nothingelseon presents A MixMates RaptWellington · Est. 2008

Hang
the DJ

Rapt 2008 / 2025

new wave • post-punk • indie

Eighteen years, one night a year The Nothing Else On archive · hosted on MixMates
The Ledger01 / 07

What eighteen annual nights add up to. One a year, every year without fail.

Years running18
Annual nights18
Tracks played1,943
Unique songs395
Artists200
The Anthem02 / 07

Six songs never missed a single year. Not one in eighteen.

18 of 18 nights
Common People
Pulp · every one of eighteen years
Don't You Want MeThe Human League18
I Bet You Look Good On The DancefloorArctic Monkeys18
Last NiteThe Strokes18
Love Will Tear Us ApartJoy Division18
Lust For LifeIggy Pop18

The name is a Smiths line, from Panic, 1986. Fitting that Ian Curtis, Iggy and Jarvis all made every single year.

The House Band03 / 07

The artists most in rotation, by plays across the eighteen nights.

The Stone Roses64 plays
The Cure61 plays
The Smiths59 plays
Blondie59 plays
Blur58 plays

Most-spun of all: The Stone Roses, 64 times across eighteen nights.

The Era Curve04 / 07

Tracks logged per year, 2008 to 2025. One night a year, every year without fail.

20082013201720212025
The Deep Cuts05 / 07

Songs played once across eighteen years, then never again. A third of the catalogue.

132
One-hit wonders
I Predict A Riot • Favourite Shirts • Chant No. 1 • 52 Girls • She Bop • The Rat Kaiser Chiefs · Haircut 100 · Spandau Ballet · The B-52's · Cyndi Lauper · The Walkmen · and 126 more
The Heartbeat06 / 07

The tempo the room settled into, averaged across every track on record.

130 BPM
Slowest 74 · fastest 206 · a proper spread of a night
D308 tracks E C G A

The five keys the archive keeps returning to. D leads the room, on 308 tracks.

The Long Return07 / 07

The longest silence between two plays of the same song.

16 years
Echo & the Bunnymen · Never Stop
Never Stop
Echo & the Bunnymen
5,844 days16.0 years apart
Like a Virgin
Madonna
5,843 days16.0 years apart
12:51
The Strokes
5,479 days15.0 years apart
Disorder
Joy Division
5,479 days15.0 years apart

Some songs wait the best part of two decades for exactly the right night to come back around.

Nothing Else OnB-side

Hang the DJ is one of three.

Atomic and 24 Hour Party People each have their own run, counted the same way.

San Fran 171 Cuba Street, Wellington the night is still on
Atomic ↗ 24 Hour Party People ↗ Hang the DJ ↗
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