"Donner's original film managed to completely encapsulate the Superman mythos and I think that inspired John Williams to score the movie the same way. He struck a perfect combination of contemporary Americana with 19th century European musical sounds… Copland and Sousa meets Wagner and Strauss, I tend to think of it, and so the result is ( Read more... )

• I am alive and doing quite well for the most part. The changes are coming along quite well. I will have more to discuss on the topic in a little while.
• I have a couple of mix projects I'm working on right now, the one closest completion is yet another revision on a familiar favorite, but with a few new ideas that I believe will make for a more ( Read more... )

I had originally compiled a mix titled The Uncanny X-Men three years ago. While I had access to Kamen's complete score and most of Ottman's (as well as their respective albums), when I put the original disc together I only had the soundtrack album of Powell's contribution. In the interim, I have procured the complete version of X-Men: The Last ( Read more... )

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In order to combat the built-in obsolescence of Man of Steel, I've decided to go right ahead and dismantle that album right now, and assemble the exclusive Christopher Reeve Superman mix, to be followed eventually by one dedicated to the new series Bryan Singer is making with Brandon Routh. Basically, this means I'm removing all of the John Ottman ( Read more... )

EDIT: The initial concept for this disc predated myself being privy to the information that Bryan Singer would be making a new Superman film which would actually be titled Man of Steel. I have thus dismantled this album and created a new one with a similar structure, but that consists exclusively of music from the Christopher Reeve series. The ( Read more... )

The problem with having made so many mixes by now is that eventually you come to a point where you exhaust all the obvious ideas. Every once in a great while either some form of inspiration strikes from an unexpected quarter ( Excelsior! was a project that took me by surprise) but most of what I'm planning on in one form or another right now are ( Read more... )

Because I sort of had to:Post a reply and I will ( Read more... )

I have often been asked by my friends about whether I ever had plans to make a Superman mix. In days of yore, such a thing would have been difficult at best not only because of the availability of a lot of the music, and when one did find it, often the music was in pretty lousy condition. This was one of the major problems with my first attempt ( Read more... )