Halloween (Ambient Soundtrack)
A wicked soundtrack for the Traditional European custom of guising. Not to be confused with the North American import of trick or treating. Thanks for all the cool stuff like hip hop and drive-bys you guys, but leave the guising to us.
If Carlsberg did Hip Hop... they'd probably be sh*** compared to us.
Yo! Listen up.
We is cummin at ya from da heart of da Burns Country - as in da mean streetz of ALLOWAY in Scotland. You think you had it hard in da Bronx or Compton? Pussies! We had homeless homies sleepin under da Brig o' Doon at nite and drive bys at Tha Land o' Burns Centre. Somehow we made it thru all that and now we is keepin it surreal.
Story behind the song
Sarcastic B bought himself a Hallowe'en sound effects Cd in Poundland last week. It sucked. He was soon at work producing something better...
(Chee Z Flava reckons that 'B' has finally lost the plot altogether and would like to point out that he does not want to be associated with this track in any way.)
Lyrics
"The Christian Festival on All Hallows (Saints) Day on 1 November was deliberately set to coincide with the last day of the year in the old Celtic calendar of 31 October. It was celebrated by the Druids as "Samhain" from "Sain" meaning summer and "fuin" meaning "ending" and was regarded as a "Feast of the Dead" when they would sometimes return as evil spirits. There were also ritual fires to ensure that the sun would return the following spring.
In Scotland, Hallowe'en was traditionally associated with witches and bonfires. In the last few hundred years, bonfires have ceased to be part of the celebration of Hallowe'en - they are reserved for "Guy Fawkes" night on 5 November and for when 'The Black Triangles' are out petrol-bombing "them Doonfoot pussies". But other pagan rituals have been perpetuated with traditions such as "dookin' for apples" (spearing, from above, an apple floating in a basin of water by spitting out a knife, or more commonly, a fork). Of course, apples were sacred to the Druids. They are also pretty hard to come by on the mean streets of Alloway, I can tell you!
Then there are "tattie bogles" (potato scarecrows) or "neep lanterns" (turnip lanterns) made by scooping out a turnip and cutting through the skin to create eyes, nose and a mouth. A candle was then placed inside. Never having heard of turnips, the pumpkin serves the same purpose in the USA. These are being used more in Scotland now as they are shit to eat but are easier to scoop out! But children who have fun doing this do not realise that they are continuing a tradition of placing skulls on poles round encampments to scare away evil spirits and any mofos that may have wandered across from Doonfoot.
By the end of the 19th century Hallowe'en had become very much a festival for children. Long before the American tradition of "trick or treating" pervaded the English sub-culture, Scottish children went round the houses and had to perform a poem, a song, a gangsta rap or tell jokes before receiving nuts, apples, sweets (candies) or eckies. Dressing up and going "guising" is a tradition which has lasted to the present day. Guising as a witch has always been popular, with a blackened face harping back to the pagan days when the Druids may have smeared their faces with ash from their bonfires."
Word. In Salem Massive2sets, Halloween runs from October 7th to the 31st. Reeeeeeespect! (That is why we have put this track out early.)
