If you have seen the latest Marvel Movie ‘Deadpool’, you will have noticed something: The sound of ‘Beat It’ is frankly all over this movie soundtrack!
And no, you were not imagining it just because you are a MJ fan! It is ‘Beat It’ and the Deadpool’s soudtrack composer Tom Holkenbor has confirmed this! (just in case you were thinking you gone crazy).
“I thought it was great to use sounds and musical ideas that in the 80s were perceived as very serious, and now, in hindsight, when you play them back, they’re very funny,” he says.
Holkenborg wanted to give Deadpool a signature ‘80s vibe. But while the heavy synth sounds from the Escape from New York era were serious and foreboding at the time, they can sound kinda silly and dated now. That was Holkenborg’s challenge: He wanted to strike a retro tone that was “fun—but not funny.”
So he started off with a clone of an ARP 2600 synth with to find the right riff to carry throughout the soundtrack, “to propel motion, to propel action.” Then he turned to the same Oberheim synthesizer used for Van Halen’s “Jump”to create a gritty riff for more emotional scenes. And of course it wouldn’t be the ‘80s without the sound of the Synclavier, which is best known as the iconic, eerie sound at the beginning of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”
SOURCE: io9
WOW! Way cool! Way cool!