Eclectic Grooves

I had planned on posting one Halloween mix a day during the past week, but sadly this didn't come to fruition. As a result, I'm going to post the remainder of the mixes that are no longer available to download at http://ihearanewworld.podomatic.com. Halloween Hodgepodge 2009 1)       The Piranhas- Hi Everybody   2)       Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds- Pumpkin Pie   3)       Screaming Lord Sutch- Dracula’s Daughter   4)       Harrapian Night Recordings- The Sarimanok Flies   5)       Broadcast- A Seancing Song   6)       Scientist- The Voodoo Curse   7)       RJD2- The Horror   8)       Lon Chaney Jr.- Spider Baby   9)         Brian Eno- In Dark Trees   10)   Spooks- Cackle of t...

 We're approaching the time of the season once again where people subject themselves to haunted houses, corn mazes, cemetery tours and hours upon hours of scary movies. I have to admit that I've lost interest in Halloween over the last few years, and this is partially the reason that there have been no new creepy mixes posted at Eclectic Grooves . I still appreciate the classic horror movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th and Children of the Corn, but most horror movies nowadays are way too violent and graphic for my sensibilities. Since there aren't too many active blogs that feature scary music on the internet these days, I wanted to repost some of my past Halloween mixes starting with the first few that are no longer available to listen/download anywhere on the internet. The following mix was originally posted on my I Hear a New World Podomatic site in 2008 House of Horrors mix For those of you who would like a tracklist for this mix, please drop m...

The 2014 Halloween edition of the I Hear a New World Podcast is available to listen to here, and to listen/download at http://ihearanewworld.podomatic.com . Every year around the first of October, I start compiling another batch of songs for the Halloween podcast. After scouring through a massive folder filled with tracks that barely missed the cut from previous mixes, I completed the final track sequencing a couple days ago. While I was in the process of adding the tracks into Audacity today, it crashed right before I was about to add the last song. Damn computers!  I had been working on this for over 2 hours, and had lost my entire project.  While I felt like throwing in the towel, I powered through and recreated the entire mix in Audacity, though this time I saved my changes every time I added a track. I guess this is all part of the creative process, but it certainly threw a monkey-wrench in my day. Those of you who recall my mix from last year...