Whether motivated by budgetary constraints, an admiration for John Carpenter's soundtrack work or both, Bromley Davenport – a trained classical pianist – went the minimalist analog synth route, mixing haunting melodies with whirring electronic effects and woozy waltzes. Far more coherent than the film itself is its soundtrack, which was also penned and recorded by Bromley Davenport. composer Room 237, Rebirth)Īdrian Younge (composer, Luke Cage, Black Dynamite)ĭirector Harry Bromley Davenport once described his 1983 sci-fi shocker Xtro as "an extraordinary mess," an assessment that the film's many critics would probably view as immodestly generous. 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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