IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", was a weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan, from 1998 to about 2010, run by Bob Perye as Director Mac and carried on Live365. These are the tracks its DJs played most across 369 recovered playlists, resequenced as a mixtape. Thanks to Director Mac, DJ Piotr, Rev. Baldknobber, Pfrank, Saint, The Riccer and the rest of the crew. Some full shows survive on Mixcloud.

134 tracks · 8 hr 42 min · Oct 2026

1. Beborn Beton — Another World
2. Iris — Annie, Would I Lie to You
3. Toy box — Super Duper Man
4. Wolfsheim — Once in a lifetime
5. Tilt! — Running Up that Hill
6. De/vision — Try To Forget
7. Freezepop — Plastic Stars
8. Section 25 — Looking From a Hilltop
9. Mesh — I dont think they know
10. Monolithic — Window of Faith
11. Echo Image — Skulk
12. Moev — Saviour
13. Lost Signal — Frozen
14. Melotron — Folge Mir ins Licht
15. Cyber Axis — Can't Get you out of my Head
16. Flowers And Machines — Eden
17. Bis — Love Will Tear Us Apart
18. CTRL — Left to find
19. Moonlight Crush — Kissed in the rain
20. Oil 10 — Lost in Metropolis

…and 114 more →

Breaks, big beat and electro from IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan (1998 to about 2010). Most of it comes from Wallace the Scot's sets, with Buttons and Agent Detroit. Picked from 59 recovered DJ sets built around Hexstatic, Freestylers, Plump DJs, Skeewiff and their kin, then resequenced. Wallace and Buttons both play the June 4, 2005 show on Mixcloud.

104 tracks · 7 hr 11 min · Oct 2026

1. Lamb — Gorecki
2. Baxter — Fading
3. Amon Tobin — Verbal
4. Medicine — Wet On Wet
5. Curve — Black Delilah
6. DJ Shadow — GDMFSOB
7. Coldcut — Christmas Break
8. Steve Burns — Maintain
9. South — Paint The Silence
10. King Cobb Steelie — The Situation
11. Automato — Gold Of Desert Kings
12. Infusion — Natural
13. Amon Tobin — Creatures
14. Deepsky — Talk Like A Stranger
15. Way Out West — Stealth
16. Mint Royale — Show Me
17. Bootsy Collins — Party Lick'a'bles
18. Skeewiff — Nitty Gritty
19. Ugly Duckling — I Wanna Go Home
20. Apollo 440 — Dude Descending A Staircase

…and 84 more →

Detroit techno, house and electro from IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan (1998 to about 2010). Most of it comes from Pfrank's sets, with The Riccer, The Mangler and Director Mac. Picked from 88 recovered DJ sets built around Detroit Grand Pubahs, Plastikman, Ectomorph, Kenny Larkin and their kin, then resequenced from deep house into the late night. Some full shows survive on Mixcloud.

103 tracks · 6 hr 59 min · Oct 2026

1. Peter Funk — Dreams of You
2. Kevin Yost — One Starry Night
3. Deaf N Dumb — Stay
4. Inner City — Good Life
5. Octave One — I Believe
6. Paperclip People — Steam
7. Herbert — It's Only
8. Aril Brikha — On and On
9. Recloose — Can't Take It
10. Paperclip People — Throw (Planet E)
11. LZ Love — See the Light (Booker T's Club Mix)
12. Aril Brikha — Groove La Chord
13. Herbert — Suddenly
14. Mellow Trax — On and On
15. Paperclip People — 4 My Peepz
16. Rob Mello — Happiness
17. Paul Johnson — Noise
18. Mateo & Matos — Swing Solution (Glasgow Underground)
19. DHS — House of God
20. Mellow Trax — Together

…and 83 more →

Futurepop and melodic synthpop from IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan (1998 to about 2010). Picked from 170 recovered DJ sets built around Covenant, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Apoptygma Berzerk and their kin, then resequenced. Credit to Director Mac, DJ Piotr, Xtina, The Riccer, Saint and every DJ who carried these sets. Some full shows survive on Mixcloud.

112 tracks · 7 hr 18 min · Oct 2026

1. Beborn Beton — Another World
2. Wolfsheim — Once in a lifetime
3. Iris — Annie, Would I Lie to You
4. Tilt! — Running Up that Hill
5. De/vision — Try To Forget
6. Echoing Green — Ceremony
7. A New January — After Clothes
8. Section 25 — Looking From a Hilltop
9. Iris — Danger Is The Shame
10. Monolithic — Window of Faith
11. Moonlight Crush — Kissed in the rain
12. Echo Image — Skulk
13. Mesh — I dont think they know
14. The Echoing Green — Defender
15. Kie The Vez — One Roman Choir
16. De/Vision — Dinner Without Grace
17. Iris — Lose in wanting
18. Monolithic — Sound of Tears
19. The Echoing Green — Thief
20. Mesh — You Didn't Want Me

…and 92 more →

Gothic rock, darkwave, deathrock and a closing run of gothabilly from IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan (1998 to about 2010). Picked from 135 recovered DJ sets built around the Cruxshadows, Faith and the Muse, Collide, Chinadoll and their kin, then resequenced. Credit to Director Mac, Rev. Baldknobber, Deatheater, SugarGirl and the rest of the crew. Some full shows survive on Mixcloud.

103 tracks · 7 hr 9 min · Oct 2026

1. Faith and The Muse — Cantus
2. Black Tape For A Blue Girl — All My Lovers
3. This Ascension — Mysterium
4. Sunshine Blind — Surrounded by Sage
5. Lycia — Everything is Cold
6. Gossamer — Run
7. Garden of Dreams — Perfect Circle
8. Caelum Bliss — Killing Pixies
9. Trance to the Sun — Automatic Reversal
10. Black Tape for a Blue Girl — Kinski
11. Unto Ashes — Morte O Merce
12. Mors Syphilitica — As A Mirror
13. This Ascension — For A Day
14. Spellgate — The Lands of Ardigm
15. Ganymede — Neon Rain
16. I:Scintilla — Cursive Eve
17. Haven — Dreamscape
18. Live not on evil — Ghost in the Woods
19. Black Tape for a Blue Girl — Knock Three Times
20. SunShine Blind — Keyeslough

…and 83 more →

Industrial, EBM and electro from IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan (1998 to about 2010). Picked from 223 recovered DJ sets built around Chiasm, Hocico, Wumpscut, Front Line Assembly, Velvet Acid Christ and their kin, then resequenced. Credit to Director Mac, DJ Piotr, Rev. Baldknobber, Angry Rohn, Saint, Prototype and the rest of the crew. Some full shows survive on Mixcloud.

123 tracks · 8 hr 18 min · Oct 2026

1. Velvet Acid Christ — Fun with Drugs
2. Front Line Assembly — Vanished
3. DeLIEN — Disillusioned
4. Haujobb — Penetration
5. Fiction8 — Let Go
6. Heavy Water Factory — Author Of Pain
7. The Azoic — Progression
8. Informatik — A Matter of Time
9. Battery — Digital Angel
10. Delien — Quantum Foam
11. Haujobb — Sinus Problem
12. Front Line Assembly — Psychosomatic
13. Electronic Voice Phenomenon — Star Crushed
14. Backspace — Sister
15. Haujobb — The Noise Institute
16. Heavy Water Factory — Victim
17. Electronic Voice Phenomenon — Sugar Knife
18. Diverje — Enough to Destroy
19. Firewerk — Crickets
20. Heavy Water Factory — Place Of Torment

…and 103 more →

The late years of IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan: 2006 to 2009, when electroclash, indie-dance and dubstep ran alongside the industrial core. These are the era's most-played tracks, leaving out what's already on the main IPM Radio mixtape, resequenced. Credit to Director Mac, Angry Rohn, DJ Suppli, The Mangler and the crew. Two full 2006 shows survive on Mixcloud.

108 tracks · 7 hr 49 min · Oct 2026

1. The Knife — Like A Pen
2. Infadels — Can't Get Enough
3. !!! — Must Be The Moon
4. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness — According To Plan
5. Calvin Harris — Acceptable In The 80's
6. MSTRKRFT — The Looks
7. LHB — Coming Up for Air
8. Out Hud — It's For You
9. Battles — Atlas
10. Van She — Sex City
11. Does It Offend You Yeah — Let's Make out
12. Justice — D.A.N.C.E.
13. Peter Bjorn & John — Young Folks
14. The Faint — Paranoiattack
15. Digitalism — Zdarlight
16. Junior Boys — Double Shadow
17. Shitdisco — I Know Kung Fu
18. Guns N Bombs — Crossover Appeal
19. Client — Lights go out
20. Motor — Flashback

…and 88 more →

Covers from IPM Radio, "In Perpetual Motion", Bob Perye's weekly multi-DJ show out of Lansing, Michigan (1998 to about 2010). Kraftwerk, New Order, the Cure, Kate Bush and Kylie, run through industrial, synthpop, goth and gothabilly. Found by matching 369 recovered playlists against the songs they cover, then resequenced from the machine age to rock. Credit to Director Mac, DJ Piotr, Saint, Angry Rohn and the crew. Some full shows survive on Mixcloud.

121 tracks · 5 hr 47 min · Oct 2026

1. Nullsleep — The Model
2. ESC — The Robots
3. Glass Candy — Computer Love
4. Trylok — Radioactivity
5. A. Bambaataa — Metal
6. Project 12:01 — Headhunter
7. db9d9 — Headhunter
8. The Faint — Enola Gay
9. Cut.Rate.Box — Behind the Wheel
10. Hate Dept — Master And Servant
11. Controlled Fusion — Hit That Perfect Beat
12. Tiga & Zyntherius — Sunglasses at Night
13. Uranium 235 — You spin me round
14. Nerve Factor — Fade to Grey
15. Sunshine Blind — I Ran
16. The Razor Skyline — One Night in Bangkok
17. Mila Mar — Maid of Orleans
18. Gold & diaz & Young Rebels — Don't You Want Me - Dave Spoon Mix
19. Chiasm — Major Tom
20. Playgroup — Behind the Wheel (DJ Kicks Electroclash Vocal Mix)

…and 101 more →

99.9 The Electric Front was DJ Lee's one-man Live365 station out of Detroit–Windsor, 2001 to at least 2009: industrial, EBM, futurepop, and plenty of his own remixes. I was a listener back then (December 2002). These are its longest-running weekly top-ten hits, recovered from the Wayback Machine and resequenced as a mixtape. DJ Lee's remixes play from his YouTube channel; where a remix couldn't be found, the original stands in.

150 tracks · 10 hr 9 min · Oct 2026

1. Gerard McMann — Cry Little Sister (Lee Bloodsucker Mix)
2. Within Temptation — Memories
3. Halo In Reverse — Modesty's Failure
4. Collide — Crushed (Now Forgotten Mix)
5. The Cruxshadows — Resist/R
6. A Perfect Circle — Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums
7. Mindless Faith — Descent
8. Gary Numan — I Can't Breathe
9. Razed In Black — Sin
10. Halo In Reverse — I Machine
11. Peter Gabriel — Growing Up (Trent Reznor Remix)
12. Celldweller — Frozen
13. Gary Numan — Torn (Sulpher)
14. Halo In Reverse — Something This Real
15. Dave Gahan — Dirty Sticky Floors
16. Garbage — Androgyny (Lee Hermaphrodite Mix)
17. Nine Inch Nails — Head Like A Hole (live)
18. Marilyn Manson — This Is The New Shit
19. Rob Zombie — Feel So Numb
20. Mindless Self Indulgence — Faggot

…and 130 more →

Every track I could recover from 99.9 The Electric Front, DJ Lee's Live365 station (2001 to at least 2009), drawn from its weekly top tens, year-end Top 100s, and now-playing samples, in order of first appearance. I was a listener (December 2002). DJ Lee's remixes play from his channel where they survive, originals stand in elsewhere, and about twenty tracks with no playable copy were left out. Hear the station itself in its ads and artist spots.

637 tracks · 42 hr 35 min · Oct 2026

1. Bile — Happiness In Slavery
2. Corporate Avenger — Jesus Christ Homosexual
3. Eminem with Marilyn Manson — The Way I Am (Danny Lohner Remix)
4. Genitorturers — The One Who Feeds (Dave Ogilvie Remix)
5. God Lives Underwater — Fame
6. Killing Joke — Democracy (Right Wing Militia Mix)
7. Marilyn Manson — Tainted Love
8. New Order — Crystal
9. Nine Inch Nails — Slipping Away
10. Wumpscut — Christfuck
11. Mentallo and The Fixer — Murderers Among Us
12. Mindless Faith — Descent
13. Rob Zombie — Feel So Numb
14. Garbage — Androgyny (Lee Hermaphrodite Mix)
15. Icon Of Coil — Former Self
16. Absurd Minds — Welcome To The Cyberspace
17. E-Craft — Electrocution
18. Cleaner — The Voice (And One Mix)
19. Evil's Toy — Style
20. Unit 187 — Loaded

…and 617 more →

Signal Decay was a Live365 station out of Seattle, running from 2001 into at least 2009 — contemporary EBM, futurepop, synthpop, and obscure New Wave carrying the 80s forward. I've found no other archives — though maybe someone has recordings. These tracks were recovered from Wayback Machine captures of its station pages and playlist frames, then resequenced to play as a mixtape.

136 tracks · 9 hr 30 min · Oct 2026

1. Covenant — Call The Ships To Port
2. Delerium — Incantation
3. Iris — Twilight
4. Balligomingo — Beyond
5. De/Vision — Strange Affection
6. Conjure One — Tears From The Moon
7. Merge — Autumn Leaf
8. Wolfsheim — Read the Lines
9. Echoing Green — Ceremony
10. Camouflage — Crime
11. Fictional — Dream Of God
12. Neuropa — Skin Deep
13. Beborn Beton — Another World
14. Alphaville — Soul Messiah
15. Celebrate The Nun — Will You Be There (v.02)
16. Human League — Reflections
17. Red Flag — Talk About The Future
18. Hubert Kah — Love Chain (...Maria)
19. De/Vision — Hear Me Calling
20. Bronski Beat — Hit That Perfect Beat

…and 116 more →

15 tracks · 1 hr 2 min · Sep 2026

1. Depeche Mode — Clean
2. Lush — Baby Talk
3. Laika — Poor Gal
4. A Sunny Day In Glasgow — Hey, You're Mine
5. Kite — The Rhythm
6. Ari Mason — Dressed For Space
7. Mother Mother — Aspiring Fires
8. Silent Runners — Forgotten
9. Lizette Lizette — Sober Up
10. Echoberyl — Broken Pieces
11. Mother Mother — Problems
12. Secrets of the third Planet — Arabeska
13. Mt. Wolf — Tayrona - feat. Wilsen
14. Kiara NGL — In the Deep
15. Scene Noir — The Color of Desire

Synthpop Fanatic's mid-year roundup of 2026, rebuilt from the YouTube videos embedded in the original post.

25 tracks · 1 hr 59 min · Aug 2026

1. A Thousand Mad Things — Truth You Seek
2. Angels & Agony — Changes
3. ARMOURS — Body
4. Auger — Back in Love
5. Chainreactor feat. Audiocall — Unintentional Presence Pt. 2
6. Choir Boy — I'll Always Let You Down
7. Culture Kultür — Atomic Radio
8. Dead on a Sunday and NITE — RNAWAY
9. Dead Lights — (The Edge of) Dusk
10. Dekad — Disconnected
11. Depeche Mode — Universal Soldier
12. Diorama — The Same Ghost
13. Elektrostaub feat. Beyond Border — Moments in My Life
14. Madeline Goldstein — One Star One Body
15. Mesh — This World
16. Minute Taker — Losing Self-Control
17. Optic — God's Eye
18. Paper Foxes — Numb
19. PART2 — My Pleasure and Pain
20. Rymdverket — In Silence

…and 5 more →

If I had a revolver, there are frequent scenarios wherein I might reach for it.

6 tracks · 20 min · Aug 2026

1. That's When I Reach for My Revolver — Mission Of Burma
2. That's When I Reach for My Revolver — Moby
3. That's When I Reach For My Revolver — Catherine Wheel
4. That's When I Reach For My Revolver — Irish Basement
5. That's When I Reach For My Revolver — Crippled Black Phoenix
6. That's When I Reach For My Revolver — Geno Lenardo, Nina Bergman

6 tracks · 25 min · Jul 2026

1. Rage Against the Machine — Killing in the Name Of
2. Mother Mother — Hayloft
3. My Chemical Romance — The Black Parade
4. The Eurythmics — Sweet Dreams
5. Lady Gaga — Abracadabra
6. Heart — Barracuda

10 tracks · 41 min · Jul 2026

1. Perikkles — Threshold
2. Hyperfiction — Progress Is Dead
3. Vexillary — Pardon Me
4. DSTRTD SGNL — Astoria
5. Darkness On Demand — Tragedy For You
6. Mondtraume — Pictures Of You (Beyond Border)
7. Future Trail — Another Town
8. Fragments Of Passion — All I Wanna Be (2026)
9. Fortification 55 — Static Veil (Tension)
10. Aesthetische — Neurobashing

Find as many cover versions as possible of 'Living on the Ceiling' by Blancmange.

3 tracks · 18 min · Feb 2026

1. Skinnerbox — Living on the Ceiling - Saturday Night Version
2. Rosetta Stone — Living On The Ceiling
3. Mortal Memories — Living On the Ceiling

Male-led bands with epic harmonies, melodramatic riffs, and clever lyrics.

20 tracks · 1 hr 53 min · Jan 2026

1. Styx — Come Sail Away
2. Electric Light Orchestra — Mr. Blue Sky
3. Meat Loaf — Bat Out of Hell
4. My Chemical Romance — Welcome to the Black Parade
5. Panic! At The Disco — Victorious
6. Coheed and Cambria — Welcome Home
7. Ghost — Square Hammer
8. The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love
9. Kansas — Carry on Wayward Son
10. Genesis — Firth of Fifth - 2007 Stereo Mix
11. Dream Theater — Pull Me Under
12. Trans-Siberian Orchestra — Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24 - Instrumental
13. Thirty Seconds To Mars — The Kill
14. Arcane Roots — If Nothing Breaks, Nothing Moves
15. Haken — 1985
16. Ayreon — Day Eleven: Love
17. Foxy Shazam — Killin' It
18. Nothing But Thieves — Amsterdam
19. The Dear Hunter — In Cauda Venenum
20. Porcupine Tree — Fear of a Blank Planet

50 tracks · 3 hr 35 min · Sep 2025

1. Ladytron — Little Black Angel
2. The Birthday Massacre — Video Kid
3. Little Boots — Stuck on Repeat
4. La Roux — Tigerlily
5. Ladyhawke — Magic
6. Röyksopp — Tricky Tricky
7. Ayria — Invisible
8. Shiny Toy Guns — Le Disko
9. Robots In Disguise — The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
10. IAMX — The Alternative
11. Covenant — Bullet
12. Ladytron — Soft Power
13. Freezepop — duct tape my heart
14. Garbage — Automatic Systematic Habit
15. Mind.in.a.box — 8 Bits
16. Icon Of Coil — Shelter
17. VNV Nation — Nemesis
18. Goldfrapp — Strict Machine - Single Mix
19. Gary Numan — The Fall
20. La Roux — Colourless Colour

…and 30 more →

50 tracks · 3 hr 38 min · Aug 2025

1. ACTORS — Bury Me
2. Echoberyl — Broken Pieces
3. Cold Cave — Prayer from Nowhere
4. Silent Runners — Forgotten
5. Ash Code — Nostalgia
6. Drab Majesty — Kissing the Ground
7. Bootblacks — The Longest Night
8. Ghost Cop — Trouble
9. Minuit Machine — DRGS
10. Night in Athens — Sheeeee
11. Houses of Heaven — Sleep
12. ACTORS — Cold Eyes
13. Ulterior — Body Hammer
14. Ritual Howls — This Is Transcendence
15. In Letter Form — Terror (Is A State Of Mind)
16. Sixth June — Oh Boy
17. Principe Valiente — Strangers In The Night
18. Echoberyl — Dark Embrace Me
19. Bootblacks — Traveling Light
20. Silent Runners — Dark Mountain

…and 30 more →

This songs kind of drone on - they're not about drones.

2 tracks · 11 min · Nov 2024

1. Dance Or Die — Helios
2. Informatik — Retrogradation (On the Verge of Re:Vision)

What if it's solarpunk but a little hopeful and a little angry and a little witchy?

18 tracks · 1 hr 18 min · Oct 2024

1. Young Ejecta — Into Your Heart
2. Douglas — Clouds
3. Bathe Alone — 4ever
4. Marnie — Lost Maps
5. Young Galaxy — Blown Minded
6. Night Hikes — Iona
7. IO Echo — Ecstasy Ghost
8. School Of Seven Bells — Put Your Sad Down
9. Me Not You — Kill the Noise
10. Marnie — We Are the Sea
11. Project Pitchfork — The Great Storm
12. Project Pitchfork — On This Small Blue Planet
13. School Of Seven Bells — Windstorm
14. Night Hikes — Raven
15. Hearts of Black Science — Protector
16. AURORA — Under Stars
17. Tokyo Police Club — Bambi
18. Bambie Thug — Doomsday Blue

Gary Numan is pretty great, isn't he? This is mostly the 1997 tribute album Random, but also a bit of rabbit-holing of my own.

26 tracks · 2 hr 4 min · Sep 2023

1. The Leisure Society — Cars
2. The Magnetic Fields — I Die: You Die
3. EMF — We Are Glass
4. Jesus Jones — We Are So Fragile
5. Saint Etienne — Stormtrooper in Drag
6. Dubstar — Everyday I Die
7. Groove Armada — Are 'Friends' Electric?
8. Grace Jones — Me! I Disconnect From You
9. The Dead Weather — Are Friends Electric
10. Kenickie — I'm an Agent
11. Moloko — Are 'Friends' Electric?
12. Posh — She's Got Claws
13. Republica — Are 'Friends' Electric?
14. Nine Inch Nails — Metal - Remix
15. Information Society — Are 'Friends' Electric?
16. Anecdata — We Are Glass
17. Parralox — Are 'Friends' Electric?
18. Anecdata — I Die You Die
19. Fear Factory — Cars
20. Anecdata — Metal

…and 6 more →

6 tracks · 21 min · Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

1. Nada Surf — Popular
2. Meryn Cadell — The Sweater
3. Suicidal Tendencies — Institutionalized
4. The Refreshments — Banditos
5. Liam Lynch — United States Of Whatever
6. Vanilla Ice — Ice Ice Baby

Really digging this Depeche Mode covers album, this week. Thinking I may end up buying it on vinyl: all i ever wanted — a tribute to depeche mode

12 tracks · 49 min · Mar 2023

1. Priest — Personal Jesus
2. Faderhead — Enjoy The Silence
3. Lebanon Hanover — Strange Love
4. Skold — Blasphemous Rumours
5. Hante — Somebody
6. Velvet Condom — It's No Good
7. Xiu Xiu — Never Let Me Down Again
8. The KVB — World In My Eyes
9. Crying Vessel — Precious
10. This Cold Night — Just Can't Get Enough
11. Buzz Kull — Everything Counts
12. Ashbury Heights — Heaven