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F.Mavelli - Special Brigade CD (SLR030)
Florenza Mavelli's Special Brigade soundtrack first surfaced on the legendary CBS blog late 2007, only to fade into obscurity again after the old CBS's foreclosure. Now its back, remastered from vintage reel to reel tape, 14 tracks with lots of never before heard material on a CD album! The soundtrack of Special Brigade (aka Uomini Brigata Specialle) an obscure italian tv-series from yesteryear tells the story of an elite special goverment police unit formed to counter terrorism and organised crime. Ultra dramatic Italian cop soundtracks...Check out all the soundbytes here on the strangelife site.
Mono-Poly - Atlantic Storm CD (SLR031)
Monopoly's second album after releasing the ZOND3 CD on the Japanese Doppelganger records in 2008. Think of the great rural ambient sounds of Brian Eno's On Land mixed with dark isolationist dronescapes from the 1980s. Using rare modular synthesizers such as ancient EMS synthi's, Buchla's, Serge's etc. Atlantic Storm is the perfect music for a cold rainy day on the outer hebrides' atlantic shores...and that is ofcourse, just the way we like it. Probably one of the most essential rural ambient albums on strange life records so far!
Comes in a DVD box with a Monopoly postcard. Check out the soundbytes here.
Legowelt - Amiga Railroad Adventures CD (SLR032)
From the romantic days of Amiga computing cosyness come 16 fresh new Legowelt tracks in the style of Beyond the Congo and Venom 18. Music about golf courses in the Bermuda Triangle (oh no the ball went into a dimensional hole!), Night driving through 16 bit Amiga Pine Forests (Deluxe Paint sprites!), British railroad romantics (dedication to the trainspotters), Dr. Loomis' adventures in Haddonfield and much, much more! Made on the mighty Amiga 1200 running the Octamed sequencer, a TR808, a couple of Korg modulars and some old effects boxes.
Check out all the soundbytes here at the strangelife records site.
You can order the albums at the strangelife shop, shipping worldwide.
8 comments:
Love it! More "Amiga" stuff please!
:D
Looking enticing
received the Special Brigade" CD. it's wonderful. thank you so much for that!
i got mine last tuesday and i´m glad i´ve ordered it.
great, dramatic music with a nice story.
i ment the special brigade cd.
cool. Lots of more stuff planned for release this year so keep an eye out
All of the 16 tracks are great. I was really looking forward to this album and you did not disappoint
My Gran liked the Monopoly CD - she used to go on working holidays to the island of St. KIlda and is still obsessed with the place. I also recently found a strange LP of folk songs from the island of Barra, featuring the 'songs' the woman sung when treating the fabrics/wools they were making, a repetitive and laborious task made more bearable by singing in time. ("Waulking songs (Scots Gaelic: Òrain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung by women while waulking cloth. This practice involved a group of people beating newly woven tweed rhythmically against a table or similar surface to soften it. Simple, beat-driven songs were used to accompany the work.")
Strange thing was it actually sounded more like native American Indians than Scottish!
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