Blog: Urlaubshits

80s horror soundtracks have been providing fertile ground for producers for years. It's easy to forget that John Carpenter was a genuine pioneer with his use of synthesisers to evoke terror and tension in his films (at least before his output stagnated). The difficulty I have with this type of music is that the tropes used are so tied in with those early synth soundtracks, that it's often difficult to avoid sounding derivative. Spectral Empire are an exception. They take the best parts of 80s horror soundtracks, and meld them with the aesthetic sensibility of early Warp Records releases, creating [...]