Audiodrome#7: Tetsuo I & II
It’s that time of the month again to head over to Paracinema.net and check out the latest instalment of Audiodrome. This month my ears have been getting rather bloody, indulging in the onslaught of Chu Ishikawa’s cacophonous industrial soundtrack for Tetsuo: The Iron Man and its equally brutal follow up, Body Hammer.
Shinya Tsukamoto’s searingly visceral film is the graphic tale of a lowly salary man’s descent into a metal-encased nightmare, as his body suddenly begins to turn into scrap metal. Tetsuo combines Cronenbergian body horror with Lynchian existentialism and filters it all through a gritty, William Gibson-esque cyberpunk aesthetic. Ishikawa’s ferocious soundtrack perfectly enhances the disturbing imagery, frantic editing and dystopian vision of the films.
While you’re over at Paracinema’s online lair, why not pick up the latest issue? It’s really rather good and all the articles address the theme of revenge in genre cinema…
Shinya Tsukamoto’s searingly visceral film is the graphic tale of a lowly salary man’s descent into a metal-encased nightmare, as his body suddenly begins to turn into scrap metal. Tetsuo combines Cronenbergian body horror with Lynchian existentialism and filters it all through a gritty, William Gibson-esque cyberpunk aesthetic. Ishikawa’s ferocious soundtrack perfectly enhances the disturbing imagery, frantic editing and dystopian vision of the films.
While you’re over at Paracinema’s online lair, why not pick up the latest issue? It’s really rather good and all the articles address the theme of revenge in genre cinema…
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It's a shame Industrial Music hasn't been used more in Cinema, considering the music has a natural cinematic sweep. Be sure to check out Coil's Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser. Clive Barker commissioned Coil to write music forHellraiser but the soundtrack was rejected for a more traditional score. It's hard to imagine Hellraiser without the Christopher Young score, but fascinating to think what kind of a complexion Coil's eerie music would have on Hellraiser had New World gone with Coil...
On the subject of Industrial soundtracks I always liked Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to Sorcerer. In the liner notes Friedkin reckons that if he had known about them when he was making The Exorcist he would have asked them to score that film as well. Wonder how that would have turned out...
I also like me some Tangerine Dream - though I've not heard their music for Sorcerer. I have the soundtracks for Near Dark, Firestarter and Deadly Care.
Hmmm, Tangerine Dream providing the score for The Exorcist? THAT I would like to hear!