Contrast Goes To The Movies

Oh dear, I'm a bit late this week, I fear. This week's Contrast Podcast came out as usual on Tuesday, but here I am drawing your attention to it on Friday...

This week's theme was Entrance Music for a Film, where contributors proposed mood-setting pieces for films that currently play only in the cinemas of their minds. It was proposed by Dearest Colin of the recently-defunct blog "Let's Kiss And Make Up." The mix of tracks is wonderfully diverse, but then that should no longer come as a surprise.

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And here's the souindtrack:

(00:00) Helm un Heik - 20th Century Fox Fanfare

(00:23) The Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty clown
Colin from Let’s Kiss and Make Up

(04:24) The High Violets - Cool Green
Nikki from Indie don’t dance

(08:51) +/- - Surprise
Andy from Circles of Concrete

(12:57) Erik Scott Johnston - For Candace
Cindy from Adzuki Bean Stash

(15:32) Hope of the states - The black amnesias
Simon from You can call me Betty

(21:15) 50 Foot Wave - Bug
Bob from Gimme Tinnitus

(25:55) Yoko Kanno - The real folk blues
Tom from Other People’s Toys

(32:27) Chet Baker - Vehicle
Tim from the face of today

(35:30) The National - All the wine
Richard from Invisible Limb

(38:54) Fields of the Nephilim - Intro (harmonica man)
Chip from Donewaiting.com

(41:22) Hawks and Snakes - Her Cooling Jets
Bethanne from CTASLS

(43:40) Dead Can Dance - Frontier
FiL from Pogoagogo

(47:30) John Barry Seven - Hideaway
ZB from So the wind won’t blow it all away

(50:23) Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Jamie from The Run Out Groove

(55:45) Bedhead - Burned Out
Merz from Mars needs guitars

Next week's theme is "Handclapping" and there's still room left, so go get yourself a song with happy, clappy handclaps in it, record a brief intro, and fire it off to tim.young@rhul.ac.uk.

There was only one other song in contention this week, namely "Fanget i Krystal" by everyone's favourite rubber-nosed Norwegian, Mortiis. The track dates from his dark ambient phase, which fell somewhere between his black metal and darkwave periods. I hear it's eerie pootling as the backing for some sort of black-and-white German expressionist film set in a snowy, spiky-treed forest inhabited by Juddermanesque creatures.

Mortiis - Fanget i Krystal (buy here)


Beware the Judderman, my dear, when the moon is fat...