Warner Music Norway releases the album The Inevitable End by Röyksopp, featuring collaborations with Susanne Sundfør and Jamie Irrepressible. 
Warner Music Norway releases the album The Inevitable End by Röyksopp, featuring collaborations with Susanne Sundfør and Jamie Irrepressible.
Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold‘s scores from the 2013 Doctor Who specials Day Of The Doctor and Time Of The Doctor digitally and on CD.
La-La Land Record releases an expanded 2-CD edition of the soundtrack from the 1974 Planet Of The Apes TV series, featuring music by Lalo Schifrin, Richard LaSalle and Earle Hagen. This release adds an additional CD of material to the previously released music from the previous decade’s single-CD edition.
IDMusic releases Ambition by Atanas Valkov, and album that serves, in part, as the soundtrack to the short film accompanying the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
La-La Land Record releases a remastered, expanded 2-CD edition of the soundtrack from Richard Donner’s 1984 film Ladyhawke, scored by Alan Parsons Project orchestral arranger Andrew Powell, and featuring most of Powell’s Project bandmates, including production by Parsons himself. Clocking in at over two hours, this edition of the soundtrack features more of the orchestral and choral pieces from the score than the prior CD release.
Test Card Recordings release the album The Race For Space by Public Service Broadcasting, a largely instrumental collection of songs themed around the early space race.
Lakeshore Records releases the complete, remastered soundtrack from the 2015 documentary film Journey To Space by Cody Westheimer.
Intrada releases the complete, remastered soundtrack from the 1995 science fiction movie Judge Dredd by Alan Silvestri. This is the first time the entire score from the movie, as well as its Jerry Goldsmith-composed trailer, have been made available.
Silva Screen Records releases a 3-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2014 season of Doctor Who. Music from the entire eighth season, including the Christmas special The Last Christmas, is included.
Varese Sarabande releases Penka Kouvena’s soundtrack-style instrumental concept album The Woman Astronaut. A veteran orchestrator for game soundtracks to software titles that have sold a combined billion dollars, Kouvena’s semi-autobiographical concept mirrors her struggles for equality as a soundtrack composer.
Columbia Records releases the soundtrack from the 2015 science fiction movie The Martian by Harry Gregson-Williams.
Warner Music Canada releases the album Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can by Canadian astronaut and musician Chris Hadfield, including material recorded by Hadfield during his stay aboard the International Space Station.
Cinewax Records releases, both digitally and on physical media, Kurt Stenzel’s score from the documentary film Jodorowsky’s Dune. Concerning an abortive 1970s attempt to commit Frank Herbert’s seminal SF novel to film, the music is done in an analog, 1970s style.
Sony / Legacy releases an expanded 2-CD edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1980 album, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, for the 35th anniversary of the original album’s release, including work-in-progress versions of such familiar songs as “Games People Play” and “Time” and numerous other outtakes.
Columbia Records releases the album Alone In The Universe by Jeff Lynne’s ELO (effectively a Jeff Lynne solo record branded as the revived Electric Light Orchestra to much fanfare), featuring the single “When I Was A Boy”. Unusually, the often studio-bound Lynne launches a major tour to support the album.
Disney Music releases John Williams’ soundtrack from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, breaking with tradition by not making the soundtrack available until after the film’s premiere. For the first time in the history of the Star Wars film series, the soundtrack has been recorded with Los Angeles studio musicians rather than the London Symphony Orchestra (partly to accommodate composer Williams, now in his ’80s).
Via their own Room 13 label on Bandcamp, The Radiophonic Workshop – a recording and touring group made up of former members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – releases the album Burials In Several Earths, a collection of instrumentals recorded with vintage technology and techniques, both analog and digital.
Composer Leonard J. Paul releases his soundtrack from the video game music documentary Beep via Bandcamp.
The soundtrack from the first season of the Marvel/Netflix series Luke Cage is released, scored by A Tribe Called Quest members Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Also appearing on the album are Raphael Saadiq and Faith Evans.
Rob Dougan releases Misc. Sessions, recorded with a full orchestra after a crowdfunding campaign.
Capitol Records releases an expanded deluxe edition of the third Crowded House album, Woodface, originally released in 1991. Demos, outtakes, alternates, and other unreleased material from the album’s infamously long gestation are added.
Composer Howard Goodall releases digitally, via Bandcamp, four albums of music from the sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, including Goodall’s music from Red Dwarf VI (the show’s sixth season). These releases mark the only time the score from this series has been made available outside of DVD bonus features.
Composer Howard Goodall releases digitally, via Bandcamp, four albums of music from the sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, including Goodall’s music from Red Dwarf X (the show’s tenth season). These releases mark the only time the score from this series has been made available outside of DVD bonus features.
La-La Land Records releases the complete soundtrack from the Warner Bros. direct-to-video animated feature Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, composed by Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion and Kristopher Carter (Batman: The Animated Series).
Capitol Records releases a 2-disc deluxe edition of Crowded House‘s 1999 collection of B-sides and unreleased tracks, Afterglow, with the second disc doubling the amount of new material. Also included are the three new songs that were previously released on the band’s 1996 greatest hits album.
La-La Land Records releases the four-CD Star Trek: The 50th Anniversary Collection soundtrack box set primarily featuring music from the original series and The Next Generation, along with new works by Ron Jones and the premiere of a reconstructed selection of music from the 1970s Star Trek animated series.
Soundtrack specialty label Varese Sarabande releases a 2-CD set featuring Michael Giacchino’s complete score from Star Trek Beyond.
Milan Records releases the soundtrack from the 2016 science fiction miniseries Mars by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
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