Horror Music for Video Production

Happy Halloween 2012! Katya here with this mix just in from the Free Music Archive:

Music to Video has assembled a 13-track mix that will send shivers down your spine, make all the ghouls dance, and get grandma to climb out of her grave, just to tell you to turn down the volume.

All the tracks in this mix are licensed for reuse, such as in music accompaniment for your video productions. You might also use these tracks as you prepare your entries for the FMA video contest with the Prelinger Archives. The FMA suggests footage of a Halloween Party or Experiments in the Revival of Organisms? Deadline for this contest is creepily close: November 4th.

You can enter the contest and win prizes and prestige! I've played around making one with snippets from the social guidance films by Coronet Instructional Films. Those 1950s classroom films are a hoot!

photo: The fabulous Mantan Moreland as Jefferson Jackson in the 1941 horror flick King of the Zombies. The film is now in the public domain and available for free download from the Internet Archive. Enjoy!

Creative Commons Halloween Mix 2012

It lives! The Creative Commons Halloween Mix 2012 is here. Irene has done it again!

"This mix is full of audio treats, including some poignant advice from the Book of Matthew, H.P. Lovecraft inspired musical insanity, instructions from Eastern Europe's answer to Willard, haunted Korgs, and finally, what you would hear in hell for eternity if your call was put on hold."

52 Horror Releases

Gearing up for your Halloween soundtrack? Whether you are looking to terrify, make mischief, or fill the dance floor, the Free Music Archive has got you covered.

Here is the motherlode of 52 FMA albums and compilations for your ghoulish celebration. Boogity!

photo: Detail of haunted house scenery, Prater Parc, Vienna, Austria; by Jebulon; license: public domain

Halloween Selections 3

Yes, creatures of the night, All Hallow's Eve is fast approaching. Below is the third dozen free albums and compilations at the Free Music Archive that the Oddiobots recommend for your ghoulish event.

To make a spooky 13, we also recommend that you check out the albums of Dr. Phibes and The Ten Plagues of Egypt.

From all of us at Oddio Headquarters, we wish you a very happy Halloween!

Eraserhead Tribute Compilation	Zyzzybalubah - Halloween LP	BLOB - Halloween	Ekleipsi Halloween Compilation
I Was A Teenage Strangler soundtrack	The Itchy Creeps (2 songs)	Microhorror Compilations by Dr. Von Pnok	Occultation - live on WFMU
Pandacetamol - Mind Murder Parts I-VI	SJ Mellia - FluffSkull EP	The Soft Moon - live on WFMU	T.O.M.B. - Satan's Palace, Order of the Black Wolf

Halloween Selections 2

Yes, creatures of the night, All Hallow's Eve is fast approaching. Here are the second dozen free albums and compilations at the Free Music Archive that the Oddiobots recommend for your ghoulish event.

VA - Sounds to Come	Salvatore - Damnatio	Ga'an	Decomentarium - Decomentarium
BL▲CK † CEILING - I	Caress of the Vampire 2 soundtrack	Creative Commons Halloween 09	The Damned - live on WFMU
Das Gritli Moser - Cha-Cha-Cha With The Devil	Duo Inmortales - Legends of Domination	Flex Vector - Spellbound	Gardenella - Gardenella

Halloween Selections 1

Yes, creatures of the night, another All Hallow's Eve is fast approaching. Here are some of the free albums and compilations at the Free Music Archive that the Oddiobots recommend for your ghoulish event.

VA - Silber Sounds of Halloween (many genres)	VA - Music for Vampires (Happy Puppy Records)	The Threshold People - 7 Legs from an Eight-Legged Beast	Illinois Brass Band - Music to Summon the Spirits
VA - Memento Mori, a remembrance soundtrack	VA - Creative Commons Halloween Mix 10	VA - Creative Commons Halloween Mix 11	Meczûp - Hanging from the Purgatory's Pendulum
Lee Rosevere - Trick Or Treat	Psi Corps - Shadow Creatures	VA - Calling All Fiends	The Threshold People - Night of...

Swinging in Spain

Two new albums of blends of swing, ska, rock, and AfroCuban pop from Spain on the WFMU Free Music Archive!

Click covers to enjoy whole albums. Click players to enjoy a taste.


licenses: Eterno Domingo by Los Sundayers and Donde las Toman las Dan by Oferta Especial are both licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licenses.

Incredible Shrinking Band

Stealing Orchestra continues to give away the albums they originally released commercially. The newest free offering is their album, The Incredible Shrinking Band, originally released in 2003 on Zounds/Sabotage.

The album is just what you have come to expect from Stealing Orchestra, instrumental performances with copious samples presented as rock, alternative, free jazz, waltzes, and weirdness. The world is a better place with creative musicians like these infiltrating the music.



license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License

Memento Mori, a remembrance soundtrack

In remembrance of our dearly departed, an homage soundtrack

For times when we pay respects to and celebrate the lives of the dead, such as Memorial Day, Day of the Dead, Araw ng mga Patay, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Obon, Faun Phii, Ghost Festival, Jerye, Chuseok/ Hangawi, Samhain, Qingming, Gai Jatra, Decoration Day, Dia de los Ñatitas, Tarpan,  Pitru Paksha, Finados, Famadihana, and other ancestor veneration traditions

image:detail from Memento Mori by Andrea Previtali, Italian Early Renaissance painter (ca. 1478 - 1528)

Advent Chamber Orchestra

The Advent Chamber Orchestra is a conductorless orchestra, based in Bolingbrook, Illinois and usually performing in the Chicago metropolitan area. This non-profit orchestra is composed of five violins, two violas, two cellos, a bass, and an harpsichord. The group specializes in Baroque period classical music.

Three collections of their performances are now available on the Free Music Archive.

The Advent Chamber Orchestra began in 2003 when Roxana Pavel Goldstein and Elias Goldstein, who had met studying and performing at DePaul’s School of Music, worked together in chamber music ensembles. The orchestra functioned primarily as a chamber music collaborative until 2005 when they performed their first concert as the Advent Chamber Orchestra. The ensemble is generally led by concertmaster and music director Roxana Pavel Goldstein, but artistic decisions are made democratically by the group.


license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License