Vortex at Spacebar

05/06/2026

Thanks to all who came out to May Day Vortex at Spacebar last Friday! It was a fun, dancey time, as anyone who was there can tell you.

Here is the playlist and photo collage for your enjoyment.

Next month Pride Vortex Friday June 5th!

Vortex 69!
May 1, 2026
May Day!
DJ Dynamo
Spacebar

ABC--Show Me
Howard Jones--Conditioning
Bananarama--Shy Boy
Thompson Twins--Love Lies Bleeding
A Flock of Seagulls--Transfer Affection
Naked Eyes--Low Life
Nena--Kino
Kajagoogoo--White Feathers
Soft Cell--Insecure...Me?*
Hawaiian Pups--Infinite Roads
Sharpe & Numan--Voices
Shriekback--All Lined Up
John Foxx--Europe After the Rain
Duran Duran--Careless Memories
INXS--The One Thing
Psychedelic Furs--Run and Run
Morrissey--Suedehead
Wire Train--I'll Do You
Ultravox--Love's Great Adventure
Kim Wilde--Water on Glass
Go-Go's--Get Up and Go
Bow Wow Wow--I Want Candy
Let's Active--Every Word Means No
Hoodoo Gurus--I Want You Back
Talking Heads--And She Was
Men Without Hats--Pop Goes the World
OMD--Enola Gay
When in Rome--The Promise*
Pet Shop Boys--West End Girls*
Wang Chung--Dance Hall Days
Simple Minds--I Travel*
Heaven 17--Crushed By the Wheels of Industry
Spandau Ballet--To Cut a Long Story Short
Altered Images--I Could Be Happy
Vicious Pink--Take Me Now*
B-52's--Private Idaho*
Billy Idol--White Wedding*
INXS--Don't Change*
Depeche Mode--Never Let Me Down*
New Order--Blue Monday*
Fad Gadget--Lady Shave*
Pet Shop Boys--Suburbia*
Thompson Twins--Lies*
Duran Duran--Planet Earth*
ABC--Poison Arrow
Talk Talk--It's My Life
A-ha--Take on Me*
Bronski Beat--Why?*
Book of Love--Boy
Berlin--Masquerade
Missing Persons--Walking in L.A.
Blondie--Heart of Glass
Pat Benatar--We Live for Love
Kim Wilde--Kids in America
Re-flex--The Politics of Dancing
Strange Advance--Love Games
M--Pop Muzik
The Buggles--Video Killed the Radio Star
Murray Head--One Night in Bangkok
Taco--Puttin' on the Ritz
New Order--Paradise*
Depeche Mode--Work Hard
The Cure--Icing Sugar*
Eurythmics--Love is a Stranger*
Big Country--Harvest Home*
Wham!--Bad Boys*
Tears for Fears--Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Belinda Carlisle--Heaven is a Place on Earth
Real Life--God Tonight
Paul Hardcastle--19
Nitzer Ebb--Join in the Chant*
Skinny Puppy--Smothered Hope
Ministry--Effigy
Divine--Love Reaction*
Information Society--What's On Your Mind?
*request

04/09/2026

Depeche Mode Vortex at Spacebar was more than a party! (though I didn't actually play that song!) Thanks to everyone who came out to dance to the Biggest Synth Band of all Time! (I just made that up, but maybe?)

Here is the playlist and the photos of what I played. More than half (36 songs) DM! I hope you got your Mode worth!

Next Vortex Friday (May Day!) May 1st--just a "normal" Vortex!

Vortex 68!
April 3, 2026
Depeche Mode!
DJ Dynamo
Spacebar

The Assembly--Never Never
Vince Clarke/Paul Quinn--One Day (Extension)
Silicon Teens--Doo Wah Diddy
Anything Box--Kiss of Love
OMD--2nd Thought
Yazoo--State Farm (Extended)
DM--Puppets
Camouflage--That Smiling Face
DM--Fools (Bigger)*
Erasure--Who Needs Love Like That?
Six Sed Red--Bang 'Em Right
DM--What's Your Name?*
Red Flag--Russian Radio
Fad Gadget--Scapegoat
Psyche--Thundershowers
DM--In Your Memory
Sharpe & Numan--Change Your Mind
DM--Stripped*
Secession--Love Lies Bleeding
DM--Halo*
Yazoo--Goodbye Seventies
DM--Get the Balance Right! (Combination Mix)
DM--Told You So*
Bill Nelson--Empire of the Senses*
DM--Lie to Me*
DM--The Meaning of Love*
Robert Marlow--No Heart
DM--Shake the Disease*
Nine Inch Nails--Sanctified
DM--Policy of Truth*
DM--Fly on the Windscreen*
Book of Love--Modigliani
DM--Behind the Wheel*
DM--Strangelove (Maxi Mix)*
Information Society--What's On Your Mind?
DM--Personal Jesus*
Kraftwerk--Tour de France
DM--Everything Counts*
DM--Master & Servant (Slavery Whip Mix)*
DM--People Are People*
DM--World in My Eyes*
Yazoo--Situation
DM--It's Called a Heart*
Fad Gadget--Collapsing New People*
DM--New Dress*
Erasure--Oh L'Amour
DM--New Life
DM--Meaning of Love
DM--Just Can't Get Enough
DM--Enjoy the Silence*
Soft Cell--Memorabilia
DM--No Disco*
DM--But Not Tonight*
DM--Nothing*
Martin Gore--Compulsion
DM--Black Celebration*
DM--Set Me Free (Remotivate Me)
DM--A Question of Time*
Yazoo--Don't Go*
I Start Counting--Still Smiling
DM--Flexible (Deportation Mix)
DM--(Further Excerpts from) My Secret Garden
DM--Dreaming of Me
*request

03/30/2026

Just can't get enough Depeche Mode? You will this Friday ! Come on out to enjoy the non-silence as DJ Dynamo unleashes his buried 12" singles and vinyl albums to a hungry crowd!

03/11/2026

and I put together a really fun show at WRUW last Monday! A full hour of non-stop synth bops! Not to mention witty banter. All unscripted!

Listen here:
https://listen.wruw.org/?time=1773097200

03/11/2026

Vortex was a great time Saturday! Mimi and I had a blast! Thanks to all who came out, danced, drank, visited with each other, and had fun 😌

Here's the album collage and playlist. Not pictured: Front 242 "Don't Crash" (Thanks Tim!), Heaven 17 "We Live So Fast"

Next Vortex is Depeche Mode! Friday April 3rd at Spacebar!

Vortex 67!
March 7, 2026
DJ Dynamo
Spacebar

Laid Back--Elevator Boy
Devo--Race of Doom
Gary Numan--M.E.
Men Without Hats--Messiahs Die Young
Talking Heads--Life During Wartime*
Vivabeat--Man From China
Missing Persons--Surrender Your Heart
Data--Hooked Up
The Cars--Hello Again
Depeche Mode--It's Called a Heart*
Sparks--Angst in My Pants
Roxy Music--Same Old Scene
Cyndi Lauper--Money Changes Everything*
Echo & the Bunnymen--Bring on the Dancing Horses*
Wang Chung--Dance Hall Days
Spoons--When Time Turns Around
Thompson Twins--Lay Your Hands on Me
The Stranglers--Skin Deep
Talking Heads--And She Was (Dub)
Erasure--Chains of Love*
Bronski Beat--Smalltown Boy*
Book of Love--Boy*
Yazoo--Situation
Sisters of Mercy--Lucretia My Reflection*
Killing Joke--Eighties*
Severed Heads--Legion*
The Cure--Pictures of You*
A Flock of Seagulls--Space Age Love Song*
Prince--1999*
Michael Jackson--Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Midnight Star--Freakazoid
Egyptian Lover--Egypt Egypt
Front 242--Don't Crash*
Microchip League--New York*
New Order--Blue Monday*
Soft Cell--S*x Dwarf*
Pat Benatar--Heartbreaker*
B-52's--Dance This Mess Around*
Talking Heads--Psycho Killer
Siouxsie & the Banshees--Peek-a-Boo
Human League--Sound of the Crowd*
Ministry--Revenge*
Heaven 17--We Live So Fast
Peter Schilling--Major Tom*
Billy Idol--Rebel Yell*
The Cars--Let's Go
Kim Wilde--Cambodia*
The Flirts--Calling All Boys*
Laura Branigan--Self Control*
Baltimora--Tarzan Boy
Alexander Robotnik--Problemes d'Amour
Laid Back--White Horse
New Order--Confusion*
Pete Shelley--Homosapien*
Joy Division--She's Lost Control*
Psychedelic Furs--Love My Way*
Madonna--Like a Virgin*
Wham--Everything She Wants*
Duran Duran--New Moon on Monday
Eurythmics--Here Comes the Rain*
Siouxsie & the Banshees--Cities in Dust*
Morrissey--Every Day is Like Sunday
Dead or Alive--You Spin Me Round*
Information Society--What's On Your Mind?
Blondie--Hanging on the Telephone
*request

03/02/2026

Vortex is this SATURDAY!! You read that right! Mimi is DJing the Cleveland Museum of Art's Mix dance night on Friday celebrating Women's History Month with women of the 80s, so we'll be there and then heading down to Columbus Saturday!

And it's going to be warm! Current forecast 74 degrees!

See you on the dance floor! 💃 🕺 🎵 🎶

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02/23/2026

Hey all! If you're wanting some radio time today, check out an extended AbSynth AlgoRhythm!

Two of my colleagues asked me to fill in before and after my show, so it's going to be a DJ Dynamo megamix! 🥳

Tune in to WRUW FM 91.1 between 6 and 9 this evening, or go to WRUW.org to listen online.

I just agreed to do this, so I don't have a lot of time to plan, which should make it interesting! I might even play some non-synth music! 😯

Catch you then! 🎉🔥

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02/16/2026

Thanks to all the sexy people who came out to Vorte### at Spacebar! It was a memorable night, and Mimi Dromette and I had a great time! Here is the photo collage and playlist:

Rockwell--Obscene Phone Caller
Joan Jett--Do You Want to Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
Turbonegro--Good Head
Power Station--Get it On
The Cars--Don't Cha Stop
Haysi Fantayzee--Chizoola
Flying Lizards--S*x Machine
Waitresses--I Know What Boys Like
The Cure--Hot Hot Hot
Ian Dury and the Blockheads--S*x and Drugs and Rock 'n Roll
Suicide--Girl
Do******ix--The Do******ix Sleeps Tonight
Dalbello--Animal
Vanity--Wild Animal
Prince--Head*
Janet Jackson--Nasty
Wham!--Love Machine
Love Machine--S*x-o-Sonic
Tom Tom Club--You S*xy Thing
Duran Duran--All She Wants Is
Right Said Fred--I'm Too S*xy
Sissy P***s Factory--Everybody F*ck Now
John S*x--Rock Your Body
Dead or Alive--I Wanna Be a Toy*
Lisa--S*x Dance
Mimi--Get Ready
Boytronic--Tonight
Miami Sound Machine--Body to Body
Front 242--Body to Body
Vicious Pink--Fetish*
Flexi Cowboy--Domination
DAF--Brothers
Six Sed Red--Shake it Right
Cabaret Voltaire--S*x, Money, Freaks
Karen Finley--Tales of Taboo
SPK--Seduction
Eurythmics--S*xcrime
Divine--Shoot Your Shot
Depeche Mode--Master & Servant (Slavery Whip Mix)
S*x Beat--S*x Beat*
The Cramps--Bikini Girls with Machine Guns
Billy Idol--Flesh for Fantasy*
George Michael--I Want Your S*x
Michael Jackson--Rock With You*
Berlin--S*x (I'm A...)*
F.O.C. (Friends of Carlotta)--Fingerfoc*
Lords of Acid--I Sit on Acid*
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult--S*x on Wheels*
Soft Cell--S*x Dwarf*
S*xual Harassment--I Need a Freak
Prince--Erotic City
Lattanzi--I Was Made for Loving You*
S*xual Society--F*cking
Bill Nelson--Flaming Desire*
Heaven 17--Temptation
Duran Duran--Girls on Film (Nite version)
Fred Schneider--Monster
Paul Lekakis--Boom Boom
Modern Rocketry--Homosexuality
Taste of Sugar--hmm hmm*
La Tour--People are Still Having S*x
Sheila--Acid Kiss
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult--S*xplosion
Red Lipstique--Drac's Back
Dead or Alive--Brand New Lover*
Sparks--All You Ever Think About is S*x

01/14/2026

This Saturday ! It's going to be a great night from my friends Erin and Scott. They are the masters of Italo/Euro/synth dance bliss on vinyl! Come on out!

01/14/2026

Hey all! Mimi's doing this cool event next week! Come on out for a great dance night! More info !

01/07/2026

Vortex's seven year anniversary at Spacebar was one for the records! Packed floor from beginning to end. Thanks to all who came out to dance and celebrate what has become an institution in Columbus night life. You bring the energy, passion, and moves to make Vortex what it is 🥰

Here is the photo collage and playlist, in order!

Mark your calendars for our annual Vorte### on Friday February 6th with Mimi Dromette and DJ Dynamo! It's sure to be a hot night! 🔥

Vortex 65!
Seven year anniversary!
January 3, 2026
DJ Dynamo
Spacebar

Men Without Hats--Modern Dancing
Lisa--Invisible Love
Yellow Magic Orchestra--Rydeen
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder--Together in Electric Dreams
Sparks--Music That You Can Dance To
SSQ--Walkman On
Spandau Ballet--Chant No. 1
Q Feel--Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Bebop)
Naked Eyes--Always Something There to Remind Me*
System 56--Life on a Cool Curve
Devo--That's Good
Thomas Dolby--She Blinded Me With Science
Erasure--A Little Respect*
Dead or Alive--Big Daddy of the Rhythm*
Divine--Shake it Up
Book of Love--Boy
Yazoo--Don't Go
Depeche Mode--New Life (live)
New Order--Bizarre Love Triangle*
Human League--Gordon's Gin
Visage--Fade to Grey
Ultravox--Reap the Wild Wind
Simple Minds--Promised You a Miracle
Cocteau Twins--In Our Angelhood*
Sisters of Mercy--Lucretia
Siouxsie & the Banshees--Dazzle
The Cult--She Sells Sanctuary*
The Cure--In Between Days*
The Smiths--What Difference Does it Make?
Psychedelic Furs--Love My Way
Fad Gadget--Collapsing New People*
Soft Cell--S*x Dwarf*
Robert Gorl--Mit Dir*
When in Rome--The Promise*
Depeche Mode--Photographic (Some Bizarre version)
Sharpe & Numan--Change Your Mind*
Pete Shelley--Homosapien
Siouxsie & the Banshees--Cities in Dust*
Bauhaus--Ziggy Stardust*
Sad Lovers & Giants--Imagination*
Peter Schilling--Major Tom*
Depeche Mode--Enjoy the Silence*
Talk Talk--It's My Life*
David Bowie--Let's Dance
Kate Bush--Running Up That Hill
Pet Shop Boys--It's a Sin*
Ministry--Work for Love*
Depeche Mode--Master & Servant*
The Smiths--Panic*
Missing Persons--Destination Unknown
Berlin--Masquerade
Heaven 17--We Live So Fast
Flirts--Passion
Human League--Don't You Want Me
David Bowie--China Girl*
Duran Duran--Planet Earth
Ministry--Effigy*
New Order--Blue Monday*
Microchip League--New York
CCCP--American Soviets
Skinny Puppy--Far too Frail
Front 242--Headhunter
Sisters of Mercy--Dominion/Mother Russia*
Clan of Xymox--Stranger
Trans-X--Living on Video
Re-flex--Politics of Dancing
Information Society--What's on Your Mind?
A Flock of Seagulls--Space Age Love Song
Tears for Fears--Head Over Heels
Double--The Captain of Her Heart
*request

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