The Vampires of Dartmoore - Dracula's Music Cabinet LP
Finders Keepers present this uber-rare soundtrack to a film that never existed, performed by an imaginary pop group. Incredible Polanski-inspired German hip-hop psychsploitation beats from 1969.
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 Eurotrash pop equivalent of Jean Renoir’s 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 twenty 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- hoppers, psych nuts and Krautsiders 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 €250 plus, not to mention sweat, tears (of laughter) and a lot of blood.
Revamped, remastered, and re-presented! Available once again since the initial Finders Keepers’ limited edition 2009 pressing.
Tracklist:
1. Die Folterkammer des Dr. Sex (The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sex)
2. Crime and Horror
3. Der Feuerdrachen von HongKong (The Fire-Dragon of HongKong)
4. Mord im Ohio Express (Murder in the Ohio Express)
5. Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires)
6. Hallo, Mister Hitchcock
7. Der Henker von Dartmoore (The Executioner of Dartmoore)
8. Endes eines Killers (Killer's End)
9. Die Wasserleiche (The Soaked Body)
10. Eine Handvoll Nitro (A Handful of Nitro)
11. Dr. Caligaris Gruselkabinett (Dr. Caligari's Creeps-Cabinet)
12. Frankenstein grubt Alpha 7 (Frankenstein Greets Alpha 7)
About this product: this reissue is pressed on black vinyl.