Don’t look for General Johnson, The Beach Boys or even Dick Dale here, but for a varied selection from specialist surf film soundtracks, covering many different musical styles. Examples take us from the clean and melodic guitar instrumentals of The Sandals, who provide Wild As The Sea and the Theme From Endless Summer, through to the heavy and extended rock of Farm’s Coming Of Dawn, by way of some psychinspired Aussie guitar on Taman Shud’s Evolution.
Surf soundtracks always veered away from the more clich
