Mittwoch Mixes - hwæt! Halloween 2026 Mixes

October has returned, and with it, my Halloween mixes.

Find all the previous mixes at hwæt! Halloween Sounds

As is tradition now, I have a Candy Bowl mix for child friendly trick'or'treat hosting, and a Creepy Crawly Dance Party mix for the more adult crowd.

#	Artist	Track
1	Sean Thomson	YdnaC-erP
2	Sean Thomson	Pre-Candy
3	Uncle Fido	They Were Sighing Along
4	Big Bee Kornegay	At The House Of Frankenstein
5	Prairie Ramblers	Ghost in the Graveyard
6	The Polkamaniacs	Zombie Polka (Hand of Venus Remix)
7	J.G. Thirlwell	Chickenhawk
8	Binaural Space	Halloween Under the Blood Moon
9	Hazy Sour Cherry	The Dracula Bop
10	Rebel Rousers	The Zombie Walks
11	Artie Shaw And His Orchestra	Nightmare
12	Chris Kevin	Haunted House
13	The Crewnecks	Rockin’ Zombie
14	Pottsfield	Enoch

#	Artist	Track
1	Lankum	Ghost Town
2	Burt Reynolds	Somebody's Watching Heads Roll (Rockwell vs Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
3	J.G. Thirlwell	Hells Bells
4	Kota Kira	Ghost Chat
5	The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets	The Innsmouth Look
6	Xiu Xiu	I Put a Spell on You
7	Ministry	Everyday (Is Halloween) (Dirt Mix)
8	Pitch Black Manor	I Want You to Haunt Me
9	The Devil & The Universe	Something Wicked feat. Zsüd
10	Madame Reaper	Feast
11	Cheekyboy	Red Right Ghosts n Stuff (Deadmau5 vs Nick Cave)
12	Nouvelle Vague	Bela Lugosi’s Dead
13	S Y Z Y G Y X	Game Over

In addition to those two mixes, I put together another Haunting Mix, unnerving and atmospheric sounds that are probably not child friendly.

#	Artist	Track
1	PIQSIQ	Into the Darkness
2	One Leg One Eye	Glistening, She Emerges
3	Ditch Girls	Bandelier
4	Nurse With Wound	Spooky Loop
5	Chris Alexander	Ecstasy in Red
6	Golem Mecanique	The Red Room
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Death
8	Pumpkin Witch	A Haunted Transmission
9	Bretwalda	The Machabre
10	A Demon In Fun City	Girl with the Graveyard Eyes
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Chaos Hum
12	JG Thirlwell & Mivos Quartet	Fibrostitis
13	Nine Inch Nails	Around Every Corner

The final Hallow'een mix for the year is something I'm calling the Graveyard Love mix, a  mix of songs of dark, doomed love, lust and obsession. It's probably not for everyone, so feel free to skip it if songs about obsessive or painful emotions masquerading as love are not what you want to hear.

#	Artist	Track
1	Bertha Idaho	Graveyard Love
2	Chris Connelly	Graveyard Sex
3	GREEN LUNG	Together in Death
4	Glyn Styler & Lydia Lunch	Casket Made For Two
5	The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets	Burrow Your Way To My Heart
6	Les Deuxluxes	Bloody Queen
7	The Vampires Of Dartmoore	Die Folterkammer Des Dr. Sex
8	Twin Temple	Let’s Hang Together
9	Hazy Sour Cherry	I Wanna Kill Your Girlfriend
10	The Devil’s Blood	Cruel Lover
11	Dark Chisme	Beautiful Obsession Killer
12	Nova Mortuba	Ringfinger
13	Amelia Arsenic	Concrete Heart

Mittwoch Mixes - Leftover Mixes Volumes 1-3

Five years ago, in 2021, during this project’s (relative) infancy, I put together some Tasting Menu Mixes, gathering up tracks from some of my favorite bands and arranging them into an audio three course meal of Appetizer, Dinner and Dessert. Not content to rest there, I followed up with a Brunch mix comprised of side projects and a Covered Platter mix of covers.

Then, in 2023, I did a second volume of Tasting Menu mixes, with thirteen more of my favorite artists, returning to the Appetizer, Dinner and Dessert format. Now, I’ve put together the first of what I’m calling my Leftovers mixes… First a mix of songs from some of the thirty-three artists that have come out since they were last included on a Tasting Menu mix. Followed by another mix of covers of and by the artists, and finally a mix of tracks from side projects.

hwæt! Leftovers Volume 1 – Taking No Steps Back

Firstly, here are thirteen tracks from artists featured on Tasting Menu mixes that have been released since either 2021 or 2023.

#	Artist	Track
1	Matmos	Music or Noise?
2	Boris	She is Burning
3	Divide and Dissolve	Monolithic
4	PIG	Dum Dum Bullet
5	The Legendary Pink Dots	Darkest Knight
6	Foetus	Polar Vortex
7	Dälek	Knowledge | Understanding | Wisdom
8	The Young Gods	Blackwater
9	Pharaoh Overlord	Louhi (Part 1)
10	Chris Connelly	Odeon
11	Elysian Fields	What The Thunder Said
12	Thor & Friends	Heathen Spiritual
13	Crime and the City Solution	Peace in my time

hwæt! Leftovers Volume 2 – Contort Yourself

With my perverse love of covers, how could I resist putting together a Leftovers cover mix of more songs originally by my favorite artists or covered by them?

#	Artist	Track
1	Cocksure	Cokane In My Brain
2	Nurse With Wound	Horst Janowski's 21st Century Swingers
3	Pig	Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
4	Pharaoh Overlord	Revolution
5	Himshe	Sabrina
6	Ella Joyce Buckey	Farmer In The City
7	Fini Tribe	I Want More (7” Mix)
8	The Young Gods	Ghost Rider
9	The Soft Pink Truth	The Anal Staircase
10	Dälek	Prayers For Rain
11	Patrick Q.Wright & Edward Ka-Spel	Waiting For The Cloud 2021
12	Thou, Mizmor, and Emma Ruth Rundle	Night
13	Chris Connelly	A Mutual Friend

hwæt! Leftovers Volume 3 – Weit weit ab vom Schuss

Lastly, here's a selection of tracks from side projects of artists featured on the Tasting Menu mixes.

#	Artist	Track
1	Xordox	Anthrobot
2	The Tear Garden	A Return
3	Jochen Arbeit and Mark Spybey	Welcome to the Camel Corps
4	Irmler + Liebezeit	König Midas
5	Water Damage	Reel 5B
6	Sightless Pit	The Ocean of Mercy
7	HAYWARDxDÄLEK	Between the Word and the Drum
8	Scott Walker + SUNN O)))	Brando
9	Richard Dawson & Circle	Lily
10	UUUU	Boots With Wings
11	Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld	Close Up
12	Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou	The Valley
13	The Soft Pink Truth	Now That It’s All Over

Mittwoch Mixes - Memento Mori 2026 - Part 2

Three more memento mori themed birthday mixes to finish my celebration of another circuit around the sun...

The first, hwæt! Live Slow, Never Die, is over an hour and forty-five minutes of heavy, memento mori themed doom.

#	Artist	Track
1	The Otolith	Sing No Coda
2	Green Lung	Living Fossil
3	Froglord	LIVE BY THE FUZZ
4	Andrew Liles	Slow Death
5	Molasses	Death Is
6	Blood Ceremony	Things Present, Things Past
7	OM	Meditation is the Practice of Death
8	Heavy Temple	Extreme Indifference to Life
9	Faetooth	Meet Your Maker
10	Acid Mammoth	Garden of Bones
11	Witchcryer	I Rise!
12	Bog Wizard	The Void Beckons
13	BIG|BRAVE	what may be the kindest way to leave

Then hwæt! But no one's there to hear me but the plague is a birthday 'party' mix... 'Dance-y' memento mori themed dark pop, goth and industrial.

#	Artist	Track
1	Young Fathers	Pals
2	Jim Sharp	The Plague (Jim Sharp Remix)
3	Your Ancestors Knew Death	Sweeter than the Knife
4	Current 93	Black Ships Ate The Sky remix by Matmos
5	Daniel Knutz	Cemetery of the broken dreams
6	Amelia Arsenic	Live Slow Die Old
7	Blanck Mass	Death Drop
8	Rosa Apatrida	Free My Body
9	The Joy Thieves	This Will Kill That
10	I Ya Toyah	Death’s Kiss
11	PIG	Suffer No More (Chris Vrenna Remix)
12	AMBASSADOR21 & Foetus	Time Marches On
13	Madame Reaper	Another Shot

Finally, hwæt! (i will die for you now) is a classic, eclectic memento mori themed mix.

#	Artist	Track
1	Current 93	Black Ships Ate the Sky I remix by JG Thirlwell
2	Herzschlager	Dead Drop
3	Green Lung	Doomsayer
4	Mesolithic Sound System	Mesolithic Death Shroud
5	Elysian Fields	Hearts Are Open Graves
6	Maria w Horn & Sara Parkman	Memento mori
7	Scott Walker	Phrasing
8	Daniel Blumberg	Search Party
9	Foetus Corruptus	A Prayer For My Death
10	Church of the Cosmic Skull	Everyybody’s Going to Die
11	Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter	IDUMEA
12	Young Fathers	Remember
13	Current 93	Black Ships Ate the Sky II remix by JG Thirlwell

Mittwoch Mixes - Memento Mori 2026 - Part 1

Each year I celebrate my birthday with some now traditional Memento Mori mixes and this year will be no different...

I am starting this blast from the past off with I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo Vol. 2, picking up where the first volume left off, providing thirteen more tracks that were on repeat on my disc-man when I was 16-18. Feel ancient with me as you realize that all of these songs are over a quarter century old...

#	Artist	Track
1	Pigface	Asphole
2	MDFMK	Gasoline
3	Gravity Kills	Guilty (Juno Reactor Mix)
4	KMFDM	Flesh
5	Hate Dept.	Hit Back
6	Skinny Puppy	Assimilate
7	Atari Teenage Riot	Delete Yourself [You Got No Chance to Win!]
8	Pig	SAVE ME
9	Stabbing Westward	Save Yourself
10	Nine Inch Nails	Please
11	Nitzer Ebb	Kick It
12	Sister Machine Gun	What Do You Want from Me
13	Machines of Loving Grace	Suicide King

Next, continuing the inexorable march of time, a cover mix of Nine Inch Nails now that they're firmly ensconced in the Dad Rock pantheon and hitting the point of having albums hit thirty year anniversaries...

#	Artist	Track
1	The Lion’s Daughter	Mr. Self Destruct
2	Bella Lune	Into the Void
3	Unwoman	Every Day Is Exactly the Same
4	The Body & Thou	Terrible Lie
5	Nonexistent Night	The Perfect Drug
6	George Sara and Lara Peterson	Something I Can Never Have (Bleak Mix)
7	Espi Kvlt	reptile
8	Pig	Head Like a Hole
9	Allie Goertz	Ruiner
10	Camille O’Sullivan	Hurt
11	Bussy Kween Power Trip	Bish
12	Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize	Closer (Nine Inch Noize Version)
13	Pigface	Suck (Live)

Mittwoch Mixes - Screaming down the halls & Root that Mountain Down

 Another pair of mixes.

The first, hwæt! Screaming down the halls features some intensive saxophones... When I was in middle school, I got the Stooges' Funhouse album as it was advertised as a precursor to Marilyn Manson. While I left Manson behind long ago, I've stayed a massive Stooges fan and hearing Iggy scream "blow Steve, blow!" in "Funhouse" is one of the touchstones of my musical taste.

Fourteen tracks instead of the usual thirteen, because how could I leave off "Fun House"? This mix is for those who like their saxophone extra Skronky. Also, for those who haven't seen it, the video for Ukandanz's cover of "War Pigs" is more than worth your time.

#	Artist	Track
1	Daniel Blumberg	Jazz Club
2	Free Nelson Mandoom Jazz	Saxophone Giganticus
3	Anguish	Vibrations
4	Boris	Nosferatou
5	Lydia Lunch	The Gospel Singer
6	Nine Inch Nails	Play the Goddamned Part
7	The Stooges	Funhouse
8	The Stooges	L.A. Blues
9	Anna von Hausswolff	Struggle With The Beast
10	Ukandanz	War Pigs
11	Faust	Lights Flicker
12	Xiu Xiu	I Put a Spell on You
13	Seven That Spells	LO III
14	OXBOW & Peter Brötzmann	Over

The second mix, hwæt! Root that Mountain Down, features untraditional takes on traditional and folk songs. Sure, I used "I Wish I Was A Mole In the Ground" on the schlürf mix, but here it is on a mix that will be less painful for those with misophonia.

#	Artist	Track
1	Marco Pirroni	Turpin Hero
2	Áit Ait	The Holland Handkerchief
3	Stick In the Wheel	Villon Song
4	Shovel Dance Collective	The Grey Cock
5	Gazelle Twin	Dance of the Peddlers
6	The Body and BIG|BRAVE	Polly Gosford
7	Tabernacle	Siúil A Rún
8	ANBB	i wish i was a mole in the ground
9	ØXN	Cruel Mother
10	LINGUA IGNOTA	Katie Cruel
11	Ulver	Poor Murdered Woman
12	Coil	All The Pretty Little Horses
13	Rún	Caoineadh

Mittwoch Mixes - We Are What We Eat / WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE, MY HONEY?

Two mixes for all you fine folk this day. The first is a long simmering one that I've had cooking in the back of my mind for years... a mostly lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek food themed mix.

I've had this one stewing for literal years and it finally just clicked into place recently. I know I put the original version of "Crumbs on the Carpet" on my schlürf mix, but it was too fitting to leave off so I put a live version from the French Collection on this mix. There's also a hidden but brief bonus bit of fun hidden near the end of the mix to enjoy.

#	Artist	Track
1	Let’s Eat Grandma	Chocolate Sludge Cake
2	Kibble	Judith, Meet Me at Applebees
3	Cocksure	Ah Don' Eat Meat, Bitch!
4	The Legendary Pink Dots	Crumbs On The Carpet (Live)
5	Pigface	Sweetmeat
6	Gloria	Gloria’s Recipe
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Scampi alla Carlina
8	Coil	Broccoli
9	Pig	One Meatball
10	The Fall	Pumpkin Soup And Mashed Potatoes
11	Mad Max Eliot	Don’t Chew Your Food
12	Hazy Sour Cherry	Midnight Chinese Restaurant
13	Gudrun Gut	Apples and Pears

The second mix is another volume of covers, all of these covers of songs from the 1960's. 

For a while I had thoughts of putting together a volume of Lee Hazelwood covers but it never quite came together. A slight theme of dreams runs through the mix.

#	Artist	Track
1	ANBB	One
2	ÅRABROT	Lightning’s Girl
3	Leaether Strip	Bang Bang
4	KMFDM	Boots (Bombs Remix)
5	Jever Mountain Boys	It’s Dark (In My Heart)
6	Mark Lanegan	You Only Live Twice
7	Einstürzende Neubauten	Morning Dew
8	Pig	If I Can Dream
9	Xiu Xiu	In Dreams
10	Ulver	I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
11	The Cure	Purple Haze
12	Black Needle Noise	What A Wonderful World
13	Jared Louche and the Aliens	Summer Wind

Mittwoch Mix - Uncanny Valley Girlz Vol. 3

Covers came up on Bluesky recently, and I shared that my absolute favorite cover song is Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld's take on "Hey Hey My My"

But then I got thinking of all the other cover mixes I've made and have in the works, so tossed together a 3rd Volume of Uncanny Valley Girlz, mixes of covers to put on as background music at a gathering where you want people’s ears to prick up and for them to exclaim, “wait, is this a cover of…?”

The cover of Enya's "Book of Days" will probably only be recognized by a tiny of sliver of people, but oh, the look on their faces...

#	Artist	Track
1	Spider God	Dance
2	Mycorrhizal	Pink Pony Club
3	Deconbrio	Bette Davis Eyes
4	Easter Teeth	I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
5	Th Da Freak	Crazy In Love
6	CALLmeKAT	Toxic
7	Nahadoth	Book of Days
8	Common Rotation	We’re Not Gonna Take It
9	Kota Kira	Genie in a Bottle
10	Alpha Chrome Yayo	Break Stuff
11	Black Needle Noise	Losing My Religion
12	Cabaret Voltaire	Theme from Shaft
13	Xiu Xiu	Psycho Killer

I also decided to put the Uncanny Valley Girlz Songs together in a youtube music playlist, but as a reminder, you won't find all the songs there, for all the songs you need to listen to the Mixcloud mixes put together in their own handy playlist.

Mittwoch Mixes - Working & Zurück

I've revived my other blog, Antagonist Relations, as I've been working on some Hunter material that I want to publish through the Storyteller's Guild, among other things.

I've started re-listening to the hwæt! give me infinite skies mix as the motorik beat is great for focusing while working, and then decided to make another playlist of nearly wordless songs to work to for a little variety.

This mix is still propulsive, but I didn't focus on the motorik Krautrock beat. I'll probably make another Working Mix next month that switches back to that style.

#	Artist	Track
1	Excepter	Stretch (JG Thirlwell Remix)
2	Fini Tribe	Goose Duplicates (Instrumental)
3	Chemlab	Electric Molecular (KMFDM Instrumental No Taxes Mix)
4	Front Line Assembly	Molotov (Instrumental) feat. Seeming
5	Dälek	Cement (Demo Instrumental)
6	The Bug	Absent Riddim
7	Pharaoh Overlord	Blue Light Hum – Instrumental
8	Gudrun Gut	Apples And Pears (Instrumental Dub)
9	Meat Beat Manifesto	Moving Pulse
10	Pig	Silt (Euphonic Remix)
11	Gravity Kills	Guilty (Roli Mossiman Instrumental)
12	The Young Gods	In C: , Pt. 9
13	Xordox	Corridor

The second mix for this week was inspired by listening to the 2025 Fini Tribe compilation The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe, I discovered that "Do We Understand Each Other" shared some lyrical fragments with Chris Connelly's later project Damage Manual's "Mad Dialect".

So I put together a mix of artists updating their own earlier work in different versions, almost covers, but where the original artist or one of their later projects covers the earlier work.

#	Artist	Track
1	Schwein	My Sanctuary
2	The Damage Manual	Mad Dialect
3	The Legendary Pink Dots	Neon Calculators
4	Coil	Teenage Lightning 2005
5	Carter Tutti	Lost Bliss (2015 Version)
6	Einstürzende Neubauten	Neun Arme / Die Nacht
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	Gladiators (Version Apocalypse)
8	Einstürzende Neubauten	neun arme
9	Chris & Cosey	Lost Bliss
10	Coil	Teenage Lightning
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	Neon Gladiators (Version one)/Obsession
12	Fini Tribe	Do We Understand Each Other (Live at Calton Studios, Edinburgh, 1987)
13	Pig	My Sanctuary

Mittwoch Mix - 2025 Yearly Send Off Mixes

I started to look through the music that came out in 2025 and this pair of mixes came together quickly as another pair of annual Vision Board/Yearly Send Off mixes... Each mix features the same thirteen artists, all the songs from 2025 or December 2024 for the first mix, hwæt! Sing along with the dead and gone / Something's coming, something's wrong while the second mix, hwæt! I’m gonna laugh at my bones dips back into discographies for several songs.

Not necessarily my favorite tracks of 2025, but all songs that spoke to me in a way and that seemed to fit for these mixes.

After January 1st, 2026, you'll be able to check out my Last.fm Listening Report for the year if you're morbidly curious about my listening habits...

A mix of 13 tracks from 2025 that feel like an apt summation of the year, a kind of aural send-off as it joins the dustbin of history.

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	The Ruin
2	Panopticon	The Poppies Bloom for No King
3	Transgressive	The Way the World Ends
4	Agriculture	My Garden
5	Lung	Clown Car
6	Pig	Veni Vidi Vici (Tweaker Remix)
7	Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann	Where Are We Now?
8	Loot the Body	The Vinyl Flatlands
9	The Young Gods	Appear Disappear
10	Gloria	Harpocrate I
11	The Legendary Pink Dots	So Lonely in Heaven
12	Lankum	Ghost Town
13	Daniel Blumberg & John Tilbury	Intermission

A companion mix to hwæt! Sing along with the dead and gone / Something's coming, something's wrong, turning the page from eulogizing 2025 to looking forward to 2026...

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	Dead By Morning
2	Loot the Body	Tasty Jamz
3	Lung	Sunshine’s Over
4	The Young Gods	Shine that Drone
5	Agriculture	Bodhidharma
6	Daniel Blumberg	Steel
7	Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann	Helden
8	Lankum	Peat Bog Soldiers
9	Transgressive	Never Go Quiet
10	Panopticon	Broken Bars
11	Gloria	Harpocrate II
12	Pig	Glitz Krieg (Republica Remix)
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	A Velvet Resurrection (Version)

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part IV

It's time for the final set of Mittwoch Yule Tunes mixes for December 2025...

For those in Minnesota, Carlson's Llovable Llamas is a great place to take a holiday card photo...

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part III

 It's a Wednesday in December, so that means it's time for more Mittwoch Yule Tunes Mixes...

First page of John Taylor's pamphlet The Vindication of Christmas

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part II

Since I posted Part I last week, I've updated my Yule Tunes page with links to a series of youtube music playlists gathering up themed mixes.

As I add more 2025 mixes, I'll add to these "megamixes". They lack many of the tracks included in my yule tunes mixes as I am limited by the music publicly available on youtube, but for those who don't do mixcloud they are a taste of my holiday music collection. So, for the full experience listen on mixcloud.

But for those who find youtube music easier or who want to more easily see tracks, I figured I should put these mixes together. So browse, listen, discover new Yule Tunes & shuffle them up to see what catches your ears.

On to the new mixes!

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2025 - Part I

It's that time of year again, when I compulsively compile mixes of holiday music... 

Adding to the over FORTY mixes from previous years, here are the first three Yuletunes mixes for 2025...

I get nearly all of my music thru Bandcamp these days, so if you're looking to pick up more songs from an album you like from one of these mixes, check out my collection there (and comment/message if you need help, since I have 3500+ items in my collection...)

Mittwoch Mixes - November 2025

A pair of mixes for November before I descend deep into Xmas music season...

The first is hwæt! Still Life in an Apocalypse - Which serves as the second volume of my Brick Wall Mix series. Composed of a set mix of songs that make me feel like I could run through a Goddamn Brick Wall. High energy and featuring a healthy dollop of righteous anger.

#	Artist	Track
1	Herzschlager	Kill Your Heroes
2	Transgressive	A Unified War Cry
3	healthyliving	To the Gallows
4	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Planet B
5	Acumen Nation	Gun Lover
6	Sister Machine Gun	Voices / Machine
7	The Damage Manual	Stateless (Delusional Mix)
8	Cocksure	Cold Dick
9	Error	Nothing’s Working
10	Boris & Uniform	No
11	Allfather	Citadels (Live)
12	Glacial Tomb	Fuck Nazi Sympathy
13	Ashenspire	Cable Street Again

The second mix is hwæt! I PAID TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT A PRIVATE COLLEGE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MIX… 

I graduated from college back in the halcyon days of 2005, over twenty years ago now, and when I was putting together the Not A Place of Honor mix, I was reminded of how my musical taste was shaped by my student years as Die Warzau and Big Black were both groups I discovered while spelunking among the light-less shelves of my college radio station. 

Even in the early 2000's, even at a tiny college that was smaller than my high school, no one really wanted to let me inflict my musical taste upon the public at large, so when I submitted my applications with the lists of artists and songs I wanted to play I was invariably assigned slots that began at midnight at the earliest. One semester I memorably got the 'coveted' 2am to 4am Saturday morning slot...

Still, I didn't care because it meant I had access to the thousands and thousands of CDs in the collection letting me fall down rabbit holes and discover obscure bands that my suburban corporate music stores would never bring to me or to enjoy the deep well of music from the 80s and 90s that I had missed. My only regret is that during my initial orientation the record player was broken so I never learned how to use it.

College was also my first access to high speed internet connections (such as they were back then) which also meant my musical tastes and access expanded in ways that anyone around my age knows very well... Meaning that I could get my hands on say, Schwein, the Japan based Pig side project.

This mix also serves as a follow-up to my I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo Mix, charting how as I transformed from nerdy teen to pretentiously academic English major to eccentric middle-aged hipster. Just like that mix, it's not necessarily my favorite music from that period, but a slightly thematic selection of bands that I either discovered or really got into during my college time. 

#	Artist	Track
1	The Sisters of Mercy	Lucretia My Reflection
2	Test Dept.	Sweet Sedation
3	Killing Joke	Millennium
4	Big Black	The Ugly American
5	Cabaret Voltaire	Big Funk
6	Pop Will Eat Itself	Ich Bin Ein Auslander
7	haloblack	it’s bizarre
8	Peace Love & Pitbulls	White White White (Finished Already Mix)
9	Schwein	World’s Junk
10	Chemlab	Binary Nation
11	Acumen Nation	Chameleon Skin
12	Die Warzau	King of Rock and Roll
13	The Legendary Pink Dots	Abracadabra zzzz

The source image for the cover art for hwæt! I PAID TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT A PRIVATE COLLEGE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS MIX… is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beloit_College_Middle_College.jpg originally by Robin Zebrowski and was edited and modified under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Mittwoch Mixes - hwæt! Halloween 2025 Mixes

Another year, another set of Halloween mixes. Plus, I created a landing page for all of my Halloween Mixes - hwæt! Halloween Sounds to mirror my Yule Tunes page.

This year I compiled five mixes of Halloween sounds ranging for trick or treater friendly to eerie and terrifying.

First another Candy Bowl Mix, a mix of slightly eerie, slightly silly songs that should be suitable to have on in the background while you're passing out treats to costumed children.

#	Artist	Track
1	Bradley Thomas Turner	Spooky Season (in the Foyer)
2	8-Bit Arcade	Ghostbusters
3	Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers	Graveyard Shift
4	The Swingin’ Phillies	Frankenstein’s Party
5	Putney Dandridge	Skeleton In The Closet
6	Uncle Fido	They Find a Haunted House
7	Mr. Basemen & The Symbols	Do The Zombie
8	Hazy Sour Cherry	Zombilly Rave (till someone call police!)
9	Mark Malibu & the Wasagas	Ghost Hunter
10	New Mayfair Dance Orchestra	The Haunted House
11	Baron Daemon & The Vampires	Ghost Guitars
12	Earl Patterson With The Dars	Nightmare Hop
13	The Fabulous Five	Janie Made A Monster

Then, another the Creepy Crawly Dance Party mix, a selection of vaguely sinister and monstrous to outright Halloween themed songs suitable for an adult costume party.

#	Artist	Track
1	Black Market Dub & Wise Owl	No More Room In Hell
2	RATPAJAMA	Danse Macabre
3	Dark Chisme	Fangs
4	Peter Aldrich featuring Jon Harman & David Williams	Dawn of the Dead
5	Pitch Black Manor	The Halloween Scene
6	Magic Sword	“Candyman” Theme
7	Fini Tribe	Make It Internal (Integrity Mix) (2025 Remaster)
8	Hazy Sour Cherry	Monster’s Party
9	Witchboard	Supernaturals Fill The Floor w Grace Sings Sludge
10	Frayle	Bela Lugosi’s Dead
11	Suzi Sabotage	Love at First Bite
12	The Legendary Pink Dots	The Light In My Little Girl’s Eyes
13	Unwoman	Everyday Is Halloween

Followed by another Folky mix of murder ballads and other macabre songs in a more folk or traditional style. Probably just a little too intense at points to hand out candy while listening to. 

#	Artist	Track
1	Shirley Collins	Cruel Lincoln
2	Lankum	What Put the Blood
3	Unwoman	The Eldritch One, Jolene
4	Forest Mountain Hymnal	Pretty Polly
5	Myrkur	Den lille piges død (Live)
6	Jeremiah Sand	No You Are Mine
7	Ian Lynch	The Hunt
8	The Post-Timey String Band	Wherewolf
9	Marissa Nadler and Milky Burgess	The Bloody Gardener
10	Emel	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
11	ØXN	Love Henry
12	The Rowan Amber Mill	The Ballad of the Witchfinder General
13	Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien	All Our Lonely Ghosts

And a mix of Halloween Adjacent Metal tracks, for those who want some seasonal head bangers. Definitely more on the adult end of things.

#	Artist	Track
1	Wolfmen of Mars	The Silent Panic
2	Froglord	Cryptids
3	Frayle	Boo
4	Castle Rat	Nightblood
5	GREEN LUNG	Templar Dawn
6	Christian Mistress	Haunted, Hunted
7	YRRE	Dustsceawung
8	Witchcryer	Witchfinder General
9	Molassess	Death Is
10	Possessor	Bloodsuckers
11	Faetooth	Death of Day
12	BORIS + ENDON	Painkiller (Judas Priest)
13	ÚZKOST	The Witch & the Tyrant (Featuring Whitney Moore)

Finally, a mix of haunting and unnerving songs for a more atmospheric and decidedly child unfriendly evening of horror.

#	Artist	Track
1	Dorit Chrysler	Murder Ballad
2	Sheet Ghosts	Nothing but the Night
3	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids	The Devil in Amber
4	FM Einheit	Hymne (Witch burn)
5	The Night Terrors	Kuceli Woke Up In The Graveyard
6	Young Fathers	Alpha
7	The Wades	Sídhe
8	Gazelle Twin	Fear Keeps Us Alive
9	Giants of Discovery	Terror In The South Tower
10	Rún	Such is the Kingdom
11	Grey Frequency	Elegy for Vinegar Tom
12	Lustmord & Zola Jesus	Prime
13	Bretwalda	A Dread Soaking (Oh Lord)