I WANNA SCREAM OUT LOUD

 

There are days when I want music to scream along to for some kind of catharsis—this is a mix for those kinds of days…

#	Artist	Track
1	Alec Empire	XXV3
2	Allfather	Citadels
3	Underdark	With Ashen Hands Around Our Throats
4	Thou	Fucking Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
5	Einstürzende Neubauten	Abfackeln!
6	Body Void	Laying Down In A Forest Fire
7	PIG	Find It Fuck It Forget It
8	Je$us Loves Amerika ft. Chris Connelly & Gord Young	The Great Pretender
9	Zeal and Ardor	Wake of a Nation
10	The Lion’s Daughter	All Hell is Mine
11	Panopticon	Flag Burner Torch Bearer 2020 (re recording)
12	GREEN LUNG	Born to a Dying World
13	LINGUA IGNOTA	THE SOLITARY BRETHREN OF EPHRATA

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Three

 

The inevitable march of the holiday season continues, which means it's time for more Yule Tunes... As a reminder you can find all the previous Yule Tunes entry at the hwæt Yule Tunes Page.

A mix of unusual instrumentation and arrangements to add some spice to your holiday festivities—featuring bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, dulcimer, sitar, theremin and more...

#	Artist	Track
1	The Snake Charmer	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Bagpipes
2	GurdyBird	God Rest Ye Merry, Wicker Men
3	Sean Thomson	Here We Come A-Wassailing
4	Butch Ross	Trepak (The Russian Dance)
5	Thor Harris	Carol of My Balls
6	Uncle Fido	Ding Dong! Merrily on High
7	Said Fantasy	Greensleeves
8	Secret Chiefs 3	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
9	The Cavernous	We Wish You a Merry Christmas
10	Earl the Bard	Good King Wenceslas
11	Japan Theremin Old School	Ave Maria
12	Paddy Finnegan’s Green Machine	Auld Lang Syne

A lively mix of songs with instrumentation and arrangements that hearken back to centuries long ago.

#	Artist	Track
1	Daniel Hart feat. Katinka Vindelev	Be Merry, Swete Lorde
2	GreenMatthews	Bring Us In Good Ale
3	Rowan : Morrison	Corpus Christi Carol
4	Nativity Songs	Boar’s Head Carol
5	Earl the Bard	Щедрик (Shchedryk)
6	Paddy Finnegan’s Green Machine	O Tanenbaum
7	Onyx Brass	Wexford Carol
8	The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins	Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
9	Rowan : Morrison	Als I Lay on Yoolis Night
10	Earl the Bard	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11	Nativity Songs	O Come, O Come Emmanuel
12	GreenMatthews	The Coventry Carol

A mix of chiptune covers of Xmas classics for those nostalgic for when SNES cartridges were wrapped under the tree.

#	Artist	Track
1	LarryInc64	Sleigh Ride
2	Rush Coil	O Christmas Tree
3	8 Bit Weapon	Nutcracker
4	RushJet1	Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
5	8-Bit Arcade	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
6	ovenrake	Deck the Halls
7	EvilWezil	Carol of the Bells
8	Brett Moots	All I Want for Xmas is You
9	LarryInc64	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
10	8 Bit Weapon	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11	RushJet1	Silent Night
12	Rush Coil	Auld Lang Syne

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Two

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Yuletunes 2021 marches on with two more mixes... 

You can find all the previous Yuletunes here on this new Yule Tunes page.

The holiday season isn’t always bright lights and joy—here is a mix of heavy and dark Yule Tunes for your doomed celebrations.

#	Artist	Track
1	Santa Sabbath	Santa Sabbath
2	Christopher Lee	The Little Drummer Boy
3	Evil Blizzard	We Three Kings
4	Big Lich	Bargains Imprisoning Me (Holiday Single)
5	50 Helens	Santa Said This
6	I See Hawks In L.A.	God Rest Ye Merry War Pigs
7	Angry Snowmans	Ebeneezer Uber Alles
8	Krampusnacht	Krampusnacht
9	Two Minutes to Late Night	Stab Into Christmas
10	Al Jourgensen	It’s Always Christmas Time
11	Santa Sabbath	Frosty the Snowman
12	Earth	Hell’s Winter

A more traditional mix of songs both old and new featuring folk, acoustic goth and neo-folk Yule Tunes—suitable for all holiday family gatherings.

#	Artist	Track
1	Shirley Collins	The Christmas Song
2	the Pines	Chalet
3	Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis	Christmas Night
4	Thanatos	The First Noel
5	Forest Mountain Hymnal	The Snow Carol
6	Unto Ashes	King of Frost
7	All My Faith Lost…	In the Bleak Midwinter
8	Alison Cotton	Coventry Carol
9	John Doan	O Christmas Tree
10	Jethro Tull	A Christmas Song
11	Low	Silent Night
12	The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins	The Holly Bears the Crown

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part One

The holidays are once again upon us, which means it’s time for some Yule Tunes. Here are my first three mixes for this year (2021), you can find last years mixes here: Xmas Sounds Part Five... 2020 Yule Tunes Mixcloud Mixes and Xmas Sounds Part Six... Low Key... 

First up is twelve tuba-tastic songs to celebrate the season...

#	Artist	Track
1	Onyx Brass	Canite Tuba
2	Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble	It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
3	Seattle Tuba Project	Feliz Navidad
4	Jim Self & Hollywood Tuba 12	Here Comes Santa Claus
5	Paul Loucas	You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (feat. Big Papi and His Reunion Band)
6	50 Helens	Good King Wenceslas
7	Jim Self & Hollywood Tuba 12	Sleigh Ride
8	Seattle Tuba Project	Happy Christmas (War is Over)
9	Paul Loucas	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (feat. Big Papi and His Reunion Band)
10	Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11	50 Helens	Last Christmas
12	Onyx Brass	Ave Maria

For the former teenage goths, here's a Goth-Mas mix which goes from an XMAS themed take on Every Day is Halloween to a dystopian Santa Story to a downtempo, downright depressing take on "the Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"

#	Artist	Track
1	1000 Ho-Ho Djs	(Every Day Is) Xmas
2	Golau Glau	Silver Tear
3	Osmiroid	Hexmas
4	Ethereal Delusion	All I Want For Christmas
5	The Legendary Pink Dots	Chrystopia
6	Polly Fae	Frosty the Snowman
7	Jill Tracy	We 3 Kings
8	Love Spiral Downwards	Welcome Christmas
9	Jherek Bischoff	The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)
10	Sue Hutton and Athan Maroulis	Carol of the Drum
11	Pye Corner Audio	Xmas Denied (Serf Complex)
12	Pig	Last Christmas

Finally, a more eclectic yet still irreverent mix that starts with samples from the classic bad movie Santa Claus Conquest the Martians, features a song about the XMAS film, Die Hard, has another track called "Christmas Bong", incorporates some S L O W  X M A S music, chiptune covers of 80s holiday songs and otherwise provides slightly askew takes on classic Yule Tunes.

#	Artist	Track
1	Purple Dialect	Santa Claus vs The Martians
2	Four Eyes	Everything Will Change This Christmas: The Ballad of Hans Grubar
3	The Paper Rifles	Santa’s Got the Vaccine
4	X Ray Pop	Christmas Bong
5	brend_zombley	L I T T L E  S L O W  S A I N T  N I C K
6	8-Bit Arcade	Last Christmas
7	Quintron & Miss Pussycat	Jingle Bell Rock
8	Ohmme	Wonderful Christmastime
9	Husbands	slayer ride
10	The Joyful Noise	Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)
11	50 Helens	Silver Bells
12	Sad13	Shit for Christmas

Mittwoch Mix - I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo

 

Long before I was an eccentric middle-aged hipster, I was an angry teenage weirdo—in honor of the Thanksgiving tradition of revisiting yr. hometown, here is a mix of the music I was listening to at 16-17 . An audio snapshot of the disaffected youth certain he’d never escape the tedium of school or the conformist hell of the ‘burbs… Soak in the awkward rage of a nerdy suburban boy of the late 90’s, at least his musical taste showed promise.

#	Artist	Track
1	Nine Inch Nails	Wish (Remixed by J.G. Thirlwell)
2	Skinny Puppy	Dig It – Mark Walk remix
3	Atari Teenage Riot	Delete Yourself (You Got No Chance to Win)
4	Gravity Kills	Drown
5	Pig	The Sick
6	Stabbing Westward	Ungod
7	Front Line Assembly	Millennium
8	MDFMK	Be Like Me
9	Snake River Conspiracy	Somebody Hates You
10	Hate Dept.	Little Let Down
11	Ministry	So What
12	Nitzer Ebb	in decline
13	The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets	Big Robot Dinosaur

Notes:

These weren't necessarily my favorite songs during high school, but looking back many of these songs were songs that I felt (or wanted to feel) deeply attached to. There was many a between period break where I'd blast "Little Let Down" or "Be Like Me" on my portable CD player before angrily slumping into another uncomfortable school desk. Maybe at another time I'll try to fit myself back into the headspace to figure out my favorite songs from high school and there's definitely a mix to be made about songs/albums/artists that shaped my musical taste, but these are songs that mostly strike to the core of how angry and out of place I felt.

Mittwoch Mix - Wintry Mix Volume 2

Another mix of music that is Wintry but not for the holidays. With switch of daylight savings, the dark chill of the night comes quickly at the end of the day, making this mix of everything from dungeon synth to doom jazz to metal to instrumental tuba perfect listening as the light fades and the cold sinks in. Find Wintry Mix Volume 1 here.

#	Artist	Track
1	Daniel Herskedal	Call for Winter
2	Myrkur	Rivers Blessed (Demo)
3	Nahadoth	Crowns in Ice
4	Höstblod	Winter (Tori Amos Cover)
5	Danny Paul Grody	Late November
6	Holy Sons	Pattern Gets Cold
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	Seasonal Chill
8	Tanya Tagaq	Snowblind
9	Michael Cashmore	The Snow Abides
10	Kikagaku Moyo	Old Snow, White Sun
11	Heroin & Your Veins	Snow Will Cover My Footsteps
12	Dylan Carlson and Lori Golston	The Snowy Owl in the Parking Lot
13	Panopticon	A Snowless Winter

 

Mittwoch Mix - Come Closer and See

 

As previously mentioned, I am an immense fan of cover songs and have lists of artists that I'm slowly accumulating well-done covers of their songs until I have enough for a mix. Here's the second in that series, COME CLOSER AND SEE, featuring covers of the Cure.

#	Artist	Track
1	Alvo Noto	A Forest
2	Diane Birch & The Phenomenal Handclap Band	Primary
3	CALLmeKAT	The Lovecats
4	Kate Rusby	Friday I’m in Love
5	Nouvelle Vague	All Cats Are Grey
6	Alex Reed	Just Like Heaven
7	8-Bit Arcade	Fascination Street
8	Stabbing Westward	Burn
9	Nadja	Faith
10	Snake River Conspiracy	Love Song
11	Xiu Xiu	One Hundred Years
12	Underdark	Plainsong
13	Adzes	A Forest