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Blade Runner
from: Atlantic / Wea
: :For years, the soundtrack to Blade Runner held legendary status among fans of Greek synthesist Vangelis. Except for a few cuts on the Themes compilation, it had never been released on vinyl or CD, although there was an orchestral version of the score. But in 1994, 22 years after Vangelis composed the dark, edgy soundtrack to director Ridley Scott's archetypal science fiction thriller, the music of Blade Runner came out in all its cybernoir glory. Vangelis couched his electrosymphonic score in percussive rhythms and shadowed timbres. Effectively interpolating dialogue from the ...
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Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
from: Polydor
:Album Description:This is the first time that Blade Runner fans in the U.S. will be able to purchase this special release domestically and not as an import. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, with its apocalyptic depiction of LA in 2019, has become one of the most celebrated sci-fi releases of the 20th century. It's one of those films where all of the constituent parts - the set, the lighting, the characters, the sparse dialogue and of course the music - work uniquely together to produce a cult masterpiece. The music has always ...
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Themes
:Album Description:This is the first time that Blade Runner fans in the U.S. will be able to purchase this special release domestically and not as an import. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, with its apocalyptic depiction of LA in 2019, has become one of the most celebrated sci-fi releases of the 20th century. It's one of those films where all of the constituent parts - the set, the lighting, the characters, the sparse dialogue and of course the music - work uniquely together to produce a cult masterpiece. The music has always ...
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Chariots Of Fire
from: Polydor / Umgd
: essential recording:Most everyone is familiar with the romantic piano-and-synthesizer washes of the surprise instrumental hit 'Titles (Main Theme)' from this 1981 film soundtrack. What is surprising is there's a lot more going on with this score. Greek keyboardist/composer had been recording albums for years before this soundtrack catapulted him into fame. He'd even been asked to join the prog rock band Yes at one point. He was wise to pass on the offer. Here you can hear the breadth of his talent at creating dreamy moods with synthesizers and classically ...
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The Friends Of Mr. Cairo
: essential recording:Most everyone is familiar with the romantic piano-and-synthesizer washes of the surprise instrumental hit 'Titles (Main Theme)' from this 1981 film soundtrack. What is surprising is there's a lot more going on with this score. Greek keyboardist/composer had been recording albums for years before this soundtrack catapulted him into fame. He'd even been asked to join the prog rock band Yes at one point. He was wise to pass on the offer. Here you can hear the breadth of his talent at creating dreamy moods with synthesizers and classically ...
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The Ultimate Movie Music Collection
: essential recording:Most everyone is familiar with the romantic piano-and-synthesizer washes of the surprise instrumental hit 'Titles (Main Theme)' from this 1981 film soundtrack. What is surprising is there's a lot more going on with this score. Greek keyboardist/composer had been recording albums for years before this soundtrack catapulted him into fame. He'd even been asked to join the prog rock band Yes at one point. He was wise to pass on the offer. Here you can hear the breadth of his talent at creating dreamy moods with synthesizers and classically ...
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Oceanic
: :A few departures and pretty moments aside, this is more of the same from Vangelis. 'Islands of the Orient' is one track with a dash of spark and spirit. --Jeff Bateman
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Albedo 0.39
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. BMG. 2008.
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China
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. BMG. 2008.
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Alexander
: :Put the saga of history's greatest overachiever -- Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great had conquered 90% of the pre-Christian world before his death at 32 -- in the hands of Hollywood's favorite over-reacher, Oliver Stone, and the result is three-hours of epic blood 'n' bathos. The soundtrack by Greek synth-score pioneer Vangelis Papathanassiou may be bookended by heroic orchestral/choral pomp of suitable scale and melodic dignity, but they buttress a far more compelling cocktail of primitive martial rhythms ('Drums of Gaugamela') and ancient ethnic-folk conceits ('Roxanne's Dance'). Though his film scores ...
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