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February 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Stef Animal: Top Gear

Stef Animal Top Gear Fishrider Records This is pretty brilliantly fucking baffling I tell ya! Okay, wait, maybe not the best start to a review ever – so I’ll quickly qualify: I really love this, the debut full-lengther from Stef Animal (The Golden Awesome).
Posted in Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Dunedin, Fishrider, Fishrider Records, John Carpenter, Kiwi, NZ, Stef Animal, Stef Animal: Top Gear, The Golden Awesome, The Room, Top Gear, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron · 1 Reply ·

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October 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 480

Ennio Morricone, The Thing [OST] (1982) I’ve always been into John Carpenter films – and a big part of it is the music, whether it’s by Carpenter or not. I love his scores. I saw The Thing when I was about 12 or 13 – one summer, a trip to Gisbourne; we’d rent loads of […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1982, Horror, Humanity Part 1, John Carpenter, John Carpenter's The Thing, LP, Record, Score, Soundtrack, The Thing, The Vinyl Countdown # 480, Vinyl · Leave a Reply ·

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October 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Cave Circles: Apricity (ep)

Cave Circles Apricity (ep) Wonderful Noise Japan Here’s Riki Gooch working (again) under his Cave Circle alias – it’s been a busy time for releases just recently with Cave Circles’ 12”, My Heart Is A Beating Drum and then the recent cassette tape release under another of his working aliases, DJ OBOE.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Apricity, Apricity (ep), Beatmaker, Black Rainbow, Cave Circles, Cave Circles: Apricity, Dilla, DJ OBOE, EP, Garden, Housekeeping, Instrumental, Instrumentalist, Instrumentals, John Carpenter, Kiva, Leila Adu, Mirrors, My Heart Is A Beating Drum, Parks, Producer, Riki Gooch, Rocks, Seven Davis Jr, Vocal, Waves, Wonderful Noise Japan · Leave a Reply ·

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October 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter: From Filmmaker to Musician

It recently made the various entertainment pages that Guillermo del Toro went on an “epic Twitter rant” about how great John Carpenter is. Basically it was one film director praising another – but the tone was around how Carpenter is often written off for working in shlock/horror/sci-fi, as if the work isn’t as important because […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Escape from L.A., Escape From New York, Film Composer, Film Director, From Filmmaker to Musician, Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter, John Carpenter: From Filmmaker to Musician, Soundtrack, Starman, They Live, Tour, [OST] · Leave a Reply ·

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August 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things, Vol. 1 [OST]

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things, Vol. 1 [OST] Lakeshore Records It seems the one thing anyone lured in by Netflix’s Stranger Things can agree on – the music was a triumph; scene-setting, propulsive, era/genre-evoking, it worked stunningly as a masterful prop and part of the manipulation. The score comes courtesy of Kyle Dixon […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, John Carpenter, Kyle Dixon, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things, Lakeshore Records, Michael Stein, Netflix, S U R V I V E, Score, Soundtrack, Stephen King, Stranger Things, Stranger Things Vol. 1, Survive, Vol. 1, Vol. 1 [OST], Volume One, [OST] · Leave a Reply ·

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May 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter: Lost Themes II

John Carpenter Lost Themes II Scared Bones Records The last time John Carpenter made a sequel it was Escape From L.A. and it traced around the premise of Escape from New York but was panned, it had no real feel of its own – didn’t need to happen and was a decade and a half […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Composer, Escape from L.A., Escape From New York, Film, Film Director, John Carpenter, Los Themes II, Lost Themes, Score, Soundtrack, Themes, [OST] · Leave a Reply ·

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February 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Adam Fresco

Adam Fresco works in film, theatre and TV as a writer, director, producer, performer and professional acting coach. Born in London, he arrived in Auckland a decade ago, having worked in professional British Theatre and TV. The Director of DramaTrain.co.nz and Producer for Imagine Studios NZ, Adam is a self-confessed film nut. He regularly reviews […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 8 1/2, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Acting Coach, Adam Fresco, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Braindead, Brazil, Bruce Campbell, Cabaret, Casino, Citizen Kane, Cloud Atlas, Dancer In The Dark, David Lynch, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, Die Hard, Director, DramaTrain, DramaTrain.co.nz, Duck Soup, Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, F.W. Murnau, Film Review, Films, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Adam Fresco, Flicks.co.nz, Freaks, Hard Boiled, In Bruges, Inception, Jaws, John Carpenter, John Woo, Lenny, Leon, Lesson of the Evil, Luc Besson, Marathon Man, Monty Python, Movie, Movie Review, Mulholland Drive, Oldboy, Pink Floyd The Wall, Planet FM's Kick Arts, Producer, Quentin Tarantino, Requiem For A Dream, Sam Raimi, Seven Psychopaths, Sleeper, Special Guest, Spellbound, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Terry Gilliam, The Battle of Brazil, The Dead Zone, The Devil's Rejects, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, The French Connection, The Hitcher, The King of New York, The Life of Brian, The Lobster, The Thing, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Spinal Tap, Throne of Blood, Velvet Goldmine, Weekend, Wild at Heart, Wolf Creek 2, Woody Allen, Writer · Leave a Reply ·

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January 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Zombi: Shape Shift

Zombi Shape Shift Relapse Drummer A.E. Paterra and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore are back as Zombi – and back for the first time in nearly a decade making music in the same room together. Here, with their latest album we’re reminded of their film-score fixation (Mission Creep feels like something by John Carpenter as interpreted by […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A.E. Paterra, Album Review, Battles, Contact, Film Score, Genesis, Jam, John Carpenter, Prog, Ratatat, Rush, Shafe Shift, Space, Steve Moore, They Live, TransAm, Zombi · Leave a Reply ·

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December 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

MG: MG

MG MG Mute MG is Martin Gore, or Martin L. Gore if you prefer – he obviously prefers MG – naming both himself and the album that. You know him from his work with Depeche Mode, and here, on an entirely synth-driven, entirely instrumental album you’ll recognise those textures, those intro/outro ideals from that band’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Atticus Ross, Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, Eno, Jean Michel Jarre, John Carpenter, Martin Gore, Martin L. Gore, MG, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, Synth, Trent Reznor · Leave a Reply ·

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August 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Tim Beatson

Tim Beatson is one of the Staff behind the Counter at Videon, Auckland’s 35 year-running Independent Video Library, where he dispenses recommendations and sarcasm in equal measure, in between adding to the Library’s catalogue and ordering more toner for the printer. Here are five films that have stayed with him… Lists are not a strong […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Amelie, Babylon A.D, Cinema, Dr Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, DVD, ET, Film, Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Tim Beatson, Goblin, Gothika, John Carpenter, Keith Emerson, La Haine, Movies, Munich, Snowtown, Special Guest, Stanley Kubrich, Steven Spielberg, Suspiria, The Hate, The Thing, Tim Beatson, VHS, Video, Videon · Leave a Reply ·

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August 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Kung Fury [OST]

Various Artists: Kung Fury [OST] Universal Music AB The 30-minute parody/tribute-film Kung Fury was big, dumb, silly fun. I liked it. But a big part of its success for me, and perhaps this is just me, was the film’s soundtrack. As over the top as the film is, it’s held down (in a relative sense) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1980s, 80s, David Hasselhoff, Film, Giorgio Moroder, Johan Bengtsson, John Carpenter, Jorgen Elofsson, Kung Fury, Mitch Murder, Movie, Parody, Score, Short Film, Soundtrack, Synth, Tribute, V/A, V/A: Kung Fury [OST], Various Artists, VHS, Vince DiCola, [OST] · Leave a Reply ·

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June 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Palmbomen II: Palmbomen II

Palmbomen II Palmbomen II RVNG International Here’s the latest from Kai Hugo, a self-titled album under his Palmbomen II moniker. He’s been making analog house and dusty old ambient-techno releases under various names and all with a cleaning-out-the-attic feel. Here on album where the strange gimmick is that every track is named after an X-Files […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Angelo Badalamenti, Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Cliff Martinez, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter, Kai Hugo, Palmbomen II, Richard D. James, Selected Ambient Works, The X Files · Leave a Reply ·
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