RALPH JONES The Slumber Party Massacre LP

RALPH JONES The Slumber Party Massacre LP

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(Death Waltz)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Now sold out at the source, Ralph Jones' odd little score for the cult 80's slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre is one of the latest horror obscurities to get the deluxe Death Waltz treatment. Released in 1982 by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Massacre was a quirky installment in the 80's slasher canon, a cult fave filled with gratuitous lingerie shots and rampant nudity (it being a slumber party, after all) that eventually give way to rampant power-drill atrocities and copious bloodflow. Not only was the script written by feminist author and activist Rita Mae Brown, and directed by Amy Holden Jones, who would go on to do more high profile pictures like Maid to Order and Mystic Pizza, but the film occupied a weird area somewhere between feminist-tinged satire and straight sleaze that, despite it's fairly conventional plotting, still manages to be one of the more memorable entries in the era's slasher deluge.
   Ralph Jones' beautifully warped soundtrack was a nearly perfect backdrop to the film's offbeat vibe; using nothing but a primitive Casiotone MT-30 keyboard that he picked up at a department store, along with a violin bow, a ride cymbal, and a set of crystal glasses scored at a thrift shop, Jones assembled a variety of weird bleeping soundscapes, super-minimal drones, washes of nocturnal ambience, gurgling electronics, dissonant chiming cues and fractured minor key melodies into this unusual electronic score, with a lot of the techniques used drawn from his experience gained from years spent crafting his own brand of avant-garde tape music. Many of the pieces used to build tension throughout the score consist of layered drones that resemble the sinister gothic wheeze of a pipe organ, and the main theme is surprisingly haunting and memorable, but there's also lots of wonderfully primitive electronic sounds and effects that don't leave any doubt as to whether we're hearing a low-budget horror score from the early 80s. Jones' Slumber Party sure was an odd one, part cheapo horror ambience, part primitive electronica, the combination producing a deliriously wonky experimental creepscape.
    Another killer presentation from the Waltz, of course; this LP comes in a gorgeous heavyweight casewrapped jacket that houses the thick cloudy clear vinyl, along with a full color booklet that features liner notes from Jones and cover artist Luke Insect, and a large foldout poster that reproduces Insect's cool neon-drenched album artwork.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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