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The history of porn music goes way beyond boom chikka bow bow and wakka-chikka wakka-chikka cliches. Technical innovation, electronic experiments, strange sidetrips, Ennio
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that was just so visceral, but also could be very funky. If you ran most of the adult films from the '70s through a program, most of the music would come up
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and said, "The trailer gets most of the production attention now in terms of sound and editing when I edit down the trailer, I basically grab what I can from the
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with sound was a feasible, if risky, proposition. These filmmakers "experimented wildly with soundtracks", and while funk was still the primary genre, tracks with heavy percussion (especially those featuring
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made its way to the United States. These films were not strictly pornographic, but faced censorship in the US for their risque content, and so were shown in adult movie theaters. The 1968 Italian film
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With the success of pornographic and erotic films in the mainstream, there was a rush to market, but these films did not have similar music budgets. One concession was to use
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