This site is all about soundtracks: music especially written for movies, television and games. There are some exceptions to that rule, one of which is the music from Two Steps […]
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Author: Anton Smit
Anton is the founder of Soundtrack World. After writing about film music occasionally, he thought it was time to create his own site to celebrate music from film but also other media. Next to working on this website, Anton is a member of the International Film Music Critics Association, has a job in IT and plays the tuba in a local orchestra.
Book “JERRY GOLDSMITH: A Musical Chameleon” by Christian Aguilera
One of the greatest film music composers, who sadly is not amongst us anymore, is Jerry Goldsmith. In addition to listening to his fantastic scores, you can read about his […]
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Top Gun: Maverick – Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga, Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe
When I was a young teen, I liked to listen to synthesizer music, and while back then I didn’t know that many of my favorite tracks were written for movies, […]
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Krakow Film Music Festival 2022
Many things came to a halt during the pandemic, but fortunately this was not the case for the Krakow Film Music Festival. It was one of the first events that […]
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Bubble – Hiroyuki Sawano
Music is written for all kinds of media. You can find many reviews of music for movies, TV shows and games on this site, but another type of medium that […]
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Vangelis passed away at 79
Composer Evángelos Papathanassíou, better known as Vangelis, died on May 17, 2022. He has not written for movies for many years, but some of his soundtracks from the ‘80s are […]
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Danny Elfman
There are many movie directors who like to work with the same composer more often. One of those directors is Sam Raimi, who has been collaborating with Danny Elfman multiple […]
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Moon Knight – Hesham Nazih
In recent years, we have seen a rise of well-produced television shows based on intellectual property owned by the respective streaming platforms. The best known examples of these are the […]
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Pirates Down the Street 2: The Ninjas from Across – Matthijs Kieboom
One of the problems with Dutch films is that they do not have the budget of big Hollywood blockbusters. This results in many budget-friendly movies like romantic comedies and movies […]
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Horizon: Forbidden West – Joris de Man, Oleksa Lozowchuk, The Flight and Niels van der Leest
One of the video game soundtracks that has impressed me the most since I started Soundtrack World was the score for Horizon: Zero Dawn. First of all, I was quite […]
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