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.