Library & Soundtracks / Electronic

Under a slip of a moon that hung in the air like a clipped fingernail, Pontiff Erasmus honoured the heavens by donning a capirote that forever pointed upward to the grand abyss. It was by the Order of the Osiris Triad that the people of Maypyre were to be put to death, and the Pontiff honoured this request. He opened the Shadesbourne and read from the rotten pages therein. From incantation to action his words became as mists which formed the creature that would devour Maypyre, its people, its li…

Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abandoning his early career as a med student, Fulci entered the film industry as a screenwriter and assistant director, working alongside such directors as Steno and Riccardo Freda. Fulci quickly established himself as a prolific craftsman adep…

**Limited to 1000 copies worldwide. Double white vinyl. Live album from the legendary founder of Can.** Irmin Schmidt goes back to his Stockhausen roots with a new live album. Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) comprises three pieces performed live on a partly prepared piano, along additional pre-recorded soundscapes. The live performance of 'Klavierstück II' is a pensive improvisation using essential elements of the original piece. 'Nocturne' starts with the ambient…

Welcome to this second release in HDK's "Kosmische musik" series, dedicated to our favorite artists playing E.M. in Berlin-school tradition. It is a real pleasure to introduce Grant Middleton and Colin Anderson, aka  Under The Dome from Scotland. Under The Dome 's music sounds crystal clear like the air after a storm, and dreamy like a staring off among the sky in a summer night; "Thunder over city hall" is a wonderfully retro-futuristic collection of songs that you will never tire of listening!…

** Superclear cassette + 5-panels j-card ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Icebound by Varkana. "Eons ago in a land faraway covered with nothing but blinding white frost, Temple of Ice arose from nothingness and began to enlighten the hearts of those who sought the gift of infinite knowledge. For years and years pilgrimages were made by mystified souls to reach the great cosmic offering. Centuries later, the temple is long forgotten, buried under mountains of ice‌ with only distant tales remain…

** Pro-dubbed black cassette + 32 pag. booklet ** The bard of the unexplicable nightmares is back: Doom Catacomb gives us his masterpiece, the third and final chapter of a trilogy dedicated to the writer Clark Ashton Smith, started in 2018 with "Empire of the necromancers" and continued in 2019 with "The weaver in the vault". "Necromancy in Naat" takes the music of Doom Catacomb to even darker and more mysterious levels, it will accompany you on a hallucinating journey into pain and evil, but it…

HDK is proud to introduce you the second episode of "Kowloon Neon City", the immaginary distopic and retro-futuristic anime released in 199X. In this second part, the story moves from the rejected city of Kowloon to its double Olympus. We will discover a world permeated by technology that brings many aspects of our reality forward, to the extreme consequences. Mei and Cheng, once again the protagonists of this story, have to fight for their lives against the global sistem of surveillance. And we…

Super Tip! **Edition of 500.** Before we go on, Janet Beat does exist. This is not some invented composer, cunningly dreamt up so I can sell some modern sonic noodlings as old ones to unsuspecting record buyers. I say this as it has happened in this market before and her name could easily arouse some suspicion. But yes, Janet Beat actually exists and she’s certainly one of the best examples of nominative determinism I have ever personally come across. However, even though Janet Beat does make mu…

* Limited Edition Half Speed Mastered 180g Pink Vinyl In Gatefold Sleeve with Obi and Video Store Stickers Record/Vinyl + Digital Album * WRWTFWW Records is ghoulishly happy to announce the first everl release of Richard Band’s full uncut soundtrack for cult horror comedy classic Ghoulies (1985).The limited edition pink-colored 180g vinyl LP is housed in a heavy gatefold sleeve with full movie gallery, obi strip, and video store stickers.The album is also available on CD house in a classic jewel…

WRWTFWW Records announces the official reissue of Richard Band's director's cut soundtrack for sci-fi horror comedy classic, TerrorVision (1986). People of Earth Your planet is about to be destroyed... We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Conceived as a late 1960s Lost in Space type score with an '80s electronic twist, TerrorVision is one of the most unique soundtracks in Richard Band's discography. Part oddball adventure, part eerie soundscape, it mixes the fun and flashy colors of the e…

180 gram, yellow vinyl; gatefold sleeve with full movie gallery, obi strip, video store stickers. WRWTFWW Records announce the official reissue of Richard Band's soundtrack for horror fantasy classic Troll (1986). The infamous Troll score is its very own kind of monster: an extended five-movement symphony conducted by Richard Band in full sorcery mode, creating exhilarating moments of excitement and seat-gripping intensity. At the center of the magnum opus lies the incredible "Cantos Profanae" a…

* Edition of 300 copies, gatefolfd cover, blue vinyl * Ten electro-acoustic pearls drawing the ear’s eye into richly illusive fractal patterns with heavily psychedelic effect, lurking in the low key and peripheral, spectral and metaphysical realms. “The Human Centipede” is a film conceived, produced and directed by Dutch director Tom Six, which tells the story of the wicked Doctor Heiter, a manic German surgeon who kidnaps three people with the aim of surgically sewing them together to form a ‘h…

A marvelous jazz session from 1966 : Sadao Watanabe (alto sax) Terumasa Hino, Masahiko Togashi (drums) Masanaga Harada (bass), Masao Yagi (piano), Hozan Yamamoto (bamboo flute). "A totally cool Japanese soundtrack from the 60s – one that's as much of a jazz album as it is a film score! The group features saxes from Sadao Watanabe and trumpet from Terumasa Hino – part of a lineup that would already make the music sound great on paper, although it's even better on record! The tracks all have…

A totally cool little Japanese soundtrack from the 60s – done for a film that features a bunch of younger teens who head out the beach – and which is scored with music that perfectly fits the mood! There's a really great range of 60s film modes going on here – as some tunes feature wordless vocal scatting, others feature a bit of surf guitar, bossa melodies, or even a few more playful themes – mostly served up in short takes, and interspersed in a way that's nicely vivid and very groovy!…

This retro-futuristic Italian classic from the cosmic era is now finally reissued in a double LP edition that will surely bring joy to DJs worldwide. Underrated jazz musician and composer Gianni Safred is one of the great pioneers of Italian electronic music, and had proven his talent in a couple of ultra-rare and highly sought-after library records released by renowned Italian label Music Scene. Futuribile (The Life To Come) was the second of the batch, composed and recorded in 1978 in his Trie…

** Kрасный cassette + j-card + "Gazunderling Mine Workers Union" badge ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents The rise of the Gazunderlings by Red Gremlin. "In the darkest corner of the Sword Mountains, hidden in the shadow of the Icespire, lies the Kazunder Valley. Here, out of sight of prying eyes, the Faceless are overseeing the extraction of something far more precious than gold. No being in their right mind would ever set foot in these mines voluntarily and so the Faceless choose the cowardly c…

The legendary proto-minimalistic Soothing Sounds For Baby series by Raymond Scott were pressed in limited quantities and have been out of print for almost over a decade. Designed for babies one to six months old, the first volume of Raymond Scott's dreamy, engaging Soothing Sounds for Baby series emphasizes soft synth tones, repetitive melodies, and relatively simple arrangements. Keeping in mind a young baby's attention span, Vol. 1 also contains shorter, more numerous pieces than the following…

**Orange edition** Entirely a category of their own, fifteen years after the untimely passing of John Balance and the project’s demise, it remains impossible to calculate the importance of Coil. For just over two decades, following the band’s founding by Balance in 1983, it stood among the great emblems of underground music - a full realisation of the seeds and potential planted by punk, bred with the higher realms of experimental and electronic music. Their sprawling, deeply emotive catalog of …

** Grey & Pink mixed - Brain coloured vinyl + Poster ** The series of exclusive 45rpm’s published by AMS Records in collaboration with legendary Cinevox Record continues with this 7-inch that includes two tracks from the soundtrack of George Romero’s movie “Zombi / Dawn of the Dead”. Of the two tracks, “L’Alba dei Morti Viventi”, the key theme of the film and one of Goblin’s greatest masterpieces, is presented here in an exclusive alternative version. This special edition is made exclusively for…

* 2021 stock * Overdrive present a reissue of Moggi's (aka Piero Umiliani) Double Face, a hard-to-find Italian library record, originally released in 1981. The A side is Umiliani's compositions performed by a traditional string orchestra. The tracks have been synthesized for side B, exclusively by electronic instruments. At this point, the music becomes futuristic and brilliant. 180 gram vinyl.

Clara Mondshine was a musical project of the late radio director, journalist, and composer Walter Bachauer, who worked for RIAS Berlin in the '70s and '80s. Mr. Bachauer was also involved as musician in projects with electronic artist Peter Michael Hamel and krautrock act Between in the '70s. With Clara Mondshine he was able to score three albums before his untimely passing in 1989; Luna Africana, originally released in 1981, is the first of these, and it fits exactly into that era, when the…

Remastered edition of an intriguing international project from the mid-70s. A meeting of jazz and rock that goes far beyond what is usually considered fusion. Originally released in 1976, the album "Electric Circus" was the second solo project of German guitarist Toto Blanke, but at the same time the beginning of an unusual trio formed by the Dutch pianist Jasper van't Hof and Finnish drummer Edward Vesala (known in Poland thanks to his collaboration with Tomasz Stańko). Three very strong indivi…

Komendarek in recordings from the late 80s and early 90s, prepared for the interdisciplinary Ars Electronica festival. Avant-garde madness against the background of ingenious sequences. Previously unpublished material appears on CD for the first time. By the end of the 80s, Władysław Komendarek had already established himself in Poland as a leading creator of electronic music. However, he did not rest on his laurels, and when he found an opportunity to take part in a futuristic review Ars Electr…

Reissue of this amazing 1986 album where drum machines meet improv jazz. Wayne Horvitz gathers together his drum machine and synths along with his talented friends -Elliot Sharp included- for this really original record that is both composed and improvised. An obscure gem by one of the most spirited musicians to populate NY 80's avant-garde, a golden era for vanguard attitudes and sounds. Horvitz, keyboard player at Naked City (along with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and Fred Frith) had classical mu…

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up once more to release the final volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. One of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of disco, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music, “The San Francisco Sound.” Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study at the City College of San Francisco. He founded the Electronic Music Lab…

Dear dungeoncrawlers, light your torches and sharpen your swords...once again! The success of the first volume of HDK DSM was... dazzling! And so here we are with this Second Issue and we hope you will enjoy it like the previous one (or maybe more!). The dungeon-synth is wonderful and unpredictable music made to give free rein to creativity and to the desire of telling weird and astonishing stories. The four musicians involved in this release will not disappoint your thirst of gloomy and evocati…

** DIY Super-Limited Tape + Three Pins! ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Avventura nel Castello by 1Kbyte Dungeon. Driven by the thirst for adventure, you went down into the dungeons of the castle of the evil Baron Karloff and now you are lost. Behind its endless gates the most monstrous mysteries are hidden. Will you find the exit? Probably not. "Avventura nel castello" is a frightening time-machine able of transporting the listener into the disquieting era of monochrome Rogue-like CRPGs, tex…

Beat Records reissue the soundtrack for Spasmo on CD, the thriller film directed in 1974 by Umberto Lenzi and starring Suzy Kendall, Robert Hoffman, Ivan Rassimov, Guido Alberti, Adolfo Lastretti, and Franco Silva. For a story between thriller and mystery, Ennio Morricone has composed a soundtrack based on two recurring tonal themes, a pop ballad for choir and orchestra and a requiem that alternate with hallucinatory atmospheres between the experimental and psychedelic. For this reissue Beat Rec…

This bundle collects three of the latest Pleasure For Music essential re-releases:Dick Hyman "The Age of Electronicus" (1969)Elisabeth Waldo "Maracatú" (1959)Ken Nordine "Word Jazz" (1957)Dick Hyman "The Age of Electronicus" (1969) In his long career Dick Hyman has covered a great variety of music fields, from Broadway through music for film and television to jazz, classical, pop, and electronic music. The Age of Electronicus, originally released in 1969 is one of his Electronic Pop jewels. A br…

"For this first volume of Musax Background Music Library, Farfalla Records continues exploring the maze of the french library music through one of its most discreet and prolific representatives: Jacky Giordano and one of his many projects, the Musax label. Farfalla Records carefully selected this tracklisting among LPs recorded between 1978 and 1979 of which the originals became particularly sought after by the collectors. Jacky Giordano who appears under his aliases Joachim Sherylee and José Ph…

** Fluo Cassette ** Andy Bones and John Dawson are back with the soundtrack of a cyberpunk RPG called "Dancing with bullets under a neon sun". The style of the italo-finnish duo is delightfully the same as the best-selling "Chip of Depression": retro-futuristic-pop and italo-disco with breathtaking melodies and pressing minimal rhythms. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" is a weird cyberpunk RPG for fans of the OSR. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" will provide a unique ambiance to y…

New York City, year 1988: you are part of one of the many gangs that operate in the slums of the city, hiding in the subway, dungeon under skyscreapers, squatted houses and, when necessary even, in the sewers system. Raids up to streets are dangerous and are always undertaken disguise or under cover of the night: gangs fight for territory and control, as the organized crime and corrupt cops rule with an iron fist. Yes, it's a violent world, baby; but also full of '80s clichés like post-nuke muta…

** Pro-dubbed black cassette + insert ** In 1979 the director Antonio Rasiera started filming a sci-fi tv-movie called “La Gabbia Umana” (The Human Cage), an alienating and dehumanizing post-apocalyptic parable in which the human body is described as an inexorably closed cage, “without key and without lock”. A few days after the start of filming, director Rasiera (already prey to his serious disease) dies: today what remains of “The Human Cage” is its soundtrack, composed by the maestro Augusto …

Heimat Der Katastrophe presents The Spectre of the Duke by Lucifer Analog. Some rumors tell of a monumental tomb near the Pok swamp, in Grumacchio region. A long time ago, the Duke Friedrick Gonzagor was buried there at the end of his controversial existence. His life was characterized by a rapid rise and quick decadence. At an nearby inn you bought for a few gold coins a map that indicates the location of the sanctuary that it is said to keep rich treasures. So far, although some adventurers ha…

Erik K Skodvin's first solo film score evokes otherwordly dreamscapes that capture the atmosphere of the film Anbessa (2019), shot in Ethiopia by director Mo Scarpelli. As a "creative" documentary the film follows Asalif, a 10 year old imaginative boy caught between the ancient and the new, navigating modernization on his own terms. Asalif tries to make sense of things while living in a shed on the outskirts of Addis Ababa with his mom. A place where capitalism and “progress” is closing in on al…

, vol 2. **From proto-techno/electro to alien monophonic synth scapes: an incredible collection of eldritch DIY synth and electro-acoustic music circa 1970s by a little-known collaborator with The Beatles, Ivor Cutler, Ken Russell, the Goons… Don't sleep on this one!!!** Jonny Trunk speaks: "Welcome to the most excellent strange and unique world of Bruce Lacey. Aretist, musician, sage, shaman, inventor, film maker and all round British eccentric, Bruce has always followed his own mind, wal…

, vol 1. Bruce Lacey is the quintessential British eccentric. Bruce Lacey is an artist, a musician, a filmmaker, a shaman, a genius and visionary. Since the 1950s he's made film, music, art and performances, and collaborated with everyone from The Beatles to Throbbing Gristle. He was part of the groundbreaking Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in 1968. He even built a robot that won the Alternative Miss World. This is the first time his extraordinary music has been released. Made and record…

**First time on CD!** Here comes Isle Of Jura's reissue of the highly sought after Voyage - A Journey Into Discoid Funk by Brian Bennett, originally released in 1978. A cosmic disco classic completely re-mastered from the original master tapes by Matt Colton. Brian Bennett is best known as the drummer of the UK band The Shadows and as a composer of music for Films and TV. During the 1980’s he was awarded two Ivor Novello awards and wrote music for a wide range of programmes including Dallas, The…

Thriller tracks contained in this CD (originally released as LP by the legendary Sermi label) were composed expressly for a TV program of RAI in 1968 by Gino Marinuzzi Jr. who has enjoyed a half-century as one of Italy's top movie composers and one of the great innovators in electronic and experimental music. The son of Gino Marinuzzi (1882-1945), one of Italy's most renowned conductors (and a composer of some significance as well), he was born in New York in 1920, and studied in Milan. Marinuzz…

Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) has long existed in the shadow of his friend and famous collaborator Ennio Morricone. Founding member of the astounding ‘Il Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza ' Macchi was a busy film (LSD Inferno, Bandidos, The Assassination Of Trotsky) and TV (E.S.P, many commercials with Mario Bava) composer in late 1960s and 1970s Italy and France. Macchi also cut a number of highly desirable library LPs for the Gemelli, Sermi and other Italian labels in the 1970s. ‘I Futuri…