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  Original Soundtrack - Les Rivières [BEWITH100LP UK 2022 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Subtitled:  Un Récit Documentaire De Mai Hua Mancunian musician Kenny Dickenson has emerged from the late nineties trip-hop & dubstep cultures to become a renowned composer in his own right. Les Rivières is a self-reflective French language documentary film by Vietnamese-born film maker Mai Hua. Whilst the film may not appeal to all tastes, this post is all about the music, which in this case is a soundtrack by Dickerson. After years of session work, Dickerson is named throughout the credits on multiples of album genres over the years, he broke into composition work for commercials before this, his first film soundtrack. Cued from the ambient influences of Eno and modern classical music, this is an impressive work, which should appeal to fans of ambient music and the neo-classics.  References to Vietnam and Asia in general are surprisingly limited,  Les Rivière s blends pi...

  John Carpenter - Escape From New York (Original Film Soundtrack) [SILLP1493 UK 2022 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] There are just film soundtracks ...and there are iconic film soundtracks, here is one of them. Recorded with regular musical associate Alan Howarth, Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi movie soundtrack is a minimalist analogue synth work of art, recreated here from a recent repress/expanded edition on blue vinyl by Silva Screen. As those opening bars of the main theme gently fade in, the listener is whisked away to a post-apocalyptic world of monotone synthetic rhythms, syncronised beats and analogue loops. For lovers of ARP  & Prophet-5 synthesizers and Linn LM-1 drum machines. You now have the option to be cremated on the premises. A1 Main Title A2 The Bank Robbery A3 Prison Introduction A4 Over The Wall / Airforce One A5 He's Still Alive / Romero A6 'Snake' Plissken B1 Orientation B2 Tell Him B3 Engulfed Cathedral (Debussy) B4 Across The Roof B5 D...

The Ron Grainer Orchestra - The Prisoner [KIRI 066 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] I'm mixing things up a bit now ...with a totally freakbeat soundtrack. Most of us would have found The Prisoner through late night TV re-runs in the seventies and eighties, there was never on officially released soundtrack at the time, however British psyche label owner Phil Smee compiled much of the original soundtrack and incidental music for his Bam Caruso label back in 1986. The Prisoner was a 1967 British science fiction-allegorical television series about an unidentified British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village, where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job (as a spy). It was created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein with McGoohan playing the main role of 'Number Six'. Episodes covered various plots from spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama. A single sea...

Bernard Herrmann ‎- Taxi Driver (Original Soundtrack Recording) [MOVLP 492 UK 2019 24-Bit FLAC] Is it some fluke that most of my very favourite movies feature Robert De Niro?  ...I am not talking about The Fockers or any of those other comedy spin-offs, gimme Raging Bull , Once Upon A Time In America , Angel Heart , Casino and a whole wrath of others instead. No better place to kick off any major De Niro viewing marathon than with one, his very best as with a superb jazz soundtrack composed by Bernard Herrmann. I'm no fan of the Music On Vinyl label but they've done a decent job with the mastering to yellow vinyl, although the usual low frequency noise (which seems to be their trademark) during the fades will be apparent to those using headphones. Everybody else can just enjoy..... A1 Theme From Taxi Driver A2 I Work The Whole City A3 Betsy In A White Dress A4 The Days Do Not End A5 Reprise: Theme From Taxi Driver B1 Diary Of A Taxi Driver B2 Theme ...