Background Music Suggestions


Film Soundtracks:

Angel Heart

Alien 3

Basic Instinct

The Cotton Club

Miss Smillas Sense for Snow

The Abyss (good for SCUBA)

Crimson Tide

The Outer Limits

Hitchcock film music by B.Hermann

Interview with theVampire

The Exorcist - Mujaheddin singing or strings perfect for bugs running around (for some B-movie adventure)

Speed (action scenes)

Koyaanisquatsi (Philip Glass) Perfect for a sinister ritual

The Fog (Carpenter)

Silence of the Lambs

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me

Miracle Mile

The Usual Suspects

Nostradamus (alternately dark and happy)

Eric Serra Music for La Grand Bleu, Nikita, Leon (The Professional)

Some pieces of INFERNO (Keith Emerson) and SUSPIRIA (Goblins)


General Music:

Charlie Haden Quartet West - Always Say Goodbye and Haunted Heart

Elvis Costello - Harlem Nocturnes and Watching The Detectives

The Death Odors - International Compilation (Italian; an hour of sheer madness)

Tangerine Dream - Zeit

Orbital - Insides

Anything by Dead Can Dance

Thomas Moore - Music For The Soul (ominous holy music)

Aphex Twin - Ambient II

The Hunter - The Hunted from Alex Cremers

Joe Satriani - Time Machine

Deep Listening Band (recorded in an empty underground reservoir tank - almighty echoes)

Lights In A Fat City (didgeridoos and oil drum percussion - interesting but not exactly scary)

Main (The guitar player from Loop, real exploration of tone and timbre stuff)

Crevice 2 (From Texas)

Wim Mertens (French minimalist classical pianist/vocalist, a dreamlands background).

Lustmord

Recoil

Coil

URLs:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.htm


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