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01. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Die Folterkammer des Dr. Sex (The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sex)
02. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Crime and Horror
03. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Der Feuerdrachen von Honkong (The Fire-Dragon of Hongkong)
04. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Mord im Ohio Express (Murder in the Ohio Express)
05. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Tanz der Vampires (Dance of the Vampires)
06. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Hallo, Mister Hitchcock
07. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Der Henker von Dartmoore (The Executioner of Dartmoore)
08. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Ende eines Killers (Killer's End)
09. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Die Wasserleiche (The Soaked Body)
10. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Eine Handvoll Nitro (A Handful of Nitro)
11. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Dr. Caligaris Gruselkabinett (Dr. Caligari's Creeps Cabinet)
12. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Frankenstein grüßt Alpha 7 (Frankenstein Greets Alpha 7)
13. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Petting Party 1 (previously unreleased)
14. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE - Petting Party 2 (previously unreleased)
ARTIST
TITLE
Dracula's Music Cabinet
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BMS 015CD BMS 015CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/5/2014

2009 release. You couldn't script it... You are 19 minutes and 22 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 9th 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 Euro-trash-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 20 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 Kraut-siders 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 200 Euros plus sweat, tears (of laughter), and a lot of blood.