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)

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...)