Marcus Stöhr

X-Men '97 x Episode 1 & 2
 
This was fantastic!!! Animation improved and they take full advantage of that, fantastic action scenes, a great story with a strong emotional hook and a true shocker in the 2nd episode. This feels like the animated series from the '90s but it expands on it in a lot of incredible ways.
 
The score by The Newton Brothers is also fantastic. The main themes as present as always in a few fantastic new arrangements. The rest of the score is still very synth based, with added orchestra in some action moments and emotional scenes. I already can't wait to hear it on album!

This is the correct, healthy attitude to have.
 
Yavar

I would rank JW's SW scores at "I love this" and JP's HTTYD scores at "I love this too!"

Just listened to the album. I have to be careful for my co-workers don't notice my tears. This score is wonderful! Loved it in 2019 and loved it again now. 
 
The OST did contain pretty much all the important stuff, but it's nice to have the complete score. 
 
It's so cool that after working on his concert and with John Williams on Solo, Powell's score for this movie is more... classical and less "Hollywood-like". I hope he never loses this on his future scores!

I'll write this feature request down. But there need to be some more brainstorming rounds before this can move forward. And thinking about it, such a feature would be more suited for the wiki (pinging @enderdrag64) with crosslinking.
 
In other news I just released a very small improvement: hovering of the Hi-Res badge now shows the resolution. The information was already there and is now exposed. Might be useful for some.

I'll write this feature request down. But there need to be some more brainstorming rounds before this can move forward. And thinking about it, such a feature would be more suited for the wiki (pinging @enderdrag64) with crosslinking.
 
In other news I just released a very small improvement: hovering of the Hi-Res badge now shows the resolution. The information was already there and is now exposed. Might be useful for some.

I'll write this feature request down. But there need to be some more brainstorming rounds before this can move forward. And thinking about it, such a feature would be more suited for the wiki (pinging @enderdrag64) with crosslinking.
 
In other news I just released a very small improvement: hovering of the Hi-Res badge now shows the resolution. The information was already there and is now exposed. Might be useful for some.

Here's some more pics!
 
 

According to https://5catstudios.com/listen the digital album is scheduled for April, 26th.

I don't know if it is any indication that there is an expanded version is coming but the ISRC codes for this album have a gap at the end - about 7 cues. USNLR2400092 until USNLR2400098 are not on the album. "Lisan al Gaib" is USNLR2400099. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't know if it is any indication that there is an expanded version is coming but the ISRC codes for this album have a gap at the end - about 7 cues. USNLR2400092 until USNLR2400098 are not on the album. "Lisan al Gaib" is USNLR2400099. 🤷🏻‍♂️

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY it is - will be released also digitally tomorrow:
 
39 Tracks / ~82 minutes
 
https://www.fmdb.net/releases/36cad9b8-ffb2-4571-9a8b-d7e305e97953
 
Took only a couple of months but the digital comes friday courtesy of Back Lot Music in 24 Bit / 96kHz: https://www.fmdb.net/releases/01218f1b-2b50-46a1-b89c-58da29bebb10

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY it is - will be released also digitally tomorrow:
 
39 Tracks / ~82 minutes
 
https://www.fmdb.net/releases/36cad9b8-ffb2-4571-9a8b-d7e305e97953
 
Took only a couple of months but the digital comes friday courtesy of Back Lot Music in 24 Bit / 96kHz: https://www.fmdb.net/releases/01218f1b-2b50-46a1-b89c-58da29bebb10

I don't know if it is any indication that there is an expanded version is coming but the ISRC codes for this album have a gap at the end - about 7 cues. USNLR2400092 until USNLR2400098 are not on the album. "Lisan al Gaib" is USNLR2400099. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't know if it is any indication that there is an expanded version is coming but the ISRC codes for this album have a gap at the end - about 7 cues. USNLR2400092 until USNLR2400098 are not on the album. "Lisan al Gaib" is USNLR2400099. 🤷🏻‍♂️

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY it is - will be released also digitally tomorrow:
 
39 Tracks / ~82 minutes
 
https://www.fmdb.net/releases/36cad9b8-ffb2-4571-9a8b-d7e305e97953
 
Took only a couple of months but the digital comes friday courtesy of Back Lot Music in 24 Bit / 96kHz: https://www.fmdb.net/releases/01218f1b-2b50-46a1-b89c-58da29bebb10

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY it is - will be released also digitally tomorrow:
 
39 Tracks / ~82 minutes
 
https://www.fmdb.net/releases/36cad9b8-ffb2-4571-9a8b-d7e305e97953
 
Took only a couple of months but the digital comes friday courtesy of Back Lot Music in 24 Bit / 96kHz: https://www.fmdb.net/releases/01218f1b-2b50-46a1-b89c-58da29bebb10

Certainly, more detailed information on how the alternates and film versions fit in the film would be valuable. I think like Thor said, this sounds like a long-term thing but if it got to the point where a major, complex score had an entry that broke an album down to help readers identify a piece they heard in the film, that would be extremely helpful.

The various sortings will be rolled out to artists, productions and search results.
 
 
This is already on my list. Something like Discogs is doing grouped by year. I'm also open for suggestions to make it really useful.
 
 
To which movie/television series/videogame does a release belong to?
Who worked on a release?
To which movie/television series/videogame does a track belong?
Is a track a variant, e.g. Alternate?
 
Yes, that is the vision. And with all visions it is not certain this vision will realize in its full form.

Other takeaways-- Hook expanded edition is selling like hotcakes and may be 80% (or more) sold out already... and MM hasn't begun working on Star Wars expansions yet. (Or maybe he has and he's really good at hiding that fact. But the way he spoke about SW as a project he'd like to work on doesn't sound prepared. I think he really hasn't been given the green light yet for that one.)

Just announced on Christopher Young's Facebook page...
 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nosferatu-music/christopher-youngs-nosferatu-a-symphony-of-horror-cd?ref=discovery
 
Cool, even if it's a bit of a shame it can't be financed any other way, but hopefully it'll raise enough money to see a release!

After a very long time I am very proud to introduce the fully redesigned FMDB - you can find it under https://www.fmdb.net
 
The vision of this non-profit project is to provide a comprehensive and detailed database of soundtrack releases and recordings. Each release contains at least one production (e.g. a film) with its own credits. This makes it possible to accurately list the various credits. General credits for the entire release are listed separately. Individual tracks are assigned to productions, so you can see which film, TV series or video game they come from. Want to see which episode the tracks from the many STAR TREK releases are from? No problem at all.
 
But all this only works with people who are as obsessed with detail as I am. And I'm looking for you. To make sure the quality is right, there should be a group of people who take care of it, like curators in a library.
 
The next feature will be the ability to create your own user account. You will then be able to report errors in records.
 
I'm happy to receive any kind of feedback to help make FMDB a viable tool for the soundtrack community.

Yeah, you are right - it ressembles a ribbon. I'm open to make it more remarkable when I get the chance to do so. Let's see what the future holds.

The logo is intended to be remarkable. I think it takes a while to get used to it.
 
 
I had this system in place a couple of years ago. It works for western languages but gets difficult when you have titles in japanese, chinese, russian and so on. The search should be the tool to find what you are looking for but I already know that there is a lot of room for improvement. This will take some time but I had to start somewhere.
 
Sure. This main differences are that each release has its own page. This makes it easy to point to a specific release instead of having a page with all possible versions of a release.
The linked productions are another aspect. This provides a further dimension of linked information. In addition, as many credits as possible are listed on a single release page.
 
 
Exactly this. Sometimes this information is already provided by the labels (e.g. for many of the La-La Land Records releases) or it is done by people like @JNHFan2000 in various threads like
This is an ongoing effort and I hope that some people - maybe from here - will be interested in helping FMDB growing further.

If I can finally look up some massive TV score with 72 tracks and actually tell what episodes the tracks come from? You will have done a real service to humanity.