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Mar 5, 2012 - 5:00 PM
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BasilFSM
(Member)
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INTRADA
Announces:
PREDATOR
Composed and Conducted by ALAN SILVESTRI
INTRADA MAF 7118
Due to popular demand, Intrada has reissued Alan Silvestri's thrilling score to the 1987 20th-Century Fox film Predator. The first release sold out in hours, not giving everyone who wished to own a copy a fair chance to purchase. This newly repackaged edition not only features the complete score, including "The Aftermath" cue (the digital master of which had been located after the release of the previous edition), but also separates several edits due to collector demand.
Deftly blending full orchestral color with pounding synthesizer, Silvestri took on his first full-fledged horror/sci-fi genre-mash with gusto, offering music as hard and muscular as the testosterone-fueled commandos who people the film. Silvestri’s “Main Title,” heralded by a dissonant burst of brass and the eerie descending strings marks the Predator’s arrival on earth. Almost immediately, the Predator's opponents are introduced—the commando team—by one of the score’s most successful devices: a tough military march laid over a brutal six-note percussion figure that keeps circling back with relentless ferocity. From here, it's one of the most dynamic, exciting action scores written, with only brief moments of reflection or eerie suspense before returning to pulse-pounding action.
The film introduces an elite troop of muscle-bound commandos into the rain forests of Central America on a putative rescue mission, then tables are turned, making the team the prey of a heat-seeking sport hunter from another world. Starting as an action-adventure yarn with a military flavor, the film swiftly turns into Ten Little Indians in the jungle, with commandos being picked off one by one. By the climactic final sequences, mission leader Dutch
Schaeffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is the last man standing and goes one on one with the terrifying apparition of the Predator (Kevin Peter Hall).
INTRADA MAF 7118
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7476/.f
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Cool. Hopefully this will be the definitive word on Predator, turning all soundtrack label heads in the direction of the excellent Predator 2...
Thanks so much for this release!!!
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I have to agree with MikeP on this one, this score has some great muscles.
The best cover yet, too.
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Why the red border, I wonder?
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Missed the previous two releases, so I was hoping someone was gonna release it again! This is a must order for me. Loved this score since I saw the film as little boy. After the recent releases of Commando and Die Hard another classic 80's action score I can cross of my most wanted list.
Only one that's left now is an expanded release of the first Lethal Weapon
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Why the red border, I wonder?
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Missed the previous two releases, so I was hoping someone was gonna release it again! This is a must order for me. Loved this score since I saw the film as little boy. After the recent releases of Commando and Die Hard another classic 80's action score I can cross of my most wanted list.
Only one that's left now is an expanded release of the first Lethal Weapon
They should just have an "Action Classic Special Collection"...Predator, Commando, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon...
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the first? you meant the sequels.
is this new PREDATOR limited?
Nope.
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I have the first Intrada but will be happily ordering this one as well.
Glad to see this is back in print (where it should always stay) for everyone to enjoy...
Good job Team Intrada.
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Shall I....Shan't I?...Bring Myself to Buy Yet Another copy?!?!?!
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I am confused about the "completely remastered" business. It's hard to believe that less than 2 years later, after getting an upgrade from the Varese version, we suddenly get another supposedly superior disc that one ups the one before. Couldn't they have mastered it perfectly in the first place?
This is not a complaint, but I am a little puzzled. They located a digital master, okay. But where was this master before? It just seems a bit too convenient. But hey, this score deserves MAF status (which it should have been when Intrada did it first). Bring it on!
-Rick O.
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