Snow Files of the Week

[SadEyes]

Snow Files of the Week: "Main Title/Double Wide/Unplugged at Bishop Flats" from the movie "Disturbing Behavior" (1998).

After "Scream" became a worldwide success, countless teenager horror movies entered the theatres. While "Disturbing Behavior" wasn't a slasher movie, it perfectly matches the wave of genre movies at the end of the 90's.

The movie was directed by David Nutter, who also directed the first two episodes of the first season of "MillenniuM". So he was no stranger to the music of Mark Snow. Mark composed a very dark and ambient score for the movie, with some haunting tunes in between.

The score was released on CD with the movie.

Enjoy!

 

[SadEyes]

Snow Files of the Week: "Suite from The X-Files" (1996).

This suite was arranged by John Beal, in co-operation with Mark and his music editor Jeff Charbonneau. There were some changes made to some of the used tracks, like new overdubs. For example, there is now a sampled choir singing over the final piece, that was taken from "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", that isn't there in the episode. John Beal is also credited as performer, although the music sounds exactly like Mark's original recordings. Rumor has it, that the performer credit, as well as the slight chances to some of the tracks, were made to avoid copyright issues with 20th Century Fox.

It is featured on the sampler "The Snow Files", as well as on the album "The X-Files: 20th Anniversary" by Buysoundtrax Records. This album is limited to 1.000 copies.

Enjoy!

 

[SadEyes]

Snow Files of the Week: "Suite from the Pilot" from the tv show "Dark Skies" (1996).

Mark Snow composed the score for the pilot, but was not further involved with the show. Michael Hoenig (former Tangerine Dream member) took over scoring duties for the rest of the show. The growing success of the X-Files back then was surely something, that got Mark involved. It's no surprise, that he made his score sound like something from the X-Files.

This suite was included on the score album with the music by Michael Hoenig, released by Perseverance Records, limited to 1000 copies. The CD is sold out.

Enjoy!