Odds 'n' Ends
DEG 002

SCHRAMM
Original Soundtrack

Max Müller & Gundula Schmitz

"Today I am dirty, but tomorrow I'll be just dirt".

Jorg Buttgereit's classic from 1994 tells the story of the last days of the notorious (fictional) 'Lipstick Killer' - Lothar Schramm.

SCHRAMM is superbly written (by Buttgereit and Franz Rodenkirchen - the team responsible for NEKROMANTIK!) and Buttgereit's direction is especially impressive as he manages to toy with conventional audience expectations, while keeping the narrative coherent and - most importantly - interesting.

While SCHRAMM completely deserves its reputation as German Art-Gore at its artsy-est , it also delivers the goods in creating an environment of desolation and urban loneliness that blows the doors off of “Taxi Driver”. Max Müller & Gundula Schmitz have provided an appropriately austere and atmospheric neo-classic/neo-noir soundtrack. Highly recommended and haunting!

Track Listing:

1. Schramm ist Tot (Schramm is dead)
2. Schramm Läuft (Schramm Runs)
3. Waschbecken (Wash Bucket)
4. Die Glücklichen Tage Kindheit (Happy Days of Childhood)
5. Schön Weit Auf (Far Away Beauty)
6. Lothar’s Liebesübung (Lothar’s Love-Exercise)
7. …Ins Glücklich Machen… (In Luck)
8. Musik für im Hintergrund bei Gemüsesülze (Background Music with Vegetable Stew)
9. Vagina Dentata
10. Nageln # (Nails #)
11. Auf Einem bein kann man nicht stehen (A man cannot stand on one leg)
12. Kundschaft (Customers)
13. Le Nekromantique
14. Vereint mit Marianne (United with Marianne)
15. Das seht aber gar nicht gut aus (The outlook is not at all good)
16. Schramm ist Tot (Variation) (Schramm is dead)
17. TK-Gerichte (TK-Judgement)
18. Nimm Mich (Take me)
19. Du Hure (You Whore)
20. Vor dem Herrn (Before the Lord)
21. Weggucken (Lookout)
22. Schramm ist Tot (Finale) (Schramm is Dead)
23. Bonus Track: Mutter – Leben wie in einem Traum (Mother – Living as in a Dream)