The music of horror in movies has been defined by a few composers. One of them is Alan Howarth. He’s from The Beatles generation and came up in the psychedelic era and the birth of electronic music. He’s best known for working with director John Carpenter in the 1970s on films like the Halloween sequels,…
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Reviews & Commentary
Electronic Bliss at Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.
Three nights of electronic music blazed forth the weekend of October 25-27 at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Scattered across Asheville’s compact downtown in five different venues ranging from a bar to an arena, musicians plugged in with a range of electronic dreams. One musician was 77 years old with…
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Shhhh! BOOO! An Echoes Halloween
Tonight on Echoes, it’s music for things that go bump in the night. No, not those things. Scary things. It’s a time for spirits and spooks, vampires and zombies, witches and whispers. We’ll hear them all as we go to the darkside of Echoes. I’ll be your sonic crypt-keeper as we explore a sound between…
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A Mazmoneth Fright on Echoes Halloween
Halloween is coming and we’ll be running an Echoes Halloween on Monday, October 31. Don’t Turn Out the Lights. While I was gathering tracks to put in the show I came across a video by Mazmoneth, a duo that records on Ian Boddy’s DiN label. Their album Music by Mirrors combines the DiN label’s penchant…