Hans Zimmer

Access Music has published an interview with Hans Zimmer, in conjunction with the release of Dark Knight.

There’s a lot of synth discussion throughout the interview, but a couple things caught my eye:

Do you remember your first exposure to electronic music

Yes, at school someone had brought in Switched on Bach and I thought it was cool. I come from a technical family, my father was an inventor, and although I was only 12 at the time, or something, I thought this was definitely a step forward in the development of instruments.

Do you remember the first synthesizer you ever owned?

Yes! An EMS VCS3.

Awesome. The Putney!

The Putney! Without an instruction manual or keyboard, so I really learned the hard way. I think it took me a year to get the first noise out of it, and of course it was the sound of someone squeezing a gerbil a little bit passionately.

via trashaudio

Here’s a strange bit of info via Hans Zimmer:

EMI Music is set to release an album containing 5 remixes of primarily the Jack Sparrow themes from the score for the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End by such popular artists as Paul Oakenfold, The Crystal Method and Ryeland Allison.

I’m not sure what to think of the idea of electronica remixes of Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack music, but it looks like Disney is into the idea – they certainly hired the big guns of the remix world.

What do you think? Is remixing Pirates of the Caribbean insane, or insanely cool?

Let me know what you think in the comments!

Release date is June 15th, 2007.

Tracks:

• Jack’s Suite (Paul Oakenfold Remix)
• Jack’s Suite (Paul Oakenfold Remix-Radio Edit)
• Jack’s Suite (The Chrystal Method Remix)
• Jack’s Suite (The Chrystal Method Remix-Radio Edit)
• Pirates Life Forever (Ryeland Allison Remix)