Dracula’s Music Cabinet cover

Dracula’s Music Cabinet

The Vampires of Dartmoore

Recorded

1969

Released

1968

Even in the unusual world of late ’60s/early ’70s soundtracks, Dracula’s Music Cabinet is fairly out there. A soundtrack to a film that doesn’t actually exist recorded by a group of German library musicians in 1969, it’s a bonkers collision of kitschy muzak, jazzy lounge, psych and funky organ breaks that employs a frenetic, almost Kenny Everett-level of sound effects malarky to further ham things up. Car chases, murders, monsters and on “Die Folterkammer des Dr. Sex” — aka “The Torture Chamber Of Dr Sex” — more things that go bump in the night all crash loudly into the speakers. It’s high camp and daft as a brush, but that’s largely part of the appeal.