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Oh, Natty Ra Jah, have you heard Tino's Breaks Vol. 6: Hallowe'en DUB? It's one of my favorite Halloween albums, hands down. Tino's Breaks is a project of Ben Stokes, Jack Dangers, and Mike Powell that explores different beat-styles in an instructional mode (Tino himself is a "Cuban drummer action-figure." Okay). I'm not really qualified to evaluate the disc as dub, but the bass is heavy and the theme is well-applied throughout. Standout tracks are Wolfman Is Everywhere Dub, Wicked Insane Evil Dub, Magic Dub, and the too-brief Living Dead Dub. I cannot recommend this album highly enough. (It's available on emusic, if you just can't wait.)
I'll have to check out the other stuff you link to - it's a great combination of sound and subject matter.
IMO a Halloween party set, to avoid being stupidly cheesy, needs to be very emphatically not just "goth"
As far as I'm concerned - speaking as a goth, incidentally - most of the best Halloween music isn't goth/darkwave anyway. That which is tends to lean into other genres - "gothy horrorpunk," "gothy cabaret," "gothabilly." (Not sure why Black Metal was lumped with goth in your comment, either, but I won't kick too big a fuss.)
I've listened to a (little) bit of horrorcore, and found it not much to my liking - what I heard had a very 80s slasher/sadist slant to it, which doesn't press my buttons like the old-fashioned Famous Monsters of Filmland. The second Gravediggaz album was awesome, but it was already moving well away from the "horror" theme.
Masters of Surf Noir and former Zombie-A-Go-Go recording artists The Ghastly Ones have a new album out - Target: Draculon. They play (mostly) instrumental surf rock with a minor-key, macabre twist, interspersed with local-access horror-host quality skits of a refreshing cheesiness. A sample track from the album can be found here (for promotional purposes only). The downside of the album for me is that the couple of vocal tracks are a little weak - stick with the instrumentals, guys.
Oh - I just refreshed the thread in another tab, and I see that Kali has already posted about the Zombie-A-Go-Go compilation. It is excellent(!), and it also features The Ghastly Ones, with Rob Zombie on guest vocal. Very very good comp, and very true to the Halloween theme throughout (instead of being just a general horrorpunk/surf noir collection). |
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