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...