400 Lonely Things – free indie MP3 made of clips from Night Of The Living Dead

A project over a year in the making, “Tonight of the Living Dead” is a collage created by indie, instrumental remix artists 400 Lonely Things. It consists of reconstructed audio from the 1968 George Romero film “Night of the Living Dead,” and is quite lovely even in all it’s haunting.

400 Lonely Things
“Tonight” (mp3)
from “Tonight of the Living Dead”
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From the Press Release:

With their tendency for darkish music told mostly through samples, remixing “Night of the Living Dead” is a project ideally suited to 400 Lonely Things. They are indebted to this movie for introducing them to the world of horror cinema through a 19’ black and white TV in the early 70’s, but a more specific need arose to build upon a lesser-known legacy of this film: the ground-breaking precedent of plunderphonics and remixing established in the composition of the original soundtrack.

Crew and cast members Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman, under the editorial supervision of George Romero, took recordings by other composers from stock film music libraries �— many of which had already appeared in other movies and television shows �— and then “augmented them electronically” to form their own original score for “Night of the Living Dead.” 400 Lonely Things has extended this notion of augmentation by using mutated samples from the film itself (many with their excellent foley work intact) as the only ingredients, and woven these treatments into a subtle and creepy audio companion that should appeal as much to fans of the film as it will to listeners of dark ambient, plunderphonics and experimental music. That appeal may even extend to fans of classical music and soundtracks in general.

While the film is noted for how it straddles a line between social commentary and drive-in shlock with a kind of clunky elegance, 400 Lonely Things’ “Tonight of the Living Dead” focuses on the more understated and haunting moments of this movie, drawing out the sense of bewildering relentlessness and hypnotic inevitability as the characters wait in an old farm-house for the world to end.