A Thanksgiving Prayer

William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer

Ambient Healing mixtape

A soothing ambient chill mix of music to heal and calm. Best if taken with your meds. Do not drive or operate heavy machinery.

Download. 40.2mb, 29:17.

1. UNKLE - Back and Forth
2. Underworld - To Heal
3. Nine Inch Nails - Adrift and at Peace
4. The Orb - Spanish Castles in Space
5. M83 - Coloring the Void
6. Biosphere - People are Friends
7. The KLF - Mercury
8. Aphex Twin - Curtains
9. Moby - Lean on Me
10. DJ Shadow - Blood on the Motorway
    

England's Dreaming: It's Grim Across the Pond mixtape

"And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?"

-- William Blake, Jerusalem

Not really the fairy tale land of Doctor Who, police who don't carry guns and Harry Potter, England can be a pretty grim place to live. Starting with the punk movement through to the current dubstep scene, the societal conditions of a country with a fucked up class struggle that's filled with housing projects and unemployment has brought us a lot of interesting music.

And that's what this mixtape is about: the amazing albeit bleak music of England. (I have nothing against it as a country or a group of people, I just thought this would make for a good mix).

Download. 66:38 minutes, 91.59mb

1. The KLF - It's Grim Up North (part ii)
   
2. Burial - South London Burroughs
3. Joy Division - Shadowplay
4. The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
5. Billy Bragg - A New England
6. Jamie Woon - Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Remix)
7. Throbbing Gristle - United
8. Kano - Ps and Qs
9. Vex'd - Bombardment of Saturn
10. Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance
11. Distance - My Demons
12. The Normal - Warm Leatherette
13. Coil - Ravenous
14. Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds
15. Skream - Nemesis
16. The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Version)
17. Caspa - Big Headed Slags
18. The KLF - Jerusalem of the Moors

Happy Day of the Dead

What better way to celebrate Dia de los Muertos than some brutal MEXICAN DEATH METAL?

The album's title translates to "Hated Race" (watch Lou Dobbs to figure out who that is) and features songs about immigration politics, the Zapatista movement and the drug war along with more traditional death metal themes. Ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra appears as a tongue in cheek version Californian governor Pete Wilson on one track. This music is the polar opposite of what people commonly think of as "Mexican Music", e.g. Ranchera (the polka sounding stuff that's on like four AM stations) or Morrissey (seriously). Like gangsta rap before it turned into a showcase of Bentleys and diamonds, Brujeria has got to scare the shit out of White People.
Download it here from Brutal Xpression, which appears to be an extreme metal blog in Spanish. Good stuff if you're into it.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween, I hope you enjoyed my October goth mixtape.

For a treat, I've tracked down a copy of Skinny Puppy's infamous "Worlock" video. This video was created by cEvin and Ogre of Skinny Puppy using cut footage from horror movies that was removed by various ratings boards. Because of the nature of the work, it'll never have a commercial release, due to the graphic content and copyright clearance problems.

Which is what makes the Internet awesome, years ago this was something that you had to spend time tracking it down at horror movie conventions or from ads in the back of zines and when you got it was a 5th generation VHS tape and looked like ass. These days, it's on youtube.





Read more about the video here.

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion

They're goth but they wear all white? and film videos that look like Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade? Good song, strange video. I miss 120 Minutes, although I guess VH1 Classic shows Classic 120 Minutes now.

And Dream of Sleep

A mixtape about sleep from a guy who can't sleep. It's a sleepy mix of songs about sleep interspersed with some ambient tracks. Perfect for counting sheep or browsing the internet at 3am. Insomniac.

Download.

1. Tycho - The Daydream
2. The Orb - Sleeping Tiger and the Gods Unknown
3. Wu-Tang Clan - I Can't Go to Sleep
4. Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep
5. Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
6. Cowboy Junkies - Dreaming My Dreams with You
7. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside of a Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
8. Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78rpm mix)
9. Jackson Browne - Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate
10. Moby - My Beautiful Blue Sky
11. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Tonight
12. Biosphere - Chukhung
13. Stevie Nicks - Dreams (Deep Dish mix)
14. The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
15. The Magnetic Fields - Asleep and Dreaming
16. Jakatta - American Dream
17. The Monkees - Daydream Believer
18. Global Communication - 4:14
19. Roy Orbison - In Dreams

Home Taping is Killing Record Industry Profits!

The Nuclear War Dance Party Mixtape

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." -Albert Einstein

A mixtape about nuclear war. When I was growing up in the 1980s, I really felt that there was not going to be a future. It just seemed inevitable. What better way to deny the inevitable than with a dance party?

Of course we didn't know to much later that the Russians were cooking the books and that by the end of the decade they'd be insolvent and the Cold War would be over. Any young person these days probably think it was all very ridiculous.

But it did produce some great songs:

1. Anne Clark - Poem for a Nuclear Romance
2. Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Enola Gay
3. The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes 
4. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
5. Psychic TV - Eve ov Destruction
6. Fischerspooner - We Need a War
7. Time Zone (feat. Afrika Bambata and John Lydon) - World Destruction
8. Sting - The Russians
9. Nena - 99 Luftballoons
10. Alphaville - Forever Young
11. Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
12. Sun Ra - Nuclear War
13. Colonel Bagshot - Six Day War

Download.

Clove Cigarettes and Coffin Nails: A Gloomy Goth Mixtape for Halloween

It's that time of the year, the falling leaves and grey skies make one remember the gloomy music of your youth, the apple pie taste of a Djarum black, that extra strong cup of coffee drank at a Denny's at 3am, watching a crappy VHS tape of Return of the Living Dead in your friend's basement, musty used books, scuffed Doc Martins, Ritt black dye that never dyed things dark enough, getting your ass kicked by the football team...

It seemed to rain a lot more often back then, didn't it?

Enjoy this mix, everyone gets to be a little goth now and then, even though cloves are now illegal and your mom's reading Twilight.

73 minutes of gloom, 84mb of sorrow. Download.

Tracklist:

1. Bixio, Friizi & Tempera - Siete Note in Nero (7 Notes in Black)
2. The Cure - Prayers for Rain
3. Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
4. The Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
5. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Dazzle
6. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
7. Sisters of Mercy - More
8. Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
9. Public Image Ltd. - The Order of Death
10. Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
11. I Love You but I've Chose Darkness - According to Plan
12. Peter Murphy - Strange Kind of Love
13. Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death
14. Goblin - Suspiria
15. Bahaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Change in the Weather: A Shoegazey Indie Pop Mix

I made this mix a while ago, just fucking around with Mixmeister. I really wanted to make a mix of shoegaze/indie songs I loved. It's best listened to after a rainstorm.

Download.

Tracklist:

1. The Smiths - Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
2. Glasvegas - Geraldine
3. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
4. Ride - Seagull
5. Amanda Palmer - Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing)
6. Mogwai - We're No Here
7. Suicide - Cheree
8. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
9. The Cure - Prayers for Rain
10. UNKLE - In a State
11. Gorillaz - Dare (DFA Mix)
12. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphony
13. The Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
14. New Order - Regret
15. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on Our Side
16. Joy Division - She's Lost Control
17. The Editors - Lights
18. The Arcade Fire - Intervention
19. Peter Murphy - Strange Kind of Love
20. DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World