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Black & Orange Music : 2006/2007

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not-so-deadly netshade

02:40 / 18.10.06

I just dumped a whole bunch of appropriate tunes into an ITunes playlist...the usual assortment of Misfits/Cramps/Bauhaus, etc. BUT...I also added the ENTIRE Roky Erikson And The Aliens record, which is, start to finish, Halloween perfection (I Walked With A Zombie, the previously mentioned Night Of The Vampire, 2 Headed Dog, Creature With The Atom Brain, etc)

Some assorted other songs (this is an 81 song list...and growing)

Robert Johnson "Me And The Devil Blues" and "Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)"

The Nomads "Where The Wolfsbane Blooms" (LOVE this to death)

Chesterfield Kings "Running Through My Nightmares" and "Death Is The Only Real Thing"

Howlin' Wolf "Evil" (Muddy Waters, too...but not the same song) and "Moanin' At Midnight"

Muddy Waters "Got My Mojo Working"

NY Dolls "Frankenstein"

Pink Floyd "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"

There's lots more on there. I loooove it. Used it to drown out the Justin Timberlake crap at the gym this evening. Can't wait to wander around the city with it this weekend!

22:48 / 18.10.06

netshade, I just downloaded Where the Wolf Bane Blooms on your recommendation, and ooooooh... Very nice, thanks.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:19 / 19.10.06

Loup Garou Bal Goula is a very very very creepy track by an otherwise mediocre French blues musician by the name of Willy DeVille.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

14:07 / 19.10.06

I want to recommend "around the world in 80 bikinis" by the Famous Monsters, sort of like how I wanted it to be good. it's by Sean Ysuelt, the bassist from White Zombie, playing surf rock in a devil girl costume with She-Zilla and some kind of vampire woman I forget the exact name of.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

15:17 / 19.10.06

Hah! Found the lyrics to that werewolf song:

Come with me through the doors
Of a Bayou barroom
There's a place God's angels don't go
Satans wolves all loom large

Over creatures only mad men know
Its Louisiana guard dog's nightmare
Cajuns don't say his name
But they say looks just like a rabid dog
And he walks upright like a man
Loup Garou Bal Goula
Loup Garou Bal Garou

Du bon temps danse pres du
feu ... ce soir

Black snake swim through the water
See spanish moss gently sway
Moon hangs yellow like a big gold coin
In the distance you can hear them sing
Shhh! See them playing on a big bass drum
It's made out of coon skin hide
Shhh, Shhh! See them shaking rattles full of human teeth
Shaking them out of time

Sing child
Loup Garou Bal Goula
Du bon temps danse pres du
feu ... ce soir (repeat)

19:37 / 24.10.06

Brief Bump - But a Week to go, folks!

12:07 / 25.10.06

It's Alive! (And it's free to download!)

"Halloween is meant to be scary, right? Year after year we dust off the old silly 1950s and 1960s novelty records. While they are fun, they not at all frightening. Oddio Overplay put the challenge to musical artists the world over to create Halloween music that is "frightening, damaging and disturbing." No 'Monster Mash,' instead creepy soundtracks to a fiendish Halloween. They succeeded with CALLING ALL FIENDS! Some of these pieces will creep you right out of your skin."

Featuring: 8m2stereo, [Not] Daniel Johnston, Brian and Harlan, Bureaucratica, Cauhaus, Click Click Click, Grant, Jeffrey Letterly, Lee Rosevere, Lenkei, Limonadiac, Mark Harvey, Mr. Fab and His Bag of Heads, Nigel Simmons, Pharmacom, Rain Station, Roymond, Shirley and Spinoza, Splogman, Stealing Orchestra, Sublinear, The DVDs, The Threshold People, The Waiters, Ton Rückert, Urban Inbreed, Weirdomusic, X-Tokyo-River-God

[Barbelith-affiliated artists in bold]

14:19 / 25.10.06

squee! squee! I'm so proud of the spouse!

14:26 / 25.10.06

Hell, so am I - I'm listening right now, and this thing is awesome. I expect to devote a room to it at this year's Halloween party.

14:30 / 25.10.06

grant, HOLY CRAP!!!!!!

such a great song! I love the lyrics and the whimsical sound floating behind the creepiness. i especially loved the static samples at the end.

Lep, I am so loading the Threshold People's into my goth girl dancing soundtrack.

14:32 / 25.10.06

well the spouse is fiendishly gleeful about being on the mix, so extra big thank you for suggesting it.

okay now that I've listen to the 'Lith songs on there I shall start on the others. Really quality stuff from our peeps!

16:13 / 25.10.06

I love The DVDs' track, Big Orange Monster. Their singer is only six, and may be the coolest kid in the world.

"The man with the bomb / scares me more"

"I can do a witch voice... I can do a ghost sound."

And grant? Wow.

Lep, I am so loading the Threshold People's into my goth girl dancing soundtrack.

Thank you.

If you like, you can find more Threshold People here - Halloween horrorbeat fun for all! Zombies, Mad Science, and Big Black Cats.

18:40 / 25.10.06

I better get listening.

Me, I have a weakness for serial killers. They're tragic figures, I think. All they want is love.

Ok, jumping ahead. I love the clanking chain of The Pit. And it hissed as it swung through the air....Should people be chained to furniture before dancing to this?

Sublinear makes me want to lie down. He can't have you back. Reminds me, for some reason, of watching The Keep when I was a kid. I had a thing for that movie I can't explain.

Now for the rest, in order.

Good night.

19:14 / 25.10.06

Sublinear reminds you of F. Paul Wilson's the Keep? I can sort of understand that actually.

It is pretty terrifying trying to fall asleep while the spouse is composing sans headphones. The endless loops of creepy ass sounds and samples gave me nightmares.

01:42 / 26.10.06

I'm just in the process of mixing up the playlist for my Halloween party on Friday. Here's the artist mix so far:

Oingo Boingo
The Misfits
Doubting Thomas
Devotchka
Concrete Blonde
Angelo Badalamenti
Moussorgsky (just for Night on Bald Mountain)
Stravinski (for the frenetic paranoia of the Firebird)
Ministry
Wumpscut
Philip Glass
Lords of Acid (to wake people up now and then)
and a bunch of stuff from various vampire movie soundtracks: Graeme Revell, etc.

02:26 / 26.10.06

Oh, man, Lep, I just downloaded all of The Threshold People stuff...

This is so going into the mix. How incredibly cool.

Oh, if you're looking for a fertile source of samples, something I've always wanted to hear sampled into this kind of music is dialogue from Cemetery Man. Anna Falchi saying "An ossiry... I've never seen anything so exciting... it's like in my dreams."

02:58 / 26.10.06

Wow, thank you! I'm glad you like it.

(If you're going to be mixing it live at the party, be warned that The Pit, in particular, has a completely out-of-control low end that a headphones preview might not prepare you for - I mixed it before I had any real grasp of compression, and it shows. Mind your speakers...)

The new album, meanwhile, is Coming Soon(tm). I was hoping for a pre-Halloween release, but I've had to take a break from it. Fear not, I will Get Around To It Sooner Or Later!

(Also, slightly off-topic, but I'm really excited: Calling All Fiends has already exceeded 400 downloads in its first 24 hours, and archive.org doesn't count direct downloads linked from off-site, so the real total is probably much higher. I'm not used to working on this scale - Night of The Threshold People has been out for a year, and is just now about to crack 300 - so I'm seriously giddy.)

19:18 / 26.10.06

turn off the movie preview then scroll down to the music player.

fabulous covers of Nightmare Before Xmas music on myspace

I quite like Fiona Apple's cover of Sally's Song.

03:29 / 28.10.07

The thread title says "2006," but it's still our Halloween music thread, so here I post:

The Threshold People - Seven Legs from an Eight-Legged Beast
[free download, 192kpbs mp3]

Skeletons! Monsters! Living Shadows that talk--and KILL!!

The Threshold People are back, complete with seven new slabs of throbbing horrorbeat to give you the wim-wams!

01. Trail of Bones (Lights Out) 1:57
02. Back to Darkness 3:12
03. Deja Vu (That Sound) 2:03
04. Undying Monster 5:17
05. The Blob 2:52
06. The Werewolf's Cure 3:32
07. We Didn't Have Much Time 2:52

Are you brave enough to follow the trail of bones into the lair of The Threshold People? Then turn up the volume and turn out the lights...

The most electrifying album of the year! Hear it now--but don't hear it alone!

= = = = =

Big scary beats and classic horror, just in time for Halloween! I promised it a year ago, but, well, y'know, it's here now and that's what matters. If it makes even one person's Halloween a little louder, then I have succeeded.

16:05 / 28.10.07

I actually just finished compiling four CDs—five hours worth—of creepy/funny/weird stuff to play while the trick-or-treaters swarm the house, now that we live in a neighborhood where we're actually gonna get trick-or-treaters; and those 4 CDs drew very heavily from the suggestions and links in this thread.

So, hey; a belated Thank You, Barbelith.

16:56 / 28.10.07

In a shameless plug for a gig I'm organising and performing at, I'd like to recommend 'The Evil Eye'.

The Evil Eye make horror movie music, and they only ever play at halloween. They're on Little Rock Records, and they're from Glasgow.

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