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
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