forget it’s experimental at all.
“Midnight Climax is available now across all platforms. This feels like the radio’s most complete statement yet – an entire alternative history of the groove, where funk and psychological warfare evolved together into something beautiful and terrifying.
“Six albums in, and I’m beginning to understand the scope of what we’re documenting. These aren’t just transmissions from another dimension. They’re recovered audio from the timeline we narrowly avoided.”