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On today’s new episode of THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Erik Woods presents music from some of his favourite scores written in 2022. This is part two of a four-part series. Today, you’ll hear selections by such composers as Zacarías M. de la Riva, Federico Jusid, Simon Franglen, John Williams, Nathan Johnson, Dominic Lewis, Bear McCreary, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Part three will be online as soon as humanly possible! Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağlar, Brent Osterberg, Jérôme Flick, Sarah Brouns, Aaron Collins, Randall Derchan, Angela Rabatin, Michael Poteet, Larry Reese, Thomas Tin

MURDOCH MYSTERIES is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on CityTV on January 20, 2008, and airs on CBC in Canada as well as 120 countries around the world including Alibi in the UK. The series is based on characters from the Detective Murdoch novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick Bisson as the fictional William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The series also stars Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig and Johnny Harris. The show has endured for so long—it is currently in its sixteenth season—that Robert Carli, the series music composer, has become one of its most valuable and enduring figures. In December 2022, for Talking Soundtracks, Jason Drury talked to Robert Carli via Cleanfeed at his studio in Toronto, Canada, not far away from where Murdoch Mysteries is filmed. During the conversation, Carli's talked about his musical history and how his music has changed over the course of the series 16 years and counting. It's a fascinati

Today on THE ESSENTIAL SOUNDTRACKS, Erik Woods, Robert Daniels, and Randy Andrews continue their journey through the STAR TREK films and their soundtracks as they discuss the seventh movie in the series, STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. You'll hear them discuss the film in great detail including such topics as the new uniforms, deleted scenes, Kirk's death, the destruction of The Enterprise D and more. Also covered in great length is Dennis McCarthy's underappreciated score. WARNING: We do talk about Star Trek: Picard Season 3 in this episode so if you haven't seen the new series yet, you've been warned;  there are SPOILERS in this episode. STAR TREK: GENERATIONS was released on November 18, 1994. Malcolm McDowell joined cast members from the 1960s television show STAR TREK and the 1987 sequel series STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of the USS Enterprise-D joins forces with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) to stop the villain Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, it's our annual best-of-the-year show. We are going to do something a little bit differently this year and cover a wide variety of video game scores released in 2022 over the course of three episodes. In this first episode, you'll hear music from Jason Graves, Olivier Deriviere, Yuzo Koshiro, Inon Zur, Tadashi Ikegami, Hirokazu Ando, Jan Vašina, Dominik Svoboda, Tee Lopes, Kristofer Maddigan & Yoko Shimomura. Part two coming soon… Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağlar, Brent Osterberg, Jérôme Flick, Sarah Brouns, Aaron Collins, Randall Derchan, Angela Rabatin,

Better late than never. Actually, I think this is the latest I've ever presented my year-end round-up program. I hope you enjoy it anyway. On today’s new episode of THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO NETWORK, Erik Woods presents music from some of his favourite scores written in 2022.  This is part one of a four-part series.  Today, you’ll hear selections by such composers as Nigel Westlake, Tom Holkenborg, Michael Abels, Steve Jablonsky, Abel Korzeniowski, Olivier Deriviere, John Williams, William Ross, Michael Giacchino, Hesham Nazih and Danny Elfman. Part two will be online in a few days! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağl

Jason Drury welcomes renowned composer Christopher Young to this special episode of TALKING  SOUNDTRACKS. Young is a composer and orchestrator who has over 133 credits to his name and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and two Emmys. In part one, they talked about Chris’s recent work on the Apple + TV Series ECHO 3 and he talked about his illustrious career from its beginnings right up to Young scoring his seminal works on the HELLRAISER series of films. In part two Young talks more about his career to date, his views on film music today and how he would like to be remembered by his fans. Also, during the show, Jason will be playing samples of music from his film scores which have made the composer one of the foremost talents in film music today. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Er

Jason Drury welcomes renowned composer Christopher Young to this special episode of TALKING SOUNDTRACKS. Young is a composer and orchestrator who has over 133 credits to his name and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and two Emmys. In the first of a two-part chat, Young discusses ECHO 3, his first significant episodic TV show, which recently made its Apple TV+ debut. He then discusses his extraordinary career, from its early stages to composing his ground-breaking scores for the HELLRAISER series of movies. Throughout both parts of the show, you will also be hearing selections of music from the scores of Christopher Young. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Gle

In this thirtieth FILMIC episode on THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Ley will play music from some late 2022 releases with a splash of oldies along with some weird and wonderful tracks! You’ll hear selections from WOMEN TALKING (Guðnadóttir), GLASS ONION (Johnson), EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (Son Lux), BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (Bacharach), THE WOMEN KING (Blanchard), CUTTHROAT ISLAND (Debney) and more. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağlar, Brent Osterberg, Jérôme Flick, Alex Brouns, Aaron Collins, Randall Derchan, Angela Rabatin, Michael Poteet, Larry Reese, Thomas Tinneny, William Burke, Clint Morgan, Rudy A

Today you get to enjoy the fourth show programmed by one of our patrons from the CONDUCTOR TIER over at our Patreon page.  In this tier, which is $10 USD ($14.50 CAN), donors get all of the benefits of lower tiers PLUS they earn the opportunity to program their very own personal one-hour(ish) show once a year. Victor Field, a long-time fan of the show, took advantage of this opportunity and this is the show that he put together for us to enjoy! So, how did Victor get into soundtrack collecting? This is what he had to say... I was born in England but my dad moved us to his home country of Barbados in 1976. I spent my childhood and teen years there before coming back to England to live in 1993. One of first album purchases was TVT's double album "Television's Greatest Hits". I think it was I didn't want to be listening to what everyone else around me was, I'm still kicking myself that I was so late to discover taping from the TV. I once asked my dad why we never went to see "Star Wars" (I refuse to call it "

That's right folks, the Oscars still suck! While they managed to bring back all of the categories they disrespected last year and will present them live again on this year's broadcast, the Academy's Music Branch, on the other hand, I think has clearly lost its mind. Not only are the nominees for best original score this year incredibly lacklustre, but they also took it one step further by nominating one of the most excruciating, annoying, utterly distracting film scores I've ever heard, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Volker Bertelmann. Not since Hans Zimmer's DUNKIRK have I experienced a score so repulsive that I nearly walked out of the theatre because of the music. One of Bertelmann's first instructions from director Edward Berger was to "please do something that is destroying the pictures that is not, you know, underlining what we already see." And then there was further instruction to literally make the score sound as bad as possible by "want(ing) to have a snare drum that is played by somebody who ca

In June 2021, for TALKING SOUNDTRACKS, Jason Drury talked to the four-time Emmy nominated journalist, writer, and producer of over 200 documentaries about music and cinema, Steven C Smith, about his book MUSIC BY MAX STEINER: THE EPIC LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPOSER. In May 2022, Jason had the opportunity to talk to Steven again about his first book, published in 1991, about another pioneering and influential composer in the history of film music, A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann. Part one of their interview concerned Herrmann’s radio career, his collaborations with Orson Welles leading to the beginning of his film music career with Citizen Kane. In Part 2, they discuss the composer’s career up to his premature death in 1975, and feature the most important partnership in his career, with director Alfred Hitchcock. You’ll also hear more of Herrmann’s great music from original recordings and re-recordings. Enjoy. To obtain a copy of A HEART AT FIRE’S CENTER: T

It's alive! The Cinematic Sound Radio Podcast Top 10 has been brought back from the dead! The last time I did a show like this was back in 2018 when I presented my Favourite Western Tracks Of All Time. I wanted to make the Top 10 and ongoing series but only a short month later, I went on an 8-month hiatus. I never thought about resurrecting the Top 10 show when I returned, however, I did have one last show planned out, which I found in a playlist in my digital music collection. That was in January and was planning to premiere this show on Valentine's Day but I lost my voice and couldn't record the show in time for the February 14th deadline. Eventually, my voice came back to me and I managed to get this one upload eight days after the Hallmark Holiday. So, welcome back to the Cinematic Sound Radio Podcast Top 10 and I'm looking for suggestions on other Top 10 shows. I'm clear out of ideas right now. Post them in the comments below or send an emial. In the program today, I'm going to play for you my Ten Fa

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, we remember the legendary game composer Koichi Sugiyama, the grandfather of game music. Following his death at age 90 in 2021, Eric Silver will take you through a comprehensive look at his career starting in the late 50s, through the 80s as a composer for a game music career, and finally to the end of the 2010s. To finish off our four-part tribute to legendary composer Koichi Sugiyama, we'll explore Sugiyama's musical output starting at the turn of the century and going through the end of his career as the maestro goes...Into the Legend. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, De

In today's special edition of THE ARCHIVE on the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Jason Drury continues his look at the television music of John Williams. Part two begins with THE MISSION THEME FOR THE NBC NIGHTLY NEWS. Jason then plays selections from the episode "The Bronze Locust" from the 1963 TV series, THE ELEVENTH HOUR (FSM RECORDS). You'll then hear a suite from the pilot episode of the classic Irwin Allen science-fiction TV series, LAND OF THE GIANTS called ‘The Crash’ (La La Land Records). The show continues with music from the 1968 TV film, HEIDI (Quartet Records). The episode concludes with music from the Steven Spielberg-directed episode of AMAZING STORIES called ‘The Mission’ (Intrada Records). —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John L

Anime Spectacular 18 brings us new music from the Netflix original anime CYBERPUNK EDGERUNNERS. Then you’ll hear music from the haunting and brilliant SPRIGGAN with music by Taisai Iwasaki. In our retro look back section you’ll hear music from BUBBLEGUM CRISIS 2033 DOUBLE VISION with fantastic music by Kouji Makano. And finally, our movie selection will be from the psychological thriller PERFECT BLUE with music by Masahiro Izumi. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağlar, Brent Osterberg, Jérôme Flick, Sarah Brouns, Aaron Collins, Randall Derchan, Angela Rabatin, Michael Poteet, Larry Reese, Thomas Tinneny, William

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, we remember the legendary game composer Koichi Sugiyama, the grandfather of game music. Following his death at age 90 in 2021, Eric Silver will take you through a comprehensive look at his career starting in the late 50s, through the 80s as a composer for a game music career, and finally to the end of the 2010s. In part 3 of this 4-part series, Koichi Sugiyama cements himself as a composer for video games, and begins working with other companies outside of Enix. This episode will follow his career into the late 1990s as he closes off his work as a film composer. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris

In June 2021, for TALKING SOUNDTRACKS, Jason Drury talked to the four-time Emmy nominated journalist, writer, and producer of over 200 documentaries about music and cinema, Steven C Smith, about his book MUSIC BY MAX STEINER: THE EPIC LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPOSER. In May 2022, Jason had the opportunity to talk to Steven again about his first book, published in 1991, about another pioneering and influential composer in the history of film music, A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann. In part one of this in-depth two-part series, Smtih discusses how the book came to be and dives into Bernard Herrmann's varied and occasionally contentious musical career including details on how he began his career in radio, his encounter with and collaboration with Orson Welles, and the start of his film music career. During both parts of the show, you will also be hearing plenty of the music of Bernard Herrmann's, at times original recordings and at times re-recordings, all of whi

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, we remember the legendary game composer Koichi Sugiyama, the grandfather of game music. Following his death at age 90 in 2021, Eric Silver will take you through a comprehensive look at his career starting in the late 50s, through the 80s as a composer for a game music career, and finally to the end of the 2010s. In part two of this four-part series, Koichi Sugiyama sends a postcard with feedback and his life changes forever. You'll hear music from the beginning of Sugiyama's game music career, covering the second half of the 80s into the very beginning of the 90s. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chri

Episode 17 of Anime Spectacular begins with the alluring and colourful TAKT OP DESTINY with music by Yoshihiro Ike. Following that you’ll wander into the silent and yet colourful world of KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE with music by Yakari Hashimoto. Then in our Retro Look Back section, you’ll get to hear music from BUBBLEGUM CRISIS 2033 RED EYES with music by Kouji Makano. Lastly, you’ll get brand new music for the One Piece film RED with music by Nasutaka Nakata. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağlar, Brent Osterberg, Jérôme Flick, Sarah Brouns, Aaron Collins, Randall Derchan, Angela Rabatin, Michael Poteet, Larry Re

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, we remember the legendary game composer Koichi Sugiyama, the grandfather of game music. Following his death at age 90 in 2021, Eric Silver will take you through a comprehensive look at his career starting in the late 50s, through the 80s as a composer for a game music career, and finally to the end of the 2010s. This four-part special will cover everything from Sugiyama's early songwriting, to his work on anime, and finally the video game scores. You'll hear music from every genre, including every game with original music. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor Field, Jochen Stolz, Emily Mason, Eric Skroch, Alexander Schiebel, Alphonse Brown, John Link, Andreas Wennmyr, Matt Berretta, Eldaly Morningstar, Jim Wilson, Glenn McDorman, Chris Malone, Steve Karpicz, Deniz Çağlar, Bre