DJ DAYMAGE presents HAL10WEEN! Download it for free HERE, or stream it below! Daymage really outdid himself this year with this terrifying 1:20 mix that includes my favorite Halloween song of the entire year. This thing is amazing. Mr. Daymage has quite a bit going on in his life right now—a big move, new jobs, new dog and a wedding coming up—so I’m surprised and elated he found the time to do one of these this year. I wish I had more to say, but it’s Oct. 25th and I have zero idea what I’m dressing up as this year. Probably none of these costumes.

Track listing:
Miami Horror – Illumination
Total Coelo – I eat cannibals
La Roux – Tigerlily
The Love Supreme – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Boy 8Bit – Chapel of Ghouls
Liminas – I’m Dead
Last Word – Sleepy Hollow
Sabres of Paradise – Haunted Dancehall
Tim Curry – Worst Witch
Monster Mash (MF Mike B Edit)
Vision – Lucifer’s Friend
Little Jinder – Youth Blood
Glass Candy – Life After Sundown
Gatekeeper – Forgotten
Jonathan Coulton – Re: Your Brains
Eskaton – Dagon
Chateau Marmont – Solar Apex
Skatt Bros. – Walk the Night
Dwarves – I’m a Living Sickness
Jason Webley – Halloween
Strangers song
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Eagles of Death Metal – Midnight Creeper
Gatekeeper – Visions
Armando Sciascia – Circulto Chiuso
Misfits – Halloween

And because every great horror movie deserves a low-budget sequel with diminishing returns, check back tomorrow for another free mix tape download: World of WardCrap presents: SATANIAC!

Hey, why not listen to a really amazing 80s flavored Halloween Mix by my friend DJ Daymage while you read this post? You can even Download it RIGHT HERE.This jam is perfect for Halloween parties, or as you’re putting on your slutty, slutty costume (you tramp!).

I’ve been listening to “Hall09een” every day since I got it, and haven’t been in a bad mood since.

DJ Daymage’s mix is cold Halloween rain on a rubberband-and-staple mask. It’s not believing in the razor-blade apple legend, but secretly believing it. It’s Elvira and Spuds Mackenzie, like holiday clockwork, on your television. It’s a hard plastic pumpkin bucket. It’s my childhood in headphones.

The punk/hair metal/goth industrial blend (naturally) just oozes with a kind of gritty, Vestron Video/Cannon Films/Golan-Globus Productions quality that takes me back to marathon VHS viewings of anything directed by Fred Dekker or starring Donald Pleasence. I can’t get enough of it. It makes me feel like I have a little candle in my belly, and I’m sitting on your front porch.

Every Halloween since high school, I have a tradition where I blare The Misfits Collection II as it gets dark out. This year, I think I officially have a new tradition.

The thing I like most about it, is it doesn’t go for the easy Halloween inclusions (there’s only a cursory nod to Thriller, along with that hilarious Michael Jackson voice outtake from the Special Edition). That said, I enjoy the cheap chainsaw and scream effects here and there, because those terrible haunted houses are so closely tied to low-budget horror movies in my mind. The audio segues are both hilarious and organic (sorry, I hate using that word…but I’m too tired to come up with something else and it fits), especially the Dead Alive clip about “a splitting headache, and the stupid hip hop is not helping.”

This is pure 80s, low-budget, grimy slasher stuff. I instantly feel 10 again when I hear this…from the scratchy excerpts from kid’s read-along records, to Freddy Krueger in not one, but TWO endearing and cheesy raps by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince and the Fat Boys. Say what you want, “Are You Ready For Freddy”‘s chorus is catchy, like trying to put a razor-bladed glove through the arm of your sweater.

Pictured: Someone pitched this at a meeting. They voted “yes.”

And even that Fresh Prince song, silly as hell, still makes me feel a little freaked out. This guy Jess Matthews and I had it on a little brown tape recorder when we were kids, and used to walk through this tiny alley by my dad’s office (where we swore there was blood on the wall), made up our own Freddy mythology, listened to the song, sang and acted out the parts (I was usually The Fresh Prince. Too scared to watch the actual movie to get Freddy’s moves down).

Similarly, a girl I work with made me turn the mix off when the Silver Shamrock song from Halloween III plays. When there’s no more logic in hell, irrational fears will walk the earth.

Also, to this day, the bass line from “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” can still reanimate a thousand zombies.

So you’ve got the J. Geils Band Fright Night theme, “Halloween” by Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pet Semetary by the Ramones (as seen in my friend TJ’s amazing Weirdest Horror Movie Songs write-up at Topless Robot), and Evil Nine’s “They Live,” an amazing song I’d never heard (it’s a lot like Daft Punk’s Technologic meets a 7-minute John Carpenter fist fight). And a whole bunch more.

My only complaint is I wanted it to go on a little longer. But, if it’s anything like it’s subject matter, I expect a cheap and easy sequel. With more blood.