Superman IV - The Quest For Peace - Paul Fishman's Rare Music

If you've ever watched Superman IV, you might recall the funky gym workout music that plays with the immortal "no pain, no gain" uttered by Christopher Reeve.  This music forms part of several music tracks composed by Paul Fishman specifically for the movie, some of which ended up completely removed when the final film was released.

None of this music was available for more than 20 odd years until Film Score Monthly released the 8 Disc complete score set for the Christopher Reeve Superman series.

There are several great tracks, about eight in total, and include some great instrumental music, including the song "Life's Too Dangerous" which was supposed to appear during a deleted scene.  The only way to get this music is to buy the complete eight disc set, but it is worth every penny, as you not only get this music, you get the complete scores and songs for all four Superman movies.


This is great rare synthesizer music which any vintage fan will enjoy.  It is too bad some of these were cut from the final film, but at least the music is finally available.

  
The Paul Fishman songs are on Disc 6 of the set.

Superfly Guy 4:11
Headphone Heaven 3:23
Revolution Now 4:26
Saxy Sadie 4:47
Krypton Nights 4:44
Life's Too Dangerous 3:14
Workout 2:27 
Lois Love 4:56

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/cdID/390/

Star Trek IV The Voyage Home Expanded Edition Release

If you love your Star Trek scores, then the expanded release of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home by Leonard Rosenman on Intrada Records is one to get to complete the collection.  Several of the other movie scores by James Horner have already been re released in expanded form, and this one is another great edition.

This was the only Trek score by Rosenman, but it suited the movie rather well, what with it taking place in 1986 in San Fransisco and was rather more comedic than other adventures before or after. It also includes the infamous song " I Hate You" by Kirk Thatcher, played on the boombox by the hilarious punk on the bus!

Overall, this is a great score, in the days of when an orchestral score was actually fit for purpose to describe the action on the big screen.

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7334/.f

Intrada Release Brad Fiedel's Fright Night Score

If you were left unfulfilled by Djawadi's Fright Night score this year, then you can at least ease your pain a little by getting the music for the superior original movie.


After almost 26 years comes the first official release of Brad Fiedel's Fright Night score.  After being bootlegged to death, its quite surprising that its taken this long, but better late than never.

Also check out a new interview with Brad Fiedel here:

http://rejectedfilmscores.125mb.com/bradfiedelinterview.html 

FRIGHT NIGHT
Music by BRAD FIEDEL
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 183

The score from Columbia Pictures' darkly humorous horror film Fright Night (1985) proved challenging to release: the master elements were initially missing. Now, 26 years after its initial release, Intrada presents Brad Fiedel's long-awaited score. After much additional searching, Sony was able to locate a single ¼” 15 ips two-track scoring session master containing approximately 16 minutes of music. Further search led to a DAT transfer of the ¼” 7 ½ ips two-track stereo safeties of the remaining cues. With these two finds, Intrada was able to proceed on a release of Brad Fiedel's score.

Fright Night tells the tale of a Charlie, a teenage boy who enlists the help of TV host Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowlel) in a real-life battle with the undead, featuring a horror homage that would become its own trendsetter -- pitting the duo against a ladykilling, Yuppie bloodsucker who just moved in next-door. Fiedel responded with a score that was both state-of-the-art and old school -- imbuing the hip villain with the stuff of supernatural legend. But while Fiedel tracked the story from a humorous beginning to an unexpectedly shocking climax, Fright Night’s experimental jolts were also firmly bound by the same melodic laws of a classic Hammer film, filled with themes and motifs that paint The Vampire as an eternal creature of seduction.The main theme introduces Jerry Dandridge with a swaying, hypnotic rhythm, enticing Charlie to peep on his neighbor, and the beautiful call girl he’s undressing. It’s a sensual build worthy of a rock god and his conquest.

Because of differences between the above-mentioned master reel and 1/4" safeties, Intrada presents all 16 minutes of the score from the high quality session master as a single track to start the CD. All of the individual tracks that make up that track also appear in the subsequent score presentation, allowing listeners to finally enjoy Brad Fidel's long overdue score.


INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 183
Retail Price: $19.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7292/.f

Zack Hemsey - A brief insight into the way he works

One of the reasons why Inception was such a big hit was partly because of the music used during one of the trailers.  Many thought the music had been created by Hans Zimmer, but in actual fact, it was done completely by one man, Zack Hemsey.  Titled "Mind Heist", its an epic track, used to great effect. Even today, people think Hans Zimmer created it, but its all done by Zack Hemsey.

His music is so good, it has even been plagiarised by Steve Jablonsky during a key scene in Transformers Dark of The Moon, something which Hemsey addressed on his blog here.


SoundWorks Collection: Composer Zack Hemsey from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.


Zack Hemsey is actually a Hip Hop MC and composer extraordinaire.  He started off composing for hip hop group called Nine Leaves where he is also an MC.  His unique blend of electronic and orchestral gave Nine Leaves a very distinct sound.

http://nineleaves.org/album/peace-in-death

 
Hemsey's first album contains Mind Heist and many other tracks which have been used in several more movie trailers.  He doesn't actually compose for film, its actually Hollywood that has actively persued his music to be used.

Young Guns II - Silvestri Classic in Expanded Format Released

If you are an Alan Silvestri fan, then you can grab his Young Guns II score in its complete format from Intrada and Screen Archives.

A classic western featuring an all star cast, the soundtrack is quite appropriately composed, with plenty of boombastic themes.  This score makes use of orchestra, guitar and rivetting percussion throughout.  This one is up there alongside his other classics. The sound quality has been remastered, and should satisfy any true Young Guns fan.


You can grab a copy from Screen Archives here:
http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/16373/YOUNG-GUNS-II/

Or from Intrada themselves:
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7272/.f

The Golden Child Limited Edition Soundtrack Score - Michael Colombier

Recently released, this is a 3 CD limited edition set of the complete and rejected scores for The Golden Child. Eddie Murphy's classic supernatural action comedy features a great synth/orchestral mix with some great themes in there.

The sound quality is superb, mastered brilliantly and crystal clear. Its a definite upgrade from the existing soundtrack releases.

You even get the entire rejected score by John Barry, which itself is quite brilliant.

http://lalalandrecords.com/GoldenChild.html

On the 3rd CD you also get the various songs that were used in the film. All in all, a complete score and soundtrack edition nicely put together. Now if they would only do the same for numerous other films out there.

Commando Score - Tropical Wild Jungle Fever Returns Again

If you were waiting for a reissue of James Horner's wild tropical beast of a score for Commando, then you just missed out. The reissue for Commando sold out in less than 24 hours, showing there still are human beings with good taste in music!

The legendary 1985 score by Horner carries on from his wild "48 Hours" score, introducing heavy percussion, tropical drums and just wild action cues which haven't been heard since. Actually, they did reappear when Horner scored Red Heat a few years later, but this score is his definitive masterpiece alongside his Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Kahn soundtrack score.

This new release is on La La Land Records who have done a public service by releasing this beast of a score once more. Now if only James Horner pulled his finger out of his backside and did another score like this, we could have some more enjoyable one liners and wild action scenes.

To top it off, they have included the long trenchcoat Power Station anthem with this score to satisfy the cravings of everyone, somewhere, somehow, indeed..

Enjoy the score and remember these great one liners.

"I eat green beret's for breakfast and right now i'm very hungry".

"You're a funny guy Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last."

"Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired."


Even Sully went "oooh la laaaaa" when Matrix dropped him like a piece of meat.

Paul Hertzog - Freeing The Waters Release

If you don't already have Paul Hertzog's Freeing The Waters CD, you can purchase it via Perseverance Records here.

http://store.fortytwotradingco.com/freeingwaters.html

Originally released in 2009, its a collection of unreleased movie score instrumentals he originally created in the late 1980's.

You can also still find his Bloodsport and Kickboxer score's on Perseverance Records too, 2 legendary scores by the great man.

Ramin Djawadi Fright Night 2011 Soundtrack

The assault on music continues with the genericness of Ramin Djawadi's Fright Night 2011 Score. There is no doubting his talent as a composer, however, this score is full of generic mediocrity and containing none of the original's charm or sexy sleazyness.  A reasonable movie is aided by a rather crappy score. What else did people expect? It all seems very boring and uninspiring.

Full of the standard brass, and generic drones and the same old tired crap that we've heard for the last 16 or so years, frankly, you would be better off listening to traffic noise.


The original featured sleazy synthesizer themes and iconic music, not just the score, but the pop and rock songs actually featured in the movie in key scenes. In this remake, you hear all sorts of ear raping sounds which make you long for a day out train spotting, its that bad.

Considering the original 1985 score has never been released in any format, how this new remake score managed to get released is astonishing.

The only decent thing about the remake is David Tennant, at least Doctor Who got his Hollywood break.

Bubba Smith - The Vintage Workout - Police Academy says farewell

He was an NFL star and then became the classic "High Tower" opposite the rest of the crazy Police Academy crew, but he was also a workout specialist too.

Check out this vintage workout by Bubba Smith, showing you how to get in real shape.

Fright Night 2011 Comic Con Panel & Interviews

It looks like Colin Farrell loves his remakes. Not only is he in Fright Night, he is also in Total Recall, and did both panels at Comic Con 2011.  The original Jerry Dandridge also has a cameo in this new remake.  Watch the interview with Chris Sarandon for more information.  No information though on what the music score sounds like though, so let's wait and see.  It does sound like that they have incorporated some homages to the original in this remake so it may turn out better than expected, but you never know, as Sidney Prescott says in Scream 4 to the villian, "You forgot the first rule of remakes: Don't fuck with the original".  Nevertheless, this movie has got the legendary David Tennant aka Doctor Who so its bound to be good whenever he is on screen.

Check out these videos.

Lost Classics - Keta Bill - Hold On (1987) - Beverly Hills Cop 2 - Hef Loves It

Another lost classic, it beggars belief how this one has never been released, given the fact it features during the infamous Playboy mansion scene in Beverly Hills Cop 2.  This is the original version of "Hold On" by Keta Bill which is a million times better than the Corey Hart version.

You can picture the funny guy in the tuxedo pulling off his hilarious dance moves with the playboy bunnies while Axel tells his pals to follow their dicks and find the bad guys.  Even the dirty old Hef makes a cameo in this classic piece of cinematic extravagance.

Both versions are featured in the movie, you can even hear Corey Hart's version very faintly during one of the scenes with the 3 main characters.

As to why this legendary classic has never been released remains a mystery.  The best song from the movie and its not even on the soundtrack.  Worse than that, none of Harold Faltermeyer's scores have been released for either the first or second movie which is unnacceptable.

Anyway, enjoy this lost classic, its not perfect quality, but Keta Bill herself gave this out a few years back, so the fact we even have this is a miracle in itself.

https://www.box.com/shared/lzih2271kt

Lost Classics: Looking For Love - Shakedown (1988) - Jonathan Elias

Isn't it stupid how great songs are never released? This is a good example of a song which features at the end of Shakedown (1988), also known as Blue Jean Cop, and a movie starring Mr Robocop himself,  Peter Weller. 

The music score was done by Jonathan Elias (Vamp, Tuff Turf), and had some great tracks on there.  The end credits song however has never been released in any format.  It was composed by Jonathan Elias himself and features some unknown singer "Nikki Ryder" on vocals, in fact most people aren't even sure if its a female or male voice on vocals! Sounds like John Waite.

Here is the track though ripped from the dvd to enjoy, a classic soundtrack song.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/3aQ2GwaH/Nikki_Ryder_-_Looking_for_Love.html

Lost Classics: Willy Finlayson - On The Air Tonight

Here is a classic song by a Scottish artist named Willy Finlayson, released in 1984.  A cover of a Pete Barden track,  it's a haunting synth ballad, and seems to have been totally forgotten by most people.  Featuring great synths and a haunting sound, this is a real gem.  It was also featured in Nightmare on Elm Street 2 way back in the 80s.

Joseph Williams - Classic Soundtrack Music

If you remember those great movies of the 80s, you will always come across a few gems that are being played in the background of key scenes.  One of my favourites is this track by Joseph Williams from the Goonies soundtrack.

A brilliant song, great synths, guitars, melody and captures the mood perfectly.

And he also had a few tracks in the classic movie "Space Camp". Brilliant music.

Vince DiCola - The Legend

The Legend, that just sums up how good this composer is, a true pioneer in synths.  From Rocky IV to Transformers and his legendary synth solos, this man is a true powerhouse of motion picture soundtracks.  As to why he was never offered more soundtrack scoring work? Probably due to ignorance and a lack of appreciation of his skills.

True fans though know how iconic his music is.  Just listen to his version of Bill Conti's Rocky Theme which he used as a demonstration for Stallone to showcase his abilities for the Rocky IV soundtrack.  This version was never released until 2010, when the entire original score was released for the first time on Intrada records.

Stallone decided not to use DiCola's version of the "Gonna Fly Now" theme in Rocky IV, instead using the Training Montage theme that DiCola came up with. I guess Stallone felt he wanted something slightly different for this movie, but it would have been great to have it somewhere in the movie!   

Apparently Stallone was so impressed, he hired him immediately, and with Jeremy Lubbock, they both created a synth/orchestral masterpiece that still holds up today.  You only have to listen to "Hearts on Fire" and the way it changes into "Up The Mountain" to hear how good he is.

You could say he mastered the art of motion picture soundtracks way before Hans Zimmer went and generically shat on everything in the 90s (Not that Hans Zimmer is bad! But much of 1990s scores and onwards have been very generic).

The last I heard on the scoring front was the one he did for a movie called "Sci Fighter", but other than that, there hasn't been much activity.

Here are some of Vince DiCola's greatest tracks.

Mummy Calls - Classic Synthpop from the 80s

One of the best and underrated albums of the 80s,  this classic self titled album by Mummy Calls, a British band featuring lead singer David Banks was released in 1987.  A collection of amazing synthpop and power rock, this is one awesome album.

I picked this up more than a decade back, a true classic of British synthpop.  I didn't realise someone had already posted their songs up on youtube, so I decided to write this post to let people know about this great band. 

I can guarantee almost everyone who reads this post will have heard there most famous song at least once in their life. Remember the movie "The Lost Boys" from 1987? Well you might recognise the distinctly British accent vocals of David Banks when the haunting song "Beauty Has Her Way" is heard in the movie.  Quite the masterpiece, this album features that legendary song along with many more classics.

Check out these lost classics.  Never released on CD as far as i'm aware which is a disgrace.

Enjoy these tracks.  Highlights are "Sexual Desire", "Kiss Me", "Deadly Night" and "In The Darkness".

Harold Faltermeyer - The Discovery - 2011 Style! - Syntesen

I came across this quite funky remake of Harold Faltermeyer's The Discovery score track.

Awesome just doesn't justify how cool this is!
I could imagine the next Beverly Hills cop sequel with this along with updated versions of the original score themes.

Romina Danielson - Passion (1988) - Definition of 80s

One of the rare cuts from the late 80s.  Great synths, and with a coked out video, this is the way to do it in style.

According to one of the people who filmed this, the story goes like this!


"I was the Director of Photography on this 80's music video mullet-headed awesomeness. The guy in the video is Jerry Buss' son-- ala the owner of the Lakers. Shooting the shower scene I kept saying she had to cover up her boobies but she kept forgetting and exposing herself. This was a godsend for me. I had just moved back to LA from NY, had no car, no home and $37 in my pocket. This job just fell in my lap and paid $3000 a day. Bam! I was back in business, just like that."

"I only met her on the set and only saw her during the 2-day shoot. I suspect she found some gold somewhere and is digging a cozy life. It was so wacky how that puny video encapsulated every aspect of the 80's-- bad hair, gaudy clothing, cheezy music, coke snorting, off-screen break dancing for some reason, tacky cars and noses stuck high in the air."

Half the extras kept retreating to a room to snort coke; chez 80's. Romina was the reason Joan Collins divorced her husband at the time, famously fainting on the witness stand during the highly publicized trial. She hated everyone on the set and loudly said so. She pointed at me and said in her thick accent, "This wonderful man is the only one I like!" Good times...


Good times indeed!

Fright Night 2011 Trailer Bites You, Is it any good?

The trailer for the new remake of Fright Night has just been released.

It stars Colin Farrell as Jerry Dandridge and Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster, with the infamous Evil Ed played by McLovin (Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse).  Judging from the trailer, it looks dark, serious and has some nice location settings in there.  There isn't much showcase of Peter Vincent who is now played by David Tennant (Dr Who), who apparently is a Criss Angel type magician rather than an old TV host.

I like that they have used the original logo and font for this remake, at least the designer had good taste to realise they couldn't improve upon perfection! You can see how it holds up well today.  It's a lot better than the generic fonts they've been using on so many remakes of classic movies.  You can see the original one from 1985 below which is virtually indentical. 

Overall, we're not going to expect any of Brad Fiedel's masterpiece synth music to show up anywhere in this! "Come To Me" was the theme of Fright Night in both the original in 1985 and sequel in 1988, so a new version would be welcome, but so far we don't know who is doing the score for this remake.

I'm sure most fans though would have enjoyed a Fright Night 3, a sequel featuring the original Charlie Brewster coming back to help a new generation of kids.  Then again, money talks in Hollywood, and remake's are on the rise.

As long as the movie is good and entertaining, and offers something new, then hopefully it should be an interesting result.

Here is the trailer for the original 1985 movie, and some of Brad Fiedel's music.

3D shows how to do a proper robot using classic Hardcastle Synths

This is a short clip of robot master 3D, quite a rare and vintage clip.  No need for fancy gimicks, just the robot!

Also check out the duo Fotostat, masters of the vintage robot dance.  They might have funky haircuts and wacky clothes, but they sure do a damn good robot movement.

Summer Job Opening Theme - 1989

An old song from a late 80s summer B movie called Summer Job which most people have never heard of, but still has some great music in it.  The soundtrack is impossible to find, but has some good AOR and summer themes in there.

Chaz Jankel - Tonight's Our Night - Forgotten Classic

Chaz Jankel or Chas Jankel depending on which record you might have put out some classic albums. This is one of this best tracks from the album "Looking At You", a forgotten classic.  I picked up this CD years back and its one of his best.

Some Soundtrack Classics - Montage favourites

Here are some classic montages, when songs on a soundtrack actually featured in the movie!

The Principal (1987) - How to deal with disobedience

If you like the good old school based ghetto movies, then make sure you watch Jim Belushi is his legendary role as "The Principal".  It features action, plenty of great one liners, and villians with greased up jheri curls to match the Soul Glow look.

You can just feel the energy when Jim Belushi literally kicks the crap out one of the pupils, and then gets on a motorbike to teach these asswipes a real lesson!

Check out some of these legendary scenes.  Even Louis Gossett Jr makes an appearance as a hard ass caretaker.  This movie also features a scene where Strafe's Set it Off is played, a great example of motion pictures and music as an artform.

Commando (1985) - The Arnie Show - The Almighty One Liners

You don't need to say anything to describe this ultimate macho masterpiece. Its the one liner king as Arnie shows today's "action" failures how to do proper action scenes.

The only modern movie which even comes close is Liam Neeson in Taken, but none of Neeson's lines can match such legendary quotes as "WRONG" and "I eat green berets for breakfast, and right now i'm very hungry", not to mention the way Arnie skilfully snaps the neck of his "Dead Tired" friend.

This movie also features the pounding action classic by James Horner where he improves his 48 Hours score by giving us more tropical and jungle flavours than ever before. Bask in the glory of the one of the greatest action scores known to mankind.

It ends with a hard hitting Power Station classic to close out this masterpiece of film making.

This is how you make a proper action movie Hollywood, now give us another one like this and stop pussying about!

Check out Commando Fans for more great entertainment. http://commandofans.com/

Trick Or Treat (1986) - Death By Headphones

This is one my favourites, a classic 1986 horror movie starring some unknowns.  Great music by the band Fastway and featuring an interesting concept.  Sammi Curr is a rock star who comes back from the dead to kill them all, using backmasking and various electricity induced shenanigans.  It features a death by headphones scene in what some would say is the original audio killer! A full year before Corey Haim immortilised the "Death by Stereo" line in The Lost Boys.

It also features Ozzy Osbourne and that old KISS tosser Gene Simmons.  Its Sammi Curr who is the real star of the show.  With campy spandex and big hair, he still manages to kill off many ass holes before being finished off.  Overall, a decent movie thats is apparently getting a remake sometime in the next few years.  The soundtrack is brilliant, Fastway give it some real hard rock old school style.  Only Sammi Curr can make a death by guitar look cool! There should be a whole movie where people get killed off with an electrifying guitar. 

Catch Me If You Can (1989) - Tangerine Dream

Catch Me If You Can is a forgotten 1989 movie starring Matt Latanzi which you've probably never heard of.  This movie is not even available on DVD! The notable feature of this movie is the soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.  Featuring a DX7 heavy soundtrack, this soundtrack finds TD on auto pilot as the deliver their trademark synth sounds.

Overall, good movie, great cars, big hair, hammy acting and all the usual shit with these classics!

Clarence Boddicker - Bitches Leave

If there is one movie with classic one liners that you will never forget, Robocop is right up there.  Clarence Boddicker, possibly the nastiest, funniest and downright disgusting villian in the history of film delivers the goods in Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic.  The inevitable remake is apparently going to include some "serious" drama, so I guess the one liners ain't gonna come back! Bastards!

 

Bitches Leave!

Oh, and if anyone else is in the UK, you can apparently find Clarence in a pub in Gloucester.  What a legend.

Tango and Cash 2 - Time For Some Wild Action Synths!

Here is the classic opening to the 1989 masterpiece starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell.  Two legends team up in a wild action movie with some vintage one liners and some cracking synths for the soundtrack.

Harold Faltermeyer provided the TR808 drums and the state of the art Synclavier produced score.  Sonically, its a full tour de force of vintage synthesizers conveying the action comedy on screen.  You can literally rewatch this movie again and again and you can never got bored!  It also features Mr Maniac Cop himself, Robert Z'Dar, the guy with the biggest chin on this planet!

Now that Stallone has brought back Rocky, Rambo, its time for more Tango & Cash. Rumours have been circulating of his attempt to bring back Ray Tango once more.  I say why not? Most buddy cop movies made today are complete and utter rubbish give or take a few.  Give us some proper buddy cop action movie's again please, not the rubbish we have had to watch for the past ten years!  And while they are it, put in some synthesizers again, we need some groove back in these sorry excuses for "action" movies!

If you like vintage synth soundtracks, then you get a copy of the Tango and Cash soundtrack from LaLaLand Records.

http://www.lalalandrecords.com/

Robbie Robb - In Time (A Most Triumphant Song)

Don't you just hate it when you hear a song, but the version you want is never released?
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1988) featured a song titled "In Time" by Robbie Robb during the most triumphant Future Council scene.

The song is a masterpiece featuring the most excellent guitar work of Stevie Salas.  Billy The Kid and "So Crates" as Bill called him watch in amazement as this most epic song is played!

The one on the officially released soundtrack album though omits the opening guitar riff and much of Salas's overdubs.  Apparently, even Stevie Salas doesn't have a copy of this epic song! Most Heinous!

Luckilly, a guy named Marcus Wright has done his own rendition of the extra guitar overdubs and has helped to recreate this amazing movie version! Enjoy!  You can download this version at Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Online Adventure.

http://www.billandted.org/musiceaintime.htm

Since then, Robbie Robb is now known as Robbi Robb, but as to why he omitted the "e" from his name is a mystery!

Jan Hammer's Unreleased Miami Vice Soundtrack Score Tracks

Apart from the 2 CD Ultimate Collection and several releases in the 80s, there is still a vast amount of Jan Hammer' Miami Vice music which still remains unreleased to this day. Some of it probably will never because of Universal's reluctance to allow its release.  Much the same with how Tim Truman has been prevented from having his 1989 Season 5 score music released, Jan Hammer's best work remains hidden in the vaults.

Luckilly though, several fan made cover versions have replicated these tracks almost 100% accuratel using the same equipment Jan used such as the infamous Rockman Distortion unit and MXR Flanger. You can find these amazing cover versions done by Rick Leon and Dadrian Wilson.

Recently, I also came across a youtube channel from Crockett1984 which has featured many of the great unreleased instrumentals from the TV Series.

You can find the channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Crockett1984

Here is a selection of some of the rare unreleased score tracks extracted from the DVD's.  Browse around Crockett's youtube channel to hear plenty more of Jan Hammer's unreleased Miami Vice score instrumentals.

Harold Faltermeyer - Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack Score (1984)

A classic score for a classic movie. Harold Faltermeyer created an iconic score for this 1984 action comedy starring Eddie Murphy. The funky electro synth instrumentals were featured throughout this movie and inspired countless other imitators throughout the 80s.

The highlights of this unreleased score (as of 2011) are "The Discovery", and the amazing end shootout score, which goes from serious to funky to comedy and back again, all in the space of 10 action packed minutes. Its mind boggling how this score has never been released. Even Serge is probably unimpressed with that!

A youtube user named "msupplies1" has however managed to extract large chunks of the scores for both Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop 2 which is quite amazing and will tide you over until the actual scores are released.  

A true synth master, Faltermeyer made a return in 2010 with "Cop Out", but it remains to be seen whether it is permanent. Let's hope so, because these days, many soundtrack scores are complete and utter rubbish and more synths are required!