Label: Dewmar Campfire Record Society

Released 5/2/2025

The year is 1989. The American wing of a major Japanese Music Instrument company runs an ad, inviting users of their products to submit homemade recordings of original Halloween songs for a "Yama-Halloween" album. Hundreds of hopeful musicians, songwriters, and home recording enthusiasts send in tapes. But the album is never released. It is not known why, exactly, the project is killed but it is widely suspected that the American marketing executive at the time, Reggie Hirayama, simply didn't think the songs were good enough, and that releasing such low-fi material in an age obsessed with sonic clarity and fidelity will reflect negatively on the brand. 31 years later, a box is discovered in the basement archives of this major corporation.

Track listing:

1. L'invasione Delle Tarantole Fantasma - Donnie Ciccicci
2. Halloweenilicious - Susan Debo
3. Basketballoween - the Rap Squad
4. Dracula Hates Bananas - Shannon Dylan
5. The Fires of Samhain - Ryan "Hyper Turbo" P
6. Pumpkin on My Mind - Andrew McIntosh
7. Pizza for Zombies - Kirby & the Burners
8. We're Goblins - Ugla
9. Bachtober 31st - "El Jefe" Jeff
10. All My Candy Turned Into Bats - Rebekah
11. The Thriller Man - Stevie Spaulding with Christo Landers
12. I'm Under Your Bed - Bob Ormsby
13. Very Spooky Cooky - Anna & Dan Dillworth
14. A Pale Tower Alone in the Sea - Lucien Deadgrave
15. Attack of the Swamp Shark - Jethro Marsch
16. Chipmunk Vampire - D-Rob
17. Jesus Loves You (And Halloween Too) - Sister Agatha Grace
18. Dead! - Coco & Loosk