''Halloween'' is a soundtrack album composed and performed by
John Carpenter
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, featuring the score to the 1978 film ''
Halloween
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''. It was released in Japan in 1979 through
Columbia Records
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and in the US in 1983 through
Varèse Sarabande
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. An expanded 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 1998 through Varèse Sarabande. In 2018, an LP was released by
Mondo Records
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featuring the mono tracks taken from the original 35mm stem of the film and for the first time features the music as originally heard in theaters and on the earliest VHS releases of the film. The soundtrack would later play a major role in influencing the
synthwave
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music genre.
Track listing
Personnel
*
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He ...
– composition, performance
* Dan Wyman – synthesizer programming
* Peter Bergren – recording engineer
References
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1978 soundtrack albums
John Carpenter soundtracks
Horror film soundtracks
Film scores
Columbia Records soundtracks
Varèse Sarabande soundtracks
Halloween albums
Halloween (franchise) soundtracks