...according to our Brett on Thu 11 Jun, 2009.
As far as I can ascertain from the booklet and press release, Dracula's Music Cabinet was made as the soundtrack to an imaginary film that The Vampires of Dartmoore (some sound library dudes in 1970s Germany) created, feeling that the soundtrack tag might get it released and out there. From listening to it I imagine the film probably would've been some sort of Hammer/Carry On hybrid, because it's 100% total swingin' trash in the nicest possible way. Imagine cheesy melodies, just one step up from elevator music, with orgasmic moaning laid over it ('The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sex'). Or lightly plucked, politely surfy guitar jamming with your organ-playing uncle while comedy 'boing-oing' noises punctuate like someone's just pulled Barbara Windsor's top down ('Dance of the Vampires'). It's highly entertaining but don't go expecting anything approaching musical genius!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.
Over 20 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
kraut-siders 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 sweat, tears and lots of
blood.
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