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Blade Runner - Esper 'Retirement' Edition - 25th Anniv. Culmination ¦¦¦
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¦ Discs 1-5 of the 6-Disc Set :: EAC/LOG/CUE/FLAC ¦¦¦
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¦ Type / Quantity _________ CD (Compact Disc) (* 5) ¦¦¦
¦ Date Released ___________ 2007 ¦¦¦
¦ Genre(s) ________________ Soundtrack / Ambient / Electronic ¦¦¦
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¦ *** Disc 6 is a DVD; discs 1-5 are audio CDs. ¦¦¦
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¦ BLADE RUNNER -- ESPER 'RETIREMENT' EDITION ¦¦¦
¦ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CULMINATION ¦¦¦
¦ 6-DISC BOX SET ¦¦¦
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¦ culmination ¦¦¦
¦ 1. To reach the highest point or degree; a final climactic stage. ¦¦¦
¦ 2. To come to completion; end. A concluding action. ¦¦¦
¦ 3. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory. ¦¦¦
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¦ retirement ¦¦¦
¦ 1. removal or withdrawal from service, office, or business. ¦¦¦
¦ 2. the execution of a 'replicant' in the motion picture 'Blade ¦¦¦
¦ Runner'. ¦¦¦
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¦ These two words epitomise this release; it is the fourth and final ¦¦¦
¦ chapter of the 'Esper' Blade Runner series of scores. Consisting of a ¦¦¦
¦ whopping 6 discs this is the ultimate Blade Runner score box set, all ¦¦¦
¦ details of which can be found in the extensive description below. ¦¦¦
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¦ The first 2 discs are the score, disc 3 is Los Angeles November 2019, ¦¦¦
¦ disc 4 contains a specially prepared "City Streets suite" as well as ¦¦¦
¦ unused Blade Runner music and bonus tracks, disc 5 contains a DJ mix ¦¦¦
¦ of Blade Runner remixes and music inspired by the film, and disc 6 is ¦¦¦
¦ a DVD-Rom that contains over 150 Blade Runner remixes. ¦¦¦
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¦ The first question that might enter one's head is, "Why is it the ¦¦¦
¦ final Esper Edition?" The answer is simple: there is nothing more that ¦¦¦
¦ can be done to the score to make it any better, especially now that ¦¦¦
¦ the Blade Runner Trilogy release has been made available. ¦¦¦
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¦ It is fair to say that the Blade Runner Trilogy set is far from ¦¦¦
¦ complete with a lot of eminent music missing, so this reason alone ¦¦¦
¦ prompted the need to create the Retirement Edition. ¦¦¦
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¦ The first thing you will notice about the set is that it is greyscale. ¦¦¦
¦ Like when a Blade Runner 'retires' replicants, the Retirement Edition ¦¦¦
¦ is intended to illustrate this with its dark artwork. Even the ¦¦¦
¦ undersides of the discs are black, thus mirroring Ridley Scott's ¦¦¦
¦ vision of a futuristic Los Angeles. ¦¦¦
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¦ The set comes complete with a 4 page booklet. Information about the ¦¦¦
¦ release can be found on the inside of the box. Please see the photos ¦¦¦
¦ above. ¦¦¦
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¦ DISCS 1 & 2: The Score ¦¦¦
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¦ With all the above now aside, I am sure what most people want to know ¦¦¦
¦ about is what is on these 6 discs. First of all here is information ¦¦¦
¦ about the first 2 discs. Like the previous Definitive Collectors ¦¦¦
¦ Edition (dubbed the MK3 or MR3 by some people) these 2 discs contain ¦¦¦
¦ the box sets main attraction: this is of course the score. There are ¦¦¦
¦ many improvements over all other Blade Runner releases. ¦¦¦
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¦ There has always been an argument to whether the music of Blade Runner ¦¦¦
¦ sounds better with or without sound effects. The score on the ¦¦¦
¦ Retirement Edition aims to create the most 'musically-pure' and ¦¦¦
¦ complete Blade Runner listening experience to date. (The original ¦¦¦
¦ Esper Edition has a lot of sound effects on it.) ¦¦¦
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¦ The score has been completely remixed and created from scratch so it ¦¦¦
¦ does sound very different from the previous three 'Esper' releases. ¦¦¦
¦ When the 'Blade Runner Trilogy' set was released the original 1994 ¦¦¦
¦ album was remastered and it is these remastered recordings that are ¦¦¦
¦ used on the Retirement Edition. Also many other unreleased tracks have ¦¦¦
¦ been remastered. ¦¦¦
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¦ One of the most notable additions to this release is the inclusion of ¦¦¦
¦ a very rare and previously unreleased early demo of "Tales of the ¦¦¦
¦ Future". This demo is different to the version released on the 1994 ¦¦¦
¦ Warner/2007 Blade Runner Trilogy releases and was used for the Animoid ¦¦¦
¦ Row scene in the movie. ¦¦¦
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¦ Another piece of music that is on the Retirement Edition and cannot be ¦¦¦
¦ found on any other previous Blade Runner score is a track entitled ¦¦¦
¦ "J.F. Sebastian's Apartment". ¦¦¦
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¦ All fans of the "End Titles" will be happy to see that the Retirement ¦¦¦
¦ Edition contains the best available version as far as completeness and ¦¦¦
¦ sound quality goes. ¦¦¦
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¦ Here is a list of all the other improvements: ¦¦¦
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¦ The Retirement Edition contains the best available version of the ¦¦¦
¦ "Prologue and Main Titles". Whereas earlier releases contain either ¦¦¦
¦ poor sound quality, inferior mixing or hiss in the background the ¦¦¦
¦ Retirement Edition doesn't as it uses the full original studio ¦¦¦
¦ recording, not previously available anywhere else until now. ¦¦¦
¦ Leon's Voight Kampff Test" is the original un-modified version (it ¦¦¦
¦ does not contain the 'gated' synth that was added to previous releases ¦¦¦
¦ for effect - this synth was not Vangelis and you can now hear all of ¦¦¦
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