Mittwoch Mixes - Memento Mori 2026 - Part 1

Each year I celebrate my birthday with some now traditional Memento Mori mixes and this year will be no different...

I am starting this blast from the past off with I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo Vol. 2, picking up where the first volume left off, providing thirteen more tracks that were on repeat on my disc-man when I was 16-18. Feel ancient with me as you realize that all of these songs are over a quarter century old...

#	Artist	Track
1	Pigface	Asphole
2	MDFMK	Gasoline
3	Gravity Kills	Guilty (Juno Reactor Mix)
4	KMFDM	Flesh
5	Hate Dept.	Hit Back
6	Skinny Puppy	Assimilate
7	Atari Teenage Riot	Delete Yourself [You Got No Chance to Win!]
8	Pig	SAVE ME
9	Stabbing Westward	Save Yourself
10	Nine Inch Nails	Please
11	Nitzer Ebb	Kick It
12	Sister Machine Gun	What Do You Want from Me
13	Machines of Loving Grace	Suicide King

Next, continuing the inexorable march of time, a cover mix of Nine Inch Nails now that they're firmly ensconced in the Dad Rock pantheon and hitting the point of having albums hit thirty year anniversaries...

#	Artist	Track
1	The Lion’s Daughter	Mr. Self Destruct
2	Bella Lune	Into the Void
3	Unwoman	Every Day Is Exactly the Same
4	The Body & Thou	Terrible Lie
5	Nonexistent Night	The Perfect Drug
6	George Sara and Lara Peterson	Something I Can Never Have (Bleak Mix)
7	Espi Kvlt	reptile
8	Pig	Head Like a Hole
9	Allie Goertz	Ruiner
10	Camille O’Sullivan	Hurt
11	Bussy Kween Power Trip	Bish
12	Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize	Closer (Nine Inch Noize Version)
13	Pigface	Suck (Live)

Mittwoch Mixes - Sumorlang Wuldorsangas 7-9

The final three Summer Vibes mixes for 2026... Like the previous mixes, these mixes feel very 'summery' to me, which probably will reveal my idiosyncratic sense of the season.

The first mix has a festive, dance-y feel, while the second mix returns to the 'generic' yet eclectic and eccentric mix of vaguely sun and summer themed songs. The final mix is road-trip themed for your vacation driving needs.

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

hwæt! Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl seofon (chorgléo)

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Rhythmen für Bassfeder – Samba
2	Eartha Kitt	One Note Samba
3	Magalie Noël	Une énorme samba
4	X Ray Pop	Dans La Toto
5	Staiffi et ses Mustafa's	Danse l'amour
6	Nouvelle Vague	Dance With Me
7	Tredici Bacci	Titoli Di Testa
8	Danalogue x Alabaster dePlume	Sundance
9	Ahmed Malek	Bossa
10	Jean Soullier/Fabrice Ploquin	La Samba De St. Germain
11	Frank Gérard	Comme une samba
12	Stereolab	One Note Samba / Surfboard
13	Michael Kamen	Bachianos Brazil Samba

hwæt! Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl eahta

#	Artist	Track
1	Tacoblaster	Sunglasses
2	TINO SAINT VAL	Mam’zelle Cancan
3	It’s Sunday	Pray for the Sunshine
4	Pretty Lights	Summer’s Thirst
5	The Superimposers	Chasing the Tide
6	Jeffrey Alexander	Sunsplash Your Mind
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Helium
8	Akron/Family	Light Emerges
9	Los Bitchos	Lindsay Goes to Mykonos
10	JOSEPH LACIDES	Yo ka biguiné
11	The Squires	Going All the Way
12	Lung	Sun God
13	TH Da Freak	Do You Wanna Dance

hwæt! Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl nigon (síþweg)

#	Artist	Track
1	Elysian Fields	Road Trip
2	Los Bitchos	Road
3	Baston	Honda
4	Les Deuxluxes	On the Road
5	Zombie Zombie	No Cruise Control
6	The Budos Band	Ride or Die
7	The Young Gods	Gasoline Man
8	Mark Lanegan	Driving Death Valley Blues
9	Pierre Omer & The Night Cruisers	Driving
10	Die Spitz	RIDING WITH MY GIRLS
11	Nitzer Ebb	Lakeside Drive
12	L.A. Witch	Ghost on the Highway
13	Sonic Flower	Cosmic Highway

Mittwoch Mixes - Sumorlang Wuldorsangas 4-6

 Another three Summer Vibes mixes... 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 is darker and heavier.

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

hwæt! Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl fēoƿer

#	Artist	Track
1	Akron/Family	Another Sky
2	Marten Yorgantz	Ammenaïn Serdov (De Tout Coeur) (With All My Heart)
3	Robbing Millions	Elastics
4	Alcy Agüero Y Su Orquesta Pop	Quiero Bailar
5	Replikants	Reaching Music Through People Program
6	Breakfast in Fur	Sun Catcher
7	Black Market Dub	Good Vibrations
8	Animal Collective	Summertime Clothes
9	Grumbling Fur	Suneaters
10	Kaviar Special	Summer
11	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Lichterloh (Nôze Remix)
12	Stereolab	Sum Demon
13	Suncastle	Pismo Beach

hwæt! Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl fīf

#	Artist	Track
1	Kannibal	Ｉｎｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　Ｔｈｉｃｋ　ｏｆ　ｉｔ
2	No Joy & Josh Kastner	Love Stomp
3	George Kay	The Beach
4	Bootchy Temple	Lady Sunshine
5	Alain Serco	Kiki
6	To Rococo Rot	Autonachmittag
7	Loot the Body	Lovely Summer Day
8	Los Darlings de Huánuco	Marihuana
9	Kikagaku Moyo	Dripping Sun
10	Johnnie Carwash	Sunshine
11	18 Karat Gold	Cool
12	COS	Mein Maschine Ist Schön
13	Nouvelle Vague	Ça plane pour moi

hwæt! Sumorlang Wuldorsangas Dæl siex (hearmcwide)

#	Artist	Track
1	Boris	To the Beach
2	Cy Dune	Summertime Blues
3	Blood Ceremony	Daughter of the Sun
4	Frayle	Summertime Sadness
5	Book of Wyrms	Sodapop Glacier
6	Thou	Fourth of July
7	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Perihelion
8	Castle Rat	SUN SONG
9	Undersmile	Atacama Sunburn
10	Black Helium	Summer Spells
11	ohGr	SunBurn
12	Dessau	Sun Burn
13	Boris & Merzbow	To the Beach

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.