313b Horror Themes

Just in time for Halloween, a set of recognizable theme songs from great Horror films.  Many of these should be recognizable to even a casual horror fan.  Others are a great deep dive into these composers vast catalogs.  Great stuff, and you can be assured this and the previous mix I posted will be playing at our house this year.

The Spotify mix has some of these tracks and some from the last post, because not all of this is available on that platform.

00:00  John Carpenter - Main Theme (Halloween)

02:20  Andrzej Korzynski - The Night The Screaming Stops (Possession)

04:05  Bruno Nicolai - Processo (Il Conte Dracula)

05:40  Goblin - Suspiria (Suspirira)

11:32  Clinic - Main Theme (The Road To Salina)

13:08  Bruno Nicolai - Seq 5 Pursuited / Jennifer (Perche' Quelle Strane Gocce Di Sangue Sul Corpo Di Jennifer?)

16:40  Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave - Intro and Main Title (The Piano String Strangler)

20:28  Acanthus - Le Frisson Des Vampires (Le Frisson Des Vampires)

21:27  Harry Sukman - Main Title (Salem's Lot)

23:03  John Carpenter - main theme / reprise (The Fog)

24:40  Bruno Nicolai - seq 3 (Una Vergine Tra I Morti Viventi)

26:21  Gil Melle - Theme (Night Gallery)

26:55  Ted Nichols - underscore #1 (Scooby-Doo)

27:30  Budy Maglione & Fabio Frizzi - Theme (Cannibal Ferox)

28:31  Fabio Frizzi - Theme (Zombie)

32:23  Mark Ayres - opening theme (The Shining)

35:09  Harry Manfredini - Main Title (Friday The 13th)

36:07  Pino Donaggio - Bucket of Blood (Carrie)

38:17  Alessandro Alessandroni - Devil's Nightmare (La Terrificante Notte Del Demonio)

40:27  Ennio Morricone - Copkiller (Copkiller)

43:16  Lallo Gori - Seq 1 (La Morte Secende Leggera)

44:52  Gianfranco Coletta & Mauro Lusini as Trans Europa Express - Seq 7 (Il Gatto Dagli Occhi Di Giada)

45:39  Alessandro Alessandroni - Malcontento Popolare (Inchiesta)

48:03  Jerry Goldsmith - Aunt Marion's Visitor (Damien: Omen II)

48:35  unknown - untitled (The Goonies)

49:28  Manuel De Sica - The Rest Of The World (Doesn't Exist) (Dellamorte Dellamore)

51:35  Luciano Michelini - It's Still Alive (L'Isola Degli Uomini Pesce)

53:15  John Harrison - The Creepshow Welcomes You (Creepshow)

55:35  Ted Nichols - Underscore #2 (Scooby-Doo)

56:34  Vince Guaraldi - Graveyard Theme (It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown)

57:20  Jerry Goldsmith - The Face Hugger (Alien)

59:49  Pierre Raph & Jane Weaver - Parade of Blood Red Sorrows (Le Rose De Fer / Intiaani Kesa)

63:50  Danny Elfman - Girls, Girls! (Beetlejuice)

64:21  Black Market & Chudan - Stranger Things remix (Stranger Things)

67:33  The Science Fiction Orchestra - Main Titles / Overture (Forbidden Planet)

69:40  Colin Towns - Theme (Full Circle)

74:42  Jerry Goldsmith - Ave Satani (The Omen)

77:12  Jerry Goldsmith - The Droid (Alien)

  

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313a Horror Ambient

Horror, Giallo, spooky film scores and some tracks pulled from a mix that sounds like it could've been a horror film score from the always incredible Dream Weapons.  Some of these were pulled from the superb mixes at Nate Ashley's site.  The rest I have spent countless hours tracking down the soundtracks and film scores because I just love this style so much.   Due to the length, and how much material I had to sort through, this mix took me the longest to put together.  Time well spent in my opinion.

The Unseen, The Heartwood Institute and Catharsis are not from soundtracks but sound like they should be (denoted by *).  The First Bruno Nicolai track on here was listed as part of the "Virgin Among the Living Dead" soundtrack which I have and can confirm this is not on my copy, though it definitely sounds like the right composer.  The Francois de Roubaix "Beach Burial" I cannot confirm which film its from, sounds so familiar but I can't nail it down.  

I have not seen all of these films, but have enjoyed more than half.  The rest I found because of the composer or were included in aforementioned mixes.

Sit back and enjoy this near 2 hour mix of the greatest sounds from the horror genre.  The Spotify mix has some of these tracks and some from the next post, because not all of this is available on that platform.

00:00  Walter Schumann feat Sally Jane Bruce - Pretty Fly (The Night of the Hunter)

01:12  Charles Bernstein - Prologue (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

01:36  Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave - Mineshaft Chase (Phantasm)

04:26  The Unseen - Evidently The Spirits Have Taken Over (Exorcism)*

07:52  Henry Mancini - Piano Tests (edit) (The Piano String Strangler)

08:22  Lubos Fiser - Matching Mirrors / Morgiana's Prowl (Morgiana)

11:47  Bixio Frizzi Tempera - 7 Note (Sette Note In Nero)

12:59  Bruno Nicolai - Virgin Among The Living Dead (Virgin Among The Living Dead)?

14:56  Michael Giacchino - Worlds Worst Beach Party (Lost)

17:35  The Newton Brothers - main titles (The Haunting of Hill House)

18:30  The Newton Brothers - Darkness and Chaos (The Haunting of Hill House)

20:04  Johan Soderqvist - The Slaughter (Let The Right One In)

22:48  Lalo Schifrin - Amityville Theme (Amityville)

25:07  Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson - main titles (The Legend of Hell House)

25:51  Lubos Fiser - The Work of Death (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders)

26:52  The Heartwood Institute - Astercote (Exorcism)*

28:53  Lubos Fiser - Awakening (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders)

29:40  Hans Zimmer - This Is Going To Hurt (The Ring)

32:24  John Cacavas - Horror Express (Horror Express)

34:22  Giuliano Sorgini - Manchester M2 6LD (The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue)

36:38  Manuel De Sica - Ignis Fatuus (Dellamorte Dellamore)

37:56  Karen Black - Song of Solomon (The Pyx)

40:25  Orriel Smith - Hannah Emerges In The Night (Crypt of the Living Dead)

42:31  Christopher Young - Prologue (The Exorcism of Emily Rose)

44:26  Philippe Sarde - main title (The Tenant)

46:41  Christopher Young - Goodbye, Daddy (Flowers in the Attic)

49:05  Dana Kaproff - Have You Checked The Children? (When A Stranger Calls)

50:08  Ennio Morricone - Ma Non E Un Vampiro (Drammi Gotici)

52:40  Harry Manfredini - Theme (edit) (Friday The 13th Part 2)

53:13  Bruno Nicolai - Seq 11 (Virgin Among The Living Dead)

55:06  Alessandro Alessandroni - Demon Night (La Terrificante Notte Del Demonio)

57:16  Cliff Martinez - First Sleep (Solaris)

59:59  Andrzej Korzynski - Helen Has Green Eyes (Possession)

61:07  Francois de Roubaix - Beach Burial (?)

62:12  Johan Soderqvist - Virginia Is Bitten (Let The Right One In)

64:24  Alessandro Alessandroni - Demon Night III (La Terrificante Notte Del Demonio)

68:26  The Newton Brothers - 12:00 A.M. (The Haunting of Hill House)

70:04  Michael Small - On The Roof (Klute)

73:11  Christopher Young - And Leave The Driving To Us (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Freddy's Revenge)

75:05  Karen Black - Ballad In C (Born to Win)

76:07  Ennio Morricone - Mio Caro Assassino (versione 5) (Mio Caro Assassino)

77:39  Krzysztof Komeda - Main Title (Rosemary's Baby)

80:04  Stanton Shows - Silent Hill (Silent Hell)

80:23  Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Hum (The Wicker Man)

81:41  Christopher Young - Jump Rope (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge)

83:17  John Carpenter - The Real Thing (The Thing)

84:12  Children of the Isle - We Carry Death Out Of The Village (The Wicker Man)

84:25  Zdenek Liska - How Unfortunate Are Those Who Die Unaware Of The Beauty Of Music / Lakme's Preparation (Morgiana)

86:49  Ted Nichols - Underscore #3 (Scooby-Doo)

87:28  Danny Elfman - I Want To Be Dead Too (Beetlejuice)

88:20  Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave - Overturned Ice Cream Truck (Phantasm)

90:11  Robert Mitchum - Lean on the Everlasting Arms (Night of The Hunter)

91:05  Michael Giacchino - The Eyeland (Lost)

92:57  Ted Nichols - general suspence takes 01/02 (Scooby-Doo)

94:05  Catharsis - Ballade Des Pendus  (Illuminations)*

97:45  Krzysztof Komeda - Shagal Leaving (The Fearless Vampire Killers)

98:21  Brian May - Flight From The Evil Toecutter (Mad Max)

100:37  Lubos Fiser - Dust To Dust (Morgiana)

101:29  Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Masks (The Wicker Man)

102:13  Charles Gross - Blue Sunshine part 1 (Blue Sunshine)

104:48  Christopher Young - main title (The Uninvited)

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345 Spells of The Old Ways

Witchcraft/Wicca and Pagan influenced music.  Included two radically different versions of Tam Lin and several, maybe too many, Wicker Man references.  The Andrew Liles track might have been included by mistake, I was compiling these tracks at the same time as my overview of his works, and pretty sure my drag and drop ended in the wrong folder.  Still it fits pretty well here.  All the Agalloch tracks are short edits where all I wanted to include were the samples.  Of course I had to start this off with the greatest Halloween themed breaks record ever from Tino Corp.  That is required listening every October.

00:00  Tino Corp - Spells

00:38  Current 93 feat Ian Reed - Benediction

02:26  Andrew Liles - An Unkempt Garden or the Cod Cape

06:05  Fairport Convention - Tam Lin

13:13  Glenda Jackson, Patrick Gowers & John Williams - Black March

16:12  Children of the Isle - We Carry Death Out Of The Village

16:25  Sol Invictus - Song of the Flower (edit)

21:10  The Heartwood Institute - The Old Ways

23:40  Les Joyaux De La Princesse - Wolf Rune 1

29:02  Agalloch - Sowilo Rune

29:35  Sol Invictus - Abattoirs Of Love (edit)

32:41  Walter Carr, Rachel Verney and Sally Presant - Maypole Song

34:46  Buffy Sainte-Marie - God is Alive, Magic is Afoot

39:32  Nilson - Down in the Garden

43:18  Midwinter - Sanctuary Stone

47:21  Sol Invictus - Raven Chorus

47:53  Agalloch - Summerisle Reprise

48:41  Current 93 - North

49:14  va - Main Title (Within the Woods)

50:37  Toadstone - Circle of Stones

54:10  Current 93 - Tamlin

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323 Bauhaus in Dub

Everybody's favorite goths.  This time I pulled together all of their dub experiments, and of course the iconic Bela Lugosi's Dead which is pretty dubby on its own.  We've all heard their songs, but hopefully this shines a new light on them.

00:00  Bela Lugosi's Dead (Offical Version)

09:17  Earwax (Full Unedited Version)

12:30  In Fear of Dub

15:22  Dave and Danny's Waspie Dub #2

21:13  Here's The Dub

24:31  Party of The First Part

29:33  The Man With X-Ray Eyes

32:45  Paranoia, Paranoia

37:52  Terror Couple Kill Colonel (version)

42:09  David Jay/Peter Murphy/Kevin Haskins/Daniel Ash

48:35  Exquisite Corpse

54:40  Satori

58:52  Ear Wax

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photo credit:  Bunuel Bauhaus mashup

96 - Dark Storytelling

Kicking off the two weeks leading up to the best holiday, Halloween or Samhain, or whatever you celebrate at this time of the year.  I love the spookiness this season brings and have been introducing my older daughter to some horror movie essentials.  

The mix below is one I made around 15 years back.  A friend of mine commented that they enjoyed the really creepy music I listened to as it was so different from their normal punk taste.  I made this mix for them, which they said they listened to once and realized it wasn't for everyday consumption.  

Good mix of spoken word with dark atmospherics on this mix, and I tried to split up the stories with some music in-between.  Ending with my favorite, "I Have a Special Plan For This World."  That's easily the creepiest in my collection. 

00:00  John Contreras & Rose McDowall - Afraid 2 (Nico)

03:09  Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti - This Degenerate Little Town (Alternate)

17:15  Current 93 - Where The Long Shadows Fall

26:54  Wardrobe - Lucifer Before Sunrise (Inferno mix)

32:21  unknown - Nyarlathotep

40:15  Irr. App. (Ext.) - The Demi-Omadaun's Tale

41:14  Cyclobe - Each And Every Word Must Die (II)

48:12  Current 93 feat Thomas Ligotti - I Have A Special Plan For This World

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327 My 21st Birthday

Many moons ago, I turned 21, and no it isn't today.  

Unlike the majority of Americans, I did not spend the evening at a bar doing shots and not remembering the evening.  I did that on the next day.   Instead, for my birthday I attended an intimate performance at the Pike's Peak Center for the Performing Arts with the DaVinci Quartet.   They performed the below three pieces which are simply beautiful.  Highlights my quirkiness even as a young man attending punk and industrial concerts and blasting metal every time I got in my car, I was also a season ticket holder for the symphony, took my dates to the opera and ballet, and spent at least a day every month at a museum surrounding myself in the master works of days past.  

Haydn - Quartet Op. 20, No. 5 in F Minor

Loeffler - Music for Four Stringed Instruments

Dvorak - String Quartet in A Flat Major, Op. 105

No download or spotify, so just enjoy the youtube videos on this one.

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