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Oct 5, 2017 - 1:01 PM
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ethanwa
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I enjoyed it for what is was - a stylistic homage to the original. There are no grand, sweeping themes or heroic action tracks, but that's kind of the point. Clearly the film needed synthy ambiance, and Zimmer and Wallfisch delivered in spades. The score does get a bit bogged down in unpleasant sound design toward the middle, but the opening and closing few tracks are sonically sublime! While I won't be humming it anytime soon, I'm sure it works wonders in the film.
That's what I'm hoping for now that I hear it's a bit of a letdown... that the music fits well atmospherically and helps with the world building of the movie when you watch it, rather than just being a standalone piece.
Plus, we're unsure how some of this music is cut, or layered with ambient sounds, or any of that without putting it with the movie. I just watched the original Blade Runner today and the song "Tales of the Future" sounds completely different WITHIN the movie because of the way they put it in the background and muffled it and layered it with the scene.
I'm bummed that it's just "ok" it sounds like, but I'll hold final judgement until later tonight and even after a couple of viewings of 2049. After all, it took a few viewings of the original Blade Runner movie for me to really "get it" years ago... so to speak.
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How is it on YouTube already?
No wonder the music industry is dying.
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Oct 5, 2017 - 4:51 PM
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jacky
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Listened to it a second time. The score just kind of drones along in the background. And then, at the end, you finally get to the Tears in Rain track and it suddenly soars when Vangelis' material is heavily incorporated. And you realize then just how flat the previous hour of music was. A shame.... I'd sooner listen to that 3rd "music inspired by Blade Runner" disk by Vangelis in the 3-Disk B.R. release than this by quite a margin.
Chris.
I've yet to listen to the music. I will see the movie first. But I'm guessing that I will have much the same thoughts. Sadly, there will be many who are out of touch with the artistic genius of Vangelis and what he brought to the original Blade Runner, and they will praise the ambient droning of this new music as something akin to what Vangelis would have produced.
Aaannnndddd....we are now learning that the score could have easily fit on one disk. But instead, they decided to pad it with Presley and Sinatra? Nice 
The only thing left for me to hope for is the movie itself, and so far, I'm hearing very positive things about it.
The Movie is excellent, a bit too long though...! The Best acting credits goes to Ana de Armas as Joi.
The Score has a very Michael Stearns sound to it, even with some monks hearing in the background a few times. I had a hard time recognise the Yamaha CS80 parts Hans was talking about. (I truly miss this Synthesizer, a Blade runner movie cannot excist without it)
All in all it the music does fit the movie perfectly in my opinion. You do not have to worry that you will hear a lot of reverb and echo throughout the whole movie and I am not refering to the music only 
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Oct 5, 2017 - 11:59 PM
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GoblinScore
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Possible Spoilers, beware..... .....
Just spent 5 hours double featuring both BR's.
New film is excellent, a bit long as stated before , but such a mood piece, you sink into it. They did a good job telling a new story in the BR universe, while keeping certain pieces of the prior film intact and memorialized. Felt a little low tech (although the armies of fx tech personnel proves its not) and devoid of BIG LOUD FAST CUTTING action scenes, which made me really happy - watching them back to back , I was reminded, at heart, BR 82 is a pretty dull film, so again, the new one tracked well with the originals mood.
The score...it fits, glad I saw the film first. It echoes the overall texture of Vangelis, but that was all. The CS-80 supplied, I believe, the Brassy-EWI tones. I had a couple "I wonder what Goldsmith or Giacchino would've done here" thoughts for no good reason....which just reinforced, the film got the best score it could've in this climate, or maybe moat appropriate.
Zimmer sure gets that loud mix on....oh & it's pretty well spotted, not wall to wall, the more dramatic bits were mostly unscored.
I hope it makes some dough, setup for more sequels and it will be interesting where the series heads to.
-Sean
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Oct 6, 2017 - 12:30 AM
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ethanwa
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Ok so I’m back from the movie...
First, it’s excellent. A visual masterpiece. Go see it. Once in 3D and once in IMAX 2D. Some call it long, but I was fully engaged every moment of the movie. Breathtaking.
As for the soundtrack, it makes MUCH more sense when paired with the movie. Let’s put it this way: If you saw a movie without any music, it would be boring and dry, correct? Well the reverse has happened here. This music belongs with the movie, otherwise it’s boring and dry. It’s not really meant to be heard without it. It’s great when it has the visuals with it. Not so great when stand-alone.
It’s not Vangelis, clearly, and that’s disappointing to an extent. But Blade Runner 2049 is not the original. It’s the same, but after you see the movie, you’ll clearly understand it’s also not at the same time. This music fits the mood for THIS movie. I think they did a good (but not perfect) job musically for the film. Some elements of sounds are queued directly with scenes, so they sound out of place when listening without context. Everything is very layered in this movie, and that can be taken quite literally at times (you’ll understand what I mean once you see it).
Ignore the Elvis, Sinatra, and final pop song. Elvis and Sinatra have interesting roles in visual storytelling of the movie, and the pop song is unused (used for a marketing expended universe animated short film).
See the movie. Then you will understand why this score is this way.
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Just received my download link from the 2-disc preorder. All working fine. Sounds great.
Is that a 24-tracks digital version, or other edition?
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So, it's the same edition... 
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