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The Thirteenth Floor

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I've not even seen "The Thirteenth Floor," but listening to this album over and over again as I've been doing, I really want to. Within the shiny little spinning disc is an incredible range of music. Often, film scores end up as collections of variations. Not so here. The breadth and depth of Mr. Kloser's offering is incredible. A worthwhile mix of orchestral, period, moody, techno, dramatic, symphonic. And Mr. Kloser works his orchestra. By far the primo piece is "Downtown LA, 1937." The entire album is like a great meal at a cherished restaurant.

I expect more copies of this CD would sell if samples of the Grand Wilshire Swing Suite were made available. The best song on the CD is 'Easy Come, Easy Go'.

It seems like that Roland Emmerich has gave you another fresh composer to the US. His name is Harold Kloser. Even though Kloser is no James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith. He is a very good composer. This soundtrack has no one theme to it instead it reminds me of the movie Antz because it uses many different themes. The CD starts of with Downtown LA,1937 which is a wounderous piece of music then goes to Janes Theme which opens the film. It is a soft jazz piece which is very well done. The suspense music like Locker Chase is very well done and never over bearing. But the Wilshire grand Suite seems a little out of place in the cd but none the less is very fun music. I am ver excited to see what harold Kloser does next. Also this had great sound quality.

Well Centropolis Entertainment has done it again with their movie scores. He might not be a David Arnold, Jerry Goldsmith or even a John Williams, but Harold Klosler delivered an execlent score for "The Thirteenth Floor", and I'm not kidding, this guy is good. While David Arnold is too busy doing the "James Bond" scores, Roland Emmerich(Executive Producer)always gives young talent a chance (however old he is). If you enjoy a simple expressive score, this is what I recommend to you. My personal favourites were "Downtown 1937" and "Jane's Theme".If you are thinking fo buying this, I say go for it, just listen to the samples on this page. Paul Raymondo Hemsley.

Having Johnny Crawford and his Orchestra on this soundtrack made it a plus for me!!!! They did such wonderful orchestrations of those really old songs....and took you back in time.
Here, here, for Mr. Crawford and his orchestra.....
Bravo!!!!!
Buy the CD if you are remotely curious about how this child actor, made good in the music field.
Well worth it.

If you think of buying this soundtrack, do it. It's worth every penny, and even though it's not from a famous composer like Williams, it's definitely a great soundtrack.It's a perfect mixture of the 20's music and modern styles.But this great soundtrack has been wasted on a movie, which - although it isn't bad - doesn't really deserve it.....