{"id":5589,"date":"2012-10-11T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2012-10-11T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T17:48:35","slug":"cd-blade-runner-1982-30th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5589","title":{"rendered":"CD: Blade Runner (1982) – 30th Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label: Buysoundtrax Records\/ Released: September 19, 2012<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 17 tracks \/ (71:50)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: \u00a0Colour booklet with liner notes by arranger \/ performer Edgar Rothermich.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Vangelis<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

Just in time for the film\u2019s 30th anniversary is a new re-recording of Vangelis\u2019 iconoclastic score – perhaps the most ideal evocation of a futuristic world without sounding contrived and dated. The reason the score continues to hold its own lies in the emotional content of Vangelis\u2019 themes, as well as the abstract qualities of the instrumentation, whether it was carefully plotted out by the composer, or mandated by its picky director. (Ridley Scott similarly pushed Jerry Goldsmith to strip down the romantic content within Alien<\/strong> – especially the main title music – to near abstraction, and although the composer may not have been happy, the final version was the ideal choice.)<\/p>\n

Why bother re-recording an oft-released score? Because Blade Runner<\/strong>\u2019s clunky release history\u2019s rooted in a riff between composer and director, with the former refusing the release of the original recordings because of the way it was editorially treated editorially by Scott. The Ladd Company quickly released a re-recorded album by the New American Orchestra whose approach was more orchestrally saturated (in spite of remaining largely electronic), and emphasized the lengthy score\u2019s main thematic cues.<\/p>\n

Countless bootlegs and fan edits of the original score tracks filled the void for fans, with bootlegs being bootlegged by other ersatz labels until 2007, when Universal Music released the score in a multi-disc set, albeit with dialogue and sound effects affecting some cues. Some material present on the bootlegs were missing, so fans went back to their fan edits because no one\u2019s given the score a proper ‘version integrale’ release.<\/p>\n

BSX Records\u2019 re-recorded version benefits from technical leaps in electronic instruments and software to faithfully emulate Vangelis\u2019 vintage \u2018futuristic\u2019 sounds, as well as the obsessiveness of Edgar Rothermich\u2019s arrangements which carefully match as much detail and nuances from Vangelis’ original performance. Running 71 mins., the BSX edition features all the main cues with Vangelis\u2019 stripped-down sound, subtle stereo pans, and delicate theme renditions (\u201cMemories of Green\u201d is really well done, as is the contemplative \u201cBlade Runner Blues\u201d).The vocalist for the eerie, shrill \u201cOn the Trail of Nexus 6 (Tales of the Future)\u201d is spot-on, and the album includes material previously unique to the bootlegs \u2013 namely Gail Laughton\u2019s lovely \u201cBicycle Raiders (Pompeii 76 A.D.).\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a very good <\/em>production that fills in the gap until the original score recording is finally restored (preferably without<\/em> noxious sound effects and dialogue). The cues are lengthy, the tempo of each cue is close to the original, and Rothermich\u2019s performance is respectful of Vangelis\u2019 style. It\u2019s also a cleanly engineered album, with rich tones coming pretty close to the original fat analogue sound of Vangelis\u2019 eighties recordings.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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