Published:
November 21, 2015
One of the rarest vinyl horror soundtracks of all time, 1983’s The Antwerp Killer is reissued by the British imprint Finders Keepers. The OST was made by (a very young) Eric Feremans, a 16 years old teenagers who was already building modulators and eventually his first proto synthesiser.
''One day Eric gets a visit from a Luc Veldeman, a young director who was in the process of making Antwerp’s first crime movie called The Antwerp Killer. He had seen Eric play live and he wanted some of his music to be used as the score and to press as a album to promote the film. Upon their first meeting Veldeman wanted a tape to convince his financial investors. Eric gave him one of the rare recordings he had made with the synthesizer. A session he had just recorded upon installing his new studio; a session, according to Eric, that was the result of the pure joy he experienced of having such a wonderful sounding machine in his studio and the bottle of vodka he downed during the session. That session was cut up by Veldeman and it was turned into the soundtrack of The Antwerp Killer.
Eric ended up playing a cop in the film and the film was the opening film of the Knokke Film Festival in 1983. It was honed away by the press and the audience. Bad acting, bad editing, bad script, cool soundtrack though. Veldeman was nowhere to be seen and everybody involved who had quit their jobs or studies to coöperate on this film or put in their money in it saw their hopes disappear. Veldeman had even rented all the film equipment with a false identity and then dumped it all in the canal after the shooting. When the cops eventually found out about this, they weren’t even able to arrest him being a minor.''
Track list:
1. Theme The Antwerp Killer
2. Beat
3. Hippy Song
4. Theme 2
5. Harbour Fight
6. Persection
7. Cathedral Bloody Lady
8. Theme 3