I know some of this. Nice work.

I agree with you, great scores appear to be verging on extinction... This looks really interesting.

Is prolific your middle name Dom? Great as always...

Yes D, you are the only one. Very nice.

holy shit! where do you find the time? and holy shit! have you never downloaded a track? - you are the only person (on AOTM anyway). And holy shit! if all these mixes come from original source material, how much room in your house is devoted to music? and holy shit! your better half has got to be incredibly understanding to put up with the time and space issues.Have I said 'another great mix', by the way?

Well, it's because the OST has to be marketable and bankable by itself, a practice which goes back to the advent of the talkie, btw, when the first film songs were released as 78s. But you're right, there are very few ORIGINAL scores these days that are worth listening to. Howard Shore's certainly are among the best there are (at least the work he does for Cronenberg - e. g. the theme from "Naked Lunch" feat. Ornette Coleman included here is an ingenious piece of music; the guy is so incredibly versatile he has no problem writing a piece of schlocky schmaltz for boring 'event movies' like "Lord of the Rings" if required); another composer who comes to mind is Thomas Newman (nephew of Randy and, I think, about the fifth film composer in the family) whose "Six Feet Under" theme alone will hopefully earn him a place in the panthenon of "scorers". And you always find an excuse for slippin' in some glam, dontcha? ;)

That's supposeed to read "pantheon", of course.

Nothing wrong with a bit of glam! :) Great stuff, Dom, as ever - I'm amazed at how you're constantly able to produce this level of quality. Like that Mercury Rev pick a lot.

You're a monster! (with the teeth of the Hydra upon you...)

your movie archives series is outta sight. lots of great, obscure films and music here.