Those of you that remember Bride of Monster Mash and the County Sound track DJNoNo did, well The Count Rides Again, and this time he’s moved to Jamaica and is Count MC wid some dancehall riddim in ‘Batty Dub’ (with Ftatateeta and the Bats).

Mashed and Slashed EP includes spooktastic tracks from Scott Cairo, LeeDM101, CjR, Marc johnce, Clivester, Voicedude and Zee Bearoness so it’s definitely worth a listen. Really recommend CjR’s opener using Fog vs EBTG, Clivester’s camp emo genre-bending take on Rocky Horror’s “Sweet Transvestite’, Zee Bearoness (who dey?) using Vincent Price’s spoken word vs toy piano molester Twink to incredibly spooky effect and Voicedude’s Reggaeton meets More Cowbell band Blue Oyster Cult.

Happy Halloween! WoooOOOOooOOooh!!!!

Sorting out some minidiscs I found some of the mixes I recorded years ago at the Parkade…now the Parkade is gone it’s high time to release them as a reminder what was so great about it

Here’s the first Parkade Flashback – a nearly 2 hour dark dubby laid back ambient mix.

This mix was for Traffic Jambient when me and Amanda Shinji rotated Sunday sets – I’m guessing it’s 2007, could be 2008 but I’m guessing probably didn’t release it then cos of the similarity with bits of RC 136 ‘All A World’s A Siege’ which was in the middle of my Psychic TV and dubstep mania…so that would make it around October-November 2007.

Hope you enjoy – bits of it I queried were even mine, I’d forgotten the tracks and the mix so completely, so please mind the cobwebs, and the gaps in my memory in the tracklist below. Let me know if you can refresh my memory on any of these…

He gets in so late at night, We don’t want no fuss and no fight, All through the night (90Mb, 112 mins)

• Egyptian Lover – House on The Nile
• Skream – Tapped
• Apple Blim – Mystical Warrior
• John Carpenter – Halloween theme
• Shackleton – Stalker
• Control Freak – Limbo
• ?
• Skream – Midnight Request Line
• Skream – Chestboxing
• ?
• Disrupt – Blast You To Bits
• Disrupt – IK+
• Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Rain
• Vangelis – Memories of Green
• ?
• Supermayer – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
• Skream – Midnight Request Line (again? is this a remix? Or just liking it rather a lot? )
• Burial – Versus
• Digital Mystikz – Anti War Dub
• Egyptian Lover – Egypt, Egypt
• Supermayer – Two of Us
• Disrupt – The Stars My Destination
• Jeff Sconce – Mellotronia
• ?
• Dennis Brown – Man Next Door
• Merlene Webber – Hard Life
• Lethal Bizzle – Police on my Back
• Cabaret Voltaire – Over and Over
• Skream – Dub Period
• Easy Star All Stars – Money
• Gang of Four – To Hell With Poverty
• Psychic TV – Ov Power
• Egyptian Lover – What Is A D.J. If He Can’t Scratch
• Psychic TV – Always Is Always
• controlfreak – One For Sorrow
• ?
• ?
• Tay Zonday ‘Chocolate Rain’ vs Steve Reich ‘Electric Counterpoint’
• DJ Lunch Boy – Shouting at 18 Musicians (Tears for Fears vs Steve Reich)
• Philip Glass – Einstein on the Beach?

‘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

Forgot to put this on the podcast – oh well – The Living Dead Girls rule! As do Zombies.

oh and love this

When spooky things come a knocking in the middle of the night, don’t worry it’s just some GothPop Duboriffic SpookStep, strictly rockers (with dead mothers in them)….

Ring ring! Why do they always answer? (70Mb, 91mins) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_137.mp3

Trickortreatlist:

• AK – Ghostbusters
• Noel Anthony – Zombie Jamboree (from Music for Maniacs)
• Celebrity Murder Party – The 13 Sins of Scooby Doo (from BBI/Mashuptown’s Mashup Massacre)
• Luvbug Starski – Amityville
• ToTom – Feel Good Devil
• Bozilla ft Penny Polterghoost – Zombie Action Plan (from EOTMC)
• Zooming On the Zoo – Go To Hell (from La Chiesa soundtrack)
• Lupe Fiasco – The Cool (from Food & Liquor)
• Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches (Ruckus Roboticus remix)
• Gershon Kingsley – Hey Hey
• RIAA – Always Another Sucker On The Vine
• Pulsallama – The Devil Lives In My Husband’s Body
• Young Punx and LBJ – Dancing with the devil
• Creasos – Give me a werewolf tonight (from BBI/Mashuptown’s Mashup Massacre)
• Mehrlicht – DIES IRAE
• High Contrast – The Ghost of Jungle Past (from Tough Guys Don’t Dance)
• controlfreak – Hell Hounds (remixed by Chaos Royale)
• Coil – Are you Shivering?
• Slaraffenland – Paranoid Android (from Stereogum Presents… OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer)
• Appleblim – Fear
• Skream – Tortured Soul
• controlfreak – Leap of Faith
• The Moontrekkers – Night Of The Vampire