Your favorite electronic & synth film scores

I am trying to make a timeline of some of the more important milestones in electronic film scores and i was hoping WATMM could help me. I cut it off at 1983 because i feel this is a distinct year in which electronic music was starting to be heavily appropriated by the mainstream and distilled into more crappy forms than before

here are some of my favorites

the Day the Earth Stood Still

Assault on Precinct 13

Andromeda Strain

Tron

Logan's Run

Bladerunner

the score can have orchestral and other instruments besides synth, but id like to see some more synth or electronic heavy stuff in the thread.

'Forbidden Planet' was a pretty good attempt, i get the feeling you may of missed it out for some reason?

Solyaris (1972)

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:47 AM, David R James said:

'Forbidden Planet' was a pretty good attempt, i get the feeling you may of missed it out for some reason?

is that a pretty theremin centric score? thats one old sci fi film i haven't gotten around to watching, but i am tempted to so i can see LEslie Neilsin with non grey hair

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:48 AM, Enter a new display name said:

Solyaris (1972)

i have not seen this either

klaus doldinger's score for the neverending story (not the one with giorgio moroder)

edit: that's from 1984, sorry

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:50 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:47 AM, David R James said:

'Forbidden Planet' was a pretty good attempt, i get the feeling you may of missed it out for some reason?

 

 

is that a pretty theremin centric score? thats one old sci fi film i haven't gotten around to watching, but i am tempted to so i can see LEslie Neilsin with non grey hair

 

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:48 AM, Enter a new display name said:

Solyaris (1972)

 

i have not seen this either

Louis and Bebe Barron scored it. it really is an excellent piece of work. A must see.

score by wendy carlos (1971)

and:

(1969)

loads of horror soundtracks like

goblin - tenabre/Contamination etc...

fabio frizzi's fulci scores

Nico Fidenco - emanuelle an the last cannibals

stelvio ciprani's nightmare city theme

carpenter's halloween/escape from ny/assault on precinct 13

Moroder - Cat People/midnight express

and this one

thanks ! some great stuff in here.

does anyone know what movie or Tv show was one of the first to use synthesizers (not theremins) predominately in the score?

most tangerine dream scores are good.

i forgot to ask in my original post, was a score / sound effects LP ever released for 'The Birds' ? not really a musical score but i still wanted to find a copy of Oskar Sala's synth stuff from it

  On 1/26/2010 at 1:20 AM, Awepittance said:

thanks ! some great stuff in here.

 

does anyone know what movie or Tv show was one of the first to use synthesizers (not theremins) predominately in the score?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2x5IKxmAQ

i was going to mention Dr. Who but wasn't there also something before or around the same time? i might be wrong

  On 1/26/2010 at 1:29 AM, Awepittance said:

i was going to mention Dr. Who but wasn't there also something before or around the same time? i might be wrong

there were a few Raymond Scott TV ad's?

oh just rememberd this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdjx1MYPtc

thats very nice,

so if Delia Derbyshire was the first person to put a synthesizer score to a tv show , what were some that immediately followed? or just other stuff that came out before 1970 featuring synth heavy scores

The tv series 'Quatermass and the Pit' was scored by the radiophonic workshop before doctor who, well not scored but the sound was done by them. Also you had 'The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy', that was later.

Bladerunner, definitely.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a real gem (well, the soundtrack)

Jerold Immel - Megaforce (1982)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpH1yMGxh5E

Mike Oldfield - The Killing Fields (1985) - 1,000,000 IDM points for this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3KJXd6tAPw

Tangerine Dream + Cheezy Overdubs + Tricked Out Motorbike = 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM

Alan Hawkshaw - Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (1980)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmeVJYzvwA

The whole score is great, but the main theme is at 2:20

tobe hoopers score to eaten alive is incredibly abstract and great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6LN0VF0RDM

and lets not forget mick jaggers primitive moog score to invocation of my demon brother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaA2i6-SaSs

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:50 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:47 AM, David R James said:

'Forbidden Planet' was a pretty good attempt, i get the feeling you may of missed it out for some reason?

 

is that a pretty theremin centric score? thats one old sci fi film i haven't gotten around to watching, but i am tempted to so i can see LEslie Neilsin with non grey hair

 

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:48 AM, Enter a new display name said:

Solyaris (1972)

 

i have not seen this either

Solaris is a good 2001-Space-Odyssey-esque sci-fi film, bit excessive in long shots though, as are a lot of Russian films I've viewed. The music is pretty minimal, lot of drone, and it was recorded on an ancient Soviet synth (ANS_synthesizer) which alone is interesting. I haven't seen the 2002 remake with clooney (nor heard it's electronic OST)

Forbidden planet is pretty impressive and notable because it does NOT use a theremin. And it's a very impressive, non-cheesy 50's sci-fi movie. Instead a very early ring modulator was used, one that preceeded Dr. Who, Buchla, and Stockhausen by years.

RDJ himself mentioned the film in that BBC Radio 3 show he was interviewed on, which flew over the heads of the interviewers.