ePm 7 (Remaster)

 

ePm Reboot(y)

A friend of mine contacted me recently to tell me he had been listening to a few of my Eros Plus Melody mixes. It must be close to 10 years ago that I gave him a few samples. He mentioned how much he liked them and asked if there were more. Hell yes! 45 in total (and counting?), to be exact. After that, I took a stroll down memory lane and gave those particular mixes a listen. 

When I started putting these mixes together almost 15 years ago, the music was new and exciting. At that time it felt like I was one of a special few people who knew about this stuff. My gateway was not especially unique—it was Ennio Morricone, to this day among my desert island musicians. From there I navigated through the incredible sounds of Italian cinema: Umiliani, Cipriani, Micalizzi, Piccioni…and through to the world of Library: Mansfield, Nilovic, McDonald, Sorgini, Barigozzi… I discovered this amazing stuff with the help of the early rites of passage in the 2000s, fabled blogs like Fraykers Revenge and Retroteque. Along the way I met a few like-minded people, and then I discovered the crown jewel, a cosmic meeting place for like-minded Library music misfits, the LMT discussion board. From that point, with the help of many of the LMT legends (too numerous to name), my knowledge of Library and Cinematic music grew vastly, not to mention my music collection! 

Returning to repeated listenings of the ePm series after all these years, my biggest quibble is with the fidelity. These mixes were made back in the wild, wild west of primitive vinyl ripping and early digital downloading, when bit rates were given too little consideration. Lossless was an obscure term and the choice between 128 kbps and 320 was more about how much music we could fit on our 120 GB hard drives than it was about the quality of sound. Another thing that stands out is how unsophisticated my mixing skills were 15 years ago. It’s not so much the sequencing of tracks, but I had a very bad habit of infringing on the end of tracks, cross-fading and other unnecessary track-blending techniques. Occasionally it worked, but in general I had no idea what I was doing. I’ve learned in my maturity to mostly stay out of the way of the music and give the tracks a little more breathing room. And the cover art…it wasn’t bad for the time, it certainly was no Fraykers, but let’s be honest, with today’s advances in digital design, it looks quite shit, so that gets a proper polishing, too! 

As for the specs, I want to keep the mixes as close to the originals as possible. The main task will be replacing the low bitrate tracks with flac. A heads up to the hi-fi crowd, for the few tracks that I’m unable to corral in lossless, the file will still be converted to flac. I anticipate this being fairly rare, but I’ll convert lossy to flac anyway to maintain consistency. You won’t know if a flac file is lossy unless you have a golden ear or run a test. I’ll share both a single-track mix and a multi-track version in flac. For the most part, I’ll keep the same tracks, and in the same order except where I find a more agreeable placement. There may also be the possible omission or addition of a track here and there. All the links to the old ePm mixes have been disabled.

It’s unlikely I’ll be sharing every ePm reboot. In retrospect, some colored a bit too far outside the lines for my taste; others I simply don’t love much. I also won’t be sharing the remasters in any particular order. I’ll start with a handful of my personal favorites. However, if you have read this far, and you want a favorite mix remastered, leave a note in the comments. I’ll do my best to remaster it as soon as I can. ePm 8 in the Comments. Happy listening! 

 

Songs From The Mandarin Lounge 5: Tropical Taboo, Hawaiian Guitars & Island Exotica Under A Magic Moonlight From Hong Kong, Taiwan And Singapore in the 1960s

Songs From The Mandarin Lounge 4: Mando-Pop, Off-Beat Cha Cha, Psychedelic Surf & Lounge Divas A-Go-Go From 1960's & '70s Hong Kong, Taiwan And Singapore

Songs From The Mandarin Lounge 3: Mambo, Tijuana Brass & Spaghetti Western Themes From 1960's & '70s Hong Kong, Taiwan And Singapore

Songs From The Mandarin Lounge 2 : Gritty Mandarin Ballads & Psychedelic Serenades From 1960's & '70's Taiwan, Hong Kong And Singapore

Songs From The Mandarin Lounge: Mandarin Blues And Lovelorn Ballads From The Sultry Lounge Divas of 1960s's & '70s Hong Kong, Taiwan And Singapore

All single track ePm Mixes Re-upped Here

Thanks for all the requests for the re-ups. Here is the full Eros Plus Melody collection in single track form. I will get the split tracks up at some point, but that will take a little longer. Of course, many of these mixes are unbelievably already 10 years old and the bit rate in many cases needs an upgrade. At this point in my life, I'm not sure I'll ever get around to that. But there's always the hope! Enjoy these anyway. Best, HPD.

Forsaken Housewife, Midnight Lady (Original Soundtrack) [1980]

Soundtrack to the 1980 Japanese Pinku film directed by Akira Kirafukwa about a bored and neglected housewife who indiscriminately sleeps with strangers for the thrill of it, causing her husband great public shame and ultimately leading to his attempt of seppuku, only to be intercepted by his infidel wife at the last minute, leading to great arousal and a renewal of the couple's carnal interests.

RE-UPS

 There have been a lot of requests for re-ups, but I am unwilling to check each link to see whether it is alive or not.

If you have specific requests for dead links to be re-upped, please write them in the comments.

Regards.

Neon Library: Nineteen-Eighties Library Music (Reups posted 12/12/2024)

 

Island of Last Rites (Eros + Massacre 5)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

After Hours: An Unhurried Procession of Sensuous, Slow-Burning Italian Cinescapes

Eros + Melody 45

Summer Sorority (Soundtrack to the Adult Film)

Summer Sorority (1983)

Directed By: Tom Pumphrey

Anyone who thought the girls of Sunnydale High were going to take a summer vacation were dead wrong because this foursome who just can't get enough are intentionally failing winter semester so they can stay over the summer and pound their high school teachers! Woohoo!

The girls' plot is soon foiled the first afternoon into the summer semester when they team up on Mr. Pitts in English class. The four girls are very conveniently the only students to have failed winter semester so it's game-on in the classroom as the girls work together in each and every scintillating scene throughout the film.

The girls are so hot-to-trot that merely a week into summer semester, they've so mercilessly pounded all their teachers that the principal, Mr. Riggs, has had to call in reinforcements in the form of substitutes. When they need to be replaced, Mr. Riggs resorts to all-female teachers. But even that fails to stop these horny girls!

Great film that should be mentioned in the same breath with many non-adult films of the early '80s and in this writer's opinion, roundly shafted by not even receiving a single adult film nomination for 1983. Also with a smoking soundtrack. 10 Stars out of 10!!!