Wednesday, November 20, 2024

hwæt! And when you least think of you…

I had originally thought that I'd put out a mix of songs with exquisite mouth sounds, inspired by Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld's incredible "Menschenentsafter" but I need to spend a little more time sifting through my collection to make sure I've truly assembled the best of what I have.

So instead, I built a mix around another of the tracks off of the incredible album Christian & Mauro, "Bisogna Morire" or 'you must die', which is a more cheerful memento mori than the name might suggest. The resulting mix is by turns playful and melancholy, autumnal and heartening, and hopefully a balm for the listener's soul.

# Artist Track
1 Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld Bisogna Morire
2 Elysian Fields This World Is Just a World
3 Unwoman Falling Leaves
4 Lankum Cold Old Fire
5 Rogér Fakhr Rainhill
6 Mick Harvey Alone with the Stars
7 Philip Glass Mishima (Bob’s Burgers Arrangement)
8 Allie Goertz We’re in This Together
9 Chris Connelly Fini Chagall
10 Anita Lane Bella Ciao
11 Einstürzende Neubauten All of No Man’s Land is Ours
12 The Young Gods & The Lausanne Sinfonietta She Rains (Live)
13 The Legendary Pink Dots Space Captain (Extended)

I also made the mix as a youtube music playlist, though since all the songs are at the mercy of google making them available, you're really better off listening on Mixcloud where they won't disappear unless the whole mix is taken down...

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

hwæt! moody mittwoch mixes

It's been a rough week with anger and sadness rolling through in waves, so, as I have done before, I focused on channeling those emotions into musical mixes.

First, hwæt! she’s looking down with sadness... Sometimes when the world seems full of muck and it feels like a great portion of humanity lets you down, you want to listen to some beautifully sad songs, so here are a baker's dozen of tunes for just that...

# Artist Track
1 Zola Jesus Dead & Gone
2 Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood Ghost Stories
3 The Legendary Pink Dots Stigmata (Part 4)
4 Chris ConnellyHeartburn
5 Lankum Go Dig My Grave
6 Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien All Our Lonely Ghosts
7 Allfather A False Peace
8 Foetus Here Comes the Rain
9 The Mon The Manure of Our Remains
10 Chelsea Wolfe Little Grave
11 Panopticon The Wandering Ghost
12 Scott Walker The Ballad of Sacco And Vanzetti
13 Green Lung One for Sorrow

Allfather's excellent, defiant anthem "Take Their Eyes" was the anchor for this mix, that I gathered a dozen more tracks of rage and defiance around.

# Artist Track
1 Green Lung Leaders of the Blind
2 Allfather Take Their Eyes
3 Svalbard Defiance
4 Frayle Burn
5 Verminlord Everywhere is burning
6 Pig The Keeper of the Margarita
7 The Legendary Pink Dots This One-Eyed Man is King
8 Nomadic War Machine I Hate Every Cop In This Town
9 ZAMILSKA BLIND
10 Ashenspire The Law of Asbestos
11 Mass Culture Bones of this World
12 Transgressive Extreme Transgression
13 Order of the Wolf A Plague on Conservative Houses

Thursday, October 24, 2024

hwæt! Halloween 2024 Mixes

Unexpectedly deciding to buy a house in August 2023 sure derailed this blog and my little hobby of making thematic musical mixes. But with this pair of Halloween Mixes, I'm hoping to get back on track.

You can find my previous Halloween Mixes here:

hwæt! Halloween 2021 Mixes

hwæt! Halloween 2022 Mixes

First is the Candy Bowl Mix, a mix of slightly eerie, slightly silly songs that should be suitable to have on in the background while you're passing out treats to costumed children.

# Artist Track
1 The Surfrajettes Banshee Bop
2 Henry Hall BBC Dance Orchersta Here Comes the Bogey Man
3 Binaural Space Ghostbuster Busters
4 Sean Thomson Witches Be Trippin’
5 Four Eyes The Dead Can’t Rest
6 The Vampires of Dartmoor Dr. Caligari’s Creeps Cabinet
7 Loot the Body Razor Blades in Apples
8 8-Bit Arcade Season of the Witch
9 Tall Tall Trees & Kramer Superstition
10 Uncle Fido They Visit a Cemetery
11 The Psychic Circle Lights Out
12 Five Jones Boys Mr Ghost Goes To Town
13 Hazy Sour Cherry Hazy Halloween

Second is the Creepy Crawly Dance Party mix, a selection of vaguely sinister and monstrous to outright Halloween themed songs suitable for an adult costume party.

# Artist Track
1 ÅRABROT Skeletons Trip the Light Fantastic
2 Fundustrial Dance of Doom
3 Pitch Black Manor Scream Team
4 BARA HARI House of the Devil
5 Katie Gately Fawn
6 Liars There’s Always Room On The Broom
7 Black Market Dub & Wise Owl Ghouls Dancing
8 Unwoman Love’s Secret Domain
9 The Glass Beads Monster
10 Henning Zinoviev & Floating Candles Jessica Van Helsing
11 Bussy Kween Power Trip Slap Me In My Panties, Brah
12 Church of the Cosmic Skull Last Words of a Dying God
13 Leæther Strip Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

For those who don't want to use MixCloud, I also compiled two YouTube Music playlists combining these with earlier mixes of similar vibes... One for the probably kid-friendly Candy Bowl tracks and one for the more adult Creepy Crawly Dance Party adult costume vibe...

Of course, because YouTube doesn't have all of the tracks that I do, the MixCloud mixes have all of the tracks and the YouTube playlists have some gaps.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

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

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

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

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

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

Friday, July 7, 2023

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