Sounds Like A Spooky Sunday

Seventy six minutes of Spooky music to spice up your Sunday.

Spooky is Charlie May and Duncan Forbes and they've been a formidable presence in dance and electronic music for three and a half decades. Spooky should be up there with Underworld, The Orb and The Chemical Brothers and yet often seem criminally overlooked and under appreciated.

Today's selection spotlights a dozen tunes spanning 1992 to 2020 and a breathtakingly diverse range of styles, taking in progressive trance, deep house, dub, ambient, soundtracks and so on. I'm not great with genres and labels, and what fits where, but I know that whatever Charlie and Duncan turn their hands to, the end result will be a treat for the ears and the mind.

For more Spooky magic, head over to their Bandcamp page, where you'll find their three albums, and most of their singles and EPs from the 1990s up to the present, all at ridiculously bargain prices. 

1) Gandharva (Doi-ing vs Spooky Vocal Mix): The Oval Five ft. Natacha Atlas (1992)

2) Umbrella (Spooky Remix): Chymera (2007)

3) Water (Spooky's Hydro-Electric Mix): Jo Bogaert (1994)

4) Area 39 (EP Version): Spooky (1996)

5) It's So Late (Album Version): Spooky ft. Julie Daske (2007)

6) Little Bullet (Part One) (Album Version): Spooky ft. Valerie Harrison (1993)

7) New Light (Dub): Spooky ft. Celestine Walcott-Gordon (2007)

8) Andromeda (Single Version): Spooky (2003)

9) Candy (Original Version): Spooky (2008)

10) Seneschal (Album Version): Spooky (1996)

11) Belong (Echospace Mix): Spooky ft. Julie Daske (2002)

12) Bells Of Fury (Part II): Spooky (2020)

1992: Gandharva / Vertigo EP: 1

1993: Gargantuan: 6

1994: Water EP: 3

1996: Found Sound: 10

1996: Shunt EP: 4

2002: Belong EP: 11

2003: Andromeda (white label 12"): 8

2007: Open (limited edition 2x CD): 5, 7

2007: Umbrella EP: 2

2008: Candy EP: 9

2020: Bells Of Fury EP: 12

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