Collections/June 2024

Synth Soundtracks

Once the sound of the future, now awesomely retro, synth soundtracks add a splash of otherworldly atmosphere to some of the coolest movies ever made. Using state-of-the-art analog and digital technologies, pioneering musicians like Bebe and Louis Barron ( Forbidden Planet ), Wendy Carlos ( A Clockwork Orange ), Sun Ra ( Space Is the Place ), Tangerine Dream ( Thief ), Vangelis ( Missing ), and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ) created immersive soundscapes that expanded cinematic storytelling and forever changed the art of movie soundtracking. Alternately eerie, icy, pulse-pounding, and thrillingly emotional, these scores tunnel into your eardrums at ecstatic frequencies hitherto unexplored. Coprogrammed by Synth History/Danz CM

20 films — 8 on the Channel, 12 unavailable