Library Music Series 1 & 2: Crime / Oceanography

2-Headed Deer, the label that recently gained notability releasing records by jazz experimentalists like Misha Panfilov and the Organic Pulse Ensemble, has just released the first two albums in a series inspired by European Library Music labels like KPM, CAM and Music De Wolfe. The first, Crime, by the Milan-based band Larry Manteca, replicates 1970s Italian b-movie soundtracks, while the second, Oceanography, produced by Chris Stullenberg under the alias of New Library Sound, pays respect to Jacques Cousteau documentaries, with liquid-like analog modular synths and sound effects recombining to evoke marine life and underwater exploration.