Severance - and alternative soundtrack

 

I love doing these alternative soundtrack mixes. I believe this is the fifth one I made. Sometimes I have the mix take the soundtrack in a different direction and sometimes I simply follow the vibe of the original with all new tracks. This mix takes the later approach.

For anyone not familiar with it, Severance is a series on AppleTV+, an eerie dystopia where people can sever their work life from their home life with a brain implant. Variations on the main theme are used throughout the show. It's just odd & sinister enough to leave you feeling off kilter. Here's the opening credit sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug

And here's the series trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYlG5I4rOk

I was happy to have stumbled upon a collection of Erik Satie piano pieces that I've had for 40 years and found that the Gnossienne tracks worked perfectly with the feel of the Severance theme. Another common sound in the show is ticking or pulsing so you hear that in the Hans Zimmer cut and The Nick Cave track as well as a few others. 

Even if you don't watch the show I hope you enjoy the mix.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Just a Human - The Basement (2022)
• 01:20    Hans Zimmer - The Mole (Dunkirk 2017)
• 02:58    Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 (Early Piano Works, Vol. 1 1975)
• 08:31    Roedelius & Tim Story - Seeweed (4 Hands 2022)
• 12:19    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Orphans of Krypton (Watchmen 2019)
• 14:11    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Red Ford (Kings OST 2018)
• 16:18    Piero Umiliani - Sole Percussioni (Continente Nero 1975)
• 18:50    Martin Glass - Okinawa Fantasia (The Pacific VIsions Of Martin Glass 2017)
• 20:10    Wilburn Burchette - Witch's Will (I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990, 2013)
• 21:33    Eli Keszler - Realtor Creep (The Scary of Sixty-First 2021)
• 22:14    Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Mysterioso #2 Film Version (Twin Peaks Archive 2011)
• 25:38    Nicholas Britell - Keepers of the Keys and Seals (If Beale Street Could Talk 2018)
• 27:20    Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer, Samuel Rohrer - What We Leave (Amiira 2016)
• 32:08    Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 4 (Early Piano Works, Vol. 1 1975)
• 35:02    Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton - Insula (Isolarii 2022)
• 38:19    Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer, Samuel Rohrer - Flimmer (Amiira 2016)
• 40:20    Seefeel - Monastic (Succour [Redux] 2021)
• 46:08    Tale Of Us - Alla sera (Endless 2017)
• 52:09    Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 3 (Early Piano Works, Vol. 1 1975)
• 56:33    end