MUSIC FROM THE FUTURE (PART 4)
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We go from the experimental to the mainstream: a little something from 1979’s ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’. It’s scored by composer Stu Phillips who put together the soundtrack to the original ‘Battlestar Galactica’ series a year earlier — so he’s no don by any stretch of the imagination.
And for the most part it’s a by-the-numbers Hollywood soundtrack, but this track ‘Something Kinda Funky’, taken from the film’s spacey disco scene, does have some nice synth work and syncopated drum programming (courtesy of Ian Underwood from Frank Zappa’s The Mothers of Invention) if you can get over the cheesy lead b-line…
Stu Phillips — Something Kinda Funky
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