Michael Convertino – The Hidden - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)

Composer: Michael Convertino

 

Tracklist

1. Main Title 01:51
2. Political Rally 01:51
3. Back At Home 01:02
4. Transference 02:19
5. Miller In Apartment 01:55
6. Lloyd And The Little Girl 01:13
7. Lloyd Alone 01:14
8. Final Transference 03:16
9. The Dog 01:26
10. Rampage 07:33
11. Shoot-Out 05:57
12. Stripper 01:50
13. Road Block 01:55
14. Mannequin 05:01

 

"The Hidden" is a 1987 American sci fi-horror action film directed by Jack Sholder,

written by Jim Kouf (under the pseudonym Bob Hunt), and released by New Line Cinema.

It stars Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri, along with Clu Gulager,

Chris Mulkey, Ed O'Ross, Clarence Felder, Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar.
Director Jack Sholder was drawn to the film because of the script.

Writer Jim Kouf had originally expressed interest in directing, but when the studios refused, he lost interest in the script. Sholder, who saw the potential to turn it into more than an action film,

did a rewrite to heighten the themes of what it means to be human.
The score was composed by American musician Michael Convertino (born 1952 in New York City) 

best known for his collaborations with director Randa Haines on films like "Children Of A Lesser God", "The Doctor",

"Wrestling Ernest Hemingway", and "Dance With Me", as well as "Bull Durham",

"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" and the Tim Allen comedies "The Santa Clause" and "Jungle 2 Jungle".

 
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Charles Bernstein – The Entity (1981)

Composer: Charles Bernstein

Tracklist

1. Intro And Main Title 01:49
2. Bath/Attack 01:31
3. Beach Scene 01:05
4. Iceberg 01:29
5. Carla & Jerry 01:30
6. Carla's Room Wrecked 01:55
7. It Appears/The Entity 02:45
8. Carla 02:40
9. The Power 02:34
10. Relentless Attack 01:27
11. The Entity Lurks 01:29
12. Helium Attack 01:25
13. Mozart Source 02:23
14. Glimmer Of Hope 02:36
15. Finale: Carla Leaves House 01:25
16. End Credits 02:28
17. Attack Music Deconstructed 01:09
18. Attack Music Reject 00:56
19. Main Title Synth Version 01:39

The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie,

and written by Frank De Felitta, who adapted his 1978 novel of the same name.
The film stars Barbara Hershey as a single mother in Los Angeles who is tormented by an invisible assailant.
Like the novel, the film is based on the 1974 real paranormal phenomena case of Doris Bither,

a woman who claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted by an invisible entity,

and who was observed by doctoral students at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Despite being filmed and planned for a release in 1981,

the movie was not released in worldwide theaters until September 1982 and February 1983 in the United States.
The film is interpreted as a parable for female sexual victimhood

and the lead character as a woman who "goes head-to-head with a gaggle of men (including the "entity" itself).
American composer of film and television scores Charles Harold Bernstein (born February 28, 1943)

composed the soundtrack of the movie.
Bernstein is a Daytime Emmy Award winner, and a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee.

During the 1980s, Bernstein scored the music for the horror films Cujo (1983),

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), April Fool's Day (1986) and Deadly Friend (1986).
Quentin Tarantino has included Bernstein's music from White Lightning and The Entity

in the soundtracks of his films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
The complete collected orchestral/synth soundtrack of the movie was released for the first time in 2009 by Intrada

as a limited Edition CD of 1200 copies while in 2019 Wyrd War released on 666 copies the limited edition vinyl.
Recorded at Village Recorders studios in West Los Angeles and Bernstein’s Santa Monica studio in 1981,

sourced from Bernstein’s archives and featuring three bonus outtakes that provide a glimpse into his compositional process.

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Eraserhead Original Soundtrack (1982)

Composers: David Lynch, Alan R. Splet, Peter Scott Ivers

Tracklist

1. Side A (Digah's Stomp, Lenox Avenue Blues, Stompin' The Bug, Messin' Around With The Blues) 20:08
2. Side B (In Heaven - Lady In The Radiator Song) 18:22
3. In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song) 01:38
4. Pete's Boogie (Previously Unreleased) 03:58
5. Eraserhead Dance Mix 10:16

 

 "Eraserhead" is a 1977 American surrealist horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch.

Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians.
Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films.
Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, 

it tells the story of a man who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by David Lynch and Alan R. Splet

and was originally released via I.R.S. Records on LP in the United States on June 15, 1982 with 5 tracks.
Alan R. Splet (December 31, 1939 – December 2, 1994) was an American sound designer and sound editor

known for his collaborations with director David Lynch on "The Elephant Man", "Dune" and "Blue Velvet".
Due to being legally blind, Splet rarely traveled and mainly worked from Berkeley, California.
In 1980, he won an Oscar for his work on the film "The Black Stallion"

and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for "Never Cry Wolf".
The mood and tone of "Eraserhead" and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia's post-industrial history.

Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts

and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger, describing it both as a:

"sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place" and "beautiful, if you see it the right way.".
Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack,

including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods.
The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example,

was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.
Lynch and Splet worked "9 hours a day for 63 days" to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film.

Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for "Eraserhead" as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack.
Also during the production of the soundtrack, Lynch drew two telephone wires for Splet,

each line indicating between four and five pitches he wanted to be represented in the movie's music and sound effects.
When Splet played Lynch pipe organ parts from American jazz pianist, organist, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller

(May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) as soundtrack material, Lynch was immediately confident in the pipe-organ style,

stating that he had "never listened to any other kind of music for ("Eraserhead"). I knew that was it."
Except the excerpts of organ music by Fats Waller the soundtrack also included piano parts by Phil Worde

and the song "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)",

written for the film and sang by Peter Scott Ivers (September 20, 1946 – March 3, 1983).

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Les Baxter – The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)

Composer: Les Baxter

Tracklist

1. Main Titles 04:46
2. Francis Inquires 01:32
3. Elizabeth's Tomb 02:46
4. Nicholas' Trauma 06:22
5. Music In The Night 03:09
6. Incipient Madness 02:41
7. Castle Medina 00:58
8. Nightmare 00:40
9. Dark Corridors 01:26
10. Dead End 02:09
11. Nicholas' Guilt 01:45
12. Late Wife 00:24
13. Suspicions 03:03
14. True, True! 05:19
15. Voices And Spiderwebs 05:10
16. Don Medina's Return 02:18
17. The Pit And The Pendulum 06:29
18. End Titles 02:12

The Pit And The Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman,

starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders.

The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name.
The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe adaptations released by American International Pictures,

the first having been Corman's House Of Usher released the previous year.
Like House, the film features widescreen cinematography by Floyd Crosby,

sets designed by art director Daniel Haller, and a film score composed by Les Baxter.

A critical and box-office hit, Pit's success convinced AIP and Corman to continue adapting Poe stories 

for another six films, five of them starring Vincent Price.

The series ended in 1965 with the release of The Tomb Of Ligeia.
Film critics have noted the film's strong influence on numerous subsequent Italian thrillers,

from Mario Bava's The Whip And The Body (1963) to Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975).
Stephen King has described one of Pit's major shock sequences

as being among the most important moments in post-1960 horror film.
Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was a best-selling American musician and composer.

After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands,

he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as Exotica and scored over 100 motion pictures.
Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles at Pepperdine College.
From 1943 on he played tenor and baritone saxophone for the Freddie Slack big band.
Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer.
In 1950 Baxter started arranging and conducting for Capitol Records 

 and conducted the orchestra in two early Nat King Cole hits, "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young".

He also recorded Yma Sumac's first album: "Voice Of The Xtabay",

which can be considered one of the first recordings of Exotica.
In 1951 he made the original recording of "Quiet Village" which years later became a hit for Martin Denny.

In 1953 he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika.
With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955),

"The Poor People Of Paris" (1956) and "Sinner Man" (1956).
"Unchained Melody" was the first million seller for Baxter and was awarded a gold disc.
"The Poor People Of Paris" also sold over one million copies.
He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes,

Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label.

The list of musicians on these recordings includes Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer.
Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie.
In the 1960s, he formed the Balladeers, a conservative folk group in suits that at one time featured a young David Crosby.

Later he used some of the same singers from that group for a studio project called The Forum.

He worked in radio as musical director of The Halls Of Ivy and the Bob Hope and Abbott And Costello shows.
Like his counterparts Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin, Baxter worked in films in the 1960s and 1970s. 

He worked on movie scores for B-movie studio American International Pictures 

where he composed scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror and beach party films

including House Of Usher, The Pit And The Pendulum, The Raven, Muscle Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo.

He also composed a new score for the theatrical release of the 1970 horror film Cry Of The Banshee 

after AIP rejected Wilfred Josephs's original one.

Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated and recorded

the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000.
When soundtrack work fell off in the 1980s, he scored music for theme parks such as SeaWorld.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky / Don Cherry / Ronald Frangipane – The Holy Mountain (1973)

Composers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Don Cherry, Ronald Frangipane

Tracklist

1. Trance Mutation 03:31
2. Pissed And Passed Out 01:48
3. Violence Of The Lambs 02:02
4. Drink It 01:37
5. Christs 4 Sale 00:43
6. Cast Out And Pissed 01:47
7. Eye Of The Beholder 02:17
8. Communion 01:23
9. Rainbow Room 04:40
10. Alchemical Room 04:14
11. Tarot Will Teach You / Burn Your Money 08:44
12. Mattresses, Masks & Pearls 05:53
13. Isla (The Sapphic Sleep) 02:21
14. Psychedelic Weapons 01:11
15. Rich Man In A Fishbowl 04:09
16. Miniature Plastic Bomb Shop 03:14
17. Fuck Machine 03:12
18. Baby Snakes 01:20
19. A Walk In The Park 01:31
20. Mice And Massacre 03:27
21. City Of Freedom 03:21
22. Starfish 02:21
23. The Climb / Reality (Zoom Back Camera) 04:14
24. Pantheon Bar (Bees Make Honey...) 03:45

The Holy Mountain (Spanish: La Montaña Sagrada) is a 1973 Mexican surreal-fantasy film

directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky,

who also participated as a set designer and costume designer on the film.

Following Jodorowsky's underground hit El Topo, acclaimed by both John Lennon and George Harrison,

the film was produced by The Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO Music And Records.

Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money and the film was shown at various international film festivals in 1973,

including Cannes and limited screenings in New York and San Francisco.
The film is based on Ascent Of Mount Carmel by John Of The Cross 

and Mount Analogue by René Daumal, who was a student of George Gurdjieff.

In this film, much of Jodorowsky's visually psychedelic story follows the metaphysical thrust of Mount Analogue.

This is revealed in such events as the climb to the alchemist, the assembly of individuals with specific skills,

the discovery of the mountain that unites Heaven and Earth "that cannot not exist"

and symbolic challenges along the mountain ascent.

Daumal died before finishing his allegorical novel, and Jodorowsky's improvised ending

provides a way of completing the work (both symbolically and otherwise).
Before the principal photography would commence,

Jodorowsky and his wife spent a week without sleep under the direction of a Japanese Zen master.
Members of the cast spent three months doing various spiritual exercises guided by Oscar Ichazo of the Arica Institute.

The Arica training features Zen, Sufi and yoga exercises along with eclectic concepts drawn from the Kabbalah,

the I Ching and the teachings of George Gurdjieff.

After the training, the group lived for one month communally in Jodorowsky's home before production. 

Thereafter, the filming started in early 1972 and was shot sequentially, entirely in Mexico, at a budget of $750,000.
Jodorowsky was also instructed by Ichazo to take LSD for the purpose of spiritual exploration.

He also administered psilocybin mushrooms to the actors during the shooting of the death-rebirth scene.

The film was completed just in time for the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, where it was much awaited.

Jodorowsky edited out twenty minutes of dialogue, with the intention of removing as much dialogue as he could.

The film had its premiere at Waverly Theatre, an art house movie theater in New York City on 29 November 1973,

where it had restricted run at midnights on Friday and Saturday for sixteen months.
It was also shown at Filmex on 30 March 1974, which was described as the "American premiere".
At a few places it was released as a double bill with Jodorowsky's 1970 film El Topo

 and eventually became a cult film with its influence on popular culture.

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John Carpenter And Jim Lang – In The Mouth Of Madness (1995)

Composers: John Carpenter And Jim Lang

Tracklist

1. In The Mouth Of Madness 05:28
2. Robby's Office 02:30
3. Axe Man 02:04
4. Bookstore Creep 00:52
5. The Alley Nightmare 00:59
6. Trent Makes The Map 02:14
7. A Boy And His Bike 03:06
8. Don't Look Down 01:16
9. Hobb's End 02:18
10. Pickman Hotel 01:11
11. The Picture Changes 02:20
12. The Black Church 04:50
13. You're Wrong, Trent 01:42
14. Mommy's Day 03:04
15. Do You Like My Ending? 02:05
16. I'm Losing Me 03:09
17. Main Street 04:37
18. Hobb's End Escape 02:23
19. The Portal Opens 03:06
20. The Old Ones Return 02:30
21. The Book Comes Back 04:03
22. Madness Outside 00:34
23. Just A Bedtime Story 03:44

"In The Mouth Of Madness" is a 1994 horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca.
It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston.
Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town

while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels,

and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur.
The film is the third installment in what Carpenter refers to as his "Apocalypse Trilogy",

preceded by "The Thing" (1982) and "Prince of Darkness" (1987).
"In The Mouth Of Madness" pays tribute to the works of author H. P. Lovecraft in its exploration of insanity and its title,

the latter being derived from the Lovecraft novella "At The Mountains Of Madness".
The opening scene depicts Trent's confinement to an asylum,

with the bulk of the story told in flashback, a common technique of Lovecraft.

Reference is made to Lovecraftian settings and details (like a character that shares the name of Lovecraft's Pickman family).

Sutter Cane's novels have similar titles to H.P. Lovecraft stories:

"The Whisperer Of The Dark" (The Whisperer In Darkness), "The Thing In The Basement" (The Thing On The Doorstep), "Haunter Out Of Time" (The Haunter Of The Dark/The Shadow Out Of Time),

and "The Hobbs End Horror" (The Dunwich Horror), the latter also referencing Hobbs End underground station

from Nigel Kneale's "Quatermass And The Pit".
The film also referencing Stephen King, who, like Lovecraft, writes horror fiction set in New England hamlets.

In fact, the characters even directly compare King (unfavorably) to Sutter Kane within the film itself.
The soundtrack of the movie was co-written by John Carpenter and Jim Lang.
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor and composer. 

Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action,

and science fiction films of the 70s and 80s while he is recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre.
Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures,

with the notable exceptions of "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), "Escape From New York" (1981), and "Starman" (1984).

However, many of Carpenter's films have come to be considered as cult classics,

and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker, movies like "Dark Star" (1974),

"Assault On Precinct 13" (1976), "The Thing" (1982), "Christine" (1983), "Big Trouble In Little China" (1986),

"Prince Of Darkness" (1987), "They Live" (1988), and "In The Mouth Of Madness" (1994).
Carpenter composed or co-composed most of his films and has released four studio albums, titled "Lost Themes" (2015),

"Lost Themes II" (2016), "Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998" (2017) and "Lost Themes III: Alive After Death" (2021).
In an interview he stated that it was his father's work as a music teacher, that first sparked an interest in him to make music.

Carpenter was an early adopter of synthesizers, since his film debut "Dark Star", when he used an EMS VCS3 synth.

His soundtracks went on to influence electronic artists who followed, but Carpenter himself admitted 

he had no particular interest in synthesizers other than that they provided a means to "sound big with just a keyboard".

For many years he worked in partnership with musician Alan Howarth, who would realize his vision

by working on the more technical aspects of recording, allowing Carpenter to focus on writing the music.
Carpenter is also narrator on the 2019 documentary film "The Rise Of The Synths" which explores the origins and growth

of the synthwave genre, and features numerous interviews with synthwave artists who cite Carpenter 

(alongside other early pioneers such as Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Tangerine Dream) as a significant influence.
James Volker Langknecht (born November 22, 1950), better known as Jim Lang, is an American composer

that worked with John Carpenter on the soundtracks of the films "Body Bags" (1993) and "In The Mouth Of Madness" (1994).

He is mostly known for scoring the Nickelodeon series "Hey Arnold!" (1996–2004),

its feature film, "Hey Arnold!: The Movie" (2002), and the television film, "Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie" (2017).

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Bo Harwood & Lance Rubin – Happy Birthday To Me (1981)

Composers: Bo Harwood & Lance Rubin

Tracklist

1 - 19 Untitled 52:41

 

 Happy Birthday To Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson,

(famous for the 1962 classic movie Cape Fear), and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford.
Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular high school senior's birthday.
The movie was released theatrically in North America on May 15, 1981

and while reception was generally negative, it has since achieved a cult following.
Actress Melissa Sue Anderson, who had garnered childhood fame for her portrayal of Mary Ingalls

 on the television series Little House On The Prairie, was cast in the film's lead, marking her major feature debut.
Hollywood actor Glenn Ford, who played Jonathan Kent in Richard Donner’s Superman (1978),

was less-than-thrilled to be in a slasher film and apparently he was unpleasant on the set.
The make-up effects were done by special effects guru Tom Burman.
The film's ending was changed to hide the fact that the script was being rewritten so late in production.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released Happy Birthday To Me on DVD in 2004 with an entirely different,

uncredited musical score that diverged from the one used in the original cut.
On October 13, 2009, Anchor Bay Entertainment re-released the film on DVD with original musical score reintroduced.
Bo Harwood (known for his work on films directed by John Cassavetes) and Lance Rubin provided the film's score.

Syreeta Wright, one-time wife of Stevie Wonder, provided the eerie closing track,

composed by Lance Rubin that plays over the credits.

Memory

Gil Mellé – The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Composer: Gil Mellé

Tracklist

1. Wildfire 02:46
2. Hex 04:00
3. Andromeda 02:24
4. Desert Trip 04:14
5. The Piedmont Elegy 02:23
6. OP 02:45
7. Xenogenesis 02:40
8. Strobe Crystal Green 04:55

The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise.
It is based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding.
The film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne

as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.
With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely and it is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes.
The Andromeda Strain was one of the first films to use advanced computerized photographic visual effects,

with work by Douglas Trumbull, who had pioneered effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey,

along with James Shourt and Albert Whitlock who worked on The Birds.
Reportedly $250,000 of the film's budget of $6.5 million was used to create the special effects, 

including Trumbull's simulation of an electron microscope.
The film contained a faux computer rendering, created with conventional film-making processes,
of a mapped 3-D view of the rotating structure of the five-story cylindrical underground laboratory

in the Nevada desert named Project Wildfire.
A 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is:

"the most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this (killer virus) genre,

as it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it,
and, finally, the work-up on its identification and clarification on why certain persons are immune to it."
The soundtrack of the fim was composed by Gilbert John Mellé (31 December 1931 – 28 October 2004),

an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.
Melle was born in New York City, where he was raised by a family friend after his parents abandoned him at the age of two.
As a child, he began painting and playing saxophone as a teen.
Before he was 16 years old, he was playing several jazz clubs in Greenwich Village.
At the age of 19, he signed to Blue Note, becoming the first white musician on the label’s roster.
At Blue Note, he released five 10'' EP records before recording his first full-length "Patterns In Jazz", in 1956.
In addition to recording and performing jazz, Melle continued with his artwork

and his paintings and sculptures were displayed at several New York galleries,
while his art was featured on his own albums, as well as records by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonius Monk.
He left Blue Note shortly after the "Patterns In Jazz" sessions, signing with Prestige.
Between 1956 and 1957, he recorded three albums for Prestige ("Primitive Modern", "Gil’s Guests", and "Quadrama"),
before deciding to halt his career as a traditional jazz bandleader.
Melle moved to Los Angeles in the ’60s, where he began to compose scores for film and television.
Over the next 30 years, he wrote scores for over 125 films.
He also began working with electronic music, building his own synthesizers, including (arguably) the first drum machine

and performing with the first all-electronic jazz band, the Electronauts, at the tenth Monterey Jazz Festival.
In 1967, he returned to recording with "Tome VI", an all-electronic jazz album released on Verve.
He continued to pioneer electronic music, writing scores for the tv series Night Gallery

and The Andromeda Strain entirely with synthesizers, which was unheard of at the time.
In addition to writing music for films, he composed several symphonies,

which he performed with symphony orchestras in Toronto, London, and New Zealand.
During the mid-’90s, Melle decided to concentrate on the visual arts,

in particular his computer-based digital painting, which drew great acclaim from art critics across America.
The Andromeda Strain was originally released by Kapp Records as a hexagon-shaped vinyl,

housed in an elaborate folded pod-shaped sleeve featuring an insert with folding instructions.

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Mario Nascimbene – Barabbas Original Soundtrack (1962)

Composer: Mario Nascimbene

Tracklist

1. Main Theme 05:04
2. The Whipping Of Christ 02:23
3. Eclipse 03:18
4. The Tomb 02:47
5. Intermezzo 01:55
6. The Mines 04:11
7. Arrival In Rome 01:48
8. Rome Afire 03:31
9. The Death Of Barabbas 03:00
10. Musical Examples 06:16

Barabbas is a 1961 religious epic film expanding on the career of Barabbas,

from the Christian Passion narrative in the Gospel of Mark and other gospels.

The film stars Anthony Quinn as Barabbas, features Silvana Mangano, Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews,

Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, and Jack Palance, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

It was conceived as a grand Roman epic, was based on Nobel Prize-winning Pär Lagerkvist's 1950 novel of the same title.
The film was directed by Richard Fleischer 

and shot in Verona and Rome under the supervision of producer Dino De Laurentiis.

It included many spectacular scenes, including a battle of gladiators in a Cinecittà film studio mock-up of the arena,

and a crucifixion shot that was filmed on 15 February 1961 during an actual total eclipse of the sun.
The music score by Mario Nascimbene, which was conducted by Franco Ferrara,

the noted conductor and lecturer on conducting at several famous international academies,

was noted for its unusual, stark experimental component, which included the introduction of electronic sounds

achieved by the manipulation of tape speeds, as "new sounds".
Mario Nascimbene (28 November 1913 – 6 January 2002)

was one of the best known Italian film soundtrack composers of the 20th century.

His career spanned six decades, during which time he earned awards for the innovative contents of his composing style.

During his career he composed soundtracks for more than 150 films.
Nascimbene studied composition and orchestral conducting at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Music in Milan

under the guidance of Ildebrando Pizzetti, Following graduation he wrote several pieces for chamber music and ballet.
He was commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film "L'amore Canta" (Love Song), directed in 1941

by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and the success of this film opened the doors of an entirely new career for him.

He was one of the few composers in Italy whose career was based on his work in the cinema.
He was particularly appreciated for the revolutionary innovation of incorporating the sounds

of non-orchestral instruments like that of a jaw harp or a harmonica, everyday noises

(like the tick-tock of a clock, the ring of a bicycle bell or the ticking sound of typewriters in Rome 11:00) in a musical score,

with the purpose to underline some particular film scenes.

Memory

John Corigliano – Altered States (1981)

Composer: John Corigliano

Tracklist

1. Main Title And First Hallucination (Ritual Sacrifice And Religious Memories) 04:43
2. Love Theme 03:39
3. Second Hallucination (Hinchi Mushroom Rite And Love Theme Trio) 05:15
4. First Transformation (Primordial Regression) 03:40
5. Primeval Landscape (In The Isolation Chamber) 02:18
6. Second Transformation (The Ape Man Sequence)

(Escape From The Laboratory, Stalking The Dogs And The Fight, The Zoo And FInal Hunt) 08:06
7. Religious Memories And Father's Death 02:07
8. The Laboratory Experiment: Jessup's Transformation,

Collapse Of The Laboratory, The Whirlpool And Journey To Another Dimension, Return To Reality 06:16
9. The Final Transformation 04:16

Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell

based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.
The film was adapted from Chayefsky's only novel, published in 1978, and is his final screenplay.
The film follows the experiments of a psycho-physiologist with drugs in a sensory-deprivation tank

and his visions that he believes are genetic memories.
Both the novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly's research conducted in isolation tanks 

under the influence of psychoactive drugs like mescaline, ketamine, and LSD.
Altered States marked the film debut of William Hurt and Drew Barrymore.
Chayefsky withdrew from the project after disputes with Russell and took his name off the credits, 

substituting "Sidney Aaron," his actual first and middle names.
The film score was composed by John Corigliano (with Christopher Keene conducting)

and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing.
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of classical music.
His scores, numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, 

Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition, and an Oscar for his score for the film The Red Violin (1998).
He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University Of New York

and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.

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Armando Trovajoli – Ercole Al Centro Della Terra (Hercules In The Haunted World) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1961)

 

Composer: Armando Trovajoli

Tracklist

1. Preludio 02:11
2. Titoli 03:11
3. Apparizione Di Ercole 01:49
4. Agguato & Battaglia 01:42
5. Nel Regno Di Lyco 01:55
6. Deianira Prigioniera Di Lyco 01:30
7. Pazzia Di Deianira 02:50
8. L'Oracolo 02:03
9. Lotta Di Ercole & Salpando Verso L'Ade 03:24
10. Risveglio Nell'Ade 01:46
11. La Mela D'Oro 02:58
12. Stratagemma Di Ercole & Il Mostro Di Pietra 02:49
13. Tortura & Distruzione Del Mostro 01:39
14. Ombre Dell'Ade 01:02
15. Precipizio Di Fiamme 01:35
16. Vento Infernale 02:15
17. Appesi Al Vuoto 03:45
18. Anima Perduta 02:38
19. In Mare & Tempesta 02:07
20. Arrivo Ad Ecalia 01:30
21. Ercole E Deianira (Tema D'Amore) 02:04
22. Oscuro Presagio & Uccisione Di Elettra 02:03
23. Il Potere Maligno Di Lyco 02:14
24. Deianira Contro Lyco & Amore Di Persefone 01:47
25. Risveglio Dei Morti Viventi 05:29
26. Ercole Contro Lyco 01:39
27. Ercole Contro I Morti Viventi & Il Ritorno 03:05
28. L'Amore Trionfa (Finale) 01:17
29. Ercole Al Centro Della Terra (Intervallo Film) 00:19

"Hercules In The Haunted World" (Italian: "Ercole Al Centro Della Terra", lit. "Hercules At The Center Of The Earth")

is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal (aka peplum) film and the second official directorial effort of Mario Bava.
British bodybuilder Reg Park plays Hercules while British actor Christopher Lee appears as Hercules' nemesis Lico.

Shooting at Cinecittà, director Mario Bava used some of the same sets

from the earlier "Hercules And The Conquest Of Atlantis" which had already starred Reg Park.
The film started a short-living subgenre of films trying to combine the peplum genre with horror/gothic elements.

Films considered belonging to this subgenre include Riccardo Freda's "The Witch's Curse"

and Sergio Corbucci's and Giacomo Gentilomo's "Maciste Contro Il Vampiro".
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013),

an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor,

many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre.

Trovajoli collaborated with Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola on a number of projects

and was also the author of several Italian musicals.
Digitmovies in 2006 released for the first time the complete original motion picture score that is characterized

by innovative sound experiments that almost anticipate the colors of later psychedelic era in the decade.

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Henry - Portrait Of A Serial Killer – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986)

Composers:  Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale, Steven A. Jones

Tracklist

1. Henry Theme 02:14
2. Dead Body Drone #1-#4 04:11
3. Too Young For These Blues 04:22
4. The Stalk 01:31
5. La Lania 02:52
6. Football Boys / Housewife Body Drone #5 01:57
7. Fingers On It 04:12
8. Becky Downtown 01:04
9. Yeah, I Killed Mama 01:04
10. Callin' Colleen 03:17
11. She's Your Sister 00:20
12. Jukin 02:38
13. Kill Hookers 00:48
14. It's Always The Same - And It's Always Different 01:07
15. Let's Go Shopping 03:48
16. Drive Up / Home Invasion 01:30
17. Stop Frame #1 - Stop Frame #2 01:26
18. Beauty & The Beast 00:35
19. Adios, Motherfucker 01:04
20. My Mistake 02:38
21. Henry End Of Theme 01:35
22. Drone 01:08

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film

directed and co-written by John McNaughton and Richard Fire,

about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity.

It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis,

a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister.

The characters of Henry and Otis are loosely based on convicted real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole.

However, as the opening statement makes clear, the film is based more on

Lucas' violent fantasies and confessions rather than the crimes for which he was convicted.

The original poster artwork was a painting by Joe Coleman,

that was considered too extreme and was replaced by the current official poster.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale and Steven A. Jones

with the help of Paul Petraitis on guitar, and was originally released in 1991  by Q.D.K. Media.
The music is mostly ambient / electronic mixed with samples from the movie and also features songs 

from rock & roll / hard rock bands like Kid Tater And The Cheaters, Enuff Z'nuff and Lynne And The Lizards.

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Toru Takemitsu – Kwaidan (1965)

Composer: Toru Takemitsu

Tracklist

1. Ki 06:00
2. Yuki 06:53
3. Biwa-Uta 11:06
4. Bunraku 03:14

"Kwaidan" (怪談, Kaidan, literally "ghost stories") is a 1965 Japanese anthology horror film

and the first color film of Masaki Kobayashi, known for "The Human Condition", "Harakiri" and "Samurai Rebellion".
It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales,
mainly "Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things", for which it is named.
The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories.
It won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival

and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, Takemitsu Tōru, October 8, 1930 – February 20, 1996)

was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory.

Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre.
He is famed for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy to create a sound uniquely his own

and for fusing opposites together such as sound with silence and tradition with innovation.
He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.
He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kobo (experimental workshop) in Japan,

a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia

and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.
His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as one of the leading 20th-century Japanese composers.
He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him.
In under 40 years Takemitsu composed music for over 100 films, some of which were written for purely financial reasons.
However, as the composer attained financial independence, he grew more selective,

often reading whole scripts before agreeing to compose the music, and later surveying the action on set,

"breathing the atmosphere" whilst conceiving his musical ideas.
One notable consideration in Takemitsu's composition for film was his careful use of silence

(also important in many of his concert works), which often immediately intensifies the events on screen

and prevents any monotony through a continuous musical accompaniment.

Some of the films that he score are "Harakiri" (1962), "Woman In The Dunes" (1964), "The Face Of Another" (1966),

"Samurai Rebellion" (1967), "Ran" (1985) and the documentary "Antonio Gaudí" (1984).

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Lech Jankowski – Institute Benjamenta (1998)

Composer: Lech Jankowski

Tracklist

1. Canone Non Infinitone 05:26
2. A Very Old Mexican Dance 01:07
3. Finale 05:59
4. Con-Trapuncto 01:00
5. Lullaby/Waltz 09:25
6. Introdukja Liliowa 01:11
7. Mazurek 06:48
8. Kolysanka Wg. Erika S. 01:17
9. Marsz 02:48
10. Menuet I 03:01
11. Maly Cmentarz Harf 01:55
12. Waltz Z.K. Minor 03:06
13. Zym-Zym 02:42
14. Melodia Na Piec: (Part I,II,III) 03:20
15. Minuet With Hydrocephalus 01:01
16. Pavana Zza Parawana No. 5 01:16
17. (Repeat) Kolysanka Wg. Erika S. 01:17
18. Aria. Contrapuncto 02:14
19. Hymn. Coda. Choral 04:18
20. Melodia Na Piec: (Part III) 01:03

Lech Jankowski (born April 1, 1956 in Leszno ) is a Polish composer for theater and film music, painter and ethnologist.
His performances combine instruments and music theater as well as elements of visual art.
As a composer he has worked with various theater directors, mainly in Poland.
His paintings, which features elements of magical realism, have been presented in several exhibitions 

and are parts of private collections in Poland and abroad.
Jankowski has composed music for several short films by influential stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay,

aka the Brothers Quay, and also for their first live-action feature-length film

"Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life", released in 1996.
The film is based on the novel "Jakob Von Gunten" (1909), written by Swiss writer Robert Walser.
The plot follows Jakob (Mark Rylance), a young man who enters a training school for servants,

run by brother and sister Johannes (Gottfried John) and Lisa Benjamenta (Alice Krige).
Though the film follows the same basic structure as the novel, its plot is more limited.
The Quays have characterized the film as a parallel universe of the novel.
The film has been described as thematically similar to a fairy tale, a fantasy or a dream world

and has been compared to Eraserhead due to its unconventional narrative and black-and-white filming style.
Parallels have also been drawn between the film and Expressionist films of the 1920s.

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Basil Poledouris – Conan The Barbarian - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982)

Composer: Basil Poledouris

Tracklist

1. Anvil Of Crom 02:30
2. Riddle Of Steel / Riders Of Doom 05:31
3. Gift Of Fury 03:47
4. Wheel Of Pain 04:05
5. Atlantean Sword 03:53
6. Theology / Civilization 03:10
7. Wifeing 02:07
8. The Search 03:05
9. The Orgy 04:10
10. Funeral Pyre 04:28
11. Battle Of The Mounds 04:48
12. Orphans Of Doom / The Awakening 05:28

Basil Konstantine Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was a Greek-American 

composer, conductor and orchestrator of film and television scores,

best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven.

Among his works are scores for the films Conan The Barbarian (1982), Flesh & Blood (1985), RoboCop (1987),

The Hunt For Red October (1990), Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man (1991) and Starship Troopers (1997).
Conan The Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed and co-written by John Milius.
The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a young muscular barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger), who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents 

at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult.
The composer was given the opportunity to compose the film's music based on the initial storyboards 

and to modify it throughout filming before recording the score near the end of production.
Poledouris made extensive use of Musync, a music and tempo editing hardware and software system, 

to modify the tempo of his compositions and synchronize them with the action in the film.
The film's music mostly conveys a sense of power, energy, and brutality, yet tender moments occur.
According to Poledouris, Milius envisioned Conan as an opera with little or no dialogue.
The main musical theme, the "Anvil Of Crom", opens the film with a brassy sound of 24 French horns 

in a dramatic intonation of the melody, while pounding drums add an incessantly driven rhythmic propulsion.
Milius initially wanted a chorus based on Carl Orff's Carmina Burana to herald the appearance

of Doom and his warriors for the attack on Conan's village at the beginning of the film.

After learning that the film Excalibur (1981) had used Orff's work,

he changed his mind and asked his composer for an original creation.

Poledouris' theme for Doom consists of "energetic choral passages",

chanted by the villain's followers to salute their leader and their actions in his name.

The lyrics were composed in English and roughly translated into Latin.

Poledouris was "more concerned about the way the Latin words sounded than with the sense they actually made".

He set these words to a melody adapted from the 13th-century Gregorian hymn, Dies Irae,

which was chosen to "communicate the tragic aspects of the cruelty wrought by Thulsa Doom".
From late November 1981, Poledouris spent three weeks recording his score in Rome.
He engaged a 90-instrument orchestra and a 24-member choir from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conducted them personally.

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Louis And Bebe Barron – Forbidden Planet (1976)

Composer: Louis And Bebe Barron

Tracklist

1. Main Titles - Overture 02:21
2. Deceleration 00:55
3. Once Around Altair 01:10
4. The Landing 00:50
5. Flurry Of Dust - A Robot Approaches 01:10
6. A Shangri-La In The Desert / Garden With Cuddly Tiger 01:33
7. Graveyard-A Night With Two Moons 01:16
8. "Robby, Make Me A Gown" 01:18
9. An Invisible Monster Approaches 00:48
10. Robby Arranges Flowers, Zaps Monkey 01:18
11. Love At The Swimming Hole 03:12
12. Morbius' Study 00:38
13. Ancient Krell Music 01:48
14. The Mind Booster - Creation Of Matter 00:58
15. Krell Shuttle Ride And Power Station 02:34
16. Giant Footprints In The Sand 00:45
17. "Nothing Like This Claw Found In Nature!" 01:26
18. Robby, The Cook, And 60 Gallons Of Booze 01:07
19. Battle With Invisible Monster 02:55
20. "Come Back To Earth With Me" 01:19
21. The Monster Pursues - Morbius Is Overcome 05:49
22. The Homecoming 01:59
23. Overture - Reprise 02:15

Bebe Barron (June 16, 1925 – April 20, 2008) and Louis Barron (April 23, 1920 – November 1, 1989)

were two American pioneers in the field of electronic music.

They are credited with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape,

and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie Forbidden Planet (1956).
The couple married in 1947 and moved to New York City.
The first electronic music for magnetic tape composed in America

was completed by Louis and Bebe in 1950 and was titled Heavenly Menagerie.
MGM producer Dore Schary discovered the couple and hired them on the spot

to compose the musical score for Forbidden Planet.
The Barrons' electronic composition is credited with being the first completely electronic film score, 

preceding the invention of the Moog synthesizer by eight years (1964).
Using ideas from the book Cybernetics: Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine (1948)

by the mathematician and electrical engineer Norbert Wiener,

Louis Barron constructed his own electronic circuits that he used to generate the score's "bleeps, hums and screeches". Most of these sounds were generated using an electronic circuit called a "ring modulator".

After recording the basic sounds, the Barrons further manipulated the sounds by adding other effects, 

such as reverberation and delay, and reversing or changing the speeds of certain sounds.
Since Bebe and Louis Barron did not belong to the Musicians Union,

their work could not be considered for an Academy Award, in either the "soundtrack" or the "sound effects" categories.

MGM declined to publish a soundtrack album at the time that Forbidden Planet was released.
However, film composer and conductor David Rose later published a 7" single of his original main title theme

that he had recorded at the MGM Studios in Culver City during March 1956.

His main title theme had been discarded when Rose, who had originally been hired to compose the musical score in 1955, was discharged from the project by Dore Schary.
The Barrons finally released their soundtrack in 1976 as an LP album for the film's 20th anniversary,

on their own Planet Records label (later changed to Small Planet Records and distributed by GNP Crescendo Records).

The LP was premiered at MidAmeriCon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Kansas City,

as part of a 20th Anniversary celebration of Forbidden Planet.
The Barrons were there promoting their album's first release, signing all the copies sold at the convention.
A decade later, in 1986, their soundtrack was released on a music CD for the film's 30th Anniversary, 

with a six-page color booklet containing images from Forbidden Planet,

plus liner notes from the composers, Bebe and Louis Barron, and Bill Malone.

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Coil – Hellraiser Themes (MCD 1990)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Hellraiser Theme 02:49
2. The Hellbound Heart 02:21
3. Box Theme 03:04
4. No New World 03:57
5. Attack Of The Sennapods 01:54
6. Main Title 03:13

Coil were an English experimental music group, founded in 1982 by John Balance in London.
Initially envisioned as a solo project by lead singer and songwriter Balance (born Geoffrey Burton) 
while he was in the band Psychic TV, Coil evolved into a full-time project with the addition of Peter Christopherson,
a former member of pioneering industrial group Throbbing Gristle who became Balance's creative and personal partner.
Throughout the group's existence, Balance and Christopherson were the only constant members.
Coil worked in such genres as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, drone, and minimalism, treating their works more as magical rituals than as musical pieces
and becoming the forefront of European experimentalism and electronic music.
In 1985, the group began working on a series of soundtracks, among them music for the first Hellraiser movie
based on the novel The Hellbound Heart by their acquaintance at that time, Clive Barker.
Unfortunately Coil withdrew from the project when they suspected their music would not be used
as the production company wanted a more commercial soundtrack and Christopher Young was their man of choice.
Furthermore, Coil claimed inspiration for Pinhead was partly drawn from the PFIQ (Piercing Fans International Quarterly) magazines that director Barker borrowed from the group.
In 1987 the 10'' EP "The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser" (subtitled "The Consequences Of Raising Hell") was released
with printed notes on sleeve by Clive Barker stating:
"The only group I've heard on disc, whose records I've taken off because they made my bowels churn."
The CD edition entitled "Hellraiser Themes" was released later in 1990 and featured three extra unreleased tracks.
With the passing of Balance on 13 November 2004 Christopherson decided that Coil would not continue.
Six years later Christopherson died in his sleep on 24 November 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Chu Ishikawa – Tetsuo I - II Original Soundtrack (1998)

Composer: Chu Ishikawa

Tracklist

1. Megatron 05:04
2. The Sixth Tooth 06:34
3. Rana - Porosa Porosa I 05:47
4. Mausoleum 04:16
5. Lost 06:39
6. Dinosauroid 03:16
7. Rana - Porosa Porosa II 01:57
8. A Burned Figure 04:05

Chu Ishikawa (石川忠 Ishikawa Chū, 1966 – 2017) was a Japanese composer and musician, 

best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike.
Ishikawa picked up his first synthesizer at the age of 15, and entered the music scene with his first band at the age of 18.

The alternative metal percussion unit, Zeitlich Vergelter, 

received a warm welcome from the indie scene, alongside bands such as the Ruins and the Boredoms.
After their break up, he continued as a solo percussion artist, 

and wrote his first soundtrack in 1988 for the cult classic Tetsuo/The Iron Man, (directed by Shinya Tsukamoto).

His work was hailed worldwide for its Armageddon-esque feel.

He was of course selected to work on the sequel, Tetsuo II/Body Hammer, 

where he pursued the expressions of metal acoustics with his self made instruments.
In 1993 he formed the industrial "Metal Percussion-Heavy Rock/Punk" unit Der Eisenrost.
Unfortunately Chu Ishikawa, according to the Der Eisenrost official page, 
had been struggling with an illness for a while and passed away on the 21st of December 2017, at the age of 51.
Tetsuo I - II Original Soundtrack is a re-issue of the 1992 Tetsuo CD and features tracks from both films.

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