(Halloween) We Ask Musicians: What's your favorite John Carpenter score?

Ever watch John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 only to pause it before the opening credits finish just to do a quick web search to determine which hip hop producer sampled the main title theme? It's no surprise Afrika Bambaataa was onto Carpenter scores well before some of us were even born. Carpenter's soundtracks are characterized by modulated synthesizer textures that create tension through minimalism. Throughout the 70s and 80s Carpenter, often assisted by Alan Howarth, under...

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