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Hey guys..
The following link leads to a brief review of the score as it is heard in the movie in cross-reference with both the Intrada cd and the Varese "Jerry Goldsmith at 20th Century Fox" box set 19 minutes content. Just a few words after noticing the score in the movie and listening both cd pressings. Spoilers ahead so read with caution...
http://itscorez.com/2017/12/08/intrada-offers-goldsmiths-damnation-alley/
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More than extremely!! Thanks for reading it Jeff and excuse the mediocre English...
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Hey guys..
The following link leads to a brief review of the score as it is heard in the movie in cross-reference with both the Intrada cd and the Varese "Jerry Goldsmith at 20th Century Fox" box set 19 minutes content. Just a few words after noticing the score in the movie and listening both cd pressings. Spoilers ahead so read with caution...
http://itscorez.com/2017/12/08/intrada-offers-goldsmiths-damnation-alley/
Nice job! I did a similar thing over a year ago, here on this board with a linked YouTube vid of the film -- I like to think what we did is complementary rather than merely redundant:
http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=117082&forumID=1&archive=0
One thing I am curious about is this: As I understand it, Leigh Phillips reperformed all of the synth elements for this new Intrada version. But some of the 19 minutes on the Varese box actually did have the original synth performance, as if it wasn't all lost. (I think you note this in what you wrote.) I wonder why Intrada wouldn't include some of those original synth versions, even if relegated to a bonus section at the end -- it's not as if there wasn't room on the disc! They even mention supplying stems to Leigh in order to help him recreate the synth parts. It would have been wonderful if those same stems could have been salvaged in some fashion as Chris Malone suggested in the thread I started (the one I just linked to above), and appended to the end of this new release just for those who prefer the original, even in compromised sound quality. Sounds like I'll have cause to keep some of the Varese cues with surviving original synths to do just that in iTunes.
But I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth -- this new release is AMAZING and will, I am sure, be a perfect listening experience. Can't wait to hear my copy but it's going to be a Christmas present so I'll have to wait a little bit longer to hear it, sadly. 
Yavar
Intrada supplied me with orchestral stems only - the original synths that appear on those particular tracks were actually laid down live on the recording stage (so, effectively, they form part of the raw orchestral stem).
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Thanks for the info, Leigh. So does this mean that on the Intrada release, some synths are the original performance (presumably the ones that were present on the Varese release) and you just filled in all of the ones that were missing?
Yavar
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Thanks for the info, Leigh. So does this mean that on the Intrada release, some synths are the original performance (presumably the ones that were present on the Varese release) and you just filled in all of the ones that were missing?
Yavar
That's about the shape of it (however, there was a rather large amount of filling to do - there's essentially only one type of synth on the original stem).....but if there's trouble spotting the joins, then that'll do for me!!
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Thanks for the info, Leigh. So does this mean that on the Intrada release, some synths are the original performance (presumably the ones that were present on the Varese release) and you just filled in all of the ones that were missing?
Yavar
That's about the shape of it (however, there was a rather large amount of filling to do - there's essentially only one type of synth on the original stem).....but if there's trouble spotting the joins, then that'll do for me!!
Did you use VSTs or an actual ARP?
Virtual models - there's barely enough room in my home for me, let alone a few vintage ARPs!
There's some detail in the booklet re the creation of the synth stuff.
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Dec 16, 2017 - 2:24 PM
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Nils
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You have this to look forward to in her Damnation Alley notes:
"Antoine de Saint Exupéry memorably wrote that 'What is essential is invisible to the eye'; Jerry Goldsmith understood that, by the same token, the essential, via great music, was available to any willing ear."
To be fair, that's basically the only sentence in the liner notes in that vein. Kirgo seems to have been, um, watching her language a bit in her more recent liner notes.
As for the CD itself: Wow! I've just listened to it for the first time, and that was the most rewarding half hour of listening I've had in a long time.
Phillips'synth work is outstanding - to my ears, there's nothing that indicates that this wasn't a part of the original recording.
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I just got an e-mail from a "friend", and this is what HE said about Damnation Alley:
"I listened to DA yesterday. Except for the quality of the sound, and maybe the last cut, DA was not that memorable."
WHAT A DICK! Honestly, I think he just said that to piss me off. He doesn't know quality when he hears it. This is a guy who thought the "music" from Gravity was good!
The entire SCORE is "memorable"!
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I hear the road to Hell is paved with "Gravity" discs. And AOL discs.
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