Archive for February, 2008

The Sunday Charts February 24th 2008

If you’re new here, you may like to get all my posts in your feed reader using my RSS feed or get all Soundtrack Geek posts by Email. Thanks for visiting!Every Sunday I round up the top 10 most selling scores and soundtracks on Amazon. Here’s this week’s charts.

Atonement by Dario Marianelli
The Lord of [...]


Soundtrack Review: The Eye (2008)

This is a review of the motion picture score for The Eye by Marco Beltrami. Release date: Unknown.
Tomorrow is of course the Academy Award and Marco Beltrami is nominated for Best Score with 3:10 to Yuma. February 1st this year The Eye had its premiere, and it wasn’t too successful. It is a remake of [...]


6th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards Winners

Bioshock is the big winner yet again in this year’s Game Audio Network Guild Awards.

Here are the winners in full:
AUDIO OF THE YEAR
BioShock
BEST ARRANGEMENT OF A NON-ORIGINAL SCORE
The Simpsons Game
BEST AUDIO - OTHER
Jewel Quest II
BEST CINEMATIC/CUT-SCENE AUDIO
BioShock
BEST DIALOGUE
BioShock
BEST HANDHELD AUDIO
Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow
BEST INTERACTIVE SCORE
BioShock
BEST USE OF LICENSED MUSIC
BioShock
BEST GAME AUDIO ARTICLE, PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST
“The [...]


Soundtrack Review: Vantage Point (2008)

This is a review of the Vantage Point score by Atli Örvarsson. Release date: February 26th 2008.
Before you go on, here’s a warning: If you hate Media Ventures (Remote Control Productions), Hans Zimmer or Steve Jablonsky, look away now. If you however think that they produce great action scores, and are not ashamed to admit [...]


Retro Wednesday: More Than Meets The Eye!

These are of course the famous words from the Transformers theme back in the 80s. That’s right, we are going to the 80s again, back to 1986 or even 1984 when the TV series was on. Last year Volcano/Legacy released a 20th anniversary soundtrack to this great movie and it features some amazing songs. If [...]