Artwork by Sandra Chi & Ciaran O'Shea

Courtesy of Brooklyn street-wear company Mishka and popular for their musical participation via the Keep Watch mix series, now comes a visionary new mix from Trash Menagerie favorite Passions (aka Math Head).

The mix, entitled “Music Without Tears,” provides insightful musical context to  his many influences as a producer while also foreshadowing aspects of the increasingly electronic-inspired genre darkwave. Culling from the godfathers of Post-Punk and Goth while placing the work of London-based darkwave label Disc Errors, Passions’ own productions sneak in to help unfold a darkly brilliant pastiche of history and reinvention.

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Passions – Music Without Tears

Tracklist for Music Without Tears:

01. UK Decay – Unexpected Guest
02. Micron63 – No Divide
03. Joy Division – Means To An End
04. Pylon – Danger
05. Public Image Limited – Annalisa
06. Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant
07. Nine Inch Nails – Ringfinger
08. Passions – Sentiment (Instrumental)
09. Death In June – Fields
10. Cabaret Voltaire – Landslide
11. SPK – A Heart That Breaks (In No Time And Place)
12. Ulterior – Weapons (Zlaya Remix)
13. New Order – 586 (Peel Sessions Version)
14. Death In June – The Calling Mk II
15. Black Strobe – Innerstrings (No Shuffle Mix)
16. Micron63 – Death Is Colder Than Love
17. Huoratron – Corporate Occult (Passions Remix)
18. Section 25 – Looking From A Hilltop
19. Throbbing Gristle – Adrenaline
20. Alien Sex Fiend – Get Into It
21. New Order – Ecstasy
22. Suicide – Mr. Ray
23. Sonic Youth – Killin Yr. Idols
24. Ipso Facto – Baulderdash
25. Damn Arms – The Cormorant
26. Wire – On Returning
27. Oto – Anyway
28. Bauhaus – Dancing
29. The Cure – Primary
30. Passions – Composure (Instrumental)
31. Radiohead – Climbing Up The Walls
32. David Bowie – Subterraneans

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