Ever since I was a little boy that has been something that I’ve been attached to. What was the first movie you watched that drew your attention to the soundtrack? I feel like with film, there is a first time for everyone when you notice the soundtrack that is playing behind the movie. So we talked shop with Bergeron about his cultural duty to the film industry, friendly competition with other labels, and not being pigeon-holed into being “Just a horror movie reissue label.” With high profile releases like the surreal, jazz-infused soundtrack to Roman Polanski’s classic Rosemary’s Baby, to lesser known titles like 1986’s Chopping Mall, where killer robots decapitate young couples in a Los Angeles shopping mall, we, along with many others have taken a real interest in Waxwork and their impressive output. There is a huge interest in the stuff that we are putting out.”Īfter two site crashes, seven major releases and a year and half later, Waxwork stands as one of the premier horror movie soundtrack labels. “Hence why we are having these crazy website crashes and things like that. “We really grew faster than we could have anticipated,” he says on the phone. Until this most recent release, where Bergeron says, “We were literally fucking slammed.” Despite the numerous complaints, and a website left in ruins for 24 hours, Bergeron is still in high spirits. After which the site was beefed up to anticipate and prevent any other incidences like it. The same problem happened with their release of the Friday the 13th soundtrack in August-a website destroyed by traffic. While this may have been an inconvenience for many of the label’s fans, Kevin Bergeron of Waxwork is used to this kind of chaos. These technical difficulties were not due to any fault from the label themselves, but merely from the unforeseen and unforgiving wave of customers that were flooding their web traffic in an attempt to get their hands on a copy of the labels latest release, the Trick or Treat soundtrack. There were timeouts, issues with shopping carts, and checkout times that took well over an hour. Two weeks ago, the website for Waxwork Records crashed.
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