Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! & all of the birds will sing to your / Beautiful heart / Upon the bough

 

A selection of tracks that feature Bird Songs, either sampled, synthesized or cunningly mimicked.

#	Artist	Track
1	Panopticon	Tamarack’s Gold Returns
2	WYS	In The Fields
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	This Hollowed Ground
4	Shirley Collins	At Break of Day
5	Piyakdu	Righisnesse
6	Nurse with Wound	Gulls Just Want to Have Fun 2
7	Harjo	Handful of Dust
8	Margaret McKee	Bird Imitations
9	Coil	Strange Birds
10	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & Mild High Club	The Spider and Me
11	Blixa Bargeld	Little Yellow
12	Nell and the Flaming Lips	No More Shall We Part
13	The Tear Garden	New Eden

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Top Forty

To celebrate my 40th year, here are forty songs, one a year for each year I’ve been around, plus one for this 41st year. As with all of my birthday mixes, there is a tiny bit of Memento Mori, but mostly these are just songs I like.

Year	#	Artist	Track
1983	1	Einstürzende Neubauten	DNS Wasserturm
1984	2	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Well of Misery
1985	3	The Legendary Pink Dots	I’m The Way, The Truth, The Light
1986	4	Skinny Puppy	Dig It
1987	5	The Sisters of Mercy	This Corrosion
1988	6	KMFDM	Disgust
1989	7	Ministry	Never Believe
1990	8	Meat Beat Manifesto	Deviate
1991	9	Edward Ka-Spel	The Baker’s Man
1992	10	Chris Connelly	July
1993	11	Machines of Loving Grace	Limiter
1994	12	Nurse With Wound	R+B Through Collis Browne
1995	13	Earth	Tibetan Quaaludes
1996	14	Chemlab	Jesus Christ Porno Star
1997	15	Stereolab	Miss Modular
1998	16	The Legendary Pink Dots	Hellsville ‘98
1999	17	Nine Inch Nails	We’re In This Together
2000	18	MDFMK	Get Out of My Head
2001	19	h3llb3nt	Jet Boy Machine
2002	20	Steroid Maximus	Chain Reaction
2003	21	Sister Machine Gun	Influence
2004	22	Einstürzende Neubauten	Selbstportrait mit Kater
2005	23	Alexander Hacke	Sanctuary
2006	24	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Phenomena
2007	25	The Young Gods	The Color Code
2008	26	Alec Empire	On Fire (The Hellish Vortex Sessions)
2009	27	Current 93	Not Because the Fox Barks
2010	28	The Fall	Dr Buck’s Letter
2011	29	Wire	Red Barked Trees
2012	30	Scott Walker	Corps De Blah
2013	31	How To Destroy Angels	Welcome Oblivion
2014	32	Swans	She Loves Us
2015	33	Cocksure	Razor Invader
2016	34	Grumbling Fur	Heavy Days
2017	35	Xordox	Antidote
2018	36	Gazelle Twin	Hobby Horse
2019	37	Test Dept.	Information Scare
2020	38	Einstürzende Neubauten	Ten Grand Goldie
2021	39	The Lion’s Daughter	Become the Night
2022	40	The Bug	Fractured ft Dälek
2023	41	Henges	Suffocate

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Before My Time

 

As the anniversary of my birth approaches again, I've collected a mix of thirteen songs that I love and that were recorded before I was born. The very slightest theme of Memento Mori threads through many, but not all, of them.

This continues my tradition of making birthday mixes for myself, following my Better In My Day Mix and Vertrocknet im Sonnenlicht 

#	Artist	Track
1	Scott Walker	The Seventh Seal
2	Can	Oh Yeah
3	Rogér Fakhr	(Such A) Trip Thru Time
4	Neil Young	Old Man
6	Faust	Krautrock
7	Jerry Goldsmith	Main Title from Alien
8	The Monks	I Hate You
8	The Velvet Underground	Heroin
9	Shirley Collins	The Unquiet Grave
10	Apocalypse	Only the Children Know
11	The Stooges	Fun House
12	Sun Ra & His Arkestra	Sea of Sounds
13	The Birthday Party	Mr. Clarinet

Tasting Menu Mix - Dessert Volume II

Here is the continuation of a second set of Tasting Menu Mixes. Thirteen more of my favorite bands & musical artists presented in three, themed mixes, as an audio three course meal. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Binaural Space, Dälek, Divide & Dissolve, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Let’s Eat Grandma, Lingua Ignota, Matmos, Panopticon, Pharaoh Overlord, Shirley Collins, Thor Harris, Zola Jesus

Here is a second volume of the Dessert Mix, the songs are decadent and indulgent, meant to leave you feeling overstuffed. A sense of the artist at some of their most expansive and sublime.

#	Artist	Track
1	Let’s Eat Grandma	Donnie Darko
2	Emma Ruth Rundle	Don Danann Dana Danu Ana
3	Lingua Ignota	DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR
4	Shirley Collins	Awake Awake /The Split Ash Tree/ May Carol /Southover
5	Pharaoh Overlord	Black Horse
6	Divide & Dissolve	Denial
7	Gazelle Twin	See How They Run
8	Zola Jesus	Drone for Spiritual Carcass
9	Dälek	Black Smoke Rises
10	Dorian Wood & Thor Harris	The Angel
11	Panopticon	Dead Loons
12	Binaural Space	All Along the Spacecraft
13	Matmos	EXTRATERRESTIAL MATTERS

Mittwoch Mix - Tasting Menu Mix - Dinner Volume II

 

Here is the continuation of a second set of Tasting Menu Mixes. Thirteen more of my favorite bands & musical artists presented in three, themed mixes, as an audio three course meal. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Binaural Space, Dälek, Divide & Dissolve, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Let’s Eat Grandma, Lingua Ignota, Matmos, Panopticon, Pharaoh Overlord, Shirley Collins, Thor Harris, Zola Jesus

Here is a second volume of the Dinner Mix. For the Dinner Mix, the songs are savory, filling and complex. A fuller experience that gives a substantial taste.

#	Artist	Track
1	Divide & Dissolve	RVR
2	Dälek	Decimation (Dis Nation)
3	Zola Jesus	The Fall
4	Emma Ruth Rundle	Blooms of Oblivion
5	Pharaoh Overlord	I Drove All Night By My Solar Stomp
6	Gazelle Twin	Glory
7	Lingua Ignota	O RUTHLESS GREAT DIVINE DIRECTOR
8	Panopticon	Beast Rider (Electric Version)
9	Shirley Collins	Locked in Ice
10	Thor Harris	Day 9 of Quarantine (with Brandon Eggleston, Marissa Nadler, Adam Harding)
11	Let’s Eat Grandma	Sax in the City
12	Matmos	Tonight there is something special about the moon / Jaki księżyc dziś wieczór…
13	Binaural Space	Bright Side of the Future

Mittwoch Mix - Tasting Menu Mix - Appetizer Volume II

 

Here is the start of a second set of Tasting Menu Mixes. Thirteen more of my favorite bands & musical artists presented in three, themed mixes, as an audio three course meal. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Binaural Space, Dälek, Divide & Dissolve, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Let’s Eat Grandma, Lingua Ignota, Matmos, Panopticon, Pharaoh Overlord, Shirley Collins, Thor Harris, Zola Jesus

For this second volume of the Appetizer Mix, the songs are meant to be appetizing, easy to digest—introductions that give a taste without overwhelming the palate.  

#	Artist	Track
1	Binaural Space	Prologue
2	Let’s Eat Grandma	Insect Loop
3	Matmos	The Singing Tube
4	Pharaoh Overlord	Raide 2
5	Zola Jesus	Dangerous Days
6	Thor & Friends	Slow Prisoner
7	Panopticon	The Itch (the basics)
8	Emma Ruth Rundle	Apathy on the Indiana Border
9	Dälek	Molten
10	Divide & Dissolve	Indigenous Sovereignty
11	Gazelle Twin	Belly of the Beast
12	Lingua Ignota	PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA
13	Shirley Collins	Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! your god is a curse

 

 

A bit of a companion mix to And Let the Devil In, this new mix is inspired by & anchored around Allfather's "Cast Off The Cross" from their latest album A Violent Truth and Transgressive's "Victims of Conception" from Extreme Transgression.

#	Artist	Track
1	Witchcryer	The Preying Kind
2	Christian Mistress	Pentagram and Crucifix
3	Transgressive	Victims of Conception
4	Dawn Ray’d	Inferno
5	Úzkost	23 Ribs (feat. Colleen Munn)
6	Allfather	Cast Off the Cross
7	Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	The Only Good Christian is a Dead Christian
8	Liles/Maniac	Christian Pity
9	Cocksure	Heretic Hypocrite (Two Headed Snake Mix)
10	Pig	Cursed (Lacerated Remix by Curse Mackey)
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Torch Song
12	Emma Ruth Rundle	In Sadness For Our Dying World (here come the Christians)
13	The Christian Nightmares Tribulation Band	I Wish We'd All Been Ready

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! And you grab at the tails of your dreams / But they scuttle through your fingers

 

A mix of songs themed around sleepless nights and insomnia… Mostly gentle but with sharper edges and jagged peaks—restless as the sleep you are or are not getting...

#	Artist	Track
1	Foetus	Mesmerin
2	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Sheep May Safely Graze
3	Scott Walker	Through A Long And Sleepless Night
4	The Midnight Ensemble	The Insomniac
5	Emel	Does Anybody Sleep
6	Kevin Richard Martin	Dreams of Flight
7	Noveller	Concrete Dreams
8	Einstürzende Neubauten	Insomnia
9	The Ministry of Wolves	Sleeping Beauty
10	The Tear Garden	Good Night Little Lights
11	Binaural Space	The Prince Can’t Sleep
12	How to Destroy Angels	The sleep of reason produces monsters
13	Coil	The Dreamer Is Still Asleep

Mittwoch Mixes - hwæt! Cavernous Volume One & Two

 

 

Continuing my tradition of cover mixes, here is a mix of Nick Cave covers with one Bad Seeds track slipped in, the original version of "Where the Wild Roses Grow" with Blixa on vocals opposite Nick.

#	Artist	Track
1	Mark Lanegan	Brompton Oratory
2	Cavemen	Nature Boy
3	Mick Harvey	Come into My Sleep
4	Cold Specks	We No Who U R
5	Ssion	Nick the Stripper
6	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Where The Wild Roses Grow (Blixa Vocals)
7	Camille O’Sullivan	jubilee street (live)
8	Unwoman	Do You Love Me?
9	Null Device	Red Right Hand
10	MRT	Carny (Nick Cave Cover)
11	Rah Bras	Mr. Clarinet
12	Nell and the Flaming Lips	Weeping
13	Camille O’Sullivan	Brompton Oratory

To accompany the covers of Cavernous Volume One, here is a mix of songs that feature Nick Cave away from the Bad Seeds, from The Birthday Party through to recent work with Warren Ellis and some esoteric tracks mixed in.

#	Artist	Track
1	Nick Cave & Warren Ellis	The Rider Song
2	Current 93	I Could Not Shift the Shadow
3	The Birthday Party	The Friend Catcher
4	Grinderman	Depth Charge Ethel
5	Die Haut and Nick Cave	Stow-a-way
6	The Bootleggers feat. Nick Cave	Burnin' Hell
7	Nick Cave & Anita Lane	Bedazzled
8	Barry Adamson	The Sweetest Embrace
9	Die Haut	Sad Dark Eyes
10	Grinderman	Bellringer Blues
11	The Birthday Party	Deep in the Woods
12	Current 93	Patripassian
13	Nick Cave & Warren Ellis	Hand of God

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Without Song All Will Perish

 

Over a year after I first mentioned this mix was in the works, here it finally is, 'Without Song All Will Perish'. A thematic mix of tunes about songs and music based around Nick Cave & the Bad Seed's classic "The Weeping Song".

Joined by 12 other songs that touch on musical themes, though Sister Machine Gun's "Smash Your Radio!" feels very nostalgic and probably would be something like "Smash Your Spotify!" today. 

Speaking of "Without Song All Will Perish", everyone who values music should stand in full solidarity with groups like Bandcamp United and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers.

#	Artist	Track
1	Pharaoh Overlord	Without Song All Will Perish
2	Anita Lane	Lost In Music
3	The Young Gods	Once Again
4	Sister Machine Gun	Smash Your Radio!
5	Krom	Music has Become My Enemy
6	Akron/Family	Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms
7	Uncle Fido	They Hear Music Everywhere
8	Einstürzende Neubauten	NNNAAAMMM
9	Nouvelle Vague	This Is Not A Love Song
10	Scarling.	We Are the Music Makers
11	Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy	Madeline Mary
12	Rogér Fakhr	Sad Sad Songs
13	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	The Weeping Song

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Armageddon is by our side

 

 

Inspired by seeing Elysian Fields play “Julien” live a few months back, here is a mix of slightly apocalyptic, slightly cynical songs that are still mostly gentle. A slightly softer armageddon until it’s not.

#	Artist	Track
1	Elysian Fields	Julien
2	Antony and the Johnsons	Another World
3	Coil	The Last Amethyst Deceiver
4	Foetus	Oilfields
5	Staallang	End of a chapter
6	Anna Vo	It’s OK, The End Is Here
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Letztes Biest (Am Himmel)
8	The Legendary Pink Dots	Pennies for Heaven
9	The Young Gods	Moon Above
10	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Anthrocene
11	Thor Harris	The End of the Anthropocene
12	Elysian Fields	Escape from New York
13	Nico	The End

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt SPRING SOUNDS 2023

Spring has sprung, despite April snow showers lingering in Minnesota where I live, though those were followed by 80 degree weather and then plunging temperatures and even more snow. Still, it is vernal enough that I was inspired to put together a mix of songs about spring and flowers.

#	Artist	Track
1	Earth	the bees made honey in the lion’s skull (dub)
2	Einstürzende Neubauten	Blume
3	Mick Harvey	Come On Spring
4	Julia Kent	Spring Snow
5	PJ Harvey & John Parish	April
6	Jozeph Sefian	Karoun E Yegel (Spring Has Come)
7	Kali Malone	Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.2
8	Grinderman	Chain of Flowers
9	Can	Vernal Equinox
10	Six Organs of Admittance	Procession of Cherry Blossom Spirits
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Prague Spring
12	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Soli Si Muore
13	Boris With Merzbow	Flower Sun Rain

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt quarterly archive q1.2023

a companion mix to the hwæt quarterly report, this mix features the older tracks that I either discovered or became fixated on during the quarter.

Most of the tracks are from older albums I picked up in the last few months, but I included the Elysian Fields' song after seeing them live at an incredibly intimate and breath-taking show at the start of March. 

I grabbed The Sister of Mercy's Vision Thing after I realized it was a gap in my collection because I was grooving to both the Unwoman cover of Temple of Love included on this mix but also her excellent covers of Some Kind of Stranger and More.

With my weakness for Neil Young covers, I couldn't not include Nomadic War Machine's version of "Hey Hey, My My"

The other topical song included is "Für wen sind die Blumen?" brought to you by Einstürzende Neubauten returning to the studio.

#	Artist	Track	From
1	Unwoman	Temple of Love	Lemniscate: Uncovered Volume 2
2	Sisters of Mercy	Vision Thing	Vision Thing (Remastered)
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	Another Kind of Violence	Only Dreaming
4	dj haram	Candle Light (700 Bliss Remix)	Grace
5	Nomadic War Machine	Hey Hey My My	Creatures of the Wind
6	Einstürzende Neubauten	Für wen sind die Blumen?	Strategies Against Architecture III
7	FaUSt, feat.  灰野敬二 Keiji Haino	你想要更多吗？ Do You Want More?	这条路是正确的 This Is the Right Path
8	The Hologram People	Theme from Village of the Snake God	Village of the Snake God
9	Elysian Fields	Crows Over Cornfields	Once Beautiful Twice Removed
10	Sonja	When The Candle Burns Low…	LOUD ARRIVER
11	Byssus	Wolves and Caribou	In Foras
12	Maria W Horn & Sara Parkman	Kyrie	Funeral Folk
13	Arklay Mountains	Any man who counts on the aid of a God deserves the help he doesn't get	...Are Afraid of these Geese

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt quarterly report 1st quarter 2023

 

 

I do a lot of thematic mixes, but this series of Quarterly Reports compiles tracks from the albums released during the quarter that captured my attention.

#	Artist	Track	From
1	Lankum	Go Dig My Grave	False Lankum
2	BIG|BRAVE	the fable of subjugation	nature morte
3	Ashenspire	Plattenbau Persephone Praxis	Hostile Architecture
4	Dawn Ray’d	Requital	TO KNOW THE LIGHT
5	Betty Benedeadly & Brandon Guess	Primordial Rhythms	At the Institute of Mentalphysics
6	Score	Brink	COPE
7	Zohra	Empire Grave	Murder in the Temple
8	Sightless Pit	Calcified Glass (feat YoshimiO & Gangsta Boo)	Lockstep Bloodwar
9	Dynasti	A Ticking Tyranny	Quantum Primitiv
10	Úzkost	Arise: Assemble! Conjoin Your Flame!	For Property and Profit
11	Earth	the dark and bloody ground	Even Hall has its Heroes
12	Transgressive	Unheard Voices	Extreme Transgression
13	Enslaved	Forest Dweller	Heimdal

Of course, since I limited myself to my usual 13 track mix length, a few albums I quite enjoyed from Q1 2023 didn't make it into the mix but are still well worth seeking out. In no particular order here are a half dozen more albums you should grab.

Radical Romantics - Fever Ray

Does Spring Hide Its Joy - Kali Malone

Satanic Transgender Terrorism - Wolven Daughter

Rise of the Machines - Mychorrhizal

Spacetudes & Spacetudes Too - Binaural Space

Denies My Tongue To Tell - Espi Kvlt

Mittwoch Mix - Now that’s hwæt I call 2023…

 

Not quite the aural vision boards I've done previously... this mix is half that and half doomed premonition... and quite late...

#	Artist	Track
1	The Young Gods	Moon Revolutions (Live with The Lausanne Sinfonietta)
2	dälek	A Heretic’s Inheritance
3	Lung	Let It Be Gone
4	Zola Jesus	Sewn
5	Zeal and Ardor	Death to the Holy
6	Murderbait	Lost
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	Needles (Version Sirius)
8	Adzes	The Impulse
9	Putrescine	Cursed By Birth
10	Panopticon	Snow Burdened Branches
11	Wolven Daughter	It’s Time to Get High and Burn the Confederate Flag
12	Pig	Glitz Krieg
13	ÅRABROT	The World Must Be Destroyed