Morricone Youth is a New York City septet formed in 1999 dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music. Current members include Devon E. Levins (guitar), John Castro (bass/vocals), Dan Kessler (keyboards), Karla Rose (vocals/percussion), Fraser Campbell (tenor saxophone clarinet/flute), Daniel Lehner (trombone) and Timur Yusef (drums). In addition to a repertoire of over 100 reworkings of soundtrack covers, many of which recorded for various EPs released by Country Club Records, the band composes original music much in the same vein for the "imaginary film" as well as for live settings to accompany silent films, midnight movies, animations and shorts. Morricone Youth recorded its debut full length album of original music entitled "Silenzio Violento" with legendary Brooklyn producer/engineer Martin Bisi released by Country Club Records in 2005. The band's music has regularly been used for television and films, most recently in the documentary "Second Skin" directed by Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). The band is currently writing for its follow up full length album.

Guitarist/founder Devon E. Levins, formerly of San Diego's avant-garde jazz punk band Creedle, has been a dedicated soundtrack record collector since the 80's and has hosted a weekly internet radio show since 2007 on East Village Radio under the same Morricone Youth name curating primarily obscure music written for the moving image and interviewing soundtrack composers and filmmakers.