AUDIO DROME

REVIEWS BY ALEX DELLER, MARK R. HASAN, AARON VON LUPTON, GEORGE PACHECO, CHRIS ROWELLA AND GLENN TILSON

WICKED CITY SOUNDTRACK Osamu Shoji TIGER LAB VINYL Tiger Lab, a new label focused on anime vinyl soundtracks, goes horror-noir for its first release, 1987’s Wicked City. Osamu Shoji, a synth artist from the late ’70s and ’80s, provides a varied, often erratic score that is part dark ambient atmosphere, part ’80s new wave/pop and part jazzfunk. Without a recurring theme, it’s all over the place, yet, oddly enough, the constant injections of sound effects and quick shifts in direction don’t detract from its listenability – one can imagine the bass lines and retro synths fuelling any number of slashers or monster flicks. The remastering of Wicked City is superb, resulting in huge, pulsating sounds that pull you into the movie’s world of shape-shifters and secret police. Highly recommended for ’80s horror devotees. AVL FRIDAY THE…

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