Beware: this doesn�t include any additional music!





Not one of my usual Deluxe Editions since it doesn�t contain additional music. Reason: every piece I was able to find sounded so bad that I couldn�t salvage it. I tried. To no avail. That leaves me with updated sound and several covers for you to choose from. 'Legend' by Jerry Goldsmith has always sounded like crap. A shame, really, because it is such a wonderfully complex score. Everyone knows the story of how this score was scrapped for the American release, so I�ll not mention it again. This release here is my fourth attempt to 'remaster' it and it�s the only one of my attempts I like. I have been trying - until now, in vain - since I bought my CD in 1995.
Over the years, countless people have complained about the sound, describing it as shrill, brittle and lifeless. I myself was appalled by the badly mixed, obnoxious synthesizers and by reverb that sounded metallic (and you never ever want that to happen!). While I could hear all of these issues, I didn�t know the reasons and, in turn, how to fix them. Now I do: as it turns out, it�s lack of deep bass, lack of high treble and spatiality problems. Basically, this score has only mids. Lots of it. But, of course, you cannot just switch on a Loudness switch, it needs refinement. My aim was to create something that sounds warmer, dynamic, less brittle, less metallic, with better integrated synths without loosing spatiality.
IMO, I succeeded on all counts. I was able to widen the sound, revealing an extremely well done mix. The added sonority helps the score a lot to sound more appealing while the synths are still strong yet less in-your-face. Precision has improved a lot. Some people won�t like this more contemporary sound, they will not like how much I changed it. To them I say: shut the fuck up, it now sounds like a Goldsmith-score.





The cover was a pain in the ass as well. This is an '80s movie, so I wasn�t able to find HiRes material for it. I had to fake everything. Take the poster where Darkness is holding the two lovebirds in his hands while sitting within a nightly landscape. The whole picture was painted with the goal of being reproduced for vertical poster designs - which made it impossible to adapt it for square CD covers. So I had to expand it to the sides if I was to use it. That was a difficult job and you can see some artifacts if you look closely. Despite this, I�m happy for once how it turned out. Since I had to prepare several pictures before I could use them for the covers, they are included in the archive as well. You can find them within the folder named 'Posters'. I actually re-created the two official SilvaScreen designs with the goal of updating them for the year 2015. Well, they still look like shit, my talent doesn�t go all the way it would need to do in order to actually offer an improvement. In any case, just take the pick you yourself like the most. Within the archive, you can find 3 design schemes. Design 1 is based on the colour RED, Design 2 is based soleley on the first SilvaScreen design, Design 3 is based on the recent BluRay.


Some personal thoughts regarding the music itself:

As much as I love it, I�m actually not surprised that this score was rejected. Jerry Goldsmith created something of an oddity because he composed a highly impressionistic score. Impressionism in music is characterized by "colour", achieved through orchestration, harmonic usage, texture, etc. By doing so, he composed a score with so much weight that it is crushing the movie. Which is a surprising in itself, because the movie itself is already very lush and colourful. While this certainly isn�t Goldsmith's first impressionistic score, it�s one of his most challenging. There�s only one single theme which he brilliantly mutates so often or takes it apart in order to state just fragments that it becomes difficult to connect a certain theme to anything. And, who could forget, the synths. I�m sorry, but they sound incredibly dated, very old-fashioned and a bit tacky. Probably cutting edge 30 years ago... but nowadays? Not so. They add to the lushness of the music itself, turning the score into an overbearing nightmare. Still, it is a wonderful score. Extremely creative, inventive, complex, gigantic and one of the best of his career.

So in case you�ve never heard it before, be prepared to hear music that might appall you at first. My advice to you is: give it time, the score will unveil its beauty after a while. This isn�t an easy score, no. But it�s a rewarding one.


The sound will never be better (unless they find all the multitrack elements and remix it), not one of the available releases (The vinyl edition? Are you kidding? What a waste) is able to sound as good as this one. Not arrogance; it�s a fact. So, enjoy it!



Now A WARNING:
1. Once the links expire, I won�t upload it again, someone else has to do that (maybe by creating mirrors?)
2. Mp3's: This time, I won�t provide them. Don�t be lazy, create them yourself, it�s incredibly easy.

Tracklist:


1. Main Title / The Goblins 5:49 2. My True Love�s Eyes / The Cottage 5:07 3. The Unicorns 7:56
4. Living River / Bumps & Hollow / The Freeze 7:25 5. The Faeries / The Riddle 4:56
6. Sing The Wee 1:11 7. Forgive Me 5:16 8. Faerie Dance 1:55 9. The Armour 2:20
10. Oona / The Jewels 6:44 11. The Dress Waltz 2:51 12. Darkness Fails 7:31
13. The Ring 6:32 14. Re-United 5:19


http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0G721DT4/TangerineNightmare.part1.rar_links
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1BULANMD/TangerineNightmare.part2.rar_links


Pass:

OhNo,ScientologyAgain!

Been holding off giving this a proper listen until you or a record label did something like this. Thanks for the work and more for sharing!

BTW, how is Spider-Man 3 looking? If you're even doing it, that is. My enjoyment of the trilogy's scores are on hold until the defects of the source are smoothed over or resolved. It's such a shame that most Christopher Young bootleg sessions sound like crap.

I love this movie.

I like to think the unicorn dream that Replicants have come from this world.

Thanks for the work!

The version I watch is the DC with Goldsmith.

I disagree with your assessment on the music of legend. Horner, Williams, and Zimmer are the masters of scores the crush the picture. Bombast and painting with a broad brush is their stock and trade. Goldsmith is a whole other animal.

But thanks for trying to get the tin sound out of the score for legend. Its another example of dismissing something that isn't marketable.

BTW, how is Spider-Man 3 looking? If you're even doing it, that is. My enjoyment of the trilogy's scores are on hold until the defects of the source are smoothed over or resolved. It's such a shame that most Christopher Young bootleg sessions sound like crap.

Spidey is sitting like a rock on my harddrive. It�s ready, I�ve already selected the tracks I want to use. But half of them are - audibly - lossy sourced. And that frightens me, I might not be able to remove compression artifacts. Therefore I haven�t tackled it yet. But I promised I�d do it, didn�t I? ;)

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I like to think the unicorn dream that Replicants have come from this world.

And now you revealed to everyone that Harrison is a Replicant, too. Ts ts ;)

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I disagree with your assessment on the music of legend. Horner, Williams, and Zimmer are the masters of scores the crush the picture. Bombast and painting with a broad brush is their stock and trade. Goldsmith is a whole other animal.

But thanks for trying to get the tin sound out of the score for legend. Its another example of dismissing something that isn't marketable.

Jerry composed a few scores that crush their respective movies, IMO. Legend is one of them for reasons of sonic colour, The Final Conflict another. All brilliant on their own, but especially the latter seems to have been written for another picture. The timid, little movie simply doesn�t support the gigantic score.

You do Spidey 3, I'll work on Spidey 1 & 2. Deal? :)

Thanx...love your work....hilarious password b.t.w.

You do Spidey 3, I'll work on Spidey 1 & 2. Deal? :)

As long as you don�t force a deadline on me, you can do pretty much what you want :D

and harry potter also had a nice unicorn scene.

As long as you don�t force a deadline on me, you can do pretty much what you want :D

Your deadline is..................eventually.

Thanks

Thank you! For some reason I always mistake Legend for Lionheart and vice versa.

Thank you for the links!

Thank you

Thanks again Sonic! Looking forward to hearing this mix.

As much as I love it, I�m actually not surprised that this score was rejected.
It wasn't that Scott rejected Goldsmith's work, as much as he was pressured by Universal after a poor US test screening to use a more modern (i.e., rock) score. Goldsmith's scoring also didn't fit the re-editing Ridley Scott made for the shorter US cut, so it was quickly re-scored by Tangerine Dream. The International cut of "Legend" distributed by 20th Century Fox always retained Goldsmith's score.

Thanks so much!

Very beautiful fantasy moments, and some very obnoxious 80's synths, at first i couldn't standthe mixture but now i love it! Great edition, and at last great covers!

This sounds fantastic! I was only ever able to enjoy the main theme before but now every track is sparkling wonderfully :) So much personality to this score. I actually love the synths 90% of the time.

Thanks!

and harry potter also had a nice unicorn scene.

We are into unicorns a bit, aren�t we? :D

What about the last Unicorn? Christopher Lee spoke King Haggard...

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It wasn't that Scott rejected Goldsmith's work, as much as he was pressured by Universal after a poor US test screening to use a more modern (i.e., rock) score. Goldsmith's scoring also didn't fit the re-editing Ridley Scott made for the shorter US cut, so it was quickly re-scored by Tangerine Dream. The International cut of "Legend" distributed by 20th Century Fox always retained Goldsmith's score.

For the US market it still was a rejected score. It doesn�t matter if it�s the producer or the director who rejects a score, the end result is the same. And Scott was unable to defend Goldsmith's score, a fact, Scott himself admitted and which Jerry never forgave him.

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Very beautiful fantasy moments, and some very obnoxious 80's synths, at first i couldn't standthe mixture but now i love it! Great edition, and at last great covers!

Yeah, you tried editing them out until I reminded you that it sounds... ehm... awkward (like shit) :D
About the covers... took me long enough to do it. When did I do this set? March?

Awesome man!! Thanks a lot!!!!!

Thanks for your work on this project and for sharing it.

Thank you very much for the music, the covers and your notes!

Thanks for the share.

please try to upload on MEGA, like everybody else.

Great share ! Thank you !

Thanks!!

Curious how much better this will sound. I have to say I've never heard anyone sound so angry about a score they've tried to restore. If you dislike it for so many reasons, why bother?

Thank you.

We are into unicorns a bit, aren�t we? :D

What about the last Unicorn? Christopher Lee spoke King Haggard...

Yes! but I have rewatch that again. It's been ages.

Still haven't listened to it yet but will today and then rewatch the movie again (the DC).

Thank you :)

Thanks, SonicAdventure!

Thanks for sharing.

Wow. I've never felt compelled to see the film -- I don't know if I ever will, to be honest -- but this is a really hypnotic listening experience. Thank you for your stunning work as usual, I'm sure this is the best way to experience this score for the first time.

thanks

please try to upload on MEGA, like everybody else.

I�m not everybody else. Have you heard and seen the owner of MEGA? There you have your reason.

Ugh how dare you Sonic :P

Curious how much better this will sound. I have to say I've never heard anyone sound so angry about a score they've tried to restore. If you dislike it for so many reasons, why bother?

Do I sound so angry? Not good. At heart, I�m a cynic, these days I don�t expect anything when buying a new score because they�re always more or less botched. My cynicism may have gotten the best of me... I really love this score. But I had my problems with it. Now that I have made this set, I�m able to enjoy it.

Did you have any problems with Jupiter Ascending? Did you remaster that for your own personal enjoyment?

Yes! but I have rewatch that again. It's been ages.

Still haven't listened to it yet but will today and then rewatch the movie again (the DC).

Very melancholic movie (Last Unicorn), badly drawn. Good music, even gorgeous at times. Great voice acting.

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Wow. I've never felt compelled to see the film -- I don't know if I ever will, to be honest -- but this is a really hypnotic listening experience. Thank you for your stunning work as usual, I'm sure this is the best way to experience this score for the first time.

The movie is not bad. But not good either. The production was plagued with problems, the music was just one of the many problems. If I recall correctly, the set burned down. Not the best circumstances...

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Did you have any problems with Jupiter Ascending? Did you remaster that for your own personal enjoyment?

Yes, I did. It�s Varese, so no reason to share it ;)

Giacchino always sounds bad. Even among different engineers, I wonder how he does this.

Wow, I'd love if you could privately share that one ;)

The music wasn't a "problem". Universal got bad test screenings, panicked, had Scott chop up the film and replace the score with something more "hip". Not that the Tangerine Dream score is in anyway hip.

I'd really really really like, for like a day only, get your ear so I could really see what's the audible problems you talk so much that the soundtracks all have. What is the perfect sountrack sound for you, how do you do it, and what is the audible difference?

Thanks!
I love this score!

I'd really really really like, for like a day only, get your ear so I could really see what's the audible problems you talk so much that the soundtracks all have. What is the perfect sountrack sound for you, how do you do it, and what is the audible difference?

@SA
Maybe a thread in the discussion section. Take your time to write out a thesis on this? :awsm:
Take a month to write it out and share your input with everyone.

Thank you Sonic for sharing your efforts on this one, I shall enjoy hearing your take on this score, always impressed with the work that you do.

Too long, didn't read - I thought Tangerine Dream composed Legend? Unless this is (once again) a rejected Goldsmith score.

Too long, didn't read - I thought Tangerine Dream composed Legend? Unless this is (once again) a rejected Goldsmith score.

Short version: They did once Jerry Goldsmith got booted from the project.

The Bluray has different cuts.
Theatrical with Tangerine Dream
Directors' Cut with Jerry Goldsmith.

or something.
There's 3 different cuts to the bluray.

I'd really really really like, for like a day only, get your ear so I could really see what's the audible problems you talk so much that the soundtracks all have. What is the perfect sountrack sound for you, how do you do it, and what is the audible difference?

How many hours do you have?

The perfect soundtrack sound... difficult. There are some scores that sound pretty unbalanced. Unbalanced means: not enough treble/too much treble, not enough bass/too much bass, not enough mids/too much mids. I always aim for a balanced sound, meaning, every frequency area should be equally loud to your ears. When I�m successful, it�ll sound good on every thing you play it with, whether it�s your smartphone, home stereo, kitchen radio (that�s what mastering really is about: good sound on every device).

In the case of Legend, there were only mids. Deep bass and high treble were - in comparison to the mids - too soft (low amplitude). Sounds OK on a kitchen radio, because those don�t have bass and treble anyway. But on a home stereo? Portable stereo? Smartphone? Much worse.

The end result is not the perfect soundtrack sound, but it�s the sound coming closest to that goal.

Perfect sounding soundtracks? Hook (1st release), Titanic, Star Wars EP II. They are fairly balanced, but not perfectly. Titanic lacks mids (typical for Horner scores, that was his preference), EP II has too much energy around 2500 Hz and above 9000 Hz, Hook is a bit too brilliant. Despite these marginal flaws, their sound works perfectly. They are engineered to sound a certain way, in case of EP II Shawn Murphy (engineer) wanted it to sound like the earlier Star Wars scores engineered by the late Eric Tomlinson. He had a certain preference for sound which Murphy then copied in order to create consistency.
An example of the desire for character gone awry are The Hobbit scores. Character badly exaggerated and then completely destroyed by mastering. An example where I myself turned the sound into something "imbalanced" on purpose is my Deluxe Edition for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In fact, the OST sounds more balanced. My Deluxe Edition pays hommage to the sound of the first Indy score, again engineered by Eric Tomlinson.

Perfect sounding soundtracks that are balanced? Timeline, the Goldsmith score, Tomb Raider by Silvestri, Species (C. Young), Avatar.

My main tool for making something balanced (by now it should have been clear that "balance" is a relative term) is an Equalizer. Engineers don�t like to use them the way I do, they always respect the original sound of the masters. I don�t care that much about the original sound, when it sounds bad it sounds bad. So I sometimes perform surgical procedures to average out frequency flaws introduced, for example, by ancient microphones (The Hobbit springs to mind again). Since 2007 or so I added tools for dynamic compression and spatial manipulation. With those two I can manipulate the impression of punch and the soundstage (say, the impression of the orchestra sounding as if it�s closer/further away from you). Tools I rarely use are declickers, denoisers, exciters and artificial reverb. I don�t use most of them because it isn�t necessary, most stuff I work on has already been treated with those. And I hate adding reverb, it always sounds fake. I can only name one exception: Jurassic Park. The sessions sound decidedly different to the OST (as evidenced on the 20th anniversary edition). The OST was prepared by Williams and Murphy specifically for the album, they added reverb, probably to add to the fantasy appeal.

All of those tools can be abused to create something that sounds completely unnatural, not at all like an orchestra. I don�t want that. I want real instruments that have been played by real, breathing and living people.

How do I know how something is supposed to sound like? Don�t know. Experience, I guess? I really have no idea. I always knew what sounded good and what doesn�t. Even when I was in my early teens. It�s always gratifying to realize that my sound preference (because that�s what it really is: a preference, not a reference) appears to be based on reality whenever I hear a live orchestra. But, of course, I also know how to analyze music by using, for example, frequency spectrum analyzers, spectograms, plots of any kinds, numbers and charts. People calling themselves audiophiles always get this wrong, on FSM you can find so many idiots having no idea what they�re talking about. These "cold" numbers help people like me to know WHY something sounds bad/good. If we know why, we can fix it. But those audiophiles? They�re just saying "I�m listening to music, not to data". Those are also people who cling to ancient media like vinyl, when, all that vinyl does, is adding character to sound (by changing the frequency response... like an equalizer, adding distortions, etc.). They could just use an EQ to tweak the sound to their liking. But no, they�re listening to music, not to data. Uhuh.

And before I start to lash out at people who are too dumb for their own good, I stop. I hope, I�ve answered some of your questions. I hope you understood even half of it (I can be too complicated when talking about stuff).

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@SA
Maybe a thread in the discussion section. Take your time to write out a thesis on this? :awsm:
Take a month to write it out and share your input with everyone.

Too late. As usual, I couldn�t stop writing. Crap <- directed towards me.

:laugh: At least it's out there.

I'm going to copy/save it in a .txt file for future reading.

:laugh: At least it's out there.

I'm going to copy/save it in a .txt file for future reading.

Don�t. Just my usual hot air.

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Wow, I'd love if you could privately share that one ;)

If I would do that, I would constantly be uploading scores. So I�m sorry, but no :)

Thanks so much for sharing your work like this SonicAdventure!

Thank you for this gift!

Awesome !!

Thanks for the music.

listening to this makes me think of an unproduced live-adaptation of The Legend of Zelda.
Given that games-to-film have bad reps, I imagine if they did a live-action LOZ movie (at the then same time as this movie), it would have received as much production hell as this did.

:sigh:

posted in wrong thread

Thank you very much for this amazing work, the sound quality is superb.

Thank you, I love this score so much!

For the US market it still was a rejected score. It doesn�t matter if it�s the producer or the director who rejects a score, the end result is the same. And Scott was unable to defend Goldsmith's score, a fact, Scott himself admitted and which Jerry never forgave him.
Once the musical sequences were cut out, Ridley Scott wouldn't have been able to fight for Goldsmith's "Legend" score. The underlying issue was that Goldsmith spent a great deal of time on this score, including pre-scoring the musical sequences, which forever burned his already tenuous working relationship with Scott.

Would Goldsmith's score have been rejected if Universal didn't want it replaced? No. This is why Scott didn't use Tangerine Dream music for the European cut. This is why Scott restored Goldsmith's work for the director's cut. Scott shouldn't receive your blame for this score being tossed from the US version.

"tangerine nightmare" hahhaha genius!

Thank you for another Deluxe remaster!

thanks

Thank you so much !!!

Once the musical sequences were cut out, Ridley Scott wouldn't have been able to fight for Goldsmith's "Legend" score. The underlying issue was that Goldsmith spent a great deal of time on this score, including pre-scoring the musical sequences, which forever burned his already tenuous working relationship with Scott.

Would Goldsmith's score have been rejected if Universal didn't want it replaced? No. This is why Scott didn't use Tangerine Dream music for the European cut. This is why Scott restored Goldsmith's work for the director's cut. Scott shouldn't receive your blame for this score being tossed from the US version.

Scott has a rocky relationship with scores written for his movies, shall I really give examples? So I partly blame Ridley Scott. Brilliant filmmaker though he is.

Do I sound so angry? Not good. At heart, I�m a cynic, these days I don�t expect anything when buying a new score because they�re always more or less botched. My cynicism may have gotten the best of me... I really love this score. But I had my problems with it. Now that I have made this set, I�m able to enjoy it.

Wow I feel the same way about film scores now. I thought I was the only one. What happened?!? Everything is so atmospheric sounding now. Film composers don't even write themes anymore. Its really boring and I think it hurts the films. Its like when all the wonderful composers like Goldsmith, Horner, Bernstein, etc passed away so did their whole idea of film scoring.

On a separate note I am really amazed what you've done here! I love the legend score now because I can actually hear it. Bravo my friend!

Thanks for the music!

Thanks

Tried to download, took forever from those sites, then Chrome said it was dangerous and would not complete the download. As previous poster said Mega share much easier, MUCH quicker. Thanks for posting this but I'm hoping someone reshares it with fast links.

Thank you very much!

Thanks for posting this but I'm hoping someone reshares it with fast links.

Gamefront is as fast as MEGA.

Wow I feel the same way about film scores now. I thought I was the only one. What happened?!? Everything is so atmospheric sounding now. Film composers don't even write themes anymore. Its really boring and I think it hurts the films. Its like when all the wonderful composers like Goldsmith, Horner, Bernstein, etc passed away so did their whole idea of film scoring.

On a separate note I am really amazed what you've done here! I love the legend score now because I can actually hear it. Bravo my friend!

Actually, I meant the sound quality :D

I don�t think that filmmusic is so bad these days. The Remote Control sound will pass in a few years, I�m sure. Something new and hot will replace it. In the meantime, I�m trying to ignore dumb ostinatos like in Terminator Genisys ;)

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-> Frontcover

I find the picture in general a bit too dark. When printed out, you might not be able to differentiate several shades of black/grey. However, where the hell did you get this picture?? Did you add the stars yourself? I should have thought of that... and how did you enlarge the sides? Does this exist in wide form as well? Because I couldn�t find it anywhere.

Great work, thanks!

Thanks a lot SonicAdventure

Thank you!

Never mind, sorted! Downloading now, and cannot wait to hear it. Fan of "Legend" since I was a child, its multiple versions and troubled production history.

Danke Schon Sonic!

It is also one of my favorite Goldsmith albums, and the fact that the sound kind of sucked in the original album is no secret.

I just started listening as I'm typing this and damn, can I feel the bass and high tonalities now, with such a bigger breathing space in between. I'm noticing details I don't think I ever paid attention to before, wow... Excellent work as always, but since this is one of my favorite scores, your efforts here are resonating on higher level and are doubly appreciated!

Thank you for another great one :)

Many thanks for your work!

Danke Schon Sonic!

It is also one of my favorite Goldsmith albums, and the fact that the sound kind of sucked in the original album is no secret.

I just started listening as I'm typing this and damn, can I feel the bass and high tonalities now, with such a bigger breathing space in between. I'm noticing details I don't think I ever paid attention to before, wow... Excellent work as always, but since this is one of my favorite scores, your efforts here are resonating on higher level and are doubly appreciated!

I�ve always wondered how the 2002-version sounds. I�ve never found it and since I already own the 1995-version, I�ve never bothered to buy it.

I find the picture in general a bit too dark. When printed out, you might not be able to differentiate several shades of black/grey. However, where the hell did you get this picture?? Did you add the stars yourself? I should have thought of that... and how did you enlarge the sides? Does this exist in wide form as well? Because I couldn�t find it anywhere.

The original poster is this dark and I didn't want to lighten it as it doesn't work. It's supposed to be dark (I've printed this out and it looks great, depends how you print it I guess). It doesn't exist in a wide format, it was composed to be a portrait poster, as you said. The extra bits at the sides I've painted myself.

After fighting mirrorcreator and a million pop ups and attempts to install crap on my pc, finally got this downloaded! Thanks to the original poster.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for your work

I've been listening and re-listening to this on and off throughout the week, and I have to say, I am very, very grateful for this early holiday gift. I actually hadn't realized how lacking the original mix was, and I think it's now safe to say that this is my official go-to copy for listening to the score. Thank you, SonicAdventure! And thank you for the artwork options. I opted to go with the gold-toned one (the first in the preview image you posted).

Thousand thanks for your great job, Sonic. I really appreciate, my friend!!!.... :)

Thank you very much for all the work you put in this score!!!!!
By the way... I like the �shadow� cover!!!! Less is More ;)

Thank you share!

Well, another opportunity (the best!) to give this music a chance. My girlfriend and I both love Goldi. It should be a joyous listening.

Thanks for everything, SonicAdventure! :)

Many thanks. Can't wait to hear how the sound has been improved!

Thank you!

muchas gracias

thank you!

.

I've been wanting to hear this forever, since I was a kid in the 80's. Thanks so much!

Jerry Goldsmith's score was never rejected. It was used in Europe while in the USA Tangerine Dream made a score which was truley dreadful. Goldsmith's score is a masterpiece with or without the film

many thanks for this, Sonic! Such a beautiful score from Maestro Goldsmith, can't wait to hear your updated sound work on this and revisit this music!

Can any one reupload this?

Many thanks to Sonic

I have to be honest, when I first saw this post I was pretty sceptical about it, given the not uncommon claims from people to have improved on an official release. Well, this does. I love it. I've listened to the Silva Screen release many, many times, and never noticed just how much room for improvement there was. I was so grateful that the score had been saved from the brink of death that I never really questioned its quality.

Thanks for the great work on this, dude.

Oh it would be awesome if somebody would make reup....

I have to be honest, when I first saw this post I was pretty sceptical about it, given the not uncommon claims from people to have improved on an official release. Well, this does. I love it. I've listened to the Silva Screen release many, many times, and never noticed just how much room for improvement there was. I was so grateful that the score had been saved from the brink of death that I never really questioned its quality.

I would be sceptical, too. After all, I could very well be someone who just presses some, I don't know, "Crystalizer" or "Bass Boost" button, crank up the Noise Reduction to full and then proceed to call it "remastered". But I'm not.

Though I am in fact quite vocal about Deluxe Editions that didn't have the result I wanted to have, Editions that could have been sounding better.

Glad that you like it :)

Oh it would be awesome if somebody would make reup....

I second that. All links on mirrorcreator are dead (even those marked as working by mirrorcreator)

Yep, I tried every mirror as well....
:(

Shitballs! I completely missed this. I would greatly appreciate anyone willing to re-up this for us late arrivers. Thanks in advance - fingers crossed!

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

Thank you ellisplz!!

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

Fantastic, thank you :)

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

grateful thanks ellisplz for reuploading!!!

Thank you

Thank you kindly.

Thank you ellisplz!!

Thank you everyone.

Indeed! Thank You!!

Impressive work Sonic, thank you very much!

Thank you so much for this.

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

Thank you Sonic' and thank you
ellisplz for the reup!

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

Thank you so much for the link and thanks Sonic for the original share. I had been looking for this everywhere and I couldn't find it so thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thanks for this to all involved in keeping it going and of course to Sonic, without whom there'd be nothing to re-up :)

As a fan of Sonic's work I'm surprised that I've never seen this DeLuxe Edition before..! So: thanks again and again to SonicAdventure for his incredible work and thanks to ellisplz for the re-up!!

Thanks so much for the re-up!

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

Thank you so much!

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

Thanks a lot!!!!

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Beware: this doesn�t include any additional music!





Not one of my usual Deluxe Editions since it doesn�t contain additional music. Reason: every piece I was able to find sounded so bad that I couldn�t salvage it. I tried. To no avail. That leaves me with updated sound and several covers for you to choose from. 'Legend' by Jerry Goldsmith has always sounded like crap. A shame, really, because it is such a wonderfully complex score. Everyone knows the story of how this score was scrapped for the American release, so I�ll not mention it again. This release here is my fourth attempt to 'remaster' it and it�s the only one of my attempts I like. I have been trying - until now, in vain - since I bought my CD in 1995.
Over the years, countless people have complained about the sound, describing it as shrill, brittle and lifeless. I myself was appalled by the badly mixed, obnoxious synthesizers and by reverb that sounded metallic (and you never ever want that to happen!). While I could hear all of these issues, I didn�t know the reasons and, in turn, how to fix them. Now I do: as it turns out, it�s lack of deep bass, lack of high treble and spatiality problems. Basically, this score has only mids. Lots of it. But, of course, you cannot just switch on a Loudness switch, it needs refinement. My aim was to create something that sounds warmer, dynamic, less brittle, less metallic, with better integrated synths without loosing spatiality.
IMO, I succeeded on all counts. I was able to widen the sound, revealing an extremely well done mix. The added sonority helps the score a lot to sound more appealing while the synths are still strong yet less in-your-face. Precision has improved a lot. Some people won�t like this more contemporary sound, they will not like how much I changed it. To them I say: shut the fuck up, it now sounds like a Goldsmith-score.





The cover was a pain in the ass as well. This is an '80s movie, so I wasn�t able to find HiRes material for it. I had to fake everything. Take the poster where Darkness is holding the two lovebirds in his hands while sitting within a nightly landscape. The whole picture was painted with the goal of being reproduced for vertical poster designs - which made it impossible to adapt it for square CD covers. So I had to expand it to the sides if I was to use it. That was a difficult job and you can see some artifacts if you look closely. Despite this, I�m happy for once how it turned out. Since I had to prepare several pictures before I could use them for the covers, they are included in the archive as well. You can find them within the folder named 'Posters'. I actually re-created the two official SilvaScreen designs with the goal of updating them for the year 2015. Well, they still look like shit, my talent doesn�t go all the way it would need to do in order to actually offer an improvement. In any case, just take the pick you yourself like the most. Within the archive, you can find 3 design schemes. Design 1 is based on the colour RED, Design 2 is based soleley on the first SilvaScreen design, Design 3 is based on the recent BluRay.


Some personal thoughts regarding the music itself:

As much as I love it, I�m actually not surprised that this score was rejected. Jerry Goldsmith created something of an oddity because he composed a highly impressionistic score. Impressionism in music is characterized by "colour", achieved through orchestration, harmonic usage, texture, etc. By doing so, he composed a score with so much weight that it is crushing the movie. Which is a surprising in itself, because the movie itself is already very lush and colourful. While this certainly isn�t Goldsmith's first impressionistic score, it�s one of his most challenging. There�s only one single theme which he brilliantly mutates so often or takes it apart in order to state just fragments that it becomes difficult to connect a certain theme to anything. And, who could forget, the synths. I�m sorry, but they sound incredibly dated, very old-fashioned and a bit tacky. Probably cutting edge 30 years ago... but nowadays? Not so. They add to the lushness of the music itself, turning the score into an overbearing nightmare. Still, it is a wonderful score. Extremely creative, inventive, complex, gigantic and one of the best of his career.

So in case you�ve never heard it before, be prepared to hear music that might appall you at first. My advice to you is: give it time, the score will unveil its beauty after a while. This isn�t an easy score, no. But it�s a rewarding one.


The sound will never be better (unless they find all the multitrack elements and remix it), not one of the available releases (The vinyl edition? Are you kidding? What a waste) is able to sound as good as this one. Not arrogance; it�s a fact. So, enjoy it!



Now A WARNING:
1. Once the links expire, I won�t upload it again, someone else has to do that (maybe by creating mirrors?)
2. Mp3's: This time, I won�t provide them. Don�t be lazy, create them yourself, it�s incredibly easy.

Tracklist:


1. Main Title / The Goblins 5:49 2. My True Love�s Eyes / The Cottage 5:07 3. The Unicorns 7:56
4. Living River / Bumps & Hollow / The Freeze 7:25 5. The Faeries / The Riddle 4:56
6. Sing The Wee 1:11 7. Forgive Me 5:16 8. Faerie Dance 1:55 9. The Armour 2:20
10. Oona / The Jewels 6:44 11. The Dress Waltz 2:51 12. Darkness Fails 7:31
13. The Ring 6:32 14. Re-United 5:19


http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0G721DT4/TangerineNightmare.part1.rar_links
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1BULANMD/TangerineNightmare.part2.rar_links


Pass:

OhNo,ScientologyAgain!


Thanks a lot!!!

I would be sceptical, too. After all, I could very well be someone who just presses some, I don't know, "Crystalizer" or "Bass Boost" button, crank up the Noise Reduction to full and then proceed to call it "remastered". But I'm not.

I think you get to many views/hits for that.

If you ever do decide to quit permanently you really ought to create a "behind the scenes" sort of thread/video on how you approached remastering (if at all possible). I think that would be quite interesting to see at least.

Thanks a lot all of you!

I think you get to many views/hits for that.

If you ever do decide to quit permanently you really ought to create a "behind the scenes" sort of thread/video on how you approached remastering (if at all possible). I think that would be quite interesting to see at least.

Dear, what are you doing?? One "Thank you" would have been enough :)

One link of part II is still working, but part I is gone. Can someone provide me with part one? :)

Hi Sonic - Could you share in a PM to me - its one of the greats of Goldsmith.

Re-upload of SonicAdventure's excellent work -

http://www.mediafire.com/?9j85pgwmd4hmar1

Thanks! What about part 2? Does this include that?

For many years I thought I was the only one bitching about the obnoxious artist Ya-Ma-Ha and the general harshness of the audio. Thanks, Prince of Lossless!

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All included.

Thanks ;) Pitty that Sonic is not here on forums anymore

Thanks. This is too good to just let it disappear into the darkness.

Thanks a lot.