Library (& Soundtracks) That Are Good

About 15 years ago my mate booked Moonboots for a night in Manchester (a little venue up some stairs above a pub maybe?). Anyway, it ended up with hardly anyone turning up and about 20 of us having a cracking evening dancing the whole night. I remember MB playing a stunning record and asking him what it was - it was a library record and he handed me the cover. It went straight on my discogs wantslist, but I can not for the life of me remember what it was now and it vanished from my wantlist.

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Rogerio Duprat was an important dude. He randomly did a KPM record back int he day and it’s interesting.

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A few from me.

Two cracking edits on the same 12”

Solid edit of Nick Ingman by Kenny

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On Trunk Records from 2001

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More Italian Library music from the 70s:

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And some of my favourite cover art in my collection (maybe a new thread…?):

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And loads of bangers on Tele Music (well known these days of course).
This is one of my faves:

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Yes!

Been on my wantslist for a while. Just realised I can dl from Bandcamp * eye roll *. This is the track that hooked me:

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Quasimoto!!

Sure I’ve got this on a Muro ‘King of Diggin’ ID list, so thanks for helping me tick another one off!

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Now you mention it, I think I first heard it on a madlib mix CD. Had completely forgotten that. The joys of aging.

https://www.discogs.com/release/806485-Madlib-Mind-Fusion-Vol-2

EDIT: Although the tracklist on discogs doesn’t mention it, so…definitely aging.

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Yup, I wasn’t sure whether to post the video for Harlem or Bali.
Both are lovely!

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Playlist of sleazy library I did a while back here:

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I’ve posted this before but it really is a great fun little radio documentary on library music by Jonny Trunk

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In a similar vein(!), I recently discovered this (NSFW) comp of unreleased skinflick music by Alain Goraguer, he of La Planète Sauvage fame.

Wins the award for the most gratuitously graphic packaging. But the opening track is just a beautifully laidback groove.

No digital but there’s a demo on Spotify:

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THAAAT was it, it was driving me nuts

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@jolyon Just remembered I had this one in my limited Library stash as I liked the artwork.
Anyway, the first track is called ‘Low Life’
“(beaty, dramatic, heavy- uptempo)” from the sleeve notes!

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Amazing :grinning:

Klaus Weiss inventing Boards of Canada there 30 yrs prior. Mad

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