P.I.S.O.R. SCARES

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  • About PISOR SCARES

  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES

    I’d made mixes for years using just a double tape deck and the pause button, splicing in movie sounds / voice work with a selection from my diverse collection of thrift store lps and cassettes. It all changed for me in the year 2000, after I had acquired three turntables at local thrift stores and bought a simple two-channel DJ mixer with an additional microphone / phono input. The mixer allowed me to also hook up a CD player, a tape deck, and a VCR/TV-tuner. A line went out to my computer so I could easily record and later edit my multi-source mixes. “Frankenstereo” was born and selections from these first mixing sessions were later compiled and edited to make PISOR SCARES 2003.

    Around this time I also started learning to use various sequencing, sampling, and beat making programs to further cut up, remix, and refine my mixes. In 2010 I relocated to Singapore and had to store all of my LPs and “FrankenStereo” at a secure facility in Kent, Wa. As a result I began working with mostly digial sound sources and started using MIXXX, as it allowed for the simultaneous playing of up to six sources and came closest to my old “Frankenstereo” set up.

    Each mix is intended to function like a sonic variety show that follows a set of themes. Loyal listeners will attest that devoting time to listening (lights out with a nice set of headphones perhaps) or with a group of friends at listening party, yields the best results. The mixes unfold in surprising ways, creepy, campy, shocking, and frightening, and I try to pace and order the tracks to maximize these effects. One hundred or more samples from dozens of sources go into making each mix, so a track listing is neither practical or desired (I want the show to be truly surprising). Each mix is thoroughly fear tested! In fact each year my nerves almost reach a breaking point, as I work through and listen and re-listen to these terrifying sounds.

    I know the mix is ready when I’ve both thoroughly scared myself AND have had a great time. I hope you enjoy these installments of PISOR SCARES as much as I had in making it. If you’ve missed any of the previous releases, they are all available below, for FREE (stream or download).

    Now after 20 years, 17 full length releases, and over 20 hours of sounds, I’m silll looking forward to the next 20!

    Happy Halloween,

    C.E. Putnam
    Founder
    P.I.S.O.R.

  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2023

    It’s Halloween!

    Tracklist

    1. Banned in Boston! 5:03
    2. The Merry Night of Halloween 3:32
    3. Eyeball Cannibal 4:59
    4. We Are Still Having the Same Dream 8:14
    5. Subbasement: Ride the Darkness 3:14
    6. The Gorilla! 1:17
    7. Even the Ants Are Freaked Out 2:17
    8. Green Life Blood 3:14
    9. Routine Scientific Examination 1:16
    10. Evil Everywhere 4:35
    11. John Philip Sousa Phone Sex 3:14
    12. The Hammer Syndrome 2:29
    13. Severance Disagreement 4:01
    14. I Know What You’re Doing 7:04
    15. Snake n’ Shake 4:48
    16. Will You Answer? 6:23

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2022

    It’s Halloween! Samauari Sleepy Hollow. Queen of the Vampires. The price of eggs. German spiders. Sex starved cannibals. Tiny Tim. Ratpure crazed fanatics. Torsos! The governess and the troubled children. Viral mutations.

    Tracklist

    1. The Most Wonderful Night of the Year / 4:34
    2. The Forest Holds Its Breath / 3:24
    3. Satan’s Supermarket 2 / 4:07
    4. The Radiation Is Not Our Real Problem / 2:33
    5. Is the Door Locked? / 2:52
    6. The Devil’s Whip / 2:54
    7. Nobody Troubled Their Head About Them Anymore / 3:49
    8. Web of Love / 4:17
    9. Bigger! / 3:13
    10. Proposition 14A Was Defeated / 2:03
    11. Lucky Fly / 2:20
    12. Headless Screams / 3:10
    13. Leaving the Marks of His Grave on My Floor / 6:14
    14. Ted, the Door is Open / 2:20
    15. Only One Hour Till Sunrise / 5:27
    16. Nobody Ever Bit Me Like That Before / 4:25
    17. End of the World / Don’t Be Left Behind / 8:56

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2020

    Tracklist

    1. Where Do We Begin? / 5:08
    2. Not Storybook Evil / 7:05
    3. The Music Business / 0:40
    4. Come on Gladys, It’s Almost Showtime / 4:26
    5. Ms. Taylor Do You Hear Me? / 1:25
    6. Guilty! / 6:29
    7. Wait a Minute. You’re Saying… / 0:45
    8. Check Your Xerox Sheets / 5:21
    9. But These Butterflies Are Not So Friendly / 6:39
    10. 38 to 70 in Just a Few Days / 0:42
    11. Whisper Witch / 4:26
    12. I’m Always Alone Here / 5:32
    13. Monday Morning, NOT Coming Down / 0:39
    14. Beneath the Living Streets, the Tomb of Seattle / 4:13
    15. Beyond and Back / 1:09
    16. Those Touched by Evil Shall Become Evil / 7:05
    17. Don’t Badger Me / 3:30

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2019

    Tracklist

    1. 15C / 2:00
    2. Step careful until you know your way around. / 3:32
    3. No goofing off / 6:35
    4. Looking for some legs to put the monster on. / 5:42
    5. Stop or fish it is up to you / 3:53
    6. Mitosis and the Popsicle / 5:50
    7. Everybody is getting promoted / 4:48
    8. How to increase alumni donations 1000% / 4:07
    9. Why kind of music? / 2:47
    10. Bad, bad, bad, bad / 5:04
    11. The world according to wigs / 4:14
    12. Introducing the PISOR Home Assistant / 5:41
    13. I didn’t realize these mountains were this beautiful / 5:07
    14. Who is it? / 3:35

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2018

    Tracklist

    1. The Codicil / 4:11
    2. The Brady and the Lake / 4:38
    3. Life Seemed so Easy / 0:28
    4. See Paul, No Bee / 4:55
    5. Born to Dance / 3:28
    6. Magnetism in a Glove? / 3:09
    7. Down on the Farm / 2:02
    8. The New Food Chain / 3:22
    9. Sunny France / 3:14
    10. How About a little game of Croquet? / 0:55
    11. Who’s Zaat? / 7:28
    12. Shanks / 0:30
    13. Track 13? / 4:06
    14. Shower of the Rising Sun / 2:56
    15. Playing Tennis in Your Dreams / 3:25
    16. We’ve Got to Keep This to Ourselves / 5:22
    17. Japanese Werewolf in Washington / 2:46
    18. Family Tree / 7:44
    19. This Cat Has 19 Lives / 2:22
    20. Destroyed? / 3:52

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2017

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    Tracklist

    1. Welcome to the House of Horror / 4:56
    2. I Would Not Blame the Occult If I Were You / 3:04
    3. Car, Stop Scaring My Mommy / 4:43
    4. It Adds Up / 2:39
    5. A/B Positive / 4:29
    6. Oh My Poor Clown / 4:02
    7. 30 Days to Save the Nation / 5:02
    8. That’s Not Smoke / 3:13
    9. Why Is There a Warning Sticker on it? / 5:37
    10. Unknown Terror / 2:06
    11. Darjeeling / 2:34
    12. Patrick / 2:48
    13. This House Used To Be a Great Place For Families To Go / 4:01
    14. The Apparatus / 2:41
    15. Last Time You Said It Was a Bear / 4:56
    16. Who Is They? / 4:00
    17. He Wants Us To Go Outside / 9:14

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2016

    Tracklist

    1. What Time is it in Space? / 4:21
    2. They’re Everywhere / 6:00
    3. Life to Death and Death to Life / 4:00
    4. Mazes and Monsters / 3:04
    5. Hey, Your Ear is Just Like Mine / 5:01
    6. Pets or Not Pets, That is the Question / 2:36
    7. This is Squidhead / 2:12
    8. Did You Teach Him That? / 2:37
    9. I Never Considered Going into the Sewer / 6:22
    10. Not a Care in the World / 3:14
    11. Yes, Ms. Van Helsing / 3:56
    12. Hantu Kanibal / 4:53
    13. Liz Taylor is Back from the Dead II (and her husband is still a jerk) / 3:16
    14. Wait what? Celibate? / 1:12
    15. Pinocchio’s Surprise Party / 5:10
    16. Beware of the Sniff / 0:36
    17. The Game / 8:04
    18. Try and Go Back to Sleep / 3:17

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2015

    Straight from you favorite diffusion service. Concentrate! Deep Red kiler! Out of control venture scientists. Great werewolf mystery! A car possessed! Headless horsemen with laugh track! Small blood worms in water glasses! Dub Loch Ness Monster.

    Tracklist

    1. Opening Credits: Oblivion / 5:09
    2. I Just Wanted to Find Out Who the Murderer Was / 5:21
    3. Steve Jobs’ Ted Talk / 1:54
    4. Where Could They Be? / 5:07
    5. No Witch Deflector Required / 0:17
    6. With Plants Like / 3:08
    7. Warning: This Ritual IS NOT Gluten free / 2:32
    8. Every 600 Years / 3:34
    9. Beautiful Flameout / 4:17
    10. Why I’m Not an Anthropologist / 6:00
    11. Experiments In Necro-Biology / 4:07
    12. There is a Zoo About Eight Miles From Here / 4:11
    13. WTF Dunwich? / 4:58
    14. What Do You Love? / 5:14
    15. TOTAL PSYCHMARE / 2:34
    16. Still Hootin’ / 4:14
    17. Prepare My Throne For Me in Hell / 10:24

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2014

    It’s Alive! 18 Tracks. Capes! Wine! Moist Sand! Evil Cars!
    Cosmic Parasites! Did you just say Loch Ness? Acid Folkies vs. Homemade Werewolves! Headless Horsemen! Outerspace and local vampires! Snake problems! 3-D Ape! And much More!

    Tracklist

    1. They Ran Away Because They Thought We Were Dead / 5:24
    2. Which One? / 5:08
    3. 3-D APE / 1:19
    4. The Cycle Will Start Anew / 9:29
    5. Death Dreams of You / 1:21
    6. The Driverless Driver / 2:01
    7. Who is there? / 5:28
    8. Will You Make It to the Bridge in Time? / 3:50
    9. Speak of the Earth Creatures, Speak of Their Blood / 0:33
    10. Capes vs. Wine / 4:32
    11. Don’t Say It, Hiss It! / 1:38
    12. BREAK! / 1:22
    13. MR. Wilson’s Call in Show / 6:24
    14. I Never Saw One That Bit Like That / 1:40
    15. Prehistoric Parasites / 7:45
    16. Three Echo Trips / 8:29
    17. Must Be Water Under Here / 1:06
    18. Do Not Fear the Shadows / 5:04

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  • Zombie Suite

    A special bonus release in celebration of 10 years of P.I.S.O.R. SCARES. 20 minutes of low-profile creeping terror. A perfect background for an exquisite evening of SCARES. Delicious to the last bite!

  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2013 D2

    In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the original Halloween Mix, The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research is proud to present P.I.S.O.R. Scares 2013 (Double Album) another monster-mash up of crazy trailers, creepy dialogue, spooky songs from yesterday and today, and the finest blood-curdling sounds available. Two-hours of total terrifying fun.

    Tracklist

    1. Extra Crispy / 3:46
    2. One of the Most Terrifying Sounds Ever Recorded / 3:33
    3. A Full Moon, a Lunar Perigee, and an Eclipse / 4:27
    4. Seagulls of the Templars / 5:32
    5. It Looked Like a Rock / 4:04
    6. Safe Drinking Water / 1:24
    7. I Don’t Want to Be Alone Either / 5:50
    8. The 50-Foot Bride of MIckey Rooney / 4:45
    9. The Chosen Survivors / 0:58
    10. Computer, Give the Other Blade a Jagged Edge / 2:25
    11. Greta vs. the Cosmic Tablas / 6:48
    12. Karen Black Sabbath / 4:42
    13. Spaceship? / 7:56
    14. The Mutants, the Mutants Have Her / 6:11
    15. Twist Your Spine Around and Around / 3:55

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2013 D1

    In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the original Halloween Mix, The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research is proud to present P.I.S.O.R. Scares 2013 (Double Album) another monster-mash up of crazy trailers, creepy dialogue, spooky songs from yesterday and today, and the finest blood-curdling sounds available. Two-hours of total terrifying fun.

    Tracklist

    1. Every Year He Picks on a Summer Camp / 5:42
    2. Ghost Riders on the Storm / 4:20
    3. Welcome to Ocean Harbor / 1:43
    4. In a Real Emergency / 0:46
    5. This Park is Not for Playing / 6:27
    6. Even Though They Know I am a Doctor / 0:52
    7. I Have a Bin Full of Arms and Legs / 5:18
    8. Siren Song of a Nature Girl / 3:23
    9. I Only Wanted to Scare Her / 1:07
    10. Devil with a Blue Hand On / 4:52
    11. Velvet Meat, I’m a Susie Freak / 3:34
    12. Somebody Wants to Be Wanted / 1:58
    13. Bohannan Von Frankenstein / 13:29

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2012

    What’s inside? Radioactive werewolves! A Vampire circus! Post-Hippie soul transplant in outer space! The probable truth about Jimmy Page! Get hip to this season’s spookiest dance crazes! Team Mitchum! R-r-r-ats! The Devil’s Fruit! Vincent Price’s favorite Swedish folktale! WS Merwin’s & the New Fearcore! Satanic ESP! Hugo the Devil Doll! Team Winters! The Marquis De Skull! Dub Dracula! Berzerk Witch Cakes! and too many other horrors to awful to describe here.

    Tracklist

    1. While Wolfmen Walk the Earth / 3:55
    2. I’m the Meanest One on the Block Now / 0:50
    3. Gobbleknoll / 3:51
    4. Deadliest Jaws on Land / 0:27
    5. Pez Eh Tekils Drawk Cab / 5:50
    6. Spooky Movie / 2:37
    7. Fear / 2:27
    8. Clip Please Sister, the Falconer’s Soul Is Floating in Space / 5:28
    9. A Man Has Not Looked at Me Like That in 50 Years. / 1:12
    10. The Winters of Your Discontent / 3:31
    11. Slime Monster 1977 / 0:28
    12. Midnight movie: Pat Boone’s Golf Classic After Party Call-in Show / 4:37
    13. What Would You Have to Eat to Make You a Cannibal? / 1:57
    14. What Is This Jinx Anyway? / 0:40
    15. Cirque de Vampire Radioactifs / 5:01
    16. The Creatures of the Night, What Music They Make / 5:48
    17. They’re in the Subway / 1:01
    18. The Marquis De Skull / 4:52
    19. They’re Fuzzy! They’re Slimy! / 3:08
    20. Intermission / 3:07
    21. No Dangers, Only Discoveries / 9:08
    22. It’s a Hard World for Little Things / 3:45

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2011

    These 13 tracks represent the ultimate telemetry of terror!

    What’s inside: psychic love witches, the REAL True Blood, stone-HEDGE, Jayne Mansfield’s good night poem, terror farms and toes, mad scientists and the voodoo snake cult, tortured French vampires vs. English acid folkies, out of control reptiles, Rosicrucian sleep training, original party activities for the whole family, flesh eating post-nuclear mutants, Singapore ghost call in show, the dark truth about Halloween, and much much more.

    Note: This recording is compliant with Singapore’s Anti-Lycanthropy Act of 1977 and is certified to be 100% werewolf free.

    Tracklist

    1. Red Skies at Night Rosicrucian’s Delight / 6:06
    2. The Dark Truth About Halloween / 2:40
    3. The Cosmic Witch’s All Pewter Orgy Bell / 4:30
    4. Pass the Broomstick From the Left Hand Side / 4:35
    5. Voices Inside the Devil’s Moonshine / 5:23
    6. The Biggest Pumpkins in Town / 7:21
    7. Are You Frightened? / 4:07
    8. The World Ended in 1954 / 6:55
    9. I Just Want My Coffin Back / 8:41
    10. Did Someone Say Wine Party? / 7:28
    11. Reptile Sabbath / 6:07
    12. Mutation vs. Radiation / 4:59
    13. Love Pretty Things / 6:20

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2010

    Even the Bride of Frankenstein will tremble with unbridled fear from the horrific sounds contained within this dreadful volume. No expense was spared in bringing you, our valued listener, the most terrifying sounds available: Undead Rock n’ Rollers, Cannibal BBQs, Bigfoot Freaks, Japanese vampires, French zombies, English Acid Folkies, Rat Invasions, Rabid European train conductors, Cosmic Monsters, and much much more. 80mins of total Terror!

    Tracklist

    1. I did it by playing the record backwards / 2:56
    2. Granny smoked it / 5:08
    3. How to buy the young and beautiful / 5:24
    4. Motorcycles Death Bed / 8:09
    5. Monster dancing time / 10:57
    6. House of Vampire Eggs / 13:12
    7. In Search of / 7:24
    8. Satan is Prell / 3:56
    9. Witch train / 6:33
    10. Cosmic Death / 5:05
    11. How do you kill a vegetable / 11:20

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2008

    It’s a Mash! Werewolves, Rabid Rat Eating Hippies, Satanic Monks, Giant Ants, Murderous Monkeys, Ad-Men on LSD-25, Mad Scientists, Werewolf Bikers, Bloodthirsty Bunnies, Out of Control Robots & Tony Randall!

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  • P.I.S.O.R. SCARES 2003

    The one that started it all (a double-trouble double CD). Beach Boys vs. Coffin Joe. Is Elizabeth Taylor the naked witch? Whiskey Mountain! Your true zodiac. Afraid of the Snake Lady? Can you take another flyby? What about that Chicken Heart? Go, go, go, monster go!

    Tracklist Disc 1

    1. Tonite I welcome you (mushroom bonds + graves) / 10:48
    2. Mad Danny / 2:15
    3. Monster A Go Go Trailer / 1:31
    4. Invisible Invaders Got a Posseeeee / 3:36
    5. Naked Witch Trailer / 0:23
    6. Princess Lola’s Shirt From Kirstka / 2:20
    7. Baked inside a Cargo Box / 3:45
    8. Liz Taylor is Back From the Dead / 0:38
    9. DJ Breaks #11 / 6:44
    10. Zodiac! / 1:04
    11. Witchcraft Trailer (witch deflector) / 3:19
    12. Very Evil Things To Her / 3:19
    13. Satan’s Super Market / 4:26
    14. Asylum of Satan / 2:51
    15. Some Contagions / 2:25
    16. Giant Spider Invasion / 0:32
    17. Look Out / 0:06
    18. Beach Boys Gauze / 3:55
    19. Whiskey Mountain Trailer / 1:14
    20. Special Couches Fall / 3:01
    21. Goin’ for a ride was perhaps according to him not a funny situation / 4:31
    22. Loons in our national eyebrow / 11:35

    Tracklist Disc 2

    1. Vat a Vonderful Vorld / 2:19
    2. House of Exorcism / 1:53
    3. DJ Breaks #3 / 5:03
    4. Curse of the Headless Horseman / 3:12
    5. Mummy under the seat / 1:08
    6. Victorian Chicken Across the wilds of America / 3:04
    7. Though Connecticut though Rhode Island / 0:30
    8. Hunchback of the morgue / 1:17
    9. Brightly Colored People Bulldozing / 5:33
    10. Psychosissimo! / 2:29
    11. Attack of the Killer Tomita / 6:42
    12. When they Get the Harness off / 0:32
    13. Girlfriend that’s Crazy / 0:30
    14. The Witches Curse / 1:19
    15. Snakelady, what snakelady? / 1:00
    16. Vampires in for another flyby / 8:23
    17. Tales of the Bizarre / 1:30
    18. Are you Glad the Summer is over? / 1:15
    19. Billy / 1:17
    20. Jello and your Chicken Heart / 5:58
    21. Is your name really William Blake? / 0:54
    22. Porg: never ending foreplay / 14:16
    23. Next Day / 3:30

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