I wrote a new suite for The Last Starfighter for the International Film Music Festival in Cordoba last month and that was really fun. It was fun to stand in front of an orchestra and actually hear it again. So I still like that music.
I am kidding - but Safan did a great job of using Sibelius as his model rather than the usual 19th/20th century suspects for Last Starfighter - that's why it has a sound all its own.
When you hear the brand new Starfighter that’s being released around October 28th** it’s going to have everything in it, every little piece of music from the original masters. And I went up and remastered it with the Intrada guys, and it was amazing how much synth you hear in it, there’s a lot, I’d forgotten how much there really was. Usually you think of the big main title where there isn’t much synth, but a lot of the dramatic music and the battle music has these huge synths pads underneath, but it was not remixed, it was all live.
