mrfaux Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Love how John really doesn't give a shit about his appearance at this age. Beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 So you guys all ordering this have all the various soundtracks issued so far, mostly on Varase Sarabande throughout the 80s and 90s? I'm just curious because there is a fairly substantial back catalogue of John Carpenter over the years. If I was a new to him, I would be starting there rather than this new release. Death Waltz is systematically going thru the Carpenter discography & remastering for vinyl. I'm not sure if they're going chronologically. Ah, I see. I wasn't aware of that. I haven't followed him or his music since the early 1990s because by then his films were frankly awful and his soundtrack stuff equally bad. But the 1980s movies and accompanying soundtracks were amazing at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Big Trouble in Little China has some good moments score-wise but after that all his scores went into 'bad ass' hick slow rock ballad territory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Stranger Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm going to openly admit that for a long time I was under the impression that Carpenter did the soundtrack for the The Thing. When I found out it was Ennio Morricone, my head nearly exploded from excitement, but I have to say I was a bit dissapointed that it WASNT John. Still one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ifeelspace Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 He did have involvement in some tracks though and it sure as hell sounds like a John carpenter soundtrack so in my head it qualifies as part of my JC collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted November 13, 2014 Author Share Posted November 13, 2014 Who did In the Mouth of Madness? Probly his last great film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Who did In the Mouth of Madness? Probly his last great film. He did. Music was lame. Film was atrocious. IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eh Speedy Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Who did In the Mouth of Madness? Probly his last great film. He did. Music was lame. Film was atrocious. IMO. Haha! The sence of humor on this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Fuck, now there's a digital edition with 6 exclusive remixes: Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley remix) Wraith (ohGr remix) Vortex (Silent Servant remix) Fallen (Blanck Mass remix) Abyss (JG Thirwell remix) Fallen (Bill Kouligas remix) Available via iTunes February 3rd, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schlitze Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Gotta be the Fog,chaps, Hell of a time trying to find this without heavy interference from K.A.B. Antonio Bay Hits... ... .. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Fuck, now there's a digital edition with 6 "exclusive remixes": Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley remix) Wraith (ohGr remix) Vortex (Silent Servant remix) Fallen (Blanck Mass remix) Abyss (JG Thirwell remix) Fallen (Bill Kouligas remix) Available via iTunes February 3rd, 2015 Available via all good torrent sites, February 3rd, 2015 fixt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jasondonervan Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Gotta be the Fog,chaps, Hell of a time trying to find this without heavy interference from K.A.B. Antonio Bay Hits... ... .. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 kind of an odd mixed bag remix lineup, but curious about it. Last time I checked out a similar remix lineup and the results for Honest John's Shangaan electro record it was shockingly inadequete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 Gotta be the Fog,chaps, Hell of a time trying to find this without heavy interference from K.A.B. Antonio Bay Hits... ... .. . Lol Andy doing his best sea faring impression. Where is that lighthouse, New England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jasondonervan Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Marin County, CA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eh Speedy Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Yeah Andy visited the light house while up here doing the Bay Area shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Stranger Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 what was the picture? Link is broken? andy from plaid at the lighthouse in Inverness, CA? The Fog soundtrack is ridiculously awesome, btw. Nice call Schlitze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 Andy Ceephax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coax Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I like all his films. I recently rewatched Ghosts of Mars, and it's a great one. Really underrated IMO. The score for it is amazing too, the one in the movie itself not the separate score released. The movie is drenched in atmosphere, I love the look of everything in that film. The sound fx on it are creepy and extremely awesome. It has all these small details I love. In the mouth of madness is also great. One thing about it is, if you get into the 'mindfuck' idea, Mouth is the perfect incarnation of that idea. All of reality is uncertain, not just scientists doing brain experiments type of thing. I just like carpenters way of doing monsters and locations, and the look of things. The underlying ideas in all his movies are great I feel, and they are all different. He has covered a lot of ground conceptually. Edit: oh and, looking forward to lost themes. A lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sun drugs Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 This just gets better and better... from fact mag US label Sacred Bones will deliver Lost Themes, with the deluxe issue including an additional six remixes from a diverse array of boundary-pushing artists. Sacred Bones have tapped Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley, ohGr (of Skinny Puppy), techno producer Silent Servant, composer JG Thirwell and PAN boss Bill Kouligas for remixes. Ben Power of Fuck Buttons has also provided a remix under his Blanck Massmoniker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I like all his films. I recently rewatched Ghosts of Mars, and it's a great one. Really underrated IMO. you had me at 'i like all his films' and then lost me at 'its a great one'. We're talking about the movie with Ice cube right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 He made an even worse film called The Ward which might be his swansong, I doubt he'll get many studio offers anymore. He's making a pretty good retirement just producing remakes of his 80s films. Plus he's a huge dick and a lot of people dislike him in Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Stranger Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I found The Ward watchable, but he's lost his touch. I still hold The Thing in the highest regard, one of my top 5 films of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coax Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I like all his films. I recently rewatched Ghosts of Mars, and it's a great one. Really underrated IMO. you had me at 'i like all his films' and then lost me at 'its a great one'. We're talking about the movie with Ice cube right? Yeah that's the one. I actually didn't think much of it when I first saw it, but when I watched it just a few days ago, I really liked how the trains looked, the locations, and even the gothic monster type humans. For some reason it all clicked. Everything was so red, and nightly and hellish. I can't really explain it any other way. Also did some cool stuff with eerie sound effects and with dream like sequences. I guess it can't defended sort of in a definitely convincing manner but all else aside I really liked it. Same as the Assault on precinct 13 music that has these dry percussive brush like sounds that are filled with atmosphere and associations for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Great article on how John composes, with a link to his recent NPR interview: http://io9.com/john-carpenters-secret-to-making-terrifying-soundtracks-1676445054 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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