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Jan 6, 2014 - 5:11 PM
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Senn555
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INTRADA Announces:
TRANSFORMERS - THE MOVIE
Music Composed by VINCE DiCOLA
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 263
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) presented keyboardist-turned-composer Vince DiCola with the challenge of taking the rhythmic genre he loved into a new, futuristic dimension, using the same daring synergy that the makers of The Transformers’ TV show were using to broaden their brand name. DiCola truly fused progressive “arena rock” with alien technology to make The Transformers a stylistic whole, capturing the movie’s 2005 setting with its brightly futuristic synth sound. While Rocky IV had afforded him an orchestra, the budget of The Transformers necessitated an electronic approach. With the aid of co-producer Ed Fruge, programmer Casey Young, percussionist Michael Fisher and other first-call session musicians, DiCola stuffed the Scotti Brothers recording studio with Moog, Oberheim, Yamaha and EMU synthesizers and samplers. Initially working from storyboards and a plot synopsis, DiCola won the filmmakers over with a six-minute demo cue called “Legacy” that laid the seeds for his score, included here as a bonus.
The Transformers: The Movie has remained as rhythmically vibrant as ever for the franchise’s numerous fans. It has previously appeared on two quickly sold-out BotCon limited editions (“’Till All Are One” in 1997 and “Lighting Their Darkest Hour” in 2001). This Intrada CD marks the first generally available release of Vince DiCola’s complete score.
In 1986, it was decided that the best way to go into both a third season and a new product line was by giving the action figures a major cinematic upgrade with The Transformers: The Movie. The film’s sizable ambitions were embodied by Unicron, a machine-eating planet whose attack on the Transformer home world of Cybertron posed a singular threat to both Autobots and Decepticons. The movie noticeably went far beyond the TV show in its robot-shattering scale of destruction, “brutally” trashing numerous old characters to make way for a shinier new toy line that included Insectoids, Dinobots, Constructicons and jingle-spouting Junkticons.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 263
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8506/.f
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Jan 6, 2014 - 5:41 PM
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Tom Servo
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From this old-school Transformers fan, this release is ordered. However, allow me to put on my TF geek hat for a moment and correct the press release... there was no "Insectoids" group, they were called Insecticons and along with the Dinobots and Constructicons, they were all part of the "old line-up" from '84-'85. The new groups introduced in the movie included the Junkions and Quintessons, but it was the new individual characters of Galvatron, Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime that were most notable. OK, TF geek hat removed now!
Also, I see that the cue for Prime's death has been combined into one track with "Optimus Prime vs Megatron" cue, which is surprising. Otherwise, I like that some of the shorter cues have been combined into longer suites.
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Awesome release and instantly ordered!!
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ordered!!
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Jan 29, 2014 - 1:20 PM
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Tom Servo
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This is a score that I know backwards and forwards and I have to say I really enjoy this score-only presentation from Intrada. I actually like how shorter cues are combined into suites, which for me makes a much more smooth listening experience. The "Decepticon Attack" in particular consists of 3-4 different cues but makes for a great, lengthy track.
The difficulty with this score for me has always been what role the songs play. There are a number of songs for film, used prominently, and the original album featured them over the score. The 20th Anniversary edition helped balance this equation by adding three more score tracks, making for an album of around 55 minutes.
My first thought was that I would add in all the songs for a complete experience with the score. I gotta say, this doesn't work so well. It winds up being around 100 minutes or so and it's just too darn long of a listen. Plus, the switch between score and songs is quite jarring when just for listening, as opposed to the film where the switch is fine. Partially this is due to the film using shortened edits of the songs, where in my complete sequence everything is in its original length. I just find it an odd listen to go from 10-15 minutes of score, then into one song, then another 15 minutes of score, another song... it becomes tedious.
So I decided for me, the Intrada score-only album will remain what I go to for that listening experience and when I want to hear the songs, I have the original album on my iPod as well. The only downside to the score-only listen is that there is no real ending. In the movie, the final score cue bleeds into the song "The Touch", which is really the climactic music cue for the narrative. "Legacy" is a fun track on its own, but since it doesn't actually feature any thematic material from the actual film score it seems to come out of nowhere during the listening experience.
How are other Transformers fans approaching this particular score+songs situation?
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Jan 29, 2014 - 1:50 PM
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Shock-Wave
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This is a score that I know backwards and forwards and I have to say I really enjoy this score-only presentation from Intrada. I actually like how shorter cues are combined into suites, which for me makes a much more smooth listening experience. The "Decepticon Attack" in particular consists of 3-4 different cues but makes for a great, lengthy track.
The difficulty with this score for me has always been what role the songs play. There are a number of songs for film, used prominently, and the original album featured them over the score. The 20th Anniversary edition helped balance this equation by adding three more score tracks, making for an album of around 55 minutes.
My first thought was that I would add in all the songs for a complete experience with the score. I gotta say, this doesn't work so well. It winds up being around 100 minutes or so and it's just too darn long of a listen. Plus, the switch between score and songs is quite jarring when just for listening, as opposed to the film where the switch is fine. Partially this is due to the film using shortened edits of the songs, where in my complete sequence everything is in its original length. I just find it an odd listen to go from 10-15 minutes of score, then into one song, then another 15 minutes of score, another song... it becomes tedious.
So I decided for me, the Intrada score-only album will remain what I go to for that listening experience and when I want to hear the songs, I have the original album on my iPod as well. The only downside to the score-only listen is that there is no real ending. In the movie, the final score cue bleeds into the song "The Touch", which is really the climactic music cue for the narrative. "Legacy" is a fun track on its own, but since it doesn't actually feature any thematic material from the actual film score it seems to come out of nowhere during the listening experience.
How are other Transformers fans approaching this particular score+songs situation?
I have the 1997 promo & the original sdtk. Well I think some of the songs were edited in the film. "Instruments of Destruction" (forgot the group)was one of them. Still haven't decided if I should go for it (lol) and buy the Intrada version.
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Apr 3, 2017 - 2:59 AM
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litefoot
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I'm rather confused as to why Sony apparently still owns the rights for this title when Hasbro supposedly acquired everything else from the Sunbow catalog (which Sony had possession of) back in 2008.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12571.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbow_Productions
Maybe this means Sony has the rights to several Sunbow properties still, including the other 1986/87 Hasbro-based movies (Inhumanoids, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony)?
He raised a good point with this post, three years ago. I am also curious as to how Intrada managed to release this, as it has been made clear that the Transformers TV series music is firmly within the grip of Hasbro and it's very hard to get out.
The copyright blurb on the back of my Intrada CD reads:
"This compilation 2013 Sony Music Entertainment. Manufactured by Sony Music Entertainment, 550 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022-3211. Motion Picture Title and Artwork © 1986 Sunbow Productions Inc. (a TV Loonland Company). All Rights reserved. Distributed by Intrada Inc., 6200 Antioch St, Suite 101, Oakland, CA 94611."
No mention of Hasbro here. Sunbow only. Hasbro bought all the rights to Sunbow animated series in 2008, so did that agreement somehow exclude the films?
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