Soundtrack specialty label Intrada issues a new limited edition release of John Williams’ soundtrack from the 1986 movie SpaceCamp. Available for many years only as an incredibly expensive import from a Japanese label, this is the first official US CD pressing, and quickly sells out.
Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2009 Doctor Who specials. For the first time, a Doctor Who soundtrack from the new series spans two discs, presenting most of the music recorded for David Tennant’s final five special episodes.
Film Score Monthly releases Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project, a mammoth 14-CD box set containing nearly all of the episode scores Ron Jones scored during the first four seasons of the series. The score conspicuous by its absence is the fan favorite The Best Of Both Worlds, originally released by GNP Crescendo in 1991 and contractually locked to that label. Jones’ scores for the computer games Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy are also included, along with unused cues from TNG.
La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD set of Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the Fox action series Human Target.
Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 season of Doctor Who. This release continues the double-disc format of the 2009 specials soundtrack, and includes most of the music recorded for the entire fifth season.
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label.
Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol. This is the first time in the revived series that a single episode has gotten an individual soundtrack release; Katherine Jenkins’ song “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)” is inclucded.
Milan Records releases the soundtrack from the movie Another Earth, with music by electronica group Fall On Your Sword (co-founded by LCD Soundsystem’s Phil Mossman).
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 3-CD set featuring selections from various Star Trek: The Next Generation episode soundtracks. With the exception of two short tracks, none of the music on this set – which spans the entire seven-year run of the series – has been released before. Music by Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, John Debney, Don Davis and Fred Steiner is included.
Patrick Doyle’s soundtrack from the movie Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a second volume of Stu Phillips’ episode soundtracks from the TV Series Battlestar Galactica. The complete scores from the episodes The Lost Planet Of The Gods and The Gun On Ice Planet Zero are included.
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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases one of the most-requested “holy grails” in the history of the hobby of soundtrack collecting, an official CD release of John Barry’s soundtrack from the 1979 Disney science fiction movie The Black Hole. Presented in its entirety for the first time, the release is the product of years of work to recover and copy the original session tapes, which were originally recorded on a now-obscure digital tape format.
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Film Score Monthly releases a remastered and complete 2-CD edition of Jerry Goldsmith‘s soundtrack from the 1984 movie Gremlins, including related singles such as Peter Gabriel’s “Out Out”.
La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD set of selections from Shirley Walker’s soundtrack from the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond.
La-La Land Records releases a 2-CD set of Michael Kamen’s complete score from the 1988 action movie Die Hard. Despite a larger print run than the label’s usual limited edition soundtracks, this release sells out in 48 hours.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada Records releases a CD featuring Leonard Rosenman’s soundtrack from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The set includes the complete soundtrack (presented for the first time) as well as an alternate main title theme, never before released, that was not used in the movie itself.
Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2011 season of Doctor Who. Music from all 13 episodes of the sixth season of the revived series is included.
La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD set of Danny Elfman’s complete score from the 2001 remake of Planet Of The Apes.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada Records releases a 2-CD set featuring Cliff Eidelman’s soundtrack from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The set includes the complete soundtrack (presented for the first time) as well as the custom-scored trailer music coveted by Star Trek music fans over the years.
A complete expanded edition of Jerry and Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: First Contact is released on GNP Crescendo Records.
Producers, a group featuring former members of 10cc and Yes, releases the album Made In Basing Street, featuring the single “Freeway”.
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a long-awaited 3-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Including spin-off singles (such as Shaun Cassidy’s infamous vocal version of the Ilia theme), unused music from an early draft of the score, and extensive liner notes, half of the set’s limited print run of 10,000 copies sells out within days, forcing the label to ask customers to wait for the rest of the copies to arrive at their warehouse.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a third volume of Stu Phillips’ episode soundtracks from the TV Series Battlestar Galactica. The complete scores from the episodes The Long Patrol, The Lost Warriors, The Magnificent Warriors, The Young Lords, Murder On The Rising Star, The Hand Of God and the Galactica 1980 episode The Return Of Starbuck are included.
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Sony releases the Ben Folds Five album The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, reuniting the group after over a decade thanks to crowd-funded studio time.
The soundtrack from the late 1980s children’s science fiction series Captian Power and the Soldiers of the Future is released on CD, including a modern remake of the series’ main theme.
Frontier Records releases the Jeff Lynne solo album Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra, an album of new recordings of ELO hits, plus one new song, performed entirely by Lynne.
A complete expanded edition of Dennis McCarthy’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Generations is released on GNP Crescendo Records.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a fourth volume of Stu Phillips’ episode soundtracks from the TV Series Battlestar Galactica. The complete scores from the two-part episodes The Living Legend and War Of The Gods are included. The label also announces that this is its final classic Galactica music release.
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Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a comprehensive 15-CD box set containing every note of music ever recorded for the three original seasons of Star Trek, a music collection long thought to be an impossibility due to decades of rumors of lost and damaged tapes. Over a year of work on restoration, remixing and remastering reveals that all of the show’s music – even tapes that, by musicians’ union regulations, should have been destroyed in the 1960s – still exists and can be licensed and released.
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a 4-CD box set containing selections of soundtrack music from all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, including variations on the series’ Emmy-winning main theme and several popular fan-requested pieces of music from the show’s seven year history, including a “lost album” assembled in 2000 but never released.
