Tag: john carpenter
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Favourite albums / tracks of 2015
Ian Fondue asked me to post my favourite albums/songs of 2015. Not necessarily released in 2015, this year I tended to listen to older releases, Pitchfork and Stereogum are mostly confusing to me, the first year it’s mostly a bunch of names I have no idea who they are! It’s a long list, partly because…
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John Carpenter – Night
Beautiful bit of tech-noir with an Oculus Rift / Virtual Reality retrofuturist theme, this video for John Carpenter’s Night is wonderfully moody. If you don’t know about Lost Themes, his original album of themes without a film created with his son Cody and Daniel Davies then you need to check it out ASAP. (video via…
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Spooky listening – have a horrible halloween!
Love this Disco Argento mix by Menergy – aka The Niallist – I love soundtracks to films by the likes of Carpenter, Argento, Romero and co, and this mix takes the lesser known and rarer tracks and creates a disco noir / dark electro as I call it mix – like my dark mix in…
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dark mix #1: dark electro disco noir
‘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…