MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: lyrics and vocals
Gerald Menke: guitars
David Sisko: producer and all instruments
Min Max Studios, New York
Mike Tucci: mastering, Los Angeles

WHO'S THAT GIRL

MUSICIANS:
John Beckmann: vocals, lyrics, and electronics
Cordelia Fox: vocals
William Declan Lucey: producer, various instruments
Recorded at Lus Astralis, New York +
LeftBank, Cork, Ireland
Atomix, LA: mastering

LOST IN SPACE

African & White – China Crisis
World Shut Your Mouth – Julian Cope (Teardrop Explodes)
First & Last & Always – Sisters Of Mercy
The Pan Within – The Waterboys
Well I Wonder – The Smiths
Indigo Eyes – Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)
Blue Hat For A Blue Day – Nick Heyward (Haircut 100)
Perfect – The The
From Across The Kitchen Table – Pale Fountains
Regret – New Order (Joy Division)
Vagabond – Gene Loves Jezebel
Deliverance – Mission (Sisters Of Mercy)
All Night Long – Peter Murphy
7 Chinese Brothers - R.E.M.
Bruise Arcade – Pale Fountains
Now & Forever – Wild Swans (Care/Lotus Eaters)
You Feel Me With Need – Lotus Eaters 
Pretty In Pink – Psychedelic Furs
Jeans Not Happening – Pale Fountains
London Calling – The Clash (Big Audio Dynamite)
A Girl Called Johnny – The Waterboys
Exception Of Love – The Truth
Heaven – Psychedelic Furs
Holy Holy – Wild Swans
Falling & Laughing – Orange Juice
Whirlpool Heart – Wild Swans
This Is The Day – The The

China Crisis - African And White

The Clash - London Calling (80's Post-Punk)

MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: music
David Sisko: mix
Recorded at Lux Astralis, New York
Tom Rogers: mastering

JOHNNIE IS A MAN

A cover of a song written by Peter Murphy.

Cuts You Up (Peter Murphy Cover)

TOO MANY CREEPS

The ILFD podcast is back! In case you missed it, this year's Booker Prize winner is Irish author Paul Lynch — we thought there would be no better time to listen back to his 2013 visit to the festival. 
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Dublin Writers Festival brings together two emerging Irish novelists whose distinctive prose style and strong sense of place has marked them out as writers to watch.

'John the Revelator', Peter Murphy’s “remarkable debut” (The Observer) about the frustrations of a provincial adolescence, was met with instant acclaim and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Fiction Award. A musician and long-time contributor to Hot Press, Murphy’s prose is celebrated for its lyricism and rhythmic power, and it’s fitting that the idea for his new novel came from an interview with the Manic Street Preachers. 'Shall We Gather at the River' introduces Enoch O’Reilly, an Elvis impersonator and ‘radiovangelist’ in Murn, Co. Wexford, a small town threatened by a great flood. Mixing dark themes with surprising comic turns, 'Shall We Gather at the River' is a compelling follow-up from an extraordinary talent.

Film critic Paul Lynch’s debut novel 'Red Sky in Morning' has created quite a stir in the publishing world. Inspired by a horrific incident in Philadelphia in 1832 in which 57 Irish railroad workers were killed, the novel tells the story of Coll Coyle, who flees his home in Inishowen, Donegal after killing a man, and is pursued all the way to America, where a greater tragedy awaits. Written in a taut, lyrical prose reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy and set against the epic backdrops of Donegal and Pennsylvania, 'Red Sky in Morning' marks the emergence of an exciting new talent.
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International Literature Festival Dublin is a Dublin City Council Initiative kindly supported by the Arts Council. Find out more at ilfdublin.com

From the Archives: Paul Lynch & Peter Murphy (2013)

All We Ever Wanted  Was Everything - Bauhaus cover

S.K.O.L. Acoustic Version

S.K.O.L. Acoustic

Cuts You Up

2025

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (Dj Pedro Nunes Remix)

From the Frogger He's Back (1997) Soundtrack by Paul Arnold, Andrew Barnabas, Peter Murphy.. 

Frogger Crush

In the shadows of this darkwave night, I share my sorrow as I sever ties with a friend lost to addiction. Their struggle, once a bond, now a haunting echo of despair. As we drift apart, I embrace the melancholy, weaving it into our soundscape. Join me as we explore new batcave melodies, resonating with the pain and beauty of lost connections. Let the music guide us through this darkness together.
0:00:08  SPANKTHENUN  "Sex Hammer (Electro Lust)"  Sex Hammer EP  [2025]
0:03:32  Faderhead  "Angry Enough" - Single  [2025]  https://faderhead.bandcamp.com/track/angry-enough  
0:06:55  Blokkontroll  "Zerkala"  Blok 2 EP  [2025]  https://blokkontroll.bandcamp.com/album/blok-2
0:23:41  Propter Hoc  "The Basement"  The Basement  [2025  Cold Transmission Music]
0:27:16  Mortal Boy  "Villains drink milk" - Single  [2025]  https://mortalboy.bandcamp.com/track/villains-drink-milk
0:31:47  Die Sexual  "Tremble For Me (Harlander Mix)"  Electric - EP  [2025]  https://diesexual.bandcamp.com/album/electric-remixes
0:37:57  Bird Note: The Auspicious Chime of the Bare-throated Bellbird
0:39:45  Show Promo: Darkwave: Alfredo Martinez
0:39:50  Fermion  "Unity With Chaos"  Conflicted  [2025  Re:Mission Entertainment]
0:44:27  Peter Murphy  "Swoon" - Single  [2024  Metropolis Records]
0:51:39  Tearful Moon  "I Love You More Than Death"  Under the Red Veil  [2020 Young and Cold Records]  https://tearfulmoon.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-red-veil
0:56:11  yeule  "Skullcrusher" - Single  [2025]
0:59:00  Station ID
0:59:09   Fractal Age  "Tremors (Audiocall RMX)"  Tremors EP  [2025  Scanner]  https://scanner-dd.bandcamp.com/album/tremors
1:03:57  Arkham Sunset  "Hypnocil"  Black Glove Society  [2025  Permanent Midnight Records]  https://arkhamsunset.bandcamp.com/track/hypnocil
1:10:26  Sleek Teeth  "Operating"  Sleek Teeth - EP  [2024  2852849 Records DK2]
1:14:10  DSTRTD SGNL  "Shine A Light (Club Mix)"  Shine A Light EP  [2025 Infacted Recording]s  https://infactedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/shine-a-light
1:18:56  Blutengel  "I am the one"  Dämonen : Sturm  [2025  Out of Line Music]  https://blutengel.bandcamp.com/album/d-monen-sturm		
1:22:45  Dark  "Avoid Everyone" - Single  [2020  Parallel Universe]
1:26:40  Viagra Boys  "Uno II"  viagr aboys [2025 Shrimptech Enterprises]
1:29:28  Ex-Hyena  "Shapeshifter"  A Kiss of the Mind  [2024  Re:Mission Entertainment]
1:33:54  This Eternal Decay  "Cold Fear"  Spettro  [2024  Trisol]
1:38:25  Bird Note: Black-billed Magpie
1:40:07  Show Promo: Darkwave promo by StyxHexenHammer666
1:40:43  Dulce Liquido  "Signs of Decay" - Single  [2025]
1:46:00  Noise Resistance  "Сверхновая (Supernova)" - Single  [2025]  https://noiseresistance.bandcamp.com/album/--3
1:53:01  Dead Lights  "Take" - Single  [2025]  https://deadlightsband.bandcamp.com/album/take
1:56:43  Eva Kiss  "Winter Sun"  Everything Is All I Am - EP  [2024  Kycker Music]

Darkwave 03-06-2025 with The Viking Woman (Traci Snow)

80's Gen X New Waver Mobile Disco/Club Spinner in High School & College; Silicon Valley CA Product Engineering Executive/Solid State Drive Geek; Spent most of my allowances on extended, remixes and hard to find esoteric 12" dance vinyl records, used to frequent record stores in SF Bay Area (Amoeba, Rasputins, Tower, Record Factory, Star, etc.) on weekends and after class.  Still love to visit record stores & dig through bins of used records when i go on business trips. Recorded 100's of mixed tapes for classmates/friends and hours & hours in front of the turntables. Count the BPMs, find the intros and breaks and move on the next. Enjoy Generation X underground Club Music. Happy listening! Cheers! 💾🎧📻

The International Literature Festival Dublin, founded in 1998, is Ireland’s premier literary event and gathers the finest writers in the world to debate, provoke, delight and enthral.

Creating custom compilations of Soundtracks and other Cinematic music..

Darkwave DJ at 103.3 FM WXOJ-LP, Valley Free Radio, Northampton, Massachusetts. Known as The Viking Woman.

Music producer born in Gaia, raised in Caracas and currently living in Gaia - Porto. Rock & Electronic Music influences...

www.mortalprophets.com

“Anyone having trouble getting to, or staying, asleep should proceed with caution when playing The Mortal Prophets’ debut album around bedtime. The demonic intentions implied by the album’s name and defined by John Beckmann … coil each selection in menacing directions, bringing fresh, often frightening twists to these standards. Be aware - when you engulf yourself in these riveting, uncompromising performances. They are not for the squeamish.”
- American Songwriter

The Mortal Prophets: John Beckmann’s Cinematic Descent Into the Electric Psyche

In the sprawling constellation of modern music, The Mortal Prophets occupy a shadowed corner—less a “band” in the traditional sense than a living, breathing séance conducted by John Beckmann. Across a series of albums, Beckmann has been excavating the strata of Americana, dream pop, blues, and avant-garde minimalism, folding them into a fever-dream narrative that feels like it was beamed from a late-night pirate radio station somewhere between the Mississippi Delta and the outer rings of Saturn. 

Beckmann, who founded New York’s Axis Mundi Design before turning his obsessive creative drive toward music, approaches songwriting like a visual architect—each track a space you inhabit rather than simply hear. His arrangements have the tension of architectural blueprints: precision married to instinct, steel and stone softened by ambient light. In GUITARWORKS II, the most recent installment in a sprawling instrumental odyssey, guitar tones unspool like distant telegraph wires, calling to mind Robert Fripp’s collaborations with Brian Eno, or the glacial drift of Cluster’s experimental soundscapes. It’s profoundly cinematic, yet never ornamental; each note feels lived in.

If Beckmann’s earlier releases (Stomp The Devil, Me and The Devil, Dealey Plaza Blues) reached back into mythic Americana—the open road, outlaw ballads, acid-washed folk visions—his more recent work tilts toward the abstract, replacing narrative with mood. This is music that understands how memory works: fractured, impressionistic, prone to bleed between truth and hallucination. The Mortal Prophets operate in that liminal space where you’re not sure if you’re dreaming, or just remembering wrong. 

Vocally, when Beckmann steps to the mic, it’s with a delivery equal parts Leonard Cohen confession and Bowie-esque theater—half-smirk, half-sermon. Lyrically, he trades in arcane symbols and sly allusions: 19th-century mystics rub shoulders with dive-bar drifters, and romantic longing flickers like neon through a rain-soaked windshield. He’s not afraid of obliqueness; in fact, he seems to revel in it. Where many contemporary songwriters flatten their work into algorithm-friendly hooks, Beckmann builds labyrinths. 

Part of The Mortal Prophets’ magnetism lies in its refusal to settle. One album might summon the humid ghost-blues of Junior Kimbrough refracted through a loop pedal; the next might drift into synth-heavy dream pop worthy of an early-’90s 4AD release. Beckmann’s collaborators—rotating players drawn from both avant-garde and roots backgrounds—expand that sonic palette, giving the project an almost shapeshifting quality. 
In a cultural moment where genre boundaries are largely performative, Beckmann treats them as haunted ruins worth spelunking through. His songs feel like dispatches from parallel histories of American music—histories where psychedelia never died, where blues never got sanitized, and where experimentalism didn’t have to hide in academic halls. 

The Mortal Prophets may never break into the Billboard mainstream, but that’s hardly the point. Their appeal is in the slow burn, the intimacy of discovery. Beckmann’s work isn’t built for quick consumption; it’s built for listeners willing to linger, to decode, to wander down the long corridors he constructs. In an era obsessed with speed and surface, The Mortal Prophets offer the opposite: a deep dive into the echo chamber of the self, scored by a man who seems to know exactly how to make the walls sing.

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