Carter Stevens

     my favourite porno director died a few days ago, Carter Stevens. his film Teenage Twins is what got me to discover what library music was. no one else could pick library tracks like this man, all of his films have stellar library selection throughout. the picture above is from the cover of one of the booklets from the "After Hours Cinema" dvd sets. that company did a great job of releasing a whole whack of his films, including his best ones, like Pleasure Palace and Punk Rock. they even include commentary tracks, where Stevens gives countless interesting stories, and really comes off like a great guy. on this blog you'll find the best wall to wall soundtrack he did, Double Your Pleasure. more Carter Stevens will for sure be included on this blog in the future. 

long live the king of porno!

Lust in the Fast Lane (1984)

     well it's christmas time again, marking a whole year of no posts haha. been quite the year, and to top it all off i can't seem to rip anything anymore without interference noise. no need for that here though, as i compiled this many a year ago. first saw this long before i ever even knew who Traci Lords was. the complete soundtrack comes from Network tunes, great mixture of disco and funk, with aor thrown in too. think i did this in 2014, wish i dated these things haha. now i'll leave you with something from my porno mag collection, see you next year, same time same place!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

just moved, don't even have everything set up yet, can't not have the tree up though.

Seka For Christmas (1979)

     well it's christmas morning at 3am, no better time to post then now. haven't made a single post here all year so i figured i better do it now just under the wire. for this one i'm throwing it way to my early days in library. pretty sure this was the first soundtrack i made where i ID'ed everything. it's "Seka For Christmas" from 1979, which was a short in the famous Swedish Erotica line. i always liked this little one, four tracks in total, coming from Sonoton and KPM. it doesn't get any better than Seka. Gerhard Narholz & John Fiddy supply the first half, and Rick Morcombe & Geoff Castle take the rest. fantastic disco and funk here. this was i guess the sixth release in my pop pulsations label, circa 2014 i think. well i hope you enjoy the soundtrack, and look out for a nugget or two coming in the new year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

here was our little set-up

Peer International - Rock Allegro (1976)

     figured i'd throw this up if anyone was interested in it, Peer International's 9036 "Rock Allegro" from 1976. i hope to sell this so i ripped it in preparation. i bought this years ago after finding out "Solid Funk" was on it. was hoping there would be other ID stuff on it, but that didn't turn out to be the case. i needed that track in high quality for a project anyway, so it wasn't entirely a loss. there's some decent stuff on here besides the obvious standout, but most of it is just standard rock stuff, not much my flavour. "Solid Funk" though, what a tune!

Blacula (1972)

     no other film and its soundtrack mean more to me than 'Blacula'. the greatest blaxploitation movie and my second favourite record of all time. the stuff that gene page does for this film is out of this world. the film was one of the first blax films that i saw, and the funkyness got me right away. coming out in 1972 (the first definitive year of blax with other classics like 'Hit Man', 'Cool Breeze', 'Hammer', etc.) really helped give the genre its legs. the amazing thing about it is the family friendly nature really, cause this is certainly not a genre for that. but it works so well here. a while ago i compiled a list in chronological order of what i consider to be every blaxploitation film, which you can find here. out of the 234 films, this one takes that cake. and the soundtrack, oh man it's just incredible. pre-Barry White here Gene Page is a master. now the released soundtrack does have all the good tunes, but some of the versions are different than the ones that were used in the film.
     the main theme version that is on the soundtrack release is excellent, but i honestly prefer the film version. "Theme (Original)" from the film is much more in-your-face i'd say, and it just sounds like a theme. whereas the album version sounds more like a funky track that could appear anywhere in the film. the version of "Movin' (Original)" that is used in the film is the opposite however, the album version is much more lively than its film counterpart. the other stellar tracks "Run, Tina, Run!", "Good To The Last Drop", and "Firebombs", appear to be the same versions. creating the true soundtrack has been a long time coming.

Denise LaSalle ‎- I'm So Hot (1980)

     a top ten disco track for me right here. "I'm So Hot" is a perfect disco song, from the long building intro to the catchy pre-chorus to the insane strings. the vocals are amazing, the music is genius, it's just perfect. Denise had a lot of good songs, but nothing comes close to this one, and even the rest of this album feels like a letdown after you hear the first track. but again, doesn't even matter. Denise passed just a month ago now, blasting this in her honour, RIP.

Three Ripening Cherries (1979)

     not much to say about the film, decent Carlos Tobalina outing with a pretty great cast. equally great soundtrack, ranging from Studio One to Amphonic libraries. several tracks in the film are even from something that was posted here years ago out of my collection. so here's a little mix i made of my favourite cuts from the film, with one track being sourced right from the print, cause i don't know what the hell it is or where it's originally from.

Denise Lopez - Every Dog Has Her Day!!! (1990)

     i first found out about this record years ago while searching for michael jay tracks, to this day it's still amazing late 80s pop. smash hit after smash hit on this one. actually both of her albums are so great, and that's pretty much her whole career. this second record definitely feels a little more polished all around. though i will say her first record packs in more uptempo tunes than this one, which makes me lean towards preferring that one. but a michael jay track here may be my favourite in her catalog. almost veers into new jack swing territory, just amazingly catchy. 

     Denise appears on the great "Cool As Ice" film. one of my favourite parts is when 'It's Just My Heart That's Breakin' is crankin' on the ghettoblaster towards the end of the film. personally i think the movie is way too heavily criticized, it's awesome.