Eros Plus Melody Vol. 11 (SC 120)

The twentieth Sound Compendium release is in the books with the share of Eros Plus Melody #11!

This one, as the cover hints at, goes extremely deep into the Italian sound.

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 10 (SC 119)

Another Friday, another smokin' set of erotic songs to keep you warm this chilly winter!

Long ago on this site I upped a custom comp titled Erotic Italia... If you downloaded that one, this is basically the same comp. I wanted to include it into the Eros Plus Melody series for continuity of my comps, so apologies if this is nothing new to you this week.

EPM 10 is stacked full of Italian-only cinetrax (my buddy Easy Wind will aprreciate!)

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 9 (SC 118)

A souled-out, blaxploitation-style funk session busts out with Eros Plus Melody 9! The bulk of this installment exhibits a circa mid-'70s Euro take on soul and blax-leaning tracks, with American artists thrown in, from the likes of the New Sounds, Christian Bruhn, Freedom Power, Eddie Senay, Roy Ayers, and Ricardo Tubbs.

The single track mix is very, very highly recommended in this case as you will find the flow even more super groovy than the multi-tracks share. But by all means, take them both!

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 8 (SC 117)

Imagine a château in Lacoste, a libertine evening at the Marquis de Sade's.

This uniquely erotic installment with a sinister twist kicks off with Charles Bernstein's dark, swamp tune, Erotica, before slipping into Armando Sciascia's evil, dancing electrons in Assonanza in Mi, giving way to Sandro Brugnolini's Roxy, which sounds like a prelude to this "romantic" evening at the Marquis'.

Alberto Baldan Bembo's Cantata in Re commences the pageantry as the "victims" are paraded before the hungry inquisotors. Lesiman's Via Nel Autunno tastefully leads the performers into the evening's festivities...

Imagine the wonderfully sadistic Eros Plus Melody 8...

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Eros Plus Melody Vol. 7 (SC 116)

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for!!! Or not. Well here it is anyway! Eros Plus Melody 7 carries the deepest grooves in the series so far. Very tight this one. You shan't be disappointed. Either way, shout me in the Comments!

Peace out.

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 6 (SC 115)

The passion album. This one is red hot. Red, red, red hot!

EPM 6 is probably most like Volume 4 of this series in that, though the music is from the same era as the other volumes, it has a slightly more studio polished sound in places. It's heavy on Italian composers as most in the series are, but with a generous helping of some outstanding French trax that will knock your socks off!

Fly away with Eros Plus Melody 6! Red, red, red hot!

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 5 (SC 114)

The Sound Compendium Home Library introduces the newest installment of the series presently taking the web by storm. EPM 5 is the most unique among the five releases to date. Compositions and instrumentation atypical of the genre make up a hefty portion of this mix. The romantic overtones, of course, are necessarily retained.

Several songs on this collection are absolute soul destroyers. Check track 3's guitar and sitar-driven, Mara Jats Love, by Alberto Baldan Bembo for an absolutely dripping-with-desire jazz number with a strong blaxploitation feel. Track 4 by Pierre Rachelet and Jean Schulteis picks up and carries the groove into more urgent territory. While the steady flow into the jarring rhythms of Piero Umiliani's Egiogabalus, merging into Fidenco's Besides, bring something of the crescendo to this section. For this reason, for a single, continuous listening experience, the single track mix comes highly recommended. If you're not a huge fan of single tracks, set your player to an appropriate cross-fade and grab the multi-tracks option.

Enjoy Eros Plus Melody 5.

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 4 (SC 113)

This mix leans towards a slighlty (strong emphasis) more polished mid-tempo groove sound. Have been listening to this one a week straight and it's grown to be one of my favorites of the series. There is a definite vibe to this one.

Enjoy Eros Plus Melody 4.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Special post - EROS PLUS MASSACRE (SC 109)

Dearest reader & downloadership. All apologies for the delays in getting reposts of deleted links. You see, I'm stuck behind the Great Chinese Firewall and a certain New York Times article which has outed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's family's business dealings has the 50,000 strong internet censors in these parts throttling back speeds at unheard of rates. So, I sit stuck behind this VPN which is causing page load times that rival the days sitting of at dad's dial up connection on his black and white IBM computer in the late '80s. Times really can be tough in the Muddled Kingdom.

Luckily, this here little share was upped days beforehand, so we'll be able to enjoy it as long as it lasts.

One step back, two steps forward. Sound Compendium Home Library goes back in time a few volumes to bring you a spooky Halloween treat. Enjoy an hour and seven minutes of Eros Plus Massacre's 33 frightful, blood smearing, bone chilling tracks.

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 3 (SC 112)

Volume three, hot off the presses. This one is a definite shift in mood from volumes one and two. The word pastoral is on the tip of my tongue, but that's not quite right. It is more, how shall I put it...like a perfect summer day, sailing on a boat with two sunbathing beauties.

You WILL enjoy this one.

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 2 (SC 111)

The second installment of this massive series. Each and every one will blow your mind in its own way. Don't hesitate, gravitate...to the comments section and take it with you...

Eros Plus Melody Vol. 1 (SC 110)

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Let the aural pleasures begin with volume one of the spectacular Eros Plus Melody set! We kick off the series with a mix showcasing Franco Micalizzi, Gianfranco Plenzio, Franco Bixio, Guido & Maurizio and co., plus some lesser known European practitioners of the sexiest, most romantic music ever committed to vinyl. These mixes, which currently sit at 20 volumes and growing, contain the hand-picked favorite tracks of my personal music catalog.

Here's a little sample of what's in store:



Now head over to the comments section for your DL options.

Coming Next Week...Eros Plus Melody

Twenty volumes of romantically inclined groove mixes are complete! Sound Compendium will release them at approximately one excruciatingly beautiful, dripping-with-romance album at a time.

These mixes are for Library/Cinematic Groove enthusiasts as they contain many of the usual suspects, Umiliani, Cipriani, Morricone, etc, but will focus more on some of the lesser known, underappreciated titles from those masters. Of course, there will be plenty of gems from rare artists along the way.

Check in next week as the journey will begin then. In the meantime, grab some of the laid back 'Thank You for Flying...' mixes in the posts below.

Sound Compendium (SC108): Thank You for Flying...Pacific Southwest Airlines

Previous shared albums with hot chicks on the cover are downloaded at approximately a 50% higher rate than those without. Curious of the connection, Sound Compendium 108 will explore this theory with some chilled '60s and '70s tunes from the USA, tunes no greater or lesser than the others of this series, but with some lovely ladies gracing the cover.

The results will be telling. Enjoy the full album in the Comments. In the meantime, here's a test run to ensure quality:

Sound Compendium 107 (SC 107): Thank You for Flying...British Overseas Airline Corporation

Today we bring you some vintage in-flight vibes from Great Britain. Artists include familiar Library and production music artists Syd Dale, Johnny Harris, David Snell, John Cameron and William Kimber.