Mittwoch Mixes - Working & Zurück

I've revived my other blog, Antagonist Relations, as I've been working on some Hunter material that I want to publish through the Storyteller's Guild, among other things.

I've started re-listening to the hwæt! give me infinite skies mix as the motorik beat is great for focusing while working, and then decided to make another playlist of nearly wordless songs to work to for a little variety.

This mix is still propulsive, but I didn't focus on the motorik Krautrock beat. I'll probably make another Working Mix next month that switches back to that style.

#	Artist	Track
1	Excepter	Stretch (JG Thirlwell Remix)
2	Fini Tribe	Goose Duplicates (Instrumental)
3	Chemlab	Electric Molecular (KMFDM Instrumental No Taxes Mix)
4	Front Line Assembly	Molotov (Instrumental) feat. Seeming
5	Dälek	Cement (Demo Instrumental)
6	The Bug	Absent Riddim
7	Pharaoh Overlord	Blue Light Hum – Instrumental
8	Gudrun Gut	Apples And Pears (Instrumental Dub)
9	Meat Beat Manifesto	Moving Pulse
10	Pig	Silt (Euphonic Remix)
11	Gravity Kills	Guilty (Roli Mossiman Instrumental)
12	The Young Gods	In C: , Pt. 9
13	Xordox	Corridor

The second mix for this week was inspired by listening to the 2025 Fini Tribe compilation The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe, I discovered that "Do We Understand Each Other" shared some lyrical fragments with Chris Connelly's later project Damage Manual's "Mad Dialect".

So I put together a mix of artists updating their own earlier work in different versions, almost covers, but where the original artist or one of their later projects covers the earlier work.

#	Artist	Track
1	Schwein	My Sanctuary
2	The Damage Manual	Mad Dialect
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	Neon Calculators
4	Coil	Teenage Lightning 2005
5	Carter Tutti	Lost Bliss (2015 Version)
6	Einstürzende Neubauten	Neun Arme / Die Nacht
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	Gladiators (Version Apocalypse)
8	Einstürzende Neubauten	neun arme
9	Chris & Cosey	Lost Bliss
10	Coil	Teenage Lightning
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Neon Gladiators (Version one)/Obsession
12	Fini Tribe	Do We Understand Each Other (Live at Calton Studios, Edinburgh, 1987)
13	Pig	My Sanctuary

Mittwoch Mix - 2025 Yearly Send Off Mixes

I started to look through the music that came out in 2025 and this pair of mixes came together quickly as another pair of annual Vision Board/Yearly Send Off mixes... Each mix features the same thirteen artists, all the songs from 2025 or December 2024 for the first mix, hwæt! Sing along with the dead and gone / Something's coming, something's wrong while the second mix, hwæt! I’m gonna laugh at my bones dips back into discographies for several songs.

Not necessarily my favorite tracks of 2025, but all songs that spoke to me in a way and that seemed to fit for these mixes.

After January 1st, 2026, you'll be able to check out my Last.fm Listening Report for the year if you're morbidly curious about my listening habits...

A mix of 13 tracks from 2025 that feel like an apt summation of the year, a kind of aural send-off as it joins the dustbin of history.

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	The Ruin
2	Panopticon	The Poppies Bloom for No King
3	Transgressive	The Way the World Ends
4	Agriculture	My Garden
5	Lung	Clown Car
6	Pig	Veni Vidi Vici (Tweaker Remix)
7	Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann	Where Are We Now?
8	Loot the Body	The Vinyl Flatlands
9	The Young Gods	Appear Disappear
10	Gloria	Harpocrate I
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	So Lonely in Heaven
12	Lankum	Ghost Town
13	Daniel Blumberg & John Tilbury	Intermission

A companion mix to hwæt! Sing along with the dead and gone / Something's coming, something's wrong, turning the page from eulogizing 2025 to looking forward to 2026...

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	Dead By Morning
2	Loot the Body	Tasty Jamz
3	Lung	Sunshine’s Over
4	The Young Gods	Shine that Drone
5	Agriculture	Bodhidharma
6	Daniel Blumberg	Steel
7	Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann	Helden
8	Lankum	Peat Bog Soldiers
9	Transgressive	Never Go Quiet
10	Panopticon	Broken Bars
11	Gloria	Harpocrate II
12	Pig	Glitz Krieg (Republica Remix)
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	A Velvet Resurrection (Version)

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part IV

It's time for the final set of Mittwoch Yule Tunes mixes for December 2025...

For those in Minnesota, Carlson's Llovable Llamas is a great place to take a holiday card photo...

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part III

 It's a Wednesday in December, so that means it's time for more Mittwoch Yule Tunes Mixes...

First page of John Taylor's pamphlet The Vindication of Christmas

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part II

Since I posted Part I last week, I've updated my Yule Tunes page with links to a series of youtube music playlists gathering up themed mixes.

As I add more 2025 mixes, I'll add to these "megamixes". They lack many of the tracks included in my yule tunes mixes as I am limited by the music publicly available on youtube, but for those who don't do mixcloud they are a taste of my holiday music collection. So, for the full experience listen on mixcloud.

But for those who find youtube music easier or who want to more easily see tracks, I figured I should put these mixes together. So browse, listen, discover new Yule Tunes & shuffle them up to see what catches your ears.

On to the new mixes!

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part I

It's that time of year again, when I compulsively compile mixes of holiday music... 

Adding to the over FORTY mixes from previous years, here are the first three Yuletunes mixes for 2025...

I get nearly all of my music thru Bandcamp these days, so if you're looking to pick up more songs from an album you like from one of these mixes, check out my collection there (and comment/message if you need help, since I have 3500+ items in my collection...)

Mittwoch Mixes - November 2025

A pair of mixes for November before I descend deep into Xmas music season...

The first is hwæt! Still Life in an Apocalypse - Which serves as the second volume of my Brick Wall Mix series. Composed of a set mix of songs that make me feel like I could run through a Goddamn Brick Wall. High energy and featuring a healthy dollop of righteous anger.

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	Kill Your Heroes
2	Transgressive	A Unified War Cry
3	healthyliving	To the Gallows
4	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Planet B
5	Acumen Nation	Gun Lover
6	Sister Machine Gun	Voices / Machine
7	The Damage Manual	Stateless (Delusional Mix)
8	Cocksure	Cold Dick
9	Error	Nothing’s Working
10	Boris & Uniform	No
11	Allfather	Citadels (Live)
12	Glacial Tomb	Fuck Nazi Sympathy
13	Ashenspire	Cable Street Again

The second mix is hwæt! I PAID TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT A PRIVATE COLLEGE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MIX… 

I graduated from college back in the halcyon days of 2005, over twenty years ago now, and when I was putting together the Not A Place of Honor mix, I was reminded of how my musical taste was shaped by my student years as Die Warzau and Big Black were both groups I discovered while spelunking among the light-less shelves of my college radio station. 

Even in the early 2000's, even at a tiny college that was smaller than my high school, no one really wanted to let me inflict my musical taste upon the public at large, so when I submitted my applications with the lists of artists and songs I wanted to play I was invariably assigned slots that began at midnight at the earliest. One semester I memorably got the 'coveted' 2am to 4am Saturday morning slot...

Still, I didn't care because it meant I had access to the thousands and thousands of CDs in the collection letting me fall down rabbit holes and discover obscure bands that my suburban corporate music stores would never bring to me or to enjoy the deep well of music from the 80s and 90s that I had missed. My only regret is that during my initial orientation the record player was broken so I never learned how to use it.

College was also my first access to high speed internet connections (such as they were back then) which also meant my musical tastes and access expanded in ways that anyone around my age knows very well... Meaning that I could get my hands on say, Schwein, the Japan based Pig side project.

This mix also serves as a follow-up to my I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo Mix, charting how as I transformed from nerdy teen to pretentiously academic English major to eccentric middle-aged hipster. Just like that mix, it's not necessarily my favorite music from that period, but a slightly thematic selection of bands that I either discovered or really got into during my college time. 

#	Artist	Track
1	The Sisters of Mercy	Lucretia My Reflection
2	Test Dept.	Sweet Sedation
3	Killing Joke	Millennium
4	Big Black	The Ugly American
5	Cabaret Voltaire	Big Funk
6	Pop Will Eat Itself	Ich Bin Ein Auslander
7	haloblack	it’s bizarre
8	Peace Love & Pitbulls	White White White (Finished Already Mix)
9	Schwein	World’s Junk
10	Chemlab	Binary Nation
11	Acumen Nation	Chameleon Skin
12	Die Warzau	King of Rock and Roll
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	Abracadabra zzzz

The source image for the cover art for hwæt! I PAID TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT A PRIVATE COLLEGE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MIX… is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beloit_College_Middle_College.jpg originally by Robin Zebrowski and was edited and modified under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.