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)

Mittwoch Mix - Not A Place of Honor

After listening back to ANOHNI's 2016 album, Hopeless, I was inspired to make this mix. Current events seem calculated to induce rage and hopefully this mix will be a cathartic indulgence for others as well.

It joins some similar mixes I've put together in the past, including I WANNA SCREAM OUT LOUD, Armageddon is by our side and The Mountain's Ash, the River is Steam...

Thinking of the damage being done day by day and what will be required to repair it, I decided to draw on the long-term nuclear waste warning messages for inspiration...

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

#	Artist	Track
1	Cocksure	Teezer Hell
2	Gazelle Twin	The Suburbs
3	Big Black	Kerosene
4	ANOHNI	4 Degrees
5	Sow	My House
6	Test Dept.	Debris
7	The Legendary Pink Dots	An Arm And A Leg
8	Ashenspire	Béton Brut
9	PIG	Riot, Religion & Righteousness
10	Die Warzau	Crusaders
11	Hate Dept.	Seedling
12	Nomadic War Machine	A Gaze as Blank and Pitiless as the Sun
13	The Damage Manual	No Act of Grace