Total Spook Mixtape is Artetetra's homage to the forgotten cassette and CD culture of mass-distributed commercial Halloween sound effects, horror tales, and spooky music productions across the eighties and nineties. Mainly produced in the U.S. these objects featured some of the famous names of the entertainment and commercial industry such as Prince's Dr. Fink (yes, that synth master), Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark and Hallmark as well as unknown and anonymous creatives and artists. In these tracks engineers, musicians and producers arguably had carte blanche in experimenting with extreme samples and vocal manipulation, time-based effects, extended techniques, spooky sound fonts and stock sound effects developing their unique ideas around the sound ambience of the Halloween and horror imagery's campy cliches. After digging around 30 hours of material gathered from dedicated YouTube channels and playlists such as the ones created by "Beetlemuse" and "Caleb Jones", here are some of the most endearing, weird and experimental sound designs long forgotten in the vaporware-like consumer culture of the '80s and '90s. Compiled and produced by Luigi Monteanni. Artwork by Nicola Tirabasso. Contains the short essay "Consumer Occultures, Sounding us Pervers" by philosopher Enrico Monacelli.
