Napoli Violenta
The original soundtrack of the 1976 cult movie 'Napoli Violenta', composed by Maestro Franco Micalizzi, sees a deserved reissue. A classic 70s Italian crime soundtrack! There's a quality to the music that really matches the badass image on the front – a bold, forceful approach that has the upbeat numbers strutting along with plenty of pride – and which has the mellower, more brooding tracks working themes that are simple, but which pack the same force as the revolver on the cover. Franco Micaliz…
Ghana Special Volume 2 (Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora 1980-93)
In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music. This style soundtracked the birth of a new, proud Ghanaian identity and captured…
Soundsystems at Notting Hill Carnival, 1984-1988
Death Is Not The End's mixtape-style selection of clips from tapes recorded live at soundsystems playing during London's Notting Hill Carnival between 1984 and 1988, originally broadcast on NTS Radio in August 2018, is the latest to be committed to cassette as part of their 10th anniversary series. Featuring sounds from the likes of Jamdown Rockers, Saxon, Java Nuclear Power, Killerwatt Turbotronic, Stereograph, Sir Coxsone, Volcano Express and more.
Audio sourced with the indefatigable efforts …
Rythmes Contemporains
Tip! *Very much needed repress!* An incredible record from the legendary Yugoslavian composer Janko Nilovic, often hailed as the best LP in his vast catalogue, as well as one of the most accomplished French library ever made in France. Recorded in 1972 for the Montparnasse 2000 Radio/TV/Film library, 'Rhythmes Contemporains' showcases the most accomplished French musicians of the time, utilising a 45-piece orchestra to work on these sessions, which explains the spectacular sounds and huge dynami…
Report from Sarajevo (XIV Winter Olympic Games 1984)
Unreleased themes from Kornelije Kovac for commissioned documentary short 'Raport iz Sarajeva', directed by Miodrag Zdravkovic in 1982. This music themes precede the official songs, idents and audio logos for the XIV Winter Olympic Games Sarajevo 1984 opening ceremony made by Kornelije Kovac in his Belgrade based studio from 1982 to 1984. Sourced from the original master tapes with full color artwork by Eric Adrian Lee. Includes insert with photographs from Kornelije Kovac private collection and…
Papillon
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Universal Music France and the Ecoutez le cinema ! Collection, presents a reissue of the long out-of-print expanded release of Jerry Goldsmith’s masterpiece for Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 prison drama Papillon.
The bestselling autobiography of Henri Charrière, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil’s Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charrière (known as “Papil…
Tranquility
Limited edition first pressing comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes a 32 page scrapbook & bonus 7" single. 180 gram high quality pressing. 1977: In the middle of the era of punk groups, up-tempo music, high-energy rock and a mini rock-'n-roll revival, a record with the cheeky title Tranquility by the group Dutch Treat has come onto the market. A record - as the title suggests - that exudes tranquility. The record is a serious product by five of Holland's best-known and most-talented studio m…
白い恋人たち = 13 Jours En France (Original Soundtrack Recording)
A masterpiece of film music following "A Man and A Woman" by the tag team of Claude Lelouch and Francis Ray. This is an artistic documentary film that only features footage of the Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, and Francis Ray's brilliant music. The performances by the actual star athletes of the time and the astonishing talent of Francis Ray, which can be described as a French soundtrack, make this a masterpiece. The theme song "White Lovers" was produced with Japanese lyrics and cov…
Panorama
Deluxe Tip-On jacket LP including exclusive and extensive liner notes. Remastered from the original master tapes. Transversales Disques proudly presents Panorama, an excursion through rare French soundtracks & other rarities mostly never reissued or compiled. 11 forgotten nuggets recorded between 1969 and 1980 by famous masters like Francis Lai, Alain Goraguer and Michel Magne alongside underrated composers like Jean Schwarz, Christian Gaubert or Maurice Lecoeur. A cinematic journey overflowing …
If I Had a Pair of Wings: Jamaican Doo Wop, Vol. 3
A third and final volume of Jamaican doo wop & R&B records taken from the late 50s and early 60s. These records represent a period in which sound-systems were beginning to dominate the island, with Duke Reid and Sir Coxsone Dodd stepping up their rivalry by beginning to make and release their own records rather than rely on US imports for use in their dances. Many of these records are definitely more-or-less imitations of the American records, as the uniquely Jamaican ska sound was yet to take h…
Il Signor Robinson, Mostruosa Storia D'Amore E D'Avventure
A dream pursued for years through frantic music searches and rights negotiations, and finally, 3 years after assembling the audio masters, the green light shines upon Il signor Robinson, mostruosa storia d'amore e d'avventure (1976).Previously AWOL from the discography dedicated to the soundtracks of the Italian cult cinema composed by the legendary Maestro duo Guido & Maurizio De Angelis , this release certifies the quality of the productions attributed to them.Paolo Villaggio, long-time vetera…
L'Ultimo Squalo
L'ultimo squalo (The Great White) is a 1981 movie directed by Enzo G. Castellari, an Italian reply to the horror genre dedicated to shark movies, a trend that started a few years before with Spielberg's Jaws. In our movie, we have an enormous white shark disrupting the summer of a coastal city in Georgia, in a crescendo of tension and horror that will end in a terrible 1-on-1 between the monster and Peter Benton (James Franciscus), protagonist of the movie and unwitting shark hunter. The music w…
Il Gatto (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)
“Il Gatto” (The Cat) is a 1977 film, a comedy often tinged with detective story elements that tells about two brothers, played by Ugo Tognazzi (Amedeo Pegoraro) and Mariangela Melato (Ofelia Pegoraro), who cynically do everything they can to get a building they own cleared of all its tenants in order to sell it for a profitable sum.
The soundtrack of this film, directed by Luigi Comencini and produced by Sergio Leone, was entrusted to Maestro Ennio Morricone, who produced a decidedly varied scor…
2019 Dopo La Caduta Di New York
Cabum and Beat Records are proud to present, almost forty years after the theatrical release of the film, the wonderful score by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis for the post-apocalyptic movie 2019 dopo la caduta di New York, directed in 1983 by Sergio Martino and starring Michael Sopkiw, George Eastman, Anna Kanakis and Valentine Monnier. In a post-apocalyptic future, we have two enemy factions—the Euraks and the Federation—fighting for dominance, and a solitary warrior is sent by the Federation to …
Suspiria
Special edition of Goblin’s masterpiece, here released on blue iris coloured vinyl with 30x30cm insert and new liner notes. After the incredible debut of “Profondo Rosso” (Deep Red), the soundtrack of the eponymous 1975 film directed by Dario Argento, no one could ever imagine that shortly afterwards Goblin would be able not only to reach its heights but even further refine what the band already delivered in their first record. While “Profondo Rosso” had been partly composed by Giorgio Gaslini,…
SF Sayuki Starzinger TV BGM Collection
Soundtrack of Sci-Fi West Saga Starzinger, an anime series produced by Toei Animation. It was a sci-fi remake/adaptation of Wu Cheng'en's fantasy novel Journey to the West. It was directed by Yugo Serikawa and written by Leiji Matsumoto. It aired in Fuji TV in Japan from April 2, 1978 to August 24, 1979.
Le Pistole Non Discutono
2024 reissue. Beat Records relaunches on the market the classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Western film "Le pistole non discutono", directed in 1964 by Mario Caiano and starring Rod Cameron, Ángel Aranda, Vivi Bach, Horst Frank, José Canalejas, Kay Fisher, Joseph Martin, Hans Nielsen, Dick Palmer, Judy Robbins, and Andrew Ray. For this film, Ennio Morricone composed the song “Lonesome Billy", a Western ballad with an American sound introduced by guitars and whistle with the voice of Pete Tev…
Swing Ensemble
Did someone say Summer? Sicily is what Cuba is to the Caribbean, sun, sea, easy and friendly people with lots of troubles! You won't find anything better around that identifies the summer more than this album by Enzo Randisi who at the beginning of the 80s put together a Swing Ensemble as a tribute to that "cheerful" movement of Jazz music.
But Enzo and his fellas just couldn't stay on track and put in the best that the alternative Palermo area could offer in that historical period, like the sis…
Super America
*2024 repress* Remastered edition of Janko Nilovic's album Super America, originally released in 1976. Janko Nilovic was one of the greatest European studio talents in the '70s. He is a musician who devotes himself to music, which resulted in a great number of published works, but most of them are on library labels not available for sale. His oeuvre stretches from classical, jazz and funk to pop, psych and easy listening. Sampled many times by hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, Dafuniks and Guts.
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Musique pour le film d’un ami
First ever reissue of impossible to find French soundtrack. Mixing elements of spiritual jazz, free funk and dirty grooves, the album was mixed by Jef Gilson.