Soho Lounge Heat comps, and library music in general

I have fallen head over heels for Jacques Siroul's Midway

http://musicophiliadaily.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/siroul-jacques-orly-1975.jpg

Uh, woops

http://musicophiliadaily.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/siroul-jacques-orly-1975.jpg

music de wolfe is worth a listen for sure

I got Edd Kalehoff's The Price is Right music library and it's exceptional.

there are two sites that have given me some great albums, librarymusicrarities.blogspot.com and thelibraryhunt.blogspot.com but I am just discovering library music so I would like to know what the well known library records are, not just the 'rarities'. Stereolab is my all time favorite band so anything like that would be appreciated. Thanks.

Well with library stuff there really is nothing but rarities which is probably what makes it so attractive to record geeks: very few library records had more than a few hundred pressed. The 'big' records are probably Big Beat (KPM 1044) and Big Beat 2 (KPM 1067) and the DeWolfe Afro Rock - after that, your into ever deepening levels of obscurity. The two sites you mention are a goldmine though. A general rule is that anything before about 1978 will be much better than anything after.

Agreed about the 1978 cutoff - although I have found a few decent things beyond this.

More Library blogs:
pornotrond.blogspot.com
hellobazounga.blogspot.com
thegrowingbin.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...

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 ?

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.

ta ...
they are proper brilliant ..
they hit the spot perfectly.

Library Music (1970s):
http://www.scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/library-music-lps-1970s.html

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.

well, this is rather good

http://thequietus.com/articles/20699-library-music-kpm

interesting, had never heard of that term

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.

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

Jonny Trunk has still got a few of these left. Recommended:

https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/time-signals/