Farscape: Music from the Original Soundtrack

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The time-and-space-bending sci-fi series Farscape incorporates many an alien world and species into its action-packed adventures. As such, it’s a film scorer’s playbook, one that calls for everything from traditional (read: kitschy) space music to out-and-out bombast. Though a single disc, Farscape covers the show’s first two seasons. The Australian composing team of SubVision (Chris, Toby, and Braedy Neal) handles the initial episodes with a heavily synthesized hybrid of percussive flourish, swooping electronic effects, and ominous choirs. By contrast, Guy Gross’s second-season music is more organic and subdued, finding its dramatic tension in subtle, emotionally connected ways. –Jerry McCulley