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JOHN CARPENTER - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE (320kbs-m4a/85mb/37mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 25th October 2024
It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare...
Prepare for a mixtape from the master of horror, John Carpenter. Known as the Prince of Darkness, Carpenter is one of the most celebrated directors and composers of the horror genre, the man behind the Halloween series, The Thing and The Fog among many others.
A huge music-lover, Carpenter believes music is the greatest of all artforms and a reason to be alive. So with that in mind, he has curated some of his favourite tracks for the Late Junction mixtape, including soundtracks from Dario Argento's Suspiria composed by the Italian prog-rock band Goblin, compositions by Ennio Morricone and Vince DiCola, and some classics from the likes of Devo and Buffy Saint-Marie.
John Carpenter - I Have a Message For You [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter & Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Intro
DEVO - Jocko Homo [Virgin]
Goblin - Opening To The Sighs [Cinevox]
Gentle Giant - An Inmate's Lullaby [Vertigo]
KENSO - The Split Gate
Michael Small - Love Theme From Klute
National Health - Brujo [Affinity]
Ennio Morricone - Uno che grida amore [Bixio Cemsa]
DEVO - Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA [Warner Bros.]
Buffy Sainte‐Marie & Jack Nitzsche - Define Love [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter - Prologue
Goblin - E Suono Rock [Cinevox]
JOHN CARPENTER - FREAK ZONE SIXTIES PLAYLIST 31.05.24 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st May 2024
Legendary film director and musician John Carpenter brings you an hour of his favourite music from the 1960s.
John Carpenter is the director of such classic movies as Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13, and the Fog. He also wrote and recorded the soundtracks for many of them. His most recent album, Lost Themes IV: Noir, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, is out now.
John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13
John Carpenter & Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - My Name Is Death
Del Shannon - Runaway
The Searchers - When You Walk In The Room
The Tornados - Telstar
The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?
The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love
The Shadows - Apache
The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
The Zombies - She's Not There
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
The Beatles - Rain
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
The Doors - Light My Fire
Jefferson Airplane - Someone To Love
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
STUART MACONIE'S FREAK ZONE - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL WITH JOHN CARPENTER 31.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st October 2021
Stuart heads out to explore the darkest corners of freaky music, with director and composer John Carpenter for our All Hallows Eve special, featuring music from film and TV as well as spine tingling compositions from around the world. John's hypnotic theme to his 1978 horror masterpiece Halloween has embodied slasher-stalker anxiety for generations of film goers, and over the next two hours, we shine a light on his work, find out what's lurking in the shadows and unearth some horrifying gems. So sit down, settle in... and don't get scared.
The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampire
The Haxan Cloak - Raven's Lament
Scott Walker - The Cockfighter
Demdike Stare - Floor Stairwell
The Mars Volta - With Twilight As My Guide
Gentle Giant - Edge Of Twilight
The Night Monitor - An Alien On Ilkley Moor
clipping. - Make Them Dead
Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom Of A Well
Aaron Dilloway & Lucretia Dalt - Niles Baroque
Shub-Niggurath - La Ballade De Lenore
John Carpenter - Unkillable
The Beatles - Day Tripper
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Bernard Herrmann - Escape
Bebe And Louis Barron - Forbidden Planet Overture
Bernard Herrmann - Prelude And Outer Space
cLOUDDEAD - Pop Song
Justin Hopper & Sharon Krauss - Out Of Body
Liturgy - Reign Array
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Lingua Ignota - Repent Now Confess Now
Espers - Children Of Stone
Anna von Hausswolff - Deathbed
SOUND OF CINEMA - 327. JOHN CARPENTER (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 16th October 2021
Matthew Sweet meets director and composer John Carpenter to talk about writing the music for his films, and his score for 'Halloween Kills', which was released this week. They discuss John's iconic score for the first film in the 'Halloween' franchise, which was released in 1978, his musical collaborations with Alan Howarth and Shirley Walker on 'Escape from New York' and 'Escape from L.A.' and John's scores for 'The Fog', 'Vampires' and 'Village of the Damned'. John explains how he came to work with the great Ennio Morricone who wrote the score for 'The Thing'. And he describes the great pleasure he now gets from writing themes for imaginary films in the 'Lost Themes' series, and the joy that performing his music live has brought him.
John Carpenter - Lost Themes III - The Dead Walk [Sacred Bones]
John Carpenter - The Fog (1980) - The Fog Rolls In [Silva Screen]
John Carpenter - Vampires (1998) - Santiago [Milan]
John Carpenter - Dark Star (1974) - Theme [Sacred Bones]
John Carpenter - Halloween (1978) - Main Theme [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter - Halloween (1978) - Laurie's Theme [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter - Escape From New York (1981) - Main Title [Silva Screen]
John Carpenter - Escape From L.A. (1996) - Hang Glider Attack [Milan]
Ennio Morricone - The Thing (1982) - Humanity Part I [MCA]
John Carpenter - Village Of The Damned (1995) - Ben's Death [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter - Lost Themes III - Skeleton [Sacred Bones]
Bebe And Louis Barron - Forbidden Planet (1956) - Main Titles (Overture) [GNP Crescendo]
John Carpenter - Halloween Kills (2021) - End Titles [Universal]
John Carpenter - Halloween Kills (2021) - Strodes At The Hospital [Universal]
JOHN CARPENTER - FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST 28.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th October 2021
Director and composer, John Carpenter, picks 60 minutes of his favourite Horror and Sci-Fi scores, featuring music from Jaws, Psycho, The Thing, Forbidden Planet and The Exorcist. John's hypnotic theme to his 1978 horror masterpiece Halloween has embodied slasher-stalker anxiety for generations of film goers, and over the next sixty minutes, he guides us through some of the spine tingling sounds from the silver screen. So sit down, settle in...... and don't get scared.
John Carpenter - The Fog
John Carpenter & Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Halloween Theme (2018)
James Bernard - Dracula (Main Theme)
Goblin - Suspiria
Bebe And Louis Barron - Main Title (Overture) (Forbidden Planet)
Dimitri Tiomkin - Main Title (The Thing From Another World)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho: The Murder
John Williams - Main Title And First Victim (Jaws)
Bernard Herrmann - Prelude And Outer Space (The Day The Earth Stood Still)
John Cameron & Frog - Psychomania Front Title
Goblin - L'alba Dei Morti Viventi (Zombi (Dawn Of The Dead))
Hans Zimmer - Dream Is Collapsing (Inception)
James Bernard - Quatermass 2 - Opening Credits / Things In The Dome / End Credits
Ennio Morricone & John Carpenter - Humanity (Part II) (The Thing)
John Carpenter And Alan Howarth - Prince Of Darkness (Opening Titles)
John Carpenter & Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Halloween Kills (End Titles)