Scary disco

[Videoskooter]

Since I had the great idea of breaking my right foot, I'm spending lots of time at home by clearing up my recordvault.

Today I discovered a record that I haven't played in a long time but I remember being very scared as a young guy when I heard it first. It's Hot Blood with "Soul Dracula"

Now going back in my memory I just know that there where other discorecords with horror-influences but I can't find em back. I called my cousin who owns a big Ghost-train and he searched his cash-box but didn't find them since they aren't used anymore. But he also remembers that stuff.

Has anyone of you guys/girls knowledge of such records? (Not the Rocky Horror soundtrack-definitely disco).

It's probably in the period 1970-1975.

[sfbeary]

Disco Blood by the Vamps out of Brazil - verrrrrry scarrrrrry!

[zeca azevedo]

Originally Posted by sfbeary

Disco Blood by the Vamps out of Brazil - verrrrrry scarrrrrry!

This record is so terrible and ridiculous it's scary. SOUL DRACULA it's a little better [if it's possible] but it is a piece of junk, at least for my elitist ears :lol:


zeca azevedo, your favorite monster

[JussiK]

AMITYVILLE FRENZY by Maestro Lalo Schifrin Himself. This non-cheesy, cool and jazzy discofication of the title theme of the 1979 possession flick was not heard in the film but got thrown into the soundtrack album due to the Casablanca connection. The track is great, with eerie Morriconesque chimes and a wailing female voice.
But you want cheese, right? :-) Try MEFISTO by The Diabolic Soul Invention. A demonically laughing voice threatens to take control of a clearly aroused woman in 1977, a good year for trashy dance delights.

[QUINNY]

We sort of covered this about a year ago, just before Halloween. That thread is worth a look.

[Nano]

"Dark Vader" by Instant Funk - powerful Star Wars homage, with throaty voice and all. 8)

I remember thinking at the time that "Night in Disco Mountain" on SNF was kinda scary, those violins... It was a ripoff from some Russian classical composer.

[galocha]

What about 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson? Pretty scary, ah?

[Videoskooter]

Thanks already, but keep posting please coz' I'm sure there's more.

A great horror album, but not really disco is "Vampyros lesbos-sexadelic danceparty" which contains "The lion and the cucumber" , pretty scary :D .

I will sure look for that Halloween-topic from last year

I'm surrounded by fresh garlic, silver bullits and crosses so I'm prepared for more stuff. :D

[Svend]

In a somewhat different kind of scary, er...vein--Lalo Schifrin also did a disco/jazz take on the theme from "Jaws" that I really like. It has a great repeated guitar hook running under the jazz solos that is filled with menace!

[Rab]

The 2 records that come to mind, "Night On Bald Mountain" on the SNF soundtrack, and "Supernature" by Cerrone. Supernature has such a sinister sound to it. It almost sounds as if it was about 4 or 5 years too early for the new wave era....could be mixed with Hills of Katmandu by Tantra. Similar sinister sound....

[Marcio**]

"My Laboratory (Is Ready For You)"/Love Unlimited Orchestra
"Fantasy From Mortishia To Gomez Addams"/Destination

:)

[DiscoEd1970]

This might not be exactly what you're talking about but for some reason as a kid I was a little scared of the song "Supernature" by Cerrone. Don't know why it freaked me out. I would listen to it and get spooked out like when one watches a horror movie.

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

Since I had the great idea of breaking my right foot, I'm spending lots of time at home by clearing up my recordvault.

Today I discovered a record that I haven't played in a long time but I remember being very scared as a young guy when I heard it first. It's Hot Blood with "Soul Dracula"

Now going back in my memory I just know that there where other discorecords with horror-influences but I can't find em back. I called my cousin who owns a big Ghost-train and he searched his cash-box but didn't find them since they aren't used anymore. But he also remembers that stuff.

Has anyone of you guys/girls knowledge of such records? (Not the Rocky Horror soundtrack-definitely disco).

It's probably in the period 1970-1975.

[discosavvy]

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Love Connection's "Hot Blood", both from 1982, are among the scariest. "Soul Dracula" by Hot Blood sounds more weak to me in this regard.

In Love Connection's track, Dracula's evil laughter and his saying "Burn, woman, burn", followed by the damsel pleading for him to stop, and the eerie electronic sound effects make it the perfect song for late October... if only DJs knew about the song and would play it then, instead of the overplayed "Thriller". But even these two are no match for the all-time scariest (in an unintended way) radio hit, "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson. I will never understand why that vile "song" got radio play when great disco songs from 1981 and 1982 were ignored.