Wednesday, November 13, 2024

hwæt! moody mittwoch mixes

It's been a rough week with anger and sadness rolling through in waves, so, as I have done before, I focused on channeling those emotions into musical mixes.

First, hwæt! she’s looking down with sadness... Sometimes when the world seems full of muck and it feels like a great portion of humanity lets you down, you want to listen to some beautifully sad songs, so here are a baker's dozen of tunes for just that...

# Artist Track
1 Zola Jesus Dead & Gone
2 Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood Ghost Stories
3 The Legendary Pink Dots Stigmata (Part 4)
4 Chris ConnellyHeartburn
5 Lankum Go Dig My Grave
6 Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien All Our Lonely Ghosts
7 Allfather A False Peace
8 Foetus Here Comes the Rain
9 The Mon The Manure of Our Remains
10 Chelsea Wolfe Little Grave
11 Panopticon The Wandering Ghost
12 Scott Walker The Ballad of Sacco And Vanzetti
13 Green Lung One for Sorrow

Allfather's excellent, defiant anthem "Take Their Eyes" was the anchor for this mix, that I gathered a dozen more tracks of rage and defiance around.

# Artist Track
1 Green Lung Leaders of the Blind
2 Allfather Take Their Eyes
3 Svalbard Defiance
4 Frayle Burn
5 Verminlord Everywhere is burning
6 Pig The Keeper of the Margarita
7 The Legendary Pink Dots This One-Eyed Man is King
8 Nomadic War Machine I Hate Every Cop In This Town
9 ZAMILSKA BLIND
10 Ashenspire The Law of Asbestos
11 Mass Culture Bones of this World
12 Transgressive Extreme Transgression
13 Order of the Wolf A Plague on Conservative Houses

Thursday, October 24, 2024

hwæt! Halloween 2024 Mixes

Unexpectedly deciding to buy a house in August 2023 sure derailed this blog and my little hobby of making thematic musical mixes. But with this pair of Halloween Mixes, I'm hoping to get back on track.

You can find my previous Halloween Mixes here:

hwæt! Halloween 2021 Mixes

hwæt! Halloween 2022 Mixes

First is the Candy Bowl Mix, a mix of slightly eerie, slightly silly songs that should be suitable to have on in the background while you're passing out treats to costumed children.

# Artist Track
1 The Surfrajettes Banshee Bop
2 Henry Hall BBC Dance Orchersta Here Comes the Bogey Man
3 Binaural Space Ghostbuster Busters
4 Sean Thomson Witches Be Trippin’
5 Four Eyes The Dead Can’t Rest
6 The Vampires of Dartmoor Dr. Caligari’s Creeps Cabinet
7 Loot the Body Razor Blades in Apples
8 8-Bit Arcade Season of the Witch
9 Tall Tall Trees & Kramer Superstition
10 Uncle Fido They Visit a Cemetery
11 The Psychic Circle Lights Out
12 Five Jones Boys Mr Ghost Goes To Town
13 Hazy Sour Cherry Hazy Halloween

Second is the Creepy Crawly Dance Party mix, a selection of vaguely sinister and monstrous to outright Halloween themed songs suitable for an adult costume party.

# Artist Track
1 ÅRABROT Skeletons Trip the Light Fantastic
2 Fundustrial Dance of Doom
3 Pitch Black Manor Scream Team
4 BARA HARI House of the Devil
5 Katie Gately Fawn
6 Liars There’s Always Room On The Broom
7 Black Market Dub & Wise Owl Ghouls Dancing
8 Unwoman Love’s Secret Domain
9 The Glass Beads Monster
10 Henning Zinoviev & Floating Candles Jessica Van Helsing
11 Bussy Kween Power Trip Slap Me In My Panties, Brah
12 Church of the Cosmic Skull Last Words of a Dying God
13 Leæther Strip Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

For those who don't want to use MixCloud, I also compiled two YouTube Music playlists combining these with earlier mixes of similar vibes... One for the probably kid-friendly Candy Bowl tracks and one for the more adult Creepy Crawly Dance Party adult costume vibe...

Of course, because YouTube doesn't have all of the tracks that I do, the MixCloud mixes have all of the tracks and the YouTube playlists have some gaps.