I was talking in Finnish language topic, but may mention this here too! The restored version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the Finnish movie theaters lately. It was praised by many. I haven't been to see it myself, it's been years since I've been to a movie theater. In Finland, the movie is almost synonymous to the strict film legislation, and this film is perhaps most known to be banned in Finland entirely, until quite late. Even if you hadn't seen the movie, you probably knew about its existence.
Many who have seen this now, commented that the soundtrack was particularly good.
Back in the day, Whitehouse showed this movie at his live gigs and in general, of course, there always was sort of cult reputation. Quite a few UG records exists where samples or movie been used.
It can be fun to speculate what effect this movie's soundtrack had on industrial music as a whole? The year is 1974 and VHS copies and some kind of recordings of the sound must have started circulating fairly early and certainly thousands and thousands of people who are excited about the dark atmosphere of the soundtrack, may have never realized that similar stuff also exists as "recorded music" published on tape, lp, cd...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odOfyPz8L8QuoteTobe cut the music very quickly. We created this great body of material, then we came under deadline and Tobe had to do all the cutting in a night or two. It was very fast. I would have loved to go through every bit to find the best takes, but he had to just crash it out on his own. I feel like there was a much better version of the score that could have been made, but this imperfection became a part of what the film is and why people love it. The source material is all very LoFi, distorted, noisy and dirty. Some of this came from the technology we were using. We were using cheap mics that we would just abuse them running into tape recorders running at 3 3/4 and 7 1/2 IPS. But, everything about the film was very LoFi, so it worked.
There is an interest in finally doing a TCM soundtrack album. All of the original quarter-inch tapes still exist. Unfortunately, we do not have the final versions of anything Tobe cut together, so I would be facing the challenge of going through all the source material to re-create the score. Another challenge I will face is how this LoFi material will translate to a standalone format.
https://designingsound.org/2018/10/25/wayne-bell-the-man-behind-the-sounds-of-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre/About movie soundtracks in general, I remember when watching MANDY and the distorted synth nostalgia seemed pretty damn good for a movie you can just watch from streaming services. More underground, more dirt, more ruggedness, but also there is perhaps the awareness of making "cult soundtrack"? While with TCM, not sure if they were aware of making audio track that would constitute as music album?
It's been almost 10 years when this topic was active, and also seeing bitewerksMTB was the last poster here, makes me think how much there has been NEW movies with notable experimental soundtracks? Something that ain't just the gloomy synths and dissonant violins or something, but like TCM guys describe, lo-fi and crude soundtrack?
