Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

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


Wednesday, April 5, 2023

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