JONATHAN TOUBIN RELEASES HIS 8TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN MIX ON THE EVE OF HAUNTED HOP MULTIMEDIA PARTY TOUR WITH KID CONGO!

Oct 05, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Reviews 0

Since 2010, New York Night Train’s mad scientist Jonathan Toubin annually retires to his laboratory to conjure the soundtrack for your Halloween party season. His Haunted Hop dance party mixes aren’t from CD’s, MP3’s, LP compilations, or even reissue or bootleg singles, but rather exclusively from hard-won original 45rpm vinyl. Toubin spends all year digging through cobwebbed basements accumulating spooky eccentric records for the occasion. The dee jay patiently stockpiles and sits on the hot wax until he can barely contain the pressure and finally releases the bats on his anxious public every October to dancefloors worldwide. The mixes are a small sampling of the hours of non-stop action you get in the club. New York Night Train’s soul proprietor has thus far pulled over 200 sides for eight years of mixes (all currently archived on Mixcloud) as well as a Burger Records Halloween cassette. This year’s model, in the words of Jonathan Toubin, “a fantastic voyage deep into nightmares, madness, witchcraft, voodoo, and the zombie lifestyle,” is yet another exquisite beast built on hits and misses, classics and obscurities, canonical musicians and horror show hosts! The three dimensions, the good, the bad, and the ugly, are all Frankensteined together to take you to another dimension.

The East Coast and Midwest can experience these sounds the week leading up to Halloween this year as Jonathan Toubin’s legendary multimedia New York Night Train Haunted Hop Halloween party barnstorms select markets with Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds and virtuosic 16mm loop projectionist Spencer Bewley! The tour culminates in NYC with an epic extravaganza at Knockdown Center (last year more than 1000 came out on a Monday) headlined by Shannon and the Clams featuring multiple rooms of bands, visuals, go go, food, cinema, and way more than we could ever list… See below for dates and details.

Haunted Hop Halloween Mix Track Listing:

1. The Madmen “Haunted” (Cloister, 1963)
2. The Soul Shakers “Savage A Go Go” (Triangle, ?)
3. Ichabod and the Cranes “The Turtle” (Coral, 1964)
4. Hound Dog Clowns “Wicked Witch” (Uni, 1968)
5. Whyte Boots “Nightmare” (Phillips, 1966)
6. Kip Tyler “She’s My Witch” (Ebb, 1958)
7. Satan’s Breed “Laugh Myself to the Grave” (A-L-M, 1966)
8. Swamp Rats “Psycho” (St. Claire, 1966)
9. The Motivations “The Birds” (Pride, 1963)
10. The Lapels “Bad Luck” (Fortune, 1964)
11. Wolfman Jack and the Wolf Pack “Don’t You Just Know It” (Bread, 1965)
12. Suzi Jane Hokom “Need All The Help I Can Get” (MGM, 1966)
13. Gaitley and Fitzgerald “Séance Day” (Bornwin, 1967)
14. Sir Julian at The Organ with Orchestra and Chorus “Séance on A Wet Afternoon” (Ascot, 1965)
15. Dr. Shock “After Midnight” (East Coast, ?)
16. Roy Brown “Great Casaboo” (Gert, 1965)
17. Tabby Thomas “Hoodo Party” (Excello, 1962)
18. Chaos Incorporated “Daktari Ooh-Ah” (S.P.Q.R., 1967)
19. Big T Tyler “King Kong” (Aladdin, 1957)
20. Willie Wright and His Sparklers (Federal, 1960)
21. The Flaming Kings “Hey La-De-Da” (Bru-Cla,?)
22. Shalimar Thompson “Voodoo Mash, Pt 2” (Del Fi Ascetate, 1962)
23. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds “Spider Baby” (In The Red, 2017)
24. The Weirdos “E.S.P. (Theme for Shock Theatre)” (LAN-CET, 1962)
25. Jim Burgett with Don Ralke and His Orchestra “The Living Dead (Columbia, 1961)
26. The Raves “Everything’s Fire” (Smash, 1968)
27. Count Gregore and the Transylvanians “Theme from Nightmare” (Nightmare,?)

A NYC Halloween tradition for over a decade! And a dance party in a haunted house! Led by Kid Congo Powers (The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds(, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, the perfect Halloween band, play live and in person! Soul Clap and Dance-Off DJ Jonathan Toubin busts out his world-famous o.g. spooky novelties and horror rock 45s for doing the Monster Mash all night accompanied by his Mummy Go Go Dancers as virtuosic visuals cult hero Spencer Bewley juxtaposes film loops by hand on three 16mm projectors. Midnight costume contest, smoke, cobwebs, and much more… An early Halloween (trick or) treat!

Haunted Hop Halloween Tour Dates:

10/25 Chicago at The Hideout

10/26 Detroit at Third Man Records Cass Corridor

10/27 Columbus at Double Happiness

10/28 Pittsburgh at Spirit

10/29 Washington DC at Comet Ping Pong

10/30 Philadelphia at Johnny Brenda’s

10/31 New York at Knockdown Center (with Shannon and the Clams, Escape-Ism (Ian Svenonius), Nude Party, and so many more….)