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Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman on 26 August 1946 in New York City) is a prolific composer for film and television. One of his most famous compositions is the theme music for sci-fi show The X-Files.

He is brother-in-law of actress Tyne Daly and actor Tim Daly.

Snow graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City. He was a co-founder of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble.

One of his most famous compositions is the theme music for sci-fi show The X-Files, which reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart, but Snow also wrote the music for Chris Carter’s Millennium, and the background music scores for both shows, a total of 12 seasons’ worth. The X-Files typically used more instrumental music score than most hour-long dramas.

He also composed the scoring for Smallville. He has even composed music for video games, such as Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Giants: Citizen Kabuto.

He has been nominated for 12 Emmy Awards and won 18 ASCAP awards.

* According to the “Behind the Truth” segment on the Season 1 DVD, Mark Snow created the echo effect on his famous X-Files theme song by accident. Snow said that he had gone through several revisions, but Chris Carter felt that something was not quite right. Carter walked out of the room and Snow put his hand and forearm on his keyboard in frustration. Snow said, “this sound was in the keyboard. And that was it.”

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franciska_af wrote:
last month

Love The X-Files soundtrack! My fav tv show ever! <3

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mam-kota wrote:
November 2009

La Femme Nikita - Main Title

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deadgrave wrote:
October 2009

love it

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s2pac27 wrote:
August 2009

X-Files < 3

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Samzig wrote:
August 2009

Got some great news for you, La La Land records will release a 4CD X-FILES soundtrack set this year!! It will feature music from all 9 seasons of the X-Files. =)

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bewsnah wrote:
July 2009

nice tracks! who knows, is it his music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAgJYmoGL80 ? cann't find it... (((

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inVISI wrote:
July 2009

Yeah, I am listening to it right now...He is a good guy *sing*

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DukeNico wrote:
June 2009

Indeed, I just ordered it!

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Northernwaste wrote:
May 2009

2 disc Millennium Soundtrack is epic. Paper Dove: Crushed Dove is my favorite song.

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_fenrir_ wrote:
April 2009

does somebody know what is the name of the track that was featured in x-files episode called All Souls (the one about Nephilims)?

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Burn_my_Shadow wrote:
March 2009

X-Files на все поколения

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reimusho wrote:
March 2009

classic <3

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Samzig wrote:
March 2009

Just got the limited edition MillenniuM soundtrack... amazing. the packaging is friggin' wonderful also.

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josecharts wrote:
March 2009

I love the X-files theme :)

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squigbobble wrote:
March 2009

Where can I find Scully's theme?

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Plummad wrote:
February 2009

He did the music for the 1998 game "Urban Assult". Brilliant music =D and itunes will rip it off the game disk =D

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WingsOfSeraphim wrote:
February 2009

Geeeenius!! to all you X-Philes out there, this site might be useful if you understand German: http://www.x-filesmusic.de/season1.html : )

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Jamescush wrote:
January 2009

My 2 disk Millennium soundtrack just came in today. Has all of the track from the i-Tunes version but with the real names of the music and a bunch of other nice tracks. It's a must buy.

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sataraid1 wrote:
January 2009

Is this group aware that there's a new, limited edition, 2-cd Millennium soundtrack out now? It was released by La La Land Records, and is limited to 2000 units. Mine just arrived and it is SPECTACULAR. So nice to finally have a "legit" CD of this music.

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NicoGuzzi wrote:
January 2009

Hi guys, maybe you like some songs of my album "Instrumental love and disasters" http://www.lastfm.it/music/Nico+Guzzi/Instrumental+love+and+disasters If you like add in your library ;)

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