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Dear darklings, we hope you are as happy as we are with all the music that has been reaching our ears and the live gigs that have started filling up our calendars for the year. Don’t mind the quietness of the streets, don’t feed the anger and the sadness — this is a soundtrack for dancing in the streets.
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”—Bertolt Brecht
We hope that when you feel the urge to smash things, you will listen to this playlist – especially if you’ve NEVER had this urge before. ‘DOWN WITH THE GENERAL SHITE’ does exactly what it says on the tin — just the way The Cult Of One means it.
So this is how we waved goodbye to 2022, with some fury, some melancholy, and some desire for change, all captured within post punk, playful ceremonial and cinematic synthwave, dynamic IDM and cynical punk storytelling. Music for the longest night of the year, music for the darkness that is hidden in the silence of the wintry landscapes, music that invites you to prepare a warm cocktail and join us!
Imagine finding yourselves in an abandoned fairground where all the equipment swings sideways slowly as the wind blows, imagine the stillness and the feeling of disquiet…and now imagine somebody wrote a soundtrack for all that, the landscape and its emotional output.
Prepare yourselves as you wish for the longest playlist of the year, the creepiest sounds and some added poetic weirdness by Jointweird who were possessed by something otherworldly and answer questions famous songs have posed in their titles!
You’ll need more than one poison for this one dear darklings!
It is always the melancholic, the eerie and the mysterious elements in music that tell the most interesting stories. We embrace Autumn and the coming Winter with a soundtrack for a dance bizarre of ghosts – real or imaginary – and creatures of the night. Nature always sets the tone and the sounds that occur set the rhythm. Grab your poison and join us!
If a path cannot be fathomed nor designed, then sound shall carve one out of nothingness. We might not ‘curse’ anyone this time, but our favourite songs celebrate both the realms of death and those of a pastoral nature with equal passion.
All new music from August 2022 curated by Blaue Rosen and Joint Wierd. Poisons will be needed, obviously!
If at the beginning of this playlist you are not drinking whiskey, then we are certain that you will be holding a glass of this potion towards the end. It starts with punk anger and feistiness, travels down a dark post-punk path, soothes the spirits with an indie rock plateau that explode into techno psychedelia before resolving into ceremonial sonic ritual. Sometimes it is anger, other times it is an underlying summoning energy, raw, dreamy and somewhat persistent but, all the time, our chosen sonic path follows an invisible thread, only revealed under the influence of potent convolutions.
When all is said and done, there is only sound – sometimes deafening, sometimes imperceptible. Rhythms and melodies with or without words that can either trigger disquieting thoughts or treat wounds that few gestures can. This playlist, in the ‘heart’ of the summer, has coldwave ‘colours’ and deep roots within the occult and, therefore, enjoying it will require that you perform a type of ritual that you are very familiar with.
Dear darklings – we put together songs about peace and songs about war, otherworldly sonic calls and IDM puzzles. Whether the lyrics follow a synthpop path or an indecipherable one, one this is certain – the future has a scary face but it listens to some pretty good damn music! Put your ears on, mix your poison and join us.