Halloween mixtapes

I was a bit bored, so I did a Halloween mixtape of creepy ambient and other electronic music:

http://8tracks.com/Nexinexim/spooky-electronic-a-halloween-mix

Here's the tracklist:

1) Biosphere - Phantasm
2) Air Liquide - Chromoplastic
3) Steel - Theme for a Virtual Italien 7ties Horror Movie
4) Async Sense - Drifting
5) Global Electronic Network - Untitled
6) Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen - When the Night Was Black
7) Single Cell Orchestra - Silo Master Control
8) Spectre - Krush (Bloody Dub Mix)
9) Nobukazu Takemura - Let My Fish Go (Aphex Twin Mix)
10) 310 - Indifferent Trains
11) Monolake - Ice
12) Air Liquide - Negative Saucer

If you've made Halloween mixtapes too, share them here!

1. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
2. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
3. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
4. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
5. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
6. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
7. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
8. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
9. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
10. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
11. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
12. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"
13. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers - "Monster Mash"

1. Michael Jackson - Thriller
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Michael Jackson - Thriller
6. Michael Jackson - Thriller
7. Michael Jackson - Thriller
8. Michael Jackson - Thriller
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller
10. Michael Jackson - Thriller (Instrumental version)

No Black Metal, no credibility

Dracula's Wedding - Outkast
Boogie Monster - Gnarls Barkley
Wolfman - (I'll get back to you on this one - early 60s instrumental)
Spooky - Lydia Lunch
Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula - The Diamonds
Midnight Monster Hop - Jack and Jim
Spooky Movies - Roy Clark
Lookout Mountain - Chuck Miller
If You Shoot The Head You Kill The Ghoul - Jeffrey Louis
George Romero - The Sprites
Let's Hear That String Part Again - Sufjan Stevens
Dr. Doom - Tuscadero
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
I Walked With A Zombie - Roky Erikson

My perennial favorite for Halloween mixes since time immemorial (the mid 1990s): Ministry - Everyday is Halloween.

Oh yeah, and the Freaks Come Out at Night by whatever loser did that one.

The Misfits - Safe For Children (1978 - 1983)

Oh yeah, and the Freaks Come Out at Night by whatever loser did that one.

― burt_stanton, Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Burt Ban-a-ton

No Lustmord, no credibility.

Side 2 of 'Sin Alley' vol 4 collects an incredible bunch of horror-themed R'N'B/rockabilly sides that I'm sure the Cramps know very well.

If you're looking for pure creepy ambience, Xasthur's most recent, 'Defective Epitaph', was aptly described as 'the musak playing in the waiting room to hell' and 'themes from a Bond movie set in Transylvania'. Not gloomy enough? Try Nortt. Want to turn the temperature down a notch or three? Try Paysage D'Hiver.

This man speaks the truth.

EVIL NINE NO "GIMIX" DJ MIX AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD ON RCRDLBL FROM 10/31/09

Don’t be surprised if Brighton based Evil Nine and their forthcoming album They Live! does for zombies what Daft Punk did for robots. With stomping electro drums, ‘80s Italian horror-movie synths, dirty punk basslines, and a wanton disregard for genre rules, the infamously subversive dance/electronic duo create an unstoppable soundtrack for the new virtual zombie revolution.

The title track (and first single) They Live! pays irreverent homage to cult director John Carpenter’s classic 1988 sci-fi ghoulfest They Live with its ultra-catchy vocoder chorus (“They walk, they lie, they love, they live!/They wake, they fall, they cry, they live!/They fight, they fail, they die, they live!”). “We love that film and the weird, crunchy, stripped-down analog-electronic scores John Carpenter creates,” Beaufoy says. “I’ve had a massive fascination with zombie films since I was a teenager,” Pardy adds, which probably explains why they also recruited cult artist Dan Mumford (known for his infamous sicko album art for Gallows and other punk/metal classics) to create the gory horror-show like album art for this particular album.

The album itself features a number of surprising collaborations, foremost is Def Jux’s radical mastermind El-P, whose brutal spitting transforms the apocalyptic slammer “All The Cash.”

We hooked up with him after our DJ set at Coachella last year and really got along,” Pardy says. “If there was one rapper we wanted to work with, it’s El-P. And he was up for something different: I don’t think he’s much of a dance-music fan, but he’s very open-minded musically.” Elsewhere, Beans (of Anti-Pop Consortium) turns “Set It Off” into a Goth-meets-hip-house burner, while David, vocalist of Kitsuné buzz band Autokratz, adds melodic New Wave melancholy to “The Wait.” “I’m not sure what David’s singing about,” Beaufoy admits. “I think it’s about getting laid after a gig and trying to slip away quietly to avoiding any awkwardness.” Additionally Seraphim (from Brooklyn indie-electro seditionaries No Surrender) and Bristol scenester Emily Breeze also make crucial cameos. "To us, Emily’s the female Danzig,” Pardy explains. “It was great having her make ballsy punk-rock-chick noise over us pretending to be a rock band. We always like to push people to do something completely new."

Creating this army of like-minded iconoclasts is all part of Evil Nine’s plan to confound expectations. To that end, They Live! features pounding tracks that will work in any club, but filtered through unexpected influences spanning ‘80s cock rock, The Cure, early Prince, krautrockers Cluster, Can and Tangerine Dream, vintage noise punkers Suicide and Black Flag, and newer sonic saboteurs TV On The Radio and Queens of the Stone Age. As such, “Behemoth” welds Timbaland rhythms to Black Sabbath heaviness; “Feed On You” comes out somewhere between Beverly Hills Cop and a phantom death march; “Dead Man Coming” loops soundtrack composer/Goblin member Fabio Frizzi’s theme from Zombie Flesh Eaters with ragga rudeness courtesy Toastie Taylor of U.K. rap crew New Flesh; “The Wait,” meanwhile, incorporates the experiments of Paul Lansky, the early synth pioneer whom Radiohead sampled on “Idioteque.” “He’s a mad Princeton professor who experiments with strange noises,” Beaufoy explains. “We’re obsessed,” Pardy says. “We can usually find something positive and inspiring about most of the music out there, we then fuck it up and twist it into our own thing.” Equally individual will be Evil Nine’s kinetic new live show: it features Pardy and Beaufoy singing and playing dueling bass guitars, synthesizers, samples onstage, an actual human drummer, fittingly spooky visual phantasmagoria along with group’s new full-length They Live!—a worthy successor to their 2005 album debut You Can Be Special Too, one of the most acclaimed electronic albums in recent memory.

There was a Quiet Village Halloween themed mix called "Fragments of Fear" available on the web http://www.discogs.com/release/714984

Straight to Video (Freelance hellraiser/osymyso and friends) : SCARY mix - originally broadcast on Radio One.

and i quote : "Featuring 2 whole hours of wonky weirdness from Carpenter, Goblin, Donaggio and err, Parker Jnr, plus loads of strange noises, film dialogue and an interview with Rob."

https://download.yousendit.com/TTdHaklpSWVxRTFFQlE9PQ

Danse Macabre - Georges Montalba
Nosferatu - Paul Roland
Vampire Song - Nick Harper
Haunted Henry - Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Ghosts - The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy
The Cat - Ruth White
Witch's Hat - The Smell of Incense
Bewitched - Pram
Princess of Darkness - Die Welttraumforscher
The Monster Mash - P:Ano (not a cover)
Frankenstein - Capitol K
Halloween - Kirsty MacColl
Diggin' My Grave - William Elliott Whitmore
Dead Man Rise - The Walkabouts
Zombie Bop - Blaine Reininger
Satan Side - Keith Hudson
Mama Loi, Papa Loi - Exuma
(hyena calls recorded by Chris Watson)
The Werewolf - Cat Power
Halloween - Monster Island

Here's a happy halloween hour set I did a few hours ago:

* Ted Cassidy - "The Lurch"
* Yello - "Pinball Cha Cha (12" version)"
* Joakim - "The Minimum Of Life"
* Renegade Soundwave - "Murder Music"
* Led Zeppelin - "The Crunge"
* Ministry - "Cold Life"
* ESG - "UFO"
* Flin Flon - "Bonnie Lamb"
* African Head Charge - "Elastic Dance"
* Jackie Mitoo & Soul Brothers - "Voodoo Night"
* Amon Düül II - "Ladies Mimikry"
* Queen - "Mustapha"
* Sparks - "Barbecutie"
* New York Dolls - "Frankenstein (Orig.)"
* The Sonics - "Strychnine"
* The Sonics - "Skinny Minnie"
* The Sonics - "Psycho (live)"
* The Sonics - "The Witch (live)"
* The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - "Fanfare - Fire Poem"
* The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - "Fire"
* Kim Fowley - "Animal Man"
* Rotary Connection - "Paper Castle"
* The Osmonds - "Crazy Horses"
* Crispin Hellion Glover - "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"
* Brainiac - "Kiss Me, U Jacked Up Jerk"
* Section 25 - "Dirty Disco"
* Japan - "Halloween"
* Simian Mobile Disco - "Clock (Chrome Hoof Rework)"
* Alien Sex Fiend - "Haunted House"
* Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - "Undertaker"
* Scott Walker - "Psoriatic"
* Alice Cooper - "Devil's Food"
* Alice Cooper - "The Black Widow"
* Optiganally Yours - "Poodleman"
* Klaus Nomi - "After The Fall"

THe reason for so many Sonics tunes is because of the Sonics show happening Halloween night in town (tomorrow)

Here's one I'm throwing together as a quickie CD for friends; these are the tracks I know I'm including, though I'm not sure of the order. I'll have to drop a few for time reasons, probably, haven't checked out the running time yet.

Howard Shore - Welcome to Videodrome (this is, however, definitely the first track)
The Diaphanoids - What the Fuck Do You Want With Us Earthlings
Kreeps - All I Wanna Do Is Break Some Hearts (Mungolian Jet Set "Exit to the Jaja" Mix)
Chrome Hoof - Tonyte
S. Park - Sun High
Ennio Morricone - Veni Sancti Spiritus
Midnight Mike - The Necro Dance
Chrome Hoof - Tonyte
Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Krikor edit)
Rub 'n' Tug - Meat
Sir Horatio - Abracadubra
The Fall - To NK Roachment: Yarbles
Colin Newman - Alone On Piano
Goblin - Sighs
I Monster - Lucifer
Thought Gang - The Black Dog Runs At Night
Poni Hoax - The Paper Bride
The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
Yello - Assistant's Cry (this is also very definitely the last track)

i threw together a mix for Halloween this year. it's mostly noisy and metal-based with maybe a few surprises. If my lame ass can figure out how to use yousendit i'll link it.

1. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Halloween Spooks
2. Nanamax - The Return of the Deadly Mantis
3. Khanate - Skin Coat
4. Lurker of Chalice - Spectre as Valkerie is*
5. Leviathan - A Silhouette in Splinters
6. Darkspace - 2.9
7. Khlyst - II
8. Old Man Gloom - Only Dogs Hear (Here)
9. Samhain - Birthright
10. Hototogisu - Ghosts From the Sun Disc 1-2
11. Fantomas - Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
12. Circle of Dead Children - Whimper
13. James Plotkin - Polar Shift
14. Journeyman - Sonny
15. SunnO))) - It Took the Night to Believe

i think this might work.

I added "Monolith" by Yello to my mix, and now it has 13 tracks, which seems more appropriate.

wot no Dream Syndicate?

Here's my mixtape as a zipped folder, if you don't want to use 8Tracks.

last year's hallowwwn mix CD, playing as we speak:

walter schumann - night of the hunter
the meteors - night of the werewolf
alice donut - halloween
gerard schurmann - horrors of the black museum (overture)
ennio morricone - the bird with the crystal plumage
tristram cary - quatermass & the pit (section 5)
skindred - vampire slayer
the voluptuous horror of karen black - I believe in halloween
fantomas - the devil rides out
dick jacobs - it came from outer space
david vanian and the phantom chords - screaming kid
piero piccioni - seven murders
naked city - new jersey scum swamp
the frantics - werewolf
mr gasser and the weirdos - surfer ghoul
dimitri tomkin - the thing (main title)
sleepytime gorilla museum - puppet show
burning skies - murder by existence
thinking plague - inside out
foetus - thrush
orthodox - arrodillate ante la madera y la piedra
the monsoon bassoon - in the iceman's back garden

I did my earlier one from memory - here's the accurate tracklist:

Dracula's Wedding - Outkast
Boogie Monster - Gnarls Barkley
Spooky - Lydia Lunch
Werewolf - The Frantics
Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula - The Diamonds
Midnight Monster Hop - Jack and Jim
Spooky Movies - Roy Clark
Lookout Mountain - Chuck Miller
If You Shoot The Head You Kill The Ghoul - Jeffrey Louis
George Romero - The Sprites
Let's Hear That String Part Again - Sufjan Stevens
Dr. Doom - Tuscadero
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
I Walked With A Zombie - Roky Erikson

"Stairway to Helloween" edition of my very short-running Village Voice Radio show, October, 2001 (a few weeks after 9-11). I have this on a CD-R, so I guess it counts as a mixtape:

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
Roky Erikson - Night of the Vampire
New York Dolls - Frankenstein ("Something must have happened over Manhattan," yikes)
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
Babe Ruth - Jack O' Lantern
Sonic Youth - Hallowe'en
The Bleeding Light - Halloween III
Electric Wizard - I, Witchfinder
Monster Magnet - See You In Hell
Vampire Beach Babes - Tomb Mau Mau
Pointed Sticks - The Witch
Nerve Agents - Oh Ghost of Mine
Metallica - Last Caress/Green Hell
Moldy Peaches - NYC Is A Graveyard

Oops, somehow left out one song:

Bang Tango - Dressed Up Vamp (played between Roky and the Dolls)

Four songs I'm sad nobody (including me) has included:

The Shaggs - It's Halloween
Whodini - Haunted House of Rock
John "The Cool Ghoul" Zacherle - Dinner With Drac Part 1
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

Philly Joe Jones' "Bebop Vampire" is worth a mention.

and this:

Rhapsody's halloween playlist is surprisingly fun. My friend played it at a party and i was all "Ooooh, song from The Blob!"

song worth including:

the birthday party - release the bats

Finished compiling, zshared and posted the tracks I posted upthread.

...oh balls, I forgot the Mungolian track in the uploaded version. Ah well.

Spectre Vs rector-The Fall
A figure walks-The Fall
Frightened-The Fall...etc

Awful, awful hurried mixtape for this year:
1. Lux Interior intro
2. JG Thirlwell- Mississippi Noir
3. P. Reno- Cause I'm a Man
4. The Cramps- Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon
5. Thought Gang- A Real Indication
6. Tomahawk- You Can't Win
7. Foetus- Hammer Falls
8. Nitzer Ebb- Lightning Man
9. Suicide- Mister Ray
10. Revolting Cocks- Beers Steers & Queers (Drop Your Britches Mix)
11. Big Ned- Killer
12. Pulp- Seductive Barry
13. Bohren & Der Club of Gore- Still Am Tresen
14. John Carpenter & Jim Lang- The Book Comes Back
15. The Cure- Pornography
16. Fever Ray- I'm Not Done

http://rapidshare.com/files/300587637/halloween_mix.zip.html

Better than last year's, I think, but still kind of crap. Oh, Fire Walk With Me soundtrack, you are so, so very easy

http://deadheatnyc.com/tracks/DH55.mp3

some of these don't have anything "Halloween" except the band name but here's what I put on my radio show this afternoon

Vampyros Lesbos - Necromania
White Witch - Have You Ever Thought of Changing? / Jackson Slade
Johnny Jenkins - Blind Bats and Swamp Rats
Skull Snaps - It's a New Day
Funkadelic - Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples
Cybotron - Cosmic Cars
The Vamps - Disco Blood
Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
Bush Tetras - Things That Go Boom in the Night
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy
Black Sabbath - The Wizard
Dead Moon - Graveyard
Flaming Lips - Halloween on the Barbary Coast

some of these don't have anything "Halloween"
[...]
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

i always found this pretty morbid (in a very sweet way).

yeah exactly. the video is kinda spooky too. not strictly halloween but just has that feel

I've used "scary monsters and super creeps" on halloween mixes b4 but ashes to ashes is just a way better song

http://rapidshare.com/files/301197207/Various_Artists_-_Mike_Warnke_Meets_the_Space_Witch__Halloween_2009_.mp3

Sorry, day late and kinda short. An all vinyl mix (even the surprise part that isn't listed below). Also the first time I've put together a mix on the computer so it's kinda a trainwreck with bad levels and surface noize etc.

Mike Warnke - A Christian Perspective on Halloween
J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (perf. by Hans Wurman a la Moog)
Buryl Red - Strange Halloween
CJ & Co. - Devil's Gun
Burl Ives - At The Devil's Ball
Artie Shaw - Nightmare
The Eloise Trio - Zombie Jamboree
Red Sorvine - Phantom 309
Karen & Cubby - Trick or Treat
Buryl Red - Halloween
Space Witch by Don Freeman (read by Bob MacFadden) / Blomdahl: Suite from "Aniara" (Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper; Werner Janssen, Conductor; Electronic and Concrète Effects by Swedish Radio)

Same thing, re-uploaded.

Mine

Hey! I posted this in the other mix thread but it certainly belongs in this one.

Enjoy:

http://soundcloud.com/chelonian/chelonian-darkchasmsandphantasmsmix

or

http://www.mixcloud.com/chelonian/darkchasmsandphantasmsmix/

TRACKLIST:

aboombong - forsaken
sample: dj shadow, WDYSLL Pt. 1-Blue Sky Revisit
sample: John Carpenter - the factory (Halloween III OST)
demdike stare - bardo thodol
John Carpenter - Halloween III close/open (Halloween III OST)
boards of canada - you could feel the sky
the advisory circle - Swinscoe Episode 2-'Release The Birds'
shackleton - but the branch is weak
boards of canada - beware the friendly stranger
broadcast - through the gates of yesterday
biosphere - phantasm/aphex twin - grey stripe
sample: the shining soundtrack - a horrible nightmare
sample: the advisory circle - frozen ponds pif
demdike stare - caged in stammheim
boards of canada - opening the mouth
shackleton - the rope tightens (badawi remix)
samples throughout track from: Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik
Shackleton - death is not final
shackleton - in the void
john carpenter - hey boom (Halloween III OST)
boards of canada - a is to b as b is to c
sample: the shining soundtrack - come out and play with us danny

Thanks!

I just put together this "Pre-Historic Horror Rock" playlist for Rhapsody a couple weeks ago:

http://www.rhapsody.com/playlistcentral/playlistdetail?playlistId=ply.41961326

Also, two great songs (partially) about Halloween that I don't think anybody has listed here:

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me
Taylor Swift - The Best Day

Helloween mixtape

xp - MPTOM is my #1 seasonal track, & not just for Bill's verse, but also the "candle sticks in the dark, visions of bodies bein burned" & "three blind, crippled & crazy senior citizens."

made one of these years ago, i don't remember most of it, but i know "please mr. gravedigger" by bowie was on it. and "lullaby" by the cure.

Shit, I forgot this was so close! Not really feeling it this year, though. I don't know who I make these for anyway since none of my friends give a fuck about music or ever do anything for Halloween...

Really enjoying your mix, Chewy. Nice creepy radiophonics.

Thanks, glad you like it!

Also not mentioned yet, and great, and actually about Halloween:

The Endtables - "Trick Or Treat"

is MPTOM really a seasonal track since bill's verse takes place nowhere "even close to halloween"

seasonal mood music for a dinner party, so nothing too raucous.

kristy maccoll - halloween
fern knight - murder of crows
magyar posse - witchcraft
elf power - i walked with the zombie
the only ones - creature of doom
the green pajamas - vampire crush
dead man ray - bones
mellow candle - the poet & the witch
georges montalba - danse macabre
brimstone - visions of autumn
paul duncan - country witch
faith & the muse - the unquiet grave
stoa - autumn
bat for lashes - bat's mouth
strawbs - witchwood
barry dransfield - the werewolf
marissa nadler - bird on your grave
paul roland - jumbee
the go-betweens - spirit of a vampire
ooberman - ghosts
sandy denny - after halloween

i'll post it somewhere if there's interest. and if i can figure out how-to.

Yo Mr. Hal Jam - I'd like to hear it. Mediafire is pretty easy to upload to.

Gappy Ranks "Pumpkin Belly"
(best reggae dancehall song from 2010 that I didn't hear until 2011.)

My 3-hour-long creepy Halloween mix. I'm pretty proud of it.

I made a comp of my fav 50s novelty Halloween songs last year, clicky clicky here for a half hour of goofy ghoulishness!

I'm downloading these!

Aw, crappers. I have a list of the tracks in my mix, but I deleted the playlist without noting the correct order of the songs. I think it's more effective (and creeeepy) if you listen without knowing what's included, but in case curiosity overwhelms you:

Angelo Badalamenti - "Dwarfland/Love Theme" (from Mulholland Drive)
Aphex Twin - "(white blur)" and "Analogue Bubblebath 3"
B.F. Shelton - "Pretty Polly"
Beck - "Aphid Manure Heist (Pt. 1)"
Black Sabbath - "Planet Caravan"
Black Swan Network - "III"
Brian Eno & David Byrne - "Come With Us"
British Electric Foundation - "Music To Kill Your Parents By"
Broadcast & The Focus Group - a bunch of them
Butterfield 8 Project - "Thrown"
Captain Beefheart - "Apes-Ma"
Cluster - "Georgel"
Dettinger - "Strange Fruit"
Dome - "Ar-Gu"
Faust - "Exercise With Voices"
Flying Lizards - "Cirrus"
Folk Implosion - "Raise The Bells"
Gastr Del Sol - "Our Exquisite Replica Of 'Eternity'"
The Knife - "Na Na Na"
Lisa Germano - "...A Psychopath"
Lou Reed - "Metal Machine Music, Part I"
Marilyn Manson - "The Hands Of Small Children"
Microstoria - "Feld 1"
Ministry - "Grace"
My Bloody Valentine - "Touched"
Neina - "Clairvoyance"
Nico - "Facing The Wind"
Nobukazu Takemura - "Stairs In Stars"
Orb - "We're Pastie To Be Grill You"
Racebannon - "Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In Part VI"
Rachel's - "The Sirens"
Ruth White - "Evening Harmony"
Skylab - "Shhh" and "Green Mammal Part 3"
Sonic Youth - "Satan Is Boring"
Stereolab - "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)"
Suicide - "Frankie Teardrop"
Thomas Meinecke's Framus Waikiki - "Rechanneled From Stereo"
Trans Am - "Where Do You Want To Fuck Today?"
Tricky vs. The Gravediggas - "Psychosis"
Ween - "Mourning Glory"
Zeek Sheck - "I Cut Your Head Off"

Plus several selections from Just Another Asshole and a few dozen of the more creepy sounds I dredged up from the BBC SFX library.

Also, I listened to Comus this morning for the first time and was disappointed by how decidedly uncreepy (albeit good and actually very pretty) I found it to be! After all that buildup! So my mix was fueled by my desire to out-creepy Comus. And by hubris, obvs.

Damn I miss doing a radio show around Halloween.

Hmmm, I think this probably belongs in here:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6267622304_969f0a6eff_m.jpg

SOUNDCLOUD/DOWNLOAD

Creepy themed mix for my favorite time of year:

the haxan cloak - disorder
**texas chainsaw massacre OST - opening titles
demdike stare - regolith
miles - primer
**return of the living dead OST - swallowed up (dialogue)
the haxan cloak - hounfour (temple)
**john murphy & underworld: sunshine OST - pinbacker slashes capa (sample)
lucy - tof
**dialogue from apocalypse now - horror (dialogue)
emptyset - beyond
pye corner audio transcription services - transmission four crooked hill
john carpenter: escape from new york OST - descent into new york
roly porter - tleilax
andy stott - submission
blackfilm - atlantikend
**ennio morricone: the thing OST - contamination
cut hands - ++++ (four crosses)

Also, holy shit Deric that mix looks fantastic. Lots of good stuff on there. Will most def. be checking that out!

Thanks y'all for this thread!

Here's some of my suggestions:

Pink Industry - Is This The End?
UFO - ESG
John Carpenter - The End (Assault on Precinct 13 Disco Version)
Pixeltan - Get Up/Say What
Salem - Till the World Ends (Britney Spears Remix)
Farah - Law Of Life
Skinny Puppy - Draining Faces
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Tropic of Cancer - A Color
Skatt Bros - Walk the Night
Section 25 - Dirty Disco
Bush Tetras - Things that Go Boom in the Night
Renegade Legion - Torsion
Black Devil Disco Club - No Regrets
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Black Meteoric Star - Death Tunnel
The Mover - Nightflight (Non-stop to Kaos)
Demdike Stare - All Hallow's Eve feat. Danny Norbury
Lydia Lunch - Gloomy Sunday

Also, Deadboy's 2011 Halloween mix is worth a listen/download.

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2013-10-28at94023AM_zps976edca3.png
http://www.mediafire.com/download/770gfgta1cbudma/slamdunkhalloweenspecial.mp3

it's the slam dunk halloween special

one song-16:13

Instrumental 4-John Bender
Ring Road-Locrian
Deep Shadows-Goblin
Reaper's Gong-Wolf Eyes
Cherry On Top-The Knife
Dog Star Descends-Lustmord
Rectum/Paris By Night-Thomas Bangalter
Forced Alien Confinement-Man is the Bastard
Falling Off the Edge-Demdike Stare
Aqua Regis-Coil
Ghost Story-John Carpenter
Rocky Mountains-Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind
Killed-Gianni Rossi
The Inferno-Kevin Drumm
Serapeum-Brighter Death Now
Four Hymns, II For Cello and Double Bass-Alfred Schnittke
Theme from 'Splatter Farm'
Become the Ocean-Neurosis
Bathory Erzsebet-Sunn 0)))
You Fucking People Make Me Sick-Swans
Body Chaos-Aaron Dilloway
Like Gold and Faceted-Earth
The Window!-John Carpenter
Fonadate Paure-Ennio Morricone
Vultures, Nine Birds Feeding on Zebra Carcass, Itong Plains, Kenya-Chris Watson
Soundpooling #3-Nurse With Wound
Hamburger Lady-Throbbing Gristle
Prepared Hammond-Man is the Bastard

movie samples:
"A Night to Dismember"/"By Satan Possessed!"/"Night Warning"/"Dead Calm"/"The Abomination"/"Video Violence"/"Miracle Mile"/"Death and the Maiden"/"Mr. Frost"/"Lisa"/"Black Christmas"/"Cameron's Closet"/"Nightmares in a Damaged Brain"/"Possession"/"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"/"Fun"/"Last House on Dead End Street"/"Buried Alive"/"Night Terrors"/"When a Stranger Calls Back"/"Let's Scare Jessica to Death"/"Messiah of Evil"/"The Omen 3"/"The Sentinel"/"Grim Prairie Tales"/"The Dead Pit"/"One Dark Night"/"Pranks"/'The Witch Who Came From the Sea"/"Fear X"

I once went to a horrible wedding. No one was dancing, at all, or at least barely, and then mostly little kids goofing around. Finally, the DJ puts on "Dancing Queen" and the floor fills up. Everyone is having a good time. Then he follows that up with the couple's song: "The Monster Mash." I am not kidding. Everyone stops dancing, and the floor goes quiet once again, this time permanently.

xp good job slam dunk

yeah slam dunk, this is cool

Here's my mix from two years ago uploaded again: http://www.mediafire.com/?g95jfmgdeqia5lj

thanks!

I've been digging this hour-long Death Waltz mix for a year:

http://www.mixcloud.com/dazed/exclusive-death-waltz-halloween-mix/

and they just released another one today. Haven't listened to it yet, though:

http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/31/exclusive-metro-joins-forces-with-death-waltz-recording-for-soundcloud-horror-mix-4167616/

This is not a mix, but I pulled it from a WFMU halloween mix years ago. I used to use it on my own halloween mixes all the time.

https://soundcloud.com/deadlas-moan/heartbreak-hotel-john-cale-45

I once went to a horrible wedding. No one was dancing, at all, or at least barely, and then mostly little kids goofing around. Finally, the DJ puts on "Dancing Queen" and the floor fills up. Everyone is having a good time. Then he follows that up with the couple's song: "The Monster Mash." I am not kidding. Everyone stops dancing, and the floor goes quiet once again, this time permanently.

The songs that fill floors at weddings are, without fail, the absolute worst songs played that evening.

Josh Cheon from Honey Soundsystem's Halloween set on Beats In Space is pretty great:
http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/701

1. Minimal Man - Little Skeletons - Subterranean
2. Cocteau Twins - Wax And Wane - 4AD
3. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tattoo - Polydor
4. Psyche - Krieg - Artoffact
5. Skinny Puppy - Monster Radio Man - Nettwerk
6. Victrola - Maritime Tatami - Electric Eye
7. Sumerian Fleet - Just Pressure - Creme Organization
8. Le Travo - Heyday - Dark Entries
9. Ministry - Revenge - Arista
10. Tones On Tail - Performance - Beggars Banquet
11. Figure Study - Window - Dark Entries
12. Gene Loves Jezebel - Shaving My Neck - Situation Two
13. Danse Society - Danse/Move - Society
14. Anne Clark - Our Darkness -
15. A Split-Second - Flesh - Antler-Subway
16. The Cure - One Hundred Years (Studio Demo) - Rhino
17. Linea Aspera - Malarone - Dark Entries
18. Clan Of Xymox - Muscoviet Musquito - 4AD
19. Alien Sex Fiend - Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied - Anagram
20. X-Mal Deutschlan - Incubus Succubus II - 4AD
21. Bauhaus - Dark Entries - Axis
22. Patrick Cowley - Primordial Landscape - Dark Entries

that time again. I have a new link for my mix from 4 yrs ago if anyone is interested

I'm enjoying this one

https://www.mixcloud.com/vernianjosh/analog-nightmare-horror-synth-soundtracks-1970-2015/

and this one

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/22361/1/forgive-me-lord-for-i-have-synth-mix

Do any of the links above still work? I'm hosting a Halloween party tonight and I need some tunes.

There are some decent Halloween playlists on Spotify.

Here's a warmup one with several songs I used last year before going into party mode. Not all of it is strictly horror music but you might find a couple of songs for your own mix:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/64ykOFI7h6A5t607yAw3kN

Opening artists: Chromatics, Glass Candy, Taco, Sonido Lasser Drakar, Black Hills, Elite Gymnastics, Invisible Conga People...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHDNs2c0rE

this was a nice hour's worth of spooky tunes, i thought:

Freakier Zone Fright Night
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kvlg8

Goblin - Suspiria
Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemarys Baby
Ghost - Monstrance Clock
Gentle Giant - Alucard
Jack Kittel - Psycho
John Carpenter - Halloween Theme
Bonnie Beecher - Come Wonder With Me
Broadcast - The Equestrian Vortex
The White Noise - The Blank Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell
Magnet - Willow's Song
The Stranger - Bleaklow
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

watch this video or die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZEvpEwVkQ

Here's mine!

Nice! I did a Halloween special for my radio show, lots of seasonal fun over here.

just put one out too, Halloween recordings 1902-1926

https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/10/31/the-cos-tapes-7-halloween-dance-original-recordings-1902-1926/

Oh wow, I'm definitely going to give that a listen.

Just to note that I have put up a new Halloween mix, this one covering the 1940s -

A 1940s Halloween from Centuries of Sound - https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/10/25/a-1940s-halloween-from-centuries-of-sound/

(Clip from The Hitchhiker)
0:00:06 Bing Crosby & The Rhythmaires - Headless Horsemen (1947)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum - Death Is A Joker)
0:03:17 Carl Stalling - Ghost Wanted (1940)
(Clips from House of Dracula)
(Clip from Lights Out - Kill)
0:07:17 Louis Armstrong - You've Got Me Voodoo'd (1940)
(Clip from Lights Out - Kill)
0:10:09 Charles Mingus Sextette (Vocal by Claude Trinier) - Weird Nightmare (1946)
(Clip from Cat People)
0:13:34 Delta Rhythm Boys - Dry Bones (1941)
(Clip from Suspense Theatre - Donovan's Brain)
0:16:39 Una Mae Carlisle - Oh I'm Evil (1941)
(Clip from Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man)
0:19:13 Louis Jordan - Somebody Don Hoodooed The Hoodoo Man (1940)
(Clip from I Walked With A Zombie)
0:22:05 Spike Jones & His City Slickers - My Old Flame (1947)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum - Death Is A Joker)
0:26:06 Josh White - Evil Hearted Man (1944)
(Clip from Ivan The Terrible)
0:29:10 Kai Winding Sextet - A Night on Bop Mountain (1949)
(Clip from Suspicion)
0:33:08 Washboard Sam - Evil Blues (1941)
(Clip from Bedlam)
0:36:26 Bob Wills - The Devil Ain't Lazy (1947)
(Clip from Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)
0:39:16 Wayne Raney - Jole Blon's Ghost (1948)
(Clip from Notorious)
0:41:50 Lionel Hampton Sextet & Dinah Washington - Evil Gal Blues (1943)
(Clip from Lights Out - Kill)
0:44:55 Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - The Ghost and Honest Joe (1949)
(Clip from The Hitchhiker)
0:48:06 Stan Jones And The Death Valley Rangers- Ghost Riders In The Sky (1948)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum - No Coffin For The Dead)
0:51:09 Jay Mcshann - Voodoo Woman Blues (1946)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum - No Coffin For The Dead)
0:54:15 Charlie Shavers - Zooming At The Zombie (1940)
(Clip from Cat People)
0:57:00 Lena Horne - Haunted Town (1941)
(Clip from Lights Out - Kill)
1:00:21 Texas Slim - Devil's Jump (1949)
(Clip from And Then There Were None)
1:03:19 Fred Astaire - Me And The Ghost Upstairs (1940)
(Clip from Lights Out - Kill)
1:05:48 Al Bowlly & Jimmy Mesene - When That Man Is Dead And Gone (1941)
(Clip from The Hitchhiker)
1:08:50 Kay Starr - The Headless Horseman (1948)
(Clip from Isle Of The Dead)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum - The Man Who Couldn't Die)

Here are my previous two Halloween mixes:

Hallowe’en Dance: Original Recordings 1902-1926 - https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/23/halloween-dance-original-recordings-1902-1926/

Halloween Between The Wars – Original Recordings 1927-1938 - https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/24/halloween-between-the-wars-original-recordings-1927-1938/

...and I'll have a 1950s Halloween mix out this time next year.

love it

Songs about witches, anyone?

terry reid - season of the witch (or donovan original if you like)
lollipop shoppe - you must be a witch
the sonics - the witch

sure there's loads others but that's what immediately comes to mind

Van der Graaf Generator, "White Hammer"

Green Lung, "Free the Witch" and "Maxine (Witch Queen)"

the kinks - wicked annabella

seemed like a witchy person to me anyways

The Sonics — The Witch
Steeleye Span — Alison Gross
Big Country w/Kate Bush — The Seer

Oh the Sonics were already mentioned. Rightly so.

Roky Erikson - Night of the Vampire

OTM

The Rattles - The Witch
Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General
Mira Craig - More Fire
Angel Witch - Angel Witch

Anyone with 50s suggestions? (yes I have I Put A Spell On You already) - I am making my 50s Halloween mix now.

Tell you what, I'll just share my whole 50s list as it stands

Jack Rivers - Haunted House Boogie (1951)
Jeff Alexander, Alfred Hitchcock - Music to Be Murdered By (1958)
Kip Tyler - She's My Witch (1958)
Nightmares - The Headless Ghost (1959)
Paul J Smith - The Monster! (1954)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (1956)
Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater (1958)
The Calvanes - Horror Pictures (1958)
The Duponts - Screamin Ball (At Dracula Hall) (1958)
The Five Blobs - The Blob (1958)
The Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein's Den (1958)
The Poets - Dead (1958)
The Revels - Dead Mans' Stroll (1959)
The Swinging Phillies - Frankenstein's Party (1957)
The Zanies - The Mad Scientist (1958)
Tom Lehrer - Masochism Tango (1959)
Tony & The Monstrosities - Igor Gives a Party
Akira Ifukube - Horror in the Water Tank (1954)
Archie King - The Vampires (1959)
Bernard Hermann - Theme (From 'The Twilight Zone')
Bert Convy - The Monster Hop
Big Bee Kornegay - At The House Of Frankenstein (1958)
Bobby Christian With The Allen Sisters - The Spider & The Fly (1958)
Calypso Carnival featuring King Flash - Zombie Jamboree (Back To Back) (1956)
Dick Jacobs and his Orchestra - Main Title from THE HORROR OF DRACULA (1959)
Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil (1953)
Frank Sinatra - Witchcraft (1957)
Gene Vincent - Race With The Devil (1956)
Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein's Den (1958)
Howlin' Wolf - Evil Is Goin' On (1954)

Oh, Eartha Kitt - I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch works for both witch songs and '50s songs.

Also '50s: Bob McFadden & Dor - The Mummy.

Maybe you could get away with Sparkle Moore - Skull & Crossbones or Killer for '50s? They're not particularly Halloweeny but have a couple of spooky keywords in there.

some tracks on those Lux and Ivy compilations have some halloween potential. Gary 'Spider' Webb's The Cave, for instance (tons of others, more obvious, but that one is lost-in-a-cave spooky and not just some monster)

https://www.discogs.com/release/14283770-Various-Trick-Or-Treat-Music-To-Scare-Your-Neighbours-Vintage-45s-From-Lux-And-Ivys-Haunted-Basement

https://www.mixcloud.com/RottenAppleRadio/halloween-2024-full-tape/

Tell you what, I'll just share my whole 50s list as it stands

amazing, as usual

made me think of this which is in the same vein but 1960 :(
https://www.discogs.com/master/2787497-Tony-And-The-Monstrosities-Igors-Party-Igors-Lament

Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Y_m2ZQ6Qo

terry reid - season of the witch (or donovan original if you like)

The first version of this I ever heard was by Sam Gopal, with Lemmy on vocals, who have some other cool spooky songs like Cold Embrace and The Dark Lord.

Here's my 1950s Halloween mix then

https://centuriesofsound.com/2024/10/29/centuries-of-sound-presents-halloween-records-from-the-50s/

Tracklist

0:00:00 Jeff Alexander & Alfred Hitchcock - Music to Be Murdered By (1958)
0:01:36 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (1956)
0:04:00 Clip from Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956)
0:04:22 Bert Convy - The Monster Hop (1958)
0:06:47 Clip from Diabolique (1955)
0:06:48 Tony & The Monstrosities - Igor's Party (1959)
0:09:02 Clip from The Fly (1958)
0:09:13 The Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein's Den (1958)
0:11:18 Clip from Them! (1954)
0:11:35 The Swinging Phillies - Frankenstein's Party (1957)
0:14:10 Nelson Olmstead - Excerpt from The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier (1956)
0:14:35 Bob McFadden & Dor - The Mummy (1959)
0:16:32 Clip from Horror Of Dracula Trailer (1958)
0:16:58 The Duponts - Screamin Ball (At Dracula Hall) (1958)
0:19:12 Clip from Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
0:19:17 Calypso Carnival featuring King Flash - Zombie Jamboree (Back To Back) (1956)
0:21:46 Clip from House on Haunted Hill (1959)
0:22:05 Jack Rivers - Haunted House Boogie (1951)
0:24:47 Clip from The Thing (1951)
0:25:02 The Five Blobs - The Blob (1958)
0:27:29 Clip from Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
0:27:43 Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater (1958)
0:29:53 Nelson Olmstead - Excerpt from The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson (1956)
0:30:05 The Poets - Dead (1958)
0:31:57 Clip from Night of The Demon (1957)
0:32:12 Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil (1953)
0:35:41 Clip from Sleeping Beauty (1959)
0:35:55 Howlin' Wolf - Evil Is Goin' On (1954)
0:38:43 Clip from The Quatermass Xmeriment (1955)
0:39:04 Paul J Smith - The Monster! (From 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea) (1954)
0:40:15 Clip from Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
0:40:25 Akira Ifukube - Horror in the Water Tank (1954)
0:40:40 Clip from The Headless Ghost (1959)
0:41:02 Nightmares - The Headless Ghost (1959)
0:42:41 Clip from Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
0:42:59 Kip Tyler - She's My Witch (1958)
0:45:13 Clip from Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
0:45:26 Frank Sinatra - Witchcraft (1957)
0:48:09 Clip from The Night of the Hunter (1955)
0:48:16 Gene Vincent - Race With The Devil (1956)
0:50:16 Clip from The Thing That Couldn't Die Trailer (1958)
0:50:30 The Calvanes - Horror Pictures (1958)
0:52:30 Clip from Horror Of Dracula (1958)
0:53:27 Archie King - The Vampires (1959)
0:55:44 Clip from The Creature With The Atom Brain (1955)
0:56:00 The Zanies - The Mad Scientist (1958)
0:57:50 Einer Nielsen - Phantom Stimmen (1950)
0:58:07 Bobby Christian With The Allen Sisters - The Spider & The Fly (1958)
1:00:09 Clip from House of Wax (1953)
1:00:23 The Revels - Dead Mans' Stroll (1959)
1:02:48 Dick Jacobs and his Orchestra - Main Title from The Horror of Dracula (1958)

enjoying this ty

https://halloweenshindig.com/category/music-by-era/50s-music/

http://www.youtube.com/@LindsayHoliday

more A+ vtg halloween content (some overlap)

There are a lot of scary/Halloween music threads on ILM, but this is one of my favorites. There is just so much music to listen to on this thread! Every year I undertake the pleasant task of creating a Halloween mix for a little party we have - which nobody ever really listens to. The music has to be spooky but okay for kids. I do enjoy sneaking some horror soundtrack or dark ambient interludes, between the staples like "Freaks Come Out at Night", "Red Right Hand", and "Night of the Vampire".

Are any of you working on scary mixes right now? Any newer songs that should be added to the Halloween canon?

I'm making my early sixties mix right now, will post the previous four (five?) again but they are upthread anyway.

biggest thing i miss about doing radio is putting together halloween shows, by far the most fun show of the year

doing a 4-hour public DJ set with a friend on Saturday, right downtown overlooking the bus station. gonna be so much fun.