Jonathan Sharp : Niavka

Jonathan Sharp has been busy the last several years putting out next level, Gothic-tinged records as The Heartwood Institute. Hazy, dreamy, and eliciting sonic tales of witchcraft(The Witchcraft Murders) and dystopian worlds(check out the collaborative Concrete Island with HAWKSMOOR), Jonathan Sharp seems to never not be readying a new electronic delight for our ears. NIAVKA […]

Repeated Viewing : Murdercoaster

Murdercoaster. That’s a name that had I run across it as a misanthropic teen on one of my many trips to the video store in the 80s would have peaked my interest. Had Murdercoaster been hanging on the wall of Video World in 1987, collecting dust and the ire of every parent walking in that […]

Monochrome Echo : Moonkeeper Exodus

Simon Little, aka Monochrome Echo, is back with an all new chapter in his ‘Moonkeeper’ musical saga. This time he returns with Moonkeeper Exous, a continuation of the story he began on 2020s Moonkeeper. The “Europa Outpost” story continues with Little telling the tale via electronic tomes and cosmic melodies. When Simon Little isn’t playing […]

Alone 1980 : Street Trash From Outer Space

With the return of Sweden’s Alone 1980 means another solid imagined soundtrack. This time around it’s Street Trash From Outer Space, a title that I could have very easily eyed on the wall of Video World back in 1985 while looking for The Evil Dead or Pieces. Following up his previous Vol. 1, Vol. 2, […]

Repeated Viewing : The Family

Leave it to the maestro Alan Sinclair to elevate us all with a sickly sinister slab of synth. As Repeated Viewing, Sinclair has created a vast library of imagined scores to films that seem to have been torn from my own twisted imagination. As far as dark, heavy synth music goes Repeated Viewing raises the […]

Alone 1980 : Vol. 1-3

Alone 1980 captures a certain kind of horror claustrophobia in their music. The Sweden-based imagined soundtrack provocateur builds sonic nightmares with vintage equipment, retro vibes, and a sense that you’ve stepped into some long lost video nasty on late night cable TV in the early 80s. Though the music varies from sweat-inducing panic to almost […]

Yves Malone : Immortal Death

The musical world of Yves Malone is a dark and slinky one. Heavy synth music with touches of Giallo, 80s slasher scores, and dystopian electronic that brings to mind late night viewings and 80s tube TV video game adventures. If you grew up on NES, USA Up All Night, and caffeinated Friday nights with video […]

Alone 1980 : Lost Cues II

Whilst in the midst of being down and out with Covid-19 back in November I watched a lot of movies. It was a great way to pass the time and took my mind off of feeling terrible. One of the movies I watched was Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House from 1977. It was one of those movies […]

Hattie Cooke : The Sleepers(2021 Re-master)

Okay, I’ll admit it. I completely missed out first time around when the great Hattie Cooke dropped her album The Sleepers with Spun Out Of Control back in late 2019. It wasn’t until a couple months after her cassette dropped that I started hearing folks talking about this amazing album The Sleepers. Folks like Graham […]

Alone 1980 : Night Lights

The latest from Sweden’s Alone 1980 isn’t short on dread and Gothic doom. It seems to dig into the macabre and things that go bump in the night in a visceral and melancholy way. Given what we saw in the US just last week in the nation’s capital, I think this is the soundtrack we […]