{"id":3114,"date":"2011-06-20T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:52:12","slug":"soundtrack-reviews-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack Reviews + News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just uploaded are a quartet of fun action & sci-fi scores for video games. La-La Land Recorss have released a pair of beautifully mastered 2-disc sets for hans Zimmer’s Crysis II<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] and Bear McCreary’s SOCOM 4: Navy SEALs<\/a> <\/strong>[M<\/a>],\u00a0and Bioware’s released Inon Zur’s music from Dragon Age II<\/a> <\/strong>[M<\/a>]. I’ve also added a review of Zur’s score for the first Crysis<\/strong> <\/a>[M<\/a>] (Sumthing Else Music) to rounf things out.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview in May, Winifred Philips spoke to the Sound Byte Blog<\/a> regarding life as a working film and video game composer. The Q&A runs a meaty 20 mins., and it’s a genial piece where Phillips discusses her career, including recent releases such as Sim Animals<\/strong><\/a> (2008), Spore Hero<\/a><\/strong> (2009), and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole <\/strong><\/a>(2010).<\/p>\n

Lastly, Universal recently released Ridley Scott’s Legend <\/strong>(1986) on Blu-ray, and the Digital Bits noted<\/a> a few extras from the DVD weren’t ported over. Missing are “the 3 animated storyboard sequences, the production notes (that help to provide context for some of the extras), the standard cast & crew bios and – most importantly – the DVD-ROM features which included a script-to-screen viewer.” I reviewed the DVD<\/a> when it emerged in 2002, and I keep having to clarify the following: the Tangerine Dream score is NOT isolated on the DVD; it’s the album tracks dumped into a separate audio track *in mono*. It’s a useless feature on the DVD and BR, and Universal most likely was told by The Dream’s management not to isolated the score in stereo, rather than the studio being cheap.<\/p>\n

Those interested in the BR edition can read a Q&A<\/a> between Film Score Monthly’s Andy Dursin and Special Features producer Charles de Lauzirika.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviews of four fun video game soundtracks: Bear McCreary’s SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs and Hans Zimmer & Company’s Crysis II (both from La-La Land Records), and Inon Zur’s Dragon Age II (Bioware) and Crysis (Sumthing Else), plus news regarding recent Q&As with composer Winifred Phillips (Legend of the Guardians), and Special Features producer Charles de Lauzirikia regarding Universal’s recent Legend (1984) Blu-ray…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[552,554,162,550,545,555,553,50],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-Oe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}