Probably not for those with only a general interest in horror and other films scores. However, if you’ve ever been interested in film scoring there’s a lot of cool stuff here, especially about inspiration and different approaches to film scoring.
Fascinating film, often classified as blaxploitation, while pushing at the edges of that genre, too. The 1973 film is based on a novel from the ’60s involving an African American man who becomes a token for the CIA to show the “diversity” in their ranks (this also explains three of the meanings of the title). The agent surreptitiously goes rogue and begins training underground Black Resistance fighters across the US. Plus, a score by Herbie Hancock!
A doc on a genre that I’ve enjoyed my whole life. Jaws is one of the first movies I remember watching and so many of the rip-offs are wonderful, bad, and wonderfully bad. I love how the doc goes into the wider cultural and social aspects of the aftermath of Jaws and the work of Ron and Valerie Taylor, whose expeditions gave us some of the first iconic images of Great Whites. I also enjoyed the outline of the sharksploitation genre cycle.
I remember a time when you could wander through used record bins and find all kinds of early synth music for dimes and dollars. While that’s certainly in the past, at least there are some nice remixed/remastered versions of that work coming out. This is a compilation of Garson’s pseudo-spacey sounds. He’s most famous for Plantasia.
I was on Substrate Radio recently where Psychic Tuesday’s series Experimental Mind Mincing held a listening party for a new album I worked on. You can hear me discuss Inadmissible Evidence on Psychic Tuesday Radio’s Soundcloud or on Substrate’s Mixcloud.
A new review for The Primevals is available at Horror DNA.
And there’s a new playlist for those interested over at Tidal: McClurg’s Musicalia #35: No higher than a Hopkinsville goblin.
Stephen McClurg 