East West has announced a new contest - Score This Movie
The company is providing a 2-minute downloadable movie for you to score using Eastwest or Eastwest/Quantum Leap instruments. The winer will receive all PLAY products released before April 30, 2008. For each PLAY product the winner already has, they can substitute another EW produced product [...]

DJ/producer Paul Oakenfold has scored the upcoming video game Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy.
Oakenfold follows a long string of electronic music artists, including NIN & Amon Tobin, to score video games.
“It was a rewarding experience to score The Bourne Conspiracy video game — I have always been a fan of the series and the pace [...]

This video is a short feature about Vangelis and his score for Alexander:

NAMM Show Update: Ueberschall has announced the release of Scoretrax, a royalty free music library for Video, Film, Flash, TV, Advertising, Animation, Games, Music on hold, Multimedia, Education, Broadcast and Website Producers.
Scoretrax features over 300 selected Tracks in more than 40 different Music Styles. All styles were produced by the award-winning sampling producers [...]

Specialized, a company that makes specialized bike parts, has a new promo that features Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite performed entirely on bicycle parts.
Here’s how composer Flip Baber, aka Johnny Random, did it:
Specialized is a bike manufacturer and they needed some Christmas music, but with a twist: They wanted me to create the music from only bike [...]

BT’s soundtrack to Stealth, an action movie about 3 top gun pilots that have to deal with a robotic fighter plane gone bad, seems promising, because it provides BT with the opportunity to mix his trademark hyperkinetic production style with full-on orchestral power.
Unfortunately, the soundtrack CD is a bit of a disappointment. While there are [...]

Alexander, the soundtrack to the Oliver Stone biopic, features Vangelis at his best. It’s a rousing score, a satisfying album, and a likely Oscar contender.
With this score, Vangelis delivers vivid orchestrations, lyrical themes, and his unique style of crowd-pleasing bombast. If you’re a Vangelis fan, click on over to Amazon and be done with it [...]

Oscar-winning composer Vangelis talks in his first UK interview in over 10 years about working with a difficult Oliver Stone on Alexander, his approach to music and more.
Alexander has opened to reviews that could be called “mixed” at best. Vangelis’ Alexander soundtrack, though, finds Vangelis at his peak. Vangelis mixes electronics, orchestra and exotic instrumentation [...]

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Blade Runner is a science fiction classic, and it has a classic electronica score to go with it.
In the early eighties, Vangelis helped redefine the world of soundtrack music with his scores to films like Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner. Chariots of Fire won him an Oscar, but his music for Blade Runner is [...]