Audio (MP3): 20210401 - Cosmic Journey (2021 soundtrack)

Video (MP4): 20210401 - Cosmic Journey (2021 soundtrack)

Continuing with the black and white musical theme, I spent a couple months of this portion of the pandemic adding electronic music to a trimmed down 1936 Russian space opera movie. If you like stop animation and CCCP rockets and ambient techno beats, this is for you.

In the year 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the Moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as being too old and too mentally unstable for the mission.

This journey clocks in around 12 minutes 33 seconds and sure, listening to the audio-only version is grand, it’s not as grand as the video-and-audio coupling. The music more closely follows the movie scenes whereas with my previous black and white work I wrote the music first and adapted the footage to the melodies.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCt0DLsn3lM

Sara and I watched Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown Russia episode last night. Moscow, the KGB, the Federation, the whole bit was still on my mind this morning… so without further ado, here’s your low-key, Soviet electronic music Thursday jam. It’s over half an hour of cinematic chill, almost all from the 80s.

See also, Introspecto by The Bleak Engineers. Yep, that’s Zombierella, former Messer Chups bassist.

All this Russian music makes me wanna take off my shirt and shoot some guns with Putin.

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