A great collection of work from Michel Magne – one of the hippest French soundtrack talents of the 60s! Most of side one features music for the film Les Tontons Flinguers – an early 60s soundtrack on the French scene, and one that showed that music like this was soon going to rival all the cool changes going on in Italian cinema too! There's a nice blend of jazzy and mod elements going on here – older soundtrack modes given a special tweak – so that the Magne magic means that things take on all these cool 60s touches – with wordless vocals, jerky rhythms, and even some very cool organ lines at times! The set only features six tracks, but they're all pretty darn great – and titles include "Tontons Swing", "Tamoure Hully Gully", "Slow De Tontons", "Route De Nuit", "Tamoure", and "Final". But the record also features a lot more music too – all from films directed by the great Georges Lautner – including five numbers from the excellent crime film Ne Nous Fachons Pas by Bernard Gerard, and more Michel Magne tracks from Galia, Fleur D'Oseille, and Les Barbouzes – LP, Vinyl record album

Fantastic funky cuts from the glory days of the French soundtrack scene – a moment when some of that nation's film composers were really tripping out, but in a way that's very different than American or Italian soundtrack talents of the time! If you know the funky moments in the work of Serge Gainsbourg, you'll know part of the vibe here – but there's a nicely expansive approach here that runs the gamut of modes from the late 60s on up to the early 80s – with cuts from thrillers, erotic films, and even just some regular movies that happen to have some pretty darn great soundtracks! The set features 29 tracks in all – and titles include "OK Chicago" by Resonnance, "I Don't Know Why" by Francis Lai, "Les Temps Des Loups" by George Garvarentz, "Grand Theme Malko" by Michel Magne, "Munich Party" by Thierry Vincent, "Fantasme D'Emmanuelle" by Michel Magne, "Le Crocodile Porte-Cle" by Bernard Gerard, "Petrol Pop" by Michel Magne & Jean Yanne, "Disco Circus" by Pierre Bachelet, "Sexopolis" by Jean-Pierre Mirouze, "Full Speed" by Claude Bolling, "Kidnapping" by Karl Heinz Schafer, "Two Partners" by Jean Pierre Pouret, "Femmes" by Nathalie Et Christine, and "Le Theme D'Olivier" by Francis Lai. LP, Vinyl record album