Tuesday, January 29, 2008  6:52 am 

The Synth That Dripped Blood

After being criminally dropped from DC Recordings for being “too commercial” (wtf? surely about 2/3’s of the current DC roster is not what you would term as commercial?), Italian masked killer of scantily clad women, The Giallos Flame, is self-releasing an album of chic 70’s horror-homage on his very own label Analogue Screams.

Said album will be equal measures of screams from desolate ash-filled anti-Hell, sounds of blood splashing across smashed stained-glass window fragments and rhythmic heavy breathing from prelude-to-the-murder phone calls heard in ornate art galleries by ladies who are working late.

The Giallos Flame - House At The Edge Of The Dark

We guess this track was inspired by the ghoulish solid black shadows cast in Lucio Fulci’s grindhouse classique, ‘The House By The Cemetery’ (see trailer at the bottom, then definitely go and buy). GF’s analogue synths wail like ghosts of slaughtered banshees bursting forth from the icy silent graves as the bass triangulates to a steady 70’s NY rhythm and the footsteps of the spectres that stalk the house heard by the trembling victim follow suit in this loose funk beat.

Keep a plucked out eye on Giallos Flame’s myspace for a purchasing link to the album.

Next we slip into a separate section of 70’s noir horror, that of the demonic pitch dark screams of medieval magik homicide.

Off-kilter DJ’s, The Glimmers, are poised to release their debut artist album, ‘The Glimmers are Gee Gee Fazzi’ in February, featuring collaborations with CJ Bolland, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas and Twitch of Optimo to name a few. The L&PT track is an anthem for re-animated mannequins getting down in a disused factory rave that only plays records at 16rpms, and Twitch adds the dub element to a track that recasts Liquid Liquid as an alternate The Human League. But we, being evil horror movie fans from the woods of Hell, are most up for the Padded Cell partnership:

The Glimmers - Time For Action

Padded Cell remixed this track and it was so good it just ended up on the album itself. They do dark moonlit dance music for people on the wrong track; people who don’t run away screaming when they hear giant metallic centipedes crawling through the undergrowth of the forests they have got lost in, and when these individuals glimpse the full sanguine moon they know just what signs to scrawl in animal blood under they’re beds to invoke the spirit of the Evil One. ‘Time For Action’ features synth refrains that stutter to oblivion, and alien klaxons that beckon hooded warlocks to a central point in a cave network under the Mountains of Madness where demons will be pulled from the fiery pits and handed keytars and theramins.

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When the Evil One comes to stay for the weekend, what events will transpire?:

labels >> Dunwich, Giallos Flame, Horror, demons, disco, forests, glimmers, padded cell, xxjfg