Soundtrack, Film Score, Orchestral DJ AFOS
Incognito III

This mix was first posted on Mixcloud back in 2017.

The third of my four "Incognito" mixes is another mix that reassembles the playlist and soundbites from "AFOS Incognito," a block that aired at midnight on my old internet radio station A Fistful of Soundtracks. "AFOS Incognito" focused on original scores from spy movies or shows, whether the movie was a comedy (The President's Analyst) or dead-serious (Lust, Caution).

For this reposting of "Incognito III" on HearThis, I added an audio clip to "Incognito III" that wasn't a part of the mix when I first posted it on that other site. A couple of days after I first posted "Incognito III," I stumbled into the perfect intro to Ennio Morricone's "Nadine," an instrumental from the French-made Yul Brynner/Henry Fonda spy procedural The Serpent, a.k.a. Night Flight from Moscow. It was the 1973 American trailer for The Serpent, narrated by Adolph Caesar of A Soldier's Story fame. I always wanted to go back and insert Caesar's The Serpent trailer voiceover into "Incognito III," but I never got the chance to do so until the time came to repost "Incognito III" on HearThis.

I've never watched The Serpent. But thanks to Caesar's wonderful narration (Caesar narrated tons of movie trailers before he won several awards for his performance in A Soldier's Story), the trailer is probably better than the movie itself.

"Incognito III" also features music from movies like The Russia House, Sneakers, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The 2011 version of Tinker Tailor is the visual inspiration for the new 2023 key art I designed for the four "Incognito" mixes after Mixcloud deleted from the four mixes—for some weird reason and without ever telling me—my original image of a female assassin, which I chose as the "AFOS Incognito" key art in 2015 because I wanted to evoke the opening titles from the Diana Rigg era of The Avengers. Go to hell, Mixcloud.