Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! & all of the birds will sing to your / Beautiful heart / Upon the bough

 

A selection of tracks that feature Bird Songs, either sampled, synthesized or cunningly mimicked.

#	Artist	Track
1	Panopticon	Tamarack’s Gold Returns
2	WYS	In The Fields
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	This Hollowed Ground
4	Shirley Collins	At Break of Day
5	Piyakdu	Righisnesse
6	Nurse with Wound	Gulls Just Want to Have Fun 2
7	Harjo	Handful of Dust
8	Margaret McKee	Bird Imitations
9	Coil	Strange Birds
10	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & Mild High Club	The Spider and Me
11	Blixa Bargeld	Little Yellow
12	Nell and the Flaming Lips	No More Shall We Part
13	The Tear Garden	New Eden

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Top Forty

To celebrate my 40th year, here are forty songs, one a year for each year I’ve been around, plus one for this 41st year. As with all of my birthday mixes, there is a tiny bit of Memento Mori, but mostly these are just songs I like.

Year	#	Artist	Track
1983	1	Einstürzende Neubauten	DNS Wasserturm
1984	2	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Well of Misery
1985	3	The Legendary Pink Dots	I’m The Way, The Truth, The Light
1986	4	Skinny Puppy	Dig It
1987	5	The Sisters of Mercy	This Corrosion
1988	6	KMFDM	Disgust
1989	7	Ministry	Never Believe
1990	8	Meat Beat Manifesto	Deviate
1991	9	Edward Ka-Spel	The Baker’s Man
1992	10	Chris Connelly	July
1993	11	Machines of Loving Grace	Limiter
1994	12	Nurse With Wound	R+B Through Collis Browne
1995	13	Earth	Tibetan Quaaludes
1996	14	Chemlab	Jesus Christ Porno Star
1997	15	Stereolab	Miss Modular
1998	16	The Legendary Pink Dots	Hellsville ‘98
1999	17	Nine Inch Nails	We’re In This Together
2000	18	MDFMK	Get Out of My Head
2001	19	h3llb3nt	Jet Boy Machine
2002	20	Steroid Maximus	Chain Reaction
2003	21	Sister Machine Gun	Influence
2004	22	Einstürzende Neubauten	Selbstportrait mit Kater
2005	23	Alexander Hacke	Sanctuary
2006	24	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Phenomena
2007	25	The Young Gods	The Color Code
2008	26	Alec Empire	On Fire (The Hellish Vortex Sessions)
2009	27	Current 93	Not Because the Fox Barks
2010	28	The Fall	Dr Buck’s Letter
2011	29	Wire	Red Barked Trees
2012	30	Scott Walker	Corps De Blah
2013	31	How To Destroy Angels	Welcome Oblivion
2014	32	Swans	She Loves Us
2015	33	Cocksure	Razor Invader
2016	34	Grumbling Fur	Heavy Days
2017	35	Xordox	Antidote
2018	36	Gazelle Twin	Hobby Horse
2019	37	Test Dept.	Information Scare
2020	38	Einstürzende Neubauten	Ten Grand Goldie
2021	39	The Lion’s Daughter	Become the Night
2022	40	The Bug	Fractured ft Dälek
2023	41	Henges	Suffocate

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Before My Time

 

As the anniversary of my birth approaches again, I've collected a mix of thirteen songs that I love and that were recorded before I was born. The very slightest theme of Memento Mori threads through many, but not all, of them.

This continues my tradition of making birthday mixes for myself, following my Better In My Day Mix and Vertrocknet im Sonnenlicht 

#	Artist	Track
1	Scott Walker	The Seventh Seal
2	Can	Oh Yeah
3	Rogér Fakhr	(Such A) Trip Thru Time
4	Neil Young	Old Man
6	Faust	Krautrock
7	Jerry Goldsmith	Main Title from Alien
8	The Monks	I Hate You
8	The Velvet Underground	Heroin
9	Shirley Collins	The Unquiet Grave
10	Apocalypse	Only the Children Know
11	The Stooges	Fun House
12	Sun Ra & His Arkestra	Sea of Sounds
13	The Birthday Party	Mr. Clarinet

Tasting Menu Mix - Dessert Volume II

Here is the continuation of a second set of Tasting Menu Mixes. Thirteen more of my favorite bands & musical artists presented in three, themed mixes, as an audio three course meal. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Binaural Space, Dälek, Divide & Dissolve, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Let’s Eat Grandma, Lingua Ignota, Matmos, Panopticon, Pharaoh Overlord, Shirley Collins, Thor Harris, Zola Jesus

Here is a second volume of the Dessert Mix, the songs are decadent and indulgent, meant to leave you feeling overstuffed. A sense of the artist at some of their most expansive and sublime.

#	Artist	Track
1	Let’s Eat Grandma	Donnie Darko
2	Emma Ruth Rundle	Don Danann Dana Danu Ana
3	Lingua Ignota	DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR
4	Shirley Collins	Awake Awake /The Split Ash Tree/ May Carol /Southover
5	Pharaoh Overlord	Black Horse
6	Divide & Dissolve	Denial
7	Gazelle Twin	See How They Run
8	Zola Jesus	Drone for Spiritual Carcass
9	Dälek	Black Smoke Rises
10	Dorian Wood & Thor Harris	The Angel
11	Panopticon	Dead Loons
12	Binaural Space	All Along the Spacecraft
13	Matmos	EXTRATERRESTIAL MATTERS

Mittwoch Mix - Tasting Menu Mix - Dinner Volume II

 

Here is the continuation of a second set of Tasting Menu Mixes. Thirteen more of my favorite bands & musical artists presented in three, themed mixes, as an audio three course meal. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Binaural Space, Dälek, Divide & Dissolve, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Let’s Eat Grandma, Lingua Ignota, Matmos, Panopticon, Pharaoh Overlord, Shirley Collins, Thor Harris, Zola Jesus

Here is a second volume of the Dinner Mix. For the Dinner Mix, the songs are savory, filling and complex. A fuller experience that gives a substantial taste.

#	Artist	Track
1	Divide & Dissolve	RVR
2	Dälek	Decimation (Dis Nation)
3	Zola Jesus	The Fall
4	Emma Ruth Rundle	Blooms of Oblivion
5	Pharaoh Overlord	I Drove All Night By My Solar Stomp
6	Gazelle Twin	Glory
7	Lingua Ignota	O RUTHLESS GREAT DIVINE DIRECTOR
8	Panopticon	Beast Rider (Electric Version)
9	Shirley Collins	Locked in Ice
10	Thor Harris	Day 9 of Quarantine (with Brandon Eggleston, Marissa Nadler, Adam Harding)
11	Let’s Eat Grandma	Sax in the City
12	Matmos	Tonight there is something special about the moon / Jaki księżyc dziś wieczór…
13	Binaural Space	Bright Side of the Future

Mittwoch Mix - Tasting Menu Mix - Appetizer Volume II

 

Here is the start of a second set of Tasting Menu Mixes. Thirteen more of my favorite bands & musical artists presented in three, themed mixes, as an audio three course meal. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Binaural Space, Dälek, Divide & Dissolve, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Let’s Eat Grandma, Lingua Ignota, Matmos, Panopticon, Pharaoh Overlord, Shirley Collins, Thor Harris, Zola Jesus

For this second volume of the Appetizer Mix, the songs are meant to be appetizing, easy to digest—introductions that give a taste without overwhelming the palate.  

#	Artist	Track
1	Binaural Space	Prologue
2	Let’s Eat Grandma	Insect Loop
3	Matmos	The Singing Tube
4	Pharaoh Overlord	Raide 2
5	Zola Jesus	Dangerous Days
6	Thor & Friends	Slow Prisoner
7	Panopticon	The Itch (the basics)
8	Emma Ruth Rundle	Apathy on the Indiana Border
9	Dälek	Molten
10	Divide & Dissolve	Indigenous Sovereignty
11	Gazelle Twin	Belly of the Beast
12	Lingua Ignota	PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA
13	Shirley Collins	Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! your god is a curse

 

 

A bit of a companion mix to And Let the Devil In, this new mix is inspired by & anchored around Allfather's "Cast Off The Cross" from their latest album A Violent Truth and Transgressive's "Victims of Conception" from Extreme Transgression.

#	Artist	Track
1	Witchcryer	The Preying Kind
2	Christian Mistress	Pentagram and Crucifix
3	Transgressive	Victims of Conception
4	Dawn Ray’d	Inferno
5	Úzkost	23 Ribs (feat. Colleen Munn)
6	Allfather	Cast Off the Cross
7	Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	The Only Good Christian is a Dead Christian
8	Liles/Maniac	Christian Pity
9	Cocksure	Heretic Hypocrite (Two Headed Snake Mix)
10	Pig	Cursed (Lacerated Remix by Curse Mackey)
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Torch Song
12	Emma Ruth Rundle	In Sadness For Our Dying World (here come the Christians)
13	The Christian Nightmares Tribulation Band	I Wish We'd All Been Ready