Category: Music/Audio
Games music composers to gather at SoundTrack Cologne 16 (28th-31st August 2019).
Big names from the games industry at SoundTrack Cologne 16: With Jack Wall (“Call of Duty: Black Ops II-IIII”), Wilbert Roget, II (“Call of Duty: WWII”, “Mortal Kombat 11”) and Michael McCann (“Deus Ex: Human Revolution”), SoundTrack_Cologne announced the first speakers for their 16th conference. As every year, the conference is divided in the three […]
Avengers Endgame actors belt out song ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’.
How best to celebrate bringing in the biggest ever opening in cinema history ($1.2 billion in a single weekend)? How about a nice sing-song? Yes, the Avengers Endgame cast are belting out Billy Joel’s song We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Blood On Satan’s Claw adapted by Mark Morris (audio book review).
‘Blood On Satan’s Claw’ is a full cast Audible Original audiobook based on a cult 1970s horror movie of the same name. Its voice cast features the well-known names of Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith (apparently both big fans of the film), alongside one of the original film’s cast (Linda Hayden) and the screenplay has […]
Into The Badlands: Season 1 – Original Series Soundtrack by Dave Shephard (cd review).
Varèse Sarabande released AMC’s ‘Into The Badlands: Season 1 – Original Series Soundtrack’ by David Shephard in 2018. For those not familiar with the series it is a dystopian adventure set in a feudal future world where firearms are banned, and martial arts prevail. There’s also an element of magic thrown in for good measure, […]
Ghost Stories: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Frank Ilfman.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! That’s not the best way to start a review of a soundtrack but it sums up my opinion rather nicely. The reason for this is the ‘Ghost Stories: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’ by Frank Ilfman. The film was released in the UK back in April 2018 and the soundtrack […]
Westworld: Season 2: music from the HBO series by Ramin Djawadi (CD review).
https://lnk.to/westworld2WE ‘Westworld Season 2’ – the series soundtrack with the music by multi Grammy® and Emmy® award-nominated composer Ramin Djawadi. It’s a bit of a treat for the fans of the series as there are 29 tracks with a run time of 1 hour 39 minutes and 34 seconds. That’s quite a lot of soundtrack […]
Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg (rap battle).
One of the oft asked questions in many a philosophical debate is this: in a rap battle between Elon Musk of Tesla and Space-X fame, and Mark Zuckerberg of FaceBook founder status, which titan of the New Commerce would win? Well, my friends, here’s the answer for you …
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller music by Rachel Portman (CD review).
I haven’t seen ‘Jim Henson’s The Storyteller’ for quite some time but there is always a strong memory for the 1987-89 13 episodes that made up its two seasons. Even without that, the test of any CD soundtrack is whether the music can stand on its own. Soon as you hear Rachel Portman’s rich music, […]
Utopia: Original Television Soundtrack Music by Cristobal Tapia De Veer (CD review).
After you’ve watched the Channel 4 TV two series ‘Utopia’ on DVD, the first thing you want to do, apart from looking for Jessica Hyde and Mr. Rabbit, is to see if you can get hold of the incredible soundtrack of series 1. Released in 2013 and, yes, it is still out there waiting to […]
William Shatner interviewed (audio interview).
Here’s a fascinating audio interview with William Shatner chatting to James about his career in TV and the movies, and, yes, Star Trek (of course). The Shat-man is out on tour for his new book, Live Long And . . . What I Learned Along the Way, as you’ll learn if you listen to this […]
