Today when I came home got a huge urge to turn off all the lights in the room, close the door, and just slide the volume slider on my mixer up and play some tunes. Indescribable feeling. I love the good music, especially listening in the dark room, eyes closed... the best thing, after couple of minutes of relaxation pictures start forming in my mind, pictures of orchestra playing the tune, and feeling start coming up which are never preset when just listening "as usual".

 

But it mostly only happens with filmmusic and orchestral music. Not classical (although I like that too), but rather music directly from movies or composed by people who basically made tools for real movie composers.

 

Why I am writing this... I would like to know if there are others here who enjoy listening to music as much as I do?

 

And also are there similar music-tastes here? Let me just count some of my favorite composers and music makers:

 

Filmmusic composers:

Hans Zimmer

James Newton Howard

Jerry Goldsmith

Harry Gregson-Williams

Steve Jablonsky

James Horner

Danny Elfman

...

(there are many more, just too many to count them all)

 

Then, since 1-2 years, there is new type of music I discovered, there wasn't much before available:

Thomas Bergersen (actually know the guy back from the time of IRC forums, used to chat with him quite a lot)

Two Steps from Hell (Nick Phoenix, T.B.)

Globus

 

The first are composers which make music originally for movies, they don't have solo tracks just composed. So it is often just couple of tracks of the album one likes.

The 2nd group though are guys who make trailer music, and their music is composed without movies, which makes it unique for both listening and using for videos/trailers. And I just love their music. Almost each track is so greatly unique, and the best is, they are not too long (sometimes even too bad!) and are usually one whole. Love it.

 

Anyway... anyone out there enjoying this stuff as much as I do?

Nice post Word Not Allowed. Yeah I do the same sometimes. And I too love the soundtracks! Have you got any Telarc CDs, they're amazingly well recorded.

 

I have a huge variety of music, from slow classical to heavy metal. I gotta fix my beloved sound card- I stupidly tried changing its amps but fear I wrecked it. It's a $150 Asus Xonar Essence, amazing sound.

Actually I do! I have one, I believe, buried inbetween other hundreds of CDs I have somewhere in the cellar. All my music today is on HQ 320kbit MP3 and some of those most worthy tracks are in flac. But I remember the Telarc CD having an AMAZING sound. The first time I heard it, I was like WOW. The dynamics are simply astonishing.

 

Oh yes, the Asus Xonar Essence is a very good sounding card. I have an "old" Audiophile 192 from M-Audio. Old, but sounds really really good. Extremely low SNR, golden chinch connectors, quality cables, hard to beat. I was thinking of putting the Xonar beside it to test it, but never got around that.

 

What do you like from the soundtracks? Any favorites?

 

Here one of my all time favorite tracks, from TSFH Archangel:

Nice music man. Ha, where do we start? I've a great soundtrack to Terminator 2, always good for waking the neighbours. My fave Telarc is 'Time Warp' with Eric Kunzel, yes it has that great warning about excessive volumes and extreme dynamic range that can damage components.

 

They also did an excellent James Bond theme collection, with a Goldeneye recording to die for.

Good list from Word Not Allowed. Some of those authors render even the most boring landing a dramatic hero scene. Well, that's what's happening here. B)

 

Wanna add a cool name? Morricone! :Nail Biting:

I love listening to the Eagles, CCR, Hall and Oates, Carlos Santana etc. That's why I play guitars

That's why I play guitars

Instrument rating!

Yeah, Morricone! Some of his later work was cool too, for a deep & meaningful, depressing but brilliantly recorded time, try his 'The Mission' soundtrack.

 

Word Not Allowed, with today's soundcards and headphones, this site has some amazing recordings, better than CD in some cases. I bought this, Hotel California, yeah the first track has so much oomph and you've never heard it like this on the radio!!

 

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD603497941049

Instrument rating!

 

:LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO:

Word Not Allowed great post,

I thought I was one of the few that just love to sit back and enjoy music. I have many DVD music concerts to use with my " surround sound" . Depending upon my mood for what type of music depends on the day I have had. Just a few I enjoy other than just relaxing intstrumentals are:

 

James Last,

James Taylor

Bert Bcharack

Yanni

Eagles

Moody Blues

 

Of course these kinda show my age......

Word Not Allowed:

 

As mentioned, anything on the Telarc label is superbly done. Erich Kunzel's Cincinnati Pops really brought the movie soundtracks to life under Telarc. Probably before your time, but back in 1977, Telarc produced the first Direct to Digital recording, on VINYL! It was a recording of the Great Organ at Methuen. Telarc chose organist Michael Murray to introduce the digital era to sound reproduction on a 33LP vinyl disk! This was about 5 to 6 years before the CD was introduced.

 

I had a good system back then and the difference between the Direct to Digital recording process vs analog tape was dynamic. Telarc chose the pipe organ to illustrate the huge dynamic range that digital could capture as there is no other instrument other than the pipe organ that could/can faithfully produce those sounds in the hearing spectrum.

 

Previous recording technology to direct to digital involved recording the music on tape (analog) and Digital Audio Tape was yet to come. Telarc brought their digital equipment to Methuen and cut the Master disk on the spot. No intermediary tape. It put a lot of pressure on the organist as there was NO room for mistakes or retakes. What he played was the final cut. One shot!

 

If you have a good audio system, which I suspect you do and you want to exercise it, go out and find Telarc CD-80234. It is a two CD set entitled "Complete Masterworks For Organ". You won't get any closer to the sounds of a pipe organ than being right there. If your audio system has surround capabilities, all the better. The sound is so clear you can actually hear some of the air valves chirp as they open to let air into the pipes. If you have a sub woofer, hold on! There are two, 32' pipes (actual length) that you will feel. This CD is a recording of the French Organist/Composer Cesar Franck (1822-1890) performed on the colossal pipe organ at Saint Sernin Basilica, Toulouse, France. The acoustics of this cathedral are amazing.

 

Happy listening.

 

Chris