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Jul 25, 2011 - 5:42 PM
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David-R.
(Member)
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INTRADA Announces:
REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
Composed and Conducted by CRAIG SAFAN
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 177
The 1985 film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins gave composer Craig Safan the opportunity to follow his rousing symphonic score for The Last Starfighter (1984) with an equally rousing—and equally distinct— orchestral score. Safan created a textually complex series of themes interwoven between a traditional 65-piece orchestra and a small Korean ensemble playing folk tunes orchestrated for the Korean, Chuin. To create music for this action/adventure tale of Remo Williams, a New York City cop-turned-top secret crime fighter trained in the arts of stealth and combat by Korean master Chiun, Craig Safan actually wrote three separate layers of material into his Remo score, starting with a large orchestra, adding an abundance of then state-of-the-art synthesizer material, notably using the Synclavier, and placing at the center an ensemble of authentic Korean musicians.
Craig Safan retained his own ¼” 15 i.p.s. transfer of the composite two-track stereo mixes and later converted them to DAT. Interestingly, the actual ¼” two-track mixes were made with the orchestra channels inadvertently reversed, and the DAT copies retained this error. Reversed channels notwithstanding, these two-track mixes survived the years in perfect condition. For this new release, Intrada has corrected this problem and while the crisp, dynamic sound quality is the same as the previous release, violins finally come from the left channel, and cellos come from the right, just the way they were intended.
The film starred Fred Ward (The Right Stuff) as Remo and Academy-Award winner Joel Grey (Cabaret) as Chuin. Remo was a New Jersey police officer, “killed,” reborn and trained as an assassin working for CURE, a secret government agency. The story tells of military contractors charging the government billions of dollars in cost overruns and failures of the Strategic Defense Initiative The film presents Charles Cioffi (Gray Lady Down) as George Grove, the urbane but morally corrupt industrial-protecist under investigation by Major Rayne Fleming (Kate Mulgrew). The Army major first discovers the cover up of a soldier killed during military exercises with a defective weapon; later, she teams up with Remo to bring the arms merchant to justice.
This release is limited to 1000 units.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 177
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7217/.f
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And Remo is already sold out? WTF!? It wasn't even on the website when I checked it before leaving work, and as soon as I get home its up and sold out? How long was it available -- 20 minutes?? Clearly they should have made a larger pressing than 1000 if it sells out in less than half an hour. I really wanted this. 
It just says "Out of Stock" which means they're not shipping it yet. It'll say Sold Out when it's actually sold out.
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And Remo is already sold out? WTF!? It wasn't even on the website when I checked it before leaving work, and as soon as I get home its up and sold out? How long was it available -- 20 minutes?? Clearly they should have made a larger pressing than 1000 if it sells out in less than half an hour. I really wanted this.
Unbelievable. Shame on you.
And unlike the gentlemen above me I will not be deleting this comment. This is not good and needs to stop!
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Niiiice. Now this is the kinda release I'm talking about. Ordered!
Thanks Intrada!
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And Remo is already sold out? WTF!? It wasn't even on the website when I checked it before leaving work, and as soon as I get home its up and sold out? How long was it available -- 20 minutes?? Clearly they should have made a larger pressing than 1000 if it sells out in less than half an hour. I really wanted this.
Per Doug: Our two newest releases will be available this coming Tuesday, July 26. Actually there's a chance one of them will be available Wednesday, July 27... but who's counting?
It appears Remo would be that title
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What are you talking about? I was referring to the fact that it says "out of stock". Sorry if I jumped the gun and misunderstood their somewhat misleading label. "Out of Stock" often implies an item no longer available or being sold out, but apparently I was wrong as pointed out by someone a little more polite on Intrada's board.
I don't get the "shame on you" remark though. Yeah, shame on me for panicking and misinterpreting their "out of stock" label and thinking I missed out on the CD. Jeez...
You know exactly what I'm talking about. The panic, yes. All you had to do was ask the question calmly - have you never ordered a CD from Intrada before? Because this is what they do. Your post CAUSED panic and that's not good. That is what the "shame on you" meant. So unnecessary.
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I wrote in another thread a week or two ago about how this year had been a very quiet score-buying year for me (but how I was glad that the releases were coming thick and fast and were so well received by the community), but that I was sure that this hiatus would end soon.
It just ended.
Welcome to the party pal! 
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