Perhaps their biggest coup was landing the original soundtrack and the complete score for the monumental Taxi Driver (1976). In just a few short years, Waxwork has put together an impressive discography of 21 titles, many of which surely required a ton of legwork to secure the rights for. Like many Waxwork releases, it’s going fast, with the colored vinyl editions, including a deluxe package, already out of print. Barry De Vorzon’s spooky, pulsating synth rock score-complete and on vinyl for the first time-sounds fantastic. New album artwork is also commissioned for every release, with Dave Rapoza of Marvel Comics creating the images for Waxwork’s latest: an expanded edition of the soundtrack for the cult classic The Warriors (1979).
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The label issues stellar, creative packages, complete with new liner notes, high-quality jackets, and thick pressings on colored vinyl that often reference the movie itself. These days, there are a number of independent record labels that specialize in putting out vintage soundtracks on vinyl, but one label clearly stands out from the pack, and that is Waxwork Records. I’m especially drawn to horror scores from the ‘70s and ‘80s, when greats like John Carpenter and Goblin were creating amazingly frightening works that stand on their own as incredible pieces of music. I’m not a “vinyl only” guy, but the size of LP packaging (especially if it’s a gatefold sleeve) seems to go hand in hand with the larger-than-life images projected on a movie screen.
I used to scour the used LP bins, searching for soundtracks that I wasn’t even sure existed-keep in mind this was pre-web, before you could easily look up such information. The best films usually have awesome scores (which is part of what makes them extraordinary), so whenever I really dig a particular flick I almost always NEED the soundtrack.
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