by Neil Cleary-Trask
I have been wanting to follow up the original Frightened... mix for some time now, and am excited to be doing it exclusively for Moviejawn. This sequel extends the themes of the first one but, hopefully, branches out, too. A lot of this music has not, to my knowledge, been used on a soundtrack before. But many of these songs were evocative of the feelings I look for in Horror, or specifically sounded like they'd be a great cue.
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So, over six years ago, a friend had the great idea of making a mix cd which would be, as the title suggests, an ode to horror. I had the great idea to steal his idea, as I love spending hours and days making elaborately compiled and edited theme mixes. So we each set about our mixes without knowledge of how the other's was being built, and what of. Mine became "Frightened And Without Hope", and is a mix of actual horror movie score cues and music, for me at least, which was evocative of a horror movie.
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I often imagine movies or scenes to go along with the music I listen to, and I wanted to assemble a mix that would provide the soundtrack to one of those movies that has a big, third act scene at "The Dance." Hopefully, in listening, it will evoke something like it did for me.
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