In 2018 I released Regera Dowdy’s Ghost at the Hotel Recherché in 1961, an ethereal dark ambient exploration into vintage horror. And the perfect soundtrack for your next séance.
Now you can play the whole EP in one mixed format video. Happy Halloween 2022! 🎃
Who doesn’t love a little throwback exploitation realness?
My soundtrack to the totally fake film There’s Something Wrong with Sarah is a love letter to the godawful low-budget horror film soundtracks of the 70s and 80s.
This album has it all: dripping synths, ridiculous Tubular Bells ripoff piano themes, dadaist nonsense noise collages, and more.
Cut to a grainy 35-mm trailer with a low-voiced guy saying:
Sarah’s a normal, healthy 9 year-old girl — until recently. Her parents have started to think there might be something a bit off about their sweet little angel.
Where she used to joyously jump rope, now she just stares. Where she used to roller skate, now other kids avoid her strange aura. Where she used to solve puzzles, now she ponders the impenetrable mysteries of the human mind.
Hypnosis, telepathy, telekinesis; no one knows what she’s capable of next. One thing is for certain: there’s something wrong with Sarah.
It’s almost Spooktober! That means you have to listen to haunted music at least once a day. It’s like the law.
Thank goodness I’m here! Check out these free mixtapes for hours of terrifying soundscapes.
And don’t forget to visit my haunted bandcamp page for even more weird tunes, all 100% free to stream and download.
Happy haunting!
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The good people at A Closer Listen have included my 2020 album Copse in their Music for Haunted Houses lineup this fall. Check it out!
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I’m delighted to announce the release of The Vanishing House, a two-hour collection of dark ambient and experimental offerings.
This release marks a long-overdue revival of a beloved annual ritual: the Halloween mixtape. I’ve been too busy with original music projects these last few years to produce a mixtape as well, but this year I made sure to find the time. My first three Halloween mixtapes were Dead Punks (2007), a tribute to early goth; You’ve Been Sick (2009), a love letter to asylum horror; and Pray For Death (2010), dedicated to religious horror and possessions.
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For my next haunted mixtape, I present a sonic swarm of blood-choked screams, growling ambient hellscapes, serial killers, the possessed, and the insane.
This mixtape is my love letter to psychological horror; to every abandoned asylum, possessed surgeon, and blood-splattered nurse to haunt the big screen.
Jason Herrboldt 