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Snow Files of the Week: "Threnody in X/Quitting/Plague (Alternate Segment)" from the movie "The X-Files - Fight the Future" (1998).

For the first X-Files motion picture, Mark took his electronic soundscapes and put them into orchestral music. He even surprised the producers, when he conducted his music, because for them he was just the "synthesizer guy". Some bits of the films score also appear in the tv show, like in the final episode of season five, "The End".

 A score album was released with the movie. Sadly it has some sound issues. The stereo channels are reversed, which leads to an overall muffled and flat sound. By the end of last year, La-La Land Records released an expanded album of the score, which not only solved the sound problems of the original release, but there is also more music on it and a very informative booklet with not one, not two, but three interviews with Mark. This release is limited to 3.000 copies.

 Enjoy!

 

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Snow Files of the Week: "Cortege" (1999/2002) from the "Cold Spring" sampler "The Chamber".

Here we have a very rare occasion, where Mark didn't compose for a movie or a tv series. The track "Cortege" was supposed to be an appetizer for an all non-movie album called "Death...be not proud", consisting entirely of new compositions by Mark.

The release date was set for spring of 1999, there was even a tracklist (Intonation, Cortege, If Hitler Had Autism, Mr Jones, Quietude and Colonel Parkinson). But apparently, that never happened, at least I coulnd't find anything concerning the album. It's not even listed on the label's website. The only thing, that was released, seems to be this track.

I sent a message to the label and got a very surprising response. Mark indeed started working on the album, but he had more and more soundtrack work on his hands, that he just didn't have the time to continue working on this album. The label still has a master for the album with a running time of 25 minutes.

The track shows Mark in his dark ambient mode. This is for all those dark-and-moody-loving X-Files fans.

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Snow Files of the Week: "Fries and Faith/Discreet Distance" from "The X-Files", episode "Talitha Cumi" (1996).

Another season finale, this time season 3. Jeremiah Smith makes his first appearance in this episode and more details about the relationship between Mulder's mother and the Cigarette Smoking Man surface. The episode's cliffhanger is a meeting between Mulder, Scully and Smith, when suddenly the alien bounty hunter shows up.

Mark always put even more effort into creating outstanding music for the final episodes of each season. His dark, brooding ambient soundscapes mix with his haunting piano themes and etheral choir passages.

These two tracks are taken from the second volume of X-Files music by La-La Land Records. The set is limited to 3.000 copies.

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Snow Files of the Week: "Jack O' Lantern/Battery/790 Days" from "MillenniuM", episode "The Curse of Frank Black" (1997).

What would Halloween be without "The Curse of Frank Black"? A very popular episode amongst fans of "MillenniuM", it features everything you could hope for on this night: Strange happenings, Demons, black cats, witches, ghosts and an overall dark and tense atmosphere. Mark brings the moody episode to a higher level with his dark and spooky music. At the end of the episode, Mark even incorporates a piece of classical music into his score, the "Sarabande" by Georg Friedrich Händel.

The music was released on the first volume of "MillenniuM" music by La-La Land Records in 2008. This edition sold out and was re-released, limited to 1.000 copies.

Happy Halloween!

 

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Snow Files of the Week: "UFO Technology/Transfer And Release" from The X-Files, episode "Deep Throat" (1993).

In the first season of The X-Files the musical direction wasn't that clear already. Mark tried things out, improvised and created soundscapes never heard before. With "Deep Throat", Mark established not only the theme for the character Deep Throat, but continued his path deeper into the realms of ambient soundscapes.

These two tracks are taken from the recently released third volume of X-Files music by La-La Land Records. The set is limited to 3.000 copies.

Enjoy!

 

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