Writer/director/actor Eli Roth is a big Italian disco fan, and he’s teamed up with the labels CAM Sugar and UMe to release some of his favorite rare cuts. The double album Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema will arrive on March 21. “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,” Roth shared in a press statement. “I would rip the music from the DVDs or VHS tapes, often with the dialogue, because I couldn’t find them anywhere else.
“When CAM Sugar asked me to curate this collection,” he continued, ”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.”
The project, which you can pre-order here, will be available in a number of formats. All editions will come with a 28 page booklet, which features liner notes from Roth himself.
