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Morricone's 'Spazio 1999' theme was included on a Morricone compilation CD several years ago. I don't have the CD any more but it was a fairly atonal and moody piece using a lot of drums/percussion as I recall.
It certainly didn't sound anything like the track on COSI COME SEI, which sounds like some generic disco source music to me - and surprisingly forgettable for Morricone (if indeed he wrote it).
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Yup. I was so excited when I first bought the cd. Oooh! Unreleased Space 1999 track that sounds like "adventure"?
Not at all what I was expecting 
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In Germany an excerpt from "Oxygene Pt 2" by Jean-Michel Jarre was used as the title theme during the first season.
Volker
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Aug 29, 2016 - 3:08 PM
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Josh
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Penta Music is proud to present the world premiere CD release of SPACE: 1999, featuring the original motion picture soundtrack of the Italian theatrical version composed by two-time Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone.
SPACE: 1999 premiered in Italian theatres on January 14, 1975, and was created through the process of editing together three episodes from season one of the TV series: 'Breakaway,' 'Ring Around the Moon' and 'Another Time, Another Place.'
The theatrical release of SPACE: 1999 predated the series' debut on Italian television by a year, with the first six episodes being broadcast from January 31, 1976. Six more episodes followed in July and the remaining twelve episodes in the fall of the same year.
The series' original iconic score was not used for the Italian theatrical version (the series originally premiered on British television on September 4, 1975), instead being replaced with a fascinating score by Ennio Morricone, who composed original material featuring frantic jazz themes and futuristic electronic sequences reminiscent of Barry Gray's work on UFO.
This release also includes avant-garde material by Morricone that was carefully selected as background music for various scenes in the movie, taken directly from the RCA promotional series of library vinyl LPs titled 'Dimensioni Sonore,' performed by symphonic orchestra and presented here in full stereo. Also included is the final large orchestral theme heard over the end credits, featuring vocals by Edda Dell'Orso and I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. This theme was reused for the 1979 mini-series Orient Express, again scored by Ennio Morricone.
The CD has a running time of 70:11 and comes with a full-color, 20-page booklet containing archive stills, a foreword from Fanderson chairman Nick Williams (the official Fanderson UK fan club) and plot synopses and credits for the three original episodes.
This release was officially approved by ITV Studios and will be available from September 13, 2016, the day in which the moon separated from Earth's orbit in SPACE: 1999 (also coming soon on double-LP from Death Waltz Recording Company!).
Mastering by Claudio Fuiano & Daniel Winkler – Artistic supervision by Claudio Fuiano
1. Follia nello spazio 4:23
2. Proporzionale 5:37
3. Elettronica (#1) 2:27
4. Convergenze 3:40
5. Fasi 3:45
6. Elettronica (#2) 2:43
7. Follia nello spazio (#2) 3:42
8. Conduzione 6:46
9. Elettronica (#3) 1:22
10. Parallasse 3:10
11. Suoni di una nuova civiltà 2:13
12. Costante 3:31
13. Follia nello spazio (#3) 3:26
14. Elettronica (#4) 2:13
15. Interposizione 2:42
16. Elettronica (#5) 2:21
17. Studio 12:16
18. Spazio 1999 3:12
TOTAL TIME 70:11 (STEREO)
http://www.beatrecords.it/shop.asp?lingua=e&idprodotto=PTM004&uscita=prox
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How to put this? FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!
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Ordered
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Wow.........ordered...
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Sep 20, 2016 - 6:17 AM
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vinylman
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I received the CD today. It has to be one of the most challenging Morricone albums I own. First things first, I tend to enjoy most of Morricone’s more experimental material. Though Space 1999 isn’t as good as my favourite album of his written in this style (Un Tranquillo Posto Di Campagna), I enjoyed this album as well. I haven’t heard the Dimensioni Sonori albums and I think the selections are a good addition among the original tracks. I like that the tracks at least to me seem to complement each other fairly well, e.g. the electronic tracks seem to contain similar moods that the preceding/following library track contains. Each version of “Follia Nello Spazio” seems to start a new “chapter” of similarly assembled music. The first and the last section both contain more aggressive writing whereas the middle section has slower, more expressionistic tracks.
As for the original tracks, they are totally bonkers. The three versions of “Follia Nello Spazio” don’t really have that many differences that I could pinpoint at this instant. The electronic tracks contain different kinds of bleeps and buzzes, some imitating the sounds heard in the library tracks. “Suoni Di Una Nuova Civiltà” is a piece for stabbing high strings. The last track offers a sunny ending after the darkness of the preceding 65 minutes.
So a word of warning: if you don’t like Morricone’s atonal writing, don’t get this album. Though I think I need more listens for the album to sink in, it certainly was a fascinating project for the Maestro and I’m glad I got to hear it on CD.
Mine has arrived at last, thanks for your review, not bad packaging though the booklet repeats some of the pics and info at the start and finish for some odd reason, (assemble error) still it will sit nicely alongside the Gray/Wadsworth volumes as a little curio.
Will now give it a play and hear for myself if it was worth the wait.
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