Halloween

Is there a better holiday/non-holiday for music? Sure, X-mas is fun, but it has nothing on the level of diversity or sheer quantity of tunes that can be directly linked and/or interpreted as Halloween music. Below I've posted a spooky soundtrack for your trick or treaters. I love the fun party-time Halloween jams (and I may end up posting a "more fun" mix later) but this year I was really feeling the need to be creeped-the-fuck-out. For some reason, I have a lot of this type of music. I swear I was never a goth. Enjoy and Happy Halloween.

(The songs are all mixed together and broken into 2 parts.)





















Grotto of Miracles Halloween mix Pt. 1 - Everybody's Afraid of Something
Afraid Intro / Coil - Hellraiser Theme / Swans - Coward / Third Eye Foundation - Corpses As Bedmates (edit) / The Birthday Party - Deep In The Woods / Oxbow - Insylum / Brian Reitzel - The One Who Fights / Psychic Ills - Witchcraft Breaker / Liars - Broken Witch / Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood / Thought Gang - The Black Dog Runs At Night / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Carny / Holger Czukay - Dark Moon / John Murphy - The Tunnel / CocoRosie - Werewolf




















Grotto of Miracles Halloween 2008 Pt. 2 - Tonight We Begin With Torture!
Torture Intro / Ennio Morricone - Humanity (Part II) / Coil - Tenderness Of Wolves / Wolf Eyes - Skull and Bone / Vasilisk - Fangs And Claws / Wojciech Kilar w/ Diamanda Galas - The Ring Of Fire / Butthole Surfers – Strangers Die Everyday / Dowser - Narishima no theme / Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady / Brian Reitzel - Vampired Johnny / Nurse With Wound - The Burial Of The Sardine / Sun City Girls - Spook / Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Grave Wisdom / Portishead - Small / Oneida - Black Chamber

Trappers Cabin

This sort of falls into the category of "you either get it or you don't". Lots of comparisons to Beck, Beefheart and Zappa but also some Brian Wilson and late-'60's Beatles. Some of it is silly or indulgent, especially lyrically, but the there are too many infectious musical moments to dismiss what's happening up in the woods of Northern Georgia.

Trappers Mind

Cosmically