Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Top Forty

To celebrate my 40th year, here are forty songs, one a year for each year I’ve been around, plus one for this 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.

Year	#	Artist	Track
1983	1	Einstürzende Neubauten	DNS Wasserturm
1984	2	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Well of Misery
1985	3	The Legendary Pink Dots	I’m The Way, The Truth, The Light
1986	4	Skinny Puppy	Dig It
1987	5	The Sisters of Mercy	This Corrosion
1988	6	KMFDM	Disgust
1989	7	Ministry	Never Believe
1990	8	Meat Beat Manifesto	Deviate
1991	9	Edward Ka-Spel	The Baker’s Man
1992	10	Chris Connelly	July
1993	11	Machines of Loving Grace	Limiter
1994	12	Nurse With Wound	R+B Through Collis Browne
1995	13	Earth	Tibetan Quaaludes
1996	14	Chemlab	Jesus Christ Porno Star
1997	15	Stereolab	Miss Modular
1998	16	The Legendary Pink Dots	Hellsville ‘98
1999	17	Nine Inch Nails	We’re In This Together
2000	18	MDFMK	Get Out of My Head
2001	19	h3llb3nt	Jet Boy Machine
2002	20	Steroid Maximus	Chain Reaction
2003	21	Sister Machine Gun	Influence
2004	22	Einstürzende Neubauten	Selbstportrait mit Kater
2005	23	Alexander Hacke	Sanctuary
2006	24	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Phenomena
2007	25	The Young Gods	The Color Code
2008	26	Alec Empire	On Fire (The Hellish Vortex Sessions)
2009	27	Current 93	Not Because the Fox Barks
2010	28	The Fall	Dr Buck’s Letter
2011	29	Wire	Red Barked Trees
2012	30	Scott Walker	Corps De Blah
2013	31	How To Destroy Angels	Welcome Oblivion
2014	32	Swans	She Loves Us
2015	33	Cocksure	Razor Invader
2016	34	Grumbling Fur	Heavy Days
2017	35	Xordox	Antidote
2018	36	Gazelle Twin	Hobby Horse
2019	37	Test Dept.	Information Scare
2020	38	Einstürzende Neubauten	Ten Grand Goldie
2021	39	The Lion’s Daughter	Become the Night
2022	40	The Bug	Fractured ft Dälek
2023	41	Henges	Suffocate

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt! Before My Time

 

As the anniversary of my birth approaches again, I've collected a mix of thirteen 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.

This continues my tradition of making birthday mixes for myself, following my Better In My Day Mix and Vertrocknet im Sonnenlicht 

#	Artist	Track
1	Scott Walker	The Seventh Seal
2	Can	Oh Yeah
3	Rogér Fakhr	(Such A) Trip Thru Time
4	Neil Young	Old Man
6	Faust	Krautrock
7	Jerry Goldsmith	Main Title from Alien
8	The Monks	I Hate You
8	The Velvet Underground	Heroin
9	Shirley Collins	The Unquiet Grave
10	Apocalypse	Only the Children Know
11	The Stooges	Fun House
12	Sun Ra & His Arkestra	Sea of Sounds
13	The Birthday Party	Mr. Clarinet

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt SPRING SOUNDS 2023

Spring has sprung, despite April snow showers lingering in Minnesota where I live, though those were followed by 80 degree weather and then plunging temperatures and even more snow. Still, it is vernal enough that I was inspired to put together a mix of songs about spring and flowers.

#	Artist	Track
1	Earth	the bees made honey in the lion’s skull (dub)
2	Einstürzende Neubauten	Blume
3	Mick Harvey	Come On Spring
4	Julia Kent	Spring Snow
5	PJ Harvey & John Parish	April
6	Jozeph Sefian	Karoun E Yegel (Spring Has Come)
7	Kali Malone	Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.2
8	Grinderman	Chain of Flowers
9	Can	Vernal Equinox
10	Six Organs of Admittance	Procession of Cherry Blossom Spirits
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Prague Spring
12	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Soli Si Muore
13	Boris With Merzbow	Flower Sun Rain

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt quarterly archive q1.2023

a companion mix to the hwæt quarterly report, this mix features the older tracks that I either discovered or became fixated on during the quarter.

Most of the tracks are from older albums I picked up in the last few months, but I included the Elysian Fields' song after seeing them live at an incredibly intimate and breath-taking show at the start of March. 

I grabbed The Sister of Mercy's Vision Thing after I realized it was a gap in my collection because I was grooving to both the Unwoman cover of Temple of Love included on this mix but also her excellent covers of Some Kind of Stranger and More.

With my weakness for Neil Young covers, I couldn't not include Nomadic War Machine's version of "Hey Hey, My My"

The other topical song included is "Für wen sind die Blumen?" brought to you by Einstürzende Neubauten returning to the studio.

#	Artist	Track	From
1	Unwoman	Temple of Love	Lemniscate: Uncovered Volume 2
2	Sisters of Mercy	Vision Thing	Vision Thing (Remastered)
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	Another Kind of Violence	Only Dreaming
4	dj haram	Candle Light (700 Bliss Remix)	Grace
5	Nomadic War Machine	Hey Hey My My	Creatures of the Wind
6	Einstürzende Neubauten	Für wen sind die Blumen?	Strategies Against Architecture III
7	FaUSt, feat.  灰野敬二 Keiji Haino	你想要更多吗？ Do You Want More?	这条路是正确的 This Is the Right Path
8	The Hologram People	Theme from Village of the Snake God	Village of the Snake God
9	Elysian Fields	Crows Over Cornfields	Once Beautiful Twice Removed
10	Sonja	When The Candle Burns Low…	LOUD ARRIVER
11	Byssus	Wolves and Caribou	In Foras
12	Maria W Horn & Sara Parkman	Kyrie	Funeral Folk
13	Arklay Mountains	Any man who counts on the aid of a God deserves the help he doesn't get	...Are Afraid of these Geese

Mittwoch Mix - hwæt quarterly report 1st quarter 2023

 

 

I do a lot of thematic mixes, but this series of Quarterly Reports compiles tracks from the albums released during the quarter that captured my attention.

#	Artist	Track	From
1	Lankum	Go Dig My Grave	False Lankum
2	BIG|BRAVE	the fable of subjugation	nature morte
3	Ashenspire	Plattenbau Persephone Praxis	Hostile Architecture
4	Dawn Ray’d	Requital	TO KNOW THE LIGHT
5	Betty Benedeadly & Brandon Guess	Primordial Rhythms	At the Institute of Mentalphysics
6	Score	Brink	COPE
7	Zohra	Empire Grave	Murder in the Temple
8	Sightless Pit	Calcified Glass (feat YoshimiO & Gangsta Boo)	Lockstep Bloodwar
9	Dynasti	A Ticking Tyranny	Quantum Primitiv
10	Úzkost	Arise: Assemble! Conjoin Your Flame!	For Property and Profit
11	Earth	the dark and bloody ground	Even Hall has its Heroes
12	Transgressive	Unheard Voices	Extreme Transgression
13	Enslaved	Forest Dweller	Heimdal

Of course, since I limited myself to my usual 13 track mix length, a few albums I quite enjoyed from Q1 2023 didn't make it into the mix but are still well worth seeking out. In no particular order here are a half dozen more albums you should grab.

Radical Romantics - Fever Ray

Does Spring Hide Its Joy - Kali Malone

Satanic Transgender Terrorism - Wolven Daughter

Rise of the Machines - Mychorrhizal

Spacetudes & Spacetudes Too - Binaural Space

Denies My Tongue To Tell - Espi Kvlt

Mittwoch Mix - Now that’s hwæt I call 2023…

 

Not quite the aural vision boards I've done previously... this mix is half that and half doomed premonition... and quite late...

#	Artist	Track
1	The Young Gods	Moon Revolutions (Live with The Lausanne Sinfonietta)
2	dälek	A Heretic’s Inheritance
3	Lung	Let It Be Gone
4	Zola Jesus	Sewn
5	Zeal and Ardor	Death to the Holy
6	Murderbait	Lost
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	Needles (Version Sirius)
8	Adzes	The Impulse
9	Putrescine	Cursed By Birth
10	Panopticon	Snow Burdened Branches
11	Wolven Daughter	It’s Time to Get High and Burn the Confederate Flag
12	Pig	Glitz Krieg
13	ÅRABROT	The World Must Be Destroyed

Mittwoch Mix - New Year's and Time

 

 

Moving away from the #YuleTunes, but not too far...

It's a Yule Tunes adjacent mix, but dedicated to a New Year's Eve Party Vibe.

#	Artist	Track
1	Urban Surf Kings	Auld Lang Syne
2	Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene	New Year’s Day My Way
3	The Qualities	Happy New Year to You!
4	Bacchae	This Will Be Our Year
5	Unwoman	New Years Day
6	Let’s Eat Grandma	Happy New Year
7	Akron/Family	Last Year
8	Einstürzende Neubauten	Musentago
9	Tuba Skinny	Last Minute Waltz
10	Rollerball	Happy New Year to You!
11	Charles Brown	Bringing In A Brand New Year
12	Eban Schletter	Auld Lang Syne
13	Emel	New Year’s Prayer

 

Adjacent to a New Year's Mix, inspired by "30 Century Man" and built around the passage of time.

#	Artist	Track
1	Scott Walker	30 Century Man
2	CAN	Nineteen Century Man
3	Danny Elfman	In Time (feat. Blixa Bargeld)
4	Pierre Omar & the Nightcruisers	Time Flies
5	Josie Pace	Future
6	Stephen Mallinder	The Trial
7	Gazelle Twin	History
8	Foetus	Today I Started Slogging Again
9	The Glass Beads	Time to Time
10	Zola Jesus	Future Ruins
11	The Young Gods	About Time (Live)
12	Wire	23 Years Too Late
13	Einstürzende Neubauten	Birth Lunch Death