Lorne Balfe – Ghost In The Shell (2017)

 

Ghost in the Shell is a 2017 cyberpunk action film directed by Rupert Sanders and written by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler and Ehren Kruger. It is the first live-action movie based on the Japanese Ghost in the Shell franchise envisioned by Masamune Shirow. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han and Juliette Binoche. Set in a near future when the line between humans and robots is blurring, the story follows Major Mira Killian (Johansson), a cyborg super-soldier who investigates her past.

The soundtrack music composed by Lorne Balfe is an electronic, themed score that is reminiscent of movies like Blade Runner and Tron. It's very "sci-fi" with dramatic beats and soundscapes that suit the story line of the film and add the necessary background. It has never been released commercially and has only been available in digital format.

Logos 1:32

Shelling 4:36

Alternative Shelling Sequence 5:10

Major On Site 1:18

Hanka Robotics 1:14

Holographic Conference Room 1:20

Glitch 1:23

Deep Dive 1:52

Lost 2:09

Street Gun Fight 1:05

Skinny Man Chase (Full Version) 2:26

Kuze's Lair 1:38

My Mind Is Human 2:05

Arrested 1:48

Confined 2:13

What's Your Name 1:48

Ambush 2:20

Tank Battle 3:41

I Give My Consent 4:21

Motoko 2:07

Reborn 1:52

Major Motoko 2:28

Ghost In The Shell

Stavros Xarchakos – Girls in the Sun 1968 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 

Girls In the Sun (Greek: Κορίτσια στον Ήλιο, translit. Koritsia ston Ilio) is a 1968 Greek drama film directed by Vasilis Georgiadis. The film was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Stavros Xarchakos (born 14 March 1939) is a Greek composer and conductor. He was born in Athens, where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He has family origins from the Mani Peninsula. He emerged in the Greek music scene around 1963, composing music for the theatre and cinema. Among his collaborators was lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and singer Nikos Xylouris.

Girls in the Sun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

1 Separation

2 First Meeting

3 Summer

4 Sunset

5 Shadows In Love

6 Annabelle

7 I Want You

8 In Athens

9 Misunderstanding

10 Come Close To Me

11 Walk

12 Before The End

13 What To Remember

14 Separation (Orchestral)

Girls in the Sun

Gangs Of New York - Music From The Motion Picture - music by Howard Shore and various artists

 

Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book The Gangs of New York. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz, with Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan and Brendan Gleeson in supporting roles.

The film is set in 1862, when a long-running Catholic–Protestant feud erupts into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting against the threat of conscription.

Scorsese spent twenty years developing the project until Harvey Weinstein and his production company Miramax Films acquired it in 1999. Made in Cinecittà, Rome and Long Island City, New York City, Gangs of New York was completed by 2001 but its release was delayed due to the September 11 attacks. The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 20, 2002, and grossed over $193 million worldwide. It was met with generally positive reviews and Daniel Day-Lewis's performance was highly acclaimed. It received ten nominations at the 75th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese and Best Actor for Day-Lewis.

Howard Shore– "Brooklyn Heights" 1 2:17

Afro Celt Sound System– Dark Moon, High Tide 4:07

Silver Leaf Quartet– Gospel Train 2:31

U2– The Hands That Built America 4:36

Othar Turner And The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band*– Shimmy She Wobble 3:37

Sidney Stripling– Breakaway 3:32

Peter Gabriel– Signal To Noise 7:39

Finbar Furey– New York Girls 4:04

Jimpson And Group– The Murderer's Home 0:48

Jocelyn Pook– Dionysus 4:53

Howard Shore– "Brooklyn Heights" 2 2:01

Mariano De Simone– Morrison's Jig / Liberty 1:46

Shu-De– Durgen Chugaa 0:53

Maura O'Connell– Unconstant Lover 2:35

Vittorio Schiboni, Massimo Giuntini, Rodrigo D'Erasmo And Mariano De Simone– Devil's Tapdance 1:47

Da-Can Chen And Anxi Jiang– Bejing Opera Suite 3:28

Linda Thompson– Paddy's Lamentation 2:53

Howard Shore– "Brooklyn Heights" 3 3:15

Gangs Of New York

Roque Baños – The Girl In The Spider's Web (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 

Roque Baños López (born 1 May 1968) is a Spanish music composer. Baños graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1995 and has since scored both Spanish and English-language films. He has received numerous awards for his compositional work, including the Spanish Goya Award for Best Original Score in both 2008 and 2009.

Tracklist
1        Prologue - Lisbeth's Childhood    5:08
2        Main Title - The Birth Of A Dragon    1:36
3        Lisbeth's Lair    1:53
4        You Have A Sister    3:12
5        NSA Attack    3:17
6        Lisbeth Tries Firefall    1:22
7        Nightmare / Home Invasion    3:08
8        Motorcycle Chase    3:09
9        Elevators Meeting    2:57
10        Balder's Apartment    3:11
11        Tattoo Looking Glass    3:35
12        Balder Shot    3:34
13        Chasing August    2:18
14        Drawbridge Encounter    4:04
15        Firefall Answer    2:24
16        Airport Needham Free    5:55
17        Lisbeth Goes In    2:07
18        Invading Family Home    3:00
19        Masks Fight    3:23
20        Vacuum Bag    3:04
21        Remote Fire    5:10
22        You Can't Blame Me    4:33
23        Burning The Past    2:06
24        Lisbeth's Theme 1:50
25        Camilla's Theme 1:58

 The Girl In The Spider's Web

Thomas Dolby – The Gate To The Mind's Eye Soundtrack

 

The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication, with original music scored note-to-frame. The series was conceived by Steven Churchill of Odyssey Productions in 1990. It was produced, directed, conceptualized and edited by Jan Nickman of Miramar Productions and produced by Churchill.

The Gate to the Mind's Eye was released on June 30, 1994, featured music by Thomas Dolby and also continued the trend of vocal tracks, with five of its nine segments including vocals: "Armageddon", a sequence depicting massive devastation; "Neo", an astronomy-themed song; "Valley of the Mind's Eye", a song about the progress of human technology; "Nuvogue", the first jazz track in the series; and "Quantum Mechanic", starring guest vocalist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi. 

Tracklist
1        Armageddon
2        Planet Of Lost Souls
3        Big Bang Backwards
4        N.E.O.
        The Ascent Of Man, Parts I-VI
5a        Iceflow   
5b        Harpmonic   
5c        The Power Of Dreams   
5d        The Ancients   
5e        Cluny   
5f        Mosaic   
6        Valley Of The Mind's Eye
7        Nuvogue
8        Quantum Mechanic
9        Moonbase

 The Gate To The Mind's Eye

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Good Bye Lenin!...original soundtrack...music by Yann Tiersen

 

Another great score from Yann Tiersen, and, unlike Amelie, this is entirely new music composed just for the film. Tiersen sounds even more like Michael Nyman here, and, like Nyman, he shows the best that minimalism has to offer film scoring.

The music gently massages each scene, conveying the emotions at the core without bothering to hit every action onscreen like cartoon mickey-mousing. Instead, the music finds something deeper and mines it deftly and beautifully.

More sombre and subdued than his usual work, Yann Tiersen's score makes the perfect audio counterpart for the film's bittersweet but often funny story, which revolves around a family living in Communist Germany and is told from the viewpoint of the son, Alex. Most of the score is dominated by thoughtful, rippling piano that conjures up rainy days, as well as strings, woodwinds and brass that add to the airs of urgency and madcap humor that dominate the film and its music.

Tiersen's subtle but significantly shifting compositions are almost always quite moving, and Good Bye Lenin! is no exception. This is one of those rare scores that is just as affecting and cohesive outside of the movie theater as it is inside of it. 

 Good Bye Lenin!

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...original motion picture soundtrack...music by Ennio Morricone

One of the all-time great Western scores, restored to its original length-that means an additional 10 tracks! A spaghetti-flavored treat for soundtrack collectors!

The concluding chapter of director Sergio Leone's epochal Man With No Name trilogy ushered film scorer Ennio Morricone into the pop mainstream courtesy of a hit cover of its main title by American Hugo Montenegro. More importantly, it both showcased the composer's spectacularly inventive range and set him up for even greater triumphs to come with Leone and others. But aficionados of il Maestro Morricone's G,B&U soundtrack knew its original editions contained but the main thematic/musical elements of the spaghetti western epic -- until now. 

The addition of ten previously unissued cues on this newly remastered edition render the landmark score in its full glory, nearly doubling its running time in the bargain. While some of these new elements are but spare, haunting reworkings of familiar motifs (including Allessandro Allessandroni's trademark guitar riffs and the chilling vocal shrieks the composer used to evoke the howling of coyotes) that help expand its emotional dynamic, others like "Sentenza," "La Missione San Antonio" (a haunting instrumental version of "A Soldier's Story" that effectively presages his elegiac Once Upon A Time in The West and "Il Bandito Monco" significantly add to its expansive scope, firmly restating its claim as Morricone's first true classic. -- Jerry McCulley (Amazon.com)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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The Austin Powers soundtrack collection...grrooovy baby!!

International Man of Mystery

The Austin Powers movies trilogy was big at the box office and made Mike Meyers an International Man of Mystery. The accompanying soundtracks were just as good as the movies with tracks from swinging 60's to the present day with psychedelia, soul, bossa nova, rock and everything in between. A collectors delight and always good to revisit. Here are all three soundtracks in their groovy glory, yeh baby!!

The Spy Who Shagged Me

Goldmember

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Green Card: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer

Green Card is a beautiful score. If you have followed Hans Zimmer, you will have noticed his style changes all the time. The score is similar to Zimmer's Driving Miss Daisy or Rain Man. It's almost all synthesizers, and almost never gets depressing (unlike many scores out there). It's a fun, upbeat score that always has you feeling good, and given the right moment, can exceed that. If you like Zimmer's scores to Beyond Rangoon, Rain Man, or Driving Miss Daisy, then you will like this one. The music is romantic and catchy and always helps to remember the movie which was also brilliant! 

1. Subway Drums
2. Instinct
3. Restless Elephants
4. Cafe Afrika
5. Greenhouse
6. Moonlight
7. 9am Central Park
8. Cl Concherato In A : Adagio
9. Silence
10. Instinct II
11. Asking You
12. Pour Bronte'
13. Eye On The Prize

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Grace Of My Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ... music by various artists

A terrific sampler of greatest hits from the heyday of girl groups and the Brill Building--except that none of the songs are actually from that era. What we have here is an incredible simulation--from Allison Anders' unjustly overlooked 1996 movie about the tempestuous life and career of a Carole King- like singer-songwriter (the magnificent Illeana Douglas) who spends years writing for others before finding her own voice. But instead of just licensing the old Shirelles' recordings of Goffin-King hits, the filmmakers came up with the brilliant idea of doing original songs by combining the sensibilities of contemporary artists and their songwriting forebears. 

So, for example, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach teamed up to write and perform the power- ballad "God Give Me Strength"; Leslie Gore teams with Larry Klein and David Baerwald for "My Secret Love" (performed by Miss Lily Banquette of Combustible Edison); Gerry and Louise Goffin team with Baerwald for "Between Two Worlds" (performed by Sean Colvin); J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. writes and sings some Brian Wilson/Beach Boys-type stuff ("Take a Run at the Sun," "Don't You Think It's Time"), and so on. Buy the record; see the movie. You won't be disappointed. --Jim Emerson

1. God Give Me Strength - Burt Bacharach And Elvis Costello
2. Love Doesn't Ever Fail Us - The Williams Brothers
3. Take A Run At The Sun - J Mascis
4. I Do - For Real
5. Between Two Worlds - Shawn Colvin
6. My Secret Love - Miss Lily Banquette
7. Man From Mars - Kristen Vigard
8. Born To Love That Boy - For Real
9. Truth Is You Lied - Jill Sobule
10. Unwanted Number - For Real
11. Groovin' On You - Juned
12. In Another World - Portrait
13. Don't You Think It's Time - J Mascis
14. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder - Tiffany Anders And Boyd Rice
15. A Boat On The Sea - Kristen Vigard

Grace of My Heart

                                                       

Garage Days

Garage Days is the Australian film by internationally acclaimed director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City). It follows the in's and out's of a struggling Sydney based garage band. The soundtrack is a collection of tracks by Alternative, Indie and Punk artists. Also includes a cover of ACDC's "High Voltage".


1. High Voltage - The D4
2. Alright - Supergrass
3. Kooks - Motor Ace
4. Buy Me A Pony - Spiderbait
5. Rockin It - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster
6. Garage Days - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster
7. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music
8. Add It Up - Sonicanimation
9. Walk Up - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster
10. Ghost Town - Rhombus
11. Smash It Up - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
12. Say What - 28 Days
13. Thats Entertainment - The Jam
14. Masterplan - David McCormack
15. Stop Thinking About It - Joey Ramone
16. Mad Man - The Hives
17. Get The Tarp - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster And Anth
18. Lucky Number Nine - The Moldy Peaches
19. Help Yourself - Tom Jones

Garage Days

                                                               

Grosse Point Blank

Largely the conceit of co-writer/star John Cusack, "Grosse Point Blank" is oft compared to Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," which brings to mind that old adage about apples and oranges. Cusack's film is, in its own right, the morally bleaker (and funnier) of the two--a shaggy dog tale about a neurotic young hitman returning home for his tenth high school reunion. The first in what appears to be a slew of films ready to cash in on '80s nostalgia (gen-Xers apparently having learned little from the Baby Boomers they sneer at), "Grosse Point"'s song score covers the decade like a shotgun blast, from the Violent Femmes bouncy "Blister" to Guns 'n' Roses overwrought "Live and Let Die". Minus points: the Clash is represented, but not Joe Strummer's incidental score. --Jerry McCulley
1. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
2. Rudie Can't Fail - Clash
3. Mirror In The Bathroom - English Beat
4. Under Pressure - David Bowie, Queen
5. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
6. Live & Let Die - Guns N' Roses
7. We Care A Lot - Faith No More
8. Pressure Drop - Specials
9. Absolute Beginners - Jam
10. Armagideon Time - Clash
11. El Matador - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
12. Let My Love Open The Door (E. Cola Mix) - Pete Townshend
13. Blister 2000 - Violent Femmes

Grosse Point Blank

Get Carter (1971).........Roy Budd

One of the more iconic film scores of the early 70's, Roy Budd's "Get Carter" is an iconic jazz infused mob score that hits all the right places in crafting a seedy yet cool atmosphere where bravado lives. The main theme is instantly recognizable and was even reused by Tyler Bates for the Sylvester Stallone remake. The tone is set up with that opening them and what follows is a weaving of songs and jazzy score from Roy Budd with some help from Jack Fishman on some of the songs....(text source from Amazon)

Get Carter