Crippled Dick Hot Wax! was established by Tøni Schifer in 1994 in the Black Forest, Germany. Soundtrack and obscurity compilations such as Beat At Cinecittà, Between Or Beyond and Popshopping are known worldwide as standard-bearers of the jazzy downtempo sound, while the definitive Grlz: Women Ahead Of Their Time compilation and Pop Group-spinoff Maximum Joy show the label moving into post-punk territory. Releases from Can-precursor Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space to Franco Godi's unforgettable soundtrack to Italian cartoon La Linea reveal there is hardly a box you can fit the label into. After moving to Berlin in 1999, CDHW founded a DVD label, Monitorpop, followed by Edition Kröthenhayn in 2006.
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2009 release. Special limited edition of 1,000 copies only, pressed on colored vinyl with a gatefold sleeve. Volume 1 of a sensual homage to the most raunchy, erotic film music from the vaults of Italian '60s and '70s cinema. Brass pasta sounds for hot nights from some of the most acclaimed Italian composers of all time: Roberto Pregadio, Franco de Gemini, Riz Ortolani, Teo Usuelli, Alessandro Alessandroni, Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, and Francesco de Masi. Seventeen tracks of pure sleazy audio loveliness from some great Italian exploitation movies. LP comes with numerous stills al dente as well as vintage poster reproductions and extensive liner notes.
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2008 release. Time to celebrate an exceptional addition to the zombie genre with Canadian director Bruce LaBruce's oeuvre Otto; Or, Up With Dead People. Renouncing the most obvious clichés, LaBruce lets his protagonist -- gay punk zombie Otto -- ramble and roam the streets of Berlin until he finds himself cast for a low budget flick. With a keen eye for style, the director picks and mixes references from classic horror, silent movies and modernity into a strident, yet poetic film. In this, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People continues the tradition of the political pornographer's previous successes, The Raspberry Reich (2004) and Hustler White (1996). Spoilt for choice, Otto features more than 50 international tracks and sounds! After careful selection, Crippled Dick Hot Wax now presents the movie's official soundtrack featuring 14 tracks and available on CD (digipak) or limited double vinyl, promising to take you on a truly crazy acoustic rollercoaster ride. Yet despite the artists' glaring differences, the result is a surprisingly coherent, compact and homogeneous compilation. Weaving classical, electronic, drone, avant-garde, pop and punk/disco into a well-balanced whole, the soundtrack introduces cinema and music lovers alike to the weirdly wonderful world of Bruce LaBruce. Artists include: Mikael Karlsson, Jean-Louis Huhta, 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse, All My Friends, Pandas Of Black Metal, Misty Roses, The Living Dead Boys, No Bra, Brittle Stars, Eyes And Teeth, Othon With Ernesto Tomasini, La Jovenc, Ultra Milkmaids + V, and The Homophones.
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Gatefold LP version on colored vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies only. 2009 release. German sexploitation soundtrack music from the 1960s and 1970s as scored by softcore sound-specialist Gert Wilden & Orchestra. Schulmädchen Report (trans. "Schoolgirl Report"), and its many sequels were exported, badly dubbed, and run to death. Wilden's music is a wonderfully demented pastiche that takes its inspiration from all kinds of sources -- "Dirty Beat" swipes from Led Zeppelin, but chucks in bits of acid rock, crazed Farfisa organ, and drum-work that sounds like tap-dancing pile-drivers. Other cuts teeter on the edge of pure lounge -- there's bits of smoky jazz, R&B, crazily-mangled surf music, and whatever else can be jammed in and will stick. One moment it's lolling saxophone, and the next it's James Last on amphetamines. It all fits, it's often hilarious, and it is absolutely worth keeping on hand.
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2008 release. A legend who left a lasting mark on the world of music returns with a new studio album: Mark Stewart. Created and recorded between London, Vienna, Bristol and Berlin, Stewart's sixth full-length release, Edit, marks a welcome return to his solo career after numerous collaborations with, among others, Tricky, Massive Attack, Chicks On Speed, Adult and Primal Scream. As teenage front man and mastermind of seminal Bristol post-punk legends The Pop Group (1978-80), Stewart already used his microphone as a weapon. In an era that saw public opinion and perception tainted by Thatcher, Reagan and the Cold War, The Pop Group emerged as one of Britain's most radical exponents of new music and quickly gained notoriety well beyond the British Isles. Their until then unheard mix of punk, funk, dub, jazz and noise, countered by Mark Stewart's scathing political slogans and lyrics ("We Are All Prostitutes"), easily counts among the most impressive, provocative and lasting manifestations of musical spontaneity seen, heard and experienced by the end of the 1970s. After the group's dissolution in the early 1980s, members of The Pop Group re-emerged in a flurry of new bands and guises: Rip Rig & Panic (featuring the then still unknown Neneh Cherry), Pigbag (with their surprise Top 10 hit "Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag") and Maximum Joy. After a short stint with the New Age Steppers, Mark Stewart decided to pursue a solo career as Mark Stewart & The Maffia. His friend, production genius and ON-U sound owner Adrian Sherwood, took care of production and mixed the Maffia on their various tours. With Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and drumming talent Keith Leblanc, Stewart recruited a truly exceptional rhythm section who had previously played with the likes of James Brown, Madonna, Africa Bambaata, George Clinton, Tackhead and many others. Considered seminal milestones by many of his peers and fans, the solo outings by this "godfather" of Bristol's eclectic music scene blend the most diverse of genres in a unique and unconventional mix of dub, funk, punk, techno, electro, noise -- spiced up with a generous dose of Stewart's trademark political lyrics and slogans. Albums like As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade or Learning To Cope With Cowardice have left a lasting mark on the current music scene: icons in their own right like Massive Attack, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Carl Craig, Asian Dub Foundation and Nick Cave call Mark Stewart's work a decisive influence. On Edit, Stewart adds some unusually melodious touches to his inimitable vocal delivery ("Loner," "Rise Again" or "Secret Suburbia"), slips in a smattering of his familiar, forceful cut-up collages ("Freak Circus," "Radio Freedom," "The Puppet Master") and gives us the almost delicate, abstract "Almost Human," plus a very odd and refreshing cover version of the Yardbirds' "Mr You're Better Man Than I" (featuring Ari Up of The Slits). The travel journal of an exceptional artist, Edit proves that Mark Stewart continues to defy all categorization.
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This is the second full-length album from Berlin-based Namosh. Keep It For Later is a beautiful whirlwind of a record, although a touch softer than its precursor. Here, Namosh twirls dream-like, synth-generated sound sequences into rhythmic bass lines, percussion and vocals, further enriched by the cello, brass and jazz guitar provided by a few select peers. Mixed by Thomas Stern (Crime & The City Solution, Einstürzende Neubauten), the album also boasts a rare collaboration with German composer/arranger Peter Thomas (Jerry Cotton, Raumpatrouille) and Namosh's first-ever mainstream croon-fest, "Pleurer Et Rire" ("Cry And Laugh"). In 2003, Namosh E. Arslan first wowed the crowds with "Picked Up Floozy," a rousing club hit and pumping electro track carried by Namosh's smooth, yet curiously choppy vocals that still fills dancefloors around the world. In a poll by Q magazine, Björk voted Namosh's "Cold Cream" her favorite song. A tour de force and force of nature, Namosh's live sets are leagues apart from the latest mainstream offerings. Keep It For Later is a heady, synth-driven avant-pop anomaly with some bizarre R n' B tricks up its sleeve.
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2012 repress on vinyl, originally released 2009. Gatefold 2LP version. An unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidt's 1968 recording assembles Can's original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the band's seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra.
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Limited restock. Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. No overlap in content with the other recent Inner Space release, Agilok & Blubbo, released by Wah Wah Records earlier in 2009. Better late than never? A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaeger's erotic and educational epic Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidt's 1968 recording assembles Can's original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the band's seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra. Fast-forward to the present day, and you will find the film's well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late-1960s were intrigued by Eastern philosophy and influenced by sounds of the Orient. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: "I'm Hiding My Nightingale" (sung by Margareta Juvan), "There Was A Man" (sung by Malcolm Mooney) and "I'm Around You Everyday" (sung by Michael Karoli). Kamasutra was mastered from the original analog tapes by Calyx and is available as a CD digipack and limited gatefold double vinyl. Before Irmin Schmidt founded the now-legendary German band Can in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras, including his own compositions. During this period, he also composed music for various film and theater productions. Between 1969 and 1978, he worked exclusively with Can (in 2003 they received the prestigious ECHO Lifetime Achievement Award).
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A loving compilation of British 7" rarities from 1978 to 1982, 7" Up! offers little-known, pristine pearls of pop, punk and new wave for people who haven't heard everything yet. It's always a special pleasure to flip through that box of singles. This diminutive format in black vinyl made it possible for a musician's own productions to be released in the smallest of runs. Very often for lack of funds they only came out as 7"s, in contrast to the big labels. Long since unavailable or, if to be had at all, then sadly only at hefty collectors' prices. Sometimes the B-side is an eye-opener: the A-side a let-down. And of course a centre puck is standard equipment for any lover of the 7". 7" Up! is our song of praise to a fine little medium that only a few labels are still putting out. Artists include Mark Beer, Glaxo Babies (later reformed as Maximum Joy), Contact (including member Mark E. Smith of The Fall), I Jog & The Tracksuits, Gerry and the Holograms, Brian Brain (including members of Public Image Limited), They Must Be Russians, Moondogs, Thomas Leer, Cult Figures, Monochrome Set, Henry Badowski and Weekend (including a member of Young Marble Giants).
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Limited restock. Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents a very special and delicious re-release of the nearly-lost soundtrack recordings to Jess Franco's cult films Vampyros Lesbos, She Kills In Ecstasy and The Devil Came From Akasava. The songs from the hard-to-find LPs Psychedelic Dance Party and Sexadelic were written in 1969 and released in 1970. They were composed by Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab, and this release is a compilation that includes the best songs from these titles. The red-light swing, sleazy psychedelic and strip ballads inspired wild parties around the 1995 re-release, also inspiring renewed interest in the cult of Vampyros Lesbos and schlocky/great filmmaker Jess Franco. After all, how can you go wrong with sexy vampiresses, fuzz guitar, groovy sitar jams, funky beats and Bloody Marys? This essential release is pretty much the standard by which all other cult soundtracks are measured. The CD includes three bonus tracks.
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2004 release. This co-production brings together Italian composer Alessandro Alessandroni, (Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, etc.) and the Berlin producer-duo Daniel Paul and DJ Honesty, also known as Slope. These recordings were made with the help of friends like Morricone chanteuse, Gianna Spagnulo, Volker Meitz, Micatone bassist Paul Kleber and many others. Alessandroni's classical instrumentation -- mandolin, piano, guitar, saxophone or accordion -- meets up with new beats and is lent polished form with a charming, unconventional and vital production by Paul and Honesty. The CD (digipak) comes with a QuickTime film as bonus, and the vinyl release is a limited and numbered 180 g. pressing.
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Released in 2003. Berlin-based Künstler Treu (ex-Dauerfisch) collaborates with the American electronic music pioneer, Jon Appleton. Appleton experimented with electronic noise-collages during the late 1960s and released several albums in cahoots with the likes of Don Cherry and Tom Scott on Flying Dutchman Records. He was also a co-inventor of the first digital sampler -- the famous Synclavier. The result of this musical whirlwind is Wunderbra, an album that -- thankfully -- can not be conveniently categorized with any current genre-labels. Even Brazilian native music icon Marlui Miranda joins in on two of the tracks. Wunderbra delivers a finely-woven melange of electronica, space-age-pop and Dadaism -- nervous energy exchanges blows with delicate, graceful melodies. An organic whole -- far beyond fast-changing everyday trends.
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Released in 2004. This is Balduin of Berne's second album. Balduin's clearly audible passions for French film-music, the '60s, electronics, Alp horns and jazz blend with one another to form a smooth and creamy confection -- with the charm of his unconventional and tender compositions. This multi-instrumentalist conjures up tonal images of the widest possible variety: frail, sentimental stories go hand-in-hand with airy beats summoning springtime, abstract fusion alternates with four-square Swiss precision electronics. Not everyone is a one-man orchestra like Balduin: he is master of the instruments and deploys them in all their diversity, with an unerring feeling for groove. Last copies of this now deleted item.
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Limited restock; released in 1999. The ultimate in raunchy film music from the wild world of Italian exploitation cinema. It's the final volume, the last installment of Cinecitta-Mania. Beat at... comes hotter than ever. This time it's not the easy way of Italian amore, but the dirty, red side of passion the pasta way. Say hello to sneaking kitties, pumping boys and star-love revival. Feel the heat of the beat!
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Released in 2003. Welcome aboard and take a soft-sprung seat in the Transporter run by the Berlin-Frankfurt family business of Bennie and Christoph Reimann. With his effervescent playing, top-of-the-class vibraphonist Bennie, who also welds percussion with Fender-Rhodes' components masterfully into the bodywork of Transporter, shares the wheel with dear brother Christoph, who operates the on-board computer and is responsible for both tempo change and fully comprehensive insurance. From time to time Transporter pulls up to give hitch-hikers a lift, such as vocalists Nadja Dehn and Selda Koya. And up on the roof rack, double bass, piano and trumpet along with their players have already been made welcome ahead of time. An album of great charm and atmosphere that approaches the genre of "jazz" with a great deal of sophistication and an unmistakable sound all of its own.
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Bass-line aficionados listen up! A compilation for people that like to move. Here is the unfiltered truth! Bass, natural bass, electronic bass, wet bass, burning bass ... boogie, go-go and news. It creaks, it farts, it funks from any side. The CD has been mixed by the men from Slope, and the vinyl is available as a limited deluxe-version. Compiled by Daniel Paul, Honesty & Toni Schifer. Here's to funky fat bass lines on a straight rhythm, that's what Basscheck is all about.
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Limited restock; originally released in 1996. Fab first volume of Crippled Dick's cool series documenting lost funky and groovy tracks from Italian films of the late '60s and early '70s. Put together with the same great sound and style as the Easy Tempo series of comps, this one's got a batch of tracks that are a bit wilder, and which have a bit more of a wild sound, in the Crippled Dick style. Plus, the whole thing's got loads of notes, in English, and lots of cool photos and reproductions of the posters from these crazy films. Cool cool stuff by composers like Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, and Roberto Pregadio -- and with the kind of wild sound you'd expect from films like these! Erotica, Exotica, Psychotica!
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2nd volume, originally released 1997. The return of Italy's most raunchy, erotic and sensual film scores from B-movies of the '60s and '70s. The sequel tops its predecessor with even more stunning poster reproductions, information on the musicians and the featured films. Italy's most prominent film composers are here to give you excessive sounds of cult pasta cinema which often have never been released before.
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