[Thor Joachim Haga]

I wouldn’t say it’s all ‘easy listening’. Some of the most harrowing, dissonant works are in the ‘giallo’ genre, for example. When I picked out my favourites from (some of) these composers it’s true that they were either lyrical/wistful orchestral music, or loungey/funky stuff, because that’s my taste, but along the way I encountered a bunch of different things, from big orchestral affairs (peplum movies!) to dark, dissonant experimentalism.

I think it’s just the “colourful genre”/niche-within-niche thing that attracts so many fans, with that kind of deep, super-detailed knowledge you see on FSM.