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Ennio Morricone’s incredible score for the 1977 cult thriller starring Kirk Douglas. Holocaust 2000 was one of those gems from the Maestro best era; late 70’s to early 80’s. Complete edition for this first vinyl reissue ever.

A Catching exploration of Easy Listening and Lounge music by the legendary Piero Umiliani, one of the Italian score Masters who penned some of the most outstanding film music from the 60’s and 70’s. Composed for the Italian spy thriller Requiem per un Agente Segret starring Stewart Granger and Bond-girl, Daniela Bianchi.

The great Bruno Nicolai, one of the closest collaborator of Ennio Morricone, composed this epic score for the second film of the western cult classic SABATA TRILOGY, starring the legendary Yul Brinner, employing a dramatic style creating what is considered one of the great masterpieces of Italian western music.

This super cult spy thriller made in 1968 and directed by Fernando Cerchio was the third in a successful film series. Previous installments had featured excellent scores by Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini. The master tapes of this incredible PIERO UMILIANI soundtrack were recently discovered in the composer’s archives: combining jazz with 1960s beats, a hint of bossa, spanish style guitar, trumpet, sexy vocals and performed by the elite of the jazz and session scenes at the time, this score is a classic of its kind and a potential lounge music hit!

Perfect “noir jazz style” soundtrack composed by the Maestro Ennio Morricone for the 1966 Italian crime thriller “Svegliati e Uccidi” (aka “Too Soon To Die”) directed by the well-known Carlo Lizzani (who first gained notoriety working on such Italian neorealist classics as Rossellini’s “Germany Year Zero” and De Santis’s “Bitter Rice”) and starring Robert Hoffman and Gian Maria Volonté. Dark and powerful, this is one of the best of Morricone’s crime thriller scores of the period, which should appeal to fans of celebrated scores like Città Violenta and Revolver.

For this weird gothic horror movie the director SERGIO MARTINO teamed up with the legendary Ennio Morricone’s longtime collaborator BRUNO NICOLA. A classy symphonic soundtrack featuring harpsichord sounds and poignant violins that create a perfect decadent atmosphere.

The soundtrack for this epic western movie featuring the great Lee Van Cleef bears the signature of Ennio Morricone: Guitars, flute, piano, timpani, drums and a Native-American choir style make this motion picture a kind of original masterpiece in the maestro's oeuvre. I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni perform here in their own unique way with Alessandro Alessandroni on evidence with his original whistling. The main musical theme was employed by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill vol.1 and in Inglourious Bastards!

Since 1998 the esteemed Italian Soundtrack and Library reissue label Dagored has been releasing deluxe and limited vinyl reissues of classics from Morricone to Cipriani, Fidenco and more. With releases ranging from sweeping orchestral scores to blistering library jazz-funk Dagored has always been ahead of the curve; they began reissuing obscure Poliziotteschi and horror soundtracks way back when many current reissue label heads were still in primary school. From the erotic Black Emanuelle, or the Mafia thriller Il Prefetto di Ferro, to the truly surreal mind-trip of Veruschka, Dagored has put together a series of titles that - given the beauty of their cover artwork - we could not help but offer them now as fabulous picture discs!

A dark and heavy sound for this incredible instrumental soundtrack composed by the great RIZ ORTOLANI for the 1971 cult movie Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno, directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Klaus Kinski and Anthony Franciosa. Heavy guitars, piano suites, harpsicord passages, deep bass all over in a fantastic mix very similar to Ennio Morricone’s horror soundtracks of the period!- FIRST TIME COMPLETE SCORE ON VINYL- LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES ON BLOODY RED VINYL- DELUXE EMBOSSED COVER

Legendary soundtrack from the maestro Ennio Morricone ranging from jazz to lounge atmospheres of mystery and suspense, with ethnic elements of Middle Eastern culture, classic surf-spy theme song, hippy bongo suspense, orchestral moods, cocktail blues, roller rink electric guitar and much, much more.

For this crazy Italian thriller directed by Sergio Pastore, Manuel De Sica, son of the Italian neorealism legendary director Vittorio De Sica and student under the great neoavantgarde composer Bruno Maderna, composed a catchy soundtrack which range from romantic melodies to psychedelic pop and bossa nova, mixing together 60’s lounge, jazz-funk guitars and strings dissonance.

Great soundtrack from the Italian Silver Age composed by Carlo Rustichelli for the Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson) cult film I Lunghi Capelli Della Morte. Dark and gloomy moods with orchestral sound, tense atmospheres and diabolical paganic dances!

Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for the 1971 documentary Veruschka, Poesia Di Una Donna about the legendary and the world’s first supermodel Veruschka (a real ‘60s/’70s icon that starred in several cult movies including Blow Up, Salome and Coleur Chair).

A great blend of 60s mood and Italian jazz composed by the dynamic duo Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini for the 1965 movie based on the mega cult Italian comic hero Kriminal.

Stunning jazz soundtrack for the 1967 movie based on the Italian cult comic series Satanik.

Written and directed by and starring Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi and Luciano Lucignani, L’Alibi is a 1969 comedy drama about a trio of friends who reunite after many years apart The score brims with 60’s cool, lots of cheerful tunes, some pop arrangements, some lounge jazz, some dazzling vocals all of them featuring that unmistakable Morricone air. It’s light music, highly entertaining, listenable throughout and full of delightful little touches. “Canzone della libertà’” is an unusual piece performed by the legendary Sergio Endrigo and the I Cantori Moderni di Alessandro Alessandroni, which includes snippets from famous speeches about freedom: its moody, catchy main theme, the unusual instrumentation and the style percussive accompaniment make a great combination.

Berto Pisano was a bass player, composer, arranger and Italian conductor; among the interesting soundtracks he composed, there is certainly a major spot reserved for INTERRABANG, the cult giallo/erotic film of 1969 which at the time was quite out of the box as it matched the exotic-erotic genre with the psychological thriller. Strong jazzy themes supported by strings, vibraphone, soft drums, some great bossanova mixed with shakin’ mid-tempo tunes and the magnificent vocals of Edda Dell’Orso make this soundtrack a truly beautiful experience.

Racy and doomy soundtrack filled with incredible dark jazz tunes composed by the great PIERO PICCIONI for the Italian cinema masterpiece LE MANI SULLA CITTA’ directed by FRANCESCO ROSI and winner of the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Film Festival of 1963. Piero Piccioni has composed more than 300 scores for film, television, radio, ballet and orchestra, working with legendary directors as Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi.

A really interesting soundtrack, composed by the cult author Luciano Michelini for the 1973 erotic thriller ANNA QUEL PARTICOLARE PIACERE, wich alternates romantic moments with the voice of the great Edda Dell’Orso and easy listening - funky tunes. Limited vinyl edition with extra tracks.- LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES IN DOUBLE COLORED VINYL

A stunning collection of psychedelic-funky-bossa tunes with lounge vibes from AMEDEO TOMMASI. One of the rarest library music albums from the the legendary OCTOPUS label, originally released in 1970. - FIRST EVER REISSUE- LIMITED EDITION OF 500 in ORANGE VINYL

There are two categories of artist: the ones who follow trends and show an ability to integrate them and the ones who create trends; Franco Micalizzi is one of the latter. Composer, arranger and orchestra leader, Micalizzi has contributed more than anyone else in Italy to the birth and formation of what has come to be known as pulp music.This LP is a summary of the musical soundtrack cult of the 70s reimagined with great new arrangements written by the maestro for his group, The Big Bubbling Band. La Banda Del Gobbo - Italia a Mano Armata – Napoli Violenta - Il Cinico, L’infame, Il Violento and many more, concluding with trinity drawn from Lo Chiamavano Trinita’ and reclaimed by Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained. The strongest abilities of Franco Micalizzi? An amazing band, spacey grooves, a bit of jazz atmosphere, the timeless brass-crescendo of Micalizzi, the charm of 70’s funk and... the untameable talent of the maestro!

Italian directors GUALTIERO JACOPETTI and FRANCO PROSPERI gave birth to a whole new subgenre of “non-fiction” exploitation movies with their 1962 hit MONDO CANE. After repeated accusations of forgery, unethical behaviors and war crimes, they decided to make a movie about the atrocities of American slavery as an apology of sorts. It was 1971 and the movie was FAREWELL UNCLE TOM (ADDIO ZIO TOM) The famous critic Roger Ebert called the result “the most disgusting, contemptuous insult to decency ever to masquerade as a documentary” Naked flesh, voyeurism and violence is constantly used but gorgeous photography and a memorable score from Academy Award nominee RIZ ORTOLANI add a sickening slickness to it all: rock- beat tunes mixed with classic big band themes, waltz and funny marches and the beautiful OH MY LOVE, with the vocals from Katyna Ranieri, used, among many others by Winding Refn in his cult movie DRIVE (2011).

Stunning and super rare soundtrack composed by Maestro Bruno Nicolai (longtime Ennio Morricone collaborator and legendary Italian composer) for the Jean Louis Trintignant 1972 movie Una Giornata Spesa Bene

Super rare soundtrack composed by the dynamic duo Nino Tassone and Nico Fidenco for the obscure italian cult thriller “Appuntamento a Dallas” (1964). Incredible italian jazz vibes, lounge tunes and sweet vocals for one of the most sought after soundtracks by collectors all over the world.

What would it be “a fistful of dollars” without Alessandro Alessandroni’s whistle? Alessandroni - not accidentally nicknamed by Fellini “il fischio” - started his whistling career within Nino Rota’s orchestra to then become the hallmark of the spaghetti western era. First reissue ever for this stunning LP, originally released under the legendary Flipper imprint in 1976, which presents a collection of astonishing “whistle” pieces by Alessandroni.

The vibrant soundtrack composed by the great Ennio Morricone for the 1970 fetishistic and dark Italian thriller Le Foto Proibite di Una Signora Perbene influenced by the works of bossa-nova artist Antonio Carlos Jobim and featuring the unequalled and unsurpassed voice of soprano Edda Dell’Orso.

Incredible psych-groove soundtrack by Peppino De Luca, know for his collaboration with the “library music band” Marc 4, for the italian cult movie La Ragazza Con La Pistola directed by the legendary director Mario Monicelli, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969 and starring Monica Vitti.

The soundtrack of Mario Bava’s 1972 Cult Movie. Stelvio Cipriani’s legendary soundtrack contains jazzy elements and classic sounds combined with great audio effects obtained by “torturing” guitars, drums and the wind.

The Maestro Morricone’s Mediterranean sounds for the cult movie “Il Prefetto di Ferro” are sometimes warm, sometimes hard and sharp. With this score we can easily understand how much the legendary Italian composer know about Sicilian folk music; the wonderful ballad “La Ballata del Prefetto Mori” is magistrally interpreted by one of the most important voices of Sicilian folk music: the legendary Rosa Balistreri.

A superb soundtrack composed for the Francesco Rosi’s film “Cadaveri Eccellenti” based on the novel “Il Trattato” by Leonardo Sciascia. A portrait of Italy during the infamous Years of Lead (Anni di Piombo), Cadaveri Eccellenti presented in 1976 at the Cannes Film Festival caused an outcry for the inconvenient issues addressed. Jazz and funky tunes are mixed here with a big orchestra-style peculiar of the best composition by the maestro Piero Piccioni, this album is an enjoyable journey into dark and light atmospheres.

A really great western soundtrack from the giant Riz Ortolani for the 1967 cult movie Day of Anger starring the mighty Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma Mixing the usual western elements, Morricone style, with some incredible groovy touches with jazzy horns and loud electric guitars Ortolani brings a new jazz verve into the “spaghetti” western sound The electrifying main theme used by Quentin Tarantino for his Kill Bill and Django Unchained movies

Alessandro Brugnolini (Overground, L’Uomo dagli Occhiali a Specchio) is an italian composer and alto sax player who launched his career playing in a super jazz group band inspired by Miles Davis, The Modern Jazz Gang and later developed a very prolific activity as a composer and performer under his name as well as under pseudonyms (such as Narassa). One of the first pure jazz soundtracks for a movie belongs to him: it was 1963 and the movie was Enzo Battaglia’s Gli Arcangeli. Featuring the legendary american singer Helen Merrill here it is, reissued for the first time on vinyl, one of the all-time rarest italian jazz LP.

Originally released in 1980 under the legendary Flower label, Barocco & Romantico is another wonderful and almost unknown gem from maestro Alessandro Alessandroni. Great cinematic atmosphere in a selection of fantastic mellow tunes inspired by ancient melodies.

Stunning soundtrack composed by SANTE MARIA ROMITELLI for the psychological thriller HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (aka Il Rosso Segno della Follia) directed by the legendary MARIO BAVA, the granddaddy of Italian horror films. Disturbing and dissonant tracks in a fascinating fusion of classical, electronic, lounge and rock&roll music: a psychedelic alteration of the traditional horror scoring for this strange movie, a bizarre mixture between a giallo and a ghost story.

Classic soundtrack from the great Nico Fidenco (BLACK EMANUELLE) for the western movie PER IL GUSTO DI UCCIDERE from the cult director Tonino Valeri (My Name Is Nobody - Day of Anger) Fidenco is linked to the tradition of the great spaghetti western soundtracks such as the ones composed by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai, with a lot of classic musical elements and the help of I CANTORI MODERNI of Alessandro Alessandroni but with his personal and special “touch”.- FIRST TIME EVER EXTENDED RELEASE ON VINYL- LIMITED EDITION OF 500 IN DOUBLE COLOURED VINYL

Limited to numbered 500 copies on blue vinyl!“Ricordi d’Infanzia,” originally released on the legendary Italian label FLIRT in 1975 is an excellent library music LP by the great Daniela Casa. 11 tracks of soft, romantic, exotic pop with a sweet and childish atmosphere designed for use in radio, film, tv, documentaries and educational projects. Daniela Casa is a true legend of early experimental electronic music and has been recently rediscovered as a great inspiration by many contemporary artists as Madlib.

Limited to numbered 500 copies on milk white vinyl!TUSCO is one of the many pseudonyms that legendary composer and producer PIERO UMILIANI uses to not overcrowd the sonorization market with his name. Umiliani was a well-known Italian soundtrack composer and jazz musician. He was one of the pioneers of styles such as exotica and lounge and used a lot of funk moves in his soundtracks, too. He also composed a lot of library album covering genres such as Spaghetti Western, Giallo, Sex Films and Documentaries all self-produced in his mighty SOUNDWORKSHOP Studio, equipped with the most advanced screening and editing systems of that time. SUSPENCE ELETTRONICA is a very rare experimental/ ambient electronic album from the early 80’s with a great use of synthesizers. Long time forgotten masterpiece of early electronic music reissued for the first time ever!

Limited edition of 500 on transparent vinyl!A fabulous jazzy, psyched-out score with extremely “seventies” vibes and high energy mood composed by the Maestro STELVIO CIPRIANI (Concorde ’79) for TENTACLES, a thriller directed in 1977 by Ovidio Assonotis and starring a bunch of Hollywood stars as Shelly Winters, John Huston and Henry Fonda.

Limited to 500 copies!Incredible and rare italian library music masterpiece from the long forgotten and mysterious musician Paolo Ferrara. Afrosound, bassbeat, sambasound, bossa feeling, tumbasound, pianobeat: funky tunes in a fantastic record! Originally pressed in only 300 copies in 1975 for the first time ever reissued on vinyl.

Limited to 500 copies!Mega rare italian library music from the great Alessandro Alessandroni, closest collaborator of the Maestro Ennio Morricone. Psych, funk, lounge, bossa in a legendary LP originally released in 1971 by the great Italian label CANOPO.

First ever reissue, 2nd pressing on black wax.

Omaggio ad Einstein', among the many albums of electronic music composed by Piero Umiliani, has a very relevant place. In this homage to the German physicist, Umiliani subverts the rules of space and time in music and creates an album with 23 compositions, all of them less than 2 minutes long, instead of following the traditional 7-10 tracks usually present in an LP.

Limited numbered edition of 1000 copies!A sophisticated work by Claudio Gizzi for the soundtrack of the ultra cult FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, the legendary movie directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, starring a young Udo Kier. With its sad tone the score perfectly matches the cold and cruel realism of this bizarre horror film.