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TRANCERS I - II - III (2CD)

TRANCERS I - II - III (2CD)
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    Richard Band
    / Mark Ryder / Phil Davies
    Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 356
    Film Date: 1984 / 1991 / 1992
    Album Date: 2016
    Time: 135:22
    Tracks: 51
    Squid lovers celebrate! Soundtrack music from first three Trancers movies are at last available on 2-CD set!

    Some Sold Out titles by composer Richard Band might be found at www.richardbandmusic.com


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    • Squid lovers celebrate! Soundtrack music from first three Trancers movies featuring Tim Thomerson as futuristic gumshoe Jack Deth are at last available on 2-CD set! Popular time travel series from Charles Band also featured Helen Hunt, Art La Fleur, Michael Stefani, Anne Seymour. Charles Band directs (I & II), C. Courtney Joyner directs (III). Flavorful synthesizer scores by Mark Ryder, Tim Davies (I & II) and Richard Band (III) add immeasurably to never-ending appeal. Musical themes are highly melodic, action ideas are rhythmically charged, atmospheric material is inventive… with everything supported by unusually tonal, attractive harmonic vernacular. Memorable! First score by Ryder & Davies establishes major themes and motifs, second score reworks many of them, third score uses them as launchpad for aggressive new material by Richard Band. Minor keys play important role throughout, underlining overall melancholy feel of both quasi-film noir plot and saddened love story at heart. Even action sequences are anchored by strong melodies above, minor-keyed harmonies below. While main theme gets center stage, especially in beautiful end title treatments, every melody has moments in the spotlight. Results are unusually strong, accessible sci-fi scoring! In third and longest score, Band gives equal time to original themes, new material. His own contributions add vivid contrast to initial moods by bringing in gritty intensity that reflects much grimmer storyline. The future isn't pretty! All three scores are presented in stereo from 1/2" three-channel masters vaulted in pristine condition. Richard Band supervises production, Daniel Schweiger writes detailed notes, Joe Sikoryak & Kay Marshall offer attractive booklet with Flipper-style cover art. Choose your favorite! Mark Ryder, Tim Davies, Richard Band compose and perform, Richard Band produces, supervises. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD set available while supplies and interest remain!
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      CD 1 TRANCERS
      01. Main Title (2:39)
      02. Diner Singe (2:06)
      03. City Of Lost Angels (1:22)
      04. Ancestry (2:07)
      05. Santa Claus Killer (2:47)
      06. Tropical Tube Tan (4:04)
      07. Ethereal Union Of Two Lost Souls (1:57)
      08. The Paper Mill (4:04)
      09. Trancer Trooper (1:30)
      10. Divide And Conquer (4:53)
      11. Deal With Whistler (3:27)
      12. The Fortune Teller (1:20)
      13. End Title (3:07)
      Total Time: 35:34

      TRANCERS II
      14. Jack Deth (3:49)
      15. A Bad Day For Shopping (2:47)
      16. Dr. Wardo (6:25)
      17. Be Careful (0:37)
      18. A Special Patient (2:56)
      19. New Clothes (0:28)
      20. Jack And Alice (1:03)
      21. Exploding Ham (1:20)
      22. Herbs Of The Future (3:53)
      23. Van Getaway (0:55)
      24. Ashby’s Rescue (2:27)
      25. Barn Showdown (9:43)
      26. Thank You, Jack And End Title (7:35)
      Total Time: 44:11

      Total CD1 Time: 79:50

      CD 2 TRANCERS III
      01. Main Title (3:32)
      02. The Chamber (1:53)
      03. Jack Is Taken (3:01)
      04. The Basement Hospital (1:21)
      05. Alarm Goes Off (0:54)
      06. The Attack (3:09)
      07. Club Fight (5:16)
      08. The Seduction (1:53)
      09. Underground Headquarters (0:54)
      10. Jack On Phone (0:45)
      11. The Newspaper (0:51)
      12. Lena & Jack Argue (1:56)
      13. Jack Leaves Lena’s Apt. (0:40)
      14. The Pre-Fight (1:23)
      15. The Fight (2:50)
      16. RJ & Jack Escape (3:24)
      17. Muthur & Jason (1:30)
      18. About To Meet The Senator (1:05)
      19. The Demo Fight (2:01)
      20. Jack & Shark To The Kill (9:00)
      21. Back To The Future (0:35)
      22. Finale & End Title (4:44)
      Total Time: 52:49

      The Extras
      23. Hot Wheels (From Trancers II) (0:32)
      24. Christmas Source No. 1 (From Trancers III) (0:43)
      25. Christmas Source No. 2 (Trancers III) (1:15)
      Total Extras Time: 2:33

      Total CD2 Time: 55:32

    • Tech Talk From The Producer…

      The musical voice for Empire Pictures' successful Trancers franchise was established by Mark Ryder and Phil Davies for the first film in 1984. Using an electronic palette of synthesized sounds, they avoided the expectant beeps and groove that Richard Band helped draw from Phil Davies and Mark Ryder. Now a little over three decades from the day when Jack Deth landed in L.A. to pursue Whistler’s murderous cult, the first three scores for this old-school future cop remain ingenious exemplars of bleeps of low-budget sci-fi filmmaking by creating numerous highly musical themes and motifs with a wide array of harmonic material to support them. Equal parts highly accessible melody and driving rhythms, it was a musical formula that worked out just right.

      So much so that the music from both composers returned in 1991 for Trancers II. Richard Band, who had supervised the music for the first film and was the leading musical wizard behind the entire Empire and Full Moon roster of films, revisited their themes and confirmed the musical vernacular that would play underneath the visuals. When the inevitable Trancers III arrived in 1992, Band reworked much of the thematic material used in the first two films to retain continuity and then supplemented everything with several new ideas, in a similar synthesizer style but thematically all his own.

      To present these three scores for the first time on this Intrada 2-CD set, we utilized the ½" four-track scoring session tapes which contained the finalized two-channel stereo mixes as well as the pilot tones for synching the cues directly to picture. The masters for the first score were encoded with professional Dolby B noise reduction, the industry standard at the time. The second and third scores were mixed utilizing the then-new Dolby SR encoding process. All of these elements were complete and preserved in pristine condition.

      It should be noted that for reel three of the second score, no new material was recorded. Instead, during postproduction, the editorial department simply tracked in portions of select cues recorded for the first score. We have not repeated these as they already appear in our presentation of that initial score.

      As per the needs of these three highly entertaining but necessarily limited-budget films, many of the cues were very short pieces that enter, play for a mere few seconds and then fade out, often having no ending bars per se. They were never designed as stand-alone listening experiences. In order to retain all of them and still present a musically satisfying experience for listeners, we have assembled many of these short pieces into lengthier tracks with thematic ideas, key centers and other musical devices all taken into account. The results are highly rewarding to enjoy.

      Finally, at the end of CD 2 are three pieces of source music. “Hot Wheels” was a brief instrumental cue recorded for use in reel five of Trancers II but subsequently dropped in favor of a song licensed separately. The two Christmas source pieces for Trancers III were arranged and recorded by Richard Band and do appear in the beginning of the film but are otherwise unrelated to the score itself.

      —Douglass Fake
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