johnny daukes

music and songs for film and tv

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The Corkscrew

Having placed the funkiest jazz track in history in the cut and fallen in love with it, the clearances came back and we promptly fell out of love with it. This track needed to augment the state of two stoned pensioners who were ‘as high as kites’ whilst levening it with wry...

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Oh! Lovely Face of Death

This track was a blatant attempt (at the request of Director Marc Munden) to reproduce the sound and vibe of Tom Waits’s ‘Murder In The Red Barn’. Waits uses bones as percussive elements but I didn’t have any lying around so had to make do with whacking a coal...

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A La Mode

In the film ‘Acts of Godfrey’ there’s a flashback to the 80’s. The visual treatment is primitive computer graphics and I supported that with this slice of Electro-Pop that would sit comfortably on an early Depeche Mode record. There’s now a sound module...

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Fuzzy Duck

This dance scene had been shot to The Big Bopper’s ‘Chantilly Lace’ which, during the edit, presented a budgetary issue. I recorded a Chuck Berry-like track to match the energy of the dancing and to retain the sync with the action perfectly.

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Sex On Screen

To play alongside this deliberately clinical and literal description of how sex is depicted in film and TV, I composed a track using rhythmical male and female breaths (the voices are Christine Lockhart and me) in a mechanised pattern. I initially thought it sounded like Stereolab but...

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