[Malte Müller]

So here is my origin story that Thor already knows in a shorter version I believe:

My parents liked music but were not really huge music lovers. But my father actually was a great deal indirectly responsible that I became a film score fan. As a child we watched a lot of those monumental and western movies on weekends, especially westerns we still loved and managed to watch a lot again and a lot unknown lesser known ones the last few years before he passed away.

My father was a fan of the movie „Once Upon A Time In The West“ and loved „Jill’s Theme“. This and Tangerine Dream’s „Thief“ were later the first two scores ever I had on CD! I will have that tune play at his funeral, a tear dropper for sure!

So watching these movie burnt my love for Morricone, Tiomkin, Rosza, Korngold and others into my mind literally. Also childhood encounters were Ron Goodwin’s Miss Marple themes and John Barry’s various Bonds. My father bought me a Bond compilation LP that I still have.

Since I never was a charts music listener I always preferred instrumental music and sometime in the 80s I discovered electronic music and especially Tangerine Dream. Axel F was one of my favorite 80s tracks back then (I still have the original vinyl singe of it).

And I watched a lot of TV series and loved the themes. Love the 70s funky crime music. And huge Mike Post/Peter Carpenter fan since thenI I was even one of those who recorded lots of TV themes off the TV. (Twin Peaks is also a favorite of mine from the 90s.)

My all time favorites Goldsmith and Williams I interesstingly discovered quite some time later. Don’t remember excatly what my first Goldsmith was – might be First Blood or something – but I am sure my first Williams was a compilation on the Philips label with Star Wars, Superman, ET and Close Encounters.