Artist	Song
Syd Dale	Baseline
Goblin	La Via Della Droga
Nicholas Flagello	Wailing Wail
John Barry	Vendetta
Walter Murphy	Hocus Pokus
Alan Moorehouse	Expo in Tokyo
Lee Selmoco Orchestra	Blue Media
James Clarke	Second Cut
Dennis Coffy	Theme From Black Belt Jones
Alan Parker	Unlimited Love
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra	Happening In White
Duncan Lamont	Funky Express
Richard C. Sanders	Afrocat
Luis Bacalov	Summertime Killer
Mario Nascimbene	Shake & Bake
Lalo Schifrin	Theme From Bullitt
Armando Trovajoli	Blazing Magnum
Alan Hawkshaw	Senior Thump
Stefano Torossi	Running Fast
Edward Simon	Harvey Wallbanger
Keith Mansfield	Crash Course
Guido & Maurizio De Angelis	New Special Squad
Henry Mancini	Midnight Cowboy
DJ Shadow	Theme From Dark Days
The Plugz	Reel Ten

Comment:

This collection- mostly from the '60s and '70s- is all music (or in the case of Mancini's composition of "Midnight Cowboy", a cover thereof) created for the sole purpose of scoring some moment in audio-visual terms, whether cinematic or televised, opening credits or panoramic sweeping shots or dynamic fight-and-chase-and-shoot scenes. From the most obscure pieces of PSA-scoring library music to the theme songs to blockbuster films, they all seem to serve the sole purpose of drawing a thick underline beneath the action as if to say "yes, this stuff on the screen should hold your attention now." But divorced from the visual, the audio holds up surprisingly well; the best moments recall pieces of the electro-jazz-funk fusion of early '70s Blue Note and the relentless percussive grooves of Santana and Sly Stone. Twenty-three tracks of German pop-lounge, Italian folk-funk and good ol' American whock-a-chicka, and two great songs to close by people who may be better known for their albums than their scores- but damn, what scores they are. (Most of these songs are taken from a few choice sources- Luke Vibert's "Nuggets" compilation, the two "Cinemaphonic" compilations, the "Beretta 70" collection of '70s Italian crime film themes, 18th Street Lounge's "Easy Tempo", and "Music For Dancefloors: The Cream of the KPM Music Green Label Sessions".)

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