How can your interest not be piqued when you’re presented with remixes of music from Twin Peaks and a deep Ennio Morricone cut? They were waiting suggestively in our mailbox today courtesy of The Tleilaxu Music Machine and they’re both witchy, twitchy, and pretty goddamned cool overall. Together, they’d serve well as the soundtrack for a spooktacular party at a haunted house, if you’re into that kind of thing.

The first track, “I Saw Her Die,” uses the framework of Ennio Morricone’s score for an obscure Italian film from 1972 and answers the question of its title. The intro is deceptively innocuous, but then the droning beats and sludging-up of the children’s chorus warps the track into more sinister territory. Based on a single scene in Twin Peaks in which Audrey Horne cuts a rug, “Audrey’s Trance” is slower and maintains a certain sensuality despite its propensity to freak listeners out. Blame it on Sherilynn Fenn, the actress who plays Audrey, whose voice makes a seductive cameo in the track.

The Tleilaxu Music Machine – i saw her die (rmx ov chi l’ha vista morire by ennio morricone) by ttmm

The Tleilaxu Music Machine +++ Audrey’s Trance by ttmm

It’s hard to make music that’s simultaneously eerie and danceable, but The Tleilaxu Music Machine makes it happen with these remixes. The Tleilaxu Music Machine is a personal project of D. Bene Tleilax, also of the band RoMak & the Space Pirates. In most of his independent work, his musical sensibilities are about as grim as you would expect given the fact that he’s tweaking music from a David Lynch series as well as a bugged-out hymn sung by children. I mean, aren’t both spooky enough to give somebody goosebumps in their original incarnations?

You can download The Tleilaxu Music Machine’s newest album, Diamond Eyed Coyote, on his Bandcamp page for free. You’ll probably want to go tell all your friends about these tracks right away, but you should consider working on your pronunciation of “Tleilaxu” first (t’lye-lacks-oo, according to Myspace).

- Pukelear Reactor