The first of what I hope to be a series of soundtrack mixes. Being October and all, I opted to leave out a stack of my funkier records and instead concentrate on the dark and dissonant sounds of the silver screen. A few classics (Flashing, Baseball Furies Chase), a few weird unknowns (Alien Earth, One Foot In Heaven) an original and an edit help to keep things a bit more interesting than the typical Halloween-time jock jams mix. At least, I think so...

The mix is also available in a physical format, CD to be specific, with really handsome artwork designed by Megan Mitchell. If anyone is interested, please send me a message with your address and I will mail you a copy for FREE!

Big ups to Shawn Ryan for helping me turn a pile of moldy records into a veritable, balanced mix.

Please visit Dollar Bin Jams for more mixes, edits, rips, news, etc. I will be contributing frequently, so keep your ears to the ground...

Enjoy!

Tracklist:

Michel Rubini & Denny Jaeger - Beach House (The Hunger, 1983)
Simonetti, Morante & Pignatelli - Flashing (Tenebrae, 1982)
Tangerine Dream - Between Realities (Firestarter, 1984)
Barry De Vorzon - Baseball Furies Chase (The Warriors, 1979)
John Carpenter - The Bank Robbery (Escape From New York, 1981)
Synergy - Alien Earth (The Jupiter Menace, 1982)
Gary Scott - The Chase (Final Exam, 1981)
Giorgio Moroder - Valley of the Dolls (Foxes, 1980)
DARKLORD - Legends (2006)
Goblin - Buio Omega (Buio Omega, 1979)
Pino Donaggio - Mannequins (Tourist Trap, 1979)
SSQ - Trash's Theme (Return of the Living Dead, 1985)
John Carpenter - Street Thunder (Assault on Precinct 13, 1976)
John Harrison - The Dead Suite (DARKLORD edit, 2008)
Jack Nitzsche - Jenny Shot (Starman, 1984)
The Edge - One Foot In Heaven (Captive, 1987)

DARKLORD Presenta - Il Suono Scuro | Zshare | 192 kbps

"I entered the world of dance music from a strange route. Before I knew Larry Levan, I knew Goblin. Before I knew Moroder, I knew John Carpenter. I would drive around the dark roads of rural Connecticut listening to horror soundtrack mixtapes and spooky cassette recordings I made using a Moog Rogue and a reverb unit. It's appropriate that my first DARKLORD edit be of John Harrison's "The Dead Suite," because it's the first time I really dreamed about a song having a structure of my choosing. "Oh, if only that middle section looped a few times longer. Oh, if only the fat were trimmed a bit", etc. Finally, after a few years of DJing and record digging, I stumbled upon the "Day of the Dead OST," and in good shape! Here was my chance to reassemble the song in the way I had always wanted to hear it; not necessarily for the dancefloor, but dark and driving enough for my own amusement and satisfaction. A little esoteric, but enjoy!"

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