BOB MITHOFF, from pop-rock to the movies
With a constant work increase in the cinematographic world, Bob Mithoff is the perfect example from the jump that they have accomplished multitude of composers from the world of the pop-rock to that of the cinema music. Began around the end of the seventies as soloist, giving the qualitative jump when was converted in arranger and player for artists as popular as Laura Brannigan or Julio Iglesias; is this experience the one which helped him to be introduced in the cinema, when he is required to arrange themes of two action films very successful in the eighties, Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Action Jackson (1988). His studies of Musical Theory and Composition in the Music and Arts Institute of San Francisco will serve him, from this moment, to devote his efforts to the cinematographic music, first with television projects -as Working Tra$h (1990), his first work for the screen-, and thereinafter with independent or commercial-type productions.
His promotional record, available through his own Home Page, offers five good examples of his music through different genders and styles, and is opened with New York Cop (1996), where the most modern and current sound of the urban action cinema serves as base for his music. More original and interesting are his scores for Dead Giveaway (1995), with its sound reminiscences southerner-style like Ry Cooder's, and Something from Nothing (1994), whose style openly classicist and the good thematic managing clame for a massive orchestral treatment. Dragonfight (1990) returns to the action cinema, with eastern touches and a sound between epic and mystical, and gives step to the very interesting seven brief cues of Fender Bender 500 (1991) -none goes up to the minute -, a cartoon series by Hanna-Barbera.

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IT'S MUSIC!

New York Cop (1996) - 15:32
Dead Giveaway (1995) - 5:45
Something from Nothing (1994) - 9:58
Dragonfight (1990) - 11:59
Fender Bender 500 (1991) - 3:50

SHINOLA PRODUCTIONS - SHINOLA014U / 47'

Filmography:
1978 - DON KIRSCHNER'S ROCK CONCERT [Songwriter]
1984 - BEVERLY HILLS COP [Arrangements]
1988 - ACTION JACKSON [Arrangements]
1990 - WORKING TRA$H (TV)
- LAMBADA, THE FORBIDDEN DANCE [Songwriter]
- MY BLUE HEAVEN [Arrangements]
- CITY (TV)
1991 - NBC BEST (TV)
- FENDER BENDER 500 (TV)
- DRAGONFIGHT
1992 - LANDSLIDE
- GOTCHA! (TV)
1994 - CYBORG SOLDIER
- SOMETHING FROM NOTHING
1995 - DEAD GIVEAWAY
1996 - NEW YORK COP
1997 - BUFFALO SOLDIER
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