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Now available, free to download, is the soundtrack to Manos: The Hands of Fate.
This should provide a good idea of the way the restoration sounds, though the EQ has been rebalanced here for easier listening. While it will never be a perfectly crisp listening experience, it’s miles better than the excessively damaged and noise-reduced audio of the public domain version. As voices and sound effects could not always be removed without causing hiccups in the audio, we decided it was best that the soundtrack be released for free under Creative Commons. It’s also my hope that releasing it will bring us closer to finding out what happened to Russ Huddleston and Robert Smith, who are credited for the soundtrack and about whom very little is known.
Special thanks to Derek Singer for compiling and editing this soundtrack, and Cory Fujimori for his skillful audio restoration work.
It’s brilliant! That psychotic flute! The touching innocence of Row, Row Your Boat! The slinky allure of Love Inside This Magic Circle! The perfect soundtrack to not only the movie, but to my wearing my The Master T-Shirt all day.
Amazing work!
Odd… Bandcamp is requesting a minimum payment of USD7 …
We’ve hit our monthly limit of free downloads, then!
Our free download credits will be replenished on the 14th. In the meantime, I’ve gotten the minimum price down to $1.00- it’s the best Bandcamp will allow for now.
Might want to try a filesharing host like mediafire to host a zip of all the mp3s. It’s free for uploaders and downloaders and is very quick.
For everyone’s convenience, Torgo’s theme is “A Strange Gait”
Years ago I ripped the audio from the public-domain DVD just so I could have some of this music, although it was really murky and hardly listenable…this cleaned-up version is a TREASURE!!
Sounds super amazing! I’m really getting excited for the final product. (Speaking of which, any decision on the credits-formatting dilemma? I’d still vote for the off-center one that looks like the original, but maybe you can include both versions via branching or something!)
Wouldn’t it be great if some dark metal drum and bass dubstep rap group sampled some of this dialogue (with proper royalty payments, of course)? I’ve already peppered my conversations with “Thy Will Be Done.”
Drat, should be Thy Will Is Done … well, either one works.
Now that is something unexpected indeed… :D
This is fantastic! would it be ok to share it on the Free Music Archive?
http://freemusicarchive.org/