Video Game Soundtrack Reviews
This one’s a short update, as I’ve several uploads in the works, I’m finishing up on a podcast, just finished editing some test footage of a vintage JVC tube video camera for an upcoming performance shoot, and prepping for what I hope will be a smooth move as contents from a storage locker are conveyed to a new location.
Among the packed materials are soundtrack LPs and an absurd amount of videotapes going back to the first VCR recordings I made as a kid during the early eighties. My guestimate pegs the VHS alone – stuff taped off TV and Pay TV – at around 2,000, which is a piffle compared to avid VHS collectors who archive pre-recorded tapes of obscure films. The recent doc Adjust Your Tracking (of which a review’s in the works) deals almost exclusively with VHS collectors – archivists of a dead home video format as well as cult and severe niche titles unavailable on disc.
Colleague Mark Hanson (no relation) at the Toronto Film Scene recently interviewed two of the men behind the Laserblast Film Society, which sets up VHS screenings of cult films at once a month at The Royal Cinema.
Most of the following soundtrack reviews – all available from Sumthing Else – were originally published in Rue Morgue magazine, and include Luc St-Pierre’s Thief (2014), a collage of composers on Dead Rising 3 (2013), and three scores from the Castlevania franchise composed by maestro Oscar Araujo: Castlevania – Lords of Shadows 1 (2010) and 2 (2014), and Mirror of Fate (2013).
Coming next: reviews of The Eddy Duchin Story from Twilight Time, the late Sage Stallone’s short film Vic (Grindhouse Releasing), and reviews of Matthew Llewellyn’s epic horror score Deep in the Darkness (Screamworks), alongside reviews of vinyl editions of Jerry Goldsmith’s The Omen and Poltergeist (both produced & released by Mondo Tees).
Cheers,
Mark R. Hasan, Editor
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