‘Dark electro / Disco noir’ is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that’s popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it’s a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it’s dark and broody and seems to fit the state of the nation at the moment (and I also love the music of those 70s and 80s horror movies).

It seems like a lot of new bands from the French (Zombie Zombie, NOTe Found, daRoc, Justice, Maesthelvin, Mustard Pimp) to the British (Padded Cell, Emperor Machine, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Sisters of Transistors) and even further outposts (Rico Tubbs, Tsk Tsk, Presets, Supermayer) have a common basis to me, so this is also a manifesto of sorts linking these bands together with older and less obvious inspirations (or just my guilty pleasures!) such as Fad Gadget, David Shrigley, Meat Beat Manifesto and Peter Gabriel.

So although not a ‘Halloween’ mix I’ve mixed together these horror-inspired tracks with some of the original tracks that I think inspired them, and thrown in some horror movie samples (can you spot where they are from?) as a nod to Halloween…and this is the first in a series. It’s also the first mix I’ve done in Ableton.

Thanks go out to several blogs that have helped inspire this in posting various tracks, and are blogs I regularly read also:

• Discodust
• Discoworkout
• Valerie
• Trashbagkids

Instamatic – Dark mix 1 Remember a Monster mix is not just for Halloween (113Mb, 109 mins)

• Justice – Planisphere 1/2
• NOTe Found – Error 403
• Zombie Zombie – What’s happening in the city ?
• Fad Gadget – State Of The Nation
• Late Of The Pier – The Bears Are Coming (Emperor Machine Remix)
• Padded Cell – Savage Skulls (Extended Version)
• Fad Gadget – 4m
• Maethelvin – Lost In Big City
• John Carpenter – The Bank Robbery
• David Shrigley – Loathsome
• Sage Francis – Civil Obedience
• Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
• John Carpenter – Escape From New York
• The Sisters of Transistors – the Don
• Padded Cell – World Of Mouth
• Fad Gadget – 4m
• Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)
• Padded Cell – Far Beneath London
• John Carpenter – The End
• Meat Beat Manifesto – Oblivion/Humans
• TSK TSK – Un-Mustered
• Peter Gabriel – Of These, Hope
• The Presets – Girl and the Sea
• Justice – Phantom Pt2 (Soulwax Remix)
• John Carpenter – The Shape Stalks Laurie
• Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Weird Science
• Detroit Grand Pubahs – If Snow Was Black
• The Presets – Kicking and Screaming
• David Shrigley – The Jist
• SebastiAn – Victimo
• John Carpenter – Arrival At The Library
• Ragga Twins – The Homeless Problem
• Giorgio Moroder – If You Weren’t Afraid
• Mustard Pimp – Zombie Revenge
• Rico Tubbs – Gangsters (Original Mix)
• Mustard Pimp – Oh la la Satan (Stereoheroes Remix)
• Glowstyx – 7 Daze
• Legowelt – Electro Race
• Vangelis – End Titles
• DaRoc vs Preston Park – Serie B aka The Ice Entrance
• Eric Idle – That’s Death

Devil in Fred Perry by Tim…apols to Kirk

Yes run for the hills – the audio ramblings and mixings of a madman is back – can you stay the course? Extreme music and extreme views and humour in the alternative podcast pledge drive and soundseeing tour from HELL (calling via Valhalla Halls East, Thor Drive, Styx Bridge, Hades West, Hades Broadway, Dante’s Inferno Airport levels 1-12, Elysium Fields, Elysium Fields Mall…).

Oh and apologies to Kirk for making him look like the Devil – but he does it SO well…

Not safe for Work, Brain or anyplace for that matter. DO NOT LISTEN.

Join the sound seeing tour from hell: http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_107.mp3

Notes from a bad place:

• jima – Laugh-A-Minute (with Art Hell intro)
• DJ Pantshead – There’s a Mouse in your Taco, James
• Shitmat – The Goat’s Skull Ain’t No Good For Salivating K-Head Zombies
• Venetian Snares – Dance Like You’re Selling Nails
• Enduser – Too Many Fucking Stairs
• dublxero – thomas the plague engine
• Ed Cox – Arabian Raves (from Hardcordian) badly mixed with Twinkelboi’s Weapon’s of Mass Destruction
• KFC Commercial outtakes (from WMFU Beware of the Blog)
• Scotch Egg – Scotch Chicken (from KFC Core)
• Chaos AD – Generation Shit
• Caustic Window – Cunt
• Starlight Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight (from the lowest depths of the 1970’s)
• Clawing your Eyes Down to the Ground – People Like Us/Matmos/Wobbly
• Rick McNamara – Are you Hung Up? (from WMFU Beware of the Blog)
• John Carlton – Jesus Christ Superstar 1 Minute Regurge (from WMFU Beware of the Blog)
• John Oswald – Public Enemy / Brown (from Plunderphonics)
• Rick McNamara – The Conet Project in a Minute (from WMFU Beware of the Blog)
• Who Boys – Television (from Quite Album)
• MiniPops – Video Killed the Radio Star
• John Oswald – Michael Jackson / Dab (from Plunderphonics)
• Animals within Animals – SRA
• David Shrigley – Our Children
• Sweetest Thing
• Cassetteboy – Gopher It
• Clifton Blizzard – Grow Up (from Eclectic Kettle free CD)
• Think – Once you Understand (365 Project 2007)
• Bonzo Dog Band – We Are Normal
• WGAME (no text only emotions) – Pushnoy
• Who Boys – The Junior Birdsmen
• DJ VIRt – Bubble Bobble acapella br8k
• Wobbly – Let me Know
• La Terremoto de Alcorcon – Love is in the Air
• John Carlton – Hair One Minute Regurge (from WMFU Beware of the Blog)
• Dirty Words from Let My People Come (from 365 Project 2007)

End elegy for a fucked up war:

• Roger Bonnette – The Hell With You
• Residents – New Hymn
• Tape Beatles – Flowers for Dead Heroes
• Jarvis – From Auschwitz to Ipswich (from Jarvis)
• Tape Beatles – I can’t do it
• Kid Koala – Roll Credits
• Lawrence Welk – Adios, Au Revoir, Aufwiedersehen
• Endword.

Some mashups, some covers, some originals, some voicemails, some brass bands, some laughs, some tears, some don’ts, some pointless rambling lists, you know the drill.

And yes I’m 64 so you need to offer your seat to me on buses, and give me some respect, young man!!!

Free buspass but no teeth here (39Mb, 68:55): http://www.realityengine.co.uk/radioclash/show-archive/rc_64.mp3

• The Vines – Don’t Listen to the Radio
• DJ Paul V. Cheney’s Got a Gun
• rx – Dick is a Killer (from ThePartyParty.com)
• DJBC – Build My Life (from Let it Beast)
• message from viridescence
• Bad times in Podcast Land – death of Gussie/Juan and Funtime Ben/Diane breakup
  
• Low – When I Go Deaf (from The Great Destroyer CD)
• Supercollider ft Octofish – Black Metal Tarantula
• A Duckie Visite
• Scissor Sisters – Filthy Gorgeous (fettdog’s unclean mix)
• No Bra – Munchausen (from Rough Trade Counter Culture 05)
• The Peddlars – On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (from Tom Middleton’s The Trip)
• Soulwax – Streamer – Start Button (feat. Private Thoughts in Public Places – from 2ManyDJs vol 2)
• David Shrigley – Don’ts (from Rough Trade Counter Culture 05)
• The Whoboys – Rolf Buster (from A Mash Get Smashed)
• message from dysfirkin
• Katzenjammers – Cars (from Rough Trade Counter Culture 05)
• William Fairey Brass Band – Pacific 202 (from Acid Brass)
• Robert Mellin Orchestra – Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Main Theme) / Clangers (from Tom Middleton’s The Trip)
• Josh Rouse – Straight to Hell