September 70’s Reflections of the Life Aquatic

September 70’s Reflections of the Life Aquatic by September_70 on Mixcloud

This is the first mix of 2012 and I've chosen to kick the beat mostly to the sidelines in favour of the more dramatic incidental music side of the library music genre.

I've taken on an expansive theme, and with any luck, have done it justice.

Dip In

Intro : Delia Derbyshire – Sea / Ananda Shankar – Sagar (The Ocean) [Inventions For Radio – Dreams – 1964 / Ananda Shankar – 1970]

Armando Sciascia – Black Sand [Sea Fantasy - Vedette - VSM 38553 - 1972]

Brian Bennett – The Sea [Nature Watch - Bruton - BRD 19 - 1982]

The Mystic Moods – Cosmic Sea

Vladmir Cosma - Suspense Aquatique  [Patchwork 3 - Magellan - 526 054 - 1974]

Hiro Yanagida - Fish Sea Milk  [Milk Time – 1970]

Fine Machine – Crazy Eel [Habitat - CAM - CrT 0002 - 1972]

Keith Mansfield – Teenage Seadiver [Beat Incidental - KPM 1043 - 1969]

Andy Loore (Janko Nilovic)– Water Show [Water Show - Montparnasse 2000 - MP 55]

Piero Umiliani - Synthietic Water [Synthi Time - Omicron - LPM 0020 - 1971]

Berto Pisano - Sabbia E Mare  [Interrabang OST – 1969]

Sammy Burdson - Water Pollution B [Background Action - Conroy - BMLP 121 - 1975]

Walt Rockman – Dark Depth 2 [Under Water Vol.1 - Sonoton - SON 113 - 1978]

Jean-Bernard Raiteux– La meduse Apprivoisee [Harlem Pop Trotters - Musique Pour L'Image - MPI 539 - 1972]

Flied Egg – Out to the Sea [Good Bye – 1972]

Egisto Macchi -  La Calme [Voix - Gemelli -  GG.ST.10.031 - 1970]

Pierre Arvay – Rippling Waves / Delia Derbyshire – Sea [Metal Sunrise - Music De Wolfe - DW/LP 3319 – 1974 / Inventions For Radio – Dreams - 1964]

Fly September 70 Airlines

Fly September 70 Airlines by September_70 on Mixcloud

1. Sammy Davis Jnr -  Up and Away (intro)
2. Phil Wainman - Going Going Gone 
3.  Hazy Osterwald Jet Set - Swinging London
4. Jack Arel & Jean-Claude Petit  - De Paris A Liverpool
5. David Snell – International Flight
6. Pentangle – Light Flight
7. Experience – Snoopy Travel
8. Barry Forgie – Mediterranee
9. Keith Mansfield – Funky Flight
10. Heidi Bruehl – Berlin 
11. Big Jim Sullivan – TransLove Airways (Fat Angel)
12. Amedeo Tommasi & H. Caiage – Riccione
13. Brigitte Bardot – St Tropez
14. Jean Bouchety - Girl From La Mancha
15. Les Mogol – Ilgaz
16. The Ebbinghouse Sound - Turkish Delight
17. Janko Nilovik & Dave Sucky – Face to the World
18. Budapest Radio Orchestra – Lights of Hong Kong
19. Nino Nardini & Roger Roger – Bali Girl
20. Piero Umiliani - Dove Và Il Mondo
21. Barbara Moore – Fly Paradise

This mix started life as a bigger project to circumnavigate the globe musically, which was more than likely too large a task. Eventually I got impatient with trying to piece it all together and so started to cull off a number of tracks.

What we have here is the finished article, a 30 minute travelogue and tribute to the novelty of air travel in the 70's.

Fasten your seatbelt and extinguish your cigarette, recline and enjoy your flight on September 70 airlines.


Enjoy.

Karl Heinz Schaefer - La Victime



Karl Heinz Schaefer - Les Gants Blancs du Diable (1972)



Karl Heinz Schaefer  - La Victime (France, 1972)

A lovely slice of dramatic soundtrack music from Karl Heinz Schaefer. A class album all the way.

 

Aleksei Rybnikov - Bolshoe Kosmicheskoe Puteshestvie (Big Space Travel)

Aleksei Rybnikov - Bolshoe Kosmicheskoe Puteshestvie (Big Space Travel) (1973)

Aleksei Rybnikov - Unknown Song (USSR, 1973)



I found this very recently on the toys and techniques blogspot just surfing around looking for obscure/outsider music to listen to.

As far as I can gather from the little information on this it is the soundtrack to a Russian Sci-Fi series much in the same vein as 'The Tomorrow People'. On first listen I was immediately captivated, if anything demands a high recommendation, this certainly does.

Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

DJ Alfonso - May 2011 Mix

May Mix 2011 by djalfonso

Tracklist:
1. Prelude And Dawn - Basil Kirchin - Abstractions of the Industrial North
2. Tropical - Nino Nardini
3. Afro Waltz - John Cameron & Alan Parker - Afro Rock - KPM 1130
4. La Gabbia (Sequenza) - Gianni Ferrio - Tony Arzenta (Big Guns) OST - Easy Tempo
5. Hold Up - Franco Micalizzi - Hold Up OST - Carosello
6. La Girafe En Ballon - Jean-Claude Vannier - Le Manège Aux Images
7. Miste Me? - Tandy Love - Turk Jerk - Fat City
8. Theme From The Persuaders - John Barry – Self-titled 7-inch - CBS
9. Dynamique en Tension N° 1 - Piero Umiliani - Effets Spéciaux - St. Germain Des Pres
10. Bedtime Bongos - Unknown Artist - Deep Note, Music of 1970's Adult Cinema
11. L'umo Dagli Occhi Di Ghiaccio (l'amore) - P. De Luca E I Mark 4 - OST - GDM
12. Crime Sound # 7 - The Crime Sound Orchestra – DM Music Library
13. Lamento - Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra - Changing Colours - MPS
14. Voodoo Dreams - Les Baxter - Jungle Jazz - Capitol
15. Spirit Of Summer - Eumir Deodato – Prelude - CTI
16. Anna (Générique) - Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier - Anna OST - Philips
17. Suspense No. 1 - P. A. Dahan And M. Camison - Rythmiques - Tele Music
18. Fakelore - Anworth Kirk - Anworth Kirk - Pre-Cert
19. Suspense - The Karminsky Experience Inc - The Hip Sheik EP- Patterns of Behaviour
20. Vespucci - BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Fourth Dimension - BBC


The most recent mix by DJ Alfonso, and if I may be so bold to say,  he never disappoints. It's always a quality and eclectic affair comprising of Library obscuriosities, forgotten soundtracks and general 60's and 70's madness.

There are very few people out there representing this style of music, every once in a while it imposes itself into the substrata of the mainstream only to disappear again.

Please support anyone trying to keep the spirit of library production music alive, and give some of their work a listen, you'll usually find that the collectors are very passionate and put great care and attention into any work they generate.

Toshiaki Tsushima - M-22

Delinquent Girl Boss : Worthless To Confess (1971)

Toshiaki Tsushima - M-22 (Japan, 1971)



I've decided to change the pace a little and put some Japanese soundtrack music up for your listening pleasure. I've recently been getting some excellent 60's- 70's, mostly Nikkatsu New Action / Pinky Violence soundtracks which vary between Japanese garage/psyche with bands like The Mops and The Spiders, but also some really funky library style soundtrack music with big brass, meandering guitars and some big beats (Sukeban Guerrilla being a great example for instance).

This one is more of a grandiose theme rather than a funky segue and has moments where it really should have ended up on a Tarantino soundtrack (in fact I think he used a Toshiaki Tsushima track in Kill Bill 1)

And yes, I suspect that M-22 is the title. It's very hard to find titles for this stuff.

Anyway. Enjoy.

Japanese record labels have been issuing Italian soundtracks and compilations for several years. But, until recently, the availability of Japanese cult soundtracks has been scant at best. Thankfully, the Hotwax Trax compilations from Ultra Vybe subsidiary Solid Records are making a serious dent in the demand for Japsloitation movie music.
With home video companies like Criterion and Panikhouse releasing DVDs of Japanese cult flicks of the '60s and '70s it only makes sense that a record label would come forward with a series of soundtrack comps. Hotwax Trax accounts for some of the most notorious yakusa crime and "pinky" sexploitation films of the era. With music ranging from early rock to jazz to lounge to folk to psychedelia and funk, these discs offer a full gamut of listening pleasure.
That's the good news.
About half of the tracks have Japanese vocals, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing the complete lack of song title and lyric translations are likely to leave some listeners humming along but also scratching their heads. Sure the melodies are usually catchy, but wouldn't it be great to know what they're singing about? One can assume that the lyrics reflect the seedy subject matter of the films, but without the proof it's difficult to appreciate their celebration or lamentation of life in the underworld. That said, if you can listen to Bollywood songs without getting held up by the language these Japsloitation tunes shouldn't pose a problem.
For some listeners the instrumentals will be more enjoyable. Hearing the Japanese take on rock 'n' roll and crime jazz can be a giddy pleasure. Still, it would be a stretch to say that they do anything innovative with the forms. We're not talking about hybrid cars or lean manufacturing processes — areas where the Japanese are famously innovative. Clearly, when it comes to popular music forms, they're copying what they've heard in American and European films, and merely doing a competent job of it. There's novelty in it to be sure, but repeated listens may leave more descerning listeners wanting something more inventive — like Bollywood's often kaleidoscopic take on the same western genres.
Just as the listening experience is a mixed pleasure, so is the packaging. Most of the CDs come with surprisingly large, luridly colorful movie poster reproductions. And the CD inserts contain numerous provocative movie images. The problem is all of the text on these inserts is in Japanese with no translation. So, artist names, tracklists and movie info generally are a mystery. Unless one reads Japanese or knows someone who can, the only way one can learn anything about these releases is to use Google's automatic translator when visiting the Web pages associated with them. But even then, the translations are approximate at best — often laughably so. With so many European soundtrack releases having English-translated liner notes it's frustrating that Solid Records didn't consider it a priority — especially considering the vast number of Japsloitation movie fans in America and Europe.
While the Hotwax Trax CDs are exciting additions to any cult soundtrack collection, ScoreBaby can only give a cautious recommendation to non-Japanese listeners, especially in light of their import prices.

The above text was taken from the Score, Baby! website

Franco Bixio - With Bare Fists

Franco Bixio - A Pugni Nudi (1974)

Franco Bixio - With Bare Fists (Italy, 1974)




I had to put this up. 'With Bare Fists' is just so good, a stunning mixture of 70's subtle funky backbeat with sweeping strings and a beautifully simple piano line running over the top. If only all soundtrack music was this dramatic and atmospheric. I will also say that the entire album 'A Pugni Nudi ' is a joy from beginning to end - a must have.

The Moods of September 70



September 70 - The Moods of September 70 (2010 Remix)

 The Moods of September 70 by pixel_face

Quick mix on mixmeister of some nice breakbeats, library music, psyche and cinematic instrumentals. I should have called it 'Another Late Night with September 70', it fits right into that category I suspect.

1. David Axelrod/Lou Rawls – Lifetime Monologue
2. Roger Webb – Exotica
3. The Millennium – 5 A.M (Single Version)
4. Roger Roger – Perdition
5. Alan Moorhouse – Angelic Gas
6. Baby Huey – Hard Times
7. The Advancement – Fall-Out
8. Ennio Morricone - Svolta Definitiva
9. St Louis Union – East Side Story
10. Raymond Guiot & Guy Pedersen - Flûtes Ad Libitum
11. The New Seekers – It’s the Real Thing
12. Brian Bennett – Sunset
13. Mike Condello – Soggy Cereal
14. Jesse Anderson – Mighty Mighty (Instrumental)
15. Howard Carpendale – Du Hast Mich
16. Jean-Claude Vannier - Je M'Appelle Geraldine [Mid-Tempo Version]