The 2 Bears: Ghost Selector playlist

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David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
[Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), 1980]
Watch out kids, the Thin White Duke is out to get you. You could ask The Sons of the Silent Age, The Diamond Dogs or any number of Bowie's other fiends to your halloween party. They'd keep the bowl of bat-food filled to the brim 'til dawn came and they turned to dust before your eyes.

The 2 Bears – Ghosts & Zombies
[Be Strong, 2012]
Ghosts and zombies come and party with the Bears tonight. We've got the funk of forty thousand years for your delight. Let's get high and forget our cares. Tomorrow we might all be dead. If we are not already... who knows or cares when we have music and hot blood in our veins. 

The Extra T's – E.T. Boogie
[E.T. Boogie, 2009]
Outernational electro jam from The Extra T's. Phone home, extra terrestrial friend. It sounds as though you've had too much gas and need to blast off this tawdry orb and into the arms of your brothers and sisters in the sky. Take me with you and give me the probe. I've been waiting all my life. 

Rockwell – Somebody's Watching Me
[Somebody's Watching Me, 1984]
Jacko finds inspo for his biggest work yet. Shades of Cushing pushing the boundaries. Sometime after he conquered Old Neptune and sat atop mount Olympus with Madge and Yog and the rest. Creepy music for days and days.

Matthew Herbert – The Beauty of the Dream Vanished and Breathless Horror and Disgust Filled My Heart
[On Your Feet, 2004]
The title is a line from Mary Shelley's monstrous masterpiece Frankenstein. The moment when the doctor realises what he has done. The music has a similar effect on the listener. Something beautiful goes horribly horribly wrong. 

Scientist – Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
[Jah Guidance, 1981]
A favourite from my own vampire era. Scientist, undisputed king of the dub NEEEDS BLOOOOOD and will take it from your ears whilst you are whacked out on lambs-bread. To be listened to whilst wearing a pair of blood-red Clarks shoes. Badman alone wear Clarks shoes. 

Underground Resistance – Swamp Thing
[Underground, 2004]
Creepy, Creole-inspired, monster techno funk from Detroit's finest. A groove that never quits. What is out there in the bayou? Is it a Gumbo? It's unlikely anything so delicious lurks in the swamp; more likely it's a 20 foot 'gator ready to tear you limb from limb. Deep joy.

Black Sabbath – Iron Man (8 Bit Version)
Turned to steel in a great magnetic field. The Brummy monsters of rock given the 8-bit treatment. Most scary of all is that someone has bothered to do this. It's great fun and reminds one of playing games on a rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum in the mid 80's. 

Techno Animal – Ghosts
[Pathological Records, 1991]
Uneasy listening strictly for the headstrong. The Bug man delivers an hour and a quarter of horrifying noise, not for the faint of heart. Just noise to the uninitiated, maybe there is beauty in there somewhere. I'm not sure where exactly. 

Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache
[For Your Peasure, 1973]
A strange unsettling suburban love story. Peep and creep around the door but be careful, you don't know what you might see auld Bryan getting up to with his ungrateful lover. Is this the revenge of the toys? The start of their uprising? They have been waiting.

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The 2 Bears play elrow's Halloween Haunted House in Edinburgh on 28 Oct alongside Jackmaster b2b Jasper James, Art Department, Richy Ahmed, Mall Grab, Butch, Santé b2b Toni Varga, Marc Maya, Eddy M and Alex Pott b2b Ion Pananides.