{"id":11138,"date":"2015-03-18T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:24:02","slug":"mp3-mad-as-hell-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11138","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Mad as Hell (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"MadAsHell_MP3\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>:\u00a0Ronen Landa \/ Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>February 11, 2015<\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0 19 tracks \/ 39 mins.<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Ronen Landa<\/p>\n

Special Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0 n\/a<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the cues in Ronen Landa\u2019s score are brisk, kinetic pieces that make their strategic mark by capturing the audaciousness of the films\u2019 central figure, Young Turks<\/b> creator Cenk Uygur, as he navigates from YouTube sensation to a new career as an MSNBC host, and it\u2019s unsurprising Landa\u2019s instrumentation features an up-tempo electric guitar, a very active electric bass, and occasionally a flanging backbeat in tracks like \u201cShut Up Juice,\u201d or punchy drums and string bass in the jazzy \u201cOf Course! (Funk the Turks)\u201d and \u201cNorma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less upbeat cues include the synth tapping \u201cThe Show Sucked\u201d with its sustained bass and alternating piano hits, and the synth and very eighties electric guitar lament \u201cOld Media vs. New Media,\u201d but Mad as Hell<\/b>\u2019s design is generally comprised of recurring jazz-funk tracks, rock styled theme variations, and rhythmic extrapolations from the main theme emphasizing synths and keyboards. It\u2019s a solid score that manages to retain a dramatic drive towards the triumphant \u201cTruth to Power\u201d closing cue, which recaps small portions of the main theme variations heard in shorter guises.<\/p>\n

In spite of the album\u2019s brief running time and the relative brevity of its cues (a good third hover around 1.5 minutes), Landa\u2019s score is very satisfying, especially in his rhythmic textures and use of heavy bass lines which convey the central subject\u2019s attitude and head-butting with more traditional MSNBC brass.<\/p>\n

Note: several cues are preceded by short dialogue extracts<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a> —\u00a0 Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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