i haven't seen John Barry's zulu here, i found this online

http://www.4shared.com/file/73592720/aa7adebf/JB_Z64.html

pass kRaMo

credit to whoever uploaded it, i don't know who it is

Tracklist.
01. Zulu Main Theme / Isandhlwana
02. News Of The Massacre / Rorke's Drift Threatened
03. Bromhead's Safari - Wagons Over
04. You're All Going To Die!
05. First Zulu Appearance And Assault
06. March Of The / Men Of Harlech
07. Durnford's Horses Arrive And Depart
08. Zulu's Final Appearance And Salute
09. Men Of Harlech / End Title

(http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frontmk62263187.jpg)


it's awesome, very awesome

is this the full ost or is there more?

I think it is pretty much the full score, and from the looks of the track listing, it's probably the re-recording by Nic Raine and the City of Prague Phil. It's a great little score. I love the way Barry sweeps us up from the a capella 'Men of Harlech' into a concise coda with the main theme poking through just enough and those pounding timps.

I wonder if Goldsmith had 'First Zulu Appearance and Assault' in mind when he wrote the 'Avalanche' cue for Mulan..

Hehe, it's a process of elimination now. Jimmy Neutron?

Wrong. I chose this cue because a) it's very beautiful and remarkably well done in itself, a great example of near-perfection in score comp. and orch., and b) it sounds quite like it was from the fantasy genre, hence contrasting a lot with the rest of the score. It can be heard when the main character discovers and and slip on an important "artefact" which will give him superpowers.

Anyway I'll post the score tonight. ;)


Sirusjr: THANK YOU! I already told it, Krull is my number 1 score, among any other score. Horner reached there a level of genius and magnificience quite incredible to me. If you haven't already, you should watch the movie, not because it's a masterpiece (some even consider it as crap - I personally find it quite entertaining, but very cheesy), but because you'll see the narration and then how Horner's score accurately and masterfully enhances the events on-creen.


Yosemite: Thanks for Zulu. Barry is once again thematically simplistic and very repetitive, but this score is quite entertaining nonetheless.

I believe there's a 2 cd full score you can download as a torrent.

Arthierr, the 2 cd one is just this suite (Barry only wrote around 20 minutes of music for this film - and its all the more effective for it) together with other Barry themes from different films. I can upload it if anyone wants, but it has no extra Zulu content.


Is it The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl?? Total stab in the dark.

Is it definately not this?? I can't think of anything else. When you said it stands out from the rest of the score this was the one that sprung to mind.

Based on your clues i'm going to guess it's from The Tuxedo?

If not then, damn it! John Debney makes too many damn soundtracks :�

Based on your clues i'm going to guess it's from The Tuxedo?

If not then, damn it! John Debney makes too many damn soundtracks :�

HURRAY! We have a winner! You got it right, sir. =)

Very true, Debney is one of the most demanded composer in Hollywood, nowadays. At least it's deserved: he's extremely skilled and fast at making effective scores.

As promised, the full score of my guessing game.



The Tuxedo

Music composed by John Debney and Christophe Beck

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Pass: golfo

http://tinyurl.com/ozypfd








Review by Dan Goldwasser

In The Tuxedo, Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is a cab driver who gets recruited to become super-spy Clark Devlin's (Jason Isaacs) personal driver. After an accident that incapacitates Devlin, Tong assumes his identity, and by wearing his super-tuxedo, takes on all the skills and abilities of a secret agent. Teamed up with Delilah Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt), they try to uncover an evil plot to destroy the planet's fresh-water supply. Scored by Christophe Beck, the film required John Debney to come in and add his own brand of spy-tech to the music track. The resulting soundtrack sounds a tad bi-polar, but has a few entertaining moments that might be worth a listen.

Debney does more of the same stuff he's done in Spy Kids and Jimmy Neutron - hard hitting rhythms with plenty of brass and orchestral mayhem. "Mad Bike Messenger" is a representative track of the kind of fun score Debney gives us. On the flip side, we have Christophe Beck's work, which isn't as hard-hitting, but has more of a dramatic, almost "wondrous" edge. "First Mission" is sneaky and foreboding, but his action cues ("Demolition", "Superhuman") have a slightly more techno-edge to them than Debney's action cues. It's interesting to compare the two parallel scores; we're even given two versions of "Rope Fight".

Capped off with a James Brown song from the film, the album runs a rather tight 36-minutes in length. It's a solid listen, but after a while, the electronic beats get to be a bit much. Debney and Beck fans will find this one a "must have", but others might want to pass.

Interesting post, I never got into the score because the secret agent style didn't really interest me. I prefer the score for Get Smart by Trevor Rabin.

http://hyperfileshare.com/d/7cf47203
Here's several tracks from a Chinese film Ching Se,some tracks are really relaxing (one addtional track is from another movie).I also have the full lossless version if someone like it.

Hello,

First of all, my customary heartfelt thanks to EVERYONE for all the wonderful music posted here in the last few weeks; this thread gets better and better every day.

As usual, I have no time to do or say anything, but I would like to share a piece of classical music with you - by one of my favourite composers, Leos Janacek. It was written in 1928 - his final year - as incidental music for the play Schluck und Jau. Janacek hated the play and never completed his score, but did manage to finish some of it...

And here it is, in a particularly lovely performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Mark Elder. It's a live recording made two weeks ago at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It was a wonderful concert - here's what Musicweb had to say about it (only the sections relevant to this piece):


The orchestra remains on top form. The distinctiveness of timbre in each section combines impressively into an overall sense of unity and balance. The opening work was the most interesting of the programme. That isn’t saying much, but it is a piece that deserves greater exposure, Jan�ček’s incidental music to Schluck und Jau, a play by Gerhardt Haup7mann. This is late-era Jan�ček, it was left incomplete at his death and the two movements performed here were only published in 1977. The music is continuously inventive, changing tack every few bars and introducing new orchestral textures seemingly with every phrase. This work relies on distinctive and committed contributions from every member of the orchestra and requires an acute sense of ensemble, especially in the numerous passages where the texture is pared down to just a handful of disparate solo colours. The London Philharmonic really gets this music, and their ability to make Jan�ček’s unique orchestration decisions sound deliberate and purposeful rather than wantonly esoteric maintains its sense of inner purpose. The orchestra’s countless Jan�ček evenings at Glyndebourne down the years have created an intimate bond with his music, they play it like it’s in their blood.

-- Gavin Dixon

(Apologies for the deliberate misspelling of the playwright's surname - for some bizzare reason the forum's swearing filter is unhappy with the three letter combination pee tee em, so I have replaced the T with a 7 for the desired effect.)

JANACEK: SCHLUCK UND JAU
The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=lrtbz0kzur

(192kbps MP3, direct from the BBC's online programme archive.)

Thanks Danny! This piece is new to me :)

On a similar theme, here's another action pack, this time all classical.



http://rapidshare.com/files/232321378/Classical_Action_Pack.rar
320kbps / 174MB / 12 tracks / 1hr 16 mins

1. Brahms: Tragic Overture
Right, well this is the real meat out of this selection – one of my favourite pieces. So much emotion, striving, tenderness and sadness, all contained in a rigorously symphonic structure. The opening orchestral punch reminds us of how much Brahms revered Beethoven, but the ensuing flow of trenchant counterpoint and long-breathed melody could only have come from the pen Brahms. Listen to Herrmannesque passage from 1:52. Or the trilling section beginning at 3:53, releasing all that tightly-wound tension in a flourish of horn calls and sweeping strings. The cross-rhythms that crop up everywhere. And the ending that seems to slowly ebb away (as the title of the piece would suggest), only to rise up in one last frustrated gesture.
2. Britten: Variaions on a Theme by Frank Bridge - Aria Italiana
All strings with vigourous pizzicato, it feels like its going to take off! Reminds me of the soaring lines of Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian Symphony’.
3. Tchaikovsky: The Snow Maiden - Dance of the Tumblers
Stay with the crazed head-banging of this piece because it gets really good towards the end. I heard it played by the Liverpool Philharmonic a few years ago and it knocked my socks off! It actually makes me think of the unstoppable forward motion and odd woodwind accenting on Goldsmith’s Looney Tunes. Kind of like if Tchaikovsky has scored an episode of Tom and Jerry..
4. Haydn: Symphony No. 82 'The Bear' - Finale (Vivace)
This symphony gets its nickname from the opening of this movement, with drone bass, said to resemble the sort of music that bear trainers would make the animals dance to. It’s a great piece that shows Haydn’s cheeky sense of humour (listen to the false endings). Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs here in a performance that incorporates and elaborates musical practice of the period – so incisive string playing with little vibrato and animal skin timpani hit with wooden sticks for extra ‘thwack’!
5. Janacek: Sinfonietta - Fanfare: Allegretto
A bank of trumpeters standing at the back of the orchestra and spread across the width of the stage sound out this rousing opener to Janacek’s wonderful Sinfonietta. I love the way the harmony shifts and swells, all underpinned by those deterministic timpani hits.
6. Schumann: Konzertst�ck for 4 Horns and Orchestra in F major - Lebhaft
The freshness and impact of this piece is invigorating. Played here with precision on period instruments, including valveless horns.
7. Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice - Dance of the Furies
What a great, sinister theme! Bit of a Bernard Herrmann moment here too from Gluck, who sort of straddles the Baroque and Classical ‘periods’. The desperate calls and answering cries of horns and oboes always give me goosepimples :)
8. Dvorak: Polonaise
This skipping occasional piece doesn’t crop up on disc as often as some, so I thought I’d throw it in. It’s not as devious as his better known Slavonic Dances, but displays the sunny, effortlessly melodic nature of Dvorak's music.
9. Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale
I think this piece speaks for itself – an orchestral tour de force. The central section, gracefully swaying, while all the time being pecked away at by that repeated staccato rhythm, is stunning.
10. Nielsen: Aladdin - Blackamoor's Dance
I have another recording of this with a much more bracing tempo, but I love the stomping tread on this one and the manic-sounding sopranos.
11. Bliss: Adam Zero - Sequence
(The Stage / Birth of Adam / Adam's Fates / Dance of Spring)
I’m growing to like Bliss more and more. He was a pupil of Elgar and, though none of his music is as grandstandingly nostalgic as this would lead you to expect, he has a way with flowing melody and colourful orchestration. Adam Zero is a ballet-about-the-staging-of-a-ballet-as-a-metaphor-for-the-span-of-human-life (it all sounds very reflexive and allegorical). What we have here are basically four movements from early on in the piece that give a nice sampling of its varied, imaginative scoring. Listen especially to the unsettling rhythmic insistence and struck metal bars of ‘Adam’s Fates’ (3:55) – it’s like heart attack music!
12. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major - Allegro molto
This is Sibelius in ‘heroic’ mode, and not as abstract as some of his other works, but no less powerful. The gorgeous two-tiered theme that emerges out of all those rustling string just gets me every time. I can hear an echo of this in a tune Hisaishi wrote for the transformation of Haku in Spirited Away. The coda to the movement is so definitive it almost feels like the end of all symphonies.

Let me know what you think, as I may post another :)

Oh, and the painting is 'Fighting Forms' by Franz Marc.

More comments later, but just wanted to drop in a Thank You! It's lovely to see another fan of Arthur Bliss around here; certainly an underappreciated composer who would be completely unknown amongst 99% of the population, if it wasn't for the adoption of his name as Cockney slang... His Colour Symphony is breathtaking.

As I recall, he studied under Stanford (before the war) and Vaughan-Williams (after the war) but never under Elgar although they did cross paths a number of time I don't think it was ever in a teacher/student relationship; didn't Elgar have a certain distaste for Bliss, particularly the Colour Symphony?

And thank you for getting some Janacek out there - I believe I included some of the Glagolitic Mass in an earlier pack but this may be the Sinfonietta's debut in this thread...

And finally, Sibelius' 5th - the final chords are VERY close together in this recording; may I ask who is performing? I find that some composers tend to overplay the silences and some almost eschew them; this seems to veer a little close to the latter. When I first heard this piece in concert in 1995 at the Royal Festival Hall, Leif Segerstam and the Helsinki Philharmonic left the longest gaps between those chords I think I've ever heard before or since; the pauses were distinctly uncomfortable and the unfamiliar members of the audience even attempted to applaud between them.

---Also, I'm glad I'm not the only person to spot the Spirited Away influence in there! Hisaishi certainly intended to base his theme upon that motif.

Thanks a lot for this Fantastic pack! I will take a while to digest it but so far the Haydn piece is fantastic and has caused me to hunt down a Karajan 2cd set of Haydn's French Symphonies! I really like the energy and hope I can feel in the music. I always appreciate a chance to sample classical music like this because usually I download stuff blind or the samples on websites are really poor quality. The Shuman piece is fantastic as well. I really can feel the energy of the piece like it should accompany some epic journey. More comments to come.

As I recall, he studied under Stanford (before the war) and Vaughan-Williams (after the war) but never under Elgar although they did cross paths a number of time I don't think it was ever in a teacher/student relationship; didn't Elgar have a certain distaste for Bliss, particularly the Colour Symphony?

Oh god, sorry, my brain's shot at the mo (Schopenhauer is getting the better of me)! I don't why I thought this, but thanks for the correction! And now that you mention it, yes, Elgar's disapproval of the Colour Symphony sounds familiar - perhaps somehow (due to current anxieties)this mutated into the image of a censorious tutor :)

[also apologies for the dodgy spelling and missed words/letters]

The Sibelius 5 on here IS Segerstam and the Helsinki Phil! How interesting. I love the texture to the sound in this performance, but I'm right with you on those final chords. They ought to sounds as strange and jarring as possible I think. The recording that 'gets it right' for me is Rattle and the CBSO, but I didn't think the wide dynamic range and slightly homogenised sound was as mp3-friendly..

Sirusjr: I'm not sure I'd go for Karajan in Haydn. He can be a bit stodgy and too 'Romantic' for music of this period. If I get time I'll post the full Harnoncourt set in the classical thread.

Have just put up some links to Bliss' masterpiece "A Colour Symphony" for anyone who's yet to hear it:
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hey, anyone knows where to get the ms IGLOO 2 the gravity front ost?

i search on google, but all i find are youtube videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gqxB7MjmOA

thanks

Hi Yosemite, you mean this ost?

LOST: Season 4 (OST) (TV) (Michael Giacchino) (FLAC/MP3) (2009)




It's here! Michael Giacchino�s brilliant soundtrack, which follows every mysterious twist and turn of Lost�s addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement, Lost reached new heights in the fourteen episodes of its fourth season. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them. The mind-blowing story was told with original flashbacks and mind-bending flash-forwards. There was no shortage of drama in Lost�s thrilling Season 4 ... just what you would expect from one of the most groundbreaking shows in television history.

Michael Giacchino�s music has played a huge role in the series from the very beginning and fans have been dying for our latest collection of Lost musical highlights � over 75 minutes of Season 4�s emotional and thrilling score.

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have fun :)

The Sibelius 5 on here IS Segerstam and the Helsinki Phil! How interesting. I love the texture to the sound in this performance, but I'm right with you on those final chords. They ought to sounds as strange and jarring as possible I think. The recording that 'gets it right' for me is Rattle and the CBSO, but I didn't think the wide dynamic range and slightly homogenised sound was as mp3-friendly..

Haha, bloody hell! They certainly weren't playing it like that in '95 - how bizzare. I'm probably a bit more conservative than you; I *do* like them to be quite widely spaced, but when you're talking about five to ten seconds of absolute silence between them I start to get a little worried. It sounds like a conductor is over-egging the pudding. The pauses should be long for dramatic effect - but if they're so long you actually start actively thinking about them, that might be too far... I've never heard Rattle's recording - would you be prepared to offer up a sample? (Just the final movement would be absolutely wonderful, if you have the time.)


Sirusjr: I'm not sure I'd go for Karajan in Haydn. He can be a bit stodgy and too 'Romantic' for music of this period. If I get time I'll post the full Harnoncourt set in the classical thread.

Karajan tends to conduct **EVERYTHING** like a cross between the Eroica and Tannhauser! Sometimes it works... I don't know how much I'd like that style in Haydn... could be interesting though!

Here's the final movement:

http://rapidshare.com/files/232632920/03_Sir_Simon_Rattle___City_of_Birmingham_Symphony_ Orchestra_-_Symphony_No.5_in_E_flat_major__op.82_-

But boy, 320 is not kind to this recording!

In general I think Rattle's a bit of an overrated conductor, esp since he took over the Berlin Phil (I find his Beethoven cycle unbearably affected and some of his recent stuff flippant and superficial) but he did make many fine recordings in Birmingham and this is one of them. The rendition of the 7th here is sublime too, totallly organic sounding.

I've never heard the coda taken that slow (5-10 seconds!), nor have I seen the written score. Rattle leaves it just long enough, but what makes it so startling here, unlike the more politely-voiced Segerstam take, is how emphatic and almost un-orchestral those chords sound - all the players really welly it!

Thank you! I'm sorry for dragging this off topic, everybody - I just got enthusistic about the Sibelius and went off on a tangent - apologies; normal service will be resumed shortly. :)

Lens: Yikes, that's a horrid encode; 320 shouldn't sound that bad, but you used LAME 3.98 so something else must be going on - anyway, that's a topic for another time...

The performance: LOVELY. What can I say? It's throaty and full-blooded in a way that Segerstam doesn't capture; something tells me that Segerstam and the Helsinki Philharmonic really should have this piece down a lot better than Simon Rattle and a bunch of Brummies, but the proof is in the listening. The gaps aren't TOO long; there's just enough breathing space. And you're right - they're virtually screaming. I remember Segerstam in concert taking it a lot like this, but in your recording they seem comparitively timid. Fascinating stuff - thanks!

Well I certainly like Eroica and Tannhauser so I don't have a problem with that Danny! Plus it was the only torrent I found of Haydn Paris Symphonies. I also found an interesting recording of Shuman Symphonies with Kubelik and the BPO. I saw a ton of different torrents for Shuman but I figured what the heck ones gotta be good.

Just listened to the Nielsen piece and was absolutely floored. I had no idea such fantastic classical pieces existed. I found a few lossless torrents with Nielsen so hopefully they will be done in a few days. I will have to listen to this wonderful set over and over!

Just to whet your appetite a little more with Nielsen... Here's his Helios Overture - my favourite Nielsen, and the piece that completely captured me at the impressionable age of 8!

He was inspired by the beauty of sunrise and sunset - and wrote a wonderful evocative overture, charting its glorious journey.

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=zduuovnz6w

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
(1979 recording)

On the finished score, he inscribed the following verse; I'm not sure if he wrote it, or simply transcribed it from elsewhere, but it sums up the music far better than I can.


Silence and darkness--
The sun rises with a joyous song of praise,
It wanders on its golden way,
And sinks gently into the sea.

Hi Yosemite, you mean this ost?



hey

yes this one

Just to whet your appetite a little more with Nielsen... Here's his Helios Overture - my favourite Nielsen, and the piece that completely captured me at the impressionable age of 8!

Thanks a lot danny!

Thank you very much for the musics d(*・ω・*)b♪ ♪(ﾟ▽^*)ﾉ⌒☆

@yosemite
would you like the ost? i can it upload for you (￣ー￣)

Just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to all recent posters. I'll do much more comments and post some really nice stuff this weekend (promise).

See you soon, folks. :)

Sorry Ive been gone, no internet at my house anymore lol.

Anyways not much to say other than I thought the Star Trek OST was pretttyy lacking in theatre. It would have worked wonderful if it was interspersed with one of the big original star trek themes. Oh well.

And the movie was Pretty Friggen Good! But only like a 8/10. The whole plot wasnt really as cool as I was expecting. but it was still pretty dang fun.

:0seeyah

Wada / Ifukube / Toyama: Japanese Orchestral Music



Ifukube, Akira
Ballata Sinfonica
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Hirokami, Jun'ichi, Conductor

01. I. Prima ballata: Allegro capriccioso [07:48]
02. II. Seconda ballata: Andante rapsodico [08:17]


Tanaka, Karen
Prismes
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Hirokami, Jun'ichi, Conductor

03. Prismes [10:45]


Toyama, Yuzo
Symphonic Poem, "Matsura"
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Hirokami, Jun'ichi, Conductor

04. Symphonic Poem, "Matsura" [12:55]


Otaka, Atsutada
Image
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Hirokami, Jun'ichi, Conductor

05. Image [10:11]


Wada, Kaoru
Folkloric Dance Suite
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Hirokami, Jun'ichi, Conductor

06. I. Hayashi [03:50]
07. II. Magouta [04:25]
08. III. Odori [02:07]
09. IV. Oiwake (attacca) [03:20]
10. V. Dozokuteki - Bukyoku [04:01]

Japanese Orchestral Music (http://www.sendspace.com/file/lt1ha5)

You r the man dude.

I should get in on this thread and drop some good stuff. Trouble is I never know what to upload.

You r the man dude.

You are
★。.:*:゛゜☆ヽ(о>ω・)ノ●Welcome●ヽ(・ω<о)ノ☆゜゛:*:.。★
By the way, I'am a girl (￣ー￣)

George Washington II: The Forging Of A Nation (OST) (FLAC/MP3) (Bruce Broughton) (1986)



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enjoy :)

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ﾐ★(*^▽ﾟ)v Thanks!!★彡 Thank you very much m(o･ω･o)m

Night at the Museum 2 Complete Gamescore by Chris Tilton
http://christilton.com/mp3/ctilton_natm2.zip

Night at the Museum 2 Complete Gamescore by Chris Tilton
http://christilton.com/mp3/ctilton_natm2.zip
Fantastic! Thanks a lot. I am glad that this composer was able to post his soundtrack online for all of us to listen.
EDIT: Having listened to this, I highly suggest you guys listen. It is really fantastic orchestral work that I think is even better than Silvestri's work.

Night at the Museum 2 Complete Gamescore by Chris Tilton
http://christilton.com/mp3/ctilton_natm2.zip

wow.... it's so rare.... THANK YOU Mr TILTON !!!

He already did a great job with the video game adaptation of Jumper

wow.... it's so rare.... THANK YOU Mr TILTON !!!

He already did a great job with the video game adaptation of Jumper

he did a great job with everything he did before. but i enjoy fracture the most. its outstanding sci-fi balls-to-the-wall action .

he did a great job with everything he did before. but i enjoy fracture the most. its outstanding sci-fi balls-to-the-wall action .

Nice, can you upload his Fracture Soundtrack? (or someone else)

I also looking for:

Mercenaries 2: World In Flames - Chris Tilton
Mercenaries - Michael Giacchino & Chris Tilton
Black - Michael Giacchino & Chris Tilton

And please not complete or gamerips, just the original soundtracks:

http://christilton.com/disc/fracture.html
http://christilton.com/disc/black.html
http://christilton.com/disc/mercenaries.html
http://christilton.com/disc/mercenaries_2.html

thanks :)

This one is really, really good:



Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction

Music composed by Chris Tilton
Performed by The Northwest Sinfonia
Conducted by Tim Simonec
Orchestrations by Tim Simonec and Chris Tilton
“Mercenaries” theme by Michael Giacchino

Thanks to horsie

Pass: golfo

http://tinyurl.com/pahu4q






Track Listing:

Mercenaries Main Theme (4:11)
Destination: DMZ (3:37)
Allied Nations (3:22)
Mercenary Without a Cause (5:39)
Deck of 52 (2:03)
For the Motherland (2:31)
Family Business (3:02)
Show Me the Mercenary (2:04)
Honour and Strength (3:26)
Hidden Valley Bunker (4:53)
Sniper (2:15)
Swedish Fireballs (3:03)
Trouble At Work (2:05)
Trains, Planes and HMMWVs (2:02)
Relentless Pursuit (2:25)
Gas Tank on the Roof (1:03)
Explosion Scherzo (1:51)
Thermal Event (2:11)
Countdown (3:05)
The Blinding Flash (1:07)
World’s Best Carpool Lane (1:54)



Original Review by Jonathan Broxton:

Whereas television was once the breeding ground for aspiring composers, in the year 2005 the best place for the young and the talented to hone their craft is in the video game arena. I remember back in the 1980s when video game music consisted solely of little electronic blips and bloops; if you were lucky, you got a little synthesised melody which looped endlessly as you played. Not so today – it seems that every new ‘prestige’ game comes loaded with a full, thematic, orchestral score, many of which can rival the best of Hollywood’s output. So it is with Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, the latest release from LucasArts and software developers Pandemic.

Mercenaries is a third-person combat-action game that takes players into North Korea in the near future; with the troubled nation into chaos following a coup, players choose to be either an American ex-soldier, a British secret agent, or a Swedish bounty hunter, charged with hunting down and disposing of the "deck of 52" fugitive members of the old hardliner regime before they can launch a nuclear attack. What makes Mercenaries unique is the so-called “Havok Physics Engine”, which effectively makes everything within the environment act and react as it would in real life: from grenades, sniper rifles and rocket launchers to helicopters, cars, jeeps, tanks and SUVs. Basically, if you can see it you can steal it, use it, or blow it up.

26-year old Louisiana-born composer Chris Tilton has spent much of the past four years assisting Michael Giacchino on his ground-breaking Medal of Honor scores, as well as the hit TV show Alias and the massively popular Pixar movie The Incredibles. Having been very much in the background of these projects, when Mercenaries came along Giacchino decided that it was time for his prot�g� to finally take centre stage: the main themes suite would be composed by Giacchino, and Tilton would handle the remainder of the score. One can only imagine how daunting this task must have been, but ultimately Tilton has delivered a highly impressive debut score which surely sets him up as a talent to watch in future.

Written for the NorthWest Sinfonia and a number of instrumental soloists, Mercenaries takes the musical standpoint that, as the player can do pretty much whatever he or she wishes during gameplay, the different military factions in the game should have it's own "sound", depending on who the player is fighting with, or against, at any given time. This mindset was carried over not in just the main motifs for each faction, but also in the orchestration. The Allied forces (USA, Britain, Sweden) have a western orchestral ensemble, with added taiko drums; the Russian Mafia is mainly orchestral, but without any high brass, and minimal percussion; the Chinese are almost exclusively percussion, with taikos and ethnic flutes taking centre stage; the Koreans are accompanied by taikos, strings, female choir; and so on. It’s a clever play in the leitmotif technique which doubly succeeds by making different aspects of game play aurally different, as well as keeping the soundtrack album fresh and interesting.

In many ways, the sound of Mercenaries is a natural extension of the sound Michael Giacchino gave to the Medal of Honor series back in 1999 – and not unexpectedly. Video game producers who go to Giacchino for their scores know what they want. But, to Tilton’s credit, his music has a great deal of personality, and does not simply ape the “John Williams Orchestral Sound” that Medal of Honor so rigidly adhered to throughout its first four incarnations. Giacchino’s main theme, first heard in “Mercenaries: Main Theme” occasionally reminded me of Jaws, in the way a simple rhythmic bass device can be wholly menacing. The five-note fanfare is suitably heroic, and is liberally sprinkled throughout the rest of the score as a recurring action motif in many subsequent cues.

The rest of La-La-Land’s generous CD is basically a series of bold and exciting action cues, which mix and match all of the score’s disparate thematic elements as the cues progress. Moments of special note include the nervous-sounding, “Mercenary Without a Cause”; the vaguely John Barry-ish “Deck of 52” with its echoing brass phrases; the emotional string variation of the theme in “For the Motherland”; the sensational Oriental orchestrations of “Honour and Strength” (which bring to mind parts of Zimmer’s The Last Samurai); the beautiful and haunting female choir in “Hidden Valley Bunker”; the super-fast Williamsy string work of “Explosion Scherzo”; the wonderful setting of the female choir against the main theme in “Thermal Event” and “Countdown”; and the bittersweet “The Blinding Flash”.

I actually found it quite hard to review this score impartially. I know Chris Tilton in real life, have corresponded with him regularly (as I’m sure many people reading this have, via his exploits on the Filmtracks ScoreBoard Forum) - I want him to have a long and prosperous career. Having said all that, and put myself in a compromised position, I still believe that Mercenaries is an wonderfully exciting and impressive “debut score” by Tilton, helped by professional production values. It’s not “score of the year” material, as some over-zealous fans would have you believe, but it certainly shows a great deal of promise. And who knows… if Giacchino’s movie career takes off on the back of The Incredibles, Tilton could be our man for Alias Season 5 and beyond…

Thx arthierr :D

Mercenaries 2: World In Flames

Music Composed, Produced & Orchestred by Chris Tilton
Conducted by David Sabee
Recorded & Mixed by Steve Smith
Performed by the Northwest Sinfonia

Thanks to Spyer

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1138767&postcount=5

Black Soundtrack

Music Composed by Chris Tilton & Michael Giacchino

320 kbps

http://tinyurl.com/qyr2ae





01. Main Theme - 2:23
02. Treneska Border Crossing - 2:14
03. Tunnel Trouble - 3:02
04. A Bridge Too Close - 1:43
05. Walking Tour of Treneska - 1:35
06. Minefield - 1:29
07. Tivliz Asylum - 2:41
08. Madhouse Mayhem - 1:42
09. Sniper Alley - 2:05
10. Drydock - 2:24
11. Black and Boom - 2:25
12. Ambush - 2:29
13. Gulag Gauntlet - 4:22
14. Bunker Buster - 2:25
15. Main Theme (reprise) - 3:59

Thanks again arthierr, really appreciated!
Listening Mercenaries right now and sounds very good.

Many thanks Arthierr!

No prob, guys. :D

I intended to post those in this thread since a long time. Bi0's requests were the perfect opportunity.

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Wonderful thanks Lens!

Wow, there has been TONS of incredible music lately! Thanks everyone! =)

I think someone would also find these interesting:


http://sharebee.com/db0e020a




http://sharebee.com/19d03365

I really like the original Fable soundtrack, especially the Oakvale-theme which is just so full of beauty. Unfortunately, the second one isn't so impressive I think.

Would you guys be interested in the Carl Nielsen and Robert Schumann music I've been downloading because of Lens' awesome pack? I have 3cds Nielsen symphonies, Nielsen - An imaginary journey to the Faroe Islands, Nielsen Choral works, Robert Schumann - the four symphonies. I can post MP3 links or lossless of either.

Thanks Danny! This piece is new to me :)

On a similar theme, here's another action pack, this time all classical.



http://rapidshare.com/files/232321378/Classical_Action_Pack.rar
320kbps / 174MB / 12 tracks / 1hr 16 mins

1. Brahms: Tragic Overture
Right, well this is the real meat out of this selection � one of my favourite pieces. So much emotion, striving, tenderness and sadness, all contained in a rigorously symphonic structure. The opening orchestral punch reminds us of how much Brahms revered Beethoven, but the ensuing flow of trenchant counterpoint and long-breathed melody could only have come from the pen Brahms. Listen to Herrmannesque passage from 1:52. Or the trilling section beginning at 3:53, releasing all that tightly-wound tension in a flourish of horn calls and sweeping strings. The cross-rhythms that crop up everywhere. And the ending that seems to slowly ebb away (as the title of the piece would suggest), only to rise up in one last frustrated gesture.
2. Britten: Variaions on a Theme by Frank Bridge - Aria Italiana
All strings with vigourous pizzicato, it feels like its going to take off! Reminds me of the soaring lines of Mendelssohn�s �Italian Symphony�.
3. Tchaikovsky: The Snow Maiden - Dance of the Tumblers
Stay with the crazed head-banging of this piece because it gets really good towards the end. I heard it played by the Liverpool Philharmonic a few years ago and it knocked my socks off! It actually makes me think of the unstoppable forward motion and odd woodwind accenting on Goldsmith�s Looney Tunes. Kind of like if Tchaikovsky has scored an episode of Tom and Jerry..
4. Haydn: Symphony No. 82 'The Bear' - Finale (Vivace)
This symphony gets its nickname from the opening of this movement, with drone bass, said to resemble the sort of music that bear trainers would make the animals dance to. It�s a great piece that shows Haydn�s cheeky sense of humour (listen to the false endings). Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs here in a performance that incorporates and elaborates musical practice of the period � so incisive string playing with little vibrato and animal skin timpani hit with wooden sticks for extra �thwack�!
5. Janacek: Sinfonietta - Fanfare: Allegretto
A bank of trumpeters standing at the back of the orchestra and spread across the width of the stage sound out this rousing opener to Janacek�s wonderful Sinfonietta. I love the way the harmony shifts and swells, all underpinned by those deterministic timpani hits.
6. Schumann: Konzertst�ck for 4 Horns and Orchestra in F major - Lebhaft
The freshness and impact of this piece is invigorating. Played here with precision on period instruments, including valveless horns.
7. Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice - Dance of the Furies
What a great, sinister theme! Bit of a Bernard Herrmann moment here too from Gluck, who sort of straddles the Baroque and Classical �periods�. The desperate calls and answering cries of horns and oboes always give me goosepimples :)
8. Dvorak: Polonaise
This skipping occasional piece doesn�t crop up on disc as often as some, so I thought I�d throw it in. It�s not as devious as his better known Slavonic Dances, but displays the sunny, effortlessly melodic nature of Dvorak's music.
9. Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale
I think this piece speaks for itself � an orchestral tour de force. The central section, gracefully swaying, while all the time being pecked away at by that repeated staccato rhythm, is stunning.
10. Nielsen: Aladdin - Blackamoor's Dance
I have another recording of this with a much more bracing tempo, but I love the stomping tread on this one and the manic-sounding sopranos.
11. Bliss: Adam Zero - Sequence
(The Stage / Birth of Adam / Adam's Fates / Dance of Spring)
I�m growing to like Bliss more and more. He was a pupil of Elgar and, though none of his music is as grandstandingly nostalgic as this would lead you to expect, he has a way with flowing melody and colourful orchestration. Adam Zero is a ballet-about-the-staging-of-a-ballet-as-a-metaphor-for-the-span-of-human-life (it all sounds very reflexive and allegorical). What we have here are basically four movements from early on in the piece that give a nice sampling of its varied, imaginative scoring. Listen especially to the unsettling rhythmic insistence and struck metal bars of �Adam�s Fates� (3:55) � it�s like heart attack music!
12. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major - Allegro molto
This is Sibelius in �heroic� mode, and not as abstract as some of his other works, but no less powerful. The gorgeous two-tiered theme that emerges out of all those rustling string just gets me every time. I can hear an echo of this in a tune Hisaishi wrote for the transformation of Haku in Spirited Away. The coda to the movement is so definitive it almost feels like the end of all symphonies.

Let me know what you think, as I may post another :)

Oh, and the painting is 'Fighting Forms' by Franz Marc.


Wonderful Classical Action Pack! Thank a lot. I hoped to listen to something in the same vein of the one posted by Streich long ago in this thread: his HARDCORE BALLET (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1120904&postcount=89).

These pieces are totally new to me. Thanks for not having chosen classical pieces most of us heard one million times (please enough of the Ride of the Walkyries!). "Brahms: Tragic Overture" often reminds me of Beethoven, it has a lot of similarities in style. "Adam Zero - Suite" is just incredible, it could have been composed for a SF movie. It clearly reminds me of Poledouris, the parts with bold high strings are typically in his style. This one is probably my favorite in your pack, because it's closest IMO to the music I like most: grand neo-classical movie music, with a high level of emotional intensity and some rich, sumptuous orchestrations. I'd appreciate more Arthur Bliss, if you can. "Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale" and "Nielsen - Aladdin - Blackamoor's Dance" both have a very pleasing oriental tonality, this adds an interesting exotic flavour to your pack. "Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major - Allegro molto" was surprisingly good to me. Surprisingly because I tried once a random disc of Sibelius and frankly wasn't convinced by his music. This piece is gorgeous and reminds me much of James Horner at 1:16, and also one of the melodies seems to have the same first notes of Beethoven's 9th 3rd movement.


Let me know what you think, as I may post another

PLEASE DO! :)

Would you guys be interested in the Carl Nielsen and Robert Schumann music I've been downloading because of Lens' awesome pack? I have 3cds Nielsen symphonies, Nielsen - An imaginary journey to the Faroe Islands, Nielsen Choral works, Robert Schumann - the four symphonies. I can post MP3 links or lossless of either.

Voted! Thanks in advance (I prefer Lame V-0).

But it belongs more to the Classical thread (or you can also crosspost it here).


Elemental Eye: Thanks for posting these scores, I really appreciate such attention.

Yeah good point I'll post the MP3s in the classical thread then :) Nielsen first because its so fantastic.

Ahem....................................

Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction, Mercenaries 2: World In Flames and Black Soundtrack I posted yesterday here have been blocked by rapidshare. There's something really fishy going here...

The problem is that I only had the time to download the 1st one and not the other ones. So PLEASE someone, repost Mercenaries 2 and Black. Thanks in advance.

Terminator Salvation (OST) (Danny Elfman) (2009)



Thread 65728

enjoy! :)

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Ahem....................................

Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction, Mercenaries 2: World In Flames and Black Soundtrack I posted yesterday here have been blocked by rapidshare. There's something really fishy going here...

The problem is that I only had the time to download the 1st one and not the other ones. So PLEASE someone, repost Mercenaries 2 and Black. Thanks in advance.

that sucks >.<

i'll reup later...

Would you guys be interested in the Carl Nielsen and Robert Schumann music I've been downloading because of Lens' awesome pack? I have 3cds Nielsen symphonies, Nielsen - An imaginary journey to the Faroe Islands, Nielsen Choral works, Robert Schumann - the four symphonies. I can post MP3 links or lossless of either.

Sirus I would be very interested in these too. I'm so pleased that people enjoyed the classical pack! It's good to see the classical thread getting some action again too :)

Arthierr, thanks for your comments. I have another one in the works. Also did you see that Bliss' Colour Symphony has been posted here in both lossless and mp3 by dannyfrench:
Thread 58159

ARTHUR BLISS: FILM MUSIC
320kbps / 175MB / 26 tracks / 1hr 13mins
http://rapidshare.com/files/233869672/Bliss_Film_Music.rar

1 Welcome the Queen 6:47
March
Moderato ma con brio - Andante maestoso

premiere recording
Things to Come: Concert Music from the Film 31:58
arranged and reconstructed by Philip Lane
2 1 Prologue. Maestoso 2:31
3 2 Ballet for Children. Allegro moderato 3:38
4 3 March. Alla marcia 3:37
5 4 Attack. Allgro con fuoco 1:53
6 5 The World in Ruins. Lento doloroso 2:40
7 6 Pestilence. Molto sostenuto 2:52
8 7 Excavation. Moderaqto e pesante 1:53
9 8 The Building of the World. Allegro moderato molto deciso 2:15
10 9 Machines. Moderato 1:26
11 10 Attack on the Moon Gun. Molto allegro fuoco 1:18
12 11 Epilogue. Maestoso 7:33

premiere recording of the original version
The Royal Palaces Suite 15:09
13 I Queen Victoria's Call to the Throne 3:03
14 II The Ballroom in Buckingham Palace 3:59
15 III Joust of the Knights in Armour (George IV's reign) 1:35
16 IV Melodrama: The Murder of Rizzo in Holyrood House 2:39
17 V The Royal Palace. Theme 3:38

premiere recording
Caesar and Cleopatra 17:00
Suite from the incidental film music
edited and arranged by Giles Easterbrook and Malcolm Binney
18 1 Overture. Allegro marcia 3:17
19 2 The Sea. Lento 2:47
20 3 Dance Interlude I. Allegretto giocoso 2:03
21 4 Dance Interlude II. Allegro molto 1:12
22 5 Dance Interlude III. Waltz time 1:18
23 6 Barcarolle. Allegretto piacevole 2:57
24 7 Memphis at Night. Andantino 1:38
25 8 Supply Sequence. [Allegro] 1:29

premiere recording
26 Theme from 'War in the Air' 1:44
Moderato maestoso

BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba

From Gramophone:

Chandos continues its most enjoyable film music series with a disc devoted to Sir Arthur Bliss, whose score for Things To Come (1934-5) was the first important contribution to cinema by an established composer. It remains one of the medium’s finest scores. Bliss’s screen work also embraced both more functional cinematic fare such as the weekly Pathe Pictorial newsreel (featured here a Welcome March marking the return of the Queen from a Commonwealth tour in 1954) and television documentary – represented on this disc by War in the Air and 1966’s The Royal Palaces Suite. In all this music, played with fervour and flair by the well-proven Rumon Gamba- BBC Philharmonic partnership, the vigour and vitality of the composer’s musical invention shines through.

Listen out for the unbuttoned start to Welcome the Queen and, at the other end of the scale, the piquantly scored wind interlude in the brief War in the Air. The picturesque tuneful waltz, ‘The Ballroom in Buckingham Palace’ from The Royal Palaces Suite, reminds us of the composer’s earlier credits for the ballet and Bliss, the conjurer of magical orchestral effects, runs through the spooky dark alleyways of Holyrood House, where Rizzio the confidante of Mary Queen of Scots was murdered, to evocative effect.

Things to Come, with its compelling warning for mankind’s future, has lost none of its power to enthrall. In an opening maestoso modal theme interrupted by call signs indicating an outside presence, Bliss powerfully captures the potent compound of HG Wells’s hopes and fears. ‘The Ballet for Children’, a gem of fleet-footed scoring and counterpoint with a trumpet tune foreshadowing to uncanny effect the one in Copland’s Billy The Kid, is followed by a series of bleak landscapes rent asunder by war-like noises. The optimistic note sounded in ‘Building of the New World’ is affirmed by the surging tune in the ‘Epilogue’. Congratulations are due to Philip Lane who arranged and reconstructed this concert music from the film, a story told in detail by Giles Easterbrook in his booklet-notes.

Given its first recording here, Caesar and Cleopatra was an unhappy experience for Bliss. He walked out on the project after meeting the Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal, who by most accounts was as mad as a hatter, a fact recorded by Alan Jay Lerner during his acquisition of the musical rights to Pygmalion. At the time Bliss had completed over 80 pages of fully scored music including some enchanting, luminously conceived dance episodes. Studio 7 in New Broadcasting House, Manchester makes an ideal recording venue for this kind of music with a dry acoustic that is able to absorb the large battery of percussion evident in Things to Come, as well as offering an appropriately wide view of the sound stage.

Thanks a lot for this last lens of truth.

Best!!!

Thank you very much for the soundtracks
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for yosemite

Mobile Suit Gundam MS-IGLOO 2 JuuRyoku Sensen O.S.T i have only a japanese tracklist


Composer: Megumi Ohashi
kbps: vbr 192~320
year: 2008/11/19

01. 鷲は舞い降りる
02. 逢魔の刻
03. 戦闘準備
04. 甦る悪夢
05. 闇夜の出撃
06. 死神の呟き
07. 鋼の巨人
08. 鳴動
09. 砂塵
10. 硝煙
11. 血の反撃
12. 夜明け前
13. 躍進距離
14. 視認
15. 死地
16. 天使の時間
17. 重い足取り
18. 陸の王者
19. 遺品
20. 付き纏う不条理
21. 黒い葬列
22. 兵士の故郷(ふるさと)
23. 公国軍楽・第3番
24. 西日の英雄
25. 重力の掟
26. 永い眠り

Mobile Suit Gundam - MS IGLOO 2 - JuuRyoku Sensen OST (http://rapidshare.com/files/234056264/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_MS-IGLOO_2_JuuRyoku_Sensen_O.S.zip)

edited

Thanks for the Bliss. I'm going to try and find more of his film scores because he seems to be really underrated.

bi0h4zard: thx a bunch for the reups. Very appreciated. :)


Billie: Thank you for MS-IGLOO 2, this is such a kind attention.


Lens: What can I say? Awesome posts, as usual. The Bliss album is a true rare gem, I'll give it a lot of attention as soon as I can. The piece you posted in your Classical Action Pack was really fantastic, I hope there are more like that in this disc.

Many kudos to you, Sir. :)

I posted the Carl Nielsen and Robert Schumann music in the Classical thread
Thread 58159
Also some on the next page. Its all vbr mp3 and tagged etc.

I posted the Carl Nielsen and Robert Schumann music in the Classical thread
Thread 58159
Also some on the next page. Its all vbr mp3 and tagged etc.

Yeah, I've seen that. Your massive contributions are really appreciated. Thanks for your efforts and your great posts.

Requested ReUp:

Black (VG) - Download (http://rapidshare.com/files/234054434/black_gsc.rar)
Chris Tilton

Mercenaries - Playground Of Destruction (VG) - Download (http://rapidshare.com/files/234061936/merc_gsc.rar)
Chris Tilton (Theme by Michael Giacchino)

Mercenaries 2 - World In Flames (VG) - Download (http://rapidshare.com/files/234075250/merc2_gsc.rar)
Chris Tilton (Theme by Michael Giacchino)

Password:

bi0f0raLL

While I'm glad people enjoy my music, this is very disheartening, particularly since we're mere days after I sought permission to release an entire score for free for those that were interested. In exchange for this effort, I'm treated with people pirating my music that has been commercially released. This is part of the reason scores like Fracture aren't even bothered to be released. Now that Fracture has sort of come and gone, I was actually considering going to Lucasarts to figure out a possible way for it to be come out. After all, we edited and mastered a full soundtrack album already. After seeing this, I am no longer interested in doing this, and I probably will not make any effort to release any of my scores for free in the future. Why should I go through any effort when the only things you all contribute is undercutting the artists you claim to love. Is $9 really that much to ask?

I'm not going to report the links. I will let you all choose to take them down yourselves, or choose not to.

Mr. Tilton, you are automatically assuming that everyone that downloads your music will not buy the soundtrack.

Now, am I speaking for everyone? Of course not. I know people just download and do not even consider buying the soundtrack, even if they love it. But I would like to say that some of us here are of the "Try before you Buy" mentality. That is my view at least - if I like what I hear, I am more than willing to buy it.

Just my .02 sir.

Mr. Tilton, you are automatically assuming that everyone that downloads your music will not buy the soundtrack.

Now, am I speaking for everyone? Of course not. I know people just download and do not even consider buying the soundtrack, even if they love it. But I would like to say that some of us here are of the "Try before you Buy" mentality. That is my view at least - if I like what I hear, I am more than willing to buy it.

Just my .02 sir.

If you didn't intend on buying a candy bar, can you just take it anyway? People these days seem to have very little sense of what things are worth. There are 30 second samples of ever track to all three of those scores, and longer samples of different sections to all of those scores on my website. I would think that hearing 5 minutes of various sections of a score is plenty "try before you buy." Obviously, most of the people on this board simply grew up with the mentality that everything on the internet is (and perhaps should be) free. It's still content created by other people, and just because it is digital, it doesn't mean that it doesn't dilute the market. Look at the PC market. Piracy has drastically affected the economics of game development for PCs, and developers are leaving it in droves to create games for consoles because it is more secure.

There's also the fact of respect. I went through effort to bring stuff out for free, when many of those same people are just stealing the stuff that isn't free anyway.

It's pointless for me to continue, because I am speaking largely to a mindset that just doesn't "get it" as evidenced by your post.

If you didn't intend on buying a candy bar, can you just take it anyway? People these days seem to have very little sense of what things are worth. There are 30 second samples of ever track to all three of those scores, and longer samples of different sections to all of those scores on my website. I would think that hearing 5 minutes of various sections of a score is plenty "try before you buy." Obviously, most of the people on this board simply grew up with the mentality that everything on the internet is (and perhaps should be) free. It's still content created by other people, and just because it is digital, it doesn't mean that it doesn't dilute the market. Look at the PC market. Piracy has drastically affected the economics of game development for PCs, and developers are leaving it in droves to create games for consoles because it is more secure.

There's also the fact of respect. I went through effort to bring stuff out for free, when many of those same people are just stealing the stuff that isn't free anyway.

It's pointless for me to continue, because I am speaking largely to a mindset that just doesn't "get it" as evidenced by your post.

The difference between the candybar and digital files is this: the candybar is a physical object, while mp3 files are not. Thus, when we "steal" the candybar, the stores are losing profit. However, when we download mp3 files, no one is losing profit. What they are losing is the possibility of profit.

Another thing you mentioned are the samples. In my opinion, those are not nearly enough to be able to properly judge a soundtrack's worth. I can only trully judge a product when I have experienced the entire thing. That is why these are so valuable. I would never have bought the Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation scores if I was limited to just 30 second samples.

And in your regards to the PC market, yes, it is more "secure" than the consoles. But that is quickly changing. Remember: Fallout 3 was leaked to the 360 long before it was even released in stores.

Mr. Tilton, I would just like to remind you that a fair amount of us here will gladly pay you if we like your products. Now I have never heard any of the songs from Mercenaries 1+2, so I can't judge it. I have, however, downloaded, and *loved*, the music from Fracture, and I will gladly pay for a commercial release.

If you didn't intend on buying a candy bar, can you just take it anyway? People these days seem to have very little sense of what things are worth. There are 30 second samples of ever track to all three of those scores, and longer samples of different sections to all of those scores on my website. I would think that hearing 5 minutes of various sections of a score is plenty "try before you buy." Obviously, most of the people on this board simply grew up with the mentality that everything on the internet is (and perhaps should be) free. It's still content created by other people, and just because it is digital, it doesn't mean that it doesn't dilute the market. Look at the PC market. Piracy has drastically affected the economics of game development for PCs, and developers are leaving it in droves to create games for consoles because it is more secure.

There's also the fact of respect. I went through effort to bring stuff out for free, when many of those same people are just stealing the stuff that isn't free anyway.

It's pointless for me to continue, because I am speaking largely to a mindset that just doesn't "get it" as evidenced by your post.
As someone who is a huge fan of orchestral music surrounded by huge numbers of industrial scores for American PC games I had no idea that these scores were massive orchestral until today. I certainly will have to look at purchasing the scores now that I have heard about them.

Also, I don't see it as too reasonable to pay 9$ for itunes mp3s or digital versions of an album. I would totally pay 9$ for the physical cd to have in my collection but not digital downloads. I realize some of your albums are available on Nettwerk store but of the three posted here, only the first Mercenaries soundtrack is available in physical cd format for 14.99 on amazon.

That's a good point as well. I love having physical products. That's why I never buy games on Steam - I want the boxes and DVDs damnit! I love the "old school" feeling, I suppose.

Now, it is great that online stores is another venue for composers to get their works out, but it would be much more preferable for me if they would get physical copies of their cds out as well.

I was visiting the board one last time before going to sleep, and what do I see?!?

Mr Tilton, 1st let me tell you that I'm indeed a great admirer of your music and I consider you as a very talented composer, in the same vein of other of my favorite composers, which, if you happened to have visited this thread before as I suppose, you know who they are. So this is not a light compliment.

Concerning your request to remove the links, I understand perfectly, but it's up to Bi0 to remove them, as it's his uploads.

I don't have time to develop now as I'm half asleep, but I'll answer more substantially tomorrow. Good night, folks.

(Sorry for my bad english, it's not my primary language)

The difference between the candybar and digital files is this: the candybar is a physical object, while mp3 files are not. Thus, when we "steal" the candybar, the stores are losing profit. However, when we download mp3 files, no one is losing profit. What they are losing is the possibility of profit.

Another thing you mentioned are the samples. In my opinion, those are not nearly enough to be able to properly judge a soundtrack's worth. I can only trully judge a product when I have experienced the entire thing. That is why these are so valuable. I would never have bought the Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation scores if I was limited to just 30 second samples.


If you pay $9 to go see a film in the theatre, and it is 1/3 full, and you don't enjoy it, do you go back to the ticket counter and ask for a refund? If you do, would they give it to you? After all, the theatre wasn't even half full, and your occupancy wasn't causing another patron to be turned away. No, you don't, because you are paying for a product/service. Just because you aren't "taking away" a sale, it doesn't mean you have a right to have it for free. What do you say to the person that bought it on AmazonMP3 for $9, but you got to have it for free? Is that fair? And just because 5 min of preview isn't enough for you to know if you want it, then tough. Don't buy it. That's what reviews are for. You listen to samples, read reviews, and then make an informed decision, just like you would seeing a film. People have this asinine opinion today that if it exists digitally, then it doesn't have any worth. If it didn't have any worth, then why do you want it? It doesn't matter if you are costing a sale or not. If you aren't willing to pay for it then you are not entitled to have it.

Would you much rather suggest that I "reward" someone for creating something that I see as worthless? I see that as just foolishness. And I don't just take things for free - I am simply seeing if they are worth my hard earned money. You make it seem as if I just download music and do not pay for it. I download music, see if I like what I hear, and if I enjoy it, I pay for it.

And money is not the best way to rate something's worth. I would certainly hope that the value of music goes beyond the American dollar.

Of course it has worth but to someone who wants physical cds for increased longevity, its just not worth paying for an inferior format. Even FLAC downloads I end up without a case, without the artwork, and without the booklet. You are already selling music in a niche market and as such you can't expect the consumer to buy your product or even know it exists without being turned onto it by someone else. Yet even within a more popular genre like Metal there are hundreds of artists and usually only two or three who put out an album that I find is worth buying. Should I put off sampling anything through downloads and deprive those few I really love from getting a sale?

I don't know about anyone else but until I started downloading music I didn't spend a dime on music because I didn't know any of the artists who I now enjoy greatly existed. It was only thanks to the internet and downloads that I found the ones I truly like and can buy the albums that are worth the money.

Movies are not the same because you pay for the theater experience that you can't replicate very easily at home even with all the home theater setups. I pay for a one time sitting while for music I want to pay for something that I am going to listen to years down the road. It is ridiculous to suggest that I would pay for a substandard format like MP3 that may or may not get deleted from my hard drive or not sound as good when I upgrade my sound system. If I had to wait until after i bought an album to find out if I like it, I would just not buy any.

Guys, if the composer himself has come here to request the links be taken down then they should just come down. There's no point having a debate about 'try before you buy' / digital vs physical media etc.

I'm not debating that. I am just debating the merits of downloading music in general.

Plus they aren't my links. I could care less if they were taken down or not.

I don't know about anyone else but until I started downloading music I didn't spend a dime on music because I didn't know any of the artists who I now enjoy greatly existed. It was only thanks to the internet and downloads that I found the ones I truly like and can buy the albums that are worth the money.


Just agreeing with this idea: I bought nae a VG CD before I came to the forum, but I know have a fairly nice collection.

However, though, I will have to agree with Lens. If the composer, of all people, comes to ask us to take it down, the least we could do is honor that request.

Best wishes, Mr. Tilton!

This is like the baker asking the cockroaches not to eat his pies. Know what they do to cockroaches?

If the baker is near where I am, the cockroaches probably was included in the baking process. Crunchy buns! Yummy!

Guys, if the composer himself has come here to request the links be taken down then they should just come down. There's no point having a debate about 'try before you buy' / digital vs physical media etc.

I agree. I sent a PM to Bi0 asking him to take down the links, now it's up to him.

I'm curious though, as to how our forum was found, as I was under the impression this forum was fairly low-key and not well known. Is this assumption just flat-out wrong, or do we just have a number of important members?

Guys, if the composer himself has come here to request the links be taken down then they should just come down. There's no point having a debate about 'try before you buy' / digital vs physical media etc.

I agree.

I agree.



ah i dont ill keep downloading free music thank you if he complain they just gt uploaded somewhere m8

this is the internet or have you forgotton

zhare
rapidshare
megaupload

there 100s more m8

so :) im keeping your music FOR FREE LOL XD

.

Links deleted...

ah i dont ill keep downloading free music thank you if he complain they just gt uploaded somewhere m8

this is the internet or have you forgotton

zhare
rapidshare
megaupload

there 100s more m8

so :) im keeping your music FOR FREE LOL XD

Only one word: omg http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/msn_red_fox_smilies-05.gif

Only one word: omg http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/msn_red_fox_smilies-05.gif



you guys arew fools for deleting the links


giving in to the fat cats


do you know how much money they make

im surprised i though you all had class and you gave it

you guys arew fools for deleting the links


giving in to the fat cats


do you know how much money they make

im surprised i though you all had class and you gave it

yeah, i'm a little dirty bastard

you guys arew fools for deleting the links


giving in to the fat cats


do you know how much money they make

im surprised i though you all had class and you gave it

Fat cats? The poor guy who wrote the flaming music asked him to take down the links. Are you simple or something? Do you have absolutely no idea how civilised humans conduct themselves? Do you have any idea how the music industry works?

How do you think Mr Tilton feels, reading that? Well done, Thomas.

Wow, please just calm down everybody. I'm surprised that someone grants even a slight attention to thomasdaly's comments.


bi0h4zard: I hope you were joking, my friend.


Mr Tilton got what he wanted, so let's move on.

Personally I consider good music must be shared so that everybody got access to it and then decides to retribute an artist or not, depending on his appreciation. I remember a time, years ago, when I only could afford to buy 1 or 2 discs a month, happily this has changed.

Culture and beauty must be spread.

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Mr. Tilton I understand your frustration. No one likes to have their hard work given away for free. And though there are some of us who DO use the "try it and if you like it, buy it", attitude, let's face reality. Most people who download music have no intention of ever buying it.

The sad reality is that artists like yourself are stuck in a hard place. The music companies have been raping its customers for decades with outrageous prices. $15 for a cd that cost them a dollar to produce? That's no more fair than downloading music for free. But the music companies are somehow "in the right", while pirating is "in the wrong".

If the big music companies sold their product for a fair price, a lot more people would be willing (and could afford) to buy more product. I remember several years ago that there was even talk of lowering the average cd price to $9.95. Unfortunately, nothing ever came of that promise.

For years, before the Internet became so huge, the music companies got away with their shameless pricing, because there were no other options. Now that there is, should it be a surprise to anyone that people are taking advantage of it? The backlash was inevitable.

Does all this make pirating "right"? No, of course not. Still, the music industry, like any other, does not live in a vacuum, a great deal of what is happening is their own fault.

As I said at the beginning, the artists like yourself are caught in the middle of this mess. You have every right to make a living off your creativity. The music companies have a right to make a "reasonable" profit. And buyers have a right to purchase product at a fair price.

There are those who will never purchase music at any price, and will always pirate. I would like to think there are a lot of people who would willingly purchase music if it were priced fairly. There is, methinks, a lot of blame to go around on both sides for the situation to be as it is now.

As I saw it, this issue was about showing the proper level of respect. Discussions on forums like this about the supposed justifications of downloading and sharing have been rehearsed ad nauseam.

One of the great strengths of this thread is the civil atmosphere, and willingness to explore and share ideas about music born out of genuine passion and respect for the art form. I'd hate to see that change.

FSM support.

Sorry for the inappropriate comment, lens and the others m(_ _)m

for the reassurance and distraction a little joyfull track

Chinese Music Classics of the 20th Century - Dizi I


performed by Jian Guangyi
The Mountain Village Welcomes Dear Ones (http://www.sendspace.com/file/hpuhh4)

Billie, absolutely no need for you to apologise - I hope my tone wasn't too melodramatic!

Thanks for this perky little track. I'm listening now :D

Billie, absolutely no need for you to apologise - I hope my tone wasn't too melodramatic!

Thanks for this perky little track. I'm listening now :D

No, your tone was absolut correct ^^
and good friends are always welcome ^.~

I was wondering,

How do you know that ChrisTilton is Mr. Chris Tilton?

I could register as SteveJablonsky and tell you: "Please fellas, delete all the links refering to my fantastic and original blockbuster soundtracks, except those to Steamboy, that is not really mine, it is my cousin's work and...bla, bla, bla..." and would you believe me?

Luckily, this post doesn't have any link to Mr.Jablonsky scores.

Best !!!

The Bliss album is a true rare gem, I'll give it a lot of attention as soon as I can. The piece you posted in your Classical Action Pack was really fantastic, I hope there are more like that in this disc.

Things to Come is probably the closest to Adam Zero out of this set. The very exciting action cues like 'Excavation' and 'Attack on the Moon' are sure to be up your street. Every time I listen to 'Things' it impresses me more and more. The lush, soaring Maestoso that ends the score is sure to sweep you away!

..I wonder, does anyone have the Bernard Herrmann conducted suite from this?? It's supposed to be very powerfully expressive. I'd love to hear it. On a cd called 'Great British Film Music' from the Decca Phase 4 series I think.

Not sure I hear the Poledouris connection you mention though. He's a composer I haven't got into enough yet, shockingly. I've only listened to a few scores (Starship Troopers, Conan 1+2 and Robocop), all of which I love! Any further recommendations would be much appreciated.

How do you know that ChrisTilton is Mr. Chris Tilton?

True enough, we don't know for sure. But there was nothing in his posts that seemed bogus to me. At the very least I suspect it was someone connected with Tilton and the production of the scores, as I believe arthierr's rapidshare uploads were blocked just prior to this.

I was wondering,

How do you know that ChrisTilton is Mr. Chris Tilton?

I could register as SteveJablonsky and tell you: "Please fellas, delete all the links refering to my fantastic and original blockbuster soundtracks, except those to Steamboy, that is not really mine, it is my cousin's work and...bla, bla, bla..." and would you believe me?

Luckily, this post doesn't have any link to Mr.Jablonsky scores.

Best !!!

1) because only the Tilton scores I posted were blocked, not the others.

2) because Mr Tilton is known to be rather active in some other boards, so it's likely that he also visits this one.

Not sure I hear the Poledouris connection you mention though. He's a composer I haven't got into enough yet, shockingly. I've only listened to a few scores (Starship Troopers, Conan 1+2 and Robocop), all of which I love! Any further recommendations would be much appreciated.



Basil Poledouris

The Official Basil Poledouris Website
http://www.basil-poledouris.com/

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006231/

From Wikipedia : (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Poledouris)

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Basil Poledouris credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Mikl�s R�zsa, the second was his Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the church, and used to sit in services, enthralled with the choir's sound. At age 7 he began piano lessons, and eventually enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both film and music. Several short films to which he contributed still reside in the university's archives. At USC he met directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with both of whom the composer would later collaborate. In 1985, he scored Flesh & Blood for director Paul Verhoeven, again establishing another ongoing collaboration.

Poledouris became renowned for his powerfully epic style of orchestral composition and his intricate thematic designs, and garnered attention for his scores to The Blue Lagoon (1980; dir: Kleiser), Conan the Barbarian (1982; dir: Milius), Conan the Destroyer (1984), Red Dawn (1984; dir: Milius), RoboCop (1987; dir: Verhoeven), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993) and its sequels, Starship Troopers (1997; dir: Verhoeven) and For Love of the Game (1999).


My favorite scores :

Conan the Barbarian (1982): a classic among classics. How did Poledouris understood and rendered the magic, the mystery, the savagery and the brutality of the world of Conan so accurately is a mystery. But he did, and the sound of Conan is one of the most fascinating musical experience I had.

Conan the Destroyer (1984): for this lame and uninspired sequel, Poledouris wrote a score not as monumental as the first Conan, but marvellous nonetheless. The main theme is excellent, and some cues are truly exceptional, like the haunting and spellbinding “Night Bird”.

RoboCop (1987): how is it possible to write such a beautiful and subtle score for such a violent movie? Not that I don’t like it (in fact it’s one of the best SF movie I’ve seen), but its brutal and often gross nature didn’t require such a sublime score, and yet Poledouris managed to compose one.

The Jungle Book (1994): a gracious and elegant adventure score, purely orchestral, without the electronic additions he was often using at that time. Sometimes light and funny, sometimes profound and fascinating, it’s one of his most complex and interesting score in my opinion, yet rather underrated.

Starship Troopers (1997): bombastic, monumental SF score. The first cue I heard, at the music store, was “Klendathu Drop”. These powerful brasses, these frenetic string ostinatos, I immediately understood this was going to be something special.

Under Siege 2 (1995): ok, no need to be graduated from Harvard to watch the movie, but the score is a simple yet very enjoyable action/suspense one, with many intense and effective cues.


It’s a very restrictive list, given the fact I immensely enjoy most of his scores. Besides, there are tons of extremely interesting cues to listen to in all his scores. If someone is interested I can post a personal selection of what I consider as the cream of the crop of Poledouris’ music, not to compete with Garcia27’s list, but to complete it. I remind you that you can download Garcia27's compilation slightly above, HERE (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1159413&postcount=378).


Also I recommend you read this post (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1149129&postcount=312), where Dannyfrench made some brilliant comments about this composer. It includes a link to a very interesting video.

Not sure I hear the Poledouris connection you mention though. He's a composer I haven't got into enough yet, shockingly. I've only listened to a few scores (Starship Troopers, Conan 1+2 and Robocop), all of which I love! Any further recommendations would be much appreciated.

I will upload my favorite work, Flesh & Blood, almost as good as Conan The Barbarian and with a sound pretty similar.

Previously in this post I uploaded a very nice compilations, one with themes from almost all his scores and one with suites belonging to his most famous scores.

Without doubt Basil Poledouris is one of my favorites.

Best.

Ps. I just see the links to my compilation. Thanks arthierr.

The sad reality is that artists like yourself are stuck in a hard place. The music companies have been raping its customers for decades with outrageous prices. $15 for a cd that cost them a dollar to produce?



I am not going to disagree with you that the recording industry has been hardheaded and refusing to adapt to the times and the market changes, but it's statements such as that that exemplifies the mindset on this forum and many others like it. I would like to invite everyone here to come over to my place, mow the lawn, do my laundry, clean the bathroom, etc for free, because clearly that costs nothing to produce.

Do you see what I am getting at here? There is more than just the physical disk or digital data that you are buying. You are buying the labor that went into that. Let's take a record label that sees a market in selling a soundtrack. They have to pay tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands to purchase the rights to release that music. That's not $1 a disc. It costs lots of money because the label will be selling units based on a variety of factors (name brand, composer recognition, artist colaborations, etc). These factors cost the studio a lot of money to produce. The chain goes on and on. It's capitalism. It's modern society. When you go to a movie, do you complain that the ticket they printed cost a fraction of a penny to print, yet you paid $10 for it? No, because you not paying for just the ticket, you are paying for the experience, just like the experience of listening to a soundtrack album. You expect to be paid for the work you do, yes? Those of you that have jobs, you get paid for your work right? Well, albums of my work being sold is a part of my work, a part of the musicians work, a part of a lot of people's work.

And again I'll reiterate, even if someone never intends on buying something, or isn't costing a sale, it still does not give them the right to have it for free.

Mr Tilton,
I realise this sounds rather annoying and fanboy-ish (I apologise in advance) but would you allow me to send you a letter I wrote this afternoon? I spent somewhere near two hours writing it before discovering that you'd disabled personal messaging... I am not a nutcase nor do I intend on stalking you, spamming you, or trying to get your credit card number in order that my good Nigerian uncle can share his fortune. I would just relish the opportunity to have some correspondence with you.

The one thing I *will* say in public is that I have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration for your music; and I don't exaggerate in the slightest bit when I say that it's very exciting to speak with you. (Ok, that sounds like a fanboy - sorry... Must do better...)

[Edit: Not everybody on this forum has such a skewed view of the way the industry works or of the endless difficulties you face as a composer. Part of the purpose of my hopefully not-annoying letter was to assure you of this...]

Great stuff! Garcia Flesh and Blood would be fantastic and thanks for the compilation. Listening now.

That video of Poledouris is very moving. I felt like cheering myself! 'Anvil of Crom' is just a knockout every time I hear it. What I wouldn't give to attend a live performance. Also really enjoy its punchy reworking in Destroyer, which I caught on tv with my brother not too long ago - the film was risible (unlike the first which has atmosphere to spare), but we were both singing the theme at the end! 'Klendathu Drop' is also one of the most stunning non-Goldsmith pieces of this kind I've heard. When I say I'm not 'into him' yet, what I really mean is that I'm still to discover most of his output. There's just too much good music to listen to!

Mr Tilton,
I realise this sounds rather annoying and fanboy-ish (I apologise in advance) but would you allow me to send you a letter I wrote this afternoon? I spent somewhere near two hours writing it before discovering that you'd disabled personal messaging... I am not a nutcase nor do I intend on stalking you, spamming you, or trying to get your credit card number in order that my good Nigerian uncle can share his fortune. I would just relish the opportunity to have some correspondence with you.

The one thing I *will* say in public is that I have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration for your music; and I don't exaggerate in the slightest bit when I say that it's very exciting to speak with you. (Ok, that sounds like a fanboy - sorry... Must do better...)

[Edit: Not everybody on this forum has such a skewed view of the way the industry works or of the endless difficulties you face as a composer. Part of the purpose of my hopefully not-annoying letter was to assure you of this...]

I didn't realize PMing was disabled by default. I think I enabled it, so you can go ahead and send, or simply send it through the contact area on my site (christilton.com) as that goes directly to my email.

Thanking you. I know that a lot of composers disable PM for fear that it will lead to immediate receipt of a million "OMG LOL U R SO GREAT!!!" messages - so that was my assumption. Also, I feel that it's rather presumptuous to just foist a personal message upon somebody without asking if that's OK. So, having discovered that it's OK - I shall send away.

Danny: you have to have at least 5 posts here to have PMing enabled. That's why Mr Tilton couldn't receive some.

Oh... Egg on MY face then... I didn't know that. Thanks. :)

[...] or trying to get your credit card number in order that my good Nigerian uncle can share his fortune [...]

lol... you made my day :D


Oh... Egg on MY face then... I didn't know that. Thanks. :)

1) because only the Tilton scores I posted were blocked, not the others.

2) because Mr Tilton is known to be rather active in some other boards, so it's likely that he also visits this one.

Good enough for me.

Sorry, usually I only read this post and I didn't know.

Best!!

Ta for that. ;)

Removed.

*whew*
What a few pages of intense conversation!

Im gunna have to Agree with what Sirus said a few pages back... I would NEVER have found any (ANY) of my many Absolute favourite artists Ever if it werent for downloading and the internet. And I pay whenever I can, which Yes honestly isnt all that often, but I make it a point for my favourite artists that I really really enjoy.

To be quite Honest, me downloading music in no way negativly effects how much music I buy. If anything it stimulates it.

If I had never downloaded music, I'd probably still be buying the soundtracks to freaking Pokemon the 11,000th movie and "Now Thats what I call Music 9000".....

lol.

I think Mr Tilton should push for a Fracture limited release also.
my 2 cent story!

Sorry for the inappropriate comment, lens and the others m(_ _)m

for the reassurance and distraction a little joyfull track

Chinese Music Classics of the 20th Century - Dizi I


performed by Jian Guangyi
The Mountain Village Welcomes Dear Ones (http://www.sendspace.com/file/hpuhh4)

Can I please pleeeeaassee have more of this?????? D:
-Thanks in advanced!!!!


And really sorry to be making so much noise in here but does anyone have or can find the soundtrack to "Dance of the Dragon" by Ricky Ho ~?
I cant even find it to purchase online but it has a pretty entertaining Orchestral Soundtrack and was really hoping to nab it.
Here's the official site;

http://www.danceofthedragonmovie.com/

Can I please pleeeeaassee have more of this?????? D:
-Thanks in advanced!!!!

Hmm, i must think about it...
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hehehe, okay, i upload a compilation http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/fox_emoticons/fox_emoticons-12.gif

And really sorry to be making so much noise in here but does anyone have or can find the soundtrack to "Dance of the Dragon" by Ricky Ho ~?
I cant even find it to purchase online but it has a pretty entertaining Orchestral Soundtrack and was really hoping to nab it.
Here's the official site;

http://www.danceofthedragonmovie.com/

I searched for you, but i found nothing to the soundtrack, sorry for this

I little track for you all ^^, hope you like it and no, melzi, is not flute-music XD

AURA BATTLER DUNBINE - PALLADIUM
http://imgi-a.dena.ne.jp/exi2/20090222/123/120417861_1.JPG

シルキーの舞い (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ay3ykj) >> calm, warm, curious

Flesh+Blood by Basil Poledouris

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CGVM0UST

Expanded release with 9 bonus tracks. Numbered edition limited to 3,000 copies.


Excellent! Thx a lot for this exceptional score, it's one of my favorites too.


Billie: Very nice tracks, thanks. I agree, please more like that traditional chinese track, I enjoy a lot chinese folk music.

Garcia I'm loving Flesh and Blood so far!! Thanks so much, great choice! It's a lots more complex than Conan. Reminds me a little of Rozsa, and even Vaughan Williams at times, with its modal themes and rich string writing. Some really engaging action music too. I can see this one becoming a favourite :)

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1244322&postcount=1333



http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1244323&postcount=1334


Thought I'd draw your attention to these two in the lossless thread posted by restlessgypsy :)

Nice! I need to grab Marnie.

http://rapidshare.com/files/235254118/The_Dreamstone_Suite.mp3
MIKE BATT - THE DREAMSTONE - SUITE
MP3 V0 / 32MB / 19:36

Don't know how many of you remember this series, but it was pretty good adventuresome stuff. I liked it anyway :D The full scale orchestral score added to the fantasy atmosphere enormously. Recorded with the London Philharmonic the music is very fluid and songful but also impressionistic; it was the most plush thing about the show, covering the cracks in the sometimes cheap-looking (though still above average) animation. In fact it's probably one of the most sophisticated scores for a 90s cartoon series.

Thanks so much for this Lens of Truth. Would you have the OST of it as well? I did have it on CD many many years ago, but lent it to a friend who "lost" it.

Oh wow thank you very much for the suite, lens. i love the anime(?) very much as a kid. Same here, have you the whole album to this?

I have for you all an bonus-soundtrack to a ps2 game, i hope you like it (it's more or less very syn, but orchestral)

Atelier Iris 2 - The Azoth of Destiny ~*Bonus Soundtrack*~


http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1245505#post1245505

Thanks billie! loved the last uploads.! Don't lose focus of the real goal here lol :D

(ps-actually very excited for the upcoming transforrmers soundtrack lol)

Billie and chiops: I do have the full OST and will certainly upload as soon as I can! There are several songs on it so I wasn't sure if it would be well recieved here in its entirety. The title theme 'Better Than a Dream' is totally beautiful to me, and I'm not ashamed to say that it brings a tear to my eye - almost too lyrical and expansive for a kids show, and for once not about superpowers or being cool, but about embracing life in all its fullness and using your imagination :) There are a few opther incidental songs, not all of which appeared in the program itself, and a crazy dance track (with the London Phil!) that features voice samples of the characters - a guilty pleasure..:erm:

How do you want it? FLAC or MP3?

@melzi
hahaha okay, i must search for good ones in my big collection for you guys *grin*

@Lens
In MP3 please and thank you very much in advance *HUUUUG*
I thought the Titletheme was in german a different one, but i don't know, but i'am very pleased that you have the whole soundtrack *jump jump*

http://rapidshare.com/files/235254118/The_Dreamstone_Suite.mp3
MIKE BATT - THE DREAMSTONE - SUITE
MP3 V0 / 32MB / 19:36

Don't know how many of you remember this series, but it was pretty good adventuresome stuff. I liked it anyway :D The full scale orchestral score added to the fantasy atmosphere enormously. Recorded with the London Philharmonic the music is very fluid and songful but also impressionistic; it was the most plush thing about the show, covering the cracks in the sometimes cheap-looking (though still above average) animation. In fact it's probably one of the most sophisticated scores for a 90s cartoon series.




Very impressive music for a cartoon. 1st time I hear about it and it's really good. I'd like too to listen to the full OST please, I prefer MP3 (Lame V-0 / extreme). Thanks for posting this rare gem!

I already told it several times here, one of my favorite japanese composers is Toshihiko Sahashi. There's been a good amount of his music posted in this thread, but mostly in compilation form. I'd like to post this time a full score: Simoun OST (2 discs). Sumptuous, highly thematic, and with a lot of superb highlights, it's an extremely enjoyable symphonic score, one of his bests IMO, along with his Gundam symphonic suites and a few others. I recommend it a lot.



Simoun Original Soundtracks 1-2

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

320 kbps

Thanks to megsl83

Thread 32706








In my more recent reviews, I always tried to classify the anime I reviewed in some kind of genre. Strangely enough, I can’t seem to do this with Simoun. There is just not one typical category it fits in. It’s got some yuri-romance, it’s got action, it’s a character study, it deals with heavy themes, it’s got all of these tiny elements which somehow form this beautiful result.

I really mean it when I say that Simoun is an awesome anime. Probably one of the best who aired during the spring season. It’s mostly because of the characters. These characters are so incredibly fleshed out that as the anime progresses, it’s able to invoke their deepest emotions. The anime, however, starts out a bit fragile. The first episode is not necessarily a bad one, but it did turn many viewers away. After this first episode, the anime picks up in a steady pace, already giving the viewer small tastes of the awesomeness which is about to come.

The best of this series appears in episodes 14, 15 and 16. Seriously, at those episodes, this anime will have you clinging to the screen in order not to miss even a single millisecond. These scenes are just too good to be described. Afterwards, the series continues with an excellent average level, until another very good climax comes at episode nineteen and twenty.

From that point, the anime takes an incredibly original turn. It’s something only very few anime attempt. The overall theme suddenly gets shifted from the action and tension towards a more thought-provoking one: saying goodbye and living on. A great deal of time is spent on this, in comparison to other anime, and if I have to say so myself, the last episodes give Simoun a very fitting ending.

This anime shines because of its characters. Each and every single one of them is unique. Each has her own struggles, and when you combine these struggles, tensions can rise incredibly high. It’s also one of the very few anime who doesn’t mess up with the love-theme, and this makes the romance-aspect also one huge success, significantly contributing to the overall mood of the show.

The soundtrack which comes with this anime also is superb. There are certain tracks which will really help bring the best out of the scenes. In the graphical department, this series also shines. Especially with the character design. Each character looks absolutely gorgeous. The battles also are a very nice watch.

Still, like I said, the character-driven episodes are awesome. But they do make the story-driven episodes rather bland in comparison. That’s about the only down part of this anime. The characters are far more interesting that the general story behind all of this. That’s about the only bad point.

[CENTER]
http://rapidshare.com/files/235254118/The_Dreamstone_Suite.mp3
MIKE BATT - THE DREAMSTONE - SUITE
MP3 V0 / 32MB / 19:36


Yes Lens this is very good :)

Especially loved that it was one big song, I always appreciate that format in the vast sea of albums with 20 tracks each :P

http://rapidshare.com/files/235254118/The_Dreamstone_Suite.mp3
MIKE BATT - THE DREAMSTONE - SUITE
MP3 V0 / 32MB / 19:36[/CENTER]

Thanks for this Lens, very impressive suite.

Previously I uploaded one soundtrack that contains one of my favorite themes.

Curiously this soundtrack belongs to Mike Batt, the fantastic Caravans:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1198699&postcount=1145

Best !!!

Thanks for this Lens, very impressive suite.

Previously I uploaded one soundtrack tha contains one of my favorite.

Curiously this soundtrack belongs to Mike Batt, the fantastic Caravans:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1198699&postcount=1145

Best !!!
Indeed a true rare gem!

Arthierr- Thanks for Simoun! I will have to check it out!

Artheirr, do you know any other soundtracks by the same composer that are also orchestral? I looked on animenewsnetwork and there are a ton of soundtracks so I don't want to go hunting for EVERYTHING.

Most of what Sahashi composed is partly orchestral. It's the problem with anime scores: they mix a lot of stuff - orchestral, electronic, instrument solos, pop songs... But in each of his scores you can find a good number of fantastic orchestral gems.

I'll progressively repost here what I can find from him in the board. But there are a lot of his scores which are extremely rare though quite awesome.

@Sirus and Arthierr
Here is one of the works by Sahashi (Thanks to jedinewtype)

Zipang - The Original Soundtrack (with ED and OP)


Thread 52420

And a other work by Sahashi (thanks to scorchgid)

Big O - Soundtrack 1 and 2


Thread 60404

A little track for you guys

Japanese Mysteries, composed by Ron Korb


Eastern Sea Route (Tokaido) (http://www.sendspace.com/file/20sx2w) >> warm, joyful

Thanks everyone for all the great Sahashi scores!! Arthierr, it was largely your advocacy of this fantastic composer that got me hooked on this thread in the first place! :)

As promised here is the full soundtrack release for The Dreamstone:
Thread 65909


Especially loved that it was one big song, I always appreciate that format in the vast sea of albums with 20 tracks each :P
I thought I'd do a suite to focus on the score as a beautiful musical journey in its own right. In truth, the score tracks here actually flow togther very well and I only had to do a little editing. But I prefer this kind of presentation personally, as it feels less like you are robbing the composer of a potential sale and instead simply sharing your own enthusiam for the music itself. However, I'm happy to honour requests ;)

One's more for you guys ^^

The Dog of Flanders - Original Soundtrack
http://vdzyoq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pT5F-vUVA2Yg6IFMctAc_FKYMNJYKcOoXW31QN6p2qPBzT5SQSLAYRx LdJsJYnAFKaDnCep_ox8PyJ7-EP8RRVA/The%20Dog%20of%20Flanders%20OST.jpg

Precious Time (http://www.sendspace.com/file/xf6n28), composed by Taro Iwashiro >> warm, peaceful, sad

Guys to thank you for the Toshihiko Sahashi osts, I found a torrent with the Fullmetal Panic soundtracks in FLAC so I will encode to mp3 and share in the next day or two.

The Secret Of Moonacre (OST) (Christian Henson) (2008)




Based on Elizabeth Goudge�s award-winning children�s book The Little White Horse, The Secret of Moonacre is an epic adventure film directed by Gabor Csupo, who made the acclaimed Walt Disney family movie Bridge to Terabithia, and starring Ioan Gruffudd, Tim Curry and Natascha McElhone.

The inspired orchestral score by Christian Henson (Severance, Chasing Liberty) reflects the elegance and magic of the story, and is a colourful fantasy film score in the best of cinematic traditions. Beautiful themes, dark and foreboding suspense music, exciting action music and moments of both innocence and humour form the backbone of the soundtrack. Highly original portions of the score include glassware smashing and fingersnaps!

-MovieScore Media

Thread 65925

enjoy :)

Previously I uploaded one soundtrack that contains one of my favorite themes.

Curiously this soundtrack belongs to Mike Batt, the fantastic Caravans:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1198699&postcount=1145

Yes, have been listening to it and its great! I'd also recommend Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I can't comment on the quality of the film, but the novel is great. The soundtrack contains some nice suite arragements - though of course there's nothing as fantastical here as Dreamstone.


http://home.att.net/~luvvie/jw/images/aspidistra-st.jpg
http://rapidshare.com/files/117276339/Keep_the_Aspidistra_flying-MIKE_BATT.rar

I wonder, does anyone have Mike Batt's score to the Watership Down tv series?? I'm a big fan of Angela Morely's music for the original film, and would love to check this one out. The only cue I've heard is 'The Beginning' on one of garcia's compliations I believe.. Sounded excellent.

Ghoulies & Re-Animator (1985, Intrada 2009) - Richard Band(Posted by Mad777)


This is an interesting orchestral horror album. Check it out :)

Thread 65941

Thank you for all your posts / links, guys! :)


Billie: thanks a lot for giving me a good help in this thread. I intended to repost here those Sahashi scores, but you did it faster. ;) Thanks too for your tracks, this Jap folk tune is very relaxing, it sounds like a peaceful village theme from a RPG.



Guys to thank you for the Toshihiko Sahashi osts, I found a torrent with the Fullmetal Panic soundtracks in FLAC so I will encode to mp3 and share in the next day or two.

Ah, the Fullmetal Panic soundtracks! So fun, energetic and rejoicing! When I listen to these scores, it's like eating succulent candies, because many tracks are upbeat and actioney. These are perfect scores to be posted in the Orchestral Action Thread. This is a very appreciated attention, Sirusjr.


Lens of Truth: After having listened to the splendid score of Dreamstone, I'm really eager to listen to this new Batt score. Thanks for introducing us to this talented composer (I have to say, I didn't know him before...). May I request, if you have time, a short presentation post of this composer, like the ones I made some time ago for various other orchestral composers?

Full Metal Panic! Soundtracks posted HERE (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1247067#post1247067)
I have been unable to find artwork for the soundtracks so here is a picture to draw some attention!

MIKE BATT

www.mikebatt.com

Mike Batt, born in Southampton in England, is a composer, songwriter, conductor, producer and arranger. He began his career in pop music and is most famous for his song 'Bright Eyes' from the 1978 animated film Watership Down, sung by Art Garfunkel. He has also released many solo albums and experimental dramatic works, such as 'The Hunting of the Snark', based on Lewis Carol’s epic nonsense poem. A key figure behind ‘crossover’ artists like Vanessa Mae, the string quartet ‘bond’, and ‘The Planets’, whose first cd Classical Graffiti went straight to no.1 in the classical charts, he has unfortunately only written a handful of orchestral scores and concert works (such as his ‘Dublin Overture’), though all are of a high quality and show a great gift for flowing melody and precise orchestration.

Batt says he finds composition and arranging a perfect complement to conducting. "If you know, after years of hard fought experience, how to get the brass and basses, for example, to underpin the bass moments of an orchestration, or you understand the way to allow a woodwind section or soloist to cut through the 90 piece accompaniment, it stands you in good stead to have an opinion on how to balance up a piece by Delius or Prokofiev" he says. "It also works in reverse. If you have had the experience of conducting the LSO at the Barbican or Albert Hall, and can feel the energy coming from the orchestration of the great masters, it must affect your own work as a composer or orchestrator."

Batt is presently dedicating most of his time to guiding the career of Katie Melua, whom he discovered in 2002 while scouting for a jazz musical project he was working on. Melua's album Call Off The Search contains six of his songs including 'The Closest Thing to Crazy'. In 2008, Batt started the year with one concert in Munich and a radio-concert-tour in Germany to promote his new CD A Songwriter's Tale - a compilation of his best written hits, some first sung by himself and most newly recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Info from Wikipedia and Mike Batt's official site]

Notable scores:

- Caravans (1978)
Combining exotic instruments, arabesque melodies and jaunty rhythms with his characteristic clarity and warmth, this score also features possibly Batt’s catchiest theme.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1198699&postcount=1145

- The Dreamstone (1990)
An unusually sophisticated score for a children’s series, Batt’s music for The Dreamstone is charctarised by the extensive use of leitmotifs and thematic variations. It’s also perhaps his most rhapsodic work.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1245126&postcount=2124
Thread 65909

- Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
Based on George Orwell’s savage satire of bourgeois complacency in the 1930s, this film gives Batt the chance to indulge in wry pastiche source music. In a similar vein to several of Rachel Portman’s scores, the music is very civilized but still brimming with passion, balancing formality with romance – several passages even resemble Bach in Brandenburg mode!
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1246783&postcount=2144

- Watership Down –TV Series (1999)
Watership Down represents a year's work for Batt, and is presented as a Symphonic Suite interspersed with songs especially written for the TV series. The Royal Philharmonic combine with Chris Spedding (guitars), Ray Cooper (percussion), Henry Spinetti (Drums), Mitch Dalton (guitars), Mike Batt(keyboards and conductor) and Tim Harries (Bass guitars) - to produce a musical panoramic atmosphere for the series and an intensely melodic and powerful CD.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1253381&postcount=2244

Edit: New Links

Does anyone of ya'll have the Lord of the Rings Soundtracks up in 320 kbps MP3? :) Those have some of my favourite orchestrals ever. Is there a super deluxe extended trilogy compilation? I'll want that if so

/target <"THE BIG ORCHESTRAL ACTION MUSIC THREAD!"> <action//Beg>

Rescue Dawn (OST) (Klaus Badelt) (FLAC/MP3) (2006)




Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn recounts the true story of German-born Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), who dreamed of flying. After making his way to the United States, he joined the Navy during the Vietnam War and became a pilot. He was shot down over Laos and captured, but eventually organized a daring escape with a small band of captives. In describing the music to the film, Variety states, "[A]part from Klaus Badelt's keening original score, featuring mournful cellos and piano tones, music used includes Wagnerian opera and other classical compositions."

Thread 65963

have fun :)

Does anyone of ya'll have the Lord of the Rings Soundtracks up in 320 kbps MP3? :) Those have some of my favourite orchestrals ever. Is there a super deluxe extended trilogy compilation? I'll want that if so

Here you go Melkoret - Lord of the Rings The Complete Recordings 320k:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1157595&postcount=372

ileferru posted it some time ago in the thread :)

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The True Story of Jesse James / The Last Wagon (OST) (Leigh Harline/Lionel Newman) (1956/1957)




Exciting music for western fans! World premiere release of two 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope western scores from the fifties, both in stereo from original 35mm elements. JESSE JAMES is stark 1957 Nicholas Ray interpretation of life & death of legenday outlaw, starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter. Leigh Harline charges forward with exciting main theme, dramatic motifs, then balances with brooding music, gentler ideas. LAST WAGON is dark 1956 Delmer Daves action western with Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Nick Adams. Tackling both composer & conductor duties, Lionel Newman anchors with unusually strong main theme, then leads survivors of Indian attack to safety via exciting action cues, flavorful drama. Producer Nick Redman assembles all cues into lengthy suites for maximum coherency, Julie Kirgo writes detailed notes providing background on both projects. Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman conduct. Special Collection release limited to 1200 copies!

- Intrada

Thread 65964

enjoy :)

thanks a lot Lens :)

wow that "The Egyptian" movie looks awfully scandalous lol

I thought I'd do a suite to focus on the score as a beautiful musical journey in its own right. In truth, the score tracks here actually flow togther very well and I only had to do a little editing. But I prefer this kind of presentation personally, as it feels less like you are robbing the composer of a potential sale and instead simply sharing your own enthusiam for the music itself. However, I'm happy to honour requests ;)

Wow to be honest I didnt realize you put that together yourself :)
May I ask what program ?
Ive tried taking 190-320kbps MP3's and making 80 minute mp3 mixes with them(in sony vegas pro 8), but they end up being a tad shoddy on the overall quality during some more intense parts, no matter if I render out at the highest quality. Is it a LOT more advisable to be making mixes from only Lossless?

Just wondering if you can offer advice.~
-<3 thanks all

It's funny you should ask about that - protium has just flagged-up a great freebie of Goldwave Pro!
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1247061&postcount=1514
You should definitely download and try it. I've been using an older shareware version of it until now.

If I'm going to do a suite I almost always do it with wav files and then encode to mp3 after to avoid quality loss. For the one I did for Joe Hisaishi's The General I used mp3DirectCut. However, with that one you're quite limited to just cutting and pasting (Goldwave allows you to mix, fade, add echo etc, but of course with mp3 it has to re-encode so there will be loss).

If I'm going to do a suite I almost always do it with wav files and then encode to mp3 after to avoid quality loss. For the one I did for Joe Hisaishi's The General I used mp3DirectCut. However, with that one you're quite limited to just cutting and pasting (Goldwave allows you to mix, fade, add echo etc, but of course with mp3 it has to re-encode so there will be loss).

Yeah :P
The bad part is, finding wavs/flac etc of the music I wanna mix is really rather hard to find. Or I dont own all of it to rip the CD's. It also has a lot to do with the genre (electronic, acid, electro) and the overload of Heavy Bass & High Range, which the less than desirable bitrate re-encodings can't handle super well I suppose.

At least if I wanted to do a Orchestral/feature film comp, I'd know what forum to look to for lossless :,D ... I might just whenever I deem I have enough lossless~ ty

ps- your totally apart of the team now! lol. Even though your Avatar still sorta frightens me. kinda like a ticked-off samwise version of link
pss- "Eastern Sea Route" was just strangely deemed 'the perfect prayer song' by my fiance & mother lol. I also like it a boatload. Great job billienator!!

Recently I heard by first time one of the first works by Ennio Morricone, A Gun For Ringo (1965), and I really like the score but specially two of its themes.

I would like share these themes with you. I hope you like:

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.4shared.com/file/107384972/9121e881/15_-_The_Meeting_With_The_Daughter.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/107385617/4f19bd0/16_-_The_Funeral.html

Best!!!

Love Themes 50s Part II:

(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx19O8cA)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1S7WNBG

Track list:

Bronislau Kaper Invitation Main Title 1952
Miklos Rozsa Diane Diane (Piano And Violin) 1956
Victor Young The Quiet Man Love Scene (The Stream/The Graveyard) 1952
Hugo Friedhofer The Rains Of Ranchipur The Rains Of Ranchipur: Love 1955
Alex North/Hollywood Studio Orchestra The Bachelor Party The Bachelor Party [Original Score] 1957
Bernard Herrmann The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit Maria 1956
Franz Waxman The Furies The Romance Revived 1950
Alfred Newman The Bravados Dead Miner And Emma & Josefa 1958
Leonard Bernstein On The Waterfront Love Theme 1954
Victor Young The Star Moonlight Serenade (Summer Love) 1952
Alex North The Rose Tatoo Amami, Caro 1955
Mikl�s R�zsa Young Bess Farewell 1953
Hugo Friedhofer This Earth Is Mine End Title 1959
Alfred Newman April Love Main Title 1957
Franz Waxman & Irving Berlin Sayonara Eileen 1957
David Raksin Separate Tables Love Theme 1958
Max Steiner Helen Of Troy Love Theme 1956
George Antheil The Pride And The Passion Juana's Love Theme 1957
Dimitri Tiomkin The Young Land Strange Are The Ways Of Love (Instrumental) 1959
Miklos Rozsa A Time To Love And A Time To Die Desperate Lovers 1958
Victor Young Scaramouche Leonor�s Farewell 1952
Frank Skinner Imitation Of Life Success Montage 1959
Alfred Newman The Best Of Everything The Best Of Everything (Demo) 1959
Elmer Bernstein Some Came Running Gwen�s Theme 1958
Alex North The Wonderful Country Brady And Helen 1959
Mikl�s R�zsa Green Fire Green Fire - Suite 1954

Does someone has "LA CLASSE OPERAIA VA IN PARADISO (THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN)" by Ennio Morricone?
but only the new release from intrada: http://tinyurl.com/oolzpk

Also looking for "LA CORTA NOTTE DELLE BAMBOLE DI VETRO" by Ennio.
-> http://tinyurl.com/r7rlms

thx in advance

Here one of my favorites scores with one of my favorites themes, The Vikings by Mario Nascimbene. A real master piece.

Here a sample:

http://www.4shared.com/file/107388110/6db0c02b/14a_-_Funeral__End_Title_-.html

Mario Nascimbene was an Italian composer of film scores. He was born on 28 November 1913 in Rome, and died on 6 January 2002 also in Rome. His career spanned six decades and he received several awards. He was nominated for a David di Donatello Award for his work on Blue dolphin - l'avventura continua. He won three Nastro d'Argento Best Score awards in 1952 for Rome 11:00, in 1960 for Violent Summer, and 1968 for Pronto...c'� una certa Giuliana per te. He received a Career David from the David di Donatello Awards in 1991 honouring his lifetime achievement in film music.

[edit] Film scores

* The Night of Counting the Years
* Room at the Top
* One Million Years B.C.
* Barabbas
* Doctor Faustus
* L'amore in citt�
* The Vikings
* The Quiet American
* Scent of Mystery
* Solomon and Sheba
* Sons and Lovers
* 'Violent Summer
* Rome 11:00
* When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
* Alexander the Great
* A Farewell to Arms
* La prima notte di quiete


(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqxZbuS)

(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVjtDs0)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UP58ZJP7

Best!!!

Also looking for "LA CORTA NOTTE DELLE BAMBOLE DI VETRO" by Ennio.
-> http://tinyurl.com/r7rlms

Ennio Morricone - Short Night Of The Glass Dolls (La Corta Notte Delle Bambole Di Vetro)


Year: 1971
Album: Short Night Of The Glass Dolls (La Corta Notte Delle Bambole Di Vetro)
Artist: Ennio Morricone
Genre: Soundtrack
Gr�sse: 97.1 MB
Format | Bitrate: MP3 @ 320 Kbps 44100Hz Stereo


Tracklist:
1. Valzer (02:15) Solo voice by Edda Dell?Orso
2. Emmetrentatre (04:02)
3. Notte E Bambole (02:25)
4. Brividi Di Archi (02:16)
5. Oppressione (03:04) Solo voice by Edda Dell?Orso
6. Deppressione (01:12)
7. Oppressione Di Monstri (01:14)
8. Incoscientemente (02:00)
9. Incubi Solitari (01:37)
10. Bambole Di Vetro (06:40) Solo voice by Edda Dell?Orso
11. Il Bisturi (02:32)
12. Irrealta E Follia (01:52) Solo voice by Edda Dell?Orso
13. Sospiri Di Morte (04:16) Solo voice by Edda Dell?Orso
14. Valzer (02:48) Solo voice by Edda Dell?Orso


http://rapidshare.com/files/143680632/Bambole_Vetro_1971.rar



Enjoy

Thanks garcia27, but this isn't the intrada release, please check the link.


THE UNRELEASED ALBUM
1. NOTTE E BAMBOLE 2:25 2. IL BISTURI 2:32 3. OPPRESSIONE 3:03 4. BAMBOLE DI VETRO 6:40 5. VALZER 2:15 6. EMMETRENTATRE 4:00 7. LA CORTA NOTTE DELLE BAMBOLE DI VETRO 1:53 8. LA CORTA NOTTE DELLE BAMBOLE DI VETRO (#2) 4:27 9. INCUBI SOLITARI 1:37

BONUS TRACKS
10. SOSPIRI DI MORTE 4:30 11. VALZER (#2) 1:18 12. BRIVIDI DI ARCHI 2:16 13. LA CORTA NOTTE DELLE BAMBOLE DI VETRO (#3) 2:16 14. VALZER (#3) 2:49 15. DEPRESSIONE 1:13 16. INCONSCIENTEMENTE 2:00 17. INCUBI SOLITARI (#2) 2:00 18. OPPRESSIONE DI MOSTRI 1:15 19. LA CORTA NOTTE DELLE BAMBOLE DI VETRO (#4) 5:09 20. IRREALT� E FOLLIA 1:43 21. VALZER (#4) 2:38

Thanks garcia27, but this isn't the intrada release, please check the link.

Sorry, I don't have other.

Good luck =)

Aw, I missed Chris Tilton? See, this is what happens when I don't spend enough time online.

Chicken Run (OST) (John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams) (FLAC/MP3) (2000)



Thread 65981


The Others (OST) (Alejandro Amen�bar) (FLAC/MP3) (2001)



Thread 65982


Enemy Of The State (OST) (Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams) (FLAC/MP3) (1998)



Thread 65983

enjoy :)

Hi everyone, hope you don't mind if a contribute a to this thread with what is probably the most known work from Howard Shore.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Complete Recordings


You ROCK :D
Thank you very much, just finished nabbing all of them!

--Edit--

Ahhh YES NEW FFXI MUSIC!!!! I played that game a TON!!!


But no music on it from THE Sanctuary in the game lol? :(

New FFXI music just got posted by a new time poster
The Star Onions - Sanctuary

Grab it Here (Thread 65876)

Due to rapidspread being wierd I've now uploaded The Egyptian in two parts to rapidshare.

Jason and the Argonauts is also available in FLAC too for those who may want to upgrade:
http://rapidshare.com/files/236782049/Argonauts_FLAC_Part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/236795645/Argonauts_FLAC_part2.rar

Watership Down by Mike Battt

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AP58P5C8

Thanks to one forum mate, my friend flyboy.

Sorry lens but I think this is the version by Angela Morley.

This is the track list in amazon where theorically this is the Mike Batt album:

http://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Mike-Batt/dp/B000055XBX

However the true album track list is:

http://www.chrisspedding.com/session/mb/mb19.htm

Very Rare!!!

Thank you very much for the soundtracks
｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ very d(*⌒▽⌒*)b good ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

for yosemite

Mobile Suit Gundam MS-IGLOO 2 JuuRyoku Sensen O.S.T i have only a japanese tracklist


Composer: Megumi Ohashi
kbps: vbr 192~320
year: 2008/11/19


Mobile Suit Gundam - MS IGLOO 2 - JuuRyoku Sensen OST (http://rapidshare.com/files/234056264/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_MS-IGLOO_2_JuuRyoku_Sensen_O.S.zip)

thanks a lot awesome!

This really is by Mike Batt. Thanks a lot to Amedio:

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=d1c6d614a2ced7d0823a6f9e4bd82849

Best!!!

You ROCK :D
Thank you very much, just finished nabbing all of them!

You're welcome :D
If you want the covers' scans...

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=luyujcgiex
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=s6iqcrpkax
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=uqjzpoc5hj

Password: ileferru

Credits to Sanico for the find.

Garcia, you're a star!! Thank you!!

:D :D

Some thoughts to come...

Watership Down by Mike Battt

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AP58P5C8

Thanks to one forum mate, my friend flyboy.


Garcia, that first link you posted is to the movie score, by Angela Morley. That is not the proper cover art. You did get it right the second time! :)

Garcia, that first link you posted is to the movie score, by Angela Morley. That is not the proper cover art. You did get it right the second time! :)
Indeed and the second one is, I must say, most magnificent. Many thanks Garcia.

Yes, that first one you posted is Angela Morley's score to the film. But it definitely has a place in this thread!! It’s a higher bitrate than the 192 version that generally does the rounds, so thanks! To avoid confusion I’ve re-upped it with correct tags and art here:


ANGELA MORLEY - WATERSHIP DOWN
http://rapidshare.com/files/237078571/Watership_Down_-_Angela_Morley.rar

As much as I do like Mike Batt, this score for me is among the most sublime ever written. It has a level of natural inspiration that so few do. It’s lilting, pastoral, and truly English sounding, with effortless class and musicality.

The ‘Prologue and Main Title’ was written by Malcolm Williamson (who took over the title of Master of the Queen’s Music after the death of Arthur Bliss) and orchestrated by Morley from his sketches. You may be interested to find that she was also an arranger, orchestrator and, in some cases, part composer on many famous scores, including some of John Williams' big hitters: http://www.angelamorley.com/site/credits.htm

In addition to the Williamson material, which is brilliantly effective in its ‘otherness’, recalled through the score at moments of apotheosis and invocation of mythic tradition (‘Climbing the Down’ and ‘Triumph’), Morley provides many themes and sub-themes herself; the most majestic of all being the theme of ‘adventure’ heard for the first time in ‘Crossing the River and Onwards’ (1:05). ‘Kehaar’s Theme’ is great fun too – it really captured me as a child – like something out of the 20s (though still perfectly in keeping the with the overall impressionistic, pastoral tone), and fits the irrepressible, slightly bonkers nature of the character perfectly.

You know, I saw this disc in hmv when I was about 12, but it was 15.99 and I couldn’t afford it! Now it’s going for a lot more on amazon and the like, so if you have a copy count yourself lucky!!

If I may suggest to everyone here when uploading a CD with different artists on different tracks, there is a tagging option of Album Artist which you can put the most prevalent artist so that software like the Zune Player, which I use to put music on my zune can organize it as one single album and I can keep my artist list much smaller. Thus on something like Angela Morley Watership Down I would put Album Artist as Angela Morley and the other tracks with different artists would be tagged in each file separate. Of course this change is easily made on my end if you think it would be inconvenient or mess up how you like things. Just something to consider :)

Cool. Thanks for the advice Sirus. I've never been sure how to handle the allocation of artist info etc for best effect. It get's especially confusing with classical, when you've got the composer, conductor and instrumentalist(s) to consider. As most film music etc is credited first to the composer (as it should be obviously!) it really irritates me when classical stuff is tagged otherwise (eg "The Four Seasons by Nigel Kennedy") - this usually being the case. Even when that artist offers a distinctive interpretation of the music it still seems wrong-headed to me to prioritise their ‘authorship’ above the creative genius of the composer, which is really on another level altogether. Without meaning to continue an unnecessary rant, I think our consumerist and celebrity-obsessed culture fetishises performers to an unnecessary degree… but that’s a gripe for another time :)


This really is by Mike Batt.
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=d1c6d614a2ced7d0823a6f9e4bd82849
Obviously I need to listen more, but this might well be Batt’s masterpiece!! Really very contrapuntal and ‘big’sounding – not quite the approach I’d have expected, but brilliant. The influence of baroque polyphony confirms itself in the title of one of the cues. I only wish there was more! I think it’s more self-consciously epic than Morley’s score, and less wistfully arcadian, but very powerful in its own right. Also after wincing at the thought of a Stephen Gately ‘Bright Eyes’ it was a pleasant surprise to find that it wasn’t too sickeningly boybandish – though the Steve Mac version is best ignored. Track 9 showcases some thrilling action writing too. Definitely a spiritual successor to The Dreamstone!

Well if you use an awesome free program called tagandrename (http://tagandrename.da.ru/), by far the best tagging program as far as I am concerned, you can include information such as conductor, composer, and many others as well as embed the album art in the file data. It also makes it easy to select a full album and edit the shared areas for all at once or find the tags on Amazon, which tend to include the album art and many other things.

Thanks! I've been using mediamonkey recently which seems to do the job. I *think* it embeds the album art too, but I've never downloaded one of my own shares to find out if it works.. though it comes up fine when I put them on my Zen so... Anyway, I might check this one out :)

Wonderful, rare score from Franz Waxman, posted by restlessgypsy:



Thread 66022

Hi all,

I getting via torrent 12 cds (mostly rock and pop) by Mike Batt between them Watership Down but with a superior quality that the previous (only 128). The new one would have 256.

If you're interested I can upload it again when is ready.

Best!!!

Garcia, that would be great, thanks again! I'm enjoying it so much, and I've updated the info on MB with your post.

Aw, I missed Chris Tilton? See, this is what happens when I don't spend enough time online.

You should post more often. :P

IN any case, I did write Mr Tilton a long letter - with his permission as you will see earlier on page 86, and have yet to see any response. I do hope that he will find the time to reply.

When I started this thread, I was hoping to discover new great music, but this is going far beyond my expectations!! Thanks to all of you guys, there's been so much music posted lately that I don't know where to start.



JANACEK: SCHLUCK UND JAU
The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=lrtbz0kzur

(192kbps MP3, direct from the BBC's online programme archive.)

This is quite a beautiful piece, very complex too, the sort of piece you have to listen to several times to really get into properly. My favorite part is from 7:43 to 9:32, those strings and wind ostinati are magnificient. Is it just me or 8:29 sounds like Goldsmith a lot?

May I please request more Janacek? Any symphonies? Or concertos?

This is quite a beautiful piece, very complex too, the sort of piece you have to listen to several times to really get into properly. My favorite part is from 7:43 to 9:32, those strings and wind ostinati are magnificient. Is it just me or 8:29 sounds like Goldsmith a lot?

May I please request more Janacek? Any symphonies? Or concertos?

Arthierr, I just purchased a double cd set of Janacek orchestral music conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras this weekend! I'll rip and post in the classical thread later on.

The closest thing to a symphony is the Sinfonietta, which also has many Goldsmith moments. I don' know for sure, but I bet Jerry loved his music! They both like to repeat and develop short sharp motifs - its hard to say exactly what it is, but I think there's a similar musical 'syntax' there at times. I was stunned when I first heard Janacek for the fact that his musical language is so rigourous - there's a kind of 'logic' to it. And this is what I love about Goldsmith too. [Sorry for this poor attempt to account for the ineffable in music of the highest order!!]

Lens of Truth: that Mike Batt presentation post was superb! You truly have understood what I try to do here. Thanks to you I now know a new composer. Bravo! If you happen to be fan of other composers who are lesser known or under-represented in this thread, don't hesitate to introduce them as well.

Arthierr, I just purchased a double cd set of Janacek orchestral music conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras this weekend! I'll rip and post in the classical thread later on.

*wipe tears* You're miraculous, Lens. Thank you, I'll grab it there, but take your time.

You should post more often. :P

IN any case, I did write Mr Tilton a long letter - with his permission as you will see earlier on page 86, and have yet to see any response. I do hope that he will find the time to reply.

I will find the time at some point. I'm in the middle of a side project (for friends and family) that's on a deadline (my plane ride to visit said friends and family) and your email was like 5 billion words, so it's a lot to sort through. :P

I will find the time at some point. I'm in the middle of a side project (for friends and family) that's on a deadline (my plane ride to visit said friends and family) and your email was like 5 billion words, so it's a lot to sort through. :P

Its over 9000? :)

And is anyone else finishing up school and as happy as me ? :D

I will find the time at some point. I'm in the middle of a side project (for friends and family) that's on a deadline (my plane ride to visit said friends and family) and your email was like 5 billion words, so it's a lot to sort through. :P

Now now, I'm sure it was only 4 billion. Thank you - and point taken; I hope you didn't read that like "hurry up, you sod!" - not intended; it was moreover an attempt to discover if you'd actually got it. I don't have a lot of luck with email - I've sent messages before and waited months for an answer, only to eventually discover that the message was never received and there is, once again, egg on my face.

Naturally I hope your side project goes smoothly and all the folk you care about are well and happy. :)

Cheers
D

Hi new to this board and I have been looking around the threads for awhile and I happen to come across this orshestra and action music thread.

I have been searching threw the pages and I have found some of the music that I have been searching for awhile now. And I did not know their was a lot more orchestras and composers out there.

So I happen to come across the MP3 Version of Primal, but I can not download it at all. And I have been searching other web sites and torrent sites. I was wondering if anybody can reupload Primal in the MP3 Version.

I would be very please if anyone can help me out with it.

I'm not sure what the problem is unless the host is down. It SHOULD be one of those everlasting links.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1235809&postcount=1911
I just tried it again and its going fast.

It SHOULD be one of those everlasting links.

Lol dont look at me haha, I didnt do anything :)
PM me, if ever theres any issues sirus.

Love Themes 50s Part II:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1S7WNBG

Track list:

Bronislau Kaper Invitation Main Title 1952
Miklos Rozsa Diane Diane (Piano And Violin) 1956
Victor Young The Quiet Man Love Scene (The Stream/The Graveyard) 1952
Hugo Friedhofer The Rains Of Ranchipur The Rains Of Ranchipur: Love 1955
Alex North/Hollywood Studio Orchestra The Bachelor Party The Bachelor Party [Original Score] 1957
Bernard Herrmann The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit Maria 1956
Franz Waxman The Furies The Romance Revived 1950
Alfred Newman The Bravados Dead Miner And Emma & Josefa 1958
Leonard Bernstein On The Waterfront Love Theme 1954
Victor Young The Star Moonlight Serenade (Summer Love) 1952
Alex North The Rose Tatoo Amami, Caro 1955
Mikl�s R�zsa Young Bess Farewell 1953
Hugo Friedhofer This Earth Is Mine End Title 1959
Alfred Newman April Love Main Title 1957
Franz Waxman & Irving Berlin Sayonara Eileen 1957
David Raksin Separate Tables Love Theme 1958
Max Steiner Helen Of Troy Love Theme 1956
George Antheil The Pride And The Passion Juana's Love Theme 1957
Dimitri Tiomkin The Young Land Strange Are The Ways Of Love (Instrumental) 1959
Miklos Rozsa A Time To Love And A Time To Die Desperate Lovers 1958
Victor Young Scaramouche Leonor�s Farewell 1952
Frank Skinner Imitation Of Life Success Montage 1959
Alfred Newman The Best Of Everything The Best Of Everything (Demo) 1959
Elmer Bernstein Some Came Running Gwen�s Theme 1958
Alex North The Wonderful Country Brady And Helen 1959
Mikl�s R�zsa Green Fire Green Fire - Suite 1954

This one comes at the perfect time for me. I didn't know most of these beautiful pieces, and some are truly gorgeous. Thanks a lot for this valuable contribution, Garcia.

Btw, the covers are very well done. Who did them? Is it you?

Well, it's very surprising that this one hasn't been posted in this thread before. It's one of my favorite scores from an anime (even it's not really a score, but a arrangement album). Sahashi truly wrote a gargantuan symphonic score for this anime, and for this suite, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, he took his best themes and cues, and re-constructed them into a more traditional orchestral form. The result is exceptional, and the composer's immense talent as a symphonist truly shines through this album. Each track is remarkably written, and has its own distinct identity. Personally, my favorite track is the 7th "Gundam", it starts slowly, but takes off at 1:05 in a grandiose fashion, then the magnificient theme appears surrounded by some regular string ostinato motifs. It's one of the most impressive piece I've heard from an anime. Highly recommended.



Symphony Seed: Gundam Seed

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra

Lame VBR -standard

Thanks to DENEB

http://tinyurl.com/oyhzbd





Track Listing:

01. Opening
02. Suspense
03. Take Off
04. Memory
05. Zafuto
06. Death
07. Gundam
08. The Song
09. A Wish
10. Finale


Next, I'll post the sequel album: Symphony SEED Destiny. :)

Btw, the covers are very well done. Who did them? Is it you?

No, Arthierr. These cover were done by a friend in other forum.

You're lucky because other 3 cds are coming =)

Best!!!

Symphony Seed: Gundam Seed

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra

Lame VBR -standard

Thanks to DENEB

http://tinyurl.com/qxl6ey



When you say "Arrangement Album" what do you mean?

Does this mean not performed by a live orchestra or..? Does it mean synthesized?

Just would like you to clarify so in the future I know what types of albums I like to get from you :)

Thank you!


-Edit-
Sorry off topic but Im so excited I just finished my final project for flash animation!!
not toooo fancy but take a look and CLICK to move: http://melkoret.com/Flash_Final/flash_final.html

Fantastic post Arthierr!!! I wanted to wait until I listened to the full album but the first two tracks alone have blown me away! Many thanks!

Hello and good morning my friends
I have a little track for you all...the compilation comes in the next days...i hope *grin*



A Rotating Machine (http://www.sendspace.com/file/o5rksq), performed by Cao Wengong >> fast, a little bit funny

When you say "Arrangement Album" what do you mean?

Does this mean not performed by a live orchestra or..? Does it mean synthesized?

Just would like you to clarify so in the future I know what types of albums I like to get from you :)

Thank you!

Ahem... When it's mentioned 2 times "Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra", I suppose it's not synthesized.

Seriously, "arrangement" means it's not the actual score of the movie / game / anime, but a separate project based on it, and it can be performed by a live orchestra or not.

When you say "Arrangement Album" what do you mean?

Does this mean not performed by a live orchestra or..? Does it mean synthesized?

Just would like you to clarify so in the future I know what types of albums I like to get from you :)

Thank you!


-Edit-
Sorry off topic but Im so excited I just finished my final project for flash animation!!
not toooo fancy but take a look and CLICK to move: http://melkoret.com/Flash_Final/flash_final.html

Every cue on this album was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (my sense is that the orchestra consists of 50-60 players).

So, as far as I recall, synthesizer was not used in the recording.

When the poster says "Arrangement Album", he simply means that the composer assembled short cues that he composed for the TV (which in total amount to probably 3-4 hours of music) into a 40 minute symphonic suite.

I am sure you will enjoy this album.

From the album sleeve notes: The LSO is 74 piece in this recording. :)

First of all, thanks to all contributors for those fantastic scores posted in here (I d-loaded "some" of them;)). And I also thank arthierr for his last share Symphony Seed: Gundam Seed. It's truly great music. Really powerfull. Me like it very much (although I still didn't listen to whole thing...). And one more thing, is this just me, or in fourth track at 1:16 there is a quote from Philip Glass (though I can't find in my memory from which score)? Still great album. Thanks again.

Arthierr, the one you posted is actually Symphony Seed Destiny, with the following tracklist:

01. Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku
02. Brand New Days - Shimesareta Sekai to Yakusoku
03. Battle in the Space - Senka Chiri Saku Shikkoku no Sora
04. The Shadow of his mind - Seigi de Nurareta Tsumi no Zaisho
05. War - Souten ni Yureru Ken to SAkebi
06. SHINN ASUKA - Kirisakareta Omoi to Kunou no Hitomi
07. Spaceship MINERVA - Soumei Naru Megami no Kan
08. ORB - Ken NAki Tasogare no Daichi
09. Shyer Soldier - Jiyuu to iu Na no Kodoku
10. STELLAR - Kanashimi ni Shizumu Setsuna no Yurikagoi
11. After the Glory - Mayoeru Tsubasa ni Erabareshi Ashita
12. Finale - Atarashiki Sekai ga Shiru Konmei no Mirai

But wow, amazing stuff!! Can't wait to hear the first..!

I just found this somewhere else and realized that it had already been posted here without my or anyone in this thread taking note so I should bring your attention to

Thread 61388
It is a varied orchestral album with some big orchestra, some vocal tracks, and sadly some electronic sections. Most of all, a few of the tracks contain vocals by the great Origa! So enjoy!

Disney Pixar Greatest (VA) (2009)



Thread 66100

incl. "Carl Goes Up (Original Score) (Up) (3:34)" by Michael Giacchino ;)
enjoy!

Arthierr, the one you posted is actually Symphony Seed Destiny, with the following tracklist:

01. Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku
02. Brand New Days - Shimesareta Sekai to Yakusoku
03. Battle in the Space - Senka Chiri Saku Shikkoku no Sora
04. The Shadow of his mind - Seigi de Nurareta Tsumi no Zaisho
05. War - Souten ni Yureru Ken to SAkebi
06. SHINN ASUKA - Kirisakareta Omoi to Kunou no Hitomi
07. Spaceship MINERVA - Soumei Naru Megami no Kan
08. ORB - Ken NAki Tasogare no Daichi
09. Shyer Soldier - Jiyuu to iu Na no Kodoku
10. STELLAR - Kanashimi ni Shizumu Setsuna no Yurikagoi
11. After the Glory - Mayoeru Tsubasa ni Erabareshi Ashita
12. Finale - Atarashiki Sekai ga Shiru Konmei no Mirai

But wow, amazing stuff!! Can't wait to hear the first..!

Arghh...! I got mixed up with the links! Sorry guys, I'll correct this as soon as I get back home. Thanks for pointing the mistake, Lens.

Arghh...! I got mixed up with the links! Sorry guys, I'll correct this as soon as I get back home. Thanks for pointing the mistake, Lens.
That means I get double the awesome??!! Sweet!

Karas Original Soundtrack



Tracklist:
1. Crow being revealed (jet-black fighting it is, the compilation)
2. Crow being revealed ( king birth compilation)
3. Don't pass away
4. Memory мwhich you wander about
5. Mirror of contract
6. High evil mind
7. Invitation from the purgatory
8. Attacking hammer of thunder emperor
9. Banquet of
10 Encounter of soul
11. Wrinkle of heart
12. REVELATION
13. Heart which you leave
14. Thinking which becomes profound
15. Hundred ogre night traveling
16. Sign of collapse
17. Light of despair
18. Crow truth raw
19. Fall to boundary
20. New stirring
21. Desired
22. Crow -KARAS
23. End banquet
24. Under Fire

http://filefactory.com/file/ag20203/n/karas_rar
All credit for the upload goes for Sherlock!

Great soundtrack, great series! =)

New Soundtrack in my thread, hope you like it

Trapp Family Story - Music Collection


Thread 63760

PS: Thank you very much, Lens, Arthierr, Bi0hazard, Garcia and Sirus for the great and fabulous music

bi0h4zard's recent post reminded me how much I enjoy Randy Newman's score for A Bug's Life. Here's some links to the rare academy promo of the full score:




320kbps
http://rapidshare.com/files/30175921/Bugslife.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/30169862/Bugslife.part2.rar

FLAC
http://rapidshare.com/files/184098359/rndynmn-bugs.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/184110509/rndynmn-bugs.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/183982720/rndynmn-bugs.part3.rar

Track Listing
1. Main Title (01:46)
2. Flik's Machine (01:19)
3. Seed To Tree (01:01)
4. Red Alert (01:48)
5. Hopper And His Gang (01:08)
6. Flik Leaves (02:37)
7. Circus Bugs (00:56)
8. Clown Waltz (01:20)
9. Manto The Magnificent (01:08)
10. The City (01:18)
11. Robin Hood (01:01)
12. Flying Home (01:28)
13. Flik's Return (01:24)
14. Loser (02:43)
15. Dot's Rescue (02:14)
16. Atta Apologizes (01:08)
17. Building The Bird (03:44)
18. Don't Come Back (01:07)
19. The Last Grain (00:37)
20. Grasshoppers' Return (03:01)
21. Convincing Fick (01:33)
22. The Bird Flies (02:40)
23. Rainstorm - The Last Hop (02:32)
24. All Is Well (04:11)
25. The Time Of Your Life (06:23)

@Lens of Truth: Thanks for the FLAC! :)

Arthierr, the one you posted is actually Symphony Seed Destiny, with the following tracklist:

01. Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku
02. Brand New Days - Shimesareta Sekai to Yakusoku
03. Battle in the Space - Senka Chiri Saku Shikkoku no Sora
04. The Shadow of his mind - Seigi de Nurareta Tsumi no Zaisho
05. War - Souten ni Yureru Ken to SAkebi
06. SHINN ASUKA - Kirisakareta Omoi to Kunou no Hitomi
07. Spaceship MINERVA - Soumei Naru Megami no Kan
08. ORB - Ken NAki Tasogare no Daichi
09. Shyer Soldier - Jiyuu to iu Na no Kodoku
10. STELLAR - Kanashimi ni Shizumu Setsuna no Yurikagoi
11. After the Glory - Mayoeru Tsubasa ni Erabareshi Ashita
12. Finale - Atarashiki Sekai ga Shiru Konmei no Mirai

But wow, amazing stuff!! Can't wait to hear the first..!

Link corrected. :) Now you can download the actual Symphony Seed: Gundam Seed.

Symphony SEED Destiny coming soon in its own post.

This is the sequel to Symphony Seed, and it's even better than its predecessor, IMO. Again, this suite displays a lot of variety, a great number of superb themes, and an almost flawless performance by a world-class orchestra. Great, great album, and a fascinating musical experience.



Symphony SEED Destiny

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra

Lame 3.96 192 kbps

Thanks to DENEB

http://tinyurl.com/qxl6ey





Track Listing:

01. Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku
02. Brand New Days - Shimesareta Sekai to Yakusoku
03. Battle in the Space - Senka Chiri Saku Shikkoku no Sora
04. The Shadow of his mind - Seigi de Nurareta Tsumi no Zaisho
05. War - Souten ni Yureru Ken to Sakebi
06. Shinn Asuka - Kirisakareta Omoi to Kunou no Hitomi
07. Spaceship Minerva - Soumei Naru Megami no Kan
08. Orb - Ken Naki Tasogare no Daichi
09. Shyer Soldier - Jiyuu to iu Na no Kodoku
10. Stellar - Kanashimi ni Shizumu Setsuna no Yurikagoi
11. After the Glory - Mayoeru Tsubasa ni Erabareshi Ashita
12. Finale - Atarashiki Sekai ga Shiru Konmei no Mirai

Thankyouuu ;D

Billie, Lens, Sirusjr, Elemental, Bi0: Thanks a lot for your posts / links. Again, hours and hours of new music. Awesome!

Thanks for all recent posts.

Great music !!!

For all here who don't follow the other threads, Michael Giacchino's Up has finally been posted in another thread and it is magnificantly romantic combined with quite a bit of action/adventure feel to it. I must say I am surprised to consider it a Giacchino score.

Thread 66106

As many of you are likely fans of piano arrangements, I must suggest that you try out the latest fantastic Piano Arrangement of the music from Kingdom Hearts. The arrangements are so lively and full of energy that I found myself wishing that other arrangements would be similarly enjoyable!

Thread 66123
or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/w16jj3

Ahem... When it's mentioned 2 times "Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra", I suppose it's not synthesized.

Seriously, "arrangement" means it's not the actual score of the movie / game / anime, but a separate project based on it, and it can be performed by a live orchestra or not.

Thanks Arthierr :)
I didnt mean to sound rude or anything, I was just a tad confused on my definitions. Now I know!
Gracias!

Also thanks Sirusjr and Bllie, downloaded all of the above :). Billie your pretty much dilvering exactly what my ears want lol

-on a musical side note I just bought a 120 dollar release LE-Box of the new Phoenix album. Only 250 in the world.
The fiance was agry lol :,D
, not Orchestral but being a poor lad, Ive never spent that much on music before but I just had to :) Should I share the album when it comes?

Should I share the album when it comes?

Yesss ;D
Thankssss

-on a musical side note I just bought a 120 dollar release LE-Box of the new Phoenix album. Only 250 in the world.
The fiance was agry lol :,D
, not Orchestral but being a poor lad, Ive never spent that much on music before but I just had to :) Should I share the album when it comes?

Wow Melkoret that's a lot! But sometimes, I know, it's necessary throw caution to the wind :D A post would be very much appreciated. Who did the music for this?

You could always try to soften up the other half with a bit of classical.. ;)



Thread 58159

Billie your pretty much dilvering exactly what my ears want lol


Hehehe, good to hear, maybe tomorrow comes a little track for you XD, the compilations are not finished yet


-on a musical side note I just bought a 120 dollar release LE-Box of the new Phoenix album. Only 250 in the world.
The fiance was agry lol :,D
, not Orchestral but being a poor lad, Ive never spent that much on music before but I just had to :) Should I share the album when it comes?

Oh yes, that was appreciated from my side, thank you very much in advance, melzi *hug*

Who did the music for this?

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I dont understand what you mean Lens.

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Ok, Ill definetly upload it all when it comes.
It apparently comes in a custom pizza box haha :)
(its like they know me?! ahah...)

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And to entire thread: Dang guys, sometimes Im just blown away by all the goodies! Basically humoungous thank you to everyone in last few pages, I'll be nabbing all of those!

I cant wait til I have the budget to buy new CD's, rip em and contribute even more back :P


the compilations are not finished yet


No rush, just dont forget like I did haha. Ill upload mine this this weekend oops~

What is this Phoenix you speak of Melkoret?

What is this Phoenix you speak of Melkoret?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(band) (Phoenix) is a rock/alternative band and my second favourite musical entity. Not Orchestral so I didnt mention much. They're one of the about three French bands(Air,Phoenix, Daft Punk) from the ninety's that shared international praise. I'll share the new album since a few requested. If you like guitars and singing, you'd be in for a treat.

If your interested: here's a song from their first album (United) entitled 'Honeymoon'. Its probably there softest song:
http://melkoret.com/music/03%20Honeymoon.mp3

-Cheers :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(band) (Phoenix) is a rock/alternative band and my second favourite musical entity. Not Orchestral so I didnt mention much. They're one of the about three French bands(Air,Phoenix, Daft Punk) from the ninety's that shared international praise. I'll share the new album since a few requested. If you like guitars and singing, you'd be in for a treat.

If your interested: here's a song from their first album (United) entitled 'Honeymoon'. Its probably there softest song:
http://melkoret.com/music/03%20Honeymoon.mp3

-Cheers :)
Eh not really my style but interesting nonetheless. Don't particularly like the singer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(band) (Phoenix) is a rock/alternative band and my second favourite musical entity. Not Orchestral so I didnt mention much. They're one of the about three French bands(Air,Phoenix, Daft Punk) from the ninety's that shared international praise. I'll share the new album since a few requested. If you like guitars and singing, you'd be in for a treat.


Ah, I thought you meant the anime. In that case it's probably not my cup of tea :p

Eh not really my style but interesting nonetheless. Don't particularly like the singer.

Interesting and unique yes :) Yeah its a singer style you may not like at first, that's definetly how it was with my fiance, but she really really grew into it after a while. Also, I hope you check out the new album anyways, the lead tracks are a good deal different from that one. And to say the least I can always appreciate music that isnt about drugs, sex, being a rebel or someones 'junk in the trunk'. lol.
Which is the Main reason I turned to Orchestral as a Genre to take comfort in. Lyrics can be so overrated sometimes :)

But I digress, and feel bad talking about non-orchestral. So, lets throw some Nuclear bombs at it.
....
PSYCH!!!
The Hunt For Red October -22 - Nuclear Scam.mp3 (http://melkoret.com/The%20Hunt%20For%20Red%20October%20-22%20-%20Nuclear%20Scam.mp3)

Interesting and unique yes :) Yeah its a singer style you may not like at first, that's definetly how it was with my fiance, but she really really grew into it after a while. Also, I hope you check out the new album anyways, the lead tracks are a good deal different from that one. And to say the least I can always appreciate music that isnt about drugs, sex, being a rebel or someones 'junk in the trunk'. lol.
Which is the Main reason I turned to Orchestral as a Genre to take comfort in. Lyrics can be so overrated sometimes :)

But I digress, and feel bad talking about non-orchestral. So, lets throw some Nuclear bombs at it.
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PSYCH!!!
The Hunt For Red October -22 - Nuclear Scam.mp3 (http://melkoret.com/The%20Hunt%20For%20Red%20October%20-22%20-%20Nuclear%20Scam.mp3)
Oh yeah i listen to tons of rock and prog/power/heavy metal but i am very picky when it comes to vocalists and that doesn't sound like something I would be interested in listening to.

Hello all,
I started a thread on whether the cost of cds is inflated or not, as I think people are going to be more justified pirating if they feel they are being price gouged. My intention was not to try and justify pirating, I simply was interested what some of you think about the topic.

It was to the people in this forum whose opinions I was most interested in reaching, but the powers that be wouldn't let the thread stay in this forum as it isn't specifically a thread to download anything.

Sooooo, if you have thoughts on this topic you would like to share, please visit the following link:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1252451#post1252451

And, of course, if you couldn't care less, back to our regularly scheduled topic. Thanks!

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As much as I enjoy the soundtrack I don't think it is accurate in their description to call it orchestral. Thanks for sharing though bio!

Black Soundtrack

Music Composed by Chris Tilton & Michael Giacchino

320 kbps

http://tinyurl.com/qyr2ae





01. Main Theme - 2:23
02. Treneska Border Crossing - 2:14
03. Tunnel Trouble - 3:02
04. A Bridge Too Close - 1:43
05. Walking Tour of Treneska - 1:35
06. Minefield - 1:29
07. Tivliz Asylum - 2:41
08. Madhouse Mayhem - 1:42
09. Sniper Alley - 2:05
10. Drydock - 2:24
11. Black and Boom - 2:25
12. Ambush - 2:29
13. Gulag Gauntlet - 4:22
14. Bunker Buster - 2:25
15. Main Theme (reprise) - 3:59

Hi! I'm a 1st time user of FFS so please dont swear if I make something not by forum rules.

I already long time could not find BLACK OST in excellent quality (320 kbps) anywhere. Has casually got on your forum and has been pleasantly surprised, having found it here. But, unfortunately, the link is dead. Therefore, if you have a possibility anew to upload this album, I will be very grateful to you. I hope for your understanding very much. Thanks

Hi! I'm a 1st time user of FFS so please dont swear if I make something not by forum rules.


Welcome :D !

What you can do is reference the post that Arthier made by clicking the "#____" in the upper right corner of his post and pasting that Url + the album title so we can tell exactly what your referencing :)

For example:

A Rotating Machine, performed by Cao Wengong
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1249750&postcount=2202

-That's just advice for a space saver, and regulars of this thread usually never ignore posts directed at them anyways :)

Hi! I'm a 1st time user of FFS so please dont swear if I make something not by forum rules.

I already long time could not find BLACK OST in excellent quality (320 kbps) anywhere. Has casually got on your forum and has been pleasantly surprised, having found it here. But, unfortunately, the link is dead. Therefore, if you have a possibility anew to upload this album, I will be very grateful to you. I hope for your understanding very much. Thanks

If you want to know why it's been deleted and why it can't be reposted, just read a little further after that post.



As much as I enjoy the soundtrack I don't think it is accurate in their description to call it orchestral. Thanks for sharing though bio!

Just by curiosity, which score was it? (Bi0 removed his post)

If you enjoyed the recent Gundam Seed Symphony posts, then here's something which will make you quite happy: The complete OSTs of Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny! Enjoy these hours of top-notch orchestral music! :)



Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny: soundtracks collection

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

Thanks to AthrunZERO

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Gundam Seed:

Gundam Seed OST 1 - 01-30 - 85MB
Gundam Seed OST 2 P1 - 01-32 - 104MB
Gundam Seed OST 3 P1 - 01-30 - 152MB
Gundam Seed OST 4 - 01-35 - 84MB
Gundam Seed Symphony - 01-10 - 104MB


Gundam Seed Destiny:

Gundam Seed Destiny OST 1 - 01-30 - 77MB
Gundam Seed Destiny OST 2 - 01-27 - 71MB
Gundam Seed Destiny OST 3 - 01-36 - 99MB
Gundam Seed Destiny OST 4 - 01-30 - 172MB
Symphony Seed Destiny - 01-12 - 71MB

Just by curiosity, which score was it? (Bi0 removed his post)
It was the soundtrack for The Last House on the Left by John Murphy. I'm sure he just didn't get a chance to listen to it completely before posting it and the description said orchestral so he posted it here.

very nice score by baxter, postet by grepe:

Master of the World & Goliath and the Barbarians - Les Baxter (intrada 2009)

http://i42.tinypic.com/2vmhbtd.gif


Treat for Les Baxter lovers! 2-CD premiere of two Les Baxter albums presented in stereo from master elements made for seventies-era Varese Sarabande LP reissues. MASTER OF THE WORLD is Jules Verne sci-fi tale with Vincent Price, Charles Bronson. LP was authentic re-recording made under supervision of composer for Vee Jay label in 1961. GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS was exciting soundtrack album conducted by Muir Mathieson with London Sinfonia for American International label in 1959. But there's more! Thanks to MGM, after exhaustive search Intrada locates 20 minutes of never-before-released actual soundtrack cues for MASTER OF THE WORLD in superb stereo! Longer version of "The Conquerors" (originally titled "The Mountains") is a career highlight. Intrada Signature Edition 2-CD set limited to 1000 copies! SOLD OUT!

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1253037&postcount=11127

Good idea linking that bio, the other one in the same link is also really nice!
EDIT: I'm really tempted to buy that Master of the World soundtrack but sadly it is sold out. Really amazing music.

First, thanks to all of you for the last uploads.

Special thanks to arthierr for the Gundam Seed Symphony. I didn't know it, and I only can tell one thing after listen it. Incredible work. I love it. I love all themes. This is the kind of stuff I like. Thanks arthierr.

After a search I was able to get Watership Down by Mike Batt. This time the cd is to 256, a better quality that the previous one (128). This score deserves it !!!

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PODGR94N

~EPIC MUSIC COLLECTION I - AWAKENING THE CHAOS~
This is a compilation project that I'm starting.
Also check out my offical thread.

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First, thanks to all of you for the last uploads.

Special thanks to arthierr for the Gundam Seed Symphony. I didn't know it, and I only can tell one thing after listen it. Incredible work. I love it. I love all themes. This is the kind of stuff I like. Thanks arthierr.

After a search I was able to get Watership Down by Mike Batt. This time the cd is to 256, a better quality that the previous one (128). This score deserves it !!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PODGR94N
MUCH appreciated!

~EPIC MUSIC COLLECTION II - RISE OF THE HEROES~

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saw the movie "UP" today :)
It was amazing and even brought tears to my eyes. The only reason I decided to go is because I heard the music here :D

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Someone pointed out to me that I could post these.
I'm sorry for the mess :(