THE LIBRARY MUSIC THREAD

[George White]

Just watching a Shaw brothers kung fu film, Swordsman and Enchantress, and the title theme pops up - Distant Hills, aka the theme from Crown Court.

Which reminds me of the sheer joy of the works of DeWolfe and KPM.

Recently realised Spotlight Sequins, a circussy DeWolfe track pops up in both Doctor Who - Terror of the Autons and Octopussy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoBl1yEv790 First knew this jazzy KPM track by Shadow Brian Bennett and Alan "Grange Hill" Hawkshaw from South African martial arts spy film Kill and Kill Again, but it's also cropped up in such B-films as Delta Fox, Polk County Pot Plane, Radley Metzger's porn Barbara Broadcast and the Benny Hill Show

Johnny Pearson's theme from Owen, MD, Sleepy Shores got about, being in Bruce Li's Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, Rod Serling's Encounter with the Unknown, Children of Men, numerous pornos....

[Famous Mortimer]

I went through a period of e-collecting those library music records and now have hundreds of GB worth of them (if anyone has any requests, let me know). There are some gems, but I honestly prefer the mixes that other people have made of them, saves me the ballache.

[PinkNoise]

Johnny Pearson's theme from Owen, MD, Sleepy Shores got about, being in Bruce Li's Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, Rod Serling's Encounter with the Unknown, Children of Men, numerous pornos....

Speaking of Johnny Pearson, the recently Monty Python blu-rays have notes by Andrew Pixley that include a lot of library music info. Which means I can now listen to this whenever I need a bit of drama in my life:

https://youtu.be/ZoEguSFJtqU

[Brundle-Fly]

We've had a few Library Music threads on CaB but nay matter, I absolutely love those records after discovering them in the early nineties, thanks to the London Easy Listening scene. Back then, I bought tons of the LPs (a lot of dross to wade through to find the gems though). I see KPM have been reissuing the best examples on vinyl recently but it's funny that the new pressings are almost as expensive as the original copies. Well. maybe I'm thinking of 1994 prices?

[olliebean]

There's a London Easy Listening scene?

[Brundle-Fly]

Was. In the mid nineties.

[bomb_dog]

..member 'Mike Flowers Pops'?

[BlodwynPig]

One of my favourite non-funky Library records is this



featuring the immense organ work of Ludwig Doerr, a mix of plaintive pieces and pure ELP bombast; the baroque synth work of Stany Lasry; And the irrepressible polysynth doodlings of Mladen Franko - who then went on to produce some of the best funk synth library albums of the early 80s, including this double header on Sonoton - listen at about 1:40 to that repeating part - that is immense beyond compare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=oeMqoNnCojE&feature=emb_logo

[PlanktonSideburns]

the spit of a young rene

[BlodwynPig]

[Brundle-Fly]

[Better Midlands]

[WhoMe]

I'm enjoying this album a lot. It sounds like the theme to a blaxpoitation Indiana Jones movie.

https://sorcerers.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god

[George White]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WQgyelEuyw Can anyone identify this track? Imdb says a number of tracks used. But of all the ones available, I can't find this one. It sounds a bit like John Cameron.

[Brundle-Fly]

I'm enjoying this album a lot. It sounds like the theme to a blaxpoitation Indiana Jones movie.

https://sorcerers.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god

That's a top tip. Thank you.

[Brundle-Fly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WQgyelEuyw Can anyone identify this track? Imdb says a number of tracks used. But of all the ones available, I can't find this one. It sounds a bit like John Cameron.

Sounds Italian to me.

[chveik]

big fan of this Bruno Nicolai album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJiy2cQjiM

[chveik]

cheers this is lovely

[Brundle-Fly]

big fan of this Bruno Nicolai album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJiy2cQjiM

Zombie/ Cannibal music. Great.

[Brundle-Fly]

One of my favourite non-funky Library records is this



featuring the immense organ work of Ludwig Doerr, a mix of plaintive pieces and pure ELP bombast; the baroque synth work of Stany Lasry; And the irrepressible polysynth doodlings of Mladen Franko - who then went on to produce some of the best funk synth library albums of the early 80s, including this double header on Sonoton - listen at about 1:40 to that repeating part - that is immense beyond compare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=oeMqoNnCojE&feature=emb_logo

Really enjoying this too. I love these library music/ proggy threads.

[BlodwynPig]

Anyone identify this?

https://trademarksandcopyrights.bandcamp.com/track/bedroom-section

[Brundle-Fly]

Anyone identify this?

https://trademarksandcopyrights.bandcamp.com/track/bedroom-section

No, it's delightful though. Is this pre-Vapourwave?

[BlodwynPig]

No, it's delightful though. Is this pre-Vapourwave?

I think it IS vapourwave - i bought his discography for 2 quid and working through it - his compilation tracks were ace but a lot of album stuff is dull, but this stands out

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Want to gush about a bunch of old stuff but for now this thread has reminded me about the guy who digitised and shared his collection of cassettes K-Mart would play with easy listening music and special offer announcements etc.

Always loved the first track on that one, as did a lot of people and nobody seemed to be able to track it down[nb] what really fucked me off were a few people saying with total certainty "oh it's this" which is some guy who's just taken the track, added some "end of part 1" spiel that sticks out like a sore thumb over the sound of the mangled cassette followed by some pretty shoddy guitar over the entire fucking tune[/nb] back when the tapes were first posted.

Anyway, just had another look and finally there's a comment saying it's



Jamboree by Mladen Franko!
Is there no end to this man's talents?

[darby o chill]

I went through a period of e-collecting those library music records and now have hundreds of GB worth of them (if anyone has any requests, let me know).

Would you have Chappell Mood Music Vol. 24 please?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

https://clyp.it/0sxhudkj?token=38f9fae0c9688f39e5332aa903e119d7

Heard this in the background on Threads, never found out what it was, but got me listening to all kinds of library music as a result so there's a silver lining. Sound familiar to anyone?

[Brundle-Fly]

A mate sourced and burnt this library track for me about sixteen years ago but I lost it (among countless other precious non-backed up docs, files, photos, tracks in the great computer meets water disaster of 2005). I can't remember the name of it or who the composer was.

Back in the mid-70s, me and my mate loved this PIF background music. We used to quote the advert and hum the tune while mucking about up the staircase at his house after school.   

Anybody?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfyfY7PI3pg

[darby o chill]

Got the Chappell Mood Music Vol. 24 via P.M.
Thank you sir!