Equally suit­able for Top Gun or… Zom­bie 4: After Death! I’m get­ting Europe vibes through my spine.

Which type of cheese you like the most?

Frank Stal­lone — Take You Back (320k)

It’s the first one on the b-side, by Sylvester’s brother, and it’s from The Rocky III Orig­i­nal Motion Pic­ture Score LP. Frank’s the vocal­ist here while leg­endary Bill Conti scored, con­ducted and orches­trated almost the whole orig­i­nal score. This track is one of the excep­tions though, being pro­duced and arranged by Charles Calello.

Why does it feel like it’s sun­day already?

While The Bronx War­riors was War­riors rip-off, The New Bar­bar­ians (aka I nuovi bar­bari, Metrop­o­lis 2000; War­riors of the Waste­land) is Mad Max 2 rip-off! It’s Ital­ian post-apocalyptic movie with music by Clau­dio Simon­etti. Let the trailer speak for itself. It brings together the best parts of the movie.

The sound­track qual­ity is quar­an­teed. Accord­ing to Clau­dio him­self; Roland Jupiter-8, Min­i­moog, Roland vocoder were the machines used. Any­way, here is an edit I made. The orig­i­nal song falls a lit­tle short so I extented it and added more drums.

Clau­dio Simon­etti — Nuke Is Over (Kyny­Nasty Extended Edit) (320 kbit)

More audio­clips at moviegrooves

1990: I guer­ri­eri del Bronx is an Ital­ian exploita­tion movie rip-off of Escape From New York and The War­riors with inten­sive and pow­er­ful prog rock/synth sound­track by Wal­ter Riz­zatti. It’s one of those movies you gladly rem­i­nisce when you for­get the over­all qual­ity of the film. Still quite entertaining.

The open­ing sequence in itself is top qual­ity and much bet­ter than watch­ing the entire film. One should stick with these scenes and the sound­track. You won’t need to watch the whole movie.

The open­ing theme sounds like it’s done by the evil brother of Gary Moore.

Wal­ter Riz­zatti — Bronx 1990 (320 kbit)

The War­riors aka Sotu­rit (1979)

Mikä ?
Kouri­in­tun­tu­vasti haikeutta herät­tävä jengiku­vaus sijoit­tuu futur­is­tiseen 70-luvun lopun New Yorkiin.
Inspi­raa­tionsa se ammen­taa Sol Yurickin saman­nimis­estä nov­el­li­ista.

Parasta
+Suo­ra­sukainen maail­mankuva
+Railakas toim­inta
+Synkkä tunnelma/värit
+Öinen New York
+Korni dialogi

Ja tietenkin suuren­moinen syn­teet­ti­nen ääniraita jonka meille sävelsi Barry De Vor­zon.
Tästä näyt­teenä meillä on itse teema­musi­ikki, joka löy­tyy myös kohtuu tuoreelta Disco Galaxia –kokoel­malta. Kap­paleessa yhdis­tyy hienosti testos­teronilla ladattu synkkä hard rock sekä disco-funk inho­re­al­is­tisen apoka­lyp­tiseen visioon New York­ista. Parasta on tietenkin pelot­ta­van (hyvän) kuu­loiset kos­ket­timet.
Auringonlaskuun kävel­lään lopussa Joe Wal­shin (tuttu Eagle­sista) In The City –hymnin tahtiin. Herkullisuus.

Eloku­van maail­man pääsee itse koke­maan videopelin muo­dossa, sillä Rock­star Games julka­isi vuonna 2005 The War­riors –pelin Xbox­ille sekä Playsta­tion 2:lle. Harva peli tavoit­taa alku­peräisen eloku­van tun­nel­man näin hyvin. Erit­täin suositel­tua tutus­tua tähän jos elokuva säväytti ja GTA-tyylinen peli inspiroi . Mikä sen parem­paa kuin hakata jengiläisiä tain­nuk­siin dis­con tahtiin! Rock­star game­sille omi­nais­esti pelin musi­ikit ovat GTA-tasoista tavaraa.
Hehkeimp­inä mainit­takoon Amii Stew­artin Knock On Wood sekä Vivian Veen esit­tämä Remem­ber, jonka on muuten sovit­tanut, kukas muukaan kuin Kyny­Nasty kesto­su­osikki Clau­dio Simonetti!

Alla sit­ten itse herkut.

Barry De Vor­zon — Theme From ‘The War­riors’ (320 kbit)
Joe Walsh — In The City (320 kbit)
Amii Stew­art — Knock On Wood (320 kbit)
Vivian Vee — Remem­ber (12″ Ver­sion) (206 kbit VBR)

Briefly in English.

What?
Bonafied nos­tal­gic nar­ra­tion about gangs placed in a futur­is­tic 70s of New York.
Inspired by a novel writ­ten by Sol Yurick.

The best
+ Blunt world­view
+ Raff­ish Action
+ Gloomy atmos­phere / col­ors
+ Night­time New York
+ Corny dialogue

And of course a great syn­thetic sound­track deliv­ered to us by Barry De Vor­zon.
The theme, which can also be found from rea­son­ably fresh Disco Galaxia col­lec­tion, is a  testos­terone charged grim hard rock and disco-funk hybrid com­bined with gritty apoka­lyp­tic vision of New York. The best is of course fright­en­ing (good) creepy key­boards.
At the end we walk to the sun­set with Joe Walsh’s (famil­iar to Eagles) In The City–anthem. Herkullisuus.

The film world can actu­ally be expe­ri­enced in the form of a video game, as Rock­star Games pub­lished it in 2005 for the Xbox and the PlaySta­tion 2. Not many game reach the orig­i­nal atmos­phere of the film so well. Highly rec­om­mended if the film thrilled you and GTA-style game inspires. Beat­ing up gang­sters while lis­ten­ing disco, what could be bet­ter ! Daz­zling Amii Stewart’s Knock On Wood, as well as Vivian’s Veen Remem­ber, which is btw arranged, by non other than Kyny­Nasty favorite Clau­dio Simonetti!