Watch out folks! NYC composer, producer and all round musical genius Alex Epton’s new score for Dirty Soup is coming soon!
Link to Alex’s profile HERE.
'Loving in Stereo' - Presented by Jungle, Dirty Soup and Dolby
We are teaming up with Jungle, Dolby and Picturehouse Cinemas to bring you an exclusive Dolby Atmos music event.
Introduced by Jungle themselves, we’re screening a pre-release playback of their upcoming new album – Loving in Stereo.
All 14 tracks. All 14 videos. Aesthetics, choreography and music co-existing in one stunningly distinctive immersive experience.
Join us to experience one of the UK’s finest duos as you’ve never heard them before.
Location - Picturehouse Central. Soho, London.
Screening times - 6.30pm & 8.30pm.
Tickets - £20
DIRTY MONDAY... FT LILA CALDWELL
Today’s Dirty Monday comes from Dirty Soup music researcher, Lila Caldwell - the tunes that soundtracked her childhood.
Lila says - “Luckily for me, my family are all massive music lovers so I was inadvertently listening to every possible genre of music since I was a baby. These are the tracks that were played on long car journeys and while the family dinners were being cooked. The comfort I feel listening to each of these tracks (even Windowlicker!) seems to be woven into my DNA. They're a huge part of why I love music so much - hope you enjoy them as much as I do.”
Listen to full playlist below.
THE RECORD OF THE WEEK: HOTEL SURRENDER BY CHET FAKER
Dirty Soup founder Raife Burchell's record of the week is Hotel Surrender by Chet Faker.
Raife says: Dirty Soup’s first big track placement was Chet Faker's enchanting cover of No Diggity. We placed it in a Beck's Sapphire Super Bowl spot a few months after I started the company. Jeez, that was a fun phone call to get! Chet aka Nick Murphy has hooked me in again from the get-go with his latest self-produced, self-written 10-track album. First line of the first track - "Music does something, I just don’t know what it does. Just accept it as the sky is blue”. Thanks for the timely reminder Chet!
Link to Raife’s bio HERE.
THE NEEDLE DROP. EASY RIDER. FANTASIA. AMERICAN EXPRESS.
Today’s Needle Drop is a 3 in 1 special chosen by master music supervisor Karl Westman.
NY-based Westman has sculpted music for the world’s most recognisable brand campaigns and works with artists from Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Danny Elfman, Quincy Jones, Timbaland and James Murphy.
Here Karl offers his insights on Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, Disney’s Fantasia, and a classic ad for American Express he helped find the musical solution for.
KW: The first is the 1969 groundbreaking counter-culture film Easy Rider. It was one the earliest to use songs from the pop-culture repertoire - The Byrds, Steppenwolf, Bob Dylan - to form a musical narrative. In fact director Dennis Hopper claims it was the first. As a high school kid, the film blew me away. The use of music that I could identify with as "mine" helped create an emotional bond to the film that lasts to this day. The original trailer seems quaint today but was a big deal at the time.
The second is the Disney classic Fantasia circa 1940 which I experienced (in an altered state no doubt) at a late night arthouse movie theater while I was in music school. In classic Disney fashion, every musical phrase of Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice is accounted for in the animation. In essence, the film is scored to the music as Mikey's story unfolds.
Lastly, I humbly offer my personal first: an American Express commercial. I’ve just viewed it for the first time in over 30 years and oh, how the ad world has changed. I recall we were struggling with the edit. This Motown classic (Rescue Me sung by Fontella Bass) appeared quite by accident when thumbing through my vinyl collection. The title clicked, I literally dropped the needle, transferred the tune to 1/4 inch tape and with grease pencil and razor blade in hand, I edited a musical solution. As is often the case, music came to the rescue...pun intended.
What can we learn from these three examples? In Easy Rider, current tracks add emotional relevance to the narrative. In Fantasia, a 19th century classic inspires great visual art. In my first placement, music becomes the voice of the story and sets the tone.
In all three examples, the role of music is an equal partner in the storytelling. And, while tastes, styles and technologies have changed – the power of music remains the same. Music is magic."
Read Karl’s full bio HERE