Mittwoch Mixes - Sumorlang Wuldorsangas 1-3

I hadn't realized it had been 4 years since my last Summer Vibes mixes, but over the last month I've been assembling another set. Like the previous mixes, these mixes feel very 'summery' to me, which probably will reveal my idiosyncratic sense of the season.

The first two mixes are as 'generic' as an eclectic and eccentric mix of vaguely sun and summer themed songs can be, while the third mix aims for humid summer night vibes.

You can find a mixcloud playlist of all my summer mixes here: hwæt! summer vibes

Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl Ān

#	Artist	Track
1	Los Bitchos	Frozen Margarita
2	Chorus Reverendus	Dans son euphorie
3	Hiroki Kikuta	The Color of the Summer Sky
4	SPELLLING	Under the Sun
5	COS	Halucal
6	700 Bliss	More Victories feat M. Téllez
7	Lucia Cifarelli	Feels Like Summer
8	Can	Oh Yeah (Sunroof Mix)
9	Ebony Steel Band	Tanzmusik (Jump Up)
10	Ringer	We’ll Be Together
11	Headfooter	AWOO
12	Hazy Sour Cherry	Perfect Day
13	Rogér Fakhr	Sitting In The Sun

Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl Tƿēġen

#	Artist	Track
1	Micronaut	Get Funky With It!
2	The Comet Is Coming	Space Carnival
3	Sylvia Fels	Corto Maltese
4	Nouvelle Vague	Blister In The Sun
5	The Budos Band	Monkey See, Monkey Do
6	havfaith	Mei’s Daydream
7	DEBBY FRIDAY	HOT LOVE
8	Moon Duo	Jukebox Babe
9	The Soft Pink Truth	Sunwash
10	Deep Hum	Duh Boiiiz Inebriated
11	Saagara	Sunbeam Spirits
12	Stereolab	I Was A Sunny Rainphase
13	Binaural Space	First Summer Rain

Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl Þrī (niht)

#	Artist	Track
1	Noveller	Summer is Heavy
2	h3llb3nt	Heliophobic
3	Fever Ray	To The Moon And Back
4	Tiny Star	Eclipse
5	Meat Beat Manifesto	Bohemian Groove
6	Hassle Hound	Born In A Night
7	Chris Connelly	Soul Boys/Hard Legends
8	Hen Ogledd	Clear Pools
9	Einstürzende Neubauten	Beauty
10	Akron/Family	Island
11	Mick Harvey	Little Star
12	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Alone with the Moon
13	Elysian Fields	Strawberry Moon

Mittwoch Mixes - Screaming down the halls & Root that Mountain Down

 Another pair of mixes.

The first, hwæt! Screaming down the halls features some intensive saxophones... When I was in middle school, I got the Stooges' Funhouse album as it was advertised as a precursor to Marilyn Manson. While I left Manson behind long ago, I've stayed a massive Stooges fan and hearing Iggy scream "blow Steve, blow!" in "Funhouse" is one of the touchstones of my musical taste.

Fourteen tracks instead of the usual thirteen, because how could I leave off "Fun House"? This mix is for those who like their saxophone extra Skronky. Also, for those who haven't seen it, the video for Ukandanz's cover of "War Pigs" is more than worth your time.

#	Artist	Track
1	Daniel Blumberg	Jazz Club
2	Free Nelson Mandoom Jazz	Saxophone Giganticus
3	Anguish	Vibrations
4	Boris	Nosferatou
5	Lydia Lunch	The Gospel Singer
6	Nine Inch Nails	Play the Goddamned Part
7	The Stooges	Funhouse
8	The Stooges	L.A. Blues
9	Anna von Hausswolff	Struggle With The Beast
10	Ukandanz	War Pigs
11	Faust	Lights Flicker
12	Xiu Xiu	I Put a Spell on You
13	Seven That Spells	LO III
14	OXBOW & Peter Brötzmann	Over

The second mix, hwæt! Root that Mountain Down, features untraditional takes on traditional and folk songs. Sure, I used "I Wish I Was A Mole In the Ground" on the schlürf mix, but here it is on a mix that will be less painful for those with misophonia.

#	Artist	Track
1	Marco Pirroni	Turpin Hero
2	Áit Ait	The Holland Handkerchief
3	Stick In the Wheel	Villon Song
4	Shovel Dance Collective	The Grey Cock
5	Gazelle Twin	Dance of the Peddlers
6	The Body and BIG|BRAVE	Polly Gosford
7	Tabernacle	Siúil A Rún
8	ANBB	i wish i was a mole in the ground
9	ØXN	Cruel Mother
10	LINGUA IGNOTA	Katie Cruel
11	Ulver	Poor Murdered Woman
12	Coil	All The Pretty Little Horses
13	Rún	Caoineadh

Mittwoch Mixes - We Are What We Eat / WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE, MY HONEY?

Two mixes for all you fine folk this day. The first is a long simmering one that I've had cooking in the back of my mind for years... a mostly lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek food themed mix.

I've had this one stewing for literal years and it finally just clicked into place recently. I know I put the original version of "Crumbs on the Carpet" on my schlürf mix, but it was too fitting to leave off so I put a live version from the French Collection on this mix. There's also a hidden but brief bonus bit of fun hidden near the end of the mix to enjoy.

#	Artist	Track
1	Let’s Eat Grandma	Chocolate Sludge Cake
2	Kibble	Judith, Meet Me at Applebees
3	Cocksure	Ah Don' Eat Meat, Bitch!
4	The Legendary Pink Dots	Crumbs On The Carpet (Live)
5	Pigface	Sweetmeat
6	Gloria	Gloria’s Recipe
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Scampi alla Carlina
8	Coil	Broccoli
9	Pig	One Meatball
10	The Fall	Pumpkin Soup And Mashed Potatoes
11	Mad Max Eliot	Don’t Chew Your Food
12	Hazy Sour Cherry	Midnight Chinese Restaurant
13	Gudrun Gut	Apples and Pears

The second mix is another volume of covers, all of these covers of songs from the 1960's. 

For a while I had thoughts of putting together a volume of Lee Hazelwood covers but it never quite came together. A slight theme of dreams runs through the mix.

#	Artist	Track
1	ANBB	One
2	ÅRABROT	Lightning’s Girl
3	Leaether Strip	Bang Bang
4	KMFDM	Boots (Bombs Remix)
5	Jever Mountain Boys	It’s Dark (In My Heart)
6	Mark Lanegan	You Only Live Twice
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Morning Dew
8	Pig	If I Can Dream
9	Xiu Xiu	In Dreams
10	Ulver	I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
11	The Cure	Purple Haze
12	Black Needle Noise	What A Wonderful World
13	Jared Louche and the Aliens	Summer Wind

Mittwoch Mix - Uncanny Valley Girlz Vol. 3

Covers came up on Bluesky recently, and I shared that my absolute favorite cover song is Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld's take on "Hey Hey My My"

But then I got thinking of all the other cover mixes I've made and have in the works, so tossed together a 3rd Volume of Uncanny Valley Girlz, mixes of covers to put on as background music at a gathering where you want people’s ears to prick up and for them to exclaim, “wait, is this a cover of…?”

The cover of Enya's "Book of Days" will probably only be recognized by a tiny of sliver of people, but oh, the look on their faces...

#	Artist	Track
1	Spider God	Dance
2	Mycorrhizal	Pink Pony Club
3	Deconbrio	Bette Davis Eyes
4	Easter Teeth	I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
5	Th Da Freak	Crazy In Love
6	CALLmeKAT	Toxic
7	Nahadoth	Book of Days
8	Common Rotation	We’re Not Gonna Take It
9	Kota Kira	Genie in a Bottle
10	Alpha Chrome Yayo	Break Stuff
11	Black Needle Noise	Losing My Religion
12	Cabaret Voltaire	Theme from Shaft
13	Xiu Xiu	Psycho Killer

I also decided to put the Uncanny Valley Girlz Songs together in a youtube music playlist, but as a reminder, you won't find all the songs there, for all the songs you need to listen to the Mixcloud mixes put together in their own handy playlist.

Mittwoch Mixes - February 2026

I usually put the mix titles in the post titles for my Mittwoch Mixes, but these two mixes, one much more than the other, are inexorably tied to this last month for me. Honestly, it feels like it's been a year since my last mixes, Mittwoch Mixes - Working & Zurück, when it's barely been a month and a half...

Before I get to the mixes, if you haven't already, go donate to Stand With Minnesota, which I think will unfortunately be needed for months or years after this fascist federal occupation ends, if it ever does...

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)