Library Music Themes
General Sharing & Discussion => Vintage Library Vinyl and CD rips => Topic started by: Retronic on February 21, 2026, 09:04:41 AM
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These are old rips- these days I clean everything thoroughly before recording records so any noisy pops and cracks let me know and I will re-do.
Unsure if I ever shared these but these are my own rips I believe done over the years and should all be FLAC. There may be someone else's rip in there - I haven't checked but I have the record so can do any again to get the best quality we can.
For Nidostar:
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2919 - pixeldrain.com/u/zitGPgLR
2923 - pixeldrain.com/u/oT62H7rG
2968 - pixeldrain.com/u/Mhu8StGj
2970 - pixeldrain.com/u/dANpc9qu
3021 - pixeldrain.com/u/t6srk1Lv
3027 - pixeldrain.com/u/VbdWL7bE
3033 - pixeldrain.com/u/4Bxo6MJh
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Thanks for these. :)
A couple of upgrades and some new titles for me!! ;)
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Thanks Retro. It's reassuring to see that I wasn't alone in missing some of these. And similarly some upgrades also.
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Thanks Retro! a few nice upgrades for me.
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Thanks for these great De Wolfe LPs Retronic! ;D
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Next few:
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Th first one is someone else's rip but I do have the record as well.
3068 has some tracks missing so you may not want it but again I have the record so can fill the gaps at some point.
All will probably need tagging fully as these were recorded years ago when I was less fussy but tracks are clearly labelled so it's a quick job.
3056 - pixeldrain.com/u/rjSUCz8V
3057 - pixeldrain.com/u/q1rrRBdh
3058 - pixeldrain.com/u/aLA39Hza
3068 - pixeldrain.com/u/vmxny4Jy
3090 - pixeldrain.com/u/stzFyywc
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More:
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3103 - pixeldrain.com/u/ppJ9FsAi
3104 - pixeldrain.com/u/8ubjtY37
3105 - pixeldrain.com/u/tD7r1nVt
3121 - pixeldrain.com/u/zdhtaGse
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If anyone's wondering why I have some LPs with missing tracks, it goes back to a few years back now when my external HD died with all my rips on it. Luckily I had a Sony Flac Walkman and could transfer the files back off that. Unfortunately to save space I had deleted tracks I liked less from many LPs and this is why they still crop up in that format from time to time. I never got around to re-recording them.
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3135 - pixeldrain.com/u/Ak5bAywu
3137 - pixeldrain.com/u/LtAU8Rqb
3140 - pixeldrain.com/u/3qtvR4MR
3151 - pixeldrain.com/u/ZiiZCY7A
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Many thanks Retro. 8]
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Thanks for sharing, Retronic.
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Gee, thank you very much Retro.
I found a whopping 7(!) upgrades here. Great.
Thanks again.
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Thank you so much Retro. So many of my poor old MP3s are now upgraded to FLAC and some gaps filled. Brilliant.
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3185 - pixeldrain.com/u/pFymJ5Dy
3188 - pixeldrain.com/u/yN5HCo83
3191 - pixeldrain.com/u/6ybFE1VG
3198 - pixeldrain.com/u/yz7GoxCR
No probs- all these have been ripped for years so not too much effort.
Let me know if any issues with them and I can re-do them.
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I think the rip of DWLP 3056 is the same as I have. It appears to be missing track 8 Sur Le Mont Gelboe. If you have the album is there a chance you could do a fresh rip, please, Retro?
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2921 - pixeldrain.com/u/WUL5zVzE
2979 - pixeldrain.com/u/mPFRn71h
2984 - pixeldrain.com/u/EKrhvVJ8
3026 - pixeldrain.com/u/PQm9drbm
3051 - pixeldrain.com/u/ZUMRckPs
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I think the rip of DWLP 3056 is the same as I have. It appears to be missing track 8 Sur Le Mont Gelboe. If you have the album is there a chance you could do a fresh rip, please, Retro?
Sure
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I can see that 3143 isn't mine by the labelling.
3177 - pixeldrain.com/u/2nTfTT1A
3152 - pixeldrain.com/u/3wMckbYu
3143 - pixeldrain.com/u/tLj4gj8J
3201 - pixeldrain.com/u/5a8YcKtY
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3208 - pixeldrain.com/u/qj85QC2a
3209 - pixeldrain.com/u/ueLCDy1F
3211 - pixeldrain.com/u/reDxW1Zi
3218 - pixeldrain.com/u/mdK9EQge
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Thanks a lot, Retro!
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Retro, DWLP 2968 Journey Into Sound has some skips on tracks 6, 7 and 8 in particular (I'm still listening to it!). Would you be able to re-rip this one, please?
I've not paid much attention to this album before but track 2 in particular bears similarities to Girl In The Dark, track 3 on its numerical neighbour DWLP 2969 Eye For An Eye. And yet they are accredited to Keith Papworth and Jack Trombey respectively. Curious.
Oh, and DWLP 3068 Flower Of Gloster is incomplete as the folder name says. Another one for ripping, please?
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Thanks a lot Retronic, you filled some of my requests here (https://librarymusicthemes.com/index.php?topic=10990.msg73925#msg73925) :) You can also find my splitted version of your earlier DWSLP 3494 upload there. And if you can track down any more requests i would be very happy.
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I’ll take a look and will be adding more once I get time at my laptop.
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Superb!!! Thanks a lot, Retro.
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Thank you very much, Retro!
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Thank you kindly, Retro. 3021 Traveling Light is among my favorites and I'd been hunting for a better rip for a long time. Cheers!!
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Thankyou so much, Retronic
Greetings
Dyo
Aussieland
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Re DW/LP 3056, I recorded it again and then realised the 12” LP loses that last track which was on the 10” version. I’m not sure I have the 10” but will keep an eye out for one.
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Re DW/LP 3056, I recorded it again and then realised the 12” LP loses that last track which was on the 10” version. I’m not sure I have the 10” but will keep an eye out for one.
Ah yes, now I’ve looked at Discogs in more detail I see there were two versions of 3056 as you say. And the 10” has one more track than the 12”. How confusing! I have track 8 but only in MP3. It’ll do for now. Thanks anyway Retro.
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3056 - pixeldrain.com/u/TfT8RWjG (still the 12" so missing last track but a fresh rip)
3225 - pixeldrain.com/u/8uTmmKAd
3244 - pixeldrain.com/u/XK717vb1
3256 - pixeldrain.com/u/TT4wSfVa
3259 - pixeldrain.com/u/GQxB8Myb
3267 - pixeldrain.com/u/6j5yg9Nw
3293 - pixeldrain.com/u/jCaBUwzj
3303 - pixeldrain.com/u/xg1usMay
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Thanks for the new batch Retro. I was curious to listen to "Africa" in hi-q.
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Thank you for taking the time to rip these latest De Wolfe's Retro.
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Man, the DW/LP 3267 is stellar. They're real field recordings! Stuff like this usually only appears on specialised labels (Ocora, Bärenreiter, Albatros, Nonesuch, etc).
Turns out that I've had this for ages as MP3 and never gave it attention. But that lossy rip has perfect photos of cover and labels. I've scaled them down to a reasonable size, and here they are.
>> meg@.nz/file/VkwmX RDa#9hdGJv3LPsBdj_FIv7 9yQ8X-o6j186Rb8w mM-CEYk40
(Delete spaces.)
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I remember I bought that Africa directly from De Wolfe in the 90's. I was hoping that the Dawn of The Dead Ammo store track was going to be on it and was disappointed when I heard it. Thinking back I could have got some of the rarer classics from them at the time but had no knowledge of what was good. The guy I spoke to told me an Italian label was putting a compilation together and using a track called 'Hot Heels' so I did buy 'Vocal Shades and Tones' for £18, unused and it went on to be on the brilliant Sound Book comp.
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Thanks for sharing, Retronic!
3259 is actually "Here And There".
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[...] I bought that Africa directly from De Wolfe in the 90's. I was hoping that the Dawn of The Dead Ammo store track was going to be on it and was disappointed when I heard it. [...] I did buy 'Vocal Shades and Tones' [...].
Haha! I can imagine. I'm an aficionado of field recordings, so was delighted. Listening to Vocal Shades & Tones now, and I'm loving its '60s vibes.
PS I want a time machine to the '90s. When you could just walk in to all these fabulous library labels and buy their records like in a shop. Or perhaps it was mail order, but that's almost as good. A dream.
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Coming up soon|
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Thank you Retronic for the latest De Wolfe music , it’s a very interesting label and a few of the productions are new to me.
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Thanks for the latest batch Retronic, but is 3303 only side A?
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Yes looks it- these were recorded years ago mostly and I didn't check them other than a quick glance and saw lots of tracks .
I will do the other side at some point or someone else may have it.
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The first three I just re-recorded yesterday.
2968 - pixeldrain.com/u/oozQnRcV
3021 - pixeldrain.com/u/p5Ls6NyP
3263 - pixeldrain.com/u/Pv3T88uM
3308 - pixeldrain.com/u/8H67WvdY
3309 - pixeldrain.com/u/iVpPqh8n
3325 - pixeldrain.com/u/TxF7X3MQ
3326 - pixeldrain.com/u/K5wNz7Fb
3329 - pixeldrain.com/u/9Bs8Z7SP
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3333 - pixeldrain.com/u/YqGPbpxH
3354 - pixeldrain.com/u/qe7tNKiv
3356 - pixeldrain.com/u/EEvXRbVm
3370 - pixeldrain.com/u/sPM83vLQ
3374 - pixeldrain.com/u/RRj6ot9g
3379 - pixeldrain.com/u/R61jRYvg
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Many thanks Retro. DWSLP 3356 Ena Baga At The Compton Organ Of The Leicester Square Odeon is probably the worst library record I've had the pleasure to listen to! I can't imagine why De Wolfe would have commissioned this in 1977 - and in stereo! I know 1977 seems back in the dark ages but I can assure our younger members this sort of organ music was not typical of what we were listening to at the time. It's more appropriate to the first half of the sixties.
Mind you, you did warn us that there were some duffers amongst those DWs that we were missing. This certainly takes the crown!
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Is that the one that has versions of the Gonk and Eye Level? Worth it for them!
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Yeah but not a touch on the originals.
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I dig the organ lol. Ena Baga also did one or two of those silent movie type library records for De Wolfe (at least DWSLP 3332 The Silent Film Era No 3, which contains quite a banger in Cockney Rebel), so I don't think this one was meant to depict anything close to a contemporary sound so much as provide source audio if someone wanted to perhaps create a simulated retro scene.
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I dig the organ lol. Ena Baga also did one or two of those silent movie type library records for De Wolfe (at least DWSLP 3332 The Silent Film Era No 3, which contains quite a banger in Cockney Rebel), so I don't think this one was meant to depict anything close to a contemporary sound so much as provide source audio if someone wanted to perhaps create a simulated retro scene.
Aha, I knew that would flush out the organ-heads!! I was perhaps being a little mischievous with my post. I was just surprised that De Wolfe considered there was still demand for this soundtrack in the late seventies. I shall dig out Cockney Rebel as you suggest and see if it will ....Make Me Smile.....!!
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A couple more- both freshly recorded yesterday:
DWLP 3165 - Key Largo | pixeldrain.com/u/4eGfHzXG
DWSLP 3350 - Man Of The Moment | pixeldrain.com/u/b2k8Z4Ds (fixed)
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Thank you for the latest couple of De Wolfe's, Retro. A nice couple of upgrades to my old MP3s.
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I found a couple more of upgrades amongst you latest shares Retro. Thank you very much.
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Many thanks everyone, especially to Retronic for the great updates. :D
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I dig the organ lol. Ena Baga also did one or two of those silent movie type library records for De Wolfe (at least DWSLP 3332 The Silent Film Era No 3, which contains quite a banger in Cockney Rebel), so I don't think this one was meant to depict anything close to a contemporary sound so much as provide source audio if someone wanted to perhaps create a simulated retro scene.
Aha, I knew that would flush out the organ-heads!! I was perhaps being a little mischievous with my post. I was just surprised that De Wolfe considered there was still demand for this soundtrack in the late seventies. I shall dig out Cockney Rebel as you suggest and see if it will ....Make Me Smile.....!!
Hehe fair enough. I have this thing about soundtracks, that's how I got into library -- my idea is that soundtracks, while still being art in the sense that there is an element of creativity and taste, also serve a definitive utilitarian goal of enhancing or manipulating audience emotions. Take for example the Star Trek episode Amok Time where Spock suddenly must bang and has to fight Captain Kirk to do it -- the plot is doggerel but the actors acted it to the hilt, and the soundtrack is so good it carries the episode by making the ridiculous plot have emotional resonance (the More Soup lietmotif that plays when Spock is lecturing T'Pring is so sad). So, barring some directorial decision and strong narrative reason to do so, having a happy bouncy song during a funeral would be an objectively wrong use of music (narrative reasons to do so might be to create cognitive dissonance to hint to the viewer that the POV character is not objective; to indicate the dead person was so foul that everyone is glad they are dead; etc.).
Library, being in large part a "soundtrack without a cause", is basically emotional music composed but not in response to a specific narrative beat -- a floating soundtrack of pure emotion that could in theory be deployed appropriately or inappropriately depending on end use. Most library is pleasant to listen to but not so groundbreakingly evocative, so it's just like weirder easy listening music..... but sometimes I listen to a library track and it pushes the right buttons in such a way to drive me hog wild, so good that despite the fact it's just a floating emotion it has an effect on me like it was specially composed music perfectly executed in a perfectly written scene. (Plenty of non-library music does this as well, library is just particularly good for it since it doesn't have any associations to particular media for me, and 99% has no lyrics.)
I also just really have a thing for organs... (that's what she said)
TLDR -- Cockney Rebel is a banger in my heart but possibly just for my heart. Maybe I should make one of the user comps here of all the fairly harmless pleasant mid-tempo tracks that got me foaming at the mouth
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Just out of interest, what de Wolfe albums are the duffers? I once made an observation about de Wolfe's music: nothing says intense drama more than a piccolo and a glockenspiel...
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A couple more- both freshly recorded yesterday:
DWLP 3165 - Key Largo | pixeldrain.com/u/4eGfHzXG
DWSLP 3350 - Man Of The Moment | pixeldrain.com/u/b9ySSevJ
Thank you, Retronic, but it appears track #2 from "Man of the Monet" is only two seconds long.
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Fixed 3350 - Man of The Moment | pixeldrain.com/u/b2k8Z4Ds
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DWLP 3034 – Captains Of Industry | pixeldrain.com/u/AiJxvpuz
Track 4 ends rather abruptly but the record is like that- I'll give it another scrub but this is as good as I can get at the moment
DWLP 3046 - Young Friends | pixeldrain.com/u/jUw4tce9
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Thank you very much Retro. That was fast.
Nevermind about track 4, it's just perfect like this for me.
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Always welcome Greta. Cleaned and recorded this afternoon 👍
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Beautiful, thanks again Retronic for all your hard work. Really appreciate it. :)
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DWLP 3034 – Captains Of Industry[/b]
Track 4 ends rather abruptly but the record is like that- I'll give it another scrub but this is as good as I can get at the moment
Thank you for the latest two Retro. Yes, track 4 is rather an abrupt end. Strange. Could it be that the track ends too close to the label causing the record arm to lift prematurely (assuming your deck has an auto lift option)? But no worries I've still got my MP3 version to hand which does finish correctly.
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Hehe fair enough. I have this thing about soundtracks.......
Thank you for your insight rudluff. I found your post a joy to read. And, boy, have you gone deep into soundtracks. It makes me feel that I've only touched the surface. I've been fascinated with themes to movies and TV programmes ever since I can remember. I recall one time writing to the BBC (when letters were the accepted form of communication!) enquiring after a particular theme and getting a response which effectively said that it was not a commercially released piece of music and so unavailable to me. I must have been about 10 years old at the time and it felt like a slap in the face. It was back in the sixties but didn't dampen my enthusiasm for collecting soundtrack music be it themes to movies, TV programmes or even TV adverts.
Forums like this have helped enormously to lift the veil of secrecy around library music. A good example is back in 1970 I bought a Marble Arch album entitled Top TV Soundtrack Themes and felt like I had won the lottery. Not only did it contain themes to a whole load of TV programmes which were airing at the time but they were original recordings and not covers which were so prevalent at the time. It was only a few years ago when I shared it on the forum that I understood the relevance of the word "Standard" on the record label. Standard Music Library of course which was a joint venture with London Weekend Television and Bucks Music.
I still get excited when I stumble across a piece of music in my library collection which I perhaps hadn't listened to before and instantly recognise it as a theme to some TV programme or other. Maybe I need to get out more!
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I love that feeling too!
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Few more on the racks:
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DWSLP 3391 - Altotude | pixeldrain.com/u/Ap1MytJV
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DWSLP 3446 - Black Rose | pixeldrain.com/u/w2r7cjUR
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Thank you Retro!
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DWSLP 3468 - The Shadow
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pixeldrain.com/u/J1CQyZsp
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Thank you Retro for the latest additions!