To Be Continued - Kimidake Wo Miteita

DISCLAIMER: This article has gone through various revisions since its original upload on December 23rd, 2014, some to clarify information about the band and this song, others to fix bum links. This article originally showcased awful attempts at translating the Japanese titles of various assets within, which I ultimately fixed by just writing them in romaji. This is why the link to this article doesn't display the song title in romaji.

You may not have expected something like this! This is a J-pop CD single that I picked up for parts. As you can see, it's a mini-CD in snap-pack packaging, and it had a case that I needed for my Government Wall single. However, I ended up leaving it in my Buyee shipments list for about a month, unclaimed, for seemingly little reason. It was only a few weeks ago that I finally pulled the trigger, and I ended up doing research on this single, and the band behind it, after getting it.

This is a single for 君だけを見ていた, which romajis into "Kimidake Wo Miteita", the lead single from Beyond The Light..., their fourth album. This single actually reached double platinum status by the RIAJ's standards, meaning it reached sales of at least 500,000 units. The song stayed on the Oricon music charts for 18 weeks, peaking at #4; a factor that may have had a serious hand in its success is being featured in the TBS show Moshimo Negai Ga Kanaunara, which vocalist Kohki Okada had an acting role in.

What little I can gather about To Be Continued, considering their Discogs page is absolutely barren, is that they're a J-pop group from the 90s who released seven albums in their time; To Be Continued, How Zit?, Bitter Sweet Love, Beyond The Light..., Day Break, Creston Drive, and Core Pop. (The B-side on this single is a very slightly extended version of the opening track from Bitter Sweet Love.) The lineup of To Be Continued is as follows, and this is where my knowledge of the subject ends for now.

Kôki Okada - vocals

Taka Sato - keyboards

Yusuke Goto - guitar, keyboards

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. 君だけを見ていた

2. 32°僕にもたれてた (Single Mix)

3. 君だけを見ていた (instrumental)

Osc-Dis 2-Disc Special Edition

When I saw this on eBay, I was ecstatic. This is the two-disc special edition of Palm Pictures' American release of Osc-Dis from 2002 (yes, a year after 010 was released in Japan), in association with Speedstar and Manga Entertainment. Their Stateside deal with Palm Pictures turned out to be more lucrative than their deal with George Cockle's What Up Music label, as Osc-Dis was released far wider than the US releases of Park and Digidogheadlock were, and even got Pulse onto the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 soundtrack. Why was I ecstatic for this particular issue, you may ask? That slipcover it has on it!

...or so I thought. The reason you can see the bottom of the jewel case in each of the above shots is because it isn't actually a slipcover at all-- it's actually a paper wraparound whose spine is at the top of the jewel case. It blows a little, but at the same time, it also becomes an interesting addition in and of itself, as the inside of this wraparound contains music video credits.

Why does it have music video credits? Because the second disc is a DVD reissue of Osc-Dis Video that was also issued with other Manga Entertainment DVDs of the time. I don't have the original VHS issue of that to compare, but I can't imagine it being very far off. Included as a bonus video is the video to Systematic, since Digidogheadlock only had a video for that one song, not enough for its own VHS issue... sad, because it would be cool to see on a VHS slipcover.

The tracklisting for Osc-Dis is as follows:

1. Tribe

2. Out/Definition

3. Pulse

4. Multiplies

5. Mob Track

6. All The Time In Sunny Beach

7. Island

8. Restart!

9. Jag

10. Step Into Yourself

11. Good Girl (dedicated to bride 20 years after)

12. MIDI Surf

The tracklisting for Osc-Dis Video is as follows:

1. Tribe

2. Pulse

3. All The Time In Sunny Beach

4. Good Girl (dedicated to bride 20 years after)

5. MIDI Surf

6. Systematic

Of course you know I think this album is an absolute classic. Just about everyone into Mad thinks this album is an absolute classic; hell, it's how most people get into Mad in the first place. It's not my absolute favorite album-- Park and 010 tie for my all-time favorite-- but it is my second. (Or third, depending on how you look at that.) You should already have a copy of this by now; if not, get on it as soon as possible.

Look at how Palm's logo throws the section off.

Fatal Frames soundtrack

What can I say about Al Festa that I haven't already said in my previous posts about his work? Today's focus, Fatal Frames, is not only my favorite film from Al, it's also one of my favorite gialli of all time, a point I seem to be sadly alone with among Italo-heads. This soundtrack is a great extension to the visual brilliance Fatal Frames has, and stylistically feels like a fusion between a Frizzi-esque electronic score and late 80s Italo disco.

This album was released in 1996 by ViviMusica Soundtracks to coincide with the Italian premiere of the film, and to the best of my research, it may have been discontinued before 2000. Granted, the only thing I remember reading is that it was discontinued somewhat quickly after the film's international release (as in showings at the Fantasia film festival, Fantasporto, what have you), so the date is more or less an assumption on my part. Thankfully, I found my copy for a measly six dollars off of an eBay affiliate, copies elsewhere tend to fall within the $20 range before shipping.

The liner notes are fascinating in that they contain a synopsis of the film that seems to have been penned by Al himself, as well as short biographies of Al and producer/star Stefania Stella, pictures of the star-studded cast, and full film credits on the back of the booklet.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Eternal City (Vocal)

2. Main Titles

3. Rome's Arrival: This Is Stefania

4. Roman Spellbounds

5. St. Angelo's Run

6. Candles In The Night

7. The Seance

8. Black Colosseum (Tamara's Death)

9. Professor Robinson Appears

10. The Best Memory (Love Theme From Fatal Frames)

11. Trevi In Rosso (Videokiller Attacks)

12. Candles In The Night (Nightmare Reprise)

13. Valenti Investigates

14. Final Nightstorm (Revelations)

15. Alibi '96

16. Desert Flower

17. Pensamiento Estupendo (Dance Mix)

18. Eternal City (Instrumental)

The soundtrack to Al's first feature film, Gipsy Angel has been much, much harder to track down, but hopefully I will find it one day. I know that Al had a promotional CD run of it to give out at screenings of the film throughout Europe, but only one copy of it has ever surfaced on the Internet as far as I can tell, and it's the copy that serves as the basis for that album's Discogs page.

The Official Dragusas Records Archive

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Fangmacher

ALBUMS

Scissoring The Sun

Top Dog Of The Century

O.E.: Original Earthling

Horton Hears Canadians

Sharkeisha's Anthem: The Album

VI

Houses Of Doom

Fabulous Monsters

Hitler's Got The Titties For It!

Fangmacher X: The Iron Musician

This Is EIEIO

Jahfeelios?

Parental Fangmacher: Explicit Content

EXTENDED PLAYS & MISCELLANEOUS

Introducing... EP

The 323 EP

April 27 Jam Session EP

In Remembrance Of Nightfall: The Earliest Days Of Fangmacher

ChrisK & Fangmacher

ChrisK

ALBUMS

Electromagnetism

My Human Is Rusting

Asshole & Douchebag: The Music

Project Lunar Chicken
Stutter

EXTENDED PLAYS & MISCELLANEOUS

ChrisK & Fangmacher

Rain single

Parental Fangmacher: Explicit Content

It had to come to this eventually. I am actually electronic musician Fangmacher, and today I have released my thirteenth album, Parental Fangmacher: Explicit Content onto the world. From now on, I will be advertising any releases of my albums on this blog, as well as releasing archives of not only my music, but all music on my label Dragusas Records.

You can download the album for free here. Don't forget to check out the Discogs pages for my music, my friend ChrisK's music, and my label, which currently consists of only our music. (Email me if you want to release any of your own music for free through our label, of course. I'm always open to unsolicited demos and whatnot.)

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. It All Begins In Apartment 2319 (feat. B-Hoal)

2. Mutated Clitoris

3. Green Eggs & Ham

4. Eat The Butt (feat. B-Hoal)

5. Deadly Dress-Up

6. Underwater Snowman

7. Tell It To The Judge

8. Play Games With My Heart

9. Fresh Perspective

10. Rolling In Your Grave

11. Death To Mankind

13. 130113 (Bonus Track)

Shaq Diesel

This will be one of the more "regular" posts you'll see here, but I'm feeling a tad lazy about doing a longer writeup, and I haven't gotten around to doing another round of photo shoots. This was NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal's first crack at hip-hop, and it's gotten a notorious reputation for being one of the worst hip-hop records of all time, a reputation I would say is, for the most part, undeserved. While plenty of Shaq's lines throughout are stupid or otherwise poorly conceived, he has a good enough, and relatively consistent, flow to keep it from sounding abysmal, the production is solid, and the guest stars (particularly Phife Dawg and the Fu-Schnickens) really hold this album together. People shit on this album a lot, but it isn't really that difficult to find worse hip-hop than this; anything Silkk The Shocker has ever done, for example, is a thousand times worse. Plus, Shaq's rapping got better as he continued releasing albums.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Intro

2. (I Know I Got) Skillz (feat. Def Jef)

3. I'm Outstanding

4. Where Ya At? (feat. Phife Dawg)

5. I Hate 2 Brag

6. Let Me In, Let Me In

7. Shoot Pass Slam

8. Boom! (feat. Erick Sermon and the Fu-Schnickens)

9. Are You A Roughneck?

10. Giggin' On Em (feat. Phife Dawg)

11. What's Up, Doc? (Can We Rock?) (really a Fu-Schnickens track featuring Shaq)

12. Game Over

As a bonus, I did this neat cover photo for My Mad Music Corner's Facebook page, accessible up there in the sidebar, that I just wanted to share on the blog as well. I hope you all dig it.

The Beast In Space soundtrack

This is one of the most fascinating Italian unofficial sequels I've ever seen. Some producer, after seeing both Walerian Borowczyk's The Beast and a couple of Alfonso Brescia's sci-fi epics from the late 70s, had the idea to contact Brescia to make them a movie that somehow combines both, with Sirpa Lane, the star of The Beast, to star in this film as well. Combining arthouse erotica with a low-budget Star Wars clone. And the kicker is? It worked. The film is an endlessly fun sci-fi romp with a surprising amount of depth to its universe, and the softcore sex scenes aren't badly done either. (There is also a hardcore version available on DVD alongside the soft version, if you want to see it with more penetration.)

This release of this soundtrack is, to put it lightly, fucking miraculous. Before composer Marcello Giombini passed away in 2003, he had divulged the information that one of his most famous soundtracks, that of Joe D'Amato's notorious film Anthropophagus, had the masters destroyed a long, long time ago. (I presume that his soundtrack to D'Amato's Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead is also long gone, but if I see a soundtrack release for it on the horizon, I'll be happy as hell.)

Getting any Giombini soundtrack, especially for a film with such cult appeal, is a miracle in and of itself, but this soundtrack especially is wonderful. It perfectly manages to blend the Moogy sounds of his sci-fi work with the sleazy vibe that erotica demands in its music, and even if you haven't seen the film before, I urge you to grab a copy of this soundtrack as soon as you can. (And if you really haven't seen the film, go and do that, it's very much worth it.) This edition was released by BEAT Records under their DDJ line, which Porno Holocaust was also released under, and like that edition, as well as nearly every other Italian soundtrack I've showed off, has a neat writeup in the liner notes booklet in both Italian and English.

Stagefright soundtrack

Michele Soavi's Stagefright, aka Deliria, aka Aquarius, aka Bloody Bird, is one of the all-time horror classics to emerge from the shaky late 80s period of Italian genre cinema. A protege of Joe D'Amato who later became a protege of Dario Argento, Soavi's short-lived spotlight in directing Italian horror led him to produce classic after classic: this film, The Church, The Sect, and finally his magnum opus Dellamorte Dellamore. The soundtrack to Stagefright contains what could be considered the other seeds of the "Filmirage sound" set by Carlo Maria Cordio, even though I don't recall this soundtrack being recycled in future Filmirage productions.

This soundtrack was mainly composed by Simon Boswell, previously of Phenomena and Demons 2 fame, and later went on to compose movies like Hardware, Dust Devil, Clive Barker's Lord Of Illusions, and Ashens And The Quest For The GameChild, while other cues were composed by Stefano Mainetti, who later achieved notoriety as the composer to the infamous Zombi 3.

The centerpiece of Mainetti's contributions is easily the main title theme; if you've seen the film, it's the piece that plays during the first sequence on stage, and really sets the tone for the film. The centerpiece of Boswell's contributions is easily Sharp Groove, one of the most recognizable pieces in the film, because it's the one that has the breakbeat throughout it. I remember reading an interview with Boswell in a Fangoria issue where he said what song the breakbeat was sampled from, but I honestly don't remember.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Aquarius-Main Titles*

2. Locked Up

3. Stairway To Hell

4. Quartet

5. Locked Up

6. Fish Dreams

7. Corridor

8. Sharp Groove

9. Locked Up

10. Voices (After The Burning)

11. Gun Talk

12. Stage Fright

13. On Mrs. "J" Planet*

14. Ballade For Corinne*

15. Aquarius-End Titles*

*Composed by Stefano Mainetti

This edition was released by Peter Blumenstock's Lucertola Media in 1994, in a limited edition of 1200 copies. Blumenstock is a name that has come up pretty often when I did extensive research for Al Festa's film Fatal Frames, especially when I picked up the June 1994 edition of German horror mag Splatting Image with Fatal Frames as the cover story, so it was cool to see a familiar name behind this. If you go to the Discogs page for this release, you'll notice that the "lowest" amount on the sales is an even $25... because that's how much I paid for my copy. This had to have been OOP since at least 2000, and the prices I usually see it for are very much OOP prices, so I was stoked to jump on that price when it was available. If you manage to find it for under $40, by all means, go for it.

Cicciolina, Amore Mio soundtrack

I do love me some Bruno Mattei, but I haven't seen this film, actually. Cicciolina, Amore Mio was made as a vehicle for Ilona Staller, who was known in Italy as being the host of a sex-themed radio show at the time. (She later became a hardcore porn star, and then a member of the Italian parliament in the early 90s, and continued doing porn while in office.) From what I've seen of the film, it is basically a movie about her being the host of a sex-themed radio show. Go figure. I'm sure it's good, I just haven't gotten a hold of it yet.

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Gianni Marchetti's soundtrack to the film was released through BEAT Records not too long ago, but I was pretty pissed when my copy had a very noticeable bend in the front cover. (It's very visible in the top picture.) I haven't listened to the entire soundtrack, but I have listened to bits and pieces of it, and it's a pretty nice disco-themed soundtrack from what I have heard. The songs included, which are sung by Staller herself, were included on her solo album from around the same time as the film, which also had a now out-of-print release on CD. If you're a Mattei fan, or a Cicciolina fan, go for this. You may dig it.

The Last Hunter soundtrack

If you're a fan of Italian genre films, and you haven't seen Antonio Margheriti's The Last Hunter, I urge you to track down the Dark Sky Films DVD as quickly as you can. Not only is it a beautiful gore-soaked Vietnam War epic (originally created to be sold as an unofficial sequel to Michael Cimino's far inferior The Deer Hunter), but it also has a remarkably star-studded cast; star-studded for the Italo-cult world, of course. David Warbeck, Tisa Farrow, Bobby Rhodes, Tony King, Margie Newton, Massimo Vanni, Luciano Pigozzi, John Steiner... holy shit, this film is loaded, and everyone is great and perfectly fitting in their roles.

Franco Micalizzi's soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal, too. While the film couldn't score tons of Vietnam-era rock music like plenty of the more famous films of the subgenre, it makes up for it in spades by way of Micalizzi's infinitely funky compositions here, which are perfectly set against the film's lush green jungle backdrop. This release by Chris' Soundtrack Corner, a newer label to the Italian soundtrack game, is just as good as any soundtrack by BEAT or Digitmovies. I believe it's sourced from a digital release from early 2013, but I personally don't buy digital releases ever, so I'm glad this soundtrack now has much more permanence on physical media.

The odd thing about this release is that it comes packaged with a spare, slightly different liner notes booklet, if you would like to have the front cover and the liner notes without the long red title effect that reaches through the entire booklet. It's interesting, but since this effect also reaches through the disc art and the back cover without variants for those, and the spare cover doesn't have the title on the front like the digital release version does, I honestly don't see any point in it. It's also a bit difficult to try to fit both liner note booklets into the jewel case, but I actually managed it after a while.

Porno Holocaust soundtrack

Porno Holocaust is a movie that I'm honestly not that big a fan of, even though it's an interesting conversation piece. This hybrid of gory island creature feature and hardcore pornography was filmed during director Joe D'Amato and writer/co-star George Eastman's extended vacation in the Caribbean islands, a session that also produced films like Sesso Nero, Orgasmo Nero, Porno Esotic Love and the much superior horror/porn hybrid Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead. At a running time of just under two hours, over half of which is devoted to the numerous ridiculously long and uncomfortably awful porn sequences throughout the entire film, it gets boring extremely quickly. It doesn't help that one of the main male performers, Mark Shannon (aka Manlio Cersosimo), has a visibly serious case of genital warts. Eurgh.

However, this soundtrack by Nico Fidenco, a frequent D'Amato collaborator, is nothing short of excellent, and easily one of the best things about the film. It mixes the best that the porn-groove sound has to offer and seamlessly mixes it with a Caribbean atmosphere, during the sequences that the soundtrack is upbeat. There are a few ominous pieces throughout that are a little boring, but not every soundtrack can be all killer and no filler, especially for a film that really needed to fill some boring scenes with anything. Thankfully, this also includes the odd English-language love theme of sorts that appears during one of the porn sequences; I'd have imagined if anything was missing from the masters, it'd have been that mysterious song.

This soundtrack was released by BEAT Records in early 2012, as a limited run of 500 copies. I have no clue if the soundtrack is still being sold on BEAT's site, but I remember seeing a post a while back saying that only about 50 copies are left, and I imagine even less are left now. While most of this soundtrack's track listing is listed as numbered sequences, there is one bonus track smack dab in the middle of the album: Nico Fidenco's theme to the Italian TV miniseries Sexy Night. Since this song is nowhere in the film, I assume that when BEAT found the masters to the Porno Holocaust soundtrack, the master to the Sexy Night theme was just in there with them. This theme did show up in Sesso Nero, but isn't included in BEAT's soundtrack of that film.

The Visitor soundtrack

While Beyond The Door is a mostly unique, surreal, and beautiful experience, it is still going to drive several comparisons to Rosemary's Baby and especially The Exorcist, and for good reason. That isn't to deny it of its many, many positive qualities, but Italian producer Ovidio G. Assonitis' big followup of sorts, The Visitor (this version of the soundtrack presented under its original Italian title Stridulum), is an absolutely unique experience free of any real comparison. One of the biggest original Italian productions of the 70s in terms of its pure star power, surreal as hell but still sensible enough to keep the viewer along if and only if you're watching the uncut international version, and visually and sonically beautiful in just about every aspect. Franco Micalizzi's score here is a pure gem, especially when driven by the strength of the film's visuals.

Sadly, this Digitmovies edition of the soundtrack seems to have also fallen out of print, but it wasn't the last time I checked... which, honestly, was before Drafthouse's Blu came out. (Which, after seeing the downright shady shit Drafthouse seemed to have pulled around Code Red's release of the film, as well as hearing friends telling me the Blu doesn't look very good, I don't feel comfortable purchasing.) I know there seems to be an LP from RCA Italy which I assume dates to either the late 70s or early 80s, and in the early 90s, there was a dual soundtrack release of this paired with the soundtrack to Peter Del Monte's awful, horrible, terrible, abysmal, pathetic, Bad, BAD, BAD pile of garbage Etoile, and clearly I couldn't recommend buying something like that. If you can track this down for cheap enough, get it, because even the OOP prices I've seen seem to be not as bad as the ones for the Beyond The Door soundtrack.

Beyond The Door soundtrack

This CD has the honor of being the most I've ever had to pay for a soundtrack album, unfortunately. I made the mistake of waiting until after it went out of print to grab the 2011 Digitmovies edition of Franco Micalizzi's soundtrack to Ovidio G. Assonitis' Beyond The Door (here under its original Italian title Chi Sei?), and the absolute cheapest I was able to find it for was $40 from a listing on a French forum. It's weird, considering I once helped a friend find a cheaper listing right when it was going out of print, but that's just how things go, really.

To put it bluntly, this is an excellent soundtrack to an excellent film. The funky, jazzy score Micalizzi composed adds an interesting atmosphere to what already would be a great clone of Rosemary's Baby fused with elements of The Exorcist. It's unfortunate that this soundtrack is now discontinued, but you should still try to track it down in any way you can.

The tracklisting is as follows:

THE ORIGINAL ALBUM (STEREO)

1. Bargain With The Devil

2. Jessica's Theme

3. Dimitry's Theme

4. Robert's Theme

5. Jessica's Theme (#2)

6. Family's Theme

7. Bargain With The Devil (#2)

8. Flute Sequence

9. Dimitry's Theme (#2)

10. Family's Theme (#2)

BONUS TRACKS (MONO)

11. Chi Sei? (Prologue)

12. Jessica's Theme (#3)

13. Bargain With The Devil (#3)

14. Flute Sequence (#2)

15. Jessica's Theme (#4)

16. Dimitry's Theme (#3)

The Beyond expanded soundtrack CD

As I said in my post about the Bloodnight LP, Lucio Fulci's The Beyond is, in my opinion, the greatest horror film of all time. ALL TIME. Given that Italian horror is essentially my lifeblood, that is a remarkably high claim to come from me. As such, when the opportunity arose to pick the expanded soundtrack released by BEAT Records in 2011, I jumped at the opportunity. This makes my second copy of this film's soundtrack, the first being a CD included with Blackest Heart Media/Rotten Cotton's graphic novel adaptation of the film from the late 90s. (When Grindhouse Releasing issues their Blu of The Beyond in February, that will be my third copy of it, and I really hope it's sourced from this edition.)

Because a lot of the expansions seem to be alternate takes of compositions that had been released on earlier issues of the soundtrack, all of the tracks will be listed below with running times so I can differentiate them as much as I can. I won't link to any songs on the soundtrack, partially because I already had in the Bloodnight post, and partially because I may end up linking to the wrong sequence of that particular track.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Oltre La Soglia (1:35)*

2. Oltre La Soglia (3:20)*

3. Voci Dal Nulla (4:25)

4. Sequenza Coro E Orchestra (2:27)*

5. Suono Aperto (3:56)

6. Voci Dal Nulla (4:16)

7. Oltre La Soglia (3:59)

8. Giro Di Blues (2:20)*

9. Verso L'Ignoto (3:56)

10. Suono Aperto (1:32)*

11. Sequenza Ritmica A Tema (1:36)*

12. Voci Dal Nulla (2:56)

13. Oltre La Soglia (1:42)*

14. Sequenza Ritmica A Tema (4:22)*

15. Giro Di Blues (2:20)

16. Verso L'Ignoto (3:21)

17. Voci Dal Nulla (1:36)*

18. Suono Aperto (1:22)

19. Sequenza Coro E Orchestra (4:30)

20. Voci Dal Nulla (1:32)*

*Previously unreleased

This is something I will say to anyone who loves Italian horror as much as I do: Keep an eye on BEAT Records, as well as any other releases of Italian soundtracks. Surprises keep on popping out all the time from there; hell, the last thing I picked up from the Italian soundtrack front was a new CD issue of the soundtrack to Antonio Margheriti's The Last Hunter, composed by none other than Franco motherfucking Micalizzi himself. I mean, there are some miracles that likely won't ever happen, like the apparently destroyed masters for Marcello Giombini's Anthropophagus soundtrack resurrecting to give us a CD release, but I've heard a CD for Fulci's Contraband is on the way from BEAT! Keep your eyes peeled, and be open to just about anything!