Near Dark is moody, digital, synth-heavy (though hardly exclusive) music, a diverse set of compositions that serve the scenes while also establishing their own personalities. The score to this Kathryn Bigelow-directed teenage vampire flick that had the commercial misfortune to be released in the slipstream of the inferior The Lost Boys, came at the end of their Eighties high-point (Franke quit soon thereafter). Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke and a long list of sidemen created the period film noir soundscape – sexy and moody, energetic but deeply controlled, contemporary yet instantly classic. ‘Nightmare City’ (Stelvio Cipriani, 1980)įew synthesizer artists picked up Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" gauntlet to reimagine the Hollywood score with the gusto of Tangerine Dream, starting with William Friedkin's 1977 thriller Sorcerer, hitting deep stride on the classic 1981 soundtrack to Michael Mann's Thief, and likely best recognized for the non-Bob Seger music of Tom Cruise's debut, Risky Business."We were also working the night shift as New Order were usually there in the day working on some of their classics." "David and I told we had to record the film in Liverpool with our own equipment, so the poor fella had to endure a number of trips out to the rough areas of the city suburbs, as the studio was situated on the fringes of a notorious housing estate," said Cooper in the liner notes to the Waxwork release. Recorded with an Emulator sampler "borrowed" from OMD and a Roland SH1, the sound was home-brewed. The pair spent time in the early Eighties cooking up synth instrumentals and soon filled Warner Bros.' need for synth soundtrack work in the post- Chariots of Fire landscape. soundtrack teams its titular Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers with claustrophobic synth sounds that are dreamy, ominous and occasionally a little like Art of Noise. composer Room 237, Rebirth)Īdrian Younge (composer, Luke Cage, Black Dynamite)Ĭomposed by Martin Cooper (the keyboardist from hit-making New Wave romantics Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark) and David Hughes (an ex-keyboardist from the same), the C.H.U.D. Jeremy Schmidt (Black Mountain, Sinoia Caves composer, Beyond the Black Rainbow) Sebastiaan Putseys (One Way Static Records) Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantômas composer, The Place Beyond the Pines) Spencer Hickman (Death Waltz Recording Company & Mondo) Ryan Graveface (Black Moth Super Rainbow, Casket Girls Terror Vision Records and Video) Kyle Dixon, Mark Donica, Adam Jones and Michael Stein (Survive Stranger Things) To celebrate the renewed interest, we’ve compiled the 35 greatest soundtracks of all time as chosen by an esteemed panel of 14 reissue record label owners and indebted musicians. More recently, they’ve become objets d’art thanks to a slew of reissue labels repressing them on colorful vinyl underneath eye-popping sleeve designs. They’ve established and maintained a teeming culture around analog synthesizers, provided generations with dissonant gateways into the heady worlds of 20th century composition and musique concrète and influenced bands like Portishead, Boards of Canada and Animal Collective. Beyond being dark and diverse mood-setters for thriller nights, horror film soundtracks have quietly changed the world like a virus.
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