Music Blogs

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 

0 Comments
Leave Your Comment
You must sign in to leave a comment
Select a Blog Posts
And The Winner Is...
by Wendy Geller
25
As Heard On...
by Rebecca Harper, Hulu
46
Chart Watch
by Paul Grein
139
Framed
by John Kordosh
118
GetBack
by Shawn Amos
329
Hip-Hop Media Training
by Billy Johnson, Jr.
217
List Of The Day
by Rob O'Connor
331
Maximum Performance
by Billy Johnson, Jr.
166
Musictoob
by Andy Pemberton
179
New This Week
by Dave DiMartino
122
Reality Rocks
by Lyndsey Parker
569
Rock's Backpages
by Philip Norman (1970)
191
Stop The Presses!
by Us Magazine
85
That's Really Week
by Lyndsey Parker
124
The Blender Burner
by Blender Magazine
27
The MOJO Blog
by Bill DeMain
88
The NME Blog
by Luke Lewis
48
The Spin Blog
by David Marchese
77
The Y! Music Playlist Blog
by Robert of the Radish
511
Video Ga Ga
by Lyndsey Parker
70
Viva NashVegas
by Wendy Geller
56

Motown caps 50th anniversary with hometown gala

AP
Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:34am PST

AP - Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, along with Aret… More »

More Music News