Mittwoch Mix - There's nothing to read, nothing to see

This mix started as an attempt to return to my annual Vision Board/Yearly Send Off mixes and meandered into a mix that is a bit melancholy at turns and unexpectedly a bit nautically themed.

Though it's not a best of 2024, it features tracks from some of my favorite albums from 2024, the exception being "The Feast" off of ØXN's CYRM which was released in late 2023 and new to me in 2024 and Crime & the City Solution's acoustic version of "The Bride Ship," which is incredible alternate take on one of my absolutely favorite songs.

#	Artist	Track
1	Shellac	Girl From Outside
2	The Cure	Warsong
3	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Libelle & Gigant
4	Elysian Fields	Before the Crashing Waves
5	Fat White Family	Religion for One
6	Shovel Dance Collective	The Merry Golden Tree
7	Crime & the City Solution	The Bride Ship (Acoustic)
8	Lankum	The Pride of Petravore (Live in Dublin)
9	Pig	Red Room
10	ØXN	The Feast
11	Chris Connelly	Port of St. Catharine
12	Einstürzende Neubauten	Trilobiten
13	BIG|BRAVE	i felt a funeral

hwæt! And when you least think of you…

I had originally thought that I'd put out a mix of songs with exquisite mouth sounds, inspired by Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld's incredible "Menschenentsafter" but I need to spend a little more time sifting through my collection to make sure I've truly assembled the best of what I have.

So instead, I built a mix around another of the tracks off of the incredible album Christian & Mauro, "Bisogna Morire" or 'you must die', which is a more cheerful memento mori than the name might suggest. The resulting mix is by turns playful and melancholy, autumnal and heartening, and hopefully a balm for the listener's soul.

#	Artist	Track
1	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Bisogna Morire
2	Elysian Fields	This World Is Just a World
3	Unwoman	Falling Leaves
4	Lankum	Cold Old Fire
5	Rogér Fakhr	Rainhill
6	Mick Harvey	Alone with the Stars
7	Philip Glass	Mishima (Bob’s Burgers Arrangement)
8	Allie Goertz	We’re in This Together
9	Chris Connelly	Fini Chagall
10	Anita Lane	Bella Ciao
11	Einstürzende Neubauten	All of No Man’s Land is Ours
12	The Young Gods & The Lausanne Sinfonietta	She Rains (Live)
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	Space Captain (Extended)

I also made the mix as a youtube music playlist, though since all the songs are at the mercy of google making them available, you're really better off listening on Mixcloud where they won't disappear unless the whole mix is taken down...

Mittwoch Mixes - Satan & Sadness

I've neglected this blog and publishing mixes for a while as the rough beast of 2022 has slouched on. Still, I have muddled on with mixes, plucking away at my spreadsheet where I compile them. At current count I have two dozen or so that I've been working on, with two or three mostly ready and just in need of sequencing, finalizing the track list or making an image for.

These two mixes have been occupying me for a while, so it was time for them to be let loose.