hwæt! And when you least think of you…

I had originally thought that I'd put out a mix of songs with exquisite mouth sounds, inspired by Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld's incredible "Menschenentsafter" but I need to spend a little more time sifting through my collection to make sure I've truly assembled the best of what I have.

So instead, I built a mix around another of the tracks off of the incredible album Christian & Mauro, "Bisogna Morire" or 'you must die', which is a more cheerful memento mori than the name might suggest. The resulting mix is by turns playful and melancholy, autumnal and heartening, and hopefully a balm for the listener's soul.

#	Artist	Track
1	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Bisogna Morire
2	Elysian Fields	This World Is Just a World
3	Unwoman	Falling Leaves
4	Lankum	Cold Old Fire
5	Rogér Fakhr	Rainhill
6	Mick Harvey	Alone with the Stars
7	Philip Glass	Mishima (Bob’s Burgers Arrangement)
8	Allie Goertz	We’re in This Together
9	Chris Connelly	Fini Chagall
10	Anita Lane	Bella Ciao
11	Einstürzende Neubauten	All of No Man’s Land is Ours
12	The Young Gods & The Lausanne Sinfonietta	She Rains (Live)
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	Space Captain (Extended)

I also made the mix as a youtube music playlist, though since all the songs are at the mercy of google making them available, you're really better off listening on Mixcloud where they won't disappear unless the whole mix is taken down...

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