Skull + Crossfades | Genre-fluid dark music mixtapes.

Big Black – “He’s a Whore”, 1987.

Automatic – “Mind Your Own Business”, 2019.

Gang of Four – “To Hell With Poverty”, 1981.

Kas Product – “Never Come Back”, 1982.

Pigface – “Cutting Face”, 1993.

16 Volt – “Motorskill”, 1995.

Cyanotic – “Signal The Machines (Randolph & Mortimer Remix)”, 2019.

A Projection – “Transition”, 2017.

Hapax – “Elegy”, 2019.

IAMTHESHADOW – “The Skin”, 2018.

Body of Light – “Don’t Pretend”, 2019.

Night Sins – “Two Headed Dream”, 2019.

Bloc Party – “Ares (Villains Remix)”, 2009.

SARIN x Imperial Black Unit – “Will To Destroy”, 2019.

Bess – “Dragonfly”, 2019.

Sierra – “Gone”, 2019.

Silent Runners – “Forgotten”, 2019.

Tor Lundvall – “The Night Watch”, 2019.

Rhys Fulber & Blush Response – “Dissipate”, 2019.

Panther Modern – “Body//reaction”, 2019.

Einstürzende Neubauten – “Feurio!”, 1989.

Grauzone – “Eisbaer”, 1980.

Individual Totem – “Subsistence”, 1997.

Sabotage Q.C.Q.C. – “Les fleurs du mal”, 1995.

Mascarpone – “Faceless”, 2019.

Kontravoid – “Hold Nothing”, 2018.

Skinny Puppy – “Tin Omen 1”, 1990.

And One – “Ghama Voodoo”, 1995.

Body + body / muscle + hate is a massive bank of EBM and new beat mixed in classic mega-mix / mashup style. With 51 songs in just over two hours, do not expect the beat to stop.

Oomph! — “Under Pressure”, 1992.klack — “Discipline”, 2019.Conformco — “Believe It (Mega-Oontz Mix)”, 2020.Interactive — “The Bass is on Fire”, 1990.D.A.F. — “Brothers (Mix Gabi)”, 1985.Cabaret Voltaire — “Sex, Money, Freaks”, 1987.M/A/R/R/S — “Pump Up the Volume (UK 12" Mix)”, 1993.A Split Second — “On Command”, 1988.Die Warzau — “Bodybag”, 1989.Channel 5 — “This is a Test”, 1988.Information Society — “Walking Away”, 1988.Nitzer Ebb — “Shame”, 1988.Lassigue Bendthaus — “Automotive”, 1991.Orange Sector — “Endzeit”, 2010.State Orchestra — “Crossed Lines”, 1990.Depeche Mode — “People Are People (Different Mix)”, 1984.Notausgang — “Kim Future”, 2019.Rein — “Off the Grid”, 2020.Kreign — “In That Frame of Mind”, 2020.Kontravoid — “Too Deep”, 2019.Fee Lion — “Blood Sisters (Kontravoid Mix)”, 2019.Beta Evers — “Move in My Body Rhythm”, 2016.Twice of Love — “The Birth”, 1989.Tribantura — “Lack of Sense”, 1993.L&O — “Even Now”, 1988.Portion Control — “The Great Divide”, 1985.The Force Dimension — “Dance the Algorythm (Special Club Mix)”, 1990.Whats — “Kill the Revolution”, 1990.Dave Inox (feat HIV+) — “Miss Conceptual (The Horrorist Mix)”, 2020.Dive — “Where Were You?”, 1997.Fatal Morgana — “Attention (Remix)”, 2020.Blind Vision — “Don't Look at Me (G-Mix)”, 1990.Front 242 — “No Shuffle”, 1985.Empirion — “ADSR (Electron Mix)”, 2020.Nitzer Ebb — “Join in the Chant”, 1987.Black Dahlia — “Ricoche Holly”, 2020.Randolph & Mortimer — “Citizens (Schwefelgelb Mix)”, 2017.Kraftwerk — “Heimcomputer”, 1991.Meat Beat Manifesto — “Helter Skelter”, 1990.And One — “Metalhammer”, 1990.And One — “Techno Man (Club Mix)”, 1991.Unconscious — “Slaves of System”, 2020.Silent EM — “Return of Yesterday”, 2019.Chrome Corpse — “Firing Rate (Kinematic Trajectory)”, 2019.Aircrash Bureau — “Machine”, 1993.Dead Zone Margin — “Torn Between Beliefs”, 2020.Front 242 — “Never Stop!”, 1988.Boy Harsher — “Electric”, 2019.Evil Dust — “Desolation”, 2020.Kreign — “Disco King”, 2019.Doubting Thomas — “Come in Piece”, 1991.

Animal Bodies — “Deep Sleep”, 2014.Null Device — “Four Lines Across the Moon”, 2019.Automelodi — “La Poussière”, 2019.Fragrance. — “Crawling to the Void”, 2019.Mercury Summer — “Millions of Stars”, 2019.Kraftwerk — “Die Roboter”, 1991.Coil — “The Snow (As Pure As?)”, 1990.Ghost Cop — “True Name”, 2015.Hapax — “The Game of Devotion”, 2019.Echo & the Bunnymen — “With a Hip”, 1981.Subtract-S — “Monday”, 2015.Death Instinct — “Secret Gardens”, 2019.Schedule IV — “Stray”, 2019.Unkle — “Unreal”, 1998.

Midnight Oil – “Beds Are Burning”, 1987.

Bootblacks – “Captives”, 2019.

The Foreign Resort – “She is Lost”, 2019.

Project Pitchfork – “December Sadness”, 1997.

Numb – “Blood”, 1994.

Missions – “Glimmer”, 2019.

Night Sins – “Annihilator”, 2019.

Body of Light – “Time To Kill”, 2019.

Andreas Rund – “Spectre”, 2019.

White Lies – “Fifty On Our Foreheads”, 2008.

Melotron – “Maschinen aus Stahl”, 2001.

Depeche Mode – “Precious”, 2005.

Kraftwerk – “Metall Auf Metall”, 1991.

HIDE – “Fall Down”, 2018.

Ist Ist — “Jennifer's Lips”, 2019.The Stooges — “Down on the Street”, 1970.Inaktiv — “Eyeblog”, 2018.Hanzel Und Gretyl — “Take Me To Your Leader”, 1998.Vore Aurora — “Hollow Point (Slighter Mix)”, 2019.Fee Lion — “Blood Sisters”, 2019.Boy Harsher — “Motion”, 2019.Rue Oberkampf — “Glycine”, 2019.Ohota — “Totengott”, 2018.Liebknecht — “Leipzig”, 2019.P·A·L — “Gelöbnis”, 1995.Klinik — “Sleepwalkin' (Suicide Commando Mix)”, 2001.Kontravoid — “Too Deep”, 2019.Null Device — “Last Call to December”, 2019.

Silent Runners — “Road of Gold”, 2019.The Cure — “Fascination Street”, 1990.Second Still — “Sleep”, 2017.Chasms — “Divine Illusion”, 2019.Death of Lovers — “Perfect History”, 2017.The Murder Mystery — “Stone in Your Hand”, 2018.Bragolin vs Adam Tristar — “I Go With You”, 2019.Eurythmics — “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”, 1982.Scandroid — “Writing's On the Wall”, 2019.The Marquis — “Cigarette”, 2019.Animal Bodies — “The Golden Triangle”, 2014.Brandy Kills — “Dead inside”, 2019.Ritualz — “To Black”, 2019.I.X.XI — “The January Demonstration”, 2018.

Björk – “Army of Me”, 1995.

Haujobb – “Eye Over You”, 1994.

Daniel Gregori – “Tremendo”, 2019.

HIDE – “Resurrection (Statiqbloom Remix)”, 2015.

Downwell – “Tears of the Sun”, 2019.

Front Line Assembly – “Eye On You (Orphx Remix)”, 2018.

Individual Totem – “W.W.W. (Club)”, 2001.

gusgus – “Teenage Sensation”, 1999.

Cruel Reflections – “Voices”, 2019.

French Police – “Je Te Veux”, 2019.

L’Avenir – “Heart of Hearts”, 2019.

Linea Aspera – “Attica”, 2019.

Bauhaus – “Kick in the Eye”, 1981.

Nocturnal Projections – “You’ll Never Know”, 1982.

The Runaways — “Cherry Bomb”, 1976.

Joan Jett and Lita Ford blowing up outdated expectations of girls' behavior? Fuck yes. Let's start right here. Anthemic for every generation.Minuit Machine — “Prey/Hunter”, 2019.

The slow-building panic and claustrophobia is deathly effective; by the end all I want to do is run toward a light I'm not sure I can even trust.Numb — “Suspended”, 1999.

Their most brutal dancefloor scythe from their most uncompromising album. Peerless in ferocity and fire-breathing conviction. (And those micro breaks have stayed surprisingly tasteful.)Covenant — “Call the Ships to Port”, 2002.

Covenant could not fully escape the emperor's new clothes of future pop, but even when they traded in sawtooth waves for trance synths, they still stayed classy with timeless lyrics.Kælan Mikla — “Draumadís”, 2019.

The clacking percussion and incessant buzzing pads keep this darkwave rooted in something more sinister than what its dance-friendly label would indicate.Twin Tribes — “Dark Crystal”, 2018.

The best goth / pop / darkwave act of the decade. A satanic ritual has never vibed so smoothly.Kike am Radar — “Testament”, 2018.

Dark disco that twists its overlapping bass riffs inside a swirl of minor key dungeon synth.Kanga — “Going Red”, 2016.

Kanga's breakout LP was a cathartic workout through numerous schools of electro, but this jam dropped the tempo into something that is immediate, dense, funky and violent.Sierra — “Unbroken”, 2019.

Absolutely riveting slow-grind synthwave that has all sorts of hidden weapons up its sleeves. The production on this is next level.0THERC0DE — “Kissing in the Dark”, 2019.

Anarchistic compression algorithms mutiny into a crushing digital collapse that is schizophrenic and haunting and beyond anything else the dealers are selling. (From the Telecompilation vol 2.)Klack — “Lost Without You”, 2019.

Using the raw ingredients of EBM and electro, few match Klack in sheer songwriting jujitsu. Here, their synthpop genes get behind the wheel and the result singlehandedly justifies admission to their catalog.Machines of Loving Grace — “Limiter”, 1993.

One of the early standard-bearers of "industrial rock", MoLG never let guitars get in the way of a badass beat. This gets exponentially better with every decibel.Filter — “Hey Man Nice Shot”, 1995.

Judge me as ye shall, but Filter's 1995 single still spanks.Gary Numan — “Absolution”, 1998.

As much as I like 80s first incarnation Numan, I like 90s second incarnation more. This pleading trip-hop slowburn prayer is a riveting portrait of an artist finding the true core of their art.

A much gentler mix this time. Starts at a fast pace but slows progressively until the final reverb drains away.

Ritual Howls — “Nervous Hands”, 2016.

Ritual Howls drape their songs in baroque, tenebristic tones that paint uncomfortable soundscapes. Here, the mournful guitar suggests a night in the desert you'll be lucky to escape.For Against — “Amen Yves”, 1990.

Lonesome, alienated post-punk that lulls the listener into a somnambulistic state with its delicate guitar work and trance-inducing structure. An act of subversive musical beauty.The Murder Mystery — “Pavement Angels”, 2018.

Luscious, string-laden post-punk that falls far to the left on the melodic and smooth side of the spectrum without losing its urgency.Heaven 17 — “Let Me Go (Extended Version)”, 1982.

Best described with this comment from YouTube: "This is not a song this a vibrating masterpiece".Psyche — “The Saint Became a Lush”, 1993.

Psyche wove new wave, 4AD, industrial and new beat into some of the most insistent, skulking, claustrophobic noir disco of the entire decade.Philadelphia Five — “BongaWalk (Mix II)”, 1988.

Critically underrated and criminally unknown new beat act Philadelphia Five released only a handful of tracks, but they all punch nicely on the darker side. This, a percussive workout, highlights their immaculate production skills.Nitzer Ebb — “Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental)”, 1987.

The slowed down BPM of the instrumental lets this song occupy the space it deserves: off the stage and into the bedroom.Rotersand — “Hot Ashes”, 2020.

Let's get right to the point: fascists should have their heads stomped. Preferably during this track's bassline breakdown.Coil — “Who'll Tell”, 1992.

Among their epics and opuses, Coil offered us a collection of tiny golden library of short, sly and secretive tracks. This is one of their best.Little Computer People — “Sea of Love”, 2001.

Delicate early aughts electro that survives the musical wasteland of that decade through timeless pure good taste in production.Ghost Cop — “Enhance”, 2018.

Modernizing the electro synthpop sound, Ghost Cop architect a dense maze of ultraviolet neon and digital dissolution that shimmers like petrol on wet pavement.Riki — “Spirit Of Love”, 2020.

Riki invite us into her prismatic world of re-retro-rehash-remix of new-old-new-again sounds and it's a place we don't want to leave.Tears For Fears — “Head Over Heels”, 1985.

The masters of iconic 80s songcraft.Topographies — “In Crept Doubt”, 2020.

One of this generation's rising stars, Topographies dwell in a shadowy corner between shoegaze and post-punk that refracts light and sound in all kinds of interesting ways.