Kill Gear - Dodelijke Versnelling

Kill Gear saw life as disc vinyl in 2018: 'The Original Soundtrack of the Motion Picture, composed and produced by The Eichler Brothers', the cover states. If you are curious about the underlying film, you can search for a long time because it is non-existent: the music on the LP stands alone and as such pays tribute to legendary film composers from the 60s and 70s such as Ennio Morricone, Stanley Myers, John Barry and Lalo Schifrin.

The album does not fall out of thin air, however: the credits mention a synopsis, produced by Remco Boorsma and the same Eichler Brothers. If you are curious about what it entails, you can again turn to the cover text. It is said that the imaginary film Kill Gear is set in a time when civilization has died and the world is prey to encroaching deserts. In these appalling circumstances, two sisters are attacked by a motorcycle gang. The girls are spared little. For example, there is a seething robbery and a shocking revelation about their past. To settle an old open account, they plan a counterattack. They go to war with vengeance.

The titles of the tracks on side 2 of the LP illustrate how the girls fared on their quest: “Stranded at Night”, “Hunted Down”, “Wounded and Lost”. During the release of the record (Rotterdam 2018), music and titles captured the imagination enough to make the crowd that had gathered there eagerly. They showed such concern for the fate of the sisters, and it was decided to repeat the presentation, but now supplemented and supported by the synopsis written out as a complete novel.

With the signing of the writer Peter Smink, the 'rebooking' of Kill Gear was a matter of time: in a year and a half, Kill Gear transformed into Deadly Acceleration (roaring engines and poisonous mother love). Support from the Droom en Daad Foundation not only enabled the makers to recruit an illustrator (Joseph Saleh), but also to publish the novel in the form of a (this) sturdy paperback.