Browse by Label: CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)

Artist:	VA
Title:	Iron Curtain Revisited
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 049CD

"Iron Curtain Revisited is a tribute to the remarkable history of East European Jazz. Several remixers have got their inspiration from the recent Crippled Dick album Between Or Beyond The Iron Curtain -- we remember psychedelic extra class raregrooves and unpronounceable artist names like Karel Velebny, Zbigniew Namyslowsky or the legendary Gustav Brom or the Novi Singers. A new generation lined up to whisk the old legacy through the sound mixer. Some of the tracks are almost unrecognizable interpretations, some are very close to the original. Fluffy, charming downbeat tracks à la Balduin or Les Gammas, soft and relaxed Drum & Bass by The Phoneheads and Kabuki, new creative Berlin school with Volker Meitz, Nootropica or Kasar (all Sonar Kollektiv), Nu Jazz bearing fusion elements by Jakim Lone from Paris (Versatil Records) and Higher Than God. Though the project was approached in very individual ways the result is very harmonious and nevertheless exciting -- jazzalectronic 2001." Limited stock of this now deleted item.

Artist:	FUNKI PORCINI
Title:	Zombie
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 063EP

"Funki strikes back with two new tracks inspired by 60´s Zombie movies. From jungle fever to blood mania he presents an outstanding mixture of electronica and soundtrack music. An artist for the British label Ninja Tune, he has always been in love with soundtracks. Having composed several when he lived in Italy, he got in touch with Crippled Dick! for their Beat at Cinecitta series. Early this year they sent Funki a video tape of Zombie Flesheaters, THE zombie classic, and asked him to work on a draft for a new soundtrack to it. 'The Chase' reveals as a trip to the jungle hunted by zombies: having time to take a breath, passing various landscapes, etc. But in the end there´s no chance to escape. 'Zombie Parade' is the marching song for the undead themselves." Limited stock of this now deleted item.

Artist:	WILDEN & ORCHESTRA, GERT
Title:	Schulmädchenreport (Schoolgirl Report)
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 024CD

German sexploitation soundtrack music from the 1960s and 1970s as scored by softcore sound-specialist Gert Wilden & His Orchestra. Schulmädchen Report (Schoolgirl Report), and its many sequels were exported, badly dubbed, and run to death. Wilden's music is a wonderfully demented pastiche that takes its inspiration from all kinds of sources -- "Dirty Beat"' swipes from Led Zeppelin, but chucks in bits of acid rock, crazed Farfisa organ, and drum-work that sounds like tap-dancing piledrivers. Other cuts teeter on the edge of pure lounge -- there's bits of smoky jazz, R&B, crazily-mangled surf music, whatever else can be jammed in and will stick. One moment it's lolling saxophone, and the next it's James Last on amphetamines. It all fits, it's often hilarious, and it is absolutely worth keeping on hand. The album producers have also provided multiple liner notes that explain the background of the films, provide biographical information about Gert Wilden, and have a little fun with the audience.

Artist:	WILDEN & ORCHESTRA, GERT
Title:	Schulmädchenreport (Schoolgirl Report)
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 024LP

Gatefold LP version on colored vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies only. 2009 release. German sexploitation soundtrack music from the 1960s and 1970s as scored by softcore sound-specialist Gert Wilden & Orchestra. Schulmädchen Report (trans. "Schoolgirl Report"), and its many sequels were exported, badly dubbed, and run to death. Wilden's music is a wonderfully demented pastiche that takes its inspiration from all kinds of sources -- "Dirty Beat" swipes from Led Zeppelin, but chucks in bits of acid rock, crazed Farfisa organ, and drum-work that sounds like tap-dancing pile-drivers. Other cuts teeter on the edge of pure lounge -- there's bits of smoky jazz, R&B, crazily-mangled surf music, and whatever else can be jammed in and will stick. One moment it's lolling saxophone, and the next it's James Last on amphetamines. It all fits, it's often hilarious, and it is absolutely worth keeping on hand.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Beat At Cinecittà Volume 1
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 033CD

Released in 1996. Fab first volume of Crippled Dick's cool series documenting lost funky and groovy tracks from Italian films of the late '60s and early '70s. Put together with the same great sound and style as the Easy Tempo series of comps, this one's got a batch of tracks that are a bit wilder, and which have a bit more of a wild sound, in the Crippled Dick style. Plus, the whole thing's got loads of notes, in English, and lots of cool photos and reproductions of the posters from these crazy films. Cool cool stuff by composers like Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, and Roberto Pregadio -- and with the kind of wild sound you'd expect from films like these! Erotica, Exotica, Psychotica!

Artist:	VA
Title:	Beat At Cinecittà Volume 1
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 033LP

2009 release. Special limited edition of 1,000 copies only, pressed on colored vinyl with a gatefold sleeve. Volume 1 of a sensual homage to the most raunchy, erotic film music from the vaults of Italian '60s and '70s cinema. Brass pasta sounds for hot nights from some of the most acclaimed Italian composers of all time: Roberto Pregadio, Franco de Gemini, Riz Ortolani, Teo Usuelli, Alessandro Alessandroni, Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, and Francesco de Masi. Seventeen tracks of pure sleazy audio loveliness from some great Italian exploitation movies. LP comes with numerous stills al dente as well as vintage poster reproductions and extensive liner notes.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Beretta 70
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 053CD

Vaguely thematic selection of music featured in "Thrilling Italian Policefilms" between the years 1971-1980 by such miscreant anti-functional scorists as Goblin, Armando Trovajoli, Luic Bacalov, Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, Stelvio Cipriani, Paolo Vasile, Bixio-Friizi-Tempera, etc. All of these movies seem to star the same dolt (Maurizio Merli, a flaxen-nogged take on a Bronson/Eastwood baddie/goodie) and have similar thematic tendencies (terrorists kidnap high-ranking political officials) but contain the widest assortment of ir/relevant music (uptempo boogies, death rock arias, seemingly pro-NAMBLA anthems) this side of contemporary Hollywood-horror's fetish for underdeveloped major-label "developing artists."

Artist:	O.S.T.
Title:	Signor Rossi
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 054LP

2006 vinyl repressing of this long unavailable 1999 soundtrack album. Signor Rossi, with music composed, arranged and performed by Franco Godi. With the help of carefully re-created German and Italian original-tapes that had been lost for so long, this unique collection of musical highlights mixed with some high dialogue was put together. We join Signor Rossi and his friend Gastone through the Stone Age, from the middle-ages into the future, travel with them through the Orient, Wild West, jungle and even on their holidays. Including the German, English and Italian version of the famous title track "Viva la Felicita," there are many more unreleased tracks on this unique record for fans of cartoons and the young-at-heart.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Between Or Beyond The Black Forest 2
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 064CD

Released in 2000. These are smoking grooves from the '70s. After the successful release of Between Or Beyond Vol. 1, the label Crippled Dick Hot Wax is coming up with more tunes from the legendary Black Forest label MPS and its producer Hans Georg Brunner Schwer. This time the compilation focuses on the different styles of MPS: From bossa nova to bebop, from the beginning of fusion to power jazz. Featured artists are, e.g., Geroge Duke, Charly Antolini, Ernest Ranglin, Baden Powell, Jasper Van't Hof and more. Containing a 24-page booklet, this is a must-have for both the jazz and the lounge fan.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Berlin Super 80 - Music Underground West Berlin 1978-1984
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 065LP

2011 repress, originally released in 2005. This double LP compilation presents insights into the outstanding artistic means of expression of late-70s/early '80s Berlin, which left their mark on subsequent generations of artists and bands alike, bringing the walled-in city's special attitude back to life. 16 groundbreaking tracks that speak across the Germanic spectrum, from performance art/noise to post-punk/new wave, post-industrial, post-prog electronic, etc., from artists such as: Mona Mur, Malaria!, Die Tödliche Doris, Christiane F, P1/E, Mono/45 UPM, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Kosmonautentraum, Valie Export & I. Weiner, Alexander v. Borsig (Hacke), Din A Testbild, Flucht Nach Vorn, Frieder Butzmann, Sentimentale Jugend, Einstürzende Neubauten and MDK.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Shake Sauvage: French Soundtracks 1968-1973
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 068LP

2009 reissue, originally released in 2000. Special limited edition LP version of 1,000 copies only, pressed on colored vinyl with a gatefold sleeve. Without a doubt, soundtracks have been the field of experimentation for innovative musicians around the world; France is no exception, but definitely has its own unique certain sound to offer: somewhere between French pop and Blaxploitation-reminiscences. This compilation of French soundtracks from mainly the '60s and '70s (only exception: "Grand Théme Malko" from 1982), covers the whole spectrum; from pulsating thriller-beats to relaxed, sexy grooves. The line-up of first class composers reads as follows: Jean-Pierre Mirouze, Georges Garvarentz, Philippe Sarde, Claude Bolling, Resonnance, Karl Heinz Schäfer, Francis Lai, Roland Vincent, Bernard Gérard, Michel Magne, André Arpino, and Jean Yanne, who pump the French touch out of your speakers. Young girls lose their way in the midst of the '68 riots, until they find themselves in wild clubs, taking exotic drugs, letting their hair down to the sound of the sitar. Romy Schneider only just escapes death, when her weekend lover crashes down the cliffs in a car. Bored married couples invite you for orgies and a mental marriage-swindler drugs women senseless to make them obey. These and other stories are the ingredients of these selected films. The typical French combination of the commissioner and the psychopathic killer is well represented here as well as the absurd sex film. Mysterious, sexy, or just plain funky (thank god for various disco scenes) are the tracks featured on this compilation. Percussive rhythms, wild organs, psychedelic flutes, sitars and various electronic sounds will do the rest to spoil the advanced listener. Includes liner notes and vintage poster reproductions.

Artist:	KUHN, PAUL
Title:	Gateway To Crime
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 077EP

2002 release. A living legend, the German crooner, entertainer and jazz piano player Paul Kuhn has become well known for commercial pop hits in the German hit parade and for some TV shows, but his first and biggest love was jazz music. With all his film and TV industry contacts, it seems natural that he finally even worked out some library titles, which have been slumbering in the archives for decades. Here we have discovered one of them: "Gateway To Crime," from 1974. This title is definitely exceptional and might irritate some of his fans, since it does not sound at all like the typical German radio station big band stuff, but rather evokes New York's Harlem street atmosphere. We confidently put the title into the trustworthy hands of two producer teams to overpass it into a "fit for the club" context: The first craftsmen team is Slope -- Hans Schaaf and Daniel Paul. These very pleasant guys from Berlin prove a deep understanding of the original version. At the same time their version bears their own and very individual mark. The second team is Difusora -- HP Eckhard aka DJ Agape and Marc Frank (singer, drummer and producer for Les Gammas). They get to the heart of the original, turning it surprisingly into a fantastically straight Brazil dancefloor tune.

Artist:	MISSUS BEASTLY
Title:	Geisha
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 079EP

2002 release. Our search for original rare grooves and danceable jazz for our Revisited 12" series has led to a fascinating new "old" gem: "Geisha" from the legendary Missus Beastly, which was formed in 1968 as one of the first German Kraut jazz bands. "Geisha" is a beautiful instrumental rare-fusion hymn, driven by an impressively original, solid drum and bass rhythm structure, with a gentle breeze of Asia-influenced moody flutes. Meitz (Sonarkollektiv) supplies the dancefloor update.

Artist:	APPLETON & TREU
Title:	Wunderbra
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 086CD

Released in 2003. Berlin-based Künstler Treu (ex-Dauerfisch) collaborates with the American electronic music pioneer, Jon Appleton. Appleton experimented with electronic noise-collages during the late 1960s and released several albums in cahoots with the likes of Don Cherry and Tom Scott on Flying Dutchman Records. He was also a co-inventor of the first digital sampler -- the famous Synclavier. The result of this musical whirlwind is Wunderbra, an album that -- thankfully -- can not be conveniently categorized with any current genre-labels. Even Brazilian native music icon Marlui Miranda joins in on two of the tracks. Wunderbra delivers a finely-woven melange of electronica, space-age-pop and Dadaism -- nervous energy exchanges blows with delicate, graceful melodies. An organic whole -- far beyond fast-changing everyday trends.

Artist:	SCHULTZE SET, KRISTIAN
Title:	Recreation
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 087CD

Remastered in 2002. The Kristian Schultze Set album, with the original title Overdrive, was initially released in 1972 on Tempo Records. Group members include Joe Nay, Pawel Jazerbski, Olaf Kübler, and Dusko Goykovich. It was an absolute exception in German jazz music and much sought-after in jazz and rare groove circles. This re-issue Recreation contains one additional, previously unreleased track with a sax and trumpet. The line-up for this album is simply called Kristian Schultze Set. All of Kristian Schultze compositions deny any rigid classification. His smooth keyboard-playing leads to an undreamt-of tension when meeting with the rough and tough electronic sounds of his Fender piano and synthesizer.

Artist:	TRANSPORTER
Title:	Glaze
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 089CD

Released in 2003. Welcome aboard and take a soft-sprung seat in the Transporter run by the Berlin-Frankfurt family business of Bennie and Christoph Reimann. With his effervescent playing, top-of-the-class vibraphonist Bennie, who also welds percussion with Fender-Rhodes' components masterfully into the bodywork of Transporter, shares the wheel with dear brother Christoph, who operates the on-board computer and is responsible for both tempo change and fully comprehensive insurance. From time to time Transporter pulls up to give hitch-hikers a lift, such as vocalists Nadja Dehn and Selda Koya. And up on the roof rack, double bass, piano and trumpet along with their players have already been made welcome ahead of time. An album of great charm and atmosphere that approaches the genre of "jazz" with a great deal of sophistication and an unmistakable sound all of its own.

Artist:	BALDUIN
Title:	Balduin
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 093CD

Released in 2004. This is Balduin of Berne's second album. Balduin's clearly audible passions for French film-music, the '60s, electronics, Alp horns and jazz blend with one another to form a smooth and creamy confection -- with the charm of his unconventional and tender compositions. This multi-instrumentalist conjures up tonal images of the widest possible variety: frail, sentimental stories go hand-in-hand with airy beats summoning springtime, abstract fusion alternates with four-square Swiss precision electronics. Not everyone is a one-man orchestra like Balduin: he is master of the instruments and deploys them in all their diversity, with an unerring feeling for groove. Last copies of this now deleted item.

Artist:	SLIM
Title:	It's In the Mix!
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 094EP

2004 release. Iceberg Slim, comedienne and MC is known for two songs in go-go music history: "It's In The Mix" and "Good To Go (Hello)," released on D.E.T.T. / T.T.E.D records. Although his recording career was brief, Slim's folklore image in go-go music in Washington, D.C. stands out -- literally, (he is an imposing figure at 6' 7" inches tall) and played basketball on the playgrounds around Washington, D.C. and opened as a comedy act with local comedienne Chris Thomas the impersonator while growing up. He would perform his hit "It's In The Mix, Don't Touch that Stereo" on stage with a basketball in his hands and chant in the microphone 'This is Iceberg Slim with a basketball -- Hello'. Slim performed in the early 80's around D.C. at go-go venues: Celebrity Hall, Masonic Temple and The Classics Nightclub with Trouble Funk, Tilt and Big Toni and the TF Crew. Re-released on Crippled Dick Hot Wax! together with a remix from versatile record's Chateau Flight.

Artist:	ALESSANDRONI/PAUL & HONESTY
Title:	Tridem
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 095CD

2004 release. This co-production brings together Italian composer Alessandro Alessandroni, (Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, etc.) and the Berlin producer-duo Daniel Paul and DJ Honesty, also known as Slope. These recordings were made with the help of friends like Morricone chanteuse, Gianna Spagnulo, Volker Meitz, Micatone bassist Paul Kleber and many others. Alessandroni's classical instrumentation -- mandolin, piano, guitar, saxophone or accordion -- meets up with new beats and is lent polished form with a charming, unconventional and vital production by Paul and Honesty. The CD (digipak) comes with a QuickTime film as bonus, and the vinyl release is a limited and numbered 180 g. pressing.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Basscheck!
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 096CD

Bass-line aficionados listen up! A compilation for people that like to move. Here is the unfiltered truth! Bass, natural bass, electronic bass, wet bass, burning bass ... boogie, go-go and news. It creaks, it farts, it funks from any side. The CD has been mixed by the men from Slope, and the vinyl is available as a limited deluxe-version. Compiled by Daniel Paul, Honesty & Toni Schifer. Here's to funky fat bass lines on a straight rhythm, that's what Basscheck is all about.

Artist:	ALESSANDRONI/PAUL & HONESTY
Title:	Welcome
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 097EP

2004 remix EP, featuring remixes from Maurice Fulton and Olav & Jögges. Colin Corvez and Volker Meitzs voices and breaths within a loose beat make up the essence of this track to which Fulton introduces pathos and excitement by putting wonderfully emotional soundlayers right in the heart of the swing. Class is class stays class, there seems to be no other way for Mr Fulton who adds another stunning gem to his impressive back catalogue with releases on Pagan, Warp, Tigersushi, Nuphonic, Output and Transfusion.

Artist:	ALESSANDRONI/PAUL & HONESTY
Title:	Believe
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 098EP

2005 release. A new face on the disco floor is Tobi Foster from Switzerland. Being part of the Soultourist Kollektiv, he's around for a while as keysplayer and DJ. His remix of "Believe" is his debut as a solo-artist. Cologne's Pascal Schäfer follows up with a tempting huggybear of a track that grabs you and doesn't let you go anymore. But maybe Sygaire, also known as Kosma, Roskow and part of Jazzanova, can help. He turned "Welcome" into a streetstyle version that should satisfy both old- and nu-school needs. "Believe" gets a Brazil treatment from Difusora, which is HP Eckhardt aka Agapê from Berlin and Marc Frank, part of Les Gammas from Augsburg. Their approach to Latin music is an original and rough one.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Grlz: Women Ahead of Their Time
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 099CD

Compilation of angular '70s/early '80s radical female-fronted post-punk aggro-pop. Ladies to the mike, please! After a long stint of male dominance during the '70s, with only a few scattered exceptions to prove the rule, the birth of punk manifested the dawn of a new self-confidence: awkward girl bands like The Slits, Au Pairs or German variant Mania D. Causing a stir in their dick-dominated surroundings, the cliché of the dishwashing female reduced to rearing offspring and shooting the odd admiring glance at her strong breadwinner was about to undergo a radical U-turn -- many of the era's pivotal bands featured women right at the frontline. Kickstarted by provocative pop actionists like Valie Export in the early '70s, this new feminist attitude was picked up and perpetuated with her musical sisters in mind. Nevertheless, this compilation does not dwell on the political statements behind the scene's artistic emancipation, but rather highlights its singers' newfound musical self-confidence. All tracks featured here simply bristle with untainted, exuberant freshness. Features artists such as post-punk Bristol-sounders Maximum Joy, angular jazzers Ludus, 19-year old upstart Dorothy, femme-rappers JaJaJa, Malcolm McLaren brainchildren Bow Wow Wow, feminist new wavers Delta 5, the ever-crazed Slits, the jazz-influenced Pop Group offshoot, Rip, Rig & Panic, the po-mo vocals of Anna Domino, reggae-styled New Age Steppers, and French-American popist Nicolle Meyer.

Artist:	IKA & BYM
Title:	Heyraten (Wedding Night Soundtrack)
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 100EP

2005 release. Berlin rediscovers its Super 8 avant-garde. The playful, S/M-tinged four-minute "Wedding Night" by Ika Schier first aired at the seminal 1981 "Ingenious Dilettantes" festival at the Berlin Tempodrom. The short film's soundtrack, Heyraten, hails back to the summer of '81 and was sung by the director herself, with the musical support of Bym and Johannes Vester (Alu). T.Raumschmiere (of Shitkatapult fame) transforms "Heyraten" into a mad, witch's broom-brandishing death disco shuffle.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Vampyros Lesbos (Sexadelic Dance Party)
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 102CD

2011 repress. Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents a very special and delicious re-release of the nearly-lost soundtrack recordings to Jess Franco's cult films Vampyros Lesbos, She Kills In Ecstasy and The Devil Came From Akasava. The songs from the hard-to-find LPs Psychedelic Dance Party and Sexadelic were written in 1969 and released in 1970. They were composed by Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab, and this release is a compilation that includes the best songs from these titles. The red-light swing, sleazy psychedelic and strip ballads inspired wild parties around the 1995 re-release, also inspiring renewed interest in the cult of Vampyros Lesbos and schlocky/great filmmaker Jess Franco. After all, how can you go wrong with sexy vampiresses, fuzz guitar, groovy sitar jams, funky beats and Bloody Marys? This essential release is pretty much the standard by which all other cult soundtracks are measured. The CD includes three bonus tracks.

Artist:	VA
Title:	7 Inch Up!
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 103CD

A loving compilation of British 7" rarities from 1978 to 1982, 7" Up! offers little-known, pristine pearls of pop, punk and new wave for people who haven't heard everything yet. It's always a special pleasure to flip through that box of singles. This diminutive format in black vinyl made it possible for a musician's own productions to be released in the smallest of runs. Very often for lack of funds they only came out as 7"s, in contrast to the big labels. Long since unavailable or, if to be had at all, then sadly only at hefty collectors' prices. Sometimes the B-side is an eye-opener: the A-side a let-down. And of course a centre puck is standard equipment for any lover of the 7". 7" Up! is our song of praise to a fine little medium that only a few labels are still putting out. Artists include Mark Beer, Glaxo Babies (later reformed as Maximum Joy), Contact (including member Mark E. Smith of The Fall), I Jog & The Tracksuits, Gerry and the Holograms, Brian Brain (including members of Public Image Limited), They Must Be Russians, Moondogs, Thomas Leer, Cult Figures, Monochrome Set, Henry Badowski and Weekend (including a member of Young Marble Giants).

Artist:	STEWART, MARK
Title:	Edit
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 105CD

2008 release. A legend who left a lasting mark on the world of music returns with a new studio album: Mark Stewart. Created and recorded between London, Vienna, Bristol and Berlin, Stewart's sixth full-length release, Edit, marks a welcome return to his solo career after numerous collaborations with, among others, Tricky, Massive Attack, Chicks On Speed, Adult and Primal Scream. As teenage front man and mastermind of seminal Bristol post-punk legends The Pop Group (1978-80), Stewart already used his microphone as a weapon. In an era that saw public opinion and perception tainted by Thatcher, Reagan and the Cold War, The Pop Group emerged as one of Britain's most radical exponents of new music and quickly gained notoriety well beyond the British Isles. Their until then unheard mix of punk, funk, dub, jazz and noise, countered by Mark Stewart's scathing political slogans and lyrics ("We Are All Prostitutes"), easily counts among the most impressive, provocative and lasting manifestations of musical spontaneity seen, heard and experienced by the end of the 1970s. After the group's dissolution in the early 1980s, members of The Pop Group re-emerged in a flurry of new bands and guises: Rip Rig & Panic (featuring the then still unknown Neneh Cherry), Pigbag (with their surprise Top 10 hit "Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag") and Maximum Joy. After a short stint with the New Age Steppers, Mark Stewart decided to pursue a solo career as Mark Stewart & The Maffia. His friend, production genius and ON-U sound owner Adrian Sherwood, took care of production and mixed the Maffia on their various tours. With Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and drumming talent Keith Leblanc, Stewart recruited a truly exceptional rhythm section who had previously played with the likes of James Brown, Madonna, Africa Bambaata, George Clinton, Tackhead and many others. Considered seminal milestones by many of his peers and fans, the solo outings by this "godfather" of Bristol's eclectic music scene blend the most diverse of genres in a unique and unconventional mix of dub, funk, punk, techno, electro, noise -- spiced up with a generous dose of Stewart's trademark political lyrics and slogans. Albums like As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade or Learning To Cope With Cowardice have left a lasting mark on the current music scene: icons in their own right like Massive Attack, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Carl Craig, Asian Dub Foundation and Nick Cave call Mark Stewart's work a decisive influence. On Edit, Stewart adds some unusually melodious touches to his inimitable vocal delivery ("Loner," "Rise Again" or "Secret Suburbia"), slips in a smattering of his familiar, forceful cut-up collages ("Freak Circus," "Radio Freedom," "The Puppet Master") and gives us the almost delicate, abstract "Almost Human," plus a very odd and refreshing cover version of the Yardbirds' "Mr You're Better Man Than I" (featuring Ari Up of The Slits). The travel journal of an exceptional artist, Edit proves that Mark Stewart continues to defy all categorization.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Otto; Or, Up With Dead People
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 106CD

2008 release. Time to celebrate an exceptional addition to the zombie genre with Canadian director Bruce LaBruce's oeuvre Otto; Or, Up With Dead People. Renouncing the most obvious clichés, LaBruce lets his protagonist -- gay punk zombie Otto -- ramble and roam the streets of Berlin until he finds himself cast for a low budget flick. With a keen eye for style, the director picks and mixes references from classic horror, silent movies and modernity into a strident, yet poetic film. In this, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People continues the tradition of the political pornographer's previous successes, The Raspberry Reich (2004) and Hustler White (1996). Spoilt for choice, Otto features more than 50 international tracks and sounds! After careful selection, Crippled Dick Hot Wax now presents the movie's official soundtrack featuring 14 tracks and available on CD (digipak) or limited double vinyl, promising to take you on a truly crazy acoustic rollercoaster ride. Yet despite the artists' glaring differences, the result is a surprisingly coherent, compact and homogeneous compilation. Weaving classical, electronic, drone, avant-garde, pop and punk/disco into a well-balanced whole, the soundtrack introduces cinema and music lovers alike to the weirdly wonderful world of Bruce LaBruce. Artists include: Mikael Karlsson, Jean-Louis Huhta, 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse, All My Friends, Pandas Of Black Metal, Misty Roses, The Living Dead Boys, No Bra, Brittle Stars, Eyes And Teeth, Othon With Ernesto Tomasini, La Jovenc, Ultra Milkmaids + V, and The Homophones.

Artist:	NAMOSH
Title:	Keep It For Later
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 107CD

This is the second full-length album from Berlin-based Namosh. Keep It For Later is a beautiful whirlwind of a record, although a touch softer than its precursor. Here, Namosh twirls dream-like, synth-generated sound sequences into rhythmic bass lines, percussion and vocals, further enriched by the cello, brass and jazz guitar provided by a few select peers. Mixed by Thomas Stern (Crime & The City Solution, Einstürzende Neubauten), the album also boasts a rare collaboration with German composer/arranger Peter Thomas (Jerry Cotton, Raumpatrouille) and Namosh's first-ever mainstream croon-fest, "Pleurer Et Rire" ("Cry And Laugh"). In 2003, Namosh E. Arslan first wowed the crowds with "Picked Up Floozy," a rousing club hit and pumping electro track carried by Namosh's smooth, yet curiously choppy vocals that still fills dancefloors around the world. In a poll by Q magazine, Björk voted Namosh's "Cold Cream" her favorite song. A tour de force and force of nature, Namosh's live sets are leagues apart from the latest mainstream offerings. Keep It For Later is a heady, synth-driven avant-pop anomaly with some bizarre R n' B tricks up its sleeve.

Artist:	SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE, IRMIN
Title:	Kamasutra
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 108CD

Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. No overlap in content with the other recent Inner Space release, Agilok & Blubbo, released by Wah Wah Records earlier in 2009. Better late than never? A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaeger's erotic and educational epic Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidt's 1968 recording assembles Can's original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the band's seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra. Fast-forward to the present day, and you will find the film's well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late-1960s were intrigued by Eastern philosophy and influenced by sounds of the Orient. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: "I'm Hiding My Nightingale" (sung by Margareta Juvan), "There Was A Man" (sung by Malcolm Mooney) and "I'm Around You Everyday" (sung by Michael Karoli). Kamasutra was mastered from the original analog tapes by Calyx and is available as a CD digipack and limited gatefold double vinyl. Before Irmin Schmidt founded the now-legendary German band Can in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras, including his own compositions. During this period, he also composed music for various film and theater productions. Between 1969 and 1978, he worked exclusively with Can (in 2003 they received the prestigious ECHO Lifetime Achievement Award).

Artist:	SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE, IRMIN
Title:	Kamasutra
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	CDHW 108LP

2012 repress on vinyl, originally released 2009. Gatefold 2LP version. An unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidt's 1968 recording assembles Can's original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the band's seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra.

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Popshopping Vol. 2
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 028CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Beat At Cinecittà Volume 2
Label:	CRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CDHW 040CD