This mix builds off the fourth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Es könnte sein." With a cover of a Nick Cave song, tracks from Björk, Sonic Youth and the Cure, this is probably the most terrestrial pop of the Gelb mixes, but hopefully it's balanced out by some more esoteric tracks and fits together cohesively for others and not just me.
| # | Artist | Track |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Einstürzende Neubauten | Es könnte sein |
| 2 | Camille O’Sullivan | god is in the house (live) |
| 3 | Pauline Oliveros & Randy Raine-Reusch | Whispers In The Ears Of Night |
| 4 | Rudolph Moser | Metronia |
| 5 | Björk | Possibly Maybe |
| 6 | Alan Vega | Why Couldn’t it be you |
| 7 | X-TG | Mütterlein |
| 8 | The Young Gods | Speak Low |
| 9 | Sonic Youth | Shadow of a Doubt |
| 10 | The Cure | If Only Tonight We Could Sleep |
| 11 | Scott Walker | A Lover Loves |
| 12 | The Legendary Pink Dots | This Could Be The End |
| 13 | Einstürzende Neubauten | Abstieg & Zerfall |
The whispering thread through these tracks is pretty obvious, but there were other connections that drew the songs together for me that I'd like to think will shine through for others as well. Also, I cannot recommend METRONIA enough to other fans of Einstürzende Neubauten.
I had been at a loss for the final closing track for this mix until I read Kromhout & Nieuwenhuis write about Abstieg & Zerfall in their book on KOLLAPS... "Noise is the connector, the medium of choice. Without it, there would be no music, no message and no relation." I had been listening to Kollaps as I read and I went back again and listened to the song and it found its place here on this mix as I kept those words in mind.
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