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Ambient Halloween Music

Posted Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:49pm PDT by Robert of the Radish in The Y! Music Playlist Blog

If you use just one Halloween playlist this year, it should be this one. Hide your speakers in the bushes and put this one on repeat to freak out not just the little kiddies coming to your door, but their parents as well.

It kicks off with the classic pipe organ composition “Toccata & Fugue In D Minor” then continues with some of the most disturbing, chill-inducing background music known to man. 

Guaranteed to reduce your candy output by 50%.

The playlist includes a good hour+ of the standard Haunted House sound effect music from some particularly good novelty records, but it also includes some seriously eerie ambient tracks that were not done specifically for Halloween, by artists like Brian Eno, Throbbing Gristle, Peter Gabriel, Robert Rich and Tangerine Dream.

The Playlist:

1. Toccata & Fugue In D Minor - The Hit Crew

2. Halloween - Main Theme - Mark Ayres

3. A Flock Of Metal Creatures Fleeing The Onslaught Of Rust - Robert Rich

4. Gethsemane - Peter Gabriel 

5. Shadow - Brian Eno

6. Carmina Burana: O Fortuna - Various Artists

7. Canon 1&2 - Spooky Actions

8. Unfamiliar Territory - Brannan Lane/Vidna Obmana 

9. Demonseed - DJ Spooky

10. Psycho: The Murder (Shower Scene) - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

11. The Simorgh Sleeps On Velvet Tongues - Robert Rich

12. Chiller - The Hit Crew

13. Maggot Death - Throbbing Gristle

14. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Theme) - Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

15. Atem - Tangerine Dream 

16. The Score: The Haunted Organ Suite - John Carradine

17. House Of Horror (Parts I&II) - Peter Pan Records Presents

18. Halloween Horrorscapes - Sonic Realm Presents 

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