LA underground enigma DJ TY presents a love letter to strange bed-fellows: garage and trance. Defying received DJ wisdom—that the two don’t mix—and embracing their intricate mutual reverberations, The Long Decay is a show about extending forgotten dance-oriented sounds into new futures. Crafted vinyl mix artifacts intended for repeat listens only.

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Seeing as my slot falls on the very first of the month (October) whose grandest highlight is the 31st (Halloween), I thought I’d pack some records with the right twist for spooky month. For me, the anticipatory decorative and sartorial leadup to Hallow’s Eve almost trumps the day itself anyway. No other month not only allows but encourages a guy to drive around Los Angeles with a cardboard cut-out of the Grim Reaper in his passenger seat for weeks at a time. If that kind of eccentricity could be bottled year-round and traded on as common of a signifier as Halloween, we might have a more interesting calendar. But it isn’t, and that urges all of us to be a little wackier this month, to step outside ourselves, embody a mask, a figmentary identity, or several, for our dance at the month’s final rendezvous.

Here I am, October 1st, nudging you, first. Go there. Carpe monthem.

Music from Black Lodge Recordings, Frequency X—which, by the way, was a side project of deep house extraordinaire Raymond Castoldi, of Madison Square Garden organist fame, and the late prolific Nicolai Vorkapich—in addition to one of my favorite Detroit progressive house cuts and a record of sound effects simply titled “Halloween”…