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Tangerine Dream delivered a number of famous soundtracks in the late 70s and early 80s – but this set is one of the most obscure, and maybe one of the wildest too! The music was done for an Australian horror film, and has a very dark, moody vibe – still plenty of the Tangerine Dream touches you'd know, but also a bit more noise and murky moments too – and less of the fast-running keyboard lines and electronics that usually grace most of their moments in film! Much of the instrumentation is electronic, but abstracted in all these cool ways – and certainly handled with a lot more depth than some of the younger film composers who were often turning out music like this on a limited budget, with limited instrumentation. Titles include "Murder In The Classroom", "Horror In The Bathroom", "Experiments In Tension", "Tension In The Graveyard", "Kill The Professor/Cleaning Up", and "Pete Goes In For The Kill". CD

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An unusual American soundtrack from Ennio Morricone – unusual in that he wasn't always doing that much horror work in the US at the time, and also in that the overall style is maybe a bit like some of his Hollywood contemporaries! That's not to say that the music is commercial or clunky at all – but just that Morricone seems to revel in the kind of darker orchestrations that you might find, say, in the music of Jerry Goldsmith – especially in key passages that have a way of rumbling off in the distance, almost behind the point of hearing! There's a few other passages that make strong use of sparer cello lines, but again in a way that's different than the spacious repetitive Morricone soundtrack style of the 70s – maybe almost more with ties to his experimental work of the late 60s. Titles include "Humanity", "Wait", "Eternity", "Solitude", "Shape", "Contamination", and "Despair". CD

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