Yellow Dust
Bruce Ditmas is a unique, heavy musician from one of those special tightknit communities that tried (and almost succeeded) to change the face of progressive pop music and jazz via musical technology. Raised in Miami (an unknown incubator for future synthesists), Ditmas carved the image of a teen prodigy playing jazz drums at the most exclusive Miami Beach hotels. After being whisked off to New York by none other than July Garland he became immersed in free music, recording compositions by …
Instrumental Impressions
Lost classic for the collectors of Italian Library: one of the most sought after cult LPs on the tiny Devega label from Milan, produced in 1972 for license purposes only, now getting a release on the german Sonorama label, remastered and with the original cover design! Many original records with Italian Library Music are among the most sought-after collector's items of the jazz, funk and soundtrack fans today. They were produced by minor labels during the 1960s and 70s in small editions for lice…
Uma Vitamina Faz Favor
Killier library album full of jazz fusion and trippy interludes - with acoustic or spacey electric guitars, latin flutes, vibes, fender rhodes plus occasional vocals - from Switzerland/ Italy 1972-75, recorded by European guitar legend Pierre Cavalli with the ensembles of music masters Angel Pocho Gatti and Bruno Spoerri - all original material, previously unreleased. "Uma Vitamina Faz Favor" is a journey of sound, infiltrated by music from South America and in a style of the best Italian …
Bali Jazz Impressions
Recent restock, Originally released in 1978, it's an East meets West Jazz session led by Czech composer Milan Pilar, mixing deep modal jazz with percussive sounds from Bali's Gamelan musicMeeting of deep modal jazz with percussive sounds from Gamelan music culture, held together by Pilar`s impressive bass playing. Four previously unknown tracks from the master tapes, comes with "Sekaten 1926" artwork by German painter and Bali emigrant Walter Spies on frontcover. Available as exclusive vi…
Small Town Country, vol. 1
killer collection of archival tunes from around Texas compiled by compiled by Austin-based musician and record collector Jason Chronis. Liner notes by Jack D. Fleischer and vinyl mastering by John Golden, pressed at RTI. The collection is a bunch of obscure tunes from private pressings and they truly achieve what the best of country music strives for; they’re personal songs of people’s honest emotion and experience and the collection delivers a wide range of moods. A lovely little collection, wo…
I Gres 1
**restocked** First ever commercial release for this ultra-rare Holy Grail released in 1974. A really must-have for any Library Breaks DJ vinyl collector. This is Silvano Chimenti and Romano Rizzati (alias Walter Rizzati) I Gres Vol.1, a sought-after funky breaks Library monster featuring the noted track "Restless" made famous by DJ Leacy, and containing other dope breaks and beats. I Gres were a studio group only founded by Silvano Chimenti that recorded 3 studio albums, recording Funky Li…
Catch Me Daddy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"The crystal in men's heads / Blackened and fell to pieces. / The valleys went out. / The moorlands broke loose" --from "Heptonstall Old Church" by Ted Hughes. So begins Catch Me Daddy (2014), the award-winning feature film directed by Daniel Wolfe and written by Wolfe and his brother Matthew. The film's score consists of beautiful and bleak wind-ravaged music from Matthew Watson (aka Matthew Wolfe) and Daniel Thomas Freeman (whose 2011 debut album The Beauty of Doubting Yourself Norman Record…
I Pugni in Tasca
For Marco Bellocchio's masterpiece debut film I pugni in tasca (Fists in the Pocket) (1965), Ennio Morricone composed some mysterious and obsessive music for soprano voice, harp, harpsichord, and strings, alternating with lounge music of the period, swing, and jazz to create a great contrast with the dark mood of the movie. This is the first vinyl edition of Morricone's complete soundtrack. Blue vinyl; edition of 1000.
A record with very spare sound – weird wordless vocals on the main title …
La Ragazza con la Pistola
Incredible psych-groove soundtrack by Peppino de Luca (known for his collaboration with the library music band I Marc 4 (SME 006LP)) for the Italian cult movie La ragazza con la pistola (The Girl with the Pistol) (1968), directed by the legendary Mario Monicelli and starring Monica Vitti. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. This is the first vinyl reissue of the complete soundtrack. Pink and black vinyl; edition of 1000.A great little album tha…
La Strage Dei Vampiri
What we are releasing here is one of the rarest soundtracks of the whole Italian cinema! Never released before, neither on LP or on CD! We had access to the original master tapes thanks to Maestro Roberto Zamori, and we can now proudly presents, for the first time ever, the soundtrack composed and directed by Aldo Piga for the 1962 horror movie La Strage Dei Vampiri (a.k.a. Slaughter Of The Vampires) directed by Roberto Mauri and starring Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler, Graziella Granata.The…
Seddok, L'Erede di Satana
In 1960, when Armando Trovajoli composed the soundtrack for Anton Giulio Majano's horror film Seddok, L'Erede Di Satana (known internationally as Atom Age Vampire and Lycanthropus), the landscape of electronic music was still in its infancy. The Moog synthesizer wouldn't reach commercial availability until 1964. Wendy Carlos' groundbreaking Switched-On Bach was still eight years away. Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and the entire krautrock movement lay a decade in the future. Yet here was Trovajoli…
La Danza Macabra
A deluxe edition of the soundtrack composed and directed by Riz Ortolani for the 1964 horror movie Danza Macabra (a.k.a. Castle Of Blood) directed by Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti) and starring Georges Rivière, Barbara Steele, Phil Karlson, Raoul H. Newman. For the first time ever on vinyl, this amazing soundtrack is one of the best works composed and directed by Riz Ortolani. I must say it’s the perfect soundtrack to describe the gothic atmosphere of the movie. Beside a few melodi…
Reportage
Temporary Super Offer! A genuine lost and unreleased full-length LP from one of the most mysterious figures of early Italian electronic sound and library music. A missing puzzle piece in the small discography of experimental tape and synthesiser music by the composer known only as Lamartine recorded (but never pressed) in 1974 by the archive that bought you the work of Daniela Casa and the wildest electronic experiments of Alessandroni, Giuliano Sorgini and Fabio Frizzi. Having sat in the can fo…
La Trappola Scatta a Beirut
"La Trappola Scatta a Beirut" (Agent 505 Todesfalle Beirut) is a spy movie directed in 1966 by Manfred R. Kohler and starring Frederick Stafford, Chris Howland, Geneviève Cluny. Diverted from its deserved holiday, the agent S5S, is sent along with a faithful collaborator in Beirut, where there is reason to suspect the presence of a band of criminals about to carry out an attack against the whole humanity. At that time not even a 45 rpm single with music by Ennio Morricone was printed. Now …
Bioritmi
First ever reissue for this ultra-rare Library lp from 1971. One of the strongest examples of Egisto Macchi's tactile and meditative approach to composition, an engrossing, intuitive refinement of the techniques and practice he honed over prior years with Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. 'Bioritmi' breaks down to seven pieces making up a mesmerising voyage to the heart of modular composition and electronically processed percussions, looped up and effected with various early tape techn…
Lucio Fulci's Horror & Thriller
Essential release for completists and casual fans alike, The Fulci compilation put together by Beat Records in Italy features a host of classic Italian horror scores, all with one thing in common: director Lucio Fulci. This compilation features Fulci mainstay Fabio Frizzi, Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, Walter Rizzati, Franco De Masi and more! The record features gorgeous album art by Randy Ortiz, and is pressed on 180 Gram limited on 1,000 copies (Black Vinyl).
Creator of some of the most…
Angoscia
Anguish [ang-gwish] noun: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain.
Originally released by Octopus, a label devoted to thematic libraries, “Angoscia” is one of the best works by Alessandro Alessandroni: here the composer native of Lazio shows his unique skills as an author and as an arranger.¨Famous for his work in the movies – often with masters such as Piero Umiliani and Ennio Morricone, with whom he collaborated to create some truly immortal soundtracks (especially those written for…
Simbolismo Psichedelico
Symbolism [sim-buh-liz-uh m] noun : the principles and practice of symbolists in art or literature. Psychedelic [sahy-ki-del-ik] adjective : of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.Gerardo Iacoucci attended the Berklee School Of Music in Boston and, later, founded the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio (in Rome…
A Cat In The Brain
For those who don’t know, A Cat in the Brain (Un Gatto Nel Cervello) is horror master Lucio Fulci’s take on the Director in turmoil sub-genre made popular by Frederico Fellini’s 8 1/2. Composed by frequent collaborator Fabio Frizzi (The Beyond), the soundtrack is everything you want out of an Italian horror score: bizarre, haunting and fun. Fabio Frizzi’s work is a huge part of the reason we got into the soundtrack business in the first place. Mondo is proud to release this soundtrack for …
La Poliziotta
A dream that has become reality: one of the best and among the most sought after soundtracks by Gianni Ferrio finally comes back to life in LP form. The original record has always been one of the rarest of the entire cult RCA SP series, considered an absolute must-have for the Italian groove hunters of the day: Jazz-funk texture with touches of blaxploitation, b-boy breaks, flipped out hammond, flashes of bossa and the vocal stylings of the unmistakable Edda Dell’Orso. The Four Flies issu…