I’ve been planning this show for months now, pulling albums and tracks from my library of dark and disturbing music and adding them to an enormous playlist in iTunes. This past week I went through that playlist, weeding out many selections and keeping only the darkest and scariest examples of spooktacular music from many of my favorite artists.

The early recordings of Current 93 have always sounded extremely demonic and malevolent to my ears, and tracks from these albums took up a lot of the program, including many of the remixed versions which Andrew Liles released (issuing remixed versions of five entire albums between 2008 and 2009). Other artists from that post-Industrial milieu whose work fit into the ‘Dark 80s’ vein included (inevitably) Coil, Diamanda Galas and Lustmord. The disturbingly dark Rock In Opposition neo-medieval chamber music of Belgium’s Univers Zero figured prominently in the program as well as one of Magma’s most hellish selections. And finally I sprinkled in some more recent recordings from the 90s and 00s by Boyd Rice And Fiends, Apoptose, John Watermann and a few others. There was so much scary music to draw from in my collection I could have easily done a 12-hour special, but I think the concentrated assortment found herein will suffice.

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The playlist gives artist name, song title, and album title (in that order). A space between lines of text indicates the break between sets where track announcements were made.

Playlist for Mindtrain 14 – 01 November 2011

• White Noise – The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell – An Electric Storm

• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – KillyKillKilly: A Fire Sermon (Remix) – The End Of Red Dreams: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• Lustmord – Heresy, Part I – Heresy
• Current 93 – From Broken Cross, Locusts – Dogs Blood Rising
• Diamanda Galas – Cris d’Aveugle (Blind Man’s Cry) – Saint Of The Pit
• Post Scriptvm – Crepusculum – Raspad
• Forms Of Things Unknown – Black Candles & Pentagrams ‘N Shit, Parts I & II – Cross Purposes

• Coil – Are You Shivering? – Music To Play In The Dark, Vol. 1
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – Alone Into The Alone (Remix) – Dead At Bar Maldoror: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• 400 Lonely Things – Crickets Window – Tonight Of The Living Dead
• Current 93 – Christ’s First Howling / Fields Of Rape – Live At Bar Maldoror
• Rhea Tucanae & Pixyblink – Night-Gaunts – Fungi From Yuggoth
• Univers Zero – La Musique d’Erich Zann – Ceux Du Dehors

• Univers Zero – Jack The Ripper – Heresie
• Diamanda Galas – Free Among The Dead – The Divine Punishment
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – Falling Back In Fields Of Rape (Remix) – Dogs Blood Ascending: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• John Watermann – Second Shudder Project: Fitting The Gas Hose – Calcutta Gas Chamber
• Boyd Rice And Fiends – Joe Liked To Go (To The Cemetery) – Wolf Pact
• Univers Zero – Triomphe Des Mouches – Ceux Du Dehors
• Magma – Ork Alarm – Kohntarkosz

• Coil – Solar Lodge – Scatology
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – Maldoror Est Mort (Remix) – Dusk: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• Lustmord – Section 3: Dark Companion – The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
• Apoptose – Violet Silence – Schattenmadchen

• Zola Jesus – Night – Stridulum