Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Sounds really nice
Could have been worse for an outdoor recording.



and
(Could have been a little better )

Hear ye, one and all. Nothing to lose sleep over. EVERY piece of music in the movie appears on our 3-disc set, all delivered under Poledouris' baton in a reading of raw intensity and primitive fury unmatched in any other performance. We're talking some 110 minutes or so of actual soundtrack music, newly-mixed from the complete 2" 24-track session masters PLUS numerous cues deleted from the re-recording such as: the striking tam-tam, low piano and percussion pieces ("Freedom Council" where Conan is turned loose from captivity, "Warpaint" where he prepares for battle), the drinking music before he's summoned to Osric ("Indulgence/Mettle") and the fire music prior to meeting the "Wolf Witch". You'll also find both Basil's original unused music for the snake fight, based on his gladiator "Pit Fights" music and Milius' preferred film version of "Las Cantigas De Santa Maria" that was used instead.

If that's not enough you'll find an early unused "Prologue", three different percussion loops written as alternates for the council meeting, a rejected and strikingly different "Anvil Of Crom" with trumpets doubling the horns in extremely high registers, an alternate "Battle Of The Mounds", unused versions of the entire "Children Of Doom" sequence written for mezzo-soprano with chamber orchestra as well as for female choir with harp (including a gorgeous, never-before-heard bridge passage for woodwinds), a complete re-construction from Universal's paperwork of the film-edited version of the kitchen battle ("The Defilers") and the similarly edited "End Title" music, the complete original Poledouris album assembly for MCA Records...

AND...

An "extra" of the complete "Prologue/Anvil Of Crom" sequence featuring our beloved Mako speaking that immortal opening, "When the oceans drank Atlantis... ." We wouldn't dream of leaving that off. You dear listeners get to have your cake and eat it, too.

(Oh, and yes, you get Arnold on the cover.)
--Doug

P.S. And patience, please, as we dot the 'i's" and cross the "t's" in our packaging. We're as anxious as you to play this beauty. (Ok, yes, we can play it now... but we want you to be able to play it, too.)

I'd give Crom's first born son to have this.

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"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

I will solve every riddle -with my blood, for getting this.

And the Clemcic Consort Version of Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 166 is included. i can die happy now !!

It seems this set is going to be on a par with LLLR's Star Trek: TMP.

We'll have to prepare for days of high adventure ...

Provided it's all in stereo and with no silly studio chatter, etc., then it's 20x better (at a minimum) than the Star Trek release.

I like some of the Goldsmith chatter the labels have included, especially in Intrada's release of Patton which takes us behind the scenes of the echoplex usage, and the humorous chatter at the end of Varese's release of Alien Nation.

Now the Herrmann chatter that the labels have included does nothing more than show an extremely bitter man.

Douglass, that is some fantastic stuff you posted there, my jaw dropped several times when I read it, I cannot wait to get my hands on this set!

It seems the long wait was worth it, since you included everything a fan could have hoped for. A 3-disc set with 110 minutes content, holy cow even my already high expectations are going through the roof now.

Listening to Basil´s phenomenal music, heard like it was never heard before, I have waited years for this and now it´s finally happening.

Thanks a lot for your dedication on this project!