Chupacabra Prima Nocta | A rhythmic mixtape of music & VHS recordings from the 90s and 2000s

It's finally done. After 2+ years of editing in irregular spurts, it's done. The idea behind it is simple - what if I took my favorite parts of songs and married them to my favorite parts of movies and TV? This is the result. An 8 minute audio and visual mixtape. A montage of assorted music and video clips, edited to match the beat.

Here's a list of all the songs:

00:00 title
00:04 "Johnny Ander" - Gayle Haness
00:18 "Organ Donor" - DJ Shadow
00:36 "Spirit Ditties of No Tone" - Deerhoof
00:49 "Radio Free Europe" - REM
01:03 "RoadRunner" - The Modern Lovers
01:14 "Radio, Radio" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
01:27 "Life & Death Pt. II" - Chairmen of the Board
01:51 "I Melt With You" - Modern English
02:04 "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip" - Nirvana
02:14 "Levitate Me" - Pixies
02:32 "Sweet Jane" - Velvet Underground
02:51 "Lightning Strikes" - Lou Christie
03:05 "Runaway"- Del Shannon
03:30 "Do Your Thing" - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
03:38 "Finger Lickin' Good" - Beastie Boys
03:46 "Danny Says" - Ramones
03:53 "Ants" - John Frusciante
04:09 "Can't Wait Too Long" - The Beach Boys
04:20 "Diamond Bollocks" - Beck
04:41 "Il Giardino Delle Delize" - Ennio Morricone
04:55 "Sticky Hulks" - Thee Oh Sees
05:25 "Hurdy Gurdy Man" - Donovan
05:50 "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers
06:04 "Danny Says" - Ramones
06:16 "Leader of the Pack" - The Shangri-Las
06:24 "Baby That's Me" - The Cake
06:33 "Dressed In Black" - The Shangri-Las
06:51 "When the Lights Are Low" The Paragons
07:04 "Dead Man's Curve" - Jan & Dean
07:10 "Under The Atmosphere" - Grass Widow
07:24 "Minim" - Broadcast
07:37 "Slam" - Onyx
07:39 "Winter Now" - Broadcast
07:55 "Totally Confused" - Beck

33 songs. 1 song twice ("Danny Says")

Here's a Spotify playlist of all but 2 of the songs... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gp...

Pieces of media that appear multiple times, demonstrating my affection for them:

Teen Wolf (1985)
Friday the 13th films
Thrashin' (1986)
The Beastmaster (1982)
Family Matters (1989-1997)
Ann-Margret (mostly from Viva Las Vegas (1964))
Repo Man (1984)
The blue monster from Busta Rhymes' "Gimme Some More" video
Near Dark (1987)
SFW (1994)
Midnight Express (1978)
Creepshow (1982)
James Cagney
Lisztomania (1975)
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Bloodsport (1988)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Commando (1986), The Running Man (1987), Last Action Hero (1993), Conan the Barbarian (1982))
Rambo (First Blood (1982) and Rambo Part II (1985))
Arena (1989)
Teddy Grahams commercials
Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Who Am I? (What's My Name?)" music video (1993)
Jesus' Son (1999)
Legs & Co
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
The Hitcher (1986)
Dreamscape (1984)
Class of 1999 (1990)
Gymkata (1985)
The Class Struggle (1972)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
James Bond films
Phenomena (1985)
Robocop 2 (1990)
The Nicolas brothers
Ratt - “Dance” music video (1986)

Recurring themes include:
6 exploding heads
6 decapitations, including one self-decapitation
3 eyeballs a poppin'
17 defenestrations & window breakage
Lots of dancing
A jillion cars crashing and exploding
& several high flying kung-fu stunts

Chupacabra Prima Nocta was inspired by watching TV late at night when I was a teenager, and coming upon strange and captivating moments. I collected these moments on VHS for many years, dragging the tapes around as I moved from place to place. As I got older, I started to worry that my accumulated mass of captured media would go unused and ultimately forgotten. I was looking for a worthy project where I could pump out the best that I have, molding it into a kaleidoscopic fever dream of mega-bedlam.

I consider this to be my love letter to watching TV in the 90s and 2000s. All the little moments that brought a smile to my face. I've also included a brief 15 second interlude of old school TV hate thrown in for good measure.

Some of the clips in this video aren't from my tapes, though, as I bit off more than I could chew with the 8 minute runtime. I quickly ran out of 1 second bits of peak material, and had to hunt for further clips, which I captured digitally. Oh well. Nothing is pure.

Enjoy, you filthy coward.