Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco, out on March 21 via CAM Sugar/UMe

Acclaimed American auteur, actor and lover of Italian genre B-movies and the scintillating disco soundtracks that bolstered their hilarious and hedonistic plots, Eli Roth (“Cabin Fever,” “Hostel,” “Thanksgiving”) has curated a collection of some of his favorite songs from the heyday of “commedia sexy all italiana” (or sexy Italian comedies) of the ‘70s and ‘80s, inviting you into his very own red light discothéque.

A forbidden journey across the vaults of legendary Italian soundtrack label CAM Sugar, Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema, due March 21 via CAM Sugar/UMe, features 20 infectious dancefloor fillers, spanning from kinky disco and psychedelic funk to swaggery rock and roll and seductive bossa nova, all handpicked by Roth who was granted unfettered access into CAM Sugar’s extensive archive of more than 2,000 Italian and French soundtracks.

The music from these beloved cult movies is both highly sought after by fanatics of the genre as well as lovers of Italian dance music as much of it has never been released outside of the films.

“When I first heard the music of the Italian genre films of the 1970s, these tracks were impossible to find outside of the films themselves. I would rip the music from the DVDs or VHS tapes, often with the dialogue, because I couldn’t find them anywhere else,”

writes Roth in his accompanying essay.

“When CAM Sugar asked me to curate this collection, it was not only a thrill for me as a film fan, it was a dream as a director too, because they opened the archive to thousands and thousands of previously unreleased tracks. Songs that have not been heard since the original film releases, all pristine as if they were recorded today. I wanted to curate a party, a very cool, very groovy 1970s Italian disco party, as if we were all in a scene from one of these movies. There were so many songs to choose from that we wound up with a double album, and these are just the final selections. Horror and Italian genre fans will recognize some of them and now have perfect recordings. It’s a party from start to finish.”

For this guided tour of some of the most exciting dance music from Italy’s sexploitation cinema, Roth selected tracks from both Italian film music’s most famous and cult composers alike, including Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai, Riz Ortolani, Franco Campanino, Gianni Ferrio, Nico Fidenco, and Daniele Patucchi.

Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco will be available in several formats, including a standard version on either 2LP black vinyl or CD, or the ultimate fan must-have, a limited deluxe edition, presenting the album on red vinyl and boasting a special mirrored cover, a 45 RPM 7” single with two rare cuts – one unreleased and one previously unissued on vinyl – plus a poster and a set of postcards with unseen photographs from Italian sexy comedy film sets.

Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema

2LP VINYL – DELUXE EDITION TRACKLISTING

LATO A

A1. Sparklin’ Conversation – Alfonso Zenga, Paolo Gatti — from O.S.T. SENSI CALDI (1980)

A2. La Musica È – Gianni Ferrio — from O.S.T. L’INFERMIERA DI NOTTE (1979)

A3. Una vergine in familia – Carlo Savina — from O.S.T. UNA VERGINE IN FAMIGLIA (1975) *

A4. Avere vent’anni – Disco – Franco Campanino — from O.S.T. AVERE VENT’ANNI (1978) **

A5. Quando vuoi con chi vuoi – Gianni Ferrio — from O.S.T. LA LICEALE SEDUCE I PROFESSORI (1979) **

LATO B

B1 Amori Stellari – Giochi erotici nella terza Galassia (Titoli) – Don Powell — from O.S.T. AMORI STELLARI – GIOCHI EROTICI NELLA TERZA GALASSIA (1981) *

B2. I’m Number One – Nico Fidenco — from O.S.T. EROS PERVERSION (1979) **

B3. Sexy Night – Nico Fidenco — from O.S.T. PORNO HOLOCAUST (1981)

B4. Taxi Girl (Ritmico Disco) – Pulsar Music Ltd. — from O.S.T. TAXI GIRL (1977) *

B5. Nude Odeon (Ritmico Funk) – Vasil Kojucharov — from O.S.T. NUDE ODEON (1979) *

LATO C

C1. L’erotomane (Beat) – Riz Ortolani — from O.S.T. L’EROTOMANE (1980)

C2. What Can I Do – Stelvio Cipriani — from O.S.T. LA SUPPLENTE VA IN CITTÀ (1979) **

C3. Servizio fotográfico – Bruno Nicolai — from O.S.T. LA DAMA ROSSA UCCIDE SETTE VOLTE (1972)

C4. Do It With The Pamango – Franco Campanino — from O.S.T. UNA MOGLIE, DUE AMICI, QUATTRO AMANTI (1980) *

C5. La settimana bianca – Gianni Ferrio — from O.S.T. LA SETTIMANA BIANCA (1980)

LATO D

D1. Studio X – Giuseppe De Luca — from O.S.T. L’ALTRA FACCIA DEL PECCATO (1969)

D2. Studio Z – Giuseppe De Luca — from O.S.T. L’ALTRA FACCIA DEL PECCATO (1969) *

D3. I’m So Young – Versione coro – Giacomo Dell’Orso — from O.S.T. L’INFERMIERA DI MIO PADRE (1981) *

D4. Runnin’ Around – Daniele Patucchi — from O.S.T. BIONDA FRAGOLA (1980) *

D5. Il sesso del diavolo – Finale – Stelvio Cipriani — from O.S.T. IL SESSO DEL DIAVOLO (1971)

BONUS 45 RPM – 7 INCHES

A. Avere vent’anni – Franco Campanino — from O.S.T. AVERE VENT’ANNI (1978) **

B. Doppio sesso incrociato (Disco Sexy) – Alfonso Santisteban — from O.S.T. DOPPIO SESSO INCROCIATO (1980) *

* previously unreleased

** first time on vinyl

All versions of the album include a beautifully designed 28-page booklet – “Eli Roth’s Guide To Italian Red Light Cinema” – with extensive liner notes by Roth who conducts illuminating interviews with European cinema icon Edwige Fenech (“Taxi Girl”), and the daughter and granddaughter of Bombolo, one of the most famous Italian character actors of this eye-and-button-popping era.

The booklet also includes interviews with composer Franco Campanino, archival posters of many of the Red Light films, vintage press reviews and other archive ephemera from CAM Sugar’s vast vault. The rousing collection features newly restored and remastered audio from the original tapes allowing the music to sound better than ever. It includes nine previously unreleased tracks that have never been released outside of the hard-to-find films, and four additional tracks never previously released on vinyl.

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