I deleted the original post referencing this piece, but now I figure, if Edgar or the movie studio is going to sue me for copyright infringement, so be it.
I’m still trying to get that elusive Tangerine Dream soundtrack for “The Keep”. It’s been at 99.4% for over a week. Granted, it is enough to make my own tracks if needed.
Edgar Froese’s (or maybe not his) forums seemed to have banned me before I even got a chance to ask a question about it.
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The email itself basically said that they’d let me on the forum once an admin gave the okay. And that’s how long it’s been, including an email to the @gmx.com email address asking when if ever they actually check their email. Seriously guys, I’m not a spammer. Just a fan is all.
I reference this track:
The idea behind this particular piece, soundtrack and movie (really, it’s all three) is due to my father way back in the ’80’s. My parents divorced when I was like 3 or so. When I was young, my father had custody for the occasional weekend, and one of the things we did together was watch movies. Generally it was movies that my mother would never want to watch.
My mother and I thought “Flight of the Navigator”, “Escape from Witch Mountain” and “The Cat from Outer Space” as well as any James Bond movie were great movies. But then there were things like “Creature”, “Dune”, “The Beastmaster”, “The Keep” and “Firestarter” as well as any other Stephen King movie, which I watched with the old man.
The last two titles there just happened to share the same soundtrack. Tangerine Dream. Brian Eno is in there somewhere for “The Keep” as he and David Byrne also did “Mea Culpa” together back in 1983 as well as Eno’s music for “Dune”.
I was always good at getting music, but the one thing that eluded me was the soundtrack for “The Keep”. My father had lots of Tangerine Dream vinyls and tapes. I got my own eventually as well as I got older. But that “Keep” soundtrack was always elusive. No shop ever had that soundtrack.
Fast Forward about 23 years.
I found it! And I GOT IT! Almost. As I said, 99.4%. Only 0.6% more to go before I can burn myself a CD & send it back to my father.
It’s been at 99.4% for about 3 weeks now, so most likely I’ll edit the last 0.6% myself and send it back as is, but just once, while I still can, I’d like to watch that movie again with him for old times sake, then play that music in his downstairs bar in full Dolby Surround Sound at full blast. This time, the neighbors can call the cops on ME for the noise. I fear time is running short.
