Freak Out Total!

Back in constant rotation at the Mondo Bongos luxury pad is the 1968 release by Les Maledictus Sound [reissued by Mucho Gusto in 1999]. The album was the demented brainchild of Jean-Pierre Massiera and remains a classic of psychsploitation. The album has it all: Now Sound and loungecore big bandisms, psychedelic backward tapes, fuzz guitars, sound effects, cartoon voices and songs about monsters. Come to think of it, Les Maledictus Sound could almost be a Gallic Joe Meek production.

As an added bonus, the cd reissue featured a track from the J.P. Massiera production and NWW list item, Horrific Child. Thank you WFMU for pointing that out.

File next to The Vampires Sound Incorporation's score to Vampyros Lesbos, Bob Crewe and The Glitterhouse's Barbarella soundtrack, and the priceless Astro Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000 by the 101 Strings, which I like to think of as inflatable chair and shag carpeting music. That being said, Les Maledictus Sound is far stranger.

In lieu of anything Massiera-related, here's the trailer for Barbarella. YouTube also has the trailer for Jesus Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, but I'll let you search that one out.