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ZOLTAN Psychomania CD Version out now!

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London´s Zoltan follow up their 2012 Cineploit album release “First Stage Zoltan” by honouring a classic British cult movie from the 1970´s – Psychomania aka Der Frosch!
In their very special way Zoltan took several themes and melodies from the brilliant fuzzed-out score by John Cameron, and created an epic 13 minute suite of wonderful and fantastic Soundtrack Prog!!

The CD version was so far only included to a limited DVD release of the Film as a Bonus and to a handful of LP/CD Sets of ZOLTAN ´s 2nd Opus SIXTY MINUTE ZOOM. This CD edition is strictly limited to 99 handnumbered copies in a 3 panel cardboard sleeve. 

MORLOCK & RASHOMON out & shipping!

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RASHOMON and MORLOCK Vinyl & CD Editions ready and shipping! Of both Vinyl Editions we have a colored LP/CD Set or solid black LP/CD Set. Both CD Editions are coming in Gatefold Cardboard Sleeves. Get your copy now in our online store!

RASHOMON – Ashcan copy – Filmmusic Vol. III (Cine 21) Colored Vinyl
RASHOMON – Ashcan copy – Filmmusic Vol. III (Cine 21) CD Edition
MORLOCK – Ancient Paths (Cine 22) colored Vinyl
MORLOCK – Ancient Paths (Cine 22) CD Edition

RASHOMON & MORLOCK presale start!

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Presales started on these new releases, for more options please visit our online store! 

CINEPLOIT ONLINE STORE


RASHOMON „Ashcan Copy“ (Cine 21) coming in October!

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RASHOMON – ASHCAN COPY – FILM MUSIC VOL. III (CINE 21) LP & CD

RASHOMON are back with a wonderful release worth your cinematic ears! This fine album will be out on 180g Vinyl (300 copies on bone/orange mixed colour and 200 on solid black Vinyl) and as a CD edition in Gatefold Cardboard sleeve. 

Out in October, exact release date tba. 

Originally issued in 2011, Ashcan Copy is the third instalment in Rashomon’s Film Music series of LPs. Cineploit Records is proud to present this re-release, and to introduce the 

record to a wider audience than the 150 lucky souls who snagged a copy of the ultra-limited initial release on Hlava Records.

Active since 2009, Rashomon is the solo project of Matt Thompson, also of Cineploit mainstays ZOLTAN. This is his second release on the label under the Rashomon name, 

following 2014’s LP/DVD extravaganza The Cameraman’s Revenge: Film Music Vol. 4 (Cine 09) – the final release in the Film Music series to date. 

The previous edition to this, 2009’s The Finishing Line: Film Music Vol. 2, had focused on re-creating the psychological mind-state of the wilder end of 1970s British public information films. By way of change Ashcan Copy is presented as an album of soundtrack cues fromfilms that were, for one reason or another, never released. The films, hailing from Italy, Japan and the USA (among others) supposedly date from the 1950s to the 1970s, and were (according to the extensive sleeve notes) exactingly sourced from film archives across Europe. In reality, all the music is self-composed. The eight tracks include elements of noise, folk, psychedelia, prog and noir-jazz within their elaborate constructions, created with a panoply of instrumentation including Mellotron, zither, home-made percussion, Fender Rhodes, harmonium, MiniMoog and more. Delicate and sensuous, heavy and oppressive – the record negotiates these musical contradictions while retaining a single-minded pursuit of strangeness and surprise.

Having finally found its spiritual home on cinematic specialist label Cineploit, Ashcan Copy can at last be heard by all.

#Rashomon #Zoltan #MattThompson #SynthProg #Cinematic #FilmMusic #Mellotron #Moog #progrock

MORLOCK new Cineploit artist LP/CD coming after summer!

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Prog doom drummer du jour Andrew Prestidge branches out into the field of electronic music with his solo synthesizer project MORLOCK!

After several years spent holding down the drum stool with legendary doom metal acts Angel Witch, Electric Wizard and Warning – not to mention the prog rock bands Zoltan, The Osiris Club and Suns Of The Tundra – Andrew sat down with his keyboard collection, a 4-track recorder and a selection of sonic screwdrivers to create a new kind of music.

The space-rock jams contained on ‘Ancient Paths’ are influenced as much by retro synth artists Kraftwerk, Heldon, Tubeway Army and OMD as they are by the sci-fi soundtracks of John Carpenter and the folk-horror that seeps into every corner of the British Isles. Andrew’s previous experience in live-soundtracking silent films (performing at Stewart Lee’s ATP Festival with Suns Of The Tundra to a 1919 film detailing Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica) and reworking vintage horror scores with Zoltan guide the expansive, all-instrumental melancholy of the record. Acoustic guitars, analog synthesizers and electronic percussion coalesce into a retro-futurist soundscape for the mind’s eye.

Many of the songtitles reference occult literature and cinema: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (‘Rotwang’s Furnace’), Phantasm (‘Morningside’), H.P. Lovecraft’s Colour Out Of Space (‘Blasted Heath’), the comics of Jack Kirby (‘Kirby Oberon’). The band name itself is a nod to H.G. Well’s classic 1895 novel ‘The Time Machine’.

The Wind in the Willows recast for the 22nd century? Quatermass and the Pit relocated to Summerisle? The music of Morlock bridges the past and the future, re-imagining both into a blend of electronic perfection.

26. Mai OSCILLOTRON*RASHOMON*LAWA live in Vienna

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CINEPLOIT Concert TICKETS

For our 5 Year Celebration we decided to do a special live event, a rare occassion to see some of us live! Featuring OSCILLOTRON from Sweden, RASHOMON from Great Britain and LAWA which is Alain Leonard & Alex Wank doing there Omaggio´s to Fulci, Frizzi & Ortolani in their entirety.

Presentation of the “Omaggio al Maestro Ennio Morricone – I Cinque anni di Cineploit” Compilation Album!

Friday 26th of May in Vienna at Club Schwarzberg – limited tickets available, see ticket link above!

Cineploit 5 Years Live Performance!

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CINEPLOIT Concert TICKETS

For our 5 Year Celebration we decided to do a special live event, a rare occassion to see some of us live! Featuring OSCILLOTRON from Sweden, RASHOMON from Great Britain and LAWA which is Alain Leonard & Alex Wank doing there Omaggio´s to Fulci, Frizzi & Ortolani in their entirety.

We do plan to present the “Omaggio al Maestro Ennio Morricone – I Cinque anni di Cineploit” Compilation Album there too if everything goes fine.

Friday 26th of May in Vienna at Club Schwarzberg – limited tickets available, see ticket link above!