The Film Sessions: A Mixtape for Designers / Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author

The Film Sessions: A Mixtape for Designers

published 14 April 2011

Blake Allen, a man with impeccably good taste in music and the founder of Designers.MX, has just posted my mixtape: The Film Sessions, Volume One.

I’m a film score nut. For a short time during college I was a music major with aspirations of becoming a composer for films. Obviously, I never made the cut, so I live out glory days gone by through collecting and arrange scores that others have composed. Sure, I enjoy indie rock as much as anyone else while working, but I also enjoy relaxing instrumental pieces as a soundtrack to my workday.

Over the past couple weeks I’ve carefully edited, deleted, and arranged the 10 tracks in my mix. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I do. I’m three songs into arranging Volume Two, assuming enough of you enjoy the first volume.

A few tracks have been edited to select only the part of the score that I felt was a strong complement to the others in the mix — and to the overall feel of the mix. Track 2, for example, from James Newton Howard’s score for The Village, begins at the 2:36 mark. At that moment in the piece, the introduction is so aurally stunning that I never tire of beginning the song at that very moment.

So, go have a listen. When you’re done, check out Blake’s Movie Music mix for further listening. And because a few of you may ask, the cover art is a photo from my Instagram feed and the typeface is Knockout by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.