La-La Land Records releases an expended 3-CD edition of Danny Elfman‘s score from the 2001 Tim Burton reboot of Planet Of The Apes. 
La-La Land Records releases an expended 3-CD edition of Danny Elfman‘s score from the 2001 Tim Burton reboot of Planet Of The Apes.
Fueled By Ramen releases the second album by fun., Some Nights.
Japanese composer Isao Tomita‘s sountrack from the movie Welcome Home, Hayabusa is released.
Intrada Records releases an expanded limited edition of Cliff Eidelman’s soundtrack from the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, including previously unreleased material and the original single-disc soundtrack album in remastered form.
A complete expanded edition of Jerry and Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: First Contact is released on GNP Crescendo Records.
BSX Records re-releases Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the 1990 movie Moon 44 (Silva Screen previously issued the soundtrack in 1990).
La-La Land Records releases David Newman’s complete score from the 1999 movie Galaxy Quest, a soundtrack long requested by fans more than a decade after a previous pressing (of questionable legal status) had gone out of print. This is a limited edition and it too is considered out of print once this pressing sells out.
British supergroup Producers (whose full-time members have all racked up music production credits with their own acts and other artists) release their debut album, Made In Basing Street.
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.
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.
La-La Land Records releases Andrew Belling’s soundtrack from the animated 1977 feature film Wizards as a limited edition CD.
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.
Silva Screen Records releases a CD of music from the 1960s Doctor Who story The Krotons, composed and performed by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. A rare example of a pre-80s soundtrack scored entirely by the Workshop, The Krotons’ release catches fans off-guard as part of the label’s series of classic soundtrack releases celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who.
BSX Records releases a CD, Star Trek: Music From The Video Games, containing newly-arranged and performed music from many Star Trek video games and computer games from the 1990s onward.
Indie Japan Records releases the first volume of soundtrack music from the anime series Gatchaman CROWDS, with music by Taku Iwasaki (Soul Edge).
GNP Crescendo records releases an expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Insurrection, remastering and expanding the original 1998 album with additional material, including music not used in the film.
Intrada releases a 3-CD set of original episode scores from the first season of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, featuring music by series theme composer Stu Phillips, among others. This marks the first release for any soundtrack material from the show beyond the series pilot (already re-released by Intrada).
Silva Screen Records releases a 4-CD box set compiling selections from Doctor Who soundtracks across the series’ 50-year history. This set is effectively a sampler of the label’s much larger limited edition 11-CD set.
Basta Records releases Raymond Scott Rewired, an album of remixes and mash-ups of the music of bandleader and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott (1908-1994), ffeaturing remixes by the Bran Flakes, Evolution Control Committee, and Go Home Productions.
Intrada re-releases the complete Laurence Rosenthal score from the 1979 movie Meteor (previously given a very limited CD release in 2008 by La-La Land Records).
Silva Screen Records releases a CD of music from the 2013 made-for-TV movie An Adventure In Space And Time, composed by Edmund Butt (Life On Mars, Origin, Intergalactic).
Sony Legacy Records releases, as part of a career-spanning box set of the Alan Parsons Project discography, the previously-unreleased, all-instrumental 1979 album of demos titled The Sicilian Defence, named after a chess strategem. The album was originally submitted to Arista Records in the late ’70s in attempt to fulfill a contractual clause that would allow the band to seek another label. (The album will later be released on its own after the box set goes out of print.)
Sleigh Bells Records releases Yasunori Mitsuda’s (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears) soundtrack from an NHK-TV special about the then-approaching Comet ISON (prior to the comet’s breakup as it passed near the sun).
Intrada releases a 4-CD set of original episode scores from the second season of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, featuring music by Bruce Broughton, John Cacavas, Herbert Don Woods, and series theme composer Stu Phillips, among others. This marks the first release for any soundtrack material from the show’s second season.