Dune soundtrack

We're back from our little excursion to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman and you will see some reports from those crazy countries soon!

Meanwhile, before the trip I was digging around for Dune stuff and found this collections of soundtrack bits from the original Dune video game, released in 1992. The score by Stéphane Picq is atmospheric and dense, and listening to it now it brought back some fond memories of how much fun it was playing this game back in the day, even though it was somewhat limited compared to its successor Dune II, one of the first real-time strategy games.

The soundtrack was released as "EXXOS, DUNE, Spice opéra" by Virgin Records but the CD is no longer available. Composer Stéphane Picq said on his very old-school web page (from 1998) about re-releasing this album:

I received many mails asking me about a new release of "DUNE Spice Opera".

Unfortunately, the owners of the rights, EMI publishing, does not want to give me back the rights, even if they don't intend to reprint it in the future! :(

Be patient, dudes, because I've signd with those bastards for 30 years!! Well, I should have read better my contracts (written in english) when I signed with CRYO and VIRGIN (now EMI).

BUT... My crystal ball said to me that a MP3 copy of the whole thing is going to be available somewhere on the net... but shhhht! I did not told you... and I have nothing to do with it, cos' it's a pirate who did it. Anyway, nobody will be able to find any proof it could come from me ;^)

Stephane Picq's musical ship