Tempe Entertainment today announced a new line of soundtrack music releases to be issued as limited-edition CDs as well as downloadable MP3 or AAC files available in the biggest e-stores worldwide. The debut title is none other than THE DEAD NEXT DOOR Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, containing the complete score for writer/director J.R. Bookwalter’s 1990 cult classic, available for the first time ever.

“These releases are more for fun than anything else,” explains Bookwalter, who wrote and performed his own DEAD NEXT DOOR score 19 years ago. “I had dabbled with some homegrown CD soundtracks over the years which would get sold on our website or at conventions, and folks usually got a kick out of them. With the music industry having moved so much into downloads, it seemed like the right time to dig out these old scores, clean ’em up and have some fun with them.”

Using the TempeSound imprint, Bookwalter will issue limited edition copies of the soundtracks on CD, at first available exclusively at the Tempe website as well as his “preferred” e-tailers, Amazon.com and DeepDiscount.com. By the end of May, THE DEAD NEXT DOOR will also be available via download at iTunes stores worldwide, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody, GroupieTunes and LaLa.

“Strictly for fans of bad synth music!” laughs Bookwalter when modestly describing his own work. “Those were good times, but there’s a valid reason I hung up my keyboards after scoring only 4 features… John Williams they ain’t!”

TempeSound plans to follow THE DEAD NEXT DOOR with ROBOT NINJA and SKINNED ALIVE (also scored by Bookwalter), previously available only as homegrown cassette versions, followed by official editions of Matthew Jason Walsh’s scores to THE SANDMAN, POLYMORPH and BLOODLETTING, using the remastered versions of the scores he created for the Special Edition DVD releases. Other discs may follow in the future.