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Review: The title of this one alone is enough to just about give you the creeps. Fortunately, the music within this brand new series from the Jazzman crew is hella enjoyable: it is a fine collection of " the lowest of the lowball schlock n' roll 45s never known to exist" all of which have been pillaged from the endless musical reverse of Greasy Mike who has finally opened up his caverns. Mike's own top Halloween tunes are included such as 'Zombie Walks', 'Night Sweats,'' The Chiller,' 'Prowler' and 'Screaming Vampire.' It's a left-of-centre but essential rock and roll collection.

Review: Jazzman Records' curatorial moniker Greasy Mike delivers a seventh compilation in his eponymous beatnik jazz series. At The Beatnik Cafe follows up former visits to the Tropical Island, the Chinese Takeaway, and the Halloween haunted house for a trip back in time and place to 1950s New York, netting the sonic essence of the Beat generation. Predominantly comprising swing, bebop and hard bop recorded during and at the turn of the following decade, we're smitten at the likes of Harvey Anderson's 'Monday Night At 8PM', The Seven Arts Beat Society's 'New York Havana', and Cindy Laine's 'Whispering Wind', all of which amount to prototypical, quiet cafe-bound storms, and the perfect complements for free-assocative poetry composition and goatee grooming.