DJ Profile
soundtracks music online from A Fistful of Soundtracks on Live365 Internet Radio
DJ: Jim
Location: San Jose, CA

AIM:
The Fistful of Soundtracks Internet radio station has been streaming film and TV score music since 2002. One of the programs on the station's lineup is the program of the same name that I began during my sophomore year at UC Santa Cruz because I wanted to bring a film music radio program to the local airwaves. I didn't want to play typical college radio music, so I rebelled and started A Fistful of Soundtracks, which first aired on KZSC on Friday, June 21, 1997 at 12:30am. The only Santa Cruzans listening to the radio at 12:30am are either gas station clerks or paranoid potheads who have no choice but to flick on the radio because they're afraid their TV sets are going to attack them and do some creepy Videodrome thing with one of their orifices or something. This wasn't the audience I was looking for, but hey, I had to start somewhere.

My favorite film composers include Schifrin, Elfman, and of course, Morricone. Like the members of The Clash (R.I.P. Joe Strummer), I've been fascinated by Morricone's music and the amoral, gritty, sometimes badly dubbed world of spaghetti westerns. The title A Fistful of Soundtracks is a shout-out to Sergio Leone and Morricone, whose Fistful of Dollars main title theme was the other tune besides A Tribe Called Quest's "Check the Rhime" that I couldn't stop humming when I was a teenager.

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http://afistfulofsoundtracks.blogspot.com/
Favorite Artists

Ennio Morricone/the Easy Tempo composers
Il Maestro is the greatest film composer ever. Other '60s and '70s Italian composers--Piero Piccioni, Stelvio Cipriani, Armando Trovajoli and Piero Umiliani--did some great work too. Pretty kickass composing back in the day.

David Holmes
This Belfast DJ did the scores from Out of Sight and the Ocean's movies. And he lists the film music of John Carpenter as an influence. Awesome.

The Clash
London Calling and Sandinista! (or to be more precise, the tracks on Sandinista! that aren't filler) are some of my favorite albums.

De La Soul/A Tribe Called Quest/Black Sheep
My iPod is filled with De La songs. The Quest albums The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders were like my soundtrack during high school.

Go Home Productions
I had to include a bootlegger on this list. Mark Vidler is the illest. www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/

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