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offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 15:09 [#00530562]
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perhaps the great film composer to ever live. essential
purchase (at a paltry $10 list price, so you can get it
cheap anywhere): the legendary italian westerns,
which is 75 minutes of his best 1960s "spaghetti western"
scores. i'm going to start mixing some of these tracks with
autechre and such; you'd be surprised how out-there some of
the mainstream film scores in the 1960s were (apparently!).

anyway, for those who don't feel like throwing $10 down
blindly, download:
Guns Don't Argue
The Watchers Are Being Watched
The Vice of Killing
The Musical Pocket Watch
The Showdown
For a Few Dollars More


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-01-27 15:15 [#00530566]
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*whistles theme to the good, the bad & the ugly*


 

offline revpersona from Plainfield (United States) on 2003-01-27 15:24 [#00530573]
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I have the Morricone remix album "Morricone Rmx."

I was quite surprised with some of the mixes, they were
pretty damn good.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 15:27 [#00530576]
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i've only heard a couple songs, i liked them but they're
completely different from the originals (which you probably
figured). check out the compilation (or download some of
those mp3's), they're really impressive. he probably is the
greatest film composer to date.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-01-27 15:30 [#00530581]
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yeah, i think my favourite from that one is the remix by
terranova


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2003-01-27 15:34 [#00530585]
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he was my fave filmscore composer too, (used to sample some
of his sounds and play with it for some homegrown hiphop
too) until I found out about angelo badalamenti, who's now
my fave.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 15:48 [#00530606]
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angelo's great too.. there are so many amazing composers
that have spent their lives doing film work instead of
albums, and right now ennio is at the top of my list. i mean
in 2 minutes he puts more intricate melody and emotion than
a lot of the artists we talk about on this board put into an
entire album.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-01-27 15:48 [#00530608]
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Brilliant composer. I have the 2 disc Film Music 1966-1987
collection. Morricone's knack for capturing mood and
atmosphere blows me away.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 17:06 [#00530697]
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how much of the music from his westerns is on that
collection? if not much then you should pick up the cd i
mentioned. it's cool how ennio has so many different styles
(a lot of people don't realize he's scored many more films
than just westerns).


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-01-27 17:12 [#00530702]
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its decent music, bit after a while it gets little boring :)


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 17:15 [#00530706]
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have you listened to any of it besides that trance remix
album (just kidding)?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-01-27 17:17 [#00530707]
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hehe, yeah i have 2 of his albums i think

to tell you the truth that remix album is my ennio's
favourite one :)

im a pretty big fan of film music and at the moment my fav
soundtrack would be
hable con ellanow that is not boring music ;)


 

offline b0nk from 1969 in the sunshine (United States) on 2003-01-27 17:19 [#00530709]
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ever hear "the ecstasy of gold" its a pretty popular and
kick ass sounding one by ennio marricone .. its also the
song metallica used to play when they first came out on
stage during the last tour i was at


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 17:21 [#00530710]
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that's a great one. jay-z sampled that piece for the
title-track to his new album the blueprint 2


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-01-27 17:22 [#00530711]
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Seems to be all over the place... some eurotrash sentimental
stuff, some stylized caper stuff, western, etc etc etc. It
was used and the booklet was damaged so it's something of a
head scratcher figuring out what's from what film.

He has a HUUUGE body of work. I haven't finished wading
through this batch yet.

slsk a couple off me if you want. I recommend The Sicilian
Clan and Chi Mai. You may not have heard those - they're not
particularly western sounding so I doubt they're on your
set.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-27 17:26 [#00530714]
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they're not

there are some scores i've been meaning to download but
unfortunately my school puts p2p downloads at 0.0-0.4k/sec
(not quite "blocked" but it may as well be).


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2003-01-27 17:32 [#00530716]
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I have about 4 lp's of ennio's work. Good ol' vinyl times
hehe :P


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-04-15 08:55 [#01143988]
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I just got the Gothic Dramas album from eMusic - wonderful
stuff - from spinechilling string textures to gothic
lullabies to weird idiosyncratic darkly humorous bits. Pure
fucking genius. Oh to see some of the movies this music is
from - I can just imagine them, all weird and 70s and low
budget, with a filter on the camera to simulate night, all
bad editing and acting, all overreaching artsiness and
senseless nightmarish plots...


 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2004-04-15 14:24 [#01144565]
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the soundtrack from 'la piovra' is just wonderful....


 

offline teapot from Paddington (Australia) on 2004-04-15 14:32 [#01144580]
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i think he's great, but my vote for greatest film composer
would go to bernard herrmann



 

offline teapot from Paddington (Australia) on 2004-04-15 14:37 [#01144583]
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hold on, actually i just remembered morricone did the
soundtrack to "the mission" which is one of my all time
favs... yeah he's amazing


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-04-15 16:21 [#01144845]
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Yes, I'm looking to get The Mission soundtrack too. I have a
couple of tracks from it on the compilation - Gabriel's Oboe
is beautiful. I want the rest.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-04-15 16:26 [#01144851]
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I don't know La Piovra at all - a quick search on imdb
reveals it to be a TV series that AFAIK was never played in
Canada. :-(

trying to find something on slsk...


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-04-15 16:29 [#01144854]
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Haha, according to IMDB he did a score for What Dreams May
Come - by all accounts the film is a steaming pile of doo -
and it says "score withdrawn" - I guess that means he saw
some previews and said "I no a-want-a my name on this
piece-a-shit".

Wonder what happened to the score?


 


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