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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
Back in the late 1980s, there was some truly glorious stuff coming out of the New York City independent horror scene. There was an almost punk-like energy to films like J. Michael Muro's Street Trash, Frank Henenlotter's films, and the stuff that Troma was doing, blasting through the boundaries of good taste with over-the-top depictions of gore, body horror, mutant sexuality and other depravity, usually with little more than a shoestring budget and sheer demented imagination, and totally infused with a gritty, urban bleakness. While not as well known in cult sleaze/gore circles as those other classics of NYC splatter insanity, the 1988 barfbag epic Slime City definitely fit right in amongst all of that stuff. Directed by Greg Lamberson, Slime City told the tale of an unfortunate student who moves into a dilapidated apartment building and runs afoul of his weirdo cultist neighbors, which results in his unwitting consumption of neon yogurt that transforms him into a disgusting, liquefying monster. By the end of it, an entire apartment is covered in nauseating slime, a goth chick performs an interpretive dance routine, and a human brain attempts to beat a hasty retreat in what is easily one of the most insane climactic scenes I've ever seen.
It's a real cinematic snot-rocket, and part of Slime City's absurd appeal is Robert Tomaro's deranged synth score, which he described as resembling "...what you might get if you locked Igor Stravinsky, Johnny Rotten, and Bernard Hermann in a hotel room and didn't let them out until they wrote something together." Mostly made up of short instrumental cues, Tomaro provides a low-fi rush of queasy atonal electronic ambience, sorta-jazzy synthesizer pieces and abstract symphonic synth arrangements. Some of this can sort of resemble a poverty-stricken James Horner score produced within the depths of a codeine haze, but you also get a couple of tracks of weird pounding synth-punk with mutant rockabilly guitar licks and brain-damaged keyboard riffs all crawling haphazardly over a bizarre stop-n'-go drum machine rhythm. Other parts have spooky Casio murk mingling with blurts of sweaty sax that morph into sequences of top-notch cop jazz, bile-drenched breakbeats and swells of rumbling dissonant piano, even a couple pieces that come off like scummy punk-prog. It's all glommed together into this delirious mess of dated late 80's mayhem that oozes with ominous atmosphere (among other things). I must have been high off of the movie's latex fumes that last time I watched it, because I didn't remember this score being nearly as bizarre and fucked-up as it is, but here it is in all of its garish weirdness. If you didn't know any better, this could pass for some long-forgotten obscure tape release of NYC avant-funkpunk weirdness that crawled out of a sewer grate on the Lower East Side. Limited to three hundred copies.
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