The Vampires Of Dartmoore
Dracula’s Music Cabinet
Finders Keepers Records
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2022
LP
23.99
FKR019LPX
2022 repress
Incl. VAT plus shipping / Orders from outside the EU are exempt from VAT
Tracklist
1Die Folterkammer Des Dr. Sex (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sex) 2:10
2Crime And Horror 2:55
3Der Feuerdrachen Von Hongkong (The Fire-Dragon Of Hongkong) 2:42
4Mord Im Ohio Express (Murder In The Ohio Express) 2:48
5Tanz Der Vampire (Dance Of The Vampires) 2:34
6Hallo, Mister Hitchcock 2:36
7Der Henker Von Dartmoore (The Executioner Of Dartmoore) 2:34
8Ende Eines Killers (Killer’s End) 2:31
9Die Wasserleiche (The Soaked Body) 2:50
10Eine Handvoll Nitro (A Handful Of Nitro) 2:24
11Dr. Caligaris Gruselkabinett (Dr. Caligari's Creeps-Cabinet) 2:59
12Frankenstein Grüßt Alpha 7 (Frankenstein Greets Alpha 7) 2:44

Finders Keepers presents this uber-rare soundtrack to a film that never existed, performed by an imaginary pop group. Incredible Polanski inspired German hip hop psychsploitation beats from 1969.

You couldn’t script it... You are nineteen minutes and twenty-two seconds in to your peak- season cruise around the Kraut-schlock peripheries. To say the trip has been an eventful one would be an understatement - you don’t know what to expect next and your 12” x 12” Germanic tour guide has proved quite unreliable thus far. As your diamond tipped vessel maneuvers through the grooves of your ninth horrific attraction (entitled The Soaked Body) the soundtrack awkwardly becomes background music and you are overcome with the sound of gushing water... ‘Help!’ you think sarcastically, the music, or is that muzak, is drowning!

This is the movie soundtrack to a film that never existed. This is the movie soundtrack by the band that was never requested. These were the sound library musicians who had to invent their own clients and imaginary cast, crew and plot to get their music heard, by a niche audience, before floating deep into the depths of the rare record reservoir gasping for breath.

To take a cinematic cue the record in question is the eurotrash pop equivalent of Jean Renoir’s tragic/triumphant Boudu character who as a homeless, confused and desolate down-and- out plunged to the depths to be unwillingly rescued, resuscitated then after gradually winning the hearts of an entire family becomes respected and revered as royalty. Over twenty years after the mad scientists, Dr. Horst and Ackermann, first breathed life into this short-lived beast, brave and intrepid vinyl explorers have sporadically returned to the doors of Dracula’s Music Cabinet to resurrect the sonic spooks and mutated melodies to share with nerds, mods, rockers, hip hoppers, psych nuts and Krautsiders alike. The lifeless corpses of The Vampires Of Dartmoore that lay six feet beneath the belly of the Eins Deutschmark bins has since crept through the record collections of the aforementioned social circles devouring continental currencies and demanding random ransoms of €250 plus, not to mention sweat, tears (of laughter) and a lot of blood.