Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - over 2021 & 2022 aural vision board

Just as I did last year, here are a pair of mixes... the first an audio farewell to the last year as we send it off to hell—the second an aural vision board with the musical energy I want to bring to the next year...

another year, another mix to send it off into the flames of hell.

# Artist Track
1 Daniel Hart One Year Hence
2 Tweaker Years From Now
3 Marissa Nadler I Started a Joke
4 Lingua Ignota PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE
5 Patrick Q.Wright & Edward Ka-Spel Waiting For the Cloud 2021
6 Thor & Friends The Other Last Straw
7 Alexander Hacke Sugarpie
8 Foetus Time Marches On (End Remix)
9 Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld Nur Zur Erinnerung
10 The Boyd and BIG|BRAVE Hard Times
11 The Joy Thieves Flock To The Stop
12 Divide and Dissolve Mental Gymnastics (Moor Mother Remix)
13 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) Lullaby 

13 songs with the musical energy I'm hoping to bring to 2022...

# Artist Track
1 SUNN O))) ASCENSION (A)
2 Herzschlager Lazarus Moment
3 Witchcryer When Their Gods Come for You
4 PIG Rock n Roll Refugee (Pig Remix)
5 Phararaoh Overlord Tomorow’s Sun
6 Einstürzende Neubauten   La Guillotine de Magritte
7 Poppet I Shall Persevere (Gloria Gaynor)
8 The Lion’s Daughter Burning Inside
9 Faith No More Motherfucker (JG Thirlwell Remix)
10 Violet Cold Be Like Magic
11 The Lord We Who Walk in Light (featuring William Duvall)
12 The Joy Thieves Wonder War
13 Bretwalda All Shall Be Well (Live)

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Recommended Discoveries - Yule Tunes 2021

 

If you haven't been able to tell from the eleven Yule Tunes mixes I put together this year (easily found in one spot on the Yule Tunes Page), I picked up a fair bit of holiday music this year.

From that haul, here are some tracks and albums I recommend...

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Four

 

fluffy Xmas buns

Here we are, the final Yule Tunes mixes for 2021... As a reminder you can find all the previous Yule Tunes entry at the hwæt Yule Tunes Page.

A mix of drinking songs for Xmas, because what more do you need?

# Artist Track
1 Purple Dialect mistletoe flow
2 the Rory McBrides (We Like) Eggnog!
3 Tabernacle Bring us In Good Ale
4 Hawkestrel Twelve Daze of Drinxmas
5 Charlie and the Tropicales Drink A Rum
6 Golau Glau Foolstide
7 Angry Snowmans Drink Some Rum & Eggnog
8 THE NEW BERLIN ANTIFASCIST BRASS ENSEMBLE Wassail Song
9 Faith and the Muse A Winter Wassail
10 Jethro Tull Last Man At The Party
11 Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins The Gower Wassail
12 WHY? Auld Lang Syne


A mellow, quiet and slightly melancholy mix of Yule Tunes for a relaxing mood.

# Artist Track
1 Music for Isolation On Christmas Day It Happened So
2 Laura Cannel & Kate Ellis One Star Awake
3 Jill Tracy God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4 Fabio Orsi Dead Leaves Christmas
5 Golau Glau Night of the Star
6 Oneida In the Court of the Christmas King
7 The Legendary Pink Dots Hypothetical Angel
8 The Cavernous White Christmas
9 Binaural Space In the Bleak Midwinter
10 Midnight Syndicate Coventry Carol
11 Eban Schletter Silent Night
12 John Doan Old Long Since (Auld Lang Syne)


A mix of some of my favorite Yule Tunes—a few have appeared on other mixes, but here they are in one hard to argue with mix of interesting originals and eclectic takes on Xmas classics.

# Artist Track
1 Purple Dialect Yule
2 Golau Glau Yule Cat
3 The Knife Reindeer
4 Midnight Syndicate Little Helpers
5 Uncle Fido The Little Drummer Boy
6 John Zorn Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
7 Charlie and the Tropicales O Christmas Tree
8 Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble Carol of the Bells
9 Husbands right christmas
10 Jethro Tull God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11 Pig Blue Christmas
12 Golau Glau The Owd Tup
13 Binaural Space Continus Lofi Mixmas

Thursday, December 16, 2021

I WANNA SCREAM OUT LOUD

 

There are days when I want music to scream along to for some kind of catharsis—this is a mix for those kinds of days…

# Artist Track
1 Alec Empire XXV3
2 Allfather Citadels
3 Underdark With Ashen Hands Around Our Throats
4 Thou Fucking Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
5 Einstürzende Neubauten   Abfackeln!
6 Body Void Laying Down In A Forest Fire
7 PIG Find It Fuck It Forget It
8 Je$us Loves Amerika ft. Chris Connelly & Gord Young The Great Pretender
9 Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation
10 The Lion’s Daughter All Hell is Mine
11 Panopticon Flag Burner Torch Bearer 2020 (re recording)
12 GREEN LUNG Born to a Dying World
13 LINGUA IGNOTA THE SOLITARY BRETHREN OF EPHRATA

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Three

 

The inevitable march of the holiday season continues, which means it's time for more Yule Tunes... As a reminder you can find all the previous Yule Tunes entry at the hwæt Yule Tunes Page.

A mix of unusual instrumentation and arrangements to add some spice to your holiday festivities—featuring bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, dulcimer, sitar, theremin and more...

# Artist Track
1 The Snake Charmer Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Bagpipes
2 GurdyBird God Rest Ye Merry, Wicker Men
3 Sean Thomson Here We Come A-Wassailing
4 Butch Ross Trepak (The Russian Dance)
5 Thor Harris Carol of My Balls
6 Uncle Fido Ding Dong! Merrily on High
7 Said Fantasy Greensleeves
8 Secret Chiefs 3 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
9 The Cavernous We Wish You a Merry Christmas
10 Earl the Bard Good King Wenceslas
11 Japan Theremin Old School Ave Maria
12 Paddy Finnegan’s Green Machine Auld Lang Syne

A lively mix of songs with instrumentation and arrangements that hearken back to centuries long ago.

# Artist Track
1 Daniel Hart feat. Katinka Vindelev Be Merry, Swete Lorde
2 GreenMatthews Bring Us In Good Ale
3 Rowan : Morrison Corpus Christi Carol
4 Nativity Songs Boar’s Head Carol
5 Earl the Bard Щедрик (Shchedryk)
6 Paddy Finnegan’s Green Machine O Tanenbaum
7 Onyx Brass Wexford Carol
8 The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
9 Rowan : Morrison Als I Lay on Yoolis Night
10 Earl the Bard God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11 Nativity Songs O Come, O Come Emmanuel
12 GreenMatthews The Coventry Carol

A mix of chiptune covers of Xmas classics for those nostalgic for when SNES cartridges were wrapped under the tree.

# Artist Track
1 LarryInc64 Sleigh Ride
2 Rush Coil O Christmas Tree
3 8 Bit Weapon Nutcracker
4 RushJet1 Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
5 8-Bit Arcade I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
6 ovenrake Deck the Halls
7 EvilWezil Carol of the Bells
8 Brett Moots All I Want for Xmas is You
9 LarryInc64 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
10 8 Bit Weapon God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11 RushJet1 Silent Night
12 Rush Coil Auld Lang Syne

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Two

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Yuletunes 2021 marches on with two more mixes... 

You can find all the previous Yuletunes here on this new Yule Tunes page.

The holiday season isn’t always bright lights and joy—here is a mix of heavy and dark Yule Tunes for your doomed celebrations.

# Artist Track
1 Santa Sabbath Santa Sabbath
2 Christopher Lee The Little Drummer Boy
3 Evil Blizzard We Three Kings
4 Big Lich Bargains Imprisoning Me (Holiday Single)
5 50 Helens Santa Said This
6 I See Hawks In L.A. God Rest Ye Merry War Pigs
7 Angry Snowmans Ebeneezer Uber Alles
8 Krampusnacht Krampusnacht
9 Two Minutes to Late Night Stab Into Christmas
10 Al Jourgensen It’s Always Christmas Time
11 Santa Sabbath Frosty the Snowman
12 Earth Hell’s Winter

A more traditional mix of songs both old and new featuring folk, acoustic goth and neo-folk Yule Tunes—suitable for all holiday family gatherings.

# Artist Track
1 Shirley Collins The Christmas Song
2 the Pines Chalet
3 Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis Christmas Night
4 Thanatos The First Noel
5 Forest Mountain Hymnal The Snow Carol
6 Unto Ashes King of Frost
7 All My Faith Lost… In the Bleak Midwinter
8 Alison Cotton Coventry Carol
9 John Doan O Christmas Tree
10 Jethro Tull A Christmas Song
11 Low Silent Night
12 The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins The Holly Bears the Crown

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part One

The holidays are once again upon us, which means it’s time for some Yule Tunes. Here are my first three mixes for this year (2021), you can find last years mixes here: Xmas Sounds Part Five... 2020 Yule Tunes Mixcloud Mixes and Xmas Sounds Part Six... Low Key... 

First up is twelve tuba-tastic songs to celebrate the season...

# Artist Track
1 Onyx Brass Canite Tuba
2 Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
3 Seattle Tuba Project Feliz Navidad
4 Jim Self & Hollywood Tuba 12 Here Comes Santa Claus
5 Paul Loucas You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (feat. Big Papi and His Reunion Band)
6 50 Helens Good King Wenceslas
7 Jim Self & Hollywood Tuba 12 Sleigh Ride
8 Seattle Tuba Project Happy Christmas (War is Over)
9 Paul Loucas Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (feat. Big Papi and His Reunion Band)
10 Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11 50 Helens Last Christmas
12 Onyx Brass Ave Maria

For the former teenage goths, here's a Goth-Mas mix which goes from an XMAS themed take on Every Day is Halloween to a dystopian Santa Story to a downtempo, downright depressing take on "the Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"

# Artist Track
1 1000 Ho-Ho Djs (Every Day Is) Xmas
2 Golau Glau Silver Tear
3 Osmiroid Hexmas
4 Ethereal Delusion All I Want For Christmas
5 The Legendary Pink Dots Chrystopia
6 Polly Fae Frosty the Snowman
7 Jill Tracy We 3 Kings
8 Love Spiral Downwards Welcome Christmas
9 Jherek Bischoff The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)
10 Sue Hutton and Athan Maroulis Carol of the Drum
11 Pye Corner Audio Xmas Denied (Serf Complex)
12 Pig Last Christmas

Finally, a more eclectic yet still irreverent mix that starts with samples from the classic bad movie Santa Claus Conquest the Martians, features a song about the XMAS film, Die Hard, has another track called "Christmas Bong", incorporates some S L O W  X M A S music, chiptune covers of 80s holiday songs and otherwise provides slightly askew takes on classic Yule Tunes.

# Artist Track
1 Purple Dialect Santa Claus vs The Martians
2 Four Eyes Everything Will Change This Christmas: The Ballad of Hans Grubar
3 The Paper Rifles Santa’s Got the Vaccine
4 X Ray Pop Christmas Bong
5 brend_zombley L I T T L E  S L O W  S A I N T  N I C K
6 8-Bit Arcade Last Christmas
7 Quintron & Miss Pussycat Jingle Bell Rock
8 Ohmme Wonderful Christmastime
9 Husbands slayer ride
10 The Joyful Noise Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)
11 50 Helens Silver Bells
12 Sad13 Shit for Christmas