JONATHAN TOUBIN'S ANNUAL HALLOWEEN MIXES

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Jonathan Toubin's 12th Annual NY Night Train "Haunted Hop" Halloween Mix from the original 45rpm vinyl singles! 

Track List:
1. Ralph Emery ‎”Two Minutes To Live” (Liberty, 1962)
2. Brenton Wood “Psychotic Reaction” (Festival, 1968)
3. Senor Soul “Psychotic Reaction” (Double Shot, 1968)
4. Rain “E.S.P.” (A.P.I., 1967)
5. The Jesters of Newport “Stormy” (Solo, 1965)
6. Exuma “Exuma, The Obeah Man” (Mercury, 1970)
7. Screaming Jay Hawkins “Poor Folks” (Providence, 1965)
8. Jay Brinkley “The Creep” (Roulette, 1958)
9. Los Holy’s “Campo De Vampiros” (Sono Radio, 1968)
10. Steve Alaimo And The Redcoats “Blue Fire”(Dickson, 1960)
11. The Ralphs ‎"Mutating Man" (VVV, 1980)
12. R. Ericson & Bleibalien (Roky Erickson) “Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)” (Mars, 1975)
13. Tony Jackson and The Vibrations “Fortune Teller” (Pye, 1965)
14. Katie Webster “Love Bliss Voodoo” (Goldband, 1974)
15. Louie Ramirez ‎”The Boogie Man” (Mercury, 1967)
16. Mike Evans “Gruesome” (A&M, 1967)
17. The Moontrekkers “Night Of The Vampire” (Parlophone, 1961)
18. Al Perry And The Cattle “It's Your Grave (Can You Dig It?)” (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1990)
19. The Vibes “A Killer Came To Town” (Rayna, 1962)
20. Desmond Dekker “Dracula” (Black Swan, 1964)
21. Murray Schaff And His Aristocrats “Tombstone Number 9” (King, 1956)
22. T. Tex Edwards “Rubber Room” (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1989)

NY Night Train Halloween Haunted Hop Mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2021 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Reflection - Psalm 94
Philamore Lincoln - Early Sherwood
Annette Peacock - The succubus
Apryl Fool - The Lost Mother Land(Part2)
Pan & regaliz - Today it is raining
Future Recollections - Raw Material
Alain Goraguer - La Femme
Guy Pedersen - Bass In Love
Alessandro Alessandroni - Il Porto
Geoff Bastow - Winds Of Change
K. Fleins Field - Incidental Black Cloth
Laurence Vanay - Le Cœur Lourd
Donimak - Verso Il tramonto
Pete Drake -  Forever
Something Else - Let Me Say Now Love
Michel Gonet - Flower Dance
Fred Bongusto - Las Tentaciones De Giorgia
Michel Colombier - Cadavres en série
Jan Jankeje - South Indian Line
Alan Parker ‎– Crater
Clive Hicks - Cooler
Roland Vincent - L.S.D Partie
Sidan - di Enwv

L'envie #127 :: Astral Vibes

Book Of Love - Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me
Susan Cadogan - Do It Baby
Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
Talking Heads - Sugar On My Tongue
Sandra - Maria Magdalena
Fancy - Slice Me Nice
Kool And The Gang - Fresh (remix)
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Part Time - Seashells
Electric Mind - Zwei
Connie - Funky Little Beat
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
US Girls - The Island Song

L'envie #133 :: Sasha Crush

JONATHAN TOUBIN's 2022 New York Night Train HAUNTED HOP Halloween Mix - the 13th edition! Juxtaposed from the original 45rpm vinyl singles! 25 spine-tingling classics and obscurities cobbled together by the mad scientist for your listening and dancing pleasure! The Good! The Bad! And the ugly! Make this and the previous editions (317 spooky records so far!) the soundtrack to your holiday partying and in preparation for the 17th Annual NY NIGHT TRAIN HAUNTED HOP, OCT 31 at KNOCKDOWN CENTER with room after room of madcap multimedia fun with HUNX & HIS PUNX and 30 more bands, 8 DJs, mummy dancers, a horror cinema, creepy art installations, the 1AM $500 COSTUME CONTEST, plus eating, drinking, and dancing from 6:30PM - 2AM! Get tickets now!

Track Listing:
1. Johnny Jenkins “I Walk On Guilded Splinters” (Capricorn, 1970)
2. Rex Garvin and The Mighty Cravers “Strange Happenings” (Chieftin, 1971)
3. Dead Moon “Don’t Burn The Fires” (Tombstone, 1988)
4. Curtis Knight & The Squires “Hornet’s Nest” (RSVP, 1966)
5. Marie Laforêt “Marie Doceur - Marie Colère (Paint It Black)” (Disques Festival, 1966)
6. Fred Harris Red Tops Organ Trio with The Highlighters “The Bull” (New Song, 1958)
7. Linda Vera y su Conjunto Tropical “La Mano Pelua” (CBS Mexico, 1965)
8. Ray Barretto “Babalu” (Tico, 1966)
9. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and The Chicken Hawks “I Hear Voices” (Enrica, 1962)
10. Gate Wesley & Band with Billy LaMont “(Zap! Pow! Do The Batman” (Atlantic, 1966)
11. Donald Height “Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days” (Shout, 1967)
12. Shorty Billups “Black Cats” (Blast, 1965)
13. King Horror “Dracula Prince of Darkness” (Joe, 1969)
14. Thee Midniters “Thee Midnite Feeling” (Whittier, 1966)
15. Los Crazy Boys “La Bruja” (Discos Orfeon, 1965)
16. Johnnie Mae Matthews “The Headshrinker” (Reel, 1962)
17. Alan Knight “Chills” (Tide, 1960)
18. The Run-A-Ways “Night Creature” (Royal Audio Music, 1960)
19. Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders “Hot Rod Hades” (4 Star, 1961)
20. R. Erickson & Bleibalien (Roky Erickson!) “Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)” (Mars, 1975)
21. Miss L.L. Louise Lewis “The Monster’s Bride” (Skyway, 1964)
22. The Couplings “Dill Tickle” (Prism, 1964)
23. Adolphus Bell And The Up Starts “Lafin Gas” (Satin, ?)
24. The Livin’ End “Soul Ghost” (Mistown, 1969)
25. Bob Mitchell “What Then” (Al-Mo, ?)

2022 NY Night Train 2022 Haunted Hop Mix (13th Edition) 

Jonathan Toubin's 2022 NY Night Train Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

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Cold Rubber

01. Only One Love Is Blessed (1958) - Thurston Harris
02. Gonna Getcha Baby (1961) - Chris Kenner
03. Sea Of Love (1959) - Phil Phillips
04. Send Me Some Loving (1963) - Solomon Burke
05. Irene (1962) - Rockin' Dave Allen
06. Sea Breeze (1962) - Roy Lee Johnson
07. Really Really Love You (1967) - Ronnie Walker
08. This Is Magic (1964) - The Ballads
09. All Along I've Loved You (1967) - Tony Ashley & The Delicates
10. Girl I Love You (1967) - Garland Green
11. I've Never Found A Girl (1968) - Eddie Floyd
12. My Baby's Love (1968) - The O'Kaysions
13. More Today Than Yesterday (1969) - The Spiral Starecas
14. She's Looking Good (1967) - Rodger Collins
15. Tell Me You Love Me (1970) - Bobby Hill
16. I Love You (1969) - Dauphin Williams

No.64 Set Up In My Bones

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Recorded on 16th of September, 2018 at Le Mellotron, Paris. Tracks from Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Apple And The Three Oranges, Young-Holt Unlimited, Jim Sullivan, Willie Mitchell and the Desert River Band,  Witch, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou & more.

Man, You're Not Number One

Retiring to his laboratory for the ninth year in a row to concoct the soundtrack for your Halloween season from deep within his 45rpm vinyl treasure trove, mad scientist Jonathan Toubin dug around and Frankensteined the good, the bad, and the ugly to construct yet another non-stop fantastic voyage across monster parties, voodoo rituals, nightmares, and miscellaneous howling at the moon. You won't hear any repros, bootlegs, LP cuts, etc here - but exclusively the original 7-inch vinyl pressings. This year's power hour does the Monster Mash across an island of lost misfit tracks by everyone from the most talented musicians of the post-war era to the most shadowy of unknowns - diabolically uniting time and space and disparate genres to birth this year's monster! Dance novelties, garage punk pounders, rhythm and blues busters, rockabilly rollers, soul shakers, slippery surfers, country crackers, pop peculiarities, and rogue's gallery of ectoplasmic eccentricity! And, if you can't get enough, the other eight mixes are all available to stream on Mixcloud </a>. So far that's now 225 haunted hits and counting! Nine straight hours of pure diabolical NY Night Train party magic for all of your seasonal needs!

Also, if you're anywhere near NYC October 31, witness the world's best Halloween party, the NY Night Train Haunted Hop! This year's 13th edition features a full live performance by the evil one himself from the 13th Floor Roky Erickson! Plus Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Death Valley Girls, White Mystery, and 14 more bands, room after room of DJs, dancing, eating, drinking, horror cinema, witchcraft, mummies a go go, live visuals, art instillations and a whole lot more! Come early and stay late! Make a night of it!

These are the original vinyl sides Jonathan Toubin fiendishly stitched together and brought back to life for this spooktacular occasion:

1.	Dr. Shock “Eat Your Heart Out Baby” (Black Blue, 1973) 
2.	Larry and The Blue Notes “Night of the Phantom” (20th Century Fox, 1965) 
3.	Muleskinners “Wolfman” (Soma, 1964) 
4.	Johnny Lion “Haunted Heart” (Coed, 1959)
5.	Bobby Bare “Vampira” (Jackpot, 1958)
6.	Tiny Topsy “You Shocked Me” (Federal, 1958) 
7.	The Daylighters “Madhouse Jump” (Bea & Baby, 1959) 
8.	Isaac Rother and the Phantoms (Mock, 2015) 
9.	Johnny C and the Blazes “Inferno” (Chattahoochee, 1963) 
10.	Eddie Perrell “Hex” (Shurfine, 1966) 
11.	Pete Martinez “Haunted House” (Towne House, 1964)
12.	Ray Columbus and the Art Collection “Kick Me” (Colstar, 1967) 
13.	The Shades featuring Lee Cook “Strollin’ After Dark” (Scottie, 1959
14.	Merle Kilgore “Lover’s Hell” (Mercury, 1961) 
15.	Salty Holmes “The Ghost Song” (Decca, 1954) 
16.	Virgil Holmes “Ghost Train” (Atlantic, 1961) 
17.	The Fabulous Continentals “Breakin’ Up” (Rori, 1962) 
18.	Little Esther Phillips “Mojo Hannah” (Atlantic, 1964) 
19.	Silas Paulin “That Old Black Magic” (Prize, 1963) 
20.	Billy Hall “Oo Ga Booga Boo Boo” (Glenn, 1962) 
21.	Count Down and the Moonsters “Hindu On A Honda” (Pocono, ?) 
22.	The Twisters (Bobby Smith Combo) “Run Little Sheba” (Gemini, ?) Another spooky track with mysterious origins and one of the few records on the 
23.	Bobby Darin “Similau” (Atlantic, 1964) 
24.	Toalson Sisters “Mau Mau Mambo” (S.I.N.A., Society For Indecency To Naked Animals, 1959) 
25.	Ella Washington “Nightmare” (Octavia, 1966) 
26.	The Nightmares “Nightmare!” (Fredlo, 1960)

Jonathan Toubin's 2018 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Thee 2019 HAUNTED HOP HALLOWEEN MIX IS UP! Jonathan Toubin retired to his laboratory with his original 7-inch vinyl oddities for the  10th year in a row to Frankenstein together an hour of unique haunted hits and misses for Monster Mashing and trick or treating!  The good! The bad! The ugly! The familiar and the strange! Check out the other nine and make this the soundtrack to your Halloween season!

Definitely pop out on Halloween at the New York Night Train Haunted Hop on Thursday, October 31 at Knockdown Center with The Make-Up, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Protex, Joe Coleman with King Khan, and a cast of thousands!

1. The Caravans "The Spook" (Terra Records, ?)
2. The Tumblers "Scream" (Pocono, 1965)
3. The Tamrons "Wild Man" (Pyramid, 1967)
4. The Kords "Boris The Spider" (Laurie, 1967)
5. Kip Tyler "Shadow Street" (Challenge, 1958)
6. Sam Porfino and His Orchestra "Haunted House" (Heartbeat, 1963)
7. The Elastik Band "Spazz" (Atco, 1967)
8. Marsha Hunt "Walk On Gilded Splinters" (Polydor Germany, 1969)
9. Howlin' Wolf "Evil" (Cadet, 1969)
10. The Lollipop Shoppe "You Must Be A Witch" (UNI,1968)
11. Lee Kristofferson "Dinner With Drac" (Thrust, 1977)
12. Eddie Kirk "Them Bones" (Volt, 1963)
13. Polo "Fuego" (Peerless, 1968)
14. Les Pingouins "Voo-Doo-Twist" (Decca, 1962)
15. Tim Hazel "In Cold Blood" (Lorelei, 1965)
16. Banana "Club De Los Vampiros" (Clave, 1969)
17. Johnny Jay Colonna "The Sea Witch" (Magnet, 1963)
18. Ray Stevens "Laughing Over My Grave" (Mercury, 1964)
19. Little Caesar and The Ark Angels "The Ghost of Mary Mead" (Jack Bee, 1960)
20. The Big Guys "Zombie" (Palette, 1964)
21. Spike Jones And His Sickniks "I Was A Teenage Brain Surgeon" (WB, 1959)
22. Vladimir Brainzoff and the Undertakers "Russian Roulette" (Solid gold, ?)

NY NIght Train 2019 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2019 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

At home with yourself mix  - 2020

While this is the first year without a New York Night Train Haunted Hop since 2006 (this year we had Amyl and the Sniffers confirmed!), you can use this, my 11th annual Halloween mix, to pretend you're at the party in the comfort of you own home! For a minute I decided against doing one this year. I’ve been wavering for weeks. Since Covid I’ve been both literally and figuratively a bit detached from my records. I moved, they’re half all boxed up, there are no dance parties so I can’t do my job, and frankly, like many of y’all, I’ve had the blues and lack motivation. Also I’ve already put 250 of my favorite Halloween-appropriate songs on previous mixes. So this year I was thinking I wouldn’t be able to come up with enough material, wasn’t feeling it, and decided to sit this one out. But enough of ya asked me and I've been so detached from my work that I forgot I’m in what Wolfman Jack called “The Happiness Business.” I figured both of us probably need this more than ever and I got inspired in the last minute. So I decided to jump in the battle and join all the other soldiers fighting save Halloween 2020. And better late than never, I stayed up all night in the laboratory bringing this beast to life. Digging around my boxes I learned that I hadn’t included a lot of my favorites on a mix before! And while getting it together I realized I really love every track I put on here (accept the last one! ha!) - the good the bad and the ugly - from well-known classics to the deepest obscurities and everything n ‘between. I really had a blast assembling this narrative and am excited for you to let me take you places with a broad combination of punk, funk, country, garage, blues, what the heck, calypso, Halloween novelties, and the beyond. Though delivered a month later than usual, I still have my last-minute homework turned in a day before Halloween…. It may just the early morning delirium but, as someone who’s never satisfied with his mixes or work, I think this is almost what I intended it to be and I pray you get a kick outta this monster. I hope you make the best out of this challenging Halloween… Also make sure that you vote Tuesday!

Here’re the original 45s you’re listening to….

1) POCKET FISHRMEN "THE LEADER IS BURNING" (NOISEVILLE, 1989)

2) THE N' BETWEENS "EVIL WITCHMAN" (COLUMBIA UK, 1966)

3) BOBBY BYRD "BACK FROM THE DEAD" (INTERNATIONAL BROTHERS, 1974) 

4) THE DEVILS "X-SORCIST" (PEOPLE, 1974) 

5) EDDIE MILLER AND HIS BAND "GHOST TOWN" (4 STAR, 1960) 

6) THE TRAITS "NOBODY LOVES THE HULK" (QUEEN CITY, 1969) 

7) JOHN ZACHERLE "IVAN" (CAMEO, 1958) 

8) THE PHARAOHS "THE GREEN WEREWOLF" (IONA, 1961)

9) MAE WEST "SHAKIN' ALL OVER" (TOWER, 1966)

10)THE RAINBOWS "GONNA GO DOWN (TO SEE MY BABY)" (LIL, 1962)

11) GOOGIE RENE "BIG FOOT" (CLASS, 1958)

12) THE ECHOS "HAUNTED" (SAGE, 1960)

13) SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS "FRENZY" (FONTANA SWEDEN, 1958)

14) GRIZ GREEN "JAM AT THE MORTUARY" (BLUE RIVER, 1965)

15) DR. SHOCK "LET THERE BE FRIGHT" (GREENTREE, 1970)

16) LITTLE 'GUITAR PICKETT' AND HIS FABULOUS ROCKIN' FENDERS "THE BUZZARD" (JACK, 1966)

17) JOHNNY CALE "SHOCK HOP" (MERCURY, 1958)

18) LORD MELODY "CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON" (COOK, 1958)

19) JUNIOR WELLS "HOODOO MAN BLUES" (DELMARK UK, 1965)

20) THE DYNAMICS "UNCLE WILLIE" (SAA-CE, ?)

21) DEBORAH WALLEY "SOMETIMES IN MY DARKEST HOUR" (DEE GEE, 1965)

22)MOE KOFFMAN QUINTET "THE COOL GHOUL" (PALLETTE, 1963)

23) BILL ANSON "LEECHES" (AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL, 1959)

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Jonathan Toubin's 2020 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

"This 45 hoarder made soul music fun again with his Soul Clap & Dance Off parties, where five-hour sets of rare grooves and B-sides provided a fleshy alternative to the club scene’s industrial snarl. Instead of bucking the trends of American pop music for some underground alternative, Toubin has made his name by embracing pop’s connective tissue, tracing the rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll of the nineteen-fifties and sixties. " (The New Yorker)

"The most-liked man in the soul music scene" (Rolling Stone)

"Jonathan is pretty much the only DJ we actually like." (VICE)

"Particularly chic... one of the most popular spinners in Williamsburg and the founder of the New York Night Train dance parties. His fare is already cleaner and more appreciative of American pop music history than much of the rest..." (NY Times)

Awarded "BEST DJ" in "The Village Voice" 60th Anniversary “Best of NYC”: "We might live in an EDM world, but Jonathan Toubin has no truck with today's musical whims. Since 2007, Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off has brought throwback pizzazz and retro cool to New York's late-night underground. Culled from an endless array of long-forgotten Sixties soul singles, Soul Clap is pure musical dynamite, the kind of after-hours party that exposes today's iTunes-bred, press-play DJs for their relative lack of roots and ingenuity. No fist-bumps or atomic bass drops here... You can try to put your moves to better use, but you'll be hard-pressed to find more cathartic, sweatier fun elsewhere in the city." (Village Voice Critics Choice Award, 2015)

"BEST DJ" (Village Voice "Best of NYC" Readers' Choice Award 2014)

"Jonathan Toubin is the reigning king of the sweaty, non-stop super-fun dance party" (Paper Magazine)

"Jonathan Toubin is a multihypenate in every sense of the word... Toubin fuses obscure rhythm and blues from the '50s and '60s, with rock 'n' roll and soul 45s. His ongoing New York Night Train parties easily draw those typically found sulking in corners of bars out onto the dance floor." (Interview Magazine)

"Jonathan Toubin is New York rock and soul DJ who plays his collection of original 45rpm records to packed dance floors all over the world." (BBC World Service)

"Most fun ever!... Jonathan Toubin is one of our all time favorite DJs who spins rare 45s and travels around the world making people happy" (BUST Magazine)

"The long-running Soul Clap remains one of the sweatiest dance parties to be experienced in New York City. Fueled by his rare and raucous 45s collection, DJ Jonathan Toubin draws on raw soul and the most feral strains of rock 'n' roll from the early 1960s to power the nights." (Wall Street Journal)

"Few people recognize the roaring, crackling songs; even fewer can really dance the blues. It doesn’t matter. The evening’s not about proving you know the most obscure records or looking good; it’s about some kind of soul-shaking alchemy. Before you know it, it’s the opening scene of “Dirty Dancing,” all swerving hips and bare shoulders—you would’ve sworn you’d be the last to dance, but there you are, breathless.... Spellbound bodies slip into the song’s shuffling rhythm, and Toubin reaches for the next bit of black magic." (The New Yorker)

"Soul Clap is the most popular soul dance party in the world, playing to more people in more places than any other... Toubin plays all original soul 45s from the 1960s and uncommon upbeat cuts." (SXSW Music News)



"Indeed, Toubin's 45 r.p.m. record-fueled, rock-and-soul heavy dance parties were some of the best, sweatiest nights we've had in this city." (Gothamist)

"Jonathan Toubin is the only person we can call a "professional DJ" without involuntarily making a jack-off motion with our hand... His parties are like what Ancient Stonehenge was like if it was, as archaeologists theorize, filled with people dressed many times better than you completely losing their shit." (VICE)

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