Side A
Artist	Song
Balanescu Quartet	Drowned By Time
Blur	Beetlebum (Moby Mix)
Ikon	Condemnation
Sisters Of Mercy	Marian (Version)
Public Image Limited	Swan Lake
Molly Half Head	Arty Breakfast
Jesus And Mary Chain	Some Candy Talking
Cocteau Twins	Road, River And Rail
Durutti Column	Blue Period
Public Image Limited	Flowers Of Romance
Ikon	Hollowed Ground
Joy Division	In A Lonely Place
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Placebo	Bigmouth Strikes Again
Bauhaus	Ziggy Stardust
U2	Dancing Barefoot
Ikon	Fall Apart
Mission UK	In Between Days
Bauhaus	She's In Parties
Cocteau Twins	Because Of Whirl-Jack
Public Image Limited	Radio Four
Balanescu Quartet	My Melancholy Stones
Durutti Column	Where I Should Be
Balanescu Quartet	Cold, Cold, Cold (edit)

Comment:

This was actually the first mix I had made to be entitled 'Cold', for my cousin. Created on the eve of my 20th birthday back in 1999. The year and century were coming to a close and I felt somewhat uneased about it all. This would brings a death to my teens, if you will and I couldn't help but feel a bit grey about that. Thus the cover art, Paul Klee's 'Mourning' a kind of lamentation for my part. The Balanescu Quartet songs suited quite nicely. They are from the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film 'The Garden'. Jarman directed some Pet Shop Boys videos as well Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'. What is kind of strange is that 'The Garden' was an album which when I bought it had no idea about at all, but I just had a feeling I should purchase it. I simply liked the cover and the titles of the tracks sounded beautiful. And very pleased I was to find on first listen that the soundtrack was just that... beautiful. And quite interestingly unique as well, which is something most important to me about music. The first half of side b are all cover songs. Smiths, Bowie, Patti Smith, Death In June and Cure. PIL's "Radio Four" is probably one of my favourite songs of all time, with the Joy Division-esque synth at the end, the absolutely most perfect sound in the world.

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