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Anyone know this " X Files" music ?

Started by astr0144, February 22, 2014, 09:18:16 AM

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astr0144

Anyone know this X Files music ?

Any "X Files" fans who may know this  clip of music from the 1st X Files movie from a scene near the end when Agent Mulder goes to the Antartic in search of  Agent Sculley...and comes across a large  Mothership  UFO hidden under the Ice.

Its only a very short clip of a few seconds but it used to also be in the series at times..

Something about it that I like.. about its suspense...that may also be a bit hypnotic...

I am trying to find a longer version if I can find what its called....I could not find it listed in the music in the film details or on the Amazon site for the music clips to the film.

from 56 seconds to 1 min 5 secs to 1 min 15 secs




astr0144

Hi Sky,

Thks for posting the link to the video.

Upon listening to the initial one, It is not the clip that I am searching for...
There are some other clips listed there...

I tried a few others, so far the clip has not come up..
I will have to listen to a few more..

Some of the other videos are of music to the series that I could not recall..one was the initial music to the series...but it does not compare to the later famous version !   :)   (The famous version seemed quite idea I thought)I know they did several series....that contain variations of music..Others I liked too.

It may be very hard to find just the one I am looking for...

It may have been used more in one of the earlier series and could be listed as one of them somewhere  in the titles for music used in each series.. or it may just be something that is only a very short version that does not get a mention.

Thanks for trying

Astr0

sky otter



Astro.

.i followed the trail..here's what i found ..and the last part might be what you are looking for






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_The_X-Files
The X-Files[edit]
Early conception and series (1993–2002)[edit]
Mark Snow got involved with The X-Files, since he was a good friend of executive producer R.W. Goodwin. When the production staff was talking about who was going to take the composing duties for the series, Chris Carter didn't know who to ask, in total about "10-15" people were looked at. But Goodwin pressed for Snow being the show's composer. Snow auditioned around three times, but didn't get any signs from the production staff if they wanted him. One day, Snow's agent called talking about the pilot episode, and hinted that he had got the part. At first Snow wasn't sure if he wanted to work on The X-Files, giving the reason that he felt they were "weird". So Snow eventually started to compose his music in Los Angeles, California, in which he would continue until the show's end.[1]

At the start, Carter and the producers wanted Snow to heavily use synthesizers when composing his music, to sustain a "type A atmosphere ambient sound design". Snow had commented that after a while he got tired with this, and wanted to make a new musical direction for the show. He then started to do more "musical" work, such as creating more "melodies" for his songs.[1] When composing the music for the show, the monster-of-the-week episodes, Snow got a lot more "freedom" when compared to the mytharc episodes which were much more "traditional" and conservative in its approach. Carter and the production crew gave Snow much freedom to compose his own music, rarely if ever giving him any notes on how he would record or compose his music for the series; when he was given notes they would be in a more basic form such as "too much" or "too loud", according to Snow.[2]

When creating the music for The X-Files: Fight the Future, Snow had a couple of months to write and to produce the music while he also created the music for the television show. The first film marked the first time the music for the franchise was composed and recorded with help from an orchestra. According to Snow, the recording and writing process didn't change during the making of the film. The biggest difference was that he used MIDI files to save his musical scores and pieces, which would go to a copyist who would take it through one of their programs and eventually give it to the orchestrators.[2]

The sixth season episode "The Unnatural" marked the first time in the series that the show recorded the score with musicians rather than synthesizers. Slide guitar player Nick Kirgo and harmonica player Tommy Morgan assisted Snow with the score.[3]

For the seventh season episode "Closure", Mark Snow's music was not used, being replaced by Moby's "My Weakness". Carter never told Snow about this change. While Snow has been confirmed to be more positive to it than negative, saying it fit "perfect", and further stating, "Every once in a while, when Chris would pick out a pop song or whatever, he would always make really great choices and I thought that was a good one."[2]

"Within", the season eight premiere, was the first of six episodes to feature the song "Scully's Theme". The other five were "Without", "Per Manum", "This Is Not Happening", "Deadalive" and the season finale "Existence". The song features a solo female voice that repeats the distorted words "We are near" over and over. According to Carter, it is one of the greatest things that series composer Snow has ever done. Carter himself admitted to "tweaking" the song a little, adding the three words that are repeated over and over, with the idea to "distort" them.[4]

I Want to Believe (2008)[edit]
After The X-Files was cancelled in 2002, Chris Carter and his crew started working with a goal of releasing a second X-Files film. In 2003, Carter called Snow, who by that time lived in London, UK and said he wanted him to return for another film. Snow was positive to the idea, but filming got bogged down by contract issues between Fox and Carter. Once the contract issues were sorted out, Carter re-contacted Snow about the development and later on sent him the script for the film. Carter and his production crew wanted as much secrecy for the film as possible, forcing Snow to sign a contract when receiving the script. Snow wrote a couple of demos at the start, in which Carter and Frank Spotnitz were not to pleased about, but it eventually worked out when Snow re-recorded them.[2]

When composing the music for The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Snow said it was "different" from the previous film which followed the show's mytharc storyline about the government conspiracy with aliens. He said it was much "more heart, warmth and tuneful music" since this film was much more based around Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully's (Gillian Anderson) relationship.[2]

Snow recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony in May 2008 at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox in Century City, California.[5] No music was written out during Snow's recording season with the symphony orchestra. When making the music, Snow used many instruments such as a "battery of percussion", taiko drums and whistle with live singers, among other things. It took four days to record and writing music for and with the orchestra. He used no trumpets and no high woodwinds when recording, but used up to eight french horns, five trombones, two piano, one harp, thirty-two violins, sixteen violas twelve cellos and eight basses.[2]

British performers UNKLE recorded a new version of the theme music for the end credits to the movie.[6] Some of the unusual sounds were created by a variation of silly putty and dimes tucked in between and over the strings of the piano. Mark Snow also comments that the fast percussion featured in some tracks was inspired by the track 'Prospectors Quartet' from the There Will Be Blood soundtrack.[7] UNKLE's song "Broken" was also included in the end credits.

Millennium[edit]
The theme music for Millennium was created by Mark Snow. A popular belief amongst fans is that the theme song was inspired by Kylie Minogue's dance pop song "Confide In Me". In reality, Chris Carter allegedly sent him a traditional Scottish céilidh song.[8]

Reception and legacy[edit]
"The X-Files" theme music went straight to #2 on March 30, 1996, on the UK Singles Chart and stayed there for three weeks, then kept on dropping.[9] In France, the single entered the chart at #42 on April 6, 1996, climbed quickly until reaching #2 four weeks later. It remained blocked for five weeks at this position, behind Robert Miles's hit "Children", then topped the chart for a sole week, becoming the second instrumental number-one hit, before climbing. It totalled 1 weeks in the top ten and 30 weeks in the top 50. The single was re-charted from October 1998, but remained in low positions. It is the 754th best-selling single of all time in France.[10]



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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701/

The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Soundtracks
Ooh La La
Written by Deborah Poppink and Amy Roegler
Performed by Deborah Poppink
Courtesy of Deborah Poppink, by arrangement with Bug
(can be heard in Monica Bannan's car)
See more »


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and finally

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701/soundtrack

Edit 
The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) Soundtracks
Showing all 5 items
Ooh La La
Written by Deborah Poppink and Amy Roegler
Performed by Deborah Poppink
Courtesy of Deborah Poppink, by arrangement with Bug
(can be heard in Monica Bannan's car)

Movin' On Up
(1975)
Written by Jeff Barry and Ja'net DuBois (as Jeannette DuBois)
Performed by Ja'net DuBois (as Ja'Net DuBois)
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television Inc.
Under license from Sony Pictures Music Group
(in Father Joe's apartment)

Memories Child
(2002)
Written and Performed by Jamison Young
Courtesy of BeatPick
(in Cheryl Cunningham's car)

The X-Files Theme (UNKLE Remix)
(1998)
Composed by Mark Snow
Remixed by Unkle (as UNKLE)
UNKLE performs courtesy of Surrender All Ltd.
By Arrangement with Zync Music

Broken
(2007)
Written by Gavin Clarke (as Gavin Clark), James Lavelle, Richard File and Christopher Allen Goss (as Chris Goss)
Performed by Unkle (as UNKLE) featuring Gavin Clarke (as Gavin Clark)
Courtesy of Surrender All Ltd.
By Arrangement with Zync Music Inc.

astr0144

I did try to search for it in the past and think that I looked at the wikipedia info on X Files Music...

Then I was able to also look at I think it was on Amazon where they have some short clips of music to certain X Files film soundtracks and it may had been also from some of the series...At the time I did not find it.

I was watching the 'X Files' film last night (again) that included that video clip that I posted...

What I think I will have to do is record the part I like several times as it repeats the same or similarly and piece it together on a sound editor program....Audatity or something similar..so it can play for a few mins rather than seconds...

That may be quicker to do than searching for it... if it is not easy to find within a set time...

burntheships

Interestly enough, the welcome music
on PRC is Mark Snow, The Beginning.

From the X-files.

8)
"This is the Documentary Channel"
- Zorgon

burntheships

"This is the Documentary Channel"
- Zorgon

burntheships

#7
A few more ....

This one is excellent, imo.



This one too....





"This is the Documentary Channel"
- Zorgon

burntheships

#8
Two more....





And....one more this one is "Closure"

8 minutes...nice!





Ok....yah lol several more...
Mark Snow was veeeerrry creative.



"This is the Documentary Channel"
- Zorgon

astr0144

#9
Thanks for posting some extra X Files clips BTS...


this is something that gives short clips of the sound tracks to the "X Files" film...

what I am looking for may be one of these....but they only show part of the track

There may be other sound track clips to other X Files films or from the series..


http://www.amazon.com/The-X-Files-Future-Original-Picture/dp/B000006OAU

found this also ...it lets you play the whole thing free !

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/The+X+Files+Fight+The+Future+The+Score/4218122


Some of Mark Snows Tracks  :) This may  also include also some of  the X Files music to some of the series...

http://grooveshark.com/#!/marksnow