Escape from New York is an incredible soundtrack.
Very dark. Alot of it you might consider electro.
I really kind of wonder what influenced him.
They just recently repressed the soundtrack on 180 gram vinyl.
I know he's done other soundtracks including the also
excellent Halloween series.
- cutups
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: [idm] john carpenter
quoted 27 lines On 12 May 2001, at 17:49, zimbo wrote:> On 12 May 2001, at 17:49, zimbo wrote:
>
> > makes me feel like i do when i listen to the existenz score --
> > perhaps autechre should do material for cronenberg :)
>
> This got me thinking : I watched the tail end of Escape from New
> York the other night on TV and really liked the soundtrack. So I sat
> through all the tedious credits until the music ones came up right at
> the very very end... as they do ... and was surprised to see John
> Carpenter himself had done the music (together with somebody
> else; name escapes me).
>
> I've since been told he's scored most of his own movies. Is this
> true? Are they available as soundtracks? If so, do they "work"
> without the visuals?
>
> What a clever boy!
>
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