Warm With the Chill

1. Adam Ant - Wonderful (4:22)
Because it's true, goddammit. :P

2. Genitorturers - Touch Myself (3:21)
Not strictly true, but this definitely belonged in here, all the same. When I think about you, I eat frozen chocolate. It's about the same difference, in my world...

3. Austin Leeds, Starkillers & Terranova - Only You (Electribe Mix) (6:00)
Speaks for itself, really.

4. Abney Park - Sleep Isabella (4:27)
Needed some steampunk music. All things need more steampunk.

5. Rasputina - I Only Wanna Be With You (3:35)
I fucking love this cover.

6. Colony 5 - Accelerate (3:36)
It's so you, I almost died laughing, when I heard it again.

7. Garbage - Sex Is Not the Enemy (3:04)
*whistles innocently*

8. Depeche Mode - Nothing's Impossible (4:21)
All things are possible at all times, even if some are less probable than others.

9. La Roux - In for the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix) (5:02)
Again, so you. Or me. Or us, really...

10. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (3:21)
This was the irresistable and obvious choice for this transition. I don't even know. It just is.

11. Michael Penn - No Myth (4:11)
I just couldn't do this mix without it.

12. New Model Army - I Love the World (5:06)
OH GOD I LOVE THE WORLD... and it might be your fault.

13. Massive Attack - Angel (6:09)
Oddly, this was the track that got me started on this mix. It grabbed my attention in that 'you need to do this RIGHT NOW' sort of way.

14. Torley Wong - Lovers' Dance (4:13)
Torley makes me so happy, and this ... this just goes here. I was gonna do the Lovesickness/Lovewellness combo, but this one just worked better.

15. Chemlab - megahurtz (mindfield aurora mix) (5:08)
You know why this belongs here. And if you don't? Go look up the lyrics.

Unravelling

1. Franka Potente - Believe (4:55)
It's an excellent opening. Sets the scene for what's to come -- especially if you recognise it...


2. Freeland - Burn the Clock (Burning in Wonderland Mix) (5:48)
The old gonzo master said it best: When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro.


3. Front Line Assembly - Unknown Dreams (6:01)
It's mood music for a beautifully dystopian world. Actually, I had to go through most of this album a few times before I picked this one. It's just good like that.


4. Machines of Loving Grace - If I Should Explode (5:08)
Yeah, this was really my only choice, once I decided that 'Suicide Kings' was a little too fast and 'Richest Junkie Still Alive' was going to get me a shot to the teeth. This still might get me a shot to the teeth...


5. Beck - Earthquake Weather (4:26)
It's very American, but it's got the low-desert groove. It's an offset to all the dark and wet.


6. Love and Rockets - It Could Be Sunshine (4:59)
Totally tongue in cheek.


7. The Replacements - Bastards of Young (3:38)
I use this track way more than I probably should, but ... I think it's got a strange and particular significance, here. "We are the sons of no one..."


8. Lemonheads - Rudderless (3:20)
This was the first track to get dropped in. It caught my ear and insisted that whatever I thought I was going to do with my afternoon, this is what I was actually going to do. That said, I'm expecting an ashtray to the back of the head. Also, debates are still open as to whether that line is 'hope in my path', 'open my pants', or 'hole in my past'... Past attempts at drunken sing-alongs tended to yield 'hole in my pants', which it's probably not.


9. Prefasher - All and Hollowed (5:35)
I knew something on this album belonged in this mix. It just took me a minute or six to find it, because it wasn't 'New Sentience' or 'Stock Market Crash'.


10. Coil - Heartworms (clipped) (7:13)
It's all the worst things about living just under the surface, in that sloggy, grey liminalilty... "This knife's gonna make some young woman a fine husband" has a lot of fairly loaded contextual flurries.


11. Jesus and Mary Chain - Snakedriver (3:42)
I think this one speaks for itself. Mostly the opening lines. What's that? Bag of dicks? Yes, thanks. I know.


12. Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps (5:33)
It was this one or 'Teardrop'... In the end, this was just that much grittier and more appropriately thematic.


13. Beats Antique - Slapdash Era (3:53)
It's skewed. Badly skewed, in that film noir sort of way... You can watch the shadows slide down the wall at painful angles, just hearing this go by... It's moonshine and speakeasies, thin girls in short dresses smoking thin cigars... *shrugs* It just goes there. Trust me.


14. 3xInfinity - Wonderland (Vocal Mix) (5:26)
More of the dizzying interplanar slide... This one's got a bit more of a ripple to it.


15. Burning Sensations - Pablo Picasso (4:03)
"Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. Not like you." *grins*

Kill With Me, Tonight

Yeah, Magpie and I are back with some more tasty Halloween soundtrack. This year, I'm afraid we took some thematic liberties, because we were looking for ... mmm, more of a drag queens and scalpels and glee feel than is strictly traditional. Because we're lazy fucks, we didn't bother to clip anything that wasn't already clipped, because if you're playing live, you can be lazy like that and all the transitions work, anyway. *shrugs* Still not sure 17/18 didn't need another track, in between, but we can't figure out what the hell else would go there.

1. Rasputina - Christian Soldiers (1:31)
2. Medieval Babes - Averil (3:53)
3. Phontaine (Featuring Nadia) - Sea Of Redd (4:09)
4. Nancy Sinatra - ''Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)'' (2:39)
5. Chemlab - Black Snake Voodoo Hiss (Accucrack Ver.) (clipped) (4:11)
6. Christian Death - Haloes (85) (3:42)
7. Morrissey - Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself (3:20)
8. Circle Jerks - I Wanna Destroy You (3:05)
9. Pigface - Asphole (clipped) (5:10)
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore (4:20)
11. Mark Morgan - 25 - Smoldering Corpse Bar Alternate (1:10)
12. Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart (5:10)
13. Klaus Badelt - Skull and Crossbones (3:23)
14. The Butthole Surfers - Pepper (4:50)
15. Marilyn Manson - Cake And Sodomy (3:46)
16. KMFDM - Mysterious Ways (3:10)
17. Love And Rockets - Sweet Lover Hangover (5:11)
18. Rowan McDonald - I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper [Rowan's Mix] (2:40)
19. Screaming Dead - 20th Century Vampire (3:24)
20. Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant (Front 242 Remix) (5:25)
21. Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died (5:00)
22. Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy (3:02)
23. Mudhoney - Deception Pass (2:53)
24. Nine Inch Nails - Physical (You're So) (5:29)
25. Ministry - Stigmata (5:44)
26. Coil - Love's Secret Domain (3:52)
27. Morrissey - Spring-Heeled Jim (3:47)
28. Roy Orbison - In Dreams (2:52)
29. Legendary Pink Dots - Premonition 16 (clipped) (3:14)
30. K.M.F.D.M. - Ultra (4:33)
31. Severed Heads - The Dead Eyes Opened (3:35)

1 hour 58 minutes 10 seconds