“Committed” by Calexico, Various Artists

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I‘ve created these two covers, because this cool summer soundtrack by Calexico was provided with the arguably ugliest cover ever. An off-putting piece of crap. It’s so ugly I don’t even want to post it here. I don’t know what the movie is like, because I lost all interest in it. My creations are therefore solely sprung from my mind on how a film to this music should look like. For the background image I was browsing Google’s picture search using different search terms. The photo I finally found was in fact not shot in the United States but in…

“Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth” by Kow Otani

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The cover series for Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth has to be one of my all-time favourites. I literally couldn’t wait to upload this collection and show it to you. I’m splitting this entry into two parts, because I created two different kinds of covers. At first three general artworks, which apply to the soundtrack as a whole. A remake (#1) of the original cover as it was released by King Record Co. in 2005. Followed by a custom design based on the official game box art (#2). I had to crop it a little and moved Wander on…

“Sunshine” by John Murphy, Underworld

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Getting hold of the soundtrack to Danny Boyle’s 2007 Sci-Fi Thriller Sunshine was a task almost as impossible as the one the film’s protagonists had to complete. For over 1,5 years, until the score finally got it’s official release on iTunes, I was searching for a promo score or at least a proper audiostream from the DVD source. I spent literally months scouring through the IMDB boards, different fansites and countless soundtrack forums. I even went through the whole Underworld discography, only to find one or another snippet of music that’s been used in the film. Yes, I was in…

“Oblivion” by Anthony Gonzalez, Joseph Trapanese, M83

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When I first saw the teaser poster for Joseph Kosinski’s second feature film Oblivion, I immediately knew I would design custom covers for its soundtrack. There are certain colour palettes and temperatures, that draw my attention every time, I can’t help it. The score was composed by M83’s Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Trapanese and has a few standout tracks, e.g. “StarWaves”, which reminds me of John Murphy’s Sunshine. Or “Radiaton Zone”, which features a drum battle(!) between Loic Maurin and Ilan Rubin. Great Stuff! The custom covers fill the whole range from dead easy to damn difficult. My first entry (#1)…

“The Happening” by James Newton Howard

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This was more like a contract job. I appreciate the score by James Newton Howard for it’s eerie, menacing athmosphere, but the film he wrote it for – let’s be honest – is crap! Thus the soundtrack has a bitter smack. Nevertheless I stumbled upon a few film wallpapers that offered themselves for custom covers. So I added them to my ever growing to-do-list and tonight I was finally able to complete this task. Each cover needed a bit of tweaking. I cropped out elements to make it fit into the square template (#5), toned down the image with colour-correction…