Pierre Henry
Theme De Myriam
KREEP03

For the third installment in our Finders Kreepers dedicated vintage horror soundtrack series we begin with an obscure French witch flick which pulls together stylistic echoes of both Bell Book And Candle and Czech gothic thriller Morgiana then feeds them through the musical mind of one the true pioneers of electronic composition for this little known OST by a well known sonic maverick. Often evading the composer’s discography lists Pierre Henry’s rare score to Malefices (aka The Hex or Where The Truth Lies) hears our bonefide musique concrète originator at what is perhaps his most melodic and fragile (especially for the formative era) layering vocal tape loops and gossamer feminine voice treatments with plucked strings, white noise wind and brooding industrial piano textures for this intoxicated poison peon which stands as the perfect opener to an intense soundtrack for those lucky enough to find the original record (or film for that matter).

The second cut on this limited edition 45 is a classic piece of unnerving horror composition that adopts the same child-like vocal/brooding undercurrent that has earned scores like The Innocents, Night Of The Hunter and Profondo Rosso an indelible place in our nostalgic nervous systems.  Creating a major stir as a novel and stage play before benefitting a celluloid adaptation The Bad Seed shocked audiences with the first cinematic killer kid in mainstream cinema following a did she/didn't she plot set to innocent nursery rhymes played in fragile minor keys against paranoid orchestral restraint.  Mirroring the theatrical mother’s worst fears and accentuating the lead roles split personality The Bad Seed earned composer Alex North continued plaudits for his classy, conceptual realisation of this milestone in horror cinema soundtracking.

Pierre Henry - Theme De Myriam (Maléfices)

Written and performed by Tral Neu
From the 3" cd-r single "Remix" (TS1.1),
available on Tonal Shifts, January 1, 2022 at
www.tonalshifts.bandcamp.com

Mala Herba - vocals  
Jack Duckworth - synthesizers  
Iv/An - noises   
Warren Defever - additional sounds and remix

Original image courtesy of the artist Stelarc
Kindly mastered by Miroslav Piškulić

Tral Neu - Seven Tears (Warren Defever Remix)

Taken from the ep, "Message From Home". Released Summer 2015.

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DOMENIQUE DUMONT - COMME CA

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First Heard on Todd Terje's BBC Essential Mix, Saturday 17th July 2013
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/todd-terje-essential-mix-2013

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Neşe Karaböcek - Yali Yali (Todd Terje Edit)

Songs like this seemed to pour from Jason, without end, snaking behind him like a gunpowder trail. I didn't know him well enough to know what else was behind his song, moving at the same speed. 

This song, from Jason Molina's "Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go," was the song that caught up with me. I must've bought the record right after college cuz it was already an old friend by the time I bumped into the man on the street in Bloomington Indiana. I'd just started working on music and thanked him for this song that night in front of the Buskirk Chumley Theatre on my way to a friends' house. He didn't shrink from the compliment. Instead he thanked me back and then asked what brought me to Bloomington, what I thought of it, if I was a musician myself, if I'd like to play him a song, etc. I was pretty stunned by the social grace of this guy. 

Happy birthday, Jason. Wish I could meet you again now that I'm a little older. I wish more people felt the way I do about your music and I wish you could've found your health before things caught up. 

To everybody else, Happy New Year! 2016 will be a good year. 

- DM

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Get Out Get Out Get Out (Jason Molina Cover)

The first of an hour long mix series featuring cover versions, sample-heavy tracks or songs that obviously owe a debt to the Dusseldorf quartet. Each mix is laced with spoken word, interviews or info about Kraftwerk too. This one was originally aired on 16/04/04 on Solid Steel.

Tracklisting:
Michael Bailey - Solid Steel intro
Fearless 4 - Rockin' It
Pelding - It's More Fun to Compute
Trouble Funk - Trouble Funk Express
Makoto Inoue - Europe Endless / Neon lights
The Divine Comedy - Radioactivity
Senor Coconut - Trans Europe Express
Senor Coconut - The Man Machine
Souxsie & the Banshees - Hall Of Mirrors
Senor Coconut - The Robots
Balanescu Quartet -The Robots
Tafkafb - Waltz Mit Der Robot
Apoptygma Berzerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm
Frenchbloke & Son - Neon Love (Cha Cha Cha)
Jason Moran - Planet Rock
Tremelo Beer Gut - Das Model
Big Black - The Model
Rammstein - Das Model
Ride - The Model
Frenchbloke & Son - Sexy Model
Buffalo Daughter - Autobahn
Dark Side of the Autobahn
Rot Front Trikont - The Robots
Senor Coconut - Showroom Dummies
Girls On Top - I Want To Dance With Numbers
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (Elecktric Music Classic Mix)
Coptic Rain -The Robots
Erasure - Blue Savannah (Der Deutsche mix)
DMX Krew - Showroom Dummies
Melt Banana - Showroom Dummies
Aqua Vista - The Model
Senor Coconut - Home Computer
Senor Coconut - Tour De France
Elakelaiset Poro - Reindeer/Robots

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Kraftwerk Kover Kollection Vol.1

THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS by William Basinski

Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set

Order while supplies last: http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr194.php

9xLP
5xLP
1xDVD
144-page full-color coffee table book
Includes liner notes and foreword by Antony, William Basinski, James Elaine, Ronen Givony, Michael Shulan, and David Tibet (Current 93)

Remastered from the original recordings by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering, UK.

Tracklisting
1. dlp 1.1 (63:36)
2. dlp 2.1 (10:50)
3. dlp 2.2 (32:40)
4. dlp 3 (41:51)
5. dlp 4 (20:11)
6. dlp 5 (52:21)
7. dlp 6 (40:37)
8. dlp 1.2 (21:44)
9. dlp 1.3 (11:58)
10. dlp 1.1 Live at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 11, 2011 (42:34)
11. dlp 1.1 Live at The 54th Venice Music Biennale, October 18, 2008 (15:16)

William Basinski - Dlp 1.3 (Remastered 2012)

Taken from the EP, "Message From Home"
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