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Death Waltz Recording Company is delighted to bring you another first! A double bill of classic Italian poliziotteschi from director Umberto Lenzi and composer Franco Micalizzi.

ROMA A MANO ARMATA (aka ROME ARMED TO THE TEETH) & IL CINICO, L’INFAME, IL VIOLENTO (aka THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST) are presented here for the first time ever on vinyl. Micalizzi soundtracks these violent cop thrillers with an incredible one-two punch that filters David Shire s THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE score through the crazed Italian house style that is rightly obsessed over by soundtrack fans worldwide. Both of Micalizzi s scores feature a gripping main theme, which is the magnificent musical backbone that binds the pieces together, sounding both like a classic seventies slice of crime drama and the beginning of a thousand hip-hop samples. Effortlessly cool, Micalizzi dominates with a fat trumpet line that branches off into fragments with some incredibly funky breaks, Herrmannesque tense strings, and the most infectious basslines since “Dazed and Confused”. It s just absolutely badass – up there with the best of Cipriani, Umiliani, and yes, Morricone. Essential.

425gsm gatefold sleeve housing 2X 180g black vinyl records.

One-off pressing of 500 (no retail version available).