Archive for January, 2009

Saturday is Video Game Music Night!

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Hey there soundtrack fans! I am delighted to announce that Saturdays will be dedicated to the delight [...]

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Save over 40% on Academy Award Winning Soundtracks!

Amazon is running a campaign right now where you can save over 40% on selected Academy Award Winning Soundtracks going all the way back to the 1930s. Some examples are:
Atonement by Dario Marianelli for $14.99 (Save 21%)
Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) by Nicola Piovani for $10.97 (Save 39%)
E.T. The Extra Terrestial by John [...]

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Change We Can Believe In: 2008 Scores In Review

It was not a great year for mainstream film scores.  A good year, for sure, since I had 23 scores getting an 8 or higher, but only one major Hollywood score earned a ten, and only one other from that pack got a nine, a severe dropoff from last year’s 8 (and 13 total including [...]

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Soundtrack Review: Medal of Honor: Frontline (2002)

This is a review of the video game score Medal of Honor: Frontline by Michael Giacchino.
Medal of Honor: Frontline is an astounding achievement for a videogame score, let alone a soundtrack in any medium.  Michael Giacchino mixes the rousing, patriotic tunes that worked so well in the first score with the choral beauty of Underground [...]

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Soundtrack Review: The Interior (2008)

This is a review of the original soundtrack for the web-drama The Interior by Edwin Wendler.
“There’s no doubt about it, you have a really good score here to go with the web-drama The Interior and with your darkest dreams and moods”

It’s not often there is a score released for a web only series, or webisodes [...]

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