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Darren Baker Makes His Mark With The Conspiracy

You’re forgiven if the name Darren Baker does not ring a bell. Last month saw the official release of his first feature film score The Conspiracy via Screamworks Records and it’s incredible. (You can find the soundtrack on iTunes.) Perfect for fans of John Carpenter, David Lynch, Wendy Carlos, and Tangerine Dream (as he mentions below), out of the gate Darren […]

Sound Bite

Earlier this year I reviewed Roque Baños’ score for the Evil Dead remake with great adulation. Whether or not the film was seen as successful, his score should go down as one of the year’s great creations, most specifically in the horror scenario, but I would say in film as a whole. So, in keeping […]

The Poetics of Despair: A Reading of Michel Houellebecq’s Configuration du dernier rivage

Rarely does a book by novelist Michel Houellebecq appear in print without begetting acrimony in the French literary press. The provocative, anti-soixante-huitard1 and curiously un-French Les particules élémentaires [Atomised/The Elementary Particles], perhaps one of the most doom-ridden and depressive novels in the history of French literature, caused so much uproar in France during the 1998 fall […]