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)

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