I have NOT ordered anything as a result of visiting this website…yet. Willpower is the key to staying out of the poorhouse, right? But how long can you hold out? I discovered SoundtrackCollector.com by accident while browsing the excellent cult movie trailers blog Bloody Blood. That site itself will devour hours of valuable office time, and the SoundTrack Collectors site includes references to tasty, tasty vinyl, especially for the Italian soundtacks I love. The graphics on these record sleeves are hard to resist and I got sucked into searching the site for quite some time before wrenching myself away to write this.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I’m a fan of Morricone and others…and I plan on dropping some MP3s on some of the tastier offbeat sounds in my collection. In the meantime, check out both Bloody Blood and Soundtrack Collectors to find those out-there sounds. If you like Morricone, Riz Ortolani and other Italian composers, these two sites are right up your alley.

The influence of these composers is widespread…you hear it all over modern indie/experimental groups and even more mainstream stuff–I double-dare the Radiohead boys to deny the Morricone factor starting with OK Computer and onward. I personally believe–without any proof whatsoever–that Air’s Sexy Boy single was directly influenced by Riz Ortolani’s score for Cannibal Holocaust, but again, I’ve got no way of knowing for certain. Call it wishful thinking? But I digress…