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Icelandic electronic musician and contemporary classical music composer Jóhann Jóhannsson broke into the mainstream consciousness earlier this year with his breathtaking score for the acclaimed Hollywood film Prisoners. Now, he’s set to take his astounding score for last year’s Bill Morrison-directed documentary The Miners’ Hymns on the road
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London electronic music producer Jon Hopkins has been hard at work on the score for the upcoming film How I Live Now. At one point, he decided to team up with Natasha Khan, a.k.a. Bats for Lashes, for a one-off single to be featured in the movie’s
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Boards of Canada releases its first track from the forthcoming Tomorow’s Harvest, and it’s a cinematic doozie, featuring some steady beats and cinematic synthscapes that are sure to set a slightly ominous mood. This new album of BoC’s will be dropping on Warp records early next month!
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Drokk: Music inspired by Mega-City One by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury Geoff Barrow (Portishead) has teamed up with composer Ben Salisbury to make a soundtrack dedicated to Mega-City One from the Judge Dredd comics. With that in mind they have successfully created a moody, progressive synths composition reminiscent of
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(This stream will be removed on Feb. 5th) Right here on the Needle Drop, we’re premiering a full stream of the new Steve Moore / Majeure, Brainstorm. It’s out via Temporary Residence. Though Moore and Majeure have made some considerable noise in the past with their respective solo efforts,
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I think Trent Reznor has found his true calling in movie scores starting with the excellent The Social Network soundtrack. Thenew Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack it likely to be equally as great. Reznor and Karen O released this cover from the soundtrack, which has to be one of
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A track from a new split consisting of Steve Moore and Majure. Of course, both of these musicians make up the progressive synth rock duo Zombi. It just so happens that they are working separately for this split album. From the first track to drop from this thing, “Enchanced Humanoid,
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Overdrive Sunrise by Dusk Warrior Are you the kind of crate-digging soundmonger who considers 70’s b-movie soundtracks ear candy? If so, give Dusk Warrior’s latest, Overdrive Sunrise, a listen. These guys–Nicholas Shapiro and Michael Osso–have created an album of instrumental snippets that could be described as
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This new song featuring Louisiana MC Jay Electronica comes because it’s on the forthcoming Bullitts album They Die By Dawn and Other Short Stories. This isn’t the first time Jay and the Bullitts have worked together, though. The project, dropped a single in 2010 titled “Close Your Eyes.
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