Get Carter

Thinking about classic soundtracks and realising I must put up a mix of favourite soundtrack tracks. Was listening to this today - Roy Budd's amazing score for the British Gangster classic 'Get Carter'. I love 'Getting Nowhere in a Hurry' - so uplifting...but couldn't find the vocal version on the net, so it'll have to be first on the mix!For now here's the well known main theme...

September in the Rain

Just posting this because it is so incredible, never fails to bring a tear to my eye everytime I hear it. I think that might mean it's quite powerful.

RANDALL POSTER

I'm going to go and hear this man with the best name in the business (in both senses of the word!)working in Music Supervision and Film right now on Thursday at BAFTA. Randall Poster. Tickets are sold out but I WILL find a way to get in :)

Mike Figgis

Wish I'd seen this earlier....director Mike Figgis performing a live mix of his film 'Timecode' exploring the potential of the score.
Mike Figgis - Timecode (Live Mix)

the wilderness downtown

quite.simply.amazing.
Arcade Fire - The Wilderness Downtown

Un Prophète

Watched this last night. Amazing film. Amazing score and soundtrack. I think I might be a bit in love with Tahar Rahim.

Blog updates well overdue...soon come...in the meantime for your listening pleasure...a late summer mix from Kay-Pee and Andy Needles

www.baremusic.net/mix/kpnuts.mp3

Babylon

Watched this the other night, one of my favourite British films ever - a brilliant portrayal of black British youth culture in Thatcher's Britain. Classic soundtrack by Denis Bovell.

and now Dizzee's gone and ripped it on 'Can't Tek No More'....

Moby 'I love to move in here'

I'm not usually a fan of the wee baldy vegan, but came across this tune the other day in the film 'Two Lovers'. Shows Moby going back to his native New York dancefloor roots with some soulful and uplifting old-school house. Hedonistic and nostalgic verging on the cheesy but nowt wrong with a bit of cheese now and again, and Joaqin Phoenix' dancing is pretty funny. The film version's obviously been speeded up for the dancefloor scene. Features MC Grandmaster Caz, one of the original writers of the seminal 'Rapper's Delight'.

Leroy Hutson 'Lucky Fellow'

Listening to Mayer Hawthorne reminded me of an old favourite.......

beautiful tune

Mayer Hawthorne 'A Strange Arrangement'

Just got my new specially embossed "alligator skin" LP in the post today, nice! This Detroit singer is being bigged up by everyone from Ghostface Killah and Kanye West to Mark Ronson and Gilles Peterson. What a voice! If you like good ol' foot tappin' hand clappin' sing-a-long proper soul music you'll love this. Songs are short and sweet with tight production and real musicianship taking obvious influence from Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Barry White, Smokey Robinson and the sounds of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown as well as Jay-Dilla.