The Blade Runner Thread

Slightly awkward to see that she includes 2012 endtimes stuff on her site though (click home, click the symbols to the left and right of the title/her name) :-/

shes always been totally nuts

^^^ Yes. I remember seeing an interview with her on like Sally Jesse or something when I was little and wondering who the crazy lady with a boy's name and big shoulder pads was.

Those polaroids are really awesome.

Is the 'New American Orchestra' rendition worth picking up?

Not really. The magic of the soundtrack is pretty much the Vangelis synth sound, which that recording is utterly lacking.

god so beautiful

i like that theo parrish record that samples the new american orchestra version

@the girl from spirea x (f. hazel) - thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFqPzAFv8o

Oh damn, this is an ILM thread.

haha. the music is inextricable from the movie tho so it's all good. my fav soundtrack ever. :)

i would like to dl the esper edition sometime but i am really torrent-illiterate. i'll figure it out eventually.

here you go! grab it while you can as 'they' keep taking it down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbDOl1QHerE

Funny that this reboot and teh star wars both have a theme of "we found harrison ford and its 20 years later! "

Coffee shop was playing the cut from the soundtrack with Demis Roussos's voice today. Nice way to begin the morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FhEpif1cA

My all-time favorite soundtrack. None of the officially released versions satisfy, though, so I found the 3 disc "EMS Recombination" version. It picks up all the random bits from the film and then some!

Details here:
http://www.vangelis-rarities.com/index.php?methode=methode1&id=191

Well, have spent a lot of fruitless time trying to find a way to download that :(

It's all over slsk.

all those hours will be like tears in rain

The sound design of 'Blade Runner' shaped me as much as the soundtrack--and both were pivotal for 14-year-old-me, circa 1994 and the 'Director's Cut'. And the film and the sound have stuck with me over all these years. Discovering the sound-design-focused bootleg 'Los Angeles, November 2019' some years back, I've wanted to make a mix that treated those sounds as field recordings, to pair with contemporary music that felt like it came from the world of 'Blade Runner' as much as our own world. Now here we are in 2019--and our world is quickly tilting toward 'Blade Runner's, minus the flying cars. But the isolation-in-a-crowd, the paranoiac uncertainty about the meaning of “real,” and oligarchic dehumanization of the oppressed feel intimately familiar. And I realized a lot of my favorite music from this year sounds exactly like what music would sound like in that nocturnal Los Angeles.

So I've put together 'Like Tears, In Rain' as a tribute to today's music and the beautiful squalor of 'Blade Runner':

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/musicophilia_00_various_-_like-tears-in-rain_2019_cover.jpg

Various – ‘Like Tears, In Rain’ (2019)

[Music in the World of ‘Blade Runner’]

I. Chinatown
[00:00] Elucid – “A Great Many Wishes” (‘Every Egg I Cracked Today’, 2019)
[02:30] Hildur Gudnadottir– “Gallery” (‘Chernobyl’, 2019)

II. Police Headquarters
[04:50] Debby Friday– “Indulge Me” (‘Bitchpunk’, 2019)

III. Tyrell Corporation
[08:15] Yosuke Tokunaga – “Cabinet” (‘8 Furnitures’, 2019)
[10:50] Tim Hecker – “Step Away From Konoyo” (‘Anoyo’, 2019)

IV. Apartment 9732
[15:15] Yatta – “Francis” (‘Wahala’, 2019)
[19:35] Thom Yorke – “Dawn Chorus” (‘Anima’, 2019)

V. Downtown
[25:15] Burial – “State Forest” (‘Claustro’ EP, 2019)
[30:35] These New Puritans – “A-R-P” (‘Inside The Rose’, 2019)

VI. Animoid Row
[36:45] Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – “I Own The Night” (‘Ancestral Recall’, 2019)

VII. DNA Row
[42:20] Andrew Wasylyk – “Through The Field Beyond the Trees” (‘The Paralian’, 2019)
[43:50] Nelson Bandela – “Balance 101” (‘Fantastic’, 2019)

VIII. Apartment 9732
[45:30] Sequoyah Murray – “I Wonder” (‘Before You Begin’, 2019)
[49:30] Charles Hayward – “Watching You” (‘Begin Anywhere’, 2019)

IX. Downtown
[53:00] Country Florist – “Outlastr” (‘Outlastr’ EP, 2019)

X. The Bradbury
[57:05] Lealani – “The Mountain” (‘Fantastic Planet’, 2019)
[60:25] Clipping – “Nothing Is Safe” (‘There Existed an Addiction to Blood’, 2019)
[65:25] Fran & Flora – “Doina I” (‘Unfurl’, 2019)

[Total Time: 71:00]

If you're curious, stream or download here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/blade-runner-like-tears/

wow, thanks!

Will listen
If it were my mix I would sub out thom yorke for some hke or dream catalogue stuff

I'm not huge on solo Thom Yorke, but that particular track just fit irrefutably, to my ears, so I had to include it (given especially I'm drawing entirely from 2019 music). . .

A dodgy fileshare link to 'Los Angeles, November 2019' is here, btw - http://download-soundtracks.com/movie_soundtracks/blade-runner-los-angeles-november-2019-soundtrack-by-vangelis/

(mentioned at the top of this thread)

Well, that certainly puts my half-hearted attempt at a Blade Runner-themed playlist from a few years back to shame!

I think I went at it from a different angle and had a few Kuedo tracks that were indebted to Vangelis’ original end credits and a fair amount of Dream Catalogue material

Two mentions of Dream Catalogue as related to Blade Runner, never heard of it/them, so will have to investigate.

I think the key for me for this mix was thinking of music that seemed like it could come from the world of Blade Runner, not necessarily music that was especially influenced by 'Blade Runner'. Probably a high degree of overlap in truth, but allowed me to escape the shadow of Vangelis somewhat, while still honoring what he created.

Yeah, hke has said that the BR soundtrack played a part in the creation of DC. “Why doesn’t anyone make music like this anymore” or something to that effect

Amazing, thank you

Kuedo's Severance was I think entirely indebted to blending footwork with Bladerunner and one of my favorite records of this soon to be ending decade.

Dream Catalogue I'm familiar with only from 2814, but it appears to be one of the only remaining vaporwave labels with any consistency and credibility. They basically churn out "Bladerunner" style vaporwave music!

DC is not the only “consistent, credible” v wave label around. There’s Geometric Lullaby, My pet Flamingo, pure life, global pattern, virtual dream plaza, BLCR, the Infiniti pool, DMT Tapes FL, just to name a few

BTW, looks like a lossless version based on a hypercomplete 'Esper' edition of recent years is here, though with selections of its own. Assuming the quality's any good -- I'm downloading it now -- this could be it:

http://download-soundtracks.com/movie_soundtracks/blade-runner-soundtrack-complete-by-vangelis/

thanks ned

Thanks, Ned! Lots of cues I've never heard compiled til now.

My gosh, Ned, that version is even more "complete" than the thirty-something track version on the 'Esper Edition' bootleg from a few years back. Thanks!

Yeah, it's remarkable. At this point I'm assuming we'll never quite get it better than this.

so…the 2007 25th anniversary set is flawed? I have the 1994 set via Picture disk, but there's so much else I recall that's not on there, and I think the 1994 set is what's on the streamers? Somebody tell me if I should or shouldn't get the 2007 version… I have the scarface release from a few years ago, it has everything —including not only foreboding Moroder stuff, but the dance pop/Debbie Harry/"She's on Fire"/Latin shit— and that approach is what I would want from Blade Runner.

Well, I'm glad I have that 2007 set -- I view a lot of the bonus/'new' stuff on the third disc as just interesting elaborations/interpretations, why not -- but if the link I posted back in 2019 above still works, I'd snag that for sure.

well, define "flawed"

it's good

flawed in the sense that the 2007 set doesn't include every recording vangelis made for the film, when it would seem that a release that does include every recording vangelis made for the film, since his score is universally regarded as among the best film scores ever made, would be warranted…

wouldn’t that be an audio release and not a blu-ray? I get that bundling the score/soundtrack would be nice but that’s an outlier on video releases

OK yeah, in that sense (being incomplete) it is flawed. what you want is called the esper MR3 edition of the soundtrack, which is a two-CD bootleg available online that is as complete a collection of what was actually recorded for the movie as exists. that is also included as the first two discs of the esper retirement edition... do not pay money for these, they're not too difficult to find online.

Right, and I'll share this again! It's the link I just mentioned!

https://download-soundtracks.com/movie_soundtracks/blade-runner-soundtrack-complete-by-vangelis/

(that said, I always end up returning to the 1994 CD version because it's what I grew up listening to and unlike the purists, I love the integration of dialog and SFX from the movie into the soundtrack and don't care that some of the stuff on the CD isn't from the movie at all... fans of Popol Vuh soundtracks laugh at the idea this is even to be expected)

Yeah I like that they kept that as the first disc on the 2007 set. It's a nice reimagining, and was definitely better than the original weird version.

I think I have about six reimaginings of the soundtrack that I downloaded eons ago. It was a thing people did in the early 00s

Literally found out only a few weeks ago, thanks to this video, that there are some lingering shots of the photos on the piano which are missing from every other cut except the '82 theatrical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK8gSbIaNhM

I was delighted to find about about the 'deckard is gaff' theory last week: https://steemit.com/cinema/@starlight8888/blade-runner-deckard-is-gaff

I like it.

The part of fandom that comes up with little plot speculations you can tease out that are neither true nor false in the presented fiction is so much more fun than the people arguing that something is specifically true or false when the art left it intentionally vague

Ha! I'm imagining Edward James Olmos reading it and nodding his head then pointing at his ipad going "this guy gets it!"

that's a fantastic theory, i love it