Scitron Digital releases an EP of remixes of music from the video game Super Xevious by Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra).
Scitron Digital releases an EP of remixes of music from the video game Super Xevious by Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra).
EMI Records releases Neil Finn’s soundtrack from the movie Rain.
Wendy Carlos‘ much-requested soundtrack from the 1982 movie Tron is released on CD, featuring music not previously issued on the long-out-of-print LP version.
Film Score Monthly releases, for the first time, the complete Jerry Goldsmith score from the 1976 science fiction movie Logan’s Run. (Portions of the music have been available previously, but this is the first CD of the complete soundtrack.) The release marks the beginning of a close working relationship between the soundtrack specialty label and MGM.
Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts release a CD of Frank Klepacki‘s soundtrack from the Westwood computer game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
JOS Record releases a newly expanded version of John Scott’s soundtrack from the 1980 science fiction film The Final Countdown.
Peter Howell‘s soundtrack from the 1980 Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive is released in its entirety on CD, including a selection of contemporary sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The soundtracks from the 1980 Doctor Who stories Meglos and Full Circle are released on a CD, including a selection of contemporary sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
GNP Crescendo Records releases Matthew McCauley’s soundtrack from the TV series Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, featuring guitar work by Rush’s Alex Lifeson.
John Williams‘ soundtrack from the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones is released, with four different covers (CD contents do not change from cover to cover).
Dennis McCarthy‘s soundtrack from the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot movie Broken Bow is released on CD, including the theme song “Faith Of The Heart”, sung by Russell Watson.
RealWorld Records releases Peter Gabriel‘s album Long Walk Home, the soundtrack from the movie The Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Intellivision Productions (a collective of programmers and designers who created the games for the iconic ’80s video game console) releases the album Intellivision In Hi-Fi at Classic Gaming Expo 2002, containing recordings of some of the system’s signature musical moments, and new renditions of some of the games’ musical themes.
Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack album Space: 1999: Year Two, a collection of highlights from composer Derek Wadsworth’s pop-and-disco-styled reinvention of the show’s sound.
BBC Music releases a CD reissue of the 1968 album BBC Radiophonic Music, featuring original works by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, primarily consisting of themes and jingles for use on radio and television.
Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Nemesis is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
Stanley Myers’ soundtrack from the 1979 miniseries The Martian Chronicles is released on CD.
The soundtrack from The Matrix Reloaded is released, featuring songs by various artists on the first CD and Don Davis’ score on the second.
Soundtrack specialty label Film Score Monthly releases a CD with the complete scores to two 1970s science fiction cult classics, 1971’s Soylent Green (music by Fred Myrow) and 1977’s Demon Seed (music by Jerry Fielding).
The soundtrack from the direct-to-video movie The Animatrix is released, consisting primarily of songs with a few selections of Don Davis’ instrumental score.
Celebrating 40 years of Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Devils’ Planets – The Music Of Tristram Cary is released, including the complete underscores from The Daleks (1963/64), The Daleks’ Masterplan (1965/66) and The Mutants (1972); the marks the release of the earliest episodes of Doctor Who for which the complete music score still exists. The album quickly sells out and becomes a coveted collectors’ item; this is also the final Doctor Who archive music release from the BBC’s in-house label, and the last Doctor Who television soundtrack music to be released prior to the new series soundtracks.
In Japan, Koichi Sugiyama releases the album Symphonic Suite Gatchaman, though it does not accompany any new Gatchaman anime projects.
Maverick Records releases Don Davis‘ soundtrack from the movie The Matrix Revelations, featuring collaborations with Juno Reactor.
Varese Sarabande releases the first volume of Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack from the TV series Alias.
La-La Land Records releases the soundtrack CD from the two-part Sci-Fi Channel miniseries rebooting Battlestar Galactica, with music by Richard Gibbs and Bear McCreary. The music from the miniseries sets the template for the scoring of the early episodes of the weekly series, though the musical style of the show expands rapidly under the direction of McCreary (Gibbs opts not to return for the series).
Film Score Monthly releases a CD of music from the TV series Logan’s Run, with music by Laurence Rosenthal, Jeff Alexander, Jerrold Immel and Bruce Broughton.
The video game soundtrack album Katamari Fortissimo Damacy is released in Japan, featuring many of the jazz and swing inspired songs from the Playstation 2 game Katamari Damacy.
La-La Land Records releases a 50th anniversary CD of Akira Ifukube’s soundtrack from the original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla.
The soundtrack CD Space: 1999 Year One is released – five years to the day after the date the moon is blasted out of orbit, according to the series’ opening credits.
Columbia Records Japan releases Bob Sakuma’s soundtrack from the early ’70s Tatsunoko anime series Space Knight Tekkaman .