Blade Runner soundtrack bootlegs

There's a mind-bogging number of versions of the original Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis out there. One of the main reasons for that is that there was no official release of the OST until 1993. But that one also included some tracks not in the movie, which didn't go down so well with purist fans. Then in 2007, the 25-anniversary Trilogy edition, with more tracks from the movie on the second disc and some crappy re-interpretations on the third, was released.

In the meantime there were so many different fan-made editions that it's hard to keep track of them--the earliest one a bootleg from the year of release (1982). Some of these soundtracks cut the tracks from the film only, some combined the 1993 OST with cuts from the film, etc. etc. Actually some of them aren't bad, if you find them online, I would recommend to check out the Esper Edition and Private Edition-- these are quite good and hold up to the official releases.

Vangelis Rarities Page

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

Nick Cave's soundtrack for The Road

In a 4 minute feature BBC4 did about The Road's production, for the first time it's possible to hear some excerpts from the musical soundtrack, created by Nick Cave.

BBC Today: The Road moves to the big screen

Contamination (1981) trailer / soundtrack by GOBLIN