Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Alien Pop Monday 00.3 - Just give me the missing ingredients

 Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the third track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Pestalozzi." Also, it's not really Monday anymore. I did not set myself a reminder and with all of the *gestures vaguely at rapidly deteriorating world*, well, I ended up finishing work yesterday and playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom while my snuggling with my cats instead of posting this mix, though I have since set myself some reminders to stay on schedule in the future.

# Artist Track
1 Einstürzende Neubauten Pestalozzi
2 Extra Life Haven't Learned a Thing
3 Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld Dear Carlo
4 Shirley Collins Hares on the Mountain
5 Lankum On a Monday Morning
6 Mick Harvey A Suitcase in Berlin
7 Chris Connelly The Heart Has To Ache Before It Learns To Beat
8 Nina Nastasia I Write Down Lists
9 Mario Batkovic QUIS EST QUIS (feat. Colin Stetson)
10 Sister Machine Gun Call It Mine
11 Seeming Learn to Vanish
12 Coil Departed
13 Einstürzende Neubauten Alles

Re-listening to this mix, it ended up being a little bit melancholy which I didn't expect, but which seems to fit to me. Perhaps important to the mix is that "Pestalozzi" references a 20th century Scottish educational reformer. Also, both "Haven't Learned a Thing" and "Dear Carlo" are exactly 5 minutes and 21 seconds long, a fact that is probably only interesting to me and that I only noticed after I had finalized the track order. The alternate title I considered for this mix was Anything that isn't crap, but I decided against it as these thirteen tracks are decidedly not crap and I did not want anything to even hint at that association.

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