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A Fistful of Soundtracks This page is for fans of the long-defunct internet radio station A Fistful of Soundtracks.

From February 2002 to January 2016, AFOS (A Fistful of Soundtracks) was an internet radio station that streamed music from film and TV scores. iTunes added AFOS to its list of Staff Favorites in January 2009 (http://afistfulofsoundtracks.blogspot.com/2009/01/fistful-of-soundtracks-is-now-itunes.html).

From my HearThis page: "This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017. The third of my four 'Incognito' mixes is an...
01/03/2023

From my HearThis page: "This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017. The third of my four 'Incognito' mixes is another mix that reassembles the playlist and soundbites from 'AFOS Incognito,' a block that aired at midnight on my old internet radio station A Fistful of Soundtracks. 'AFOS Incognito' focused on original scores from spy movies or shows, whether the movie was a comedy (The President's Analyst) or dead-serious (Lust, Caution). For this reposting of 'Incognito III' on HearThis, I added an audio clip to 'Incognito III' that wasn't a part of the mix when I first posted it on that other site. A couple of days after I first posted 'Incognito III,' I stumbled into the perfect intro to Ennio Morricone's 'Nadine,' an instrumental from the French-made Yul Brynner/Henry Fonda spy procedural The Serpent, a.k.a. Night Flight from Moscow. It was the 1973 American trailer for The Serpent, narrated by Adolph Caesar of A Soldier's Story fame. I always wanted to go back and insert Caesar's The Serpent trailer voiceover into 'Incognito III,' but I never got the chance to do so until the time came to repost 'Incognito III' on HearThis. I've never watched The Serpent. But thanks to Caesar's wonderful narration (Caesar narrated tons of movie trailers before he won several awards for his performance in A Soldier's Story), the trailer is probably better than the movie itself. 'Incognito III' also features music from movies like The Russia House, Sneakers, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The 2011 version of Tinker Tailor is the visual inspiration for the new 2023 key art I designed for the four 'Incognito' mixes after Mixcloud deleted from the four mixes—for some weird reason and without ever telling me—my original image of a female assassin, which I chose as the 'AFOS Incognito' key art in 2015 because I wanted to evoke the opening titles from the Diana Rigg era of The Avengers. Go to hell, Mixcloud."

Listen to Incognito III by DJ AFOS on hearthis.at | Soundtrack, Film Score, Orchestral, Instrumental, Lounge

From my HearThis page: "This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017. The second of my four 'Incognito' mixes recr...
01/03/2023

From my HearThis page: "This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017. The second of my four 'Incognito' mixes recreates 'AFOS Incognito,' the midnight block on my long-defunct internet radio station A Fistful of Soundtracks. 'AFOS Incognito' focused on original scores from spy movies or shows. 'Incognito' was originally one long 2-hour-and-18-minute file, but Mixcloud was being a colossal dick when I tried to upload the file. The site rejected the file every time I tried to upload it, so I decided to divide the mix into three separate mixes. It's not the first—or the last—of many issues I've had with the frustrating-as-hell Mixcloud. 'Incognito II' features music from movies like Cleopatra Jones, Hanna, and Ronin, as well as music from shows like The Venture Bros. and The Americans."

Listen to Incognito II by DJ AFOS on hearthis.at | Soundtrack, Film Score, Orchestral, Instrumental, Lounge

From my HearThis page: "This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017. In its final year as an internet radio stati...
01/03/2023

From my HearThis page: "This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017. In its final year as an internet radio station, A Fistful of Soundtracks had, at midnight Pacific Standard Time every weeknight, a block of music called 'AFOS Incognito.' It was two hours of music from original scores that were written for spy movies or shows. I launched 'AFOS Incognito' because about a decade before, I became a fan of the SomaFM channel Secret Agent, but I was starting to find it to be repetitive. Its playlist sounded like it was frozen in 2003. SomaFM founder Rusty Hodge liked to slip 007 movie soundbites into Secret Agent, but none of the soundbites were from the Daniel Craig era, and that bugged me a bit. I wanted 'AFOS Incognito' to not sound like it was frozen in 2003, so its playlist included music from much more recent spy movies like Craig's 007 movies, in addition to music from classics like The Ipcress File and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. The first three 'Incognito' mixes recreate exactly how 'AFOS Incognito' sounded from 2015 to my station's demise in 2016, while the fourth 'Incognito' mix imagines how the midnight block would have sounded had I continued running the station after 2016 (I would have added a ton of tracks from Ludwig Göransson's score to Black Panther, a movie Ryan Coogler referred to as his 007 movie). 'Incognito I' features music from movies like On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, and OSS 117: Lost in Rio, as well as music from shows like It Takes a Thief, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Get Smart, and Alias."

Listen to Incognito I by DJ AFOS on hearthis.at | Soundtrack, Film Score, Orchestral, Instrumental, Lounge

Jim here. Since 2022, I visit Bacefook on only one day a year—my birthday—and before my birthday ends and I go back to s...
28/01/2023

Jim here. Since 2022, I visit Bacefook on only one day a year—my birthday—and before my birthday ends and I go back to staying away from Bacefook for 364 days, here's a new blog post regarding the AFOS HearThis page and the December 2022 changes to Mixcloud. (Spoiler: The changes suck.)

You're going to want to copy and paste this URL or bookmark it because from now on, it will be my archive of content from my old internet radio station about film scores: https://hearthis.at/dj-afos-ny/

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