Release : Rockford Kabine - Italian Music
Artist : Rockford Kabine
Album : Italian Music
Genre : Lo-Fi
Source : CDDA
Label : Combination Records
URL : http://www.rockford-kabine.de
Date : 00-00-2007
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 181kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 31
Time : 41:12 min
Size : 55.11 MB
1 Introduzione 0:59
2 La Caccia 1:43
3 L'estremo Giomo 0:54
4 Al Signor Lorenzo N. 2:33
5 Di-Stanza 1:10
6 Il Dr. Caronte 0:56
7 Intermezzo 1 0:10
8 IX 0:37
9 Il Pelo 1:32
10 Legata Alla Rima 1:24
11 Insensato 1:12
12 La Linea Di Mezzo 1:30
13 Morte A 33 Giri 1:23
14 Monroe 1:38
15 Dio In Leopardi 1:56
16 Amore Senza Stima 2:10
17 Si, Un Poco! 1:03
18 Sesso Con La Polizia 1:38
19 Italo Calvino 1:52
20 Sarcofagi 0:58
21 Zombi 3000 1:16
22 Il Messagino 1:09
23 In Pace 1:56
24 La Mascherata 1:42
25 Canto 1 0:58
26 Ossessione 1:05
27 Intermezzo 2 0:04
28 Vago Volto 1:48
29 Notte Delle Spie 1:04
30 Profondo Rosso 1:19
31 Al Sig. Francesco Spada 1:33
We knew nothing at all about this disc when it arrived. Not even sure how we
ended up listening to it, but we're so so glad we did. The thing is, we get tons
of stuff to listen to. Some all time AQ favorites began life as a random record
that showed up in the mail, so we try to listen to everything, or as close to
everything as we can. But there's so much, that just listening to random stuff
that gets mailed in could be its own full time job (and before you all email
wanting that job, trust us, it's not all it's cracked up to be). Inevitably
stuff slips through the cracks, or we finally manage to listen to a cd months,
sometimes years after it shows up.
But this one caught our eye straight away, with a super creepy cover depicting a
dead woman, covered in blood, in a wide expanse of blackness, above her a head,
with a hole in the forehead, and a rainbow shooting through the head onto the
dead woman, all done sort of oil painting style. Immediately we thought, "Wow,
that sort of looks like some Argento movie". Then we saw the title, 31 Invalid
Movie Themes ¡ Italian Music. Hmm. By a group called Orchestra Di Rockford
Kabine. Okay, so maybe, we thought, a soundtrack to some giallo we'd never heard
of. The first track seemed to confirm that, a snippet of dialogue from some
Italian movie, dialogue, some buzzing creepy sci-fi synth, a panicked woman,
screaming, some sort of struggleè
Then suddenly, we're in some sort of groovy sixties funk jam, all shuffling
percussion, wah wah guitar, throbbing bass grooves, and then out of nowhere, a
strangely convoluted interlude, very brief, but sort of stuttery, and then back
to the groove. So now we're dying to know what movie this is from. Then the next
track is some sort of stripped down electro groove, a jazzy piano vamp, lots and
lots of record crackle, this couldn't be from the sixtiesè
And it isn't. It ends up it's a German duo called Rockford Kabine, not a person
at all, not a composer, an electronic/sampling outfit who describe their sound
as "acid smurf" (huh?) and whose modus operandi is crafting little cinematic pop
nuggets. Like DJ Shadow doing Morricone. The various tracks are super brief, but
super groovy and catchy, some are dark and ominous and ultra creepy, some are
playful and exotic. Some sound like they belong in a spaghetti Western, others
like they belong in a classic Italian horror film, one track even uses the sound
of a pinball machine as the rhythm. Plus the whole disc is peppered with bits of
dialogue from movies making it seem even more possible that these could all be
little fragments from lost movie scores.
The sounds are all over the place, but manage to sound like they all belong, if
not in the same film, at least in the same collection. From the aforementioned
opening groover, to the smoky synth flecked mood music of "Al Signor Lorenzo N."
complete with a creepy children's choir, to the exploitation cop show funk jam
of "Di-Stanza", to the super distorted buzzy sixties psychedelia of "IX", to the
Tom Waits via Amon Tobin stuttery junkyard percussion of "Insensato", to the
muted meandering twangy western sizzle of "Italo Calvino", to the stripped down,
but somehow still spooky rhythmic workout of "Zombi 3000", to the very DJ
Shadow-ish creepy crawl of "Profondo Rosso" and it goes on and on. Every track
is a strange little gem. Mysterious and cinematic. Each could easily be the
theme from some lost film, or just a kick ass little segment from some DJ's set.
31 tracks, averaging a little more than a minute each, these tracks may not
actually be from real movies, but repeated listening will have you wishing they
were, or just creating the movies in your head as you listen. Fucking awesome.
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