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STYE795 · Emotive Mysterious Underscore · Evan Hodges
Composer Evan Hodges has scored over 40 films and documentaries. His first album with STYE blends analogue synths with organic instrumentation to create moody, futuristic, emotive underscores with that are both haunting and cinematic.
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ReleasedOct 2021

Tracks

10 main mixes
Unraveling At The Seams
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:04·70 bpm·A flatm·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

Sparse piano figures over analogue synth drone at a slow 70 BPM in A flat minor, unsettled and introspective rather than overtly threatening. The title's sense of things coming apart suits footage of a case or relationship deteriorating, and the drone-led bed leaves room for narration.

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3:04
A Droning Thought
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:17·82 bpm·Cm·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

The most forward-moving cue on the set at 82 BPM in C minor, pairing a sustained synth drone with pensive piano so the pulse creeps rather than drives. Fits thinking-in-motion sequences: a subject driving at night, lab or research montage, or a documentary passage of unresolved questioning.

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3:17
Pacing Towards Darkness
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:32·55 bpm·B flatm·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

At 55 BPM in B flat minor this is one of the slowest and longest cues here, a heavy, deliberate drone-and-piano tread that grows darker across three and a half minutes. Use it for approaching-danger footage, a slow walk toward a reveal, or the turn in a crime narrative.

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3:32
Wandering In The Vastness
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:15·98 bpm·Dm·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

The fastest track on the album at 98 BPM in D minor, with piano over synth drone giving a restless, travelling motion. Suited to aerial desert or space imagery, expedition footage and long-distance journey montages where the pace needs to keep moving under narration.

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3:15
The Barren Wasteland
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:19·58 bpm·C#m·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

A desolate 58 BPM bed in C sharp minor built on sustained synth drone with isolated piano notes, evoking empty landscape and heat-hazed distance. Works for post-apocalyptic or drought imagery, abandoned locations and sombre interview beds.

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3:19
A Sinking Feeling
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
2:58·65 bpm·Am·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

Shortest of the mid-tempo cues at 2:57, 65 BPM in A minor, with piano sinking through a low analogue drone. Effective for the moment a character realises something has gone wrong — bad news, a diagnosis, a plan collapsing.

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2:58
Descending Dread
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:17·59 bpm·Bm·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

A downward-leaning 59 BPM cue in B minor where the drone thickens under pensive piano, holding dread without releasing it. Suits horror or thriller descents, cold-case sequences and any scene where the tension needs to sit unresolved.

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3:17
The Sheer Cold
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
2:23·54 bpm·Em·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

At 2:23 the briefest and slowest cue here, 54 BPM in E minor, stark synth drone with minimal piano and plenty of air. A useful short transition or scene-setter for arctic, night or morgue imagery, and easy to place under voiceover.

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2:23
The Chilling Truth
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:12·58 bpm·Gm·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

58 BPM in G minor, a sober piano-over-drone bed with a quietly ominous cast that fits the moment a fact lands. Built for testimony, archive reveals and documentary passages where information turns unsettling.

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3:12
Dissolved
STYE795 · Gateway · Evan Hodges
3:19·70 bpm·C#m·3 versions
Underscore, Film ScoreAnticipation, Dark, Desert

A 70 BPM C sharp minor cue where piano blurs into a long analogue drone, hazy and dissolving rather than pointed. Good for memory, grief and dream sequences, drifting space imagery, or an end-of-episode fade.

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3:19

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