Alien Pop Monday 00.15 - erkannt das Sehnen die Knoten hält

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Fifteenth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Gesundbrunnen."  Here it is, after 15 mixes, the end—complete with 195 tracks and 131 artists featured, a corpus of what feels, to me at least, to be Alien Pop Music.

There is a passage in KOLLAPS by Melle Jan Kromhout & Jan Nieuwenhuis that speaks to the concept of Alien Pop Music that I re-read just before finalizing this mix, as I made the decision to have "Sehnsucht" (desire) off of Kollaps, their fisrt EN album, serve as the final song that I think serves as a nice conclusion to this series...

Desire is the breath that fuels life and connects the inside of the living body to the world outside. Air spreads around in the depths of the lungs, where it branches out. Oxygen flows through blood and brains until it is used up and residual gas is exhaled to make room. Just like this Einstürzende Neubauten feeds itself with sound. The band is an organism that mutates with each consecutive song. It inhales sound. It lives on sound. Just as every breath is an extension of life, sound is Einstürzende Neubauten's sustenance.

This way, the band absorbs other kinds of music and makes certain elements their own [...] With each song, Einstürzende Neubauten wanders further into unknown territory and encounters different sounds and music to reorganize themselves. 

Kromhout, Melle Jan, and Jan Nieuwenhuis. Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps, pp. 83–84.  

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Gesundbrunnen
2	Cinder Well	The Doorway
3	The Damage Manual	Limited Edition
4	Laura Cannell & Nik Colk Void	Closer to Heaven (Nik Colk Void remix)
5	Cold Specks	Void
6	Nihiloxica	Black Kaveera
7	One Leg One Eye	I’d Rather Be Tending My Sheep
8	Nine Inch Nails	God Break Down the Door
9	Ulver	The Hour of the Wolf
10	Jochen Arbeit	Darkness
11	Chemlab	Pink
12	Ryuichi Sakamoto	fullmoon
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Sehnsucht

Wo vorher keine Tür war / Da machen ich dir jetzt auf

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Wait until you know the time is right on time / The end is near

 The (probably not) long awaited return of my annual Birthday Mix tradition...

Back in 2021, I was turning 38 and compiled the Better In My Day Mix, a selection of songs that is equal parts tongue in cheek memento mori, peculiar birthday allusions & references with a few aspirational touches to complete the mix.

Then in 2022, with my 39th birthday, I compiled a baker's dozen of songs all released the year of my birth, 1983, vertrocknet im Sonnenlicht.

For my 40 birthday in 2023, I went all out, first I gathered songs that I love and that were recorded before I was born. The very slightest theme of Memento Mori threads through many, but not all, of them, gathered together as hwæt! Before My Time.

Then I compiled the hwæt! Top Forty... a mix of 41 songs one a year for each year I’d been around, plus one for that 41st year. As with all of my birthday mixes, there is a tiny bit of Memento Mori, but mostly these are just songs I like.

Last summer, this blog was on a hiatus, but now, with my 42nd birthday approaching, I've assembled a mix to revive this tradition, hwæt! Wait until you know the time is right on time / The end is near. Mostly but not all, released since my last birthday. A little less of a memento mori mix, but those melancholy motifs remain.

#	Artist	Track
1	Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann	Lazarus
2	Allie Goertz	The Great Destroyer
3	Gloria	Artemis
4	Zombie Zombie	Double Z
5	Sumac & Moor Mother	Camera
6	Young Fathers	Lowly
7	Xordox	Unreality
8	The Young Gods	Systemized
9	Dark Chisme	Lucretia My Reflection
10	The Cure	Drone:Nodrone
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Blood Money : Transitional
12	PIG	The Ratchet Effect
13	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Durch Mich

Not gonna lie, since I saw 28 Years Later, I've been pondering how I can make sure that on that distant day my skull is added to the bone temple...

Alien Pop Monday 00.14 - Fossiliien, die wir beide sind

Another Alien Pop Monday...

This mix builds off the Fourteenth track from Rampen (apm: alien pop music), "Trilobiten." After seven months of this project, we've reached the penultimate mix. 

Off the top of my head, "Trilobiten" is one of the most 'folk' songs Neubauten has ever released, up there with "Ein Stuhl in der Hölle" and this mix definitely leans a little in that direction.

#	Artist	Track
1	Einstürzende Neubauten	Trilobiten
2	Kikagaku Moyo	Trilobites
3	Angeline Morrison	Ophelia
4	Chris Connelly	Ophelia Moment
5	The Body and BIG|BRAVE	Once I had a Sweetheart
6	Panopticon	The Devil Walked the Woods
7	Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Kim Myhr, Jenny Hval	Me, you, me, you
8	Rudolph Moser	CAUSE YOU
9	Your Ancestors Knew Death	A Fossil Record
10	How To Destroy Angels	Ice Age
11	Gloria	Styx
12	Hacia Dos Veranos	I’ll Be Your Mirror
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Youme & Meyou (Live)

Was ist noch uebrig?