Do you like synth scores?
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Please do, I’m curious to hear your thoughts. His entire discography is on Bandcamp: https://waveshaper1.bandcamp.com/music
I particularly recommend TRACKS TO THE FUTURE, LOST SHAPES and the soundtracks for VIDEOMAN (with Robert Parker) and A VOID HOPE. But it’s all good. He’s been my favourite synthwaver since the early 2010s.
Simply put, the greatest videogame of all time (written by Steven Spielberg!), with the best videogame score of all time. Richard Wagner meets Vangelis! Ethereal, gorgeous, expansive synth landscapes. Wish I could afford the physical CD, but I believe it’s going for big bucks on the secondary market (we…i.e. my dad…owned the CD-ROM box in the 90s, but there was no soundtrack CD in it).
I like John Barry’s effort just fine, but Colombier’s is on a whole other level. Probably one of my favourite 80s synth scores, this, with awesome, funky basslines and exotic instrumentation. This is my whittled-down playlist, which I finally got around to. Plays wonderfully at 40 minutes.
Remember how we were all so afraid that the electronic infrastructure would collapse at the turn of the millennium (well, I wasn’t, but many were)? This film, which I haven’t seen, picks up on that, and as usual with tech-oriented films, it has an excellent synth score by Nathan Micay — part moody, part funky. I wrote a couple of sentences about it here.
This was an excellent documentary on the synthwave genre from 2020 that is well worth watching for fellow synth heads. While OGRE Sound’s original score can’t compare to the existing synthwave music composed by the artists featured in the film, it still holds its own as an elegant, slightly more ambient and sequencer-driven affair.
The first THE GUEST film from 2014 is by now a cult classic, and that includes Steve Moore’s Tangerine Dream-infused score as well (and the songs!). The planned sequel never happened, but Moore got together with various artists to concoct this imaginary sequel score in 2022. It’s another brilliant synthwave effort by Moore. And hey – the opening track is by Ogre, who I just talked about above (it also has a track by director Adam Wingard). It’s on Bandcamp.
It figures that we needed computer tech-heavy subject matter for Haslinger to return to his Tangerine Dream roots. This great score from 2016, as well as its volume 2 album, are beautiful throwbacks to those days in the 80s when he was part of the band. Also, in a similar vein, THE YOUTUBE EFFECT from 2022. More of that, please, Paul.
A German 2008 “tragi comedy” about the Berlin-based DJ Paul Kalkbrenner who admits himself to rehab for drug use. I haven’t seen it, but Kalkbrenner sorta plays himself in the film, a fictionalized version, I think. The album is long (75 minutes), but contains both funky and chill house grooves and ambient techno. It works as a set, really.
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