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   Dark Star - R-Sunset
    Assault on Precinct 13 - Comptroller
    Halloween - seal of quality
    The Fog - Videogame Orchestra
    Escape from New York - EvilWezil
    The Thing - Videovalvontaa
    Starman - Lorenzo Music
    Big Trouble in Little China - OxygenStar
    Prince of Darkness - Videogame Orchestra
    They Live - SLAW
    In the Mouth of Madness - arcadecoma.
    Escape from L.A. - Shrimps

Artwork by Simon Turner

Budgetary limitations faced by John Carpenter at the dawn of his career forced him to take to his synthesizer collection and create his own visionary lo-fi scores for his movies. Pioneering video game music composers were similarly restricted by primitive sound chips and as a result, tiny magical sounds were forced into existence. How minimal can minimal get? At Pterodactyl Squad HQ we decided to find out by marrying the greatest hits of John Carpenter with the style and hardware of vintage video game systems. It's all about doing much with not much. It's all in the creativity. It's all in the imagination. It's all in the reflexes.

http://www.ptesquad.com/more/pte034.html

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São Paulo, Brazil

OMFG, how the hell did I miss this?

downloading right now. John Carpenter is one of my favorite filmmakers, and I love his scores.

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Planet Zaxxon

YEA BOY!

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Tokyo, Japan

Whats afucking brilliant idea!

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Rouen, FR

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

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São Paulo, Brazil

and this artwork is the best.

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Edinburgh
PULSELOOPER wrote:

and this artwork is the best.

Agreed. I want a big poster of the cover.

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awesome comp/idea!
THEY LIVE is such a great track!
thanx!

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São Paulo, Brazil

John Carpenter is such a badass that Ennio Morricone even copied his style on "The Thing".

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shanghai

werd

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Finland
PULSELOOPER wrote:

John Carpenter is such a badass that Ennio Morricone even copied his style on "The Thing".

smile

Just to make clear, we were specifically asked to do the "missing" track to this comp, which was The Thing. I look it that way that this comp has all the best Carpenter movies in it, so The Thing missing would be a kinda bummer even though Morricone had more to do with it than Carpenter. And true, he emulates Carpenter pretty good:)

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Los Angeles, CA

YEEEAAAAAHHH been waitin' on this a while! WHOOHOO!!

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buffalo, NY

Wow

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xero wrote:

awesome comp/idea!
THEY LIVE is such a great track!
thanx!

We thought about doing a longer version that was the exact length of the fight scene in the movie, but like you guys too much.

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São Paulo, Brazil

loved all tracks, but shrimps really kicked some asses.

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I hope to see it live sometime