Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998

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Alec M. John Carpenter's Movie Themes are super remastered. Fantasing! Favorite track: Halloween.

Christian Dannie Storgaard A quick note: The four tracks that also appeared on the "Classic Themes Redux" EP are the same recordings here (despite being labelled as re-recordings). If you're hoping to get more versions by getting both the EP and the album, I'm afraid you're only going to get different masterings. Favorite track: Escape From New York.

Tempest2097 This music, long after the film ends still haunts me, and evokes the memories in an amazing way. An incredible body of work over the years. Favorite track: The Thing.

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1.	In the Mouth of Madness 05:17	buy track
2.	Assault on Precinct 13 02:55	buy track
3.	The Fog 03:03	buy track
4.	Prince of Darkness 03:13	buy track
5.	Santiago (Vampires) 02:42	buy track
6.	Escape From New York 03:32	buy track
7.	Halloween 02:57	buy track
8.	Porkchop Express (Big Trouble in Little China) 03:50	buy track
9.	They Live 03:07	buy track
10.	The Thing 03:37	buy track
11.	Starman 02:34	buy track
12.	Dark Star 01:26	buy track
13.	Christine 04:15	buy track

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John Carpenter is a legend. As the director and composer behind dozens of classic movies, Carpenter has established a reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of modern cinema, as well as one of its most influential musicians. The minimal, synthesizer-driven themes to films like Halloween, Escape From New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 are as indelible as their images, and their timelessness was evident as Carpenter performed them live in a string of internationally sold-out concert dates in 2016. Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 collects 13 classic themes from Carpenter’s illustrious career together on one volume for the first time. Each theme has been newly recorded with the same collaborators that Carpenter worked with on his hit Lost Themes studio albums: his son, Cody Carpenter, and godson, Daniel Davies.

Anthology is a near-comprehensive survey of John Carpenter’s greatest themes, from his very first movie, the no-budget sci-fi film Dark Star, to 1998’s supernatural Western, Vampires. Those sit alongside the driving, Led Zeppelin-influenced Assault on Precinct 13 theme, Halloween’s iconic 5/4 piano riff, and the eerie synth work of The Fog. Carpenter and his band also cover Ennio Morricone’s bleak, minimalist theme for The Thing. (“I asked Morricone to please compose something with a very few notes,” Carpenter says. “And brilliantly, he did.”)

We also get vital new recordings of the themes to ’80s classics and fan favorites Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York, Christine, and They Live, along with the romantic Starman, which earned Jeff Bridges his first Oscar nomination as a lead actor. The collection is rounded out by the menacing, heavy themes to Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness, the latter a Metallica-inspired riff originally played for the film by Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, and now played by his son Daniel.

In the weeks following Anthology’s October 20 release, Carpenter will return to the road, playing both classic movie themes and material from his two Lost Themes albums. The performances will once again affirm the power of the Horror Master’s brilliant work as a composer and musician, and undoubtedly send audiences rushing home to their DVD libraries to dive yet again into the most rewarding filmography in genre cinema.

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John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre’s most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies he’s both directed and scored. The themes that drive them can be stripped to a few coldly repeating notes, take on the electrifying thunder of a rock concert, or submerge themselves into exotic, unholy miasmas. It’s work that instantly floods his fans’ musical memory. ... more

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