Sounds Like A Spooky Saturday

Sixty eight minutes of Spooky music to send a shiver down your spine on Saturday.

Spooky aka Charlie May and Duncan Forbes first caught my attention in 1992, with the Land Of Oz single and their remix of Ultramarine on the Nightfall In Sweetleaf EP. Since then, they've released four albums: Gargantuan (1993), Found Sound (1996), Open (2007) and Lucent (2026); each one exists as a standalone experience, but also charts their incredible musical journey.

Today's selection focuses on the period from 1992 to 2007, mostly their own music, singles, EPs and album tracks mixed and remixed, with reworks of Waterlillies and the aforementioned Ultramarine added to the pot. 

And, perhaps inevitably, a stir of toil and trouble to make the cauldron bubble, courtesy of their team-up with Billie Ray Martin to create the monstrously magnificent cover of Throbbing Gristle's Persuasion.

Fourth album Lucent appeared in April, nineteen years on from its predecessor, and as fresh as ever. You can find it - and many more Spooky tricks and treats - over at Bandcamp, for scarily low prices. 

Happy Hallowe'en, everyone! (If that isn't a contradiction in terms)

 

1) Fingerbobs (Spooky's Toe-Nail Slice): Spooky (1996)

2) Tempted (Apple Crumble Mix By Spooky): Waterlillies (1993)

3) Strange Addiction (Original Version): Spooky ft. Celestine Walcott-Gordon (2005)

4) Orange Coloured Liquid (Album Version): Spooky (1993)

5) No Return (Dorset Echo) (Dub): Spooky ft. Julie Daske (2007)

6) Schmoo (Edit): Spooky ft. Heather Sian Wildman (1993)

7) Schmoodub (Album Version): Spooky ft. Heather Sian Wildman (1993)

8) Lowest Common Denominator (Album Version): Spooky (1996)

9) Lights In My Brain (Spooky Remix): Ultramarine (1992)

10) What Are We Waiting For? (Album Version): Spooky ft. Celestine Walcott-Gordon (2007)

11) Falx (EP Version): Spooky (1996)

12) Persuasion (Original Version) (Cover of Throbbing Gristle): Billie Ray Martin & Spooky (1993)

 

1992: Nightfall In Sweetleaf EP: 9 

1993: Gargantuan: 4, 7 

1993: Persuasion EP: 12 

1993: Schmoo EP: 6 

1993: Tempted EP: 2 

1996: Fingerbobs EP: 1 

1996: Found Sound: 8 

1996: Shunt EP: 11 

2005: Strange Addiction EP: 3 

2007: Open (limited edition 2x CD): 5, 10

 

Sounds Like A Spooky Saturday (1:08:40) (GD) (M)

Not enough for you this weekend? How about my Spooky companion selection, Sounds Like A Spooky Sunday, from February this year?

Darren In The Underworld

Inspired by Swiss Adam's return visits to some classic Darren Emerson and Underworld tracks and mixes over at Bagging Area and the coincidental inclusion of an Underworld remix on the cover-mounted Depeche Mode compilation CD available with the current issue of Mojo magazine, I've thrown caution to the wind and jumped on the bandwagon.

I've cherry picked half a dozen remixes from 1993 to 2003, classics all, and generous with beats and breaks. It's impossible for me to pick a favourite from this bunch.

 

1) Human Behaviour (The Underworld Dub (1)): Björk (1993)

2) Harlequin - The Beauty And The Beast (Underworld Alternative): Sven Väth (1994)

3) Sunset (Bird Of Prey) (Darren Emerson Remix): Fatboy Slim ft. Jim Morrison (2000)

4) David (Darren Emerson's Underwater Remix): GusGus (2003)

5) Schmoo (Underworld Mix): Spooky ft. Heather Sian Wildman (1993)

6) Risingson (Underworld Mix): Massive Attack (1997)

 

Darren In The Underworld (54:39) (KF) (Mega)