Weekly Recommendations at Reel Music
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In another ‘collaborative spam’ post, and after my recent contribution to the collections and listening habits topic, I thought that I would create a separate topic highlighting my blog, Reel Music, where i mostly provide weekly recommendations of albums to titles that has piqued my interest and wanted to highlight to people (don’t worry Thor I may resurrect the equivalent topic at MainTitles).
The link is in the blog name in the previous paragraph.
I will try and post reminders when I post a new blog post for anyone who’s interested.
A new film and TV music blog post – Weekly Recommendations – w/e 9th January 2026: DON QUICHOTTE CONTRE LES FORCES DU MAL (Mathieu Alvado), UNE GOUTTE D’EAU SUR UN VOLCAN (Quentin Thomas), & ALLER SIMPLE (Sébastien Baret)
A new film and TV music blog post – Weekly Recommendations – w/e 16th January 2026: YOUNG & CURSED (Patrick O’Malley), FOR THE EMPIRE: PRISONER TRANSFER (Luis Humanoide), CHARLIE THE WONDERDOG (Petteri Sainio), TIMELINE (DELUXE EDITION) (Brian Tyler), & KALEVALA: KULLERVON TARINA (Lauri Porra)
I like to think that I sample and discover lots of new and under-the-radar scores every year (the best of which I’ll post about in the Favourite releases of 2026? thread), but you always manage to dig up some I haven’t, Alan. Most impressive! You must have some mysterious sources. Same with Joep’s titles in his thread, really.
Nothing too secretive!
What I tend to do is check Amazon, Bandcamp and a few ‘new release’ sites daily for new releases. And I keep an eye on select review sites – such as your one, Jon Broxton, Joep on MainTitles – for under-the-radar titles when they come out. And then monthly it’s places like soundtrack.net (or whatever it’s called now). There’s also that video game database for new Asian releases.
I don’t specifically go for obscure titles, just for things I like. It tends not to be the more mainstream titles that are being released that I enjoy.
I think Bandcamp is the one where you have one over on me. I’ve used it extensively to explore my beloved synthwave genre, but less so for soundtracks as such. Something to remedy.
I get a newsletter by bandcamp with recommendation based on things I bought. Sadly very mixed but a few score in there, too.
A new film and TV music blog post – Weekly Recommendations – w/e 23rd January 2026: KAYA-CHAN ISN’T SCARY (Kohta Yamamoto & Shun Narita), DIE DREI??? TOTENINSEL (David Reichelt), & THE INDISPENSABLE ARMOR (Noah Dennis)
Interesting that you discovered a German score like DIE DREI??? TOTENINSEL 😉 The audio plays have a huge following in my generation still for 40+ years. The movie attempts didn’t fully convince me but the score to a precedessor was quite okay and unexpectedly orchestral even. Two earlier ones by Annette Focks were also not bad.
I did sample that question mark thingie awhile back. Didn’t quite ignite me the way it did Alan, but now I’m curious about the earlier Focks works. She almost always delivers.
A new film and TV music blog post – Weekly Recommendations – w/e 30th January 2026: WOODWALKERS 2 (Anne-Kathrin Dern), TAI PING NIAN (太平年/SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES) (Xueran Chen), & LE 422 (Antoine Binette-Mercier)
Two earlier ones by Annette Focks were also not bad.
Aren’t Die drei??? – Erbe des Drachen (2023) and Die drei??? und der Karpatenhund (2025) the earlier movies? Because David Reichelt did those too.
Of that series yes. But there are also two older movie attemps with other actors already:
https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0476603/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_73
https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt1156519/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_66Btw, David Reichelt is a quite new name, for me at leat as I haven’t ha
I would recommend his 8 DAYS (8 TAGE). Some of the vocals on that are so powerful.
A new film and TV music blog post – Weekly Recommendations – w/e 6th February 2026: TOKYO FAMILY (Joe Hisaishi)
Weekly Recommendations – w/e 6th February 2026: Tokyo Family
I would recommend his 8 DAYS (8 TAGE). Some of the vocals on that are so powerful.
Better late than never: Thanks, will do! I looked him up meanwhile and seems he is active 10+ years already. Somehow he escape me primarily because I haven’t watched most things he did so gar.
A new film and TV music blog post – Weekly Recommendations – w/e 13th February 2026: LES ENFANTS DE LA RÉSISTANCE (Philippe Rombi), HONOR OF KINGS: CHINESE NEW YEAR 2026 (Matthew Carl Earl, Laurent Courbier, Chen Zhijian, Leonardo Furore, Yakov Alexandrov), WOVON SOLLEN WIR TRÄUMEN (Florian Tessloff), & UN JEUNE HOMME DE BONNE FAMILLE (code (Léonardo Ortega and Jérémie Arcache))
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