Mestizo Sounds presents a Special Halloween Mix - 23-10-21

S21E66
1:26:45
October 23rd 2021

Halloween Night is a good time for Rock & Roll. With this in check, I have made this selection. Rock music styles mingled such as oldies rock & roll with post-punk with doses of blues, goth, psychobilly, surf music, sixty garage, electro-punk or hard rock. The soundtrack to Halloween for me is a spine-chilling hell of the noise of rock music dark side.

Nothing like this musical genre with the right sounds reflects more the spirit of the scary night to celebrate the Night of the Dead. That’s the essence of this Mix. Fear and fun intertwined. Recommended to be played very LOUD! even to the annoyance of your neighbours, flatmates or inmates.

The artists you’ll hear are from a diverse group of musical outcasts from -one- Screamin’ - Jay Hawkins to -another- Screaming - Lord Sutch - the outrageous founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party in the UK. We will hear the pre-punk wild sound of Link Wray’s guitar matched with his frightening voice singing about the Hidden Charms. The extravagant and fearless Nina Hagen describes her nightmares, The Misfits celebrating the debauchery of Halloween night and The Cramps finding eyeballs in their martinis.

I’ve also added some of my Halloween fiends compatriots such as Paralisis Permanente -I have a passenger inside my body-, Alaska y Los Pegamoides- back spelling Murder- and even an Argentinian current band, Capsula, telling us the tale of the ghost town. In the garage department, special mention to Roky Erickson’s haunting voice as a Soul salesman or the cavernous sound of The Sonics hailing for the Witch.

The Playlist:

1- Dinner with Drac - ZACHERLE

2- The vampires - ARCHIE KING

3- A date with a vampire - THE SCREAMING TRIBESMEN

4- Human Fly - THE CRAMPS

5- Strychnine - THE FUZZTONES

6- The Creep - THE CREEPS

7- Spider Zombie - THE CREEPY CREEPS

8- Mambo Massacre Show - DAWHOLEENCHILADA

9- Tengo un pasajero - PARALISIS PERMANENTE

10- Redrum - ALASKA Y LOS PEGAMOIDES

11- Eyeball in my Martini - THE CRAMPS

12- Regresan de la Tumba - LOS TIKI PHANTOMS

13- Psycho - IMELDA MAY

14- More - CYCLE

15- Alligator Wine - SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS

16- Voodoo Voodoo - LAVERN BAKER

17- Seven Deadly Sins - OUTCASTS

18- Thirteen Devils -THE DIRTY

19- Jack the Ripper - SCREAMING LORD SUTCH

20- Hidden Charms - LINK WRAY

21- We sell soul - THE SPADES

22- Alptraum - NINA HAGEN BAND

23- Halloween - THE MISFITS

24- She sells sanctuary - THE CULT

25- Ho ha - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER

26- The Witch - THE SONICS

27- Ciudad fantasma - CAPSULA

28- MONSTER MASH - MISFITS & JOHN CAFIERO

Note: Screaming sound effect taken from Careful with Axe Eugene (Ummagumma) by Pink Floyd

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