Wednesday, July 26, 2023

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

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

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

Friday, July 7, 2023

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