VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE / DRACULA'S MUSIC CABINET / CD

ジャーマン・ライブラリー物の中でも一際難易度が高い吸血鬼/ホラー物。手がけたのはライブラリ界に多くの仕事を残す職人コンビ、HERIBERT THUSEKとHORST ACKERMANNです。実際にこれらの音源が映画の劇伴に使われたかどうかは不明ですが、オルガン&フルートも入り混じった流麗で非常にお洒落なメロウ・ジャズ・グルーヴ+ウワモノは悲鳴、スパンキング、爆発、喘ぎ声、薄気味悪い笑い声。甘いムードのスロウ・スキャットが堪らないその名も"PettingParty"は残念ながらエロすぎて店頭演奏不可。

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『人気レーベルFINDERS KEEPERSが新価格!』

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You couldn't script it... You are nineteen minutes and twenty-two seconds in to your peak-season cruise around the Kraut-schlock peripheries. To say the trip has been an eventful one would be an understatement - you don't know what to expect next and your 12" x 12" Germanic tour guide has proved quite unreliable thus far. As your diamond tipped vessel maneuvers through the grooves of your 9th horrific attraction (entitled 'The Soaked Body') the soundtrack awkwardly becomes background music and you are overcome with the sound of gushing water...'Help!' you think sarcastically, the music, or is that muzak, is drowning!

This is the movie soundtrack to a film that never existed. This is the movie soundtrack by the band that was never requested. These were the sound library musicians who had to invent their own clients and imaginary cast, crew and plot to get their music heard, by a niche audience, before floating deep into the depths of the rare record reservoir gasping for breath.

To take a cinematic cue the record in question is the euro-trash-Pop equivalent of Jean Renoirs tragic / triumphant Boudu character who as a homeless, confused and desolate down-and-out plunged to the depths to be unwillingly rescued, resuscitated then after gradually winning the hearts of an entire family becomes respected and revered as royalty. Over 20 years after the mad scientists, Dr. Horst and Ackermann, first breathed life into this short-lived beast, brave and intrepid vinyl explorers have sporadically returned to the doors of 'Dracula's Music Cabinet' to resurrect the sonic spooks and mutated melodies to share with nerds, mods, rockers, Hip-hHoppers, Psych-nuts and Kraut-siders alike.

The lifeless corpses of 'The Vampires Of Dartmoore' that lay six feet beneath the belly of the 'Eins Deutschmark' bins has since crept through the record collections of the aforementioned social circles devouring continental currencies and demanding random ransoms of 200 Euros plus sweat, tears (of laughter) and a lot of blood.


1. Die Folterkammer des Dr.Sex (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sex) mp3
2. Crime And Horror
3. Der Feuerdrachen von Honkong (The Fire-Dragon Of Hongkong)
4. Mord im Ohio Express (Murder In The Ohio Express)
5. Tanz der Vampires (Dance Of The Vampires) mp3
6. Hallo, Mister Hitchcock
7. Der Henker von Dartmoore (The Executioner Of Dartmoore)
8. Ende eines Killers (Killer's End)
9. Die Wasserleiche (The Soaked Body) mp3
10. Eine Handvoll Nitro (A Handful of Nitro)
11. Dr. Caligaris Gruselkabinett (Dr. Caligari's Creeps Cabinet)
12. Frankenstein grY"§t Alpha 7 (Frankenstien Greets Alpha 7)