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One of the funkiest soundtracks we've ever heard from Alessandro Alessandroni -- a set that clearly shows he'd been listening to the score for Shaft, as well as a host of 70s sound library music too! There's lots of great Italian cop/crime grooves on the set -- done at an understated level that's... read more

Probably the greatest album ever by the Art Ensemble of Chicago -- and also one of their rarest! The album was cut for Pathe Marconi in Paris in 1970, and was the soundtrack to a film that was as obscure as the album. The group's never been finer -- and plays with a creative tightness that you'll... read more

Probably the greatest album ever by the Art Ensemble of Chicago -- and also one of their rarest! The album was cut for Pathe Marconi in Paris in 1970, and was the soundtrack to a film that was as obscure as the album. The group's never been finer -- and plays with a creative tightness that you'll... read more

Fantastic funkiness! Although Les Baxter's best known for his easy listening work in the late 50's/early 60's, this 1969 biker flick soundtrack is a motherlode of funky funky tracks, and a veritable cornucopia of breakbeats! Highlights include the classics "Hogin' Machine" and "Hot... read more

A beautiful bit of 70's grooviness from one of our favorite Italian composers! This set brings together 2 extremely rare soundtracks by the great Alberto Baldan Bembo, and they're both a fantastic mix of Fender Rhodes piano, vibes, wah wah guitar, and stunningly sensuous orchestrations. All of... read more

A killer 2-in-1 CD -- featuring two rare Capitol albums from Elmer Bernstein! Staccato is a great lost crime jazz soundtrack -- penned by Elmer Bernstein in the style of some of his best work from the 50s, with a really jazzy feel throughout! There's a real Man With The Golden Arm feel here -- as... read more

The funky freaky soundtrack to Ralph Bakshi's animated feature Fritz The Cat -- a really messed-up little film based around the original character created by Robert Crumb! Like the movie, the album's got a very skittish kind of feel -- leaping from one genre to the next with each different track --... read more

Damn, is this a great record! The album's not only one of the best blacksploitation soundtracks ever recorded, it's also one of James Brown's funkiest outings of the early 70s! Nearly every cut's a winner, and James gets some very funky help from The JBs, who groove hard on the best instrumental... read more

A new combo, but one who really get the sound of older soundtracks right -- particularly the late 60s/early 70s Italian generation that's inspired the name and artwork of this set! Instrumentation is nice and lean -- keyboards, guitar, bass, and percussion -- used more in the tight ways of a mod... read more

Fantastic and stylistically sprawling grooves from Italian soundtrack guru Stelvio Cipriani -- his score for the mid 70s television work Dov E Anna -- which ranges from small combo, dancefloor ready jazz funk, to lush strings and piano peppered dramatic movements, to spare and suspenseful bits of... read more

One of the most insanely wonderful soundtracks from the late 60's -- filled with weird instrumental touches and sublimely groovy vocals that really match the mad spirit of the film! Although Bob Crewe's best known for his work as a producer for bigger names in the 60s, he really shines here on... read more

A nice bit of funky crime work from Italy -- a soundtrack to an obscure payback film from the 70s, done here with a nice mix of heavy beats, tight guitar, and some cool keyboards! The groove here is very much in the style of some of the best compilations of Italian cop soundtrack work we've... read more

A cool little western score -- served up with a great mix of dark moods and lighter touches -- all composed and conducted by Gianfranco Di Stefano, with a sound that's a bit more complex than the usual soundtrack of the time! There's less of the driving western modes than you might expect -- and... read more

A western soundtrack with a different twist -- one that definitely shares some of the darker aspects of the crime score work by Gianni Ferrio! There's a few hard-driving themes, but most of the tracks are pretty spare, short, and moody -- almost melancholy at points, with great spare instrumental... read more

Fantastic! Easy Tempo scores again with this beautiful rerelease/repackaging of Gianni Ferrio's lost score for the film Una Farfalla Con Le Ali Insanguinate. The music has lots of spare spooky keyboards, with a slow building sound that's similar to Francis Lai's best soundtrack work, and a warm... read more

A never-heard soundtrack for a never-seen film -- and a record that's every bit as funky as better-known sets from the blacksploitation era! Final Solution were a small time group from Chicago's west side in the 70s, but on this wicked little soundtrack they sparkle just as brightly as Isaac Hayes... read more

A classic 70s soul soundtrack -- and a dream of a combination! Curtis Mayfield wrote the soundtrack and produced the album -- and the result is a killer batch of 70s soul tracks that matches Aretha's strong vocals with the hip Curtom sound of Chicago! Aretha was still doing pretty well at this... read more

Marvin Marvin Marvin -- just when we thought you couldn't impress us any more, you took it to the next level! Trouble Man is a heck of a wonderful surprise from an artist that most folks really only knew as a singer -- a fantastically funky blacksploitation soundtrack, conceived and composed by... read more

Marvin Marvin Marvin -- just when we thought you couldn't impress us any more, you took it to the next level! Trouble Man is a heck of a wonderful surprise from an artist that most folks really only knew as a singer -- a fantastically funky blacksploitation soundtrack, conceived and composed by... read more

An excellent lost funky soundtrack on Blue Note -- their only one for years, and Grant Green's entry into the blacksploitation genre! The whole thing bristles with the kind of chunky, thumping percussive feel as the best funky soundtracks of the era -- informed by the work of Curtis Mayfield and... read more

A collection of themes and songs from iconic Hollywood westerns -- films starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford -- with bits from Stagecoach, Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Three Godfathers, Rio Grande, The Searchers and Horse Soldiers. Despite the western theme, anyone and Wayne's... read more

A monster! Foxy Brown is Willie Hutch's magnificent soundtrack for Foxy Brown -- a Pam Grier blacksploitation film from the early 70s -- and it's pure genius all the way through, a record filled with some of the best funky soundtrack cuts of the era! Willie's got a real Curtis Mayfield sound here... read more

Long-overdue reissue to Willie Hutch's classic score about pimpin' & mackin'! The album (and film) is virtually a handbook for junior grade hoods, and we can remember back around '90 when the first wave of candy-ass hardcore hip hoppers were coming up, and this was sort of a holy grail. Still... read more

Nice Quincy Jones soundtrack for the first "Mr. Tibbs" film. Roland Kirk's in the orchestra, and you can hear him nicely in a soul jazz groove on a number of tracks. Titles include "Whipping Boy", "Nitty Gritty Time", "Shag Bag, Hounds & Harvey", "B... read more

Well, the soundtrack's not one of Quincy's funkiest, but it does include some nice moments -- especially on some of the more African-inflected numbers. Features performances from James Cleveland, Letta Mbulu, and Bill Summers -- and tracks include "Many Rains", "Free At Last",... read more

One of the greatest blacksploitation soundtracks of the 70s -- and one of the rarest too! The album's a crowning achievement for the mighty Don Julian -- an artist who's best known for his earlier LA soul with The Larks, but who steps out here with a hip, hard-grooving sound that's really amazing -... read more

One of the greatest blacksploitation soundtracks of the 70s -- and one of the rarest too! The album's a crowning achievement for the mighty Don Julian -- an artist who's best known for his earlier LA soul with The Larks, but who steps out here with a hip, hard-grooving sound that's really amazing -... read more

Killer funky reissue of this rare soundtrack by Don Julian & The Larks! You probably already know Don Julian's funky work from the Savage soundtrack, and this one's just as good -- with even more cuts than the original, including a lot of tasty soul cuts and covers with a deep soulful sound. ... read more

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Curtis Mayfield's lasting classic -- and an album that the world will remember forever! Apart from being his hugely successful entry into the blacksploitation soundtrack field, this album's also a monster set of grooves that includes some of Curtis' funkiest work ever -- a record that works as... read more

One of Hugo Montenegro's greatest soundtracks ever -- and one of the grooviest 60s scores we can think of! The album's filled with incredible jazzy tracks -- darkly tinged, but bubbling, strident, and wonderful -- the kind of hard-driving numbers that make a soundtrack like this so great, and... read more

Rare work by Morricone -- tracks from two different comedies from 1979, most of which have never been issued before! Only 2 or 3 songs from each movie were ever released -- and even then, only briefly, as 45rpm singles -- which means that the bulk of this 32 track set is showing up for the first... read more

The kind of sexy Morricone soundtrack we really really love! This overlooked gem is a sweet 70s side -- written for a love story starring Marcello Mastroianni and Nastassja Kinski, and done with the lightly erotic touches that make even Morricone's prettiest melodies extremely haunting and edgey. ... read more

One of the most striking Morricone scores we've ever heard -- a record that's based around 2 different themes, one breathy and sexy, the other quirky and electronic! The title theme of "Crescente E Motltiplicatevi" is very much in the Mondo Morricone mode -- slow, slinky horn passages... read more

A surprisingly great Morricone soundtrack -- written for Pasolini's film of Arabian Nights, and scored with an equally dark edge! The feel of the music is incredibly somber -- with spare organ passages that rumble with dark bass-y notes and push sound off into space, next to moodier sections that... read more

A great look at one of the first really big international moments for the music of Ennio Morricone -- his famous film scores for director Sergio Leone! Morricone and Leone worked together on many western classics -- such as Once Upon A Time In The West, For A Few Dollars More, My Name Is Nobody,... read more

Dark echoes, mixed with warmer moments -- in a compelling little soundtrack that breaks from more familiar Morricone modes! There's a few themes here that almost echo a Mondo Morricone style -- but other tracks are often quite spare, and almost earthy -- far at the limits of hearing, with odd... read more

A landmark record -- not only in the history of the western, but in that of Ennio Morricone! The soundtrack, written for this hit Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, is everything you'd want in a 60s western -- driving orchestral passages, twanging guitar parts, and spooky little bits that isolate... read more

Dark genius from Ennio Morricone -- a crime soundtrack, but one that's filled with beautifully spare moments! In a way, the feel here is a bit like his work for Le Casse/The Burglars/Gli Scassinatori -- tunes that are spacious, with subtle instrumentation -- and lots of room in between the rhythms... read more

A moody late 80s score from Ennio Morricone -- penned for a Nicolas Cage thriller known in the US as Time To Kill! The music is often quite mellow -- that mature mode that Morricone hit in the decade, when it seemed that his style was even more sonically sensitive than ever -- really rising up... read more

A lesser-known Morricone soundtrack -- written for this obscure western film! A number of tunes have that spooky "whistler" style of writing that we love from Morricone -- spare whistling over darker orchestrations -- in ways that create some spare and wonderful passages that are... read more

Spare and spooky -- and a cool Italian soundtrack for this horror film that's also known (alternately) as The Blade Of The Ripper, The Next Victim, Next, and The Strange Vice Of Mrs Ward. The style is kind of a mixture of Piccioni and Morricone -- as some tracks have a spare, moody, evocative... read more

A darkly beautiful score from Riz Ortolani -- quite different than some of his better known lighter work of the 60s, and with a really moody undercurrent on most of the set! The instrumentation is nicely offbeat -- fuzzy guitar turned down a few notches on the theme -- strings tuned oddly on... read more

After directing the first Shaft film, and letting Isaac Hayes have such a big hit with the music, Parks decided to handle the music for this sequel himself -- and scored the whole thing with just as much skill as Hayes! The music is conducted by Dick Hazard, and produced by jazzman Tom McIntosh --... read more

One of the greatest blacksploitation soundtracks ever -- a massively beautiful record that goes beyond any cliches of the genre, and serves up a fantastically unique batch of tracks! Chisoul arranger Johnny Pate did the music for the film -- and (dare we say it?) it's even greater that Issac Hayes'... read more

One of the best Italian scores we've heard in ages! The soundtrack is one of the best-ever by the great Piero Piccioni -- and it's a swirling mix of organ riffs, soulful tenor, and throbbing basslines. Some tracks burst out with a heavy groovy sound, while others hang back in a pensive jazzy kind... read more

A sexy little soundtrack from Piero Piccioni -- penned for an early 80s film, but done with a slinky style that's pure Euro 70s all the way! Keyboards mix nicely with strings on many tracks -- almost in a way that Piccioni seems to borrow from American soul maestros of the previous decade -- but... read more

One of Lalo Schifrin's greatest soundtracks ever -- a gem of a TV score that's been lost for years -- and not nearly as famous or well-reissued as Mission Impossible, Bullitt, or Enter The Dragon! The tunes are pure Schifrin all the way through -- a mix of jazz, bossa, and funk -- served up with a... read more

One of Lalo Schifrin's greatest soundtracks ever -- a gem of a TV score that's been lost for years -- and not nearly as famous or well-reissued as Mission Impossible, Bullitt, or Enter The Dragon! The tunes are pure Schifrin all the way through -- a mix of jazz, bossa, and funk -- served up with a... read more

An excellent blacksploitation soundtrack -- and every bit as funky as any of Willie Hutch's work for other Motown soundtracks at the time! Larry Mizell and Dennis Coffey help out on the instrumentation -- giving the album an extra funky instrumental edge, one that takes it way past Edwin Starr's... read more

A trio of Armando Trovajoli soundtracks -- all of them somewhat short, but plenty darn groovy when packed together on this single CD! First up is Il Magnifico Cornuto -- a score that often has a somewhat spare instrumental approach, and some slight Latin and jazz touches too -- used in ways that... read more

2 of the grooviest soundtracks ever recorded by this Italian genius! For the score to the mod 60s film Il Profeta, Trovajoli adds in some great elements like twanging guitars, trippy sitar, and hammond organ -- all of which groove along in kind of a "go go" mode on the set's best numbers... read more

One of the coolest Italian soundtracks we've heard in a long time -- a wonderful set of tunes that moves from slinky, to easy, to groovy, and beyond! The tunes start out bubbling very spare and slow -- with floating piano, moog, and other nice bits -- and as the record progresses, the sound gets... read more

One of the coolest Italian soundtracks we've heard in a long time -- a wonderful set of tunes that moves from slinky, to easy, to groovy, and beyond! The tunes start out bubbling very spare and slow -- with floating piano, moog, and other nice bits -- and as the record progresses, the sound gets... read more

A fab little soundtrack from one of our favorite Italian composers -- a lost gem originally issued in 1971, with a very groovy sound! The score has Piero Umiliani picking up a bit more funk than usual -- working with electric bass and keyboards to come up with some totally great tracks that kind... read more

A rare spaghetti western score from Piero Umiliani -- an Italian composer we usually know best for bossa or more jazz-oriented scores, but who sounds right at home in this genre too! The album's got a sound that really shows the full range of Umiliani's talents -- a few western-styled numbers with... read more

An amazing set of modern jazz -- penned by Italian film composer Piero Umiliani, but also played by a very hip group headed by a young Gato Barbieri! Although Gato's probably best known for his late 60s appearances on the American scene, and his 70s dates for Impulse and Flying Dutchman -- his... read more

An amazing set of modern jazz -- penned by Italian film composer Piero Umiliani, but also played by a very hip group headed by a young Gato Barbieri! Although Gato's probably best known for his late 60s appearances on the American scene, and his 70s dates for Impulse and Flying Dutchman -- his... read more

As is ably demonstrated by the large number of Brazilian-sounding bands to come out of Italy in the past 10 years, the bossa nova sound has always had a big big influence on the direction of Italian music. This cool set from Cinevox traces some of the roots of that influence -- by focusing on the... read more

A really crazy little book -- one that's filled with sexy images from Italian comedies of the 60s and 70s -- and packaged with a special CD to match! The book itself is practically softcore porn (so be aware of that, you sensitive viewers!) -- 326 full color pages with images from the films, most... read more

The first-ever volume of the now-legendary Easy Tempo series -- a collection of soundtrack grooves that hipped us back to the wonders of the Italian scene of the 60s and 70s -- and did so at a time when few folks had ever thought to reissue this music! Right from the start, this series set a whole... read more

Slammin's a definite good choice for the title of this one -- as this 5th entry in the Easy Tempo series seems even funkier than the other volumes -- a set that's got plenty of full-on grooves, hand-picked from the genius Italian soundtrack years of the 60s and 70s! If you're looking for a place... read more

This great series keeps on redefining itself! While previous volumes have focused on funky, jazzy, and Latiny cuts -- this fab 8th volume features a beautiful blend of tracks with a spare easy feel, and an exploration into the Italian minimalist groove -- that ethereal, almost otherwordly style... read more

A sound library treasure -- a wealth of wonderful recordings from the under-compiled Studio G imprint -- home to some really unusual music! The "spacey folk" and "horror" in the title is only part of the picture -- as these tunes aren't all that spooky overall, and many numbers... read more

The funkiest, grooviest batch of 70s Porno Grooves we've ever heard -- a huge leap up from the stereotypical bomp chicka wow wow exploitation-by-numbers sounds of the era -- really fantastic stuff culled from the 70s adult films library of Fantasy Productions! Not to be confused with the legendary... read more

Amazing grooves from the Lollywood scene of the 70s -- the Pakistani equivalent of the films coming out of India's Bollywood at the time! The grooves here are often quite different than what you might hear from Bollywood -- still touched with an Eastern, exotic sensibility (at least to our Western... read more

A landmark double-live album that was easily one of the most important soul record moments of the 70s! The concert was an all-star event held in LA to celebrate the anniversary of the Watts riots -- but it features a killer lineup of talent from the roster of Stax Records -- by then a proud... read more

A totally cool little compilation -- kind of the sonic equivalent of a night at the drive-in movies! The package digs through some really raunchy exploitation rock of the 60s -- gritty garage tracks, freaky exotic numbers, and other rough-edged gems -- then mixes the music with rare horror film... read more