Vangelis
Blade Runner
Label:  Bootleg 
Date:  1997
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Soundtrack; Electronic
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Main Titles Music from the Motion Picture "Blade Runner"    
      2.  
      		 Blush Response    
      3.  
      		 Wait for Me    
      4.  
      		 Rachel's Song    
      5.  
      		 Love Theme from Blade Runner    
      6.  
      		 One More Kiss, Dear    
      7.  
      		 Blade Runner Blues    
      8.  
      		 Memories of Green    
      9.  
      		 Tales of the Future    
      10.  
      		 Damask Rose    
      11.  
      		 Blade Runner (End Title)    
      12.  
      		 Tears in Rain    
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      Filed under "Blade Runner."

      For years, the soundtrack to Blade Runner held legendary status among fans of Greek synthesist Vangelis. Except for a few cuts on the Themes compilation, it had never been released on vinyl or CD, although there was an orchestral version of the score. But in 1994, 22 years after Vangelis composed the dark, edgy soundtrack to director Ridley Scott's archetypal science fiction thriller, the music of Blade Runner came out in all its cybernoir glory. Vangelis couched his electrosymphonic score in percussive rhythms and shadowed timbres. Effectively interpolating dialogue from the film, the CD moves from the threatening tension of "Blush Response" to the ethereal wordless vocal of Mary Hopkin over a water-drop synthesizer sequence on "Rachel's Song." A few tracks, notably "Love Theme" with Dick Morrisey's smarmy saxophone solo, drip with Hollywood sentimentality, but Vangelis quickly wipes that away with the hyperdrive of "Blade Runner (End Titles)." --John Diliberto