nothingelseon presents
A MixMates RaptWellington · Est. 2006
Atomic
Rapt
2006 / 2026
new wave • new romance • synth pop • madchester • indie • britpop
The Ledger01 / 07
What twenty years of Friday nights adds up to.
Years on the floor20
Nights recorded92
Tracks played9,384
Unique songs886
Artists347
The Anthem02 / 07
One song outlasted every other. Played almost every single night.
90 of 92 nights
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop · 98% of every night out
AtomicBlondie89
Kids In AmericaKim Wilde89
Love Will Tear Us ApartJoy Division89
West End GirlsPet Shop Boys89
The club's own namesake, Blondie's Atomic, played 89 of 92 nights. Almost the theme tune it sounds like.
The House Band03 / 07
The artists kept in heaviest rotation, by songs on the floor across the decades.
The Smiths24 songs · 280 plays
The Cure20 songs · 346 plays
The Clash18 songs · 132 plays
David Bowie18 songs · 290 plays
New Order17 songs · 333 plays
Most-spun of all: Blondie, dropped 354 times over twenty years.
The Era Curve04 / 07
Tracks logged per year, 2006 to 2026. Busiest of all: 2011, seven nights, 721 tracks.
20062011201620212026
The Deep Cuts05 / 07
Songs played exactly once in twenty years, then never again. A third of the whole catalogue.
Da Da Da • I Die: You Die • Kebab Träume • Motorhead • Betrayal • True Blue
Trio · Gary Numan · DAF · Hawkwind · Jah Wobble · Madonna · and 278 more
The Heartbeat06 / 07
The tempo the room settled into, averaged across every track on record.
129 BPM
Slowest 57 · fastest 206 · a proper spread of a night
C1,741 tracks
D
E
G
A
The five keys the archive keeps returning to. C leads the room, on 1,741 tracks.
The Long Return07 / 07
The longest silence between two plays of the same song.
19 years
The Cure · Jumping Someone Else's Train
Jumping Someone Else's Train
The Cure
6,944 days19.0 years apart
It's The End Of The World As We Know It
R.E.M.
6,917 days18.9 years apart
6,895 days18.9 years apart
6,636 days18.2 years apart
Some songs wait the best part of two decades for exactly the right night to come back around.
Nothing Else OnB-side
Atomic is one of three.
24 Hour Party People and Hang the DJ each have their own twenty years, waiting to be counted the same way.
San Fran
171 Cuba Street, Wellington
the night is still on
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