Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part IV

It's time for the final set of Mittwoch Yule Tunes mixes for December 2025...

For those in Minnesota, Carlson's Llovable Llamas is a great place to take a holiday card photo...

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part III

 It's a Wednesday in December, so that means it's time for more Mittwoch Yule Tunes Mixes...

First page of John Taylor's pamphlet The Vindication of Christmas

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part II

Since I posted Part I last week, I've updated my Yule Tunes page with links to a series of youtube music playlists gathering up themed mixes.

As I add more 2025 mixes, I'll add to these "megamixes". They lack many of the tracks included in my yule tunes mixes as I am limited by the music publicly available on youtube, but for those who don't do mixcloud they are a taste of my holiday music collection. So, for the full experience listen on mixcloud.

But for those who find youtube music easier or who want to more easily see tracks, I figured I should put these mixes together. So browse, listen, discover new Yule Tunes & shuffle them up to see what catches your ears.

On to the new mixes!

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part I

It's that time of year again, when I compulsively compile mixes of holiday music... 

Adding to the over FORTY mixes from previous years, here are the first three Yuletunes mixes for 2025...

I get nearly all of my music thru Bandcamp these days, so if you're looking to pick up more songs from an album you like from one of these mixes, check out my collection there (and comment/message if you need help, since I have 3500+ items in my collection...)

Mittwoch Mixes - November 2025

A pair of mixes for November before I descend deep into Xmas music season...

The first is hwæt! Still Life in an Apocalypse - Which serves as the second volume of my Brick Wall Mix series. Composed of a set mix of songs that make me feel like I could run through a Goddamn Brick Wall. High energy and featuring a healthy dollop of righteous anger.

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	Kill Your Heroes
2	Transgressive	A Unified War Cry
3	healthyliving	To the Gallows
4	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Planet B
5	Acumen Nation	Gun Lover
6	Sister Machine Gun	Voices / Machine
7	The Damage Manual	Stateless (Delusional Mix)
8	Cocksure	Cold Dick
9	Error	Nothing’s Working
10	Boris & Uniform	No
11	Allfather	Citadels (Live)
12	Glacial Tomb	Fuck Nazi Sympathy
13	Ashenspire	Cable Street Again

The second mix is hwæt! I PAID TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT A PRIVATE COLLEGE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MIX… 

I graduated from college back in the halcyon days of 2005, over twenty years ago now, and when I was putting together the Not A Place of Honor mix, I was reminded of how my musical taste was shaped by my student years as Die Warzau and Big Black were both groups I discovered while spelunking among the light-less shelves of my college radio station. 

Even in the early 2000's, even at a tiny college that was smaller than my high school, no one really wanted to let me inflict my musical taste upon the public at large, so when I submitted my applications with the lists of artists and songs I wanted to play I was invariably assigned slots that began at midnight at the earliest. One semester I memorably got the 'coveted' 2am to 4am Saturday morning slot...

Still, I didn't care because it meant I had access to the thousands and thousands of CDs in the collection letting me fall down rabbit holes and discover obscure bands that my suburban corporate music stores would never bring to me or to enjoy the deep well of music from the 80s and 90s that I had missed. My only regret is that during my initial orientation the record player was broken so I never learned how to use it.

College was also my first access to high speed internet connections (such as they were back then) which also meant my musical tastes and access expanded in ways that anyone around my age knows very well... Meaning that I could get my hands on say, Schwein, the Japan based Pig side project.

This mix also serves as a follow-up to my I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo Mix, charting how as I transformed from nerdy teen to pretentiously academic English major to eccentric middle-aged hipster. Just like that mix, it's not necessarily my favorite music from that period, but a slightly thematic selection of bands that I either discovered or really got into during my college time. 

#	Artist	Track
1	The Sisters of Mercy	Lucretia My Reflection
2	Test Dept.	Sweet Sedation
3	Killing Joke	Millennium
4	Big Black	The Ugly American
5	Cabaret Voltaire	Big Funk
6	Pop Will Eat Itself	Ich Bin Ein Auslander
7	haloblack	it’s bizarre
8	Peace Love & Pitbulls	White White White (Finished Already Mix)
9	Schwein	World’s Junk
10	Chemlab	Binary Nation
11	Acumen Nation	Chameleon Skin
12	Die Warzau	King of Rock and Roll
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	Abracadabra zzzz

The source image for the cover art for hwæt! I PAID TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT A PRIVATE COLLEGE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MIX… is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beloit_College_Middle_College.jpg originally by Robin Zebrowski and was edited and modified under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Mittwoch Mixes - hwæt! Halloween 2025 Mixes

Another year, another set of Halloween mixes. Plus, I created a landing page for all of my Halloween Mixes - hwæt! Halloween Sounds to mirror my Yule Tunes page.

This year I compiled five mixes of Halloween sounds ranging for trick or treater friendly to eerie and terrifying.

First another 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	Bradley Thomas Turner	Spooky Season (in the Foyer)
2	8-Bit Arcade	Ghostbusters
3	Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers	Graveyard Shift
4	The Swingin’ Phillies	Frankenstein’s Party
5	Putney Dandridge	Skeleton In The Closet
6	Uncle Fido	They Find a Haunted House
7	Mr. Basemen & The Symbols	Do The Zombie
8	Hazy Sour Cherry	Zombilly Rave (till someone call police!)
9	Mark Malibu & the Wasagas	Ghost Hunter
10	New Mayfair Dance Orchestra	The Haunted House
11	Baron Daemon & The Vampires	Ghost Guitars
12	Earl Patterson With The Dars	Nightmare Hop
13	The Fabulous Five	Janie Made A Monster

Then, another 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	Black Market Dub & Wise Owl	No More Room In Hell
2	RATPAJAMA	Danse Macabre
3	Dark Chisme	Fangs
4	Peter Aldrich featuring Jon Harman & David Williams	Dawn of the Dead
5	Pitch Black Manor	The Halloween Scene
6	Magic Sword	“Candyman” Theme
7	Fini Tribe	Make It Internal (Integrity Mix) (2025 Remaster)
8	Hazy Sour Cherry	Monster’s Party
9	Witchboard	Supernaturals Fill The Floor w Grace Sings Sludge
10	Frayle	Bela Lugosi’s Dead
11	Suzi Sabotage	Love at First Bite
12	The Legendary Pink Dots	The Light In My Little Girl’s Eyes
13	Unwoman	Everyday Is Halloween

Followed by another Folky mix of murder ballads and other macabre songs in a more folk or traditional style. Probably just a little too intense at points to hand out candy while listening to. 

#	Artist	Track
1	Shirley Collins	Cruel Lincoln
2	Lankum	What Put the Blood
3	Unwoman	The Eldritch One, Jolene
4	Forest Mountain Hymnal	Pretty Polly
5	Myrkur	Den lille piges død (Live)
6	Jeremiah Sand	No You Are Mine
7	Ian Lynch	The Hunt
8	The Post-Timey String Band	Wherewolf
9	Marissa Nadler and Milky Burgess	The Bloody Gardener
10	Emel	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
11	ØXN	Love Henry
12	The Rowan Amber Mill	The Ballad of the Witchfinder General
13	Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien	All Our Lonely Ghosts

And a mix of Halloween Adjacent Metal tracks, for those who want some seasonal head bangers. Definitely more on the adult end of things.

#	Artist	Track
1	Wolfmen of Mars	The Silent Panic
2	Froglord	Cryptids
3	Frayle	Boo
4	Castle Rat	Nightblood
5	GREEN LUNG	Templar Dawn
6	Christian Mistress	Haunted, Hunted
7	YRRE	Dustsceawung
8	Witchcryer	Witchfinder General
9	Molassess	Death Is
10	Possessor	Bloodsuckers
11	Faetooth	Death of Day
12	BORIS + ENDON	Painkiller (Judas Priest)
13	ÚZKOST	The Witch & the Tyrant (Featuring Whitney Moore)

Finally, a mix of haunting and unnerving songs for a more atmospheric and decidedly child unfriendly evening of horror.

#	Artist	Track
1	Dorit Chrysler	Murder Ballad
2	Sheet Ghosts	Nothing but the Night
3	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids	The Devil in Amber
4	FM Einheit	Hymne (Witch burn)
5	The Night Terrors	Kuceli Woke Up In The Graveyard
6	Young Fathers	Alpha
7	The Wades	Sídhe
8	Gazelle Twin	Fear Keeps Us Alive
9	Giants of Discovery	Terror In The South Tower
10	Rún	Such is the Kingdom
11	Grey Frequency	Elegy for Vinegar Tom
12	Lustmord & Zola Jesus	Prime
13	Bretwalda	A Dread Soaking (Oh Lord)

Mittwoch Mix - Not A Place of Honor

After listening back to ANOHNI's 2016 album, Hopeless, I was inspired to make this mix. Current events seem calculated to induce rage and hopefully this mix will be a cathartic indulgence for others as well.

It joins some similar mixes I've put together in the past, including I WANNA SCREAM OUT LOUD, Armageddon is by our side and The Mountain's Ash, the River is Steam...

Thinking of the damage being done day by day and what will be required to repair it, I decided to draw on the long-term nuclear waste warning messages for inspiration...

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

#	Artist	Track
1	Cocksure	Teezer Hell
2	Gazelle Twin	The Suburbs
3	Big Black	Kerosene
4	ANOHNI	4 Degrees
5	Sow	My House
6	Test Dept.	Debris
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	An Arm And A Leg
8	Ashenspire	Béton Brut
9	PIG	Riot, Religion & Righteousness
10	Die Warzau	Crusaders
11	Hate Dept.	Seedling
12	Nomadic War Machine	A Gaze as Blank and Pitiless as the Sun
13	The Damage Manual	No Act of Grace

Alien Pop Monday 00.15 - erkannt das Sehnen die Knoten hält

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Fifteenth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Gesundbrunnen."  Here it is, after 15 mixes, the end—complete with 195 tracks and 131 artists featured, a corpus of what feels, to me at least, to be Alien Pop Music.

There is a passage in KOLLAPS by Melle Jan Kromhout & Jan Nieuwenhuis that speaks to the concept of Alien Pop Music that I re-read just before finalizing this mix, as I made the decision to have "Sehnsucht" (desire) off of Kollaps, their fisrt EN album, serve as the final song that I think serves as a nice conclusion to this series...

Desire is the breath that fuels life and connects the inside of the living body to the world outside. Air spreads around in the depths of the lungs, where it branches out. Oxygen flows through blood and brains until it is used up and residual gas is exhaled to make room. Just like this Einstürzende Neubauten feeds itself with sound. The band is an organism that mutates with each consecutive song. It inhales sound. It lives on sound. Just as every breath is an extension of life, sound is Einstürzende Neubauten's sustenance.

This way, the band absorbs other kinds of music and makes certain elements their own [...] With each song, Einstürzende Neubauten wanders further into unknown territory and encounters different sounds and music to reorganize themselves. 

Kromhout, Melle Jan, and Jan Nieuwenhuis. Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps, pp. 83–84.  

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Gesundbrunnen
2	Cinder Well	The Doorway
3	The Damage Manual	Limited Edition
4	Laura Cannell & Nik Colk Void	Closer to Heaven (Nik Colk Void remix)
5	Cold Specks	Void
6	Nihiloxica	Black Kaveera
7	One Leg One Eye	I’d Rather Be Tending My Sheep
8	Nine Inch Nails	God Break Down the Door
9	Ulver	The Hour of the Wolf
10	Jochen Arbeit	Darkness
11	Chemlab	Pink
12	Ryuichi Sakamoto	fullmoon
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Sehnsucht

Wo vorher keine Tür war / Da machen ich dir jetzt auf

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Wait until you know the time is right on time / The end is near

 The (probably not) long awaited return of my annual Birthday Mix tradition...

Back in 2021, I was turning 38 and compiled the Better In My Day Mix, a selection of songs that is equal parts tongue in cheek memento mori, peculiar birthday allusions & references with a few aspirational touches to complete the mix.

Then in 2022, with my 39th birthday, I compiled a baker's dozen of songs all released the year of my birth, 1983, vertrocknet im Sonnenlicht.

For my 40 birthday in 2023, I went all out, first I gathered 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, gathered together as hwæt! Before My Time.

Then I compiled the hwæt! Top Forty... a mix of 41 songs one a year for each year I’d been around, plus one for that 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.

Last summer, this blog was on a hiatus, but now, with my 42nd birthday approaching, I've assembled a mix to revive this tradition, hwæt! Wait until you know the time is right on time / The end is near. Mostly but not all, released since my last birthday. A little less of a memento mori mix, but those melancholy motifs remain.

#	Artist	Track
1	Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann	Lazarus
2	Allie Goertz	The Great Destroyer
3	Gloria	Artemis
4	Zombie Zombie	Double Z
5	Sumac & Moor Mother	Camera
6	Young Fathers	Lowly
7	Xordox	Unreality
8	The Young Gods	Systemized
9	Dark Chisme	Lucretia My Reflection
10	The Cure	Drone:Nodrone
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Blood Money : Transitional
12	PIG	The Ratchet Effect
13	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Durch Mich

Not gonna lie, since I saw 28 Years Later, I've been pondering how I can make sure that on that distant day my skull is added to the bone temple...

Alien Pop Monday 00.14 - Fossiliien, die wir beide sind

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Fourteenth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Trilobiten." After seven months of this project, we've reached the penultimate mix. 

Off the top of my head, "Trilobiten" is one of the most 'folk' songs Neubauten has ever released, up there with "Ein Stuhl in der Hölle" and this mix definitely leans a little in that direction.

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Trilobiten
2	Kikagaku Moyo	Trilobites
3	Angeline Morrison	Ophelia
4	Chris Connelly	Ophelia Moment
5	The Body and BIG|BRAVE	Once I had a Sweetheart
6	Panopticon	The Devil Walked the Woods
7	Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Kim Myhr, Jenny Hval	Me, you, me, you
8	Rudolph Moser	CAUSE YOU
9	Your Ancestors Knew Death	A Fossil Record
10	How To Destroy Angels	Ice Age
11	Gloria	Styx
12	Hacia Dos Veranos	I’ll Be Your Mirror
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Youme & Meyou (Live)

Was ist noch uebrig?

Alien Pop Monday 00.13 - Allet hat sich uffjelöst

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Thirteenth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Ick wees nich (Noch nich)."

I'm particularly pleased with this mix, I think it is strangely cohesive in both musical language and lyrics. Perhaps I will be the only one who feels that way, but these thirteen songs really do seem to me to be of a set.

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Ick wees nich (Noch nich)
2	Wire	Time Lock Fog
3	Chrome	Nova Feedback
4	Zola Jesus	Wiseblood
5	The Love Interest	Blue Velvet Mix
6	Gazelle Twin	Obelisk
7	The Soft Pink Truth	You Don’t Know (The Full Rose of Dawn)
8	The Bug	Void
9	Fragile Self	Need for Sanctuary
10	The Answer Lies in the Black Void	Become Undone
11	Strange Attractor	Undone
12	The The	Lonely Planet
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Die Befindlichkeit Des Landes (Klaviermusik Version)

Alles nur künftige Ruinen

Alien Pop Monday 00.12 - Sing für mich in gelb

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Twelfth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Aus den Zeiten." 

“In another solar system, Einstürzende Neubauten would be as famous as The Beatles are in ours,” says Blixa Bargeld

Wesley Doyle. “Loving The Alien: Einstürzende Neubauten Interviewed.” The Quietus, https://thequietus.com/interviews/einsturzende-neubauten-blixa-bargeld-interview-2/ 

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Aus den Zeiten
2	Karen O	Sing Along
3	Dead Luke	Yellow Sunshine Superstition
4	Dawn Ray’d	Strike Again the Hammer Sings
5	Wolven Daughter	Sing to Me the Gospel
6	Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter	HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
7	Th Da Freak	Sun King (The Beatles cover)
8	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Nerissimo (Italian)
9	Lake	Sing 99 90
10	Baker / Coloccia / Mueller	Yellow
11	Stereolab	Fiery Yellow
12	Azar Swan	Sing Me Back
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	MoDiMiDoFrSaSo

Music and colo(u)r are constants in Blixa's lyrics, and though there are songs that more directly quote the Beatles (e.g. "Headcleaner."), I decided instead go with "MoDiMiDoFrSaSo" for the final cap of this mix to contrast with "Aus den Zeiten."

Bargeld: Listening to mindless music on the tour bus radio. I developed a simplified version of an upbeat, stupid pop song made up of "MonTuesWedThursFriSatSun", with "FriSatSun" sung enthusiastically every time. That was the idea for this piece, with various quotes from other songs and regulations in the lyrics. It's a little bit like a comic strip.

Bargeld, B., Zinfert, M., & Partridge, M. (1997). Headcleaner: Text für Einstürzende neubauten = text for collapsing new buildings. Die Gestalten Verlag. Pg. 256

Alien Pop Monday 00.11 - I try to drag myself out

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Eleventh track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Planet Umbra." Of course after remarking that the last mix was one of the longer ones, this mix ended up exceeding it in length.

I had an unexpectedly busy Memorial Day weekend, so I decided to delay posting this mix for a week, but I plan to go back on schedule next week, so instead of the every other Monday, everyone will get two Alien Pop Monday's back to back. Then after that, I'll go back to the every other week schedule mostly because it means the final mix will post on my birthday.

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Tar & Feathers
2	Boris	D.O.W.N -Domination of Waiting Noise-
3	Fever Ray	What They Call Us
4	Fragile Self	This Is My Existence
5	Zamilska	Fragile
6	Cold Specks	Let Loose the Dogs
7	The High Confessions	Along Come the Dogs
8	Zola Jesus	Run Me Out
9	ANOHNI & the Johnsons	Scapegoat
10	GGGOLDDD	This Shame Should Not Be Mine
11	Chris Randall	Wait 03
12	David Bowie	Lazarus
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Seven Screws

This was one of the hardest mixes to put together, because it's built from the same improvisational rampen as "The Pit of Language," but I think it turned out well in the end and feels poignant for this moment in time. Only four more mixes remain, and while that means there are two months of this project left, it does feel a little odd to be in sight of the end. 

Alien Pop Monday 00.10 - We cast no shadows

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Tenth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Planet Umbra." Of course after remarking that the last mix was one of the longer ones, this mix ended up exceeding it in length.

I think that I've finished assembling the mixes, but I'm sure that I'll change a few things around as I continue to put out the remaining mixes.

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Planet Umbra
2	X-TG	Emerge to Space Jazz
3	/A\	Hotel Stellar
4	Strange Attractor	Black Earth
5	Stereolab	I Feel The Air {of another planet}
6	Neu!	Negativland
7	The Sisters of Mercy	Black Planet
8	Holger Czukay Jah Wobble Jaki Liebezeit	Twilight World
9	Gary Numan and Titan	Dark Rain
10	The Bug vs Earth	Another Planet
11	Tiny Star	Gravity
12	Moon Duo	Planet Caravan
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Zebulon

Perhaps it's fitting that what might be the longest mix goes with the longest track off the album.

Alien Pop Monday 00.9 - Words, syllables and fragments

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Ninth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "The Pit of Language."

By happenstance this ended up being one of the longer mixes, and another mix that came together relatively easily. Even though I'll continue to publish the mixes every other Monday, I'm nearly done assembling them, with two mixes that need one final song added to complete them unless I change my mind about some.

It's a little unsettling that by coincidence Alexander Hacke announced he was leaving the band the weekend before I'm posting this mix, since "Babel" might be the last of his 'solo' tracks that made it into the mixes. The band has announced they'll continue and my first full album was Ende Neu, so I am hopeful there will be more Einstürzende Neubauten to come. 

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	The Pit of Language
2	CAN	Paris 73 Vier
3	Volcano The Bear	My Favourite Tongues
4	Mountain Caller	Dead Language
5	hackedepiccioto	Babel
6	Tanya Tagaq	Tongues (Backxwash Remix)
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	Aarzhklahh Olgevezh - Live
8	Azar Swan	Strange Language
9	Dälek	Abandoned Language
10	Andrew Liiles	I Lost Faith in Words
11	Fever Ray	Bottom of the Ocean
12	Neurosis & Jarboe	His Last Words
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Der Schacht Von Babel - Live

Alien Pop Monday 00.8 - Wo kann ich denn noch hingehen?

 Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the eighth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Everything Will Be Fine." Most of this mix came together very quickly in January and February when I was first assembling these mixes, but as time passed it became more and more fraught and tense with meaning. 

Though as Blixa addresses in the excellent interview with the Quietus, the tile was always cynical and wrestling with the chaos of the world. 

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Everything Will be Fine
2	Arklay Mountains	Everything Will be Fine
3	Rogér Fakhr	Waiting for It Everyday
4	Tumultuous Ruin	Until this dystopic hellscape exists nevermore
5	Bretwalda	All Shall Be Well (Live)
6	The Mayors of Nothing	A Quick Anxiety Attack Over Breakfast
7	Nomadic War Machine	This is not okay
8	Seeming	Knowledge
9	The Legendary Pink Dots	Choose Premium : First Prize
10	haloblack	everything inside
11	Darksol	Burn
12	Unwoman	99 Luftballoons
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Floorpiece / Grundstück

I tried not to let the mix become too bogged down in hopelessness, though it is a darker mix. As bleak as it is, it ends with "Floorpiece / Grundstück," which Blixa has described as a curse the band tried to place on the head of their former label, and I hope that the energy of curses finding targets who deserve affliction and misfortune is coming in our near future.

I had also been extremely tempted to use Andrew Liles' 'version' of 99 Red Balloons off of Colossus Part One, but ultimately having one 50 minute track that would be almost as long than the rest of the mix felt too unwieldy, so I went with Unwoman's excellent cover instead.

Still, you can consider the Liles' version a 'bonus' track, its re-worked lyrics seeming very apt for the moment...

Software souvenir

It's balloons shop red

The one bag of sky

Ninety fighters, the one nine

Something's a something

Meet from dust

Think nine

Just go

The line hero

Worry it up jet

Message focusing flash

High ministers with boys

Hurry, we've the summer

Knights tech free

Eye the machine

I panic. Classify war

Super nine its eager sky

One springs in dawn

Super it

Scrambling. Clarify the floating

Somewhere captain president

Identify money

Everyone's sparks alert

Air this ride

Scurry of pretty decisions

Here in the city, in the bells

One little you

Life sky go call

Mittwoch Mixes - Still I won’t apologize - I took nobody with me / not a soul

Getting back into the swing of things and posting some new Mittwoch mixes... The world might be on fire but I can distract myself by putting together these little mixes and perhaps they'll find a few other listeners too...

First, a mix inspired by track 13 from Symphony #1 for Dot Matrix Printers. I found myself bobbing my head along to the groove of this track and was inspired to put together a mix of other songs on the avant garde/experimental end of my collection that are still hopefully somewhat accessible to less esoteric listeners.

#	Artist	Track
1	Manorexia	Edison Medicine
2	Manorexia	Ataxia
3	Volcano the Bear	splendid goose
4	[the user]	Print
5	anbb	electricity is fiction
6	Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void	Pop
7	FaUSt, feat.  灰野敬二 Keiji Haino	大海 La Mer
8	LA Vampires & Zola Jesus	In The Desert
9	Cosey Fanni Tutti	Drone
10	Nurse With Wound	Ernest Needs A Kidney (Live Studio Jam)
11	Jochen Arbeit and Mark Spybey	Port Gramsci
12	Edward Ka-Spel	Sticks & Stones
13	White Boy Scream	Fade Away

The second mix was inspired by a re-listen of Chris Connelly's SHELTA and "Fly Away Blues," which got me thinking of other songs with 'blues' in the song name, so I assembled a mix of them. While none of the thirteen are really 'blues' songs, they're all in conversation with the genre and the more traditional song structures made this mix feel like a good contrast to Still I won't apologize.

#	Artist	Track
1	Grails	Reincarnation Blues
2	The High Sheriffs	B4 Resistance Blues
3	Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan	Shotgun Blues
4	Scott Walker	Blanket Roll Blues
5	Chris Connelly	Fly Away Blues
6	Alexander Hacke	Blues Eternal
7	The The	There’s No Room In My Heart (For The Blues)
8	Little Annie And Paul Wallfisch	Price of the Blues
9	The Post-Timey String Band	Blues for Mr. Charlie
10	Across Tundras	Powder Keg Blues
11	King Woman	Celestial Blues
12	SPECIAL INTEREST	LA Blues
13	Goatsnake	A Killing Blues

Alien Pop Monday 00.7 - Enn’ ich deinen Lügen hinterher

 Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the seventh track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Besser Isses." We're now officially over halfway through. The lyrics apparently began as a potential duet and morphed into what Blixa describes as a song "breaking up with God and the universe."

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Besser Isses
2	The Soft Moon	Become the Lies
3	Fat White Family	I Believe In Something Better
4	Wire	I Should Have Known Better
5	Sister Machine Gun	Denial
6	Salem	Better Off Alone
7	EROS	Your Truth is a Lie
8	Zeal & Ardor	Golden Liar
9	NONE OF YOUR CONCERN	LIED
10	We Owe	Another Small Truth
11	Faust Vs. Dälek	Dead Lies
12	Thor Harris & Rob Halverson	I refuse to believe it
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Haus der Lüge (Live at Palast Der Republik)

Here is another mix that draws heavily from the lyrics, though I think I managed to also weave in a few aural threads as well.

Alien Pop Monday 00.6 - In situ

 Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the sixth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Isso Isso." Though it's only the sixth track, it reminds me that I've been doing this project now for 12 weeks, compiling 78 tracks and 58 different artists so far. 

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Isso Isso
2	Sister Machine Gun	Gonna Be Right
3	drcarlsonalbion	Hackney Iliad Marsh Remix
4	Noveller	Almost Alright
5	Bretwalda	Sacrifice (Live)
6	Thor Harris	Day 447 of Quarantine (with Craig Ross, Zola Jesus, Dorian Wood)
7	Richard Dawson & Circle	Ivy
8	Chris Connelly	Valley of the Kings
9	Hilary Woods	Burial Rites
10	Zohra	Murder in the Temple (feat. Lydia Lunch)
11	ÅRABROT	A Sacrifice
12	Xiu Xiu	Bog People
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Neun Arme / Die Nacht

I'm very aware that for this mix I honed in on a couple fragments of the lyrics of "Isso Isso" and built out from there, resulting in a pretty (pre-)historical and mythological mix.

6x6 - March 2025

Continuing my 6x6 series, publishing on the 6th of the month for the first time, here are six things I want to recommend for March 2025. Just as with the first installment in Feb 2025, these are things I think might be overlooked or under-appreciated or just things that I really enjoy that I want to share with others as I work to share more positive things.

This month, they're presented arbitrarily in alphabetical order...

Alien Pop Monday 00.5 - I put a cryptic message on the door

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the fifth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Before I Go." This mix came together surprisingly quickly. With this fifth mix, we're already a third of the way through both the Rampen album and the project.

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Before I Go
2	Akron/Family	Before And Again
3	Chris Connelly	The Son of Empty Sequel
4	Volcano The Bear	before we came to this religion
5	Die Warzau	Go Going Gone
6	Foetus	Industrial Go-Slow
7	Body/Head	Where Did You Go?
8	SPIRULINA	The Message
9	Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood	L.A. Blue
10	Wire	I Feel Mysterious Today
11	Alexander Hacke	Sugarpie
12	Thor & Friends	Mystery Train
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Perpetuum Mobile

Slightly off the topic of the mix, but several of the songs are from albums that were in constant rotation my final year of college. I got Perpetuum Mobile the spring of my Junior year, Die Warzau's Convenience came out the fall of my Senior year and Alexander Hacke's Sanctuary was the soundtrack for my last few weeks of college, constantly in my old discman as I finished my final papers and exams.

Mittwoch Mixes - It's Been a Long Way to Carry On... / give me infinite skies

Two mixes for this Mittwoch Mix post...

My wife and I saw the Brutalist last month, which was excellent, and I knew that Brady Corbet had directed Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, which had soundtracks by Scott Walker. But it wasn't until the credits rolled that I realized he'd also dedicated the film to Scott Walker. It's a gorgeous and unsettling film, and it put me back in the mind of Walker's music, which is also gorgeous and often unsettling, so I decided to finally finish the mix of remixes and covers I'd been assembling of his work.

I cheated a little by including the Scott Walker + SUNN O))) version of "Lullaby," that he originally wrote for Ute Lemper, but since it was the final track from his final non-soundtrack album, it also seemed fitting and was a cover in its own way.

#	Artist	Track
1	Jim Sharp	The Old Man’s Back (Jim Sharp Remix)
2	The Soundcarriers	The Seventh Seal
3	Dax Riggs	30 Century Man
4	Dot Allison	Montague Terrace (In Blue)
5	Simon Bonney	Duchess
6	Zen Mother	Joanna
7	ØXN	Farmer In the City
8	Chris Connelly	The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
9	Jarboe	A Lover Loves
10	Sondre Leche	The Plague
11	Marc & the Mambas	Big Louise
12	Jim Sharp	Epilogue (Jim Sharp Remix)
13	Scott Walker + Sunn O)))	Lullaby

The second mix is a collection of songs with a nice propulsive motorik groove—I’ve been working on a writing project this last week, and the driving beat is great for focusing.

#	Artist	Track
1	FaUSt, feat.  灰野敬二 Keiji Haino	啊吼！AHOUM!
2	Can	Cuxhaven 76 Drei
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	Nouveaux Modes Exotiques
4	Cyclopean	Knuckles
5	Schneider TM / NOHE NOSHE / Zappi Diermaier	Care B Indoor Caravan
6	Deradoorian	Saturnine Night
7	Irmler + Liebezeit	Washing over Me
8	Nurse With Wound And Stereolab	Trippin' With The Birds
9	Moon Duo	Square of the Sun
10	Seven That Spells	Noi Noi
11	The Young Gods	Astronomic
12	The Damage Manual	Expand (Remix by CAN)
13	Neu!	E-Musik