Black Mass

Mort Garson’s day job was as an arranger for albums for Doris Day, Glen Campbell, and Richard Burton. On the side he got real freaky with a Moog — he most famously composed songs for plants, but he also had albums about the Zodiac, meditation, and sex. Also this collection of creepy electronic background music for your next suburban Satanic orgy, performed under the pseudonym Lucifer. It sounds goofy (and sometimes it is). Still, Garson teases uncanny tones out of his uncanny instrument, creating the kind of otherworldly effects one would expect from, well, the other world.