Description
2020 reissue, 12″ LP, Sacred Bones Records.
To understand Didn’t You Hear the soundtrack it’s important to get a bit of the back story behind this obscure and genuine rarity. Didn’t You Hear the movie was a little-known and unarguably strange 1983 cinema release that barely made it to many screens, but was notable for two reasons – it’s one of the earliest acting credits given to Gary Busey, and it features one of the first all-electronic scores, by non-other than Canadian composer and synth pioneer, Mort Garson. The work still sounds impressive. For the most part it clearly feels like a film score, but some tracks more than stand up on their own grounds. The subdued chaos of ‘Bamboo City’ could be used by techno and electro DJs today, ‘Virgil’s Theme’ is a reflective slice of melodic ambience, while ‘Death Talk & Jeep Approach’ is a sparse, minimalistic electronic-classical masterpiece. – Juno
