Agreed about the 1978 cutoff - although I have found a few decent things beyond this.
More Library blogs:pornotrond.blogspot.comhellobazounga.blogspot.comthegrowingbin.blogspot.com
The last two are not Library exclusively but have a decent selection.
I am so obsessed with library music right now. I wish there was a messageboard/online community somoewhere exclusively for library fans...
― PublicRadio, Friday, 13 August 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZVq3ZpOlL._SX450_.jpg
so .. i picked this up from a charity shop a few months ago.loved it.thought it was a cheap e-z knock off by some studio bods making music that was meant to sound authentic .. then a couple of days ago, i chanced upon
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5967/2244/320/penthouse_med.jpg
which is more of the same .. so i started digging .. and realised this is genuine, and not a pastiche as i thought .. so i need to check, are these are actual kpm releases, or just compilations that use a lot of kpm music ?
― mark e, Thursday, 25 July 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
They are compilations of old tracks. The trackisting for the second album pictured above (with dates of when the tracks were recorded) is given here:
http://realmofx.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/check-in-and-check-out.html
I used to own a large number of the original KPM LPs but sold most of the collectable ones some years ago.
― dubmill, Thursday, 25 July 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
ta ... they are proper brilliant .. they hit the spot perfectly.
― mark e, Thursday, 25 July 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Library Music (1970s):http://www.scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/library-music-lps-1970s.html
― Jeff W, Friday, 18 September 2015 11:37 (eight years ago) link
love that scarfolk blog.a lot of work goes into it.
just ordered the last HOTEL EASY compilation.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iMakWsjjL.jpg
been on the lookout for this ever since i found the other 2 'by accident'.the only copies that appear on amazon are £££, but someone clearly just wanted rid of their copy (or its in bad condition .. ), as it was a lot cheaper than i have ever seen before.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 September 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
well, this is rather good
http://thequietus.com/articles/20699-library-music-kpm
― mark e, Monday, 8 August 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
interesting, had never heard of that term
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 August 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
wow, alan parker had no idea how ubiquitous library music was in porn films? that's so charming!
john cameron's jazz record "off centre" is really nice brit-jazz. "design centre" from the "advanced technology" bruton lp is lovely as well. a lot of the cream of british jazzers did library stuff. there's this one record with one side ondes martenot stuff by john leach and the other (better) side lovely little jazz miniatures by neil ardley, who did the arrangements for the mike taylor tribute concert in '73.
there's also a good bit of zeuhl library work, with jannick top in particular prolific in the field. the opening and closing tracks to april orchestra vol. 43 are good cuts, though the rest of the tracks are totally forgettable.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 8 August 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
spent the last week listening to the classic KPM 1000 series records on Spotify and it is my duty to report... that they are classic
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 10 December 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
Jonny Trunk has still got a few of these left. Recommended:
https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/time-signals/
― Jeff W, Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link