Bite Hard : The Music De Wolfe Studio Sampler 1972-80

If you love British TV shows from the 1970s like me then you will love this soundtrack CD which collects some funky tunes from the output of the Music De Wolfe studio from that decade. So you'll find tracks on here that sound like they should be in The Sweeney and some that were! Its very easy to bring to mind scenes from shows like The Sweeney, Special Branch, The Professionals et cetera as you listen to this. Such as on the driving melody of "The Hawk" you can imagine a hitman in black leather assembling his sniper rifle before he despatches a cabinet minister...

One i particularly like is "Night moves" which is slinky and sleezy, reflecting the vice of the London streets "Hogan's Thing" is another Sweeney villain theme, a funky bluesy track with plenty of tension. "Condition Red" sounds like the perfect soundtrack to a bank job, all urgent beats and mysterious tones. "Mantaray" ends the compilation and is a beautiful atmospheric track with a slow easy beat and sounds like the end of the world. Or the end of this brilliant journey through the 1970s anyway, as seen via the medium of British TV crime drama i.e. a dark, grimy world of vice, sleeze and ultra violence. It had a down side too apparently.