BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS RECORDING SESSION

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277mb 67 tracks @ 320
track list:

DISC 1
1 MAIN TITLE (TAKE1)
2 MAIN TITLE (TAKE 2)
3 MAIN TITLE (TAKE 3)
4 GELT’S ARRIVAL/WEATHER STATION DESTROYED
5 GELT’S DEMANDS (TAKE 1)
6 GELT’S DEMANDS (TAKE 2)
7 SNIPERS FORWARD (TAKE 1)
8 SNIPERS FORWARD (TAKE 2)
9 NELL (TAKE 1)
10 LOVE THEME (TAKE 2)
11 NELL (TAKE 2)
12 MALMORI REAR GUARD (TAKE 1)
13 MALMORI REAR GUARD (TAKE 2)
14 HEPHAESTUS STATION (TAKE 1, FRONT ONLY)
15 HEPHAESTUS STATION (TAKE 2)
16 LOVE THEME (TAKE 1)
17 EMISSARY OF DUST (TAKE 1)
18 EMISSARY OF DUST (TAKE 2)
19 COWBOY AND THE JACKERS (TAKE 1)
20 COWBOY AND THE JACKERS (TAKE 2)
21 THE STELLAR CONVERTER (TAKE 1)
22 THE STELLAR CONVERTER (TAKE 2)
23 NANELIA’S CAPTURE
24 CAYMAN JOINS NANELIA (TAKE 1)
25 CAYMAN JOINS NANELIA (TAKE 2)
26 THE KIDNAPPING (TAKE 1)
27 THE KIDNAPPING (TAKE 2)
28 A MEAL (TAKE 1)
29 A MEAL (TAKE 2)
30 A PLACE TO HIDE (TAKE 1)
31 A PLACE TO HIDE (TAKE 2)
32 TO AKIRA (TAKE 1)
33 TO AKIRA (TAKE 2)

DISC 2
1 THE HUNTER (TAKE 1)
2 THE HUNTER (TAKE 2)
3 HAMMERHEAD APPROACHES (TAKE 1)
4 HAMMERHEAD APPROACHES (TAKE 2)
5 NANELIA (TAKE 1)
6 NANELIA (TAKE 2)
7 PERIMETER BREACH (TAKE 1)
8 PERIMETER BREACH (TAKE 2)
9 THE BATTLE BEGINS (TAKE 1)
10 THE BATTLE BEGINS (TAKE 2)
11 THE BATTLE BEGINS (TAKE 3)
12 FOOT PATROL
13 THE MAZE BATTLE (TAKE 1)
14 THE MAZE BATTLE (TAKE 2)
15 GELT’S DEATH (TAKE 1)
16 GELT’S DEATH (TAKE 2)
17 NANELIA AND SHAD
18 HEADING FOR SADOR (TAKE 1)
19 HEADING FOR SADOR (TAKE 2)
20 LIVE FAST, FIGHT WELL AND HAVE A BEAUTIFUL ENDING (TAKE 1)
21 LIVE FAST, FIGHT WELL AND HAVE A BEAUTIFUL ENDING (TAKE 2)
22 COWBOY’S ATTACK (TAKE 1)
23 COWBOY’S ATTACK (TAKE 2)
24 SHAD’S PURSUIT
25 DESTRUCTION OF HAMMERHEAD (TAKE 1)
26 DESTRUCTION OF HAMMERHEAD (TAKE 2)
27 EPILOGUE (TAKE 1)
28 EPILOGUE (TAKE 2)
29 EPILOGUE (TAKE 3)
30 EPILOGUE (TAKE 4)
31 EPILOGUE (TAKE 5)
32 END CREDITS (TAKE 1)
33 END CREDITS (TAKE 2)
34 END CREDITS (TAKE 3)

Now, this **is** encoded @ 320, but seems to be from a less than stellar source recording. So, you may find it disappointing, since a better version has not surfaced, as far as I know.

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I had no idea there was a recording session version anywhere, after 31 years I figured nothing remains of the recording sessions. Wow what a classic, I believe this is James Horner first motion picture score? Harve Bennett was in a theater watching this movie, he had been looking for someone to do the score for his next movie… that’s how Mr. Horner was picked to do Star Trek II. The only version I have is GNP Battle Beyond the Stars & Humanoids from the Deep…good but nothing to brag about. Thank You babydoll…

Scott

According to the imdb, this was his fifth score. And he would do six more before Trek.
JonC

Horner was a busy beaver in the early eighties.

It was his first big score, I think we can say… and it was indeed this score that got him the job on Trek – I can’t see Harve Bennett going to watch a Roger Corman flick though… didn’t he hear the score on Horner’s demo tape and hire him that way? Surely he didn’t watch that piece of trash in the cinema…!

Fascinating to hear so much of Horner’s typical style so established already… to the extent that, as is his way, he’s still ripping it off thirty years later.

The download is progressing as we speak, so I can’t comment on this release yet, except to say thanks for posting – and I’m sure it’ll be interesting if nothing else… The GNP album is pretty good; it could use expanding but the masters probably don’t exist any more… and besides, if you want to hear more from BBTS and in better quality… pick up Star Trek II… it’s the same score, performed by a larger better orchestra… 😉

It is…tantalizing to hear this. Makes me desperately hope a better version exists somewhere…..and it still ranks as one of my favorite Horner scores, along with Trek Ii and Krull…

Maybe it’s sitting in a vault somewhere… The sound on this release is actually not half as bad as I was expecting… by early eighties bootleg recording sessions standards, it’s downright fantastic.

The GNP album was mastered from vinyl, apparently, because nothing better could be found… if BBTS is truly lost, that’s very sad… but at least we have something (the GNP album) and can fill in the blanks from this album…

Incidentally, I think I’ve just worked out where this came from. Listen to D209 (The Battle Begins, Take A) – notice at 1:04 and 1:08 the orchestra disappears and we just hear the woodwinds? This is the mixing engineer fiddling around with the playback in the control room. They do during recording to monitor certain sections – it was happening a lot at the Doctor Who session I went to. Obviously this wouldn’t be going down on the master tape – therefore, we can dedude that this recording was stealthily made by somebody in the control room, with a direct monitor feed – probably into a regular boggo cassette deck. In short, it’s not a copy of the master… (If it were, I’d be a little more optimistic that the master *did* exist…)

Hmm.

John-Boy.

In space

In a talking spaceship with boobs.

What’s not to love 😀

My limited understanding is that James Horner himself owns the only high-quality masters of this score and has always refused to license them for album release because of his embarrassment regarding the orchestral performances (specifically the brass).

Thank you!

I loves me my babydoll!

I can’t remember who it was but they dragged Harve to see this move because he had seen it previously and loved the music and thought Harve would too, it was a very unique arrangement for its time. I have both scores too and differently hear the similarity’s between the two. I had forgotten Horner worked for Roger Corman before BBTS…yeah he sure loves to ripoff from himself.

GREAT soundtrack ! I loved this as a kid and whilst the movie is of it’s day and of a lesser budget.
The ships were original, the effects were good, though the story was well tread i didn’t mind being 8/9 years old at the time. But the music stuck in my mind for years. I managed to get the LP and played it to death.
I bought the CD of BBTS/Humanoids recently and it all came flooding back.

This set of recordings is a great document of the process… and i tend to agree that the brass section seemed to perhaps struggle in a few places here… I think it adds character to it.

A great find and a generous post, thank you.

Thanks babydoll. This is one of my favourite soundtracks.

Thanks!

Unbelievable! My teeth almost dropped out when someone here came up with Safan’s (further) expanded score for THE LAST STARFIGHTER, but this one is even better! 🙂

I remember paying a LOT of money for the rare record of this one! And then some stupid git remarking, that Horner had ripped off Jerry Goldsmith’s Klingons-theme… badly. And, amazingly, that git’s name perfectly rhymes with "jerk". 😉

Hmm… there are some similarities for sure to Jerry’s Klingon march and i suppose any movie like this is going to have it’s themes compared to both Stars Trek and Wars… but it’s still a great soundtrack.

I particularly loved the HEPHAESTUS STATION and i was disapppointed that it wasn’t on the record. It’s a shame that this isn’t a little cleaner to listen to but i’m still thrilled and grateful to have it! It was a majestic version of the theme for the docking sequence whilst a slightly creepy, haunting mood for the station approach. Brilliant stuff.

Hmm… there are some similarities for sure to Jerry’s Klingon march and i suppose any movie like this is going to have it’s themes compared to both Stars Trek and Wars… but it’s still a great soundtrack.

Well, "jerk" once tried to impress me with his inferior skills on a synthesizer. And then he was rather pissed because I was not impressed. Except for his huge ego there wasn’t much going FOR this guy. OK, maybe his "as pretty as she was dull" girlfriend.

I particularly loved the HEPHAESTUS STATION and i was disapppointed that it wasn’t on the record.

Me too! Horner at his best! 🙂

This piece of music in a decent quality would be a KILLER!

It’s a shame that this isn’t a little cleaner to listen to but i’m still thrilled and grateful to have it! It was a majestic version of the theme for the docking sequence whilst a slightly creepy, haunting mood for the station approach. Brilliant stuff.

Since Horner is still alive and kicking maybe we should start a petition to either get the full score released or at least do a re-recording (no Horner than Stromberg please and not Raine). Roger Corman can’t ask for too much money (although this movie is still making some bucks). Besides, they were planning a sequel of sorts (only some comics came out – yet) and this could give it some nice publicity – and us some decent new CD to listen too! 😉

quality wise, there is a lack of good stereo separation, and the brass is very ‘bright’. A taste of whats to come if Lalaland or Intrada get their grubby paws on it. One can dream….

Babydoll UR an ANGEL! Thanks for all your contribution! I am a HUGE James Horner FAN… AND I THOUGHT I HAD EVERYTHING WAS AVAILABLE FROM HORNER! Thanks again! Keep on Distributing! BTW, my fav are also Battle Beyond the Stars and KRULL… (oh, I also love To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday….)

Oh my God, this is an amazing find. Thank you so much for poating it, I love this score and, honestly, it doesn’t sound all that bad. Babydoll, you’re a peach!

Wow, I had no idea this was out there. THANKS.

Great! Thank You!

Hi All,

Missed this when it was first put up. Any chance of a Re-up?

Fingers crossed,

S’hunter

Yes, a re-up would be great!!!!!!

This is one of Horner’s better scores. I have the BBTS / Humanoids CD and would appreciate a re-up of the recording sessions.

It appears I have this! I picked it up somewhere a while ago, my version is @320 with the same number of files, I’ve had to split it though over two archives.

It is rather fun listening to this back, I also love the fact that they still left the bum note on the end credits, used to wind my exgirlfriend up something chronic as she was a musician!! Some interesting tracks here, good to hear the raw footage.

Password : hornerrules

James Horner – Battle Beyond the Stars (recording sessions) – Disc 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?108c67ad2ly68uf)
James Horner – Battle Beyond the Stars (recording sessions) – Disc 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6d8d23c3cldi8vw)

Total: 278.81MB

Edit: You beat me by a matter of seconds. Standing down. 🙂

Big Thanks to you both!!

YESSSS!!!!!

Many many thanks!!!

@Amanda: Thank you for this thread.

@hyperjase: many thanx for this. Have a nice day!

Glad I’m able to share back! Sorry I beat tangotreats to it! It’s likely you would have beat me as it took me ages to upload these! I’m hoping someone will reup the re-release with sfx tracks soon.

used to wind my exgirlfriend up something chronic as she was a musician!!

About half the score is bum notes. 😉

Horner really pushed his orchestra – painfully under-rehearsed and at least twenty players too small – to the absolute limit and beyond. Even the "good" takes are beyond painful; I can’t help but laugh in Cowboy & The Jackers, where the brass begin to run out of steam about the two minute mark, get progressively slower and more out of tune, completely mess up at 2:17 and give up entirely about ten seconds later. (Not that those very precise, repetitive cells are easy to play; far from it! Early Horner was noted for its failure to accommodate the limitations of human musicians (and their very real need to take in oxygen occasionally!!) flummoxing even the London Symphony Orchestra – I’m surprised they didn’t rise up and lynch Horner after he patronised them at the Krull sessions…)

About half the score is bum notes. 😉

Horner really pushed his orchestra – painfully under-rehearsed and at least twenty players too small – to the absolute limit and beyond. Even the "good" takes are beyond painful; I can’t help but laugh in Cowboy & The Jackers, where the brass begin to run out of steam about the two minute mark, get progressively slower and more out of tune, completely mess up at 2:17 and give up entirely about ten seconds later. (Not that those very precise, repetitive cells are easy to play; far from it! Early Horner was noted for its failure to accommodate the limitations of human musicians (and their very real need to take in oxygen occasionally!!) flummoxing even the London Symphony Orchestra – I’m surprised they didn’t rise up and lynch Horner after he patronised them at the Krull sessions…)

I’m curious about the Krull sessions, I guess he was pushing them a little hard?

If memory serves, he put music in front of them which was basically unplayable (the mark of the young, inexperienced composer – music that looks great on paper but doesn’t recognise the needs of the players) and they played it anyway. At the end of the session, he served up a withering comment – "It’ll do – never mind, you did the best you could – my music is very complicated!" and you can imagine how that went down!

If memory serves, he put music in front of them which was basically unplayable (the mark of the young, inexperienced composer – music that looks great on paper but doesn’t recognise the needs of the players) and they played it anyway. At the end of the session, he served up a withering comment – "It’ll do – never mind, you did the best you could – my music is very complicated!" and you can imagine how that went down!

Ouch! I respect his work so massively, he’s one of my favourite composers but that does kinda stink!

The one thing that you will notice, is how much the feel of this music is so similar to the feel of "Wrath of Khan". There are parts of this that can be intermixed with WOK, without anyone noticing it, if you segue it properly. 🙂

Thanks for this great upload, Amanda!

William

Well, someone might notice how the orchestra suddenly sucks when you segue into the Battle Beyond music. They did the cribs from Star Trek The Motion Picture kind of okay though.

Hi there. Can someone re-up this. mega thingy is down again. Thanks in advance 🙂

Post 26 just above has working mediafire links that are still active.

Hi there, I saw them and went daaaa and hit myself on the head. Thanks 🙂

Thanks very much Hyperjase for the new links! 🙂 And thanks to Amanda for her original post! 🙂

Thank you very much Amanda and hyperjase! This is actually film music history!

It appears I have this! I picked it up somewhere a while ago, my version is @320 with the same number of files, I’ve had to split it though over two archives.

It is rather fun listening to this back, I also love the fact that they still left the bum note on the end credits, used to wind my exgirlfriend up something chronic as she was a musician!! Some interesting tracks here, good to hear the raw footage.

Password : hornerrules

James Horner – Battle Beyond the Stars (recording sessions) – Disc 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?108c67ad2ly68uf)
James Horner – Battle Beyond the Stars (recording sessions) – Disc 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6d8d23c3cldi8vw)

Total: 278.81MB

Still live! Thanks so much!

Wow never heard of this before !
Thanks !

Wow never heard of this before !
Thanks !

You’ve never heard Battle Beyond The Stars? Sjeeesh… you’re missing out!! 🙂

Never heard of the sessions…. I’ve had the BSX CD since its release…. Loved the movie since its release in VHS in 1980 🙂

Thanks for the original share and for the re-up, hyperjase!

I second that!

thanks

Thanks for the original offering, and the re-up!

thanks!

Thanks for this, nice to see the re-up is still active.

Glad this upload is still out there- thanks for the share

Thanks for the share