Scarlet's Winter Song Challenge called artists from the world famous* Cardiacs discord community to create seven songs in the seven weeks between December 3rd, 2023 and January 20th, 2024. These are the results.
conceptualized, coordinated, and compiled by Scarlet Hall
cover art by Wormy (twitter: @wormwaveart)
credits by artist:
Acoleuthic:
All songs written, performed, and produced by Acoleuthic
Chris Irregardless:
All songs written, performed, and produced by Chris Irregardless
Logan Posthumous / Timsvb.
All songs written, performed, and produced by Logan Posthumous aka Timsvb.
Samples:
"Dog" -
One Day Elliott's This Thing of Darkness from Mastering the Art of Self Preservation
Soul Asylum's Heavy Rotation from Hang Time
Kenko's Mis lamitas from Panpipes Music
Guillemots' Last Kiss from Red
Savage Garden's I Want You from their self-titled album
Radish's Sugar Free from Restraining Bolt
Space Invaders' 99%PISS from 99%ORGASM
Ian Dury's Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, a non-album single
Sir Millard Mulch's When the Sales Gods Compute Your Karmic Work, You Can Join Your Mystic Brethren and Ring Around the Hedgehog from How to Sell the Whole F#@!ing Universe to Everybody... Once and for All!
"Confessions of a Mask" -
Jim Almand's For the Longest Time from Power of the Spoken Word
John Greaves' piano playing on Three Tenses Onanism from Kew. Rhone.
The North Sea Scrolls' Preamble – Intro from their self-titled album
Only Child Tyrant's Solid Grey Zebra from Time to Run
Crispin Merrell's The Operative from the CultTV library disc
The title track of 四人囃子's 一触即発
The 23/7/07 Daytrotter Session of Bryan Scary's Son of Stab
有頂天's みつけ鳥 ~グリム童話より~ Mitsuke-Dori from Aissle
The Stranglers' Norman Normal, the B-side to the Always the Sun single
The Stranglers' Death and Night and Blood (Yukio) from Black and White
Professor Plasmodium:
All songs written*, performed, and produced by Professor Plasmodium
*"Spokoynoy Nochi", "Man, It's So Loud in Here", and "Prunes" written by Kevin & the Bikes, They Might Be Giants, and Nukelele respectively
Samples:
"I Don’t Need Flowers" -
Philips - The Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon
Panchiko - D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L (cover by carlthesuperlord)
"Man, It’s So Loud In Here" -
Nintendo - Mario Kart 64
"Prunes" -
Jacknjelify - Battle For Dream Island
SeVeN X:
All songs written*, performed, and produced by SeVeN X
*"Secret" written by Catherine Pierce
Samples:
"weak too" -
Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming
Residents - N-Err-Gee
Safae - the forty rules of Love (french version)
Devo - Too Much Paranoias
Devo - Shrivel Up
"Secret" -
Mr.Bungle - Golem II: the Bionic Vapour Boy
Arthur Lyman - Taboo
Queens of the Stone Age - the lost art of keeping a secret
Vocals - SeVeN X
"...and you killed them" -
Butthole Surfers - Graveyard
Einstürzende Neubauten - Das Schaben
The Caretaker - Long Decline is Over (from stage 4)
Mars Volta - Televators
Hail the sun - Jane Doe
Kraftwerk - Vom Himmel hoch (from Kraftwerk I)
Pink Floyd - Eclipse
Residents - Festival of Death
Melanie Martinez - Death
SeVeN X - Death (from Pink music)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Der Tod ist ein Dandy
Bossa Bosa - Taiyo
"dead voices" -
SeVeN X - Bell Manipulation (sampling Melanie Martinez - Intervals)
The Jonestown Express - That's the Way of the World
SeVeN X - Life
recordings of Helmuth von Molkte - 1889
"Das Telephon" -
recordings of Helmuth von Molkte - 1889
Scarlet Hall:
All songs written, performed, and produced by Scarlet Hall
Samples:
"Spike Trials" -
Spike (Vectrex game)
"Hiss" -
Ann McGovern - Too Much Noise (reading and sound effects by Ralph Curtiss)
Cardiacs - A Game For Bertie's Party
The Doors - Peace Frog
The Swamp Water Sluts:
Written, performed, and produced by Kit Workinprogress
Mademoiselle Charlotte Ananga-Bailey-Willoughby McChristney:
Written, performed, and produced by Mademoiselle Charlotte Ananga-Bailey-Willoughby McChristney
Samples:
"postemptively untitled" -
Don Hertzfeldt - Welcome To The Show
Using A.I., synths, and samples, “by clicking you agree” presents a brain-melting collage of sounds that is wonderfully disorienting. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 20, 2021
A forward-looking record that imagines the future of Rio de Janeiro, built on intimate textures, ambient, drone, classical, and bossa nova. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 4, 2017
Written in response to the climate crisis, “Leviathan” is a brooding and beautifully unsettling batch of dark ambient songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 16, 2023
Every sound here is made using Megan Mitchell's voice, even though the music often sounds more like Earth’s vibrations than a human singing. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 28, 2023