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Nick Of Time (1995 Film)

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This is a great score! It has all the essential parts for a great score. I always wanted this score and now that I have it, it is great! I reccommend that whoever saw the movie should buy this score. Truly a great score!

Arthur Rubinstein, who is fairly new to me is an interesting composer. I have never heard of him until recently, ... I had always been curious about this one, having seen the film before, but never remembered what the music in it sounded like. Finally, I decided to pick it up and give it a chance and i'm glad I finally did. Rubinstein uses an 89 piece orchestra with a few singers. Rubinstein explains that more than any other score that he's done, for this one he had to go totally on visceral instincts. The result: a clockwork score that ticks it's way for about 30 minutes. The music is complete with strings, brass, percussion, and harps. The score musically illustrates the thematic passage of time by serving as a ticking clock, which is explained in the liner notes. The score is composed at either 60 or 120 beats per minute so that you could hear the percussion keeping time, each beat equaling one second. This is most evident in "Nick of Time - Main Title" as well as "Survival of the Innocents". Lots of bells are used as well as percussion so that it sounds a lot like a ticking clock. The rest of the soundtrack is mostly action music with punctuating brass, synthesizers, and percussion. A few tracks to note besides the first and last are "A Very Big Target" and "1:30". These have the best action music in the score and are a perfect example of what I just described. If you find this score, I recommend getting it because it is good .... I'm looking forward to Arthur Rubinstein's future scores and hope that he breaks into the film scoring world a lot more.