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