1. Baroque Bordello - Today
2. Malaria! - You You
3. Eleven Pond - Watching Trees (The Bleak Engineers Reconstruction) 
4. No More - Suicide Commando (I-Robots Reconstruction)
5. Secession - Touch (Part 3)
6. The Twins - Face To Face - Heart To Heart 
7. Mount Sims - Lights O
8. Penetration - Basic Penetration
9. The Bleak Engineers - Halloween Theme
10. Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
11. Tommi Stumpff & Silvia - Ch Bin Nicht Die
12. Warum Joe - Ralph Und Karl
13. Perspects - Parts
14. Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe
15. Duet Emmo - First Person

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BIO
The Bleak Engineers coldwave duo consists of Moralez and Zombierella (half of horror punk band Messer Chups). Both artists have been working on the music scene for more than twenty years. They debuted on Six Tonnes De Chair Records 5 years ago with a «New Frontiers» LP that mixed electronic sounds with live bass and guitar. An album followed on Mosaique Records in 2019, but one of their earliest tracks “Unconscious”, which was released along with a video, has remained unreleased. It’s the title of their second 12’’ LP that came out on Rotation Mécanique in 2021. 

Both albums have high ratings on discogs and are hard to get today on vinyl. They are in no hurry and have chosen the path of an independent vision of New Wave, DIY, Flexipop and 80’s minimal synths. Although synthesisers grew into great knob-covered beasts there are still plenty of bands like The Bleak Engineers that are thankfully in thrall to the early synth sounds. They have a new album «The Mystical Dream» coming out this autumn in November 2024.

About Mix: 
This mix is like a point of attraction for their musical desires and dreams brings together the unconscious, but very beautiful and expressive. Here music from different years and languages acquires an attractive meaning in an unobtrusive audio form. Enjoy!

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Sharlese is a Seattle DJ and KEXP host blending electro, EBM, Italo, and techno. She’s played at venues like Nowadays, Tresor West, and Panorama Bar and has appeared on podcasts like pi pi pi and The Brvtalist. With 17 years at KEXP, she produces The Afternoon Show and hosts Mechanical Breakdown. Sharlese also runs and curates Audiodrome and False Prophet and holds residencies at secondnature in Seattle and ROAM Recordings’ Problemes d'amour in SF.

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