It Really Gets You To Your Soul.

Annnnnnd yet another mix. Not too many updates on here as of late but this blog isn't completely forsaken. Yet. This mix is mostly tracks that I've been digging lately that I grabbed from other blogs (mostly what you see on the right column) as well as old favorites and some solid standby's. It's called '+/-' and it's aight.

Various - +/-

01 - Hole Of A Heart - Epic Soundtracks
02 - Dying Day - Incubated Sounds
03 - Next In Line - Das Kabinette
04 - So Low - Carol & Snowy Red
05 - Lies On The Line - Dominion
06 - Lonely Day - Entre Deux Guerres
07 - Never Enough! - Aiboforcen
08 - Let Them Perish Like Flies - Incubated Sounds
09 - Suffering - Morgue
10 - XII - Der Blutharsch
11 - Ich Sehe Die Alle In Einer Reihe - Swans
12 - I'm A Believer - Anita Lane
13 - Afraid - Crisis
14 - Sweet Nocturne - Love Life
15 - Yagga Blues [Instrumental] - Nurse With Wound
16 - Sev Acher - Sun City Girls
17 - Untitled (02) - Ulaan Khol
18 - The Shadow Of No Man - Crime & The City Solution
19 - ...Then Poland - Swell Maps

Download: HERE

Waked By The Trumpet Sound.

(AND AM I BORN TO DIE?) - Various Artists

Just wrapped this mix up today. The title and part of the structure comes from the hymn, Idumea (47b). A few different versions are scattered from start to finish and provide a loose overall theme that ties into most of the songs. I think it flows pretty well for the most part though it's a bit front loaded with a kind of claustrophobic energy and then tends to chill out and feel more spacious from the middle to the end. Anyway, below you'll find the lyrics for Idumea and then the tracklisting & download link for the mix itself. Enjoy!

Idumea (47b)

Tune: Ananias Davisson, 1816
Words: Charles Wesley, 1763
Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6)

And am I born to die?
To lay this body down!
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?

A land of deepest shade,
Unpierced by human thought;
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot!

Soon as from earth I go,
What will become of me?
Eternal happiness or woe
Must then my portion be!

Waked by the trumpet sound,
I from my grave shall rise;
And see the Judge with glory crowned,
And see the flaming skies!

(AND AM I BORN TO DIE?) - VARIOUS ARTISTS

01 - Idumea, 47b - Ivey Memorial Singing
02 - Nux Vomica - The Veils
03 - Melting Away - Absolute Body Control
04 - Mr. Ray - Suicide
05 - United - Throbbing Gristle
06 - The Naked And The Death - Siglo XX
07 - Stop Breathing - Blessure Grave
08 - The Poison For Me - Mark Lane
09 - Maikäfer Flieg - Grauzone
10 - Black Ships Were Sinking-Idumæa - Current 93 feat. Cosey Fanni Tutti
11 - Opium Song - Michael Gira
12 - Dream Of A Butterfly Inside The Skull Of A Horse - Nurse With Wound
13 - A Prayer - Madeleine Peyroux
14 - Ember - Dirty Three
15 - Rebel Grave - Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard
16 - The Bells Belong To The Ashes - Die Haut feat. Anita Lane
17 - Black Death-Life Is Knife - Crispy Ambulance
18 - And Am I Born To Die? (Idumea, 47b) - Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton

Download it: HERE.

I Didn't Waste No Time, Time Wasted Me.

For Stephen, Best Regards - Various Artists

Another quick update with a mix. It was made not too long ago (November '09, I believe) for my friend Stephen who used a few playlists made by friends for a film festival in NYC that he curates. I think it flows pretty well considering it hits a few contrasting genres that I tend to jump between in regards to my listening habits.

You can download it here: Disc 01, Disc 02

For Stephen, Best Regards - Various Artists

Disc 01:

01 - Smoke - Fatherland
02 - Dirty Three - Authentic Celestial Music
03 - Patti Smith Group - Ain’t It Strange
04 - Jonathan Kane - Super T-Bone
05 - Pell Mell - Cinecitta
06 - Link Wray - Fire And Brimstone
07 - Leonard Cohen - There Is A War
08 - William Elliott Whitmore - The Chariot
09 - Steve Earle - Rivers Of Babylon
10 - The Chamber Strings - Telegram
11 - The Bats - Western Isles
12 - The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows
13 - The Mekons - Club Mekon
14 - Atom Cristal - Nieuwe Nieuwstraat 27

Disc 02:

01 - Trisomie 21 - La Fete Triste
02 - PTV 3 - Boys Are Girls And Girls Are Boys
03 - Death In June - Forever Loves Decay
04 - Swans - Power And Sacrifice
05 - Einsturzende Neubauten - Sand
06 - Crime + The City Solution - All Must Be Love
07 - Fatal Shore - Morning Dew
08 - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Baby, I Got You Bad
09 - Doris Duke - I Don’t Care Anymore
10 - Alton Ellis - Cry Tough
11 - Lee Fields And The Expressions - Love Comes And Goes
12 - Clydie King - One Part, Two Part
13 - Aretha Franklin - Spirit In The Dark
14 - Aretha Franklin - Spirit In The Dark (Reprise)

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.

(Sound Of Music) - Various Artists

So I've been pretty lazy about updating despite having a few posts ready to be whipped up and submitted. Mostly, I've been distracted by working on a new mix. This isn't it but I still like it a lot. It was made a couple months ago and originally posted on my tumblr. It got reblogged on FuckYeahGoths which gave me a crap ton of hits, so who knows where this has floated off to. Anyway, feel free to...

Download it: HERE.

(Sound Of Music) - Various Artists

01 - Jesus Christ - Patti Smith
02 - Tod (Death) - Malaria!
03 - Track 7 [Rectitude CASS] - Le Syndicat
04 - Vier Personen [Live]- Laibach
05 - Channeling The Power Of Souls Into A New God - Burzum
06 - The Path Of The Cross - Scorpion Wind
07 - Magic - Moisten Before Use
08 - Shower Scene - Zahgurim
09 - Dum Dum Boys - Iggy Pop
10 - Paris - Psychic TV
11 - Logical Animals - Trisomie 21
12 - Triumph (Of The Good City) - J.J. Burnel
13 - Embryo [Instrumental] - Black Sabbath
14 - The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers
15 - Oskopistentraum - Gerechtigkeits Liga
16 - To The Floor! - Cult Of Youth
17 - Embers - ИОИ
18 - Avé Maria - Rowland S. Howard
19 - No More Stalins, No More Hitlers - William S. Burroughs

And If Love Is All You Hope To Find, Then...

Love Will Ruin Your Mind - Various Artists

Over the next few days I'm going to try and post some mixes I made in the recent & not so recent past. This one in particular I made as a Valentine's Day mix in '06 and while it's a bit cynical, it's meant to be tongue in cheek as well. A couple of the tracks don't speak to love or relationships directly, but in those cases the track title or chorus makes the leap to the theme. I had actually lost this mix along with a large percent of my music as a result of an external hard drive crash but thankfully a friend still had a copy and was able to get it to me. Now if only I could get back the Halloween mix, 'Married To The Macabre', that I made a few years ago. Oh well. Anyway, here's the tracklisting:

Love Will Ruin Your Mind - Various Artists

01 - Yayahoni - True Love Is Not Nice (Jonathan Richman)
02 - Y Pants - Love's A Disease
03 - Delta 5 - Now That You've Gone
04 - Magic De Spell - Brainwash
05 - Kas Product - Never Come Back
06 - Rowland S. Howard - She Cried (Jay & the Americans)
07 - Lungfish - Love Will Ruin Your Mind
08 - Material - On Sadism
09 - ESG - You Make No Sense
10 - Desperate Bicycles - Grief Is Very Private
11 - Beautiful Skin - Lacerations
12 - Faust - It's A Bit Of Pain
13 - The Feelies - Original Love
14 - The Mekons - Last Dance
15 - The Fall - Vixen
16 - Liliput - His Head All Red
17 - Au Pairs - Dear John
18 - Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
19 - 45 Grave - Bad Love
20 - 13th Chime - Cuts of Love
21 - Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue
22 - Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

Download: here.

... Strangled.

Today a friend of mine passed along this mix he made, entitled 'Look At Her, Don't Be Shy!! (A Compiled Sound Document #1)'. Haven't had the opportunity to listen to all of it as of yet but I'm looking forward to doing so as I get some laundry done. The man has quality taste and has led me to some great music and art I may otherwise not have encountered. Some of it I'm familiar with, some of it I'm not so familiar with (which will surely lead to more googling & downloading) but for certain it should prove to be entertaining, interesting & enjoyable. I'm hoping that since it's been numbered that it will be the first installment of more to come. You can download it directly from sendspace: here. The track listing is after the break.