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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
La-La Land Records releases a much-anticipated expanded edition of Mark Mancina’s soundtrack from the 1996 film Twister, now including the complete score from the movie.
The soundtrack from the 2016 documentary movie Fight For Space is released, with music by Ron Jones (Star Trek: The Next Generation, DuckTales, Family Guy).
La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD box set of music from the 1970s Lynda Carter Wonder Woman TV series, featuring music by Charles Fox, Artie Kane, Robert Prince, Johnny Harris, Robert O. Ragland, Angela Morley, and Richard LaSalle.
Intrada Records releases the first volume of Alan Silvestri’s music from the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on CD (following an earlier digital release with fewer tracks). There will be three further volumes in the series.
Intrada Records releases the soundtrack compilation Stargate SG-1: Music From Selected Episodes, collecting Richard Band’s scores from the early seasons of the sci-fi series.
Intrada Records releases the second volume of Alan Silvestri’s music from the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on CD (following an earlier digital release with fewer tracks). There will be two further volumes in the series.
Composer Dominic Glynn releases, via his No Bones Records label, Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol Remixes, an EP of remixes of Glynn’s score from the 1988 Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol.