Hey everyone... because the various releases of the Back to the Future scores involve different labels and formats, we came up with this single website that will direct people to the various labels and product pages. We figured this would also make it easy to spread the word and we may add some music specific content as time goes by.
This is a good forum for also saying thanks Dan Goldwasser for his great design work, and everyone at Universal Studios, Universal Music Group, Amblin Entertainment, Intrada, Varése Sarabande and Mondo for their support for this and for coming together to put these great scores out as part of the 30th Anniversary/Back to the Future Day celebrations currently underway. I was honored to be asked by writer/producer Bob Gale and composer Alan Silvestri to oversee this epic undertaking, which has been going on all summer.
Hopefully this thread will also be a good place to discuss this great music and trilogy.
Anyone know the source of what's on the Mondo LPs? Master LP stampers cut from high-res masters, or is this yet another example of jumping upon the vinyl bandwagon and slapping the 16-bit CD through an DAC to make the vinyl with? I.e. Nice packaging but the worst of both formats (CD on an LP)?
Soundtrack labels NEED to be honest about the sources used with all this new vinyl being released. It isn't cheap afterall...
The Mondo covers are cool but I always loved how the figures on the poster told you what number movie it was. One, two, thee. I'm easily amused. Plus, you know, STRUZAN!
John, Roger himself gave the answer to this in the general release thread yesterday, when people were asking about the new mastering on the first score's reissue:
"When Mondo expressed interest in putting this out we realized the existing 16 bit CD master wasn't sufficient. So Doug had to go back to the original transfers and start over to create a master for the LP. He took the opportunity to redo a CD master as well. Does it sound better? Probably. Will it be revolutionary? Probably not."
John, Roger himself gave the answer to this in the general release thread yesterday, when people were asking about the new mastering on the first score's reissue:
"When Mondo expressed interest in putting this out we realized the existing 16 bit CD master wasn't sufficient. So Doug had to go back to the original transfers and start over to create a master for the LP. He took the opportunity to redo a CD master as well. Does it sound better? Probably. Will it be revolutionary? Probably not."
Yavar
Thanks for posting that Yavar. Sounds promising. Still doesn't answer whether it's a high-res (or even analogue) to vinyl transfer process or not though, but the fact new transfers have been made at all suggests this could well be the case. Intrigued.
I suspect since Doug is involved that it's being done right. They were similarly scrupulous about their own recent vinyl reissue of Richard Band's Troll.
By the way, both sequels were recorded digitally so there isn't an original analogue source to be used for the vinyl issues of those two.
Mike, this site says all three expansions would be available digitally as of today. But so far only the Varese III is up on the digital sites. Am I gonna have to go back to the future for I and II? (I'd ask on the Intrada board, but they leave many, many poster questions unanswered.)
I've inquired with UMG and will post when I have information to pass on. Varese started selling the digitals today because UMG asked them to! This seems to be a case of "the bigger they are, the longer they take."
I've inquired with UMG and will post when I have information to pass on. Varese started selling the digitals today because UMG asked them to! This seems to be a case of "the bigger they are, the longer they take."
Hey everyone... because the various releases of the Back to the Future scores involve different labels and formats, we came up with this single website that will direct people to the various labels and product pages. We figured this would also make it easy to spread the word and we may add some music specific content as time goes by.
This is a good forum for also saying thanks Dan Goldwasser for his great design work, and everyone at Universal Studios, Universal Music Group, Amblin Entertainment, Intrada, Varése Sarabande and Mondo for their support for this and for coming together to put these great scores out as part of the 30th Anniversary/Back to the Future Day celebrations currently underway. I was honored to be asked by writer/producer Bob Gale and composer Alan Silvestri to oversee this epic undertaking, which has been going on all summer.
Hopefully this thread will also be a good place to discuss this great music and trilogy.
Here's a great interview with Alan Silvestri and Bob Gale in New York, mostly about the live concerts but ending with a nice plug for the music website (and it also shows that every once in a while someone at Fox News is asleep at the switch and something worthy slips through).
