Blog: #644

Film students, take note: if you want to do a gritty montage of 'city at night' establishing shots (and admit it, you do), you'll want these songs as a soundtrack. These three tracks epitomize my idea of perfect, chilled-out, urban electronica. First, 'Gone' by David Holmes (from The K&D Sessions ). Sci-fi clicks make up this track's hissy opening, crossfaded with ocean sounds (of the type you might find on an Innovations catalogue alarm clock). Drums from the dark corners of the rainforest start softly with the [...]

One thing conspicuously missing from my sheltered British upbringing was those bouncing cars with thumping music that you see in stereotypical rap videos. Perhaps because of this deficiency, I like nothing more than to vicariously simulate the experience through song. Hence... David Holmes : 'Rip Rip'. This track is from the superb Out of Sight soundtrack , and makes for a neat exemplar of both the sound and quality of the album. Gravelly, tense, and oh-so slick, it meshed perfectly with Elmore Leonard's story and Steven Soderbergh's [...]

I couldn't decide what to pick for today, so I let my iPod do it for me. So, first of all, though I know I posted a Yann Tiersen track just a few weeks ago, here's yet another from his album Le Phare . What's different about this track, though, is that while the last one was "not much, but it manages a wry smile", this one is wrench-you-from-your-thoughts incredible. 'La Chute': starts forebodingly with some deep, quietly booming piano from way down in the bass, [...]