Hello all! Been absent from the blog for much longer than intended, I'm sorry to say. But I hate to miss another Halloween, especially since my blog is named for a Halloween urban legend. So I've managed to squeak in a mix just in time!
'A Curse On You' is in a similar vein to my last couple of mixes: more of a haunting atmosphere than strictly horror-themed selections, though there are a few of those as well. I like to make my mixes a bit of an emotional journey through different moods and sonic textures, especially when fairly long like this one, which comes in at two hours and eight minutes.
This mix is packed with vintage European soundtracks, moody experimental pop, electronic forays, an abundance of 60s psych rock, and more. There's some of the sensual, affecting vibe of my previous mixes, but with more of a gritty, dirty punch - at least that was the aim!
Please enjoy this trippy spookfest! Here are the artists and songs featured in this mix (click 'Hide details' to see a simplified tracklist):
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- Piero Umiliani - Toccata e samba (1969)
- The Onyx - I Put A Spell On You (1967)
- October Country - My Girlfriend Is A Witch (1968)
- Neal Gardner - Strip Nude for Your Killer (2013)
- Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - Sacrifice (1969)
- Spooky Tooth with Pierre Henry - Offering (1969)
- A to Austr - A Curse on You (1970)
- Broadcast and The Focus Group - Ritual / Looking In (2009)
- Jane Weaver - Cascade in Dark (2015)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound (1981)
- Keith Seatman - Behind the Curtain, Red Room (2018)
- Ladytron - Horrorscope (2019)
- Sexwitch - Ha Howa Ha Howa (2015)
- Lena Platonos - Shadows Of Blood (2013)
- Goblin - Markos (1977)
- White Candles - Altar Hexes (2014)
- The Poppy Family - Evil Overshadows Joe (1969)
- Reign Ghost - Black Ode (1969)
- Adam & Eve - The Witch (1969)
- Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab - Psycho Contact, Part One (1969)
- Beautify Junkyards - Sorceress (2018)
- Harmonic 33 - Paranoia (2005)
- The Magnetic Fields - Don't Look Away (1995)
- Auramics - Domino (2015)
- Lush - Last Night (1996)
- Jane Weaver - The Fallen by Watch Bird (2010)
- Bernard Fevre - Double Dream (1975)
- Sam Gopal - Season of the Witch (1969)
- Piero Umiliani - Blood River (1970)
- Hunter Lea - Vibes Theme (2010)
- Ennio Morricone - La strada della follia (1976)
- Jenny Lewis - Black Sand (2008)
- C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell, Part 1 (1969)
- Ill Wind - Dark World (1968)
- Cilibrinas do Éden - Bad Trip (Ainda bem) (1973)
- Ennio Morricone - Doricamente (1970)
- Marie Laforêt - L'arbre qui pleure (1964)
From the Angeli bianchi... angeli neri soundtrack.
From Kaleidoscope Of Colours: The Onyx Demo Sessions 1967, released in 2009.
From this 60s LA band's only album, October Country.
From Giallo.
From Soundtrack (not a soundtrack to anything - it's just the album title!).
From UK prog band Spooky Tooth's collaboration with French musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry, Ceremony: An Electronic Mass.
From their self-titled album, the only release by this short-lived experimental British psych group.
From Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age.
From The Amber Light.
From their fourth album, Juju.
From the EP Disjointed Oddities and Other Such Things.
From their self-titled album, released earlier this year.
From Sexwitch, a one-off collaboration between Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) and TOY.
A 2013 single from the Greek electronic musician, who has been recording since the early 80s.
From the soundtrack to the original Suspiria.
From the Flowers for Delia EP.
B-side to their 1969 single 'What Can The Matter Be?', compiled on the 1996 anthology A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973.
From their eponymous debut album.
From this German duo's album Paradise of Sounds.
A slightly confusing history to this track! Hopefully I have this right... German composers Hübler and Schwab released an album called Psychedelic Dance Party in 1969, under the name The Vampires' Sound Incorporation. Tracks from this were later used in Vampyros Lesbos and other Jess Franco films. Hübler and Schwab's songs from Franco's films were later compiled on Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party.
From The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards.
From Music For Film, Television & Radio, Volume 1.
From Get Lost.
No official release, but you can listen to a few of their lovely tracks on Soundcloud.
From Lovelife.
From The Fallen by Watch Bird.
From Suspense.
A cover of the Donovan classic, from the album Escalator.
From the soundtrack to Dieci bianchi uccisi da un piccolo indiano (aka Blood River. Vocals by Lydia Macdonald.
From the collection Imaginary Film Music on Soundcloud. Free download.
From the soundtrack to a 1976 Italian TV show called Drammi Gotici (Gothic Dramas), which was released in 1996.
From Acid Tongue.
From Trip Thru Hell.
Another 60s psych rock band on the list who released just the one album, Flashes.
Brazilian duo Rita Lee (Os Mutantes) and Lucia Turnbull recorded an album's worth of material, including this track, in late 1973. Intended to be named Tutti Frutti (later the name of a band they founded), it was shelved and not released until 2008, as Cilibrinas do Éden.
From the Le foto proibite di una signora per bene soundtrack.
From her 1964 album, this is a cover of 'O Willow Waly', originally performed by Isla Cameron for Georges Auric's soundtrack to the 1961 film The Innocents.
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