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It will happen -- just as soon as Disney hire Mike Matessino to do the job properly, because clearly whoever handled Empire on this release didn't even listen to their work.
 
I won't be spending another cent on existing Star Wars scores until he's involved in the release, because clearly he's the only producer capable of getting these releases right!

The part in D minor has a similar opening phrase to the theme. It may or not be intentional.
 
The scene involves Palpatine talking about cheating death, so the death of Shmi was implied to be on Anakin's mind then? That's my best guess.

Wow everyone forgot about Tintin...he had his adventures too...  

John Williams not only composed the new Han theme, but wrote a whole concert arrangement of it titled "The Adventures of Han" THAT HE CONDUCTED!  It is track#1 of the OST album
 
 
He will likely conduct this in concerts, then.

Listening through Empire from start to finish for the first time, it's such a shame that most of these tracks sound fantastic!!
 
But then you get some absolutely bizarre audio issues like at 4:40 of The Heroics of Luke and Han. Like, what the hell is with that instant change in sound quality? It's like someone grabbed my speakers and dunked them underwater halfway through a note. And over the next 20 seconds the audio returns (mostly) to normal. Is this just a case of degraded elements?
 
Geez, Departure of Boba Fett sounds borderline mono for the first 40 seconds.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=22094

I think it's the opposite. Gia hit his prime with The Incredibles, Star Trek, and Ratatouille. His music has gotten less and less interesting since, maybe because he is over-worked, or maybe because he has just plateaued creatively. 

It's the Aurora Borealis.

Some of the editing and mixing sounds kinda awkward, like the opening of Confrontation with Count Dooku, but I find it adds to the charm. It sounds a bit more in line with the clunky analog edits on classic OSTs.
 
AOTC has always had good dynamic range, though. Just listen to Tusken Camp. It goes from extremely soft to extremely loud. It's amazing.
 
Anyway, it's a nice fresh remaster/mix of this unfairly maligned score that I've always enjoyed.

Maybe accents work the other way around in the Star Wars universe?

We can't have fun, you fools! Star Wars is serious business!

"Here They Come, Again"
"Important Scene"

Thanks to @Falstaft (hiatus til TROS) we now have the complete cue list:
 
End Credit
Rose's Turn
End Credit Part 3 Rev
End Credit Part 4
Opening
0m1 Tossing the Sabre
0m1 Insert Rey Looks Back
0m1 Rev Tossing the Sabre
0m2 Thought Connection
0m2A The Cave Scene
0m2A Insert Place to Place
0m3 Learning the Force
0m3 Insert Learning the Force
0m4 Rey + Luke
0m5 Fathiers
0m5 Fathiers (with fixes)
0m6 Fathiers Charge!
0m7 Crashing the Party
0m8 Saying Goodbye to Fathier
1m2 Finn Wakes Up
1m2A [No Title]
1m2A fix Son of Starry Night
1m3 Welcome Poe and Hux
1m3 Insert David and Goliath
1m4 He's Insane
1m5 Resistance Force
1m6 We Can Do This
1m6 Insert Theme In
1m7 Fighter Down
1m8 We Lose Girl Ace
1m9 Revisiting Snoke
2m10 We Need Your Help
2m12 We Need A New Base
2m13 Prep for Battle
2m14 Leia Saved!
2m14 fix Leia Saved!
2m16 Luke's Breakfast
2m17 Old Books
2m18 Admiral Holdo
2m18A Holdo's Secret Plan
2m19 Rose Catches Finn
3m20 Luke in the Falcon
3m20 Insert Watch The Language
3m20 Insert 2 [No Title]
3m21 Rose Appears
3m22 Fun with Rose and Finn
3m22 Rev [No Title]
3m24 [No Title]
3m25 Sun Shot
3m28 Rey Awakens
3m29 Lady Officer and Poe Conspire
4m30 The Connection
4m31A Worst People in the Universe
4m31B Party Music
4m31B (add) More Party Music
4m31C R.T. Shore
4m32 Rose's Fathiers
4m32 Insert Finding the Code Breaker
4m32 Insert 2 [No Title]
4m33 Rey's Training
4m33 Rey's Practise
4m33 Rev Rey's Training
4m36 Luke and Rey
4m37 Place in the World
4m37 Insert Six Hours Left
4m38 Codebreaker…Thief
5m43 Saving Leia
5m44 Encounter Before the Dream
5m45 Mirror Scene
5m46 You're Not Alone
5m46 Insert You're Not Alone
5m46 Insert 2 Touch
5m47 Young Ren Is Awakened
5m48 Yoda Appears
5m48 Insert [No Title]
6m50 Not Enough
6m51 Traitor!
6m52 Eavesdropping
6m52A Mutiny
6m55 I'll Help You
6m56 Working Switches
6m56 Insert Dread
6m57 Ladies Parting
7m60 Come Closer, Child
7m61 Poe Wakes Up
7m63 Big Fights
7m63 Big Fights
7m64 Finn, Rose and Hux
7m65 Fighting Together
7m66 Join Me
7m67 Holdo's Resolve
7m67A Important Scene
7m67A Insert [No Title]
7m68 Rose and Finn Escape
7m68 After the Big Explosion
7m68A Finn Fights Phasma
7m69 Rose and Finn Escape
7m69 Insert Chrome Dome
8m70 Hux and Ren
8m71 What 'cha Got?
8m73 Troops and Plains
8m74 Mechanical Trouble
8m75 Here They Come, Again
8m76 To The Target
8m76 To The Target (w/ Insert)
8m77 Finn's Attempted Sacrifice
8m78 The Kiss
9m80 Luke & Leia Together
9m81 Rescuing Luke
9m82 Follow Him
9m85 Finale Part I
9m85 Alt Insert [No Title]
9m85 Insert [No Title]
9m85 Insert [No Title]
9m85 Insert 2
9M85 Finale Part I
9m85A Rey Looks
9m85A Luke Looks
9m85B Between Luke and the March
9m85C Island to March
9m86 Old Friends
9m87 Finale, Pt. III
9m90 End Credit Part 2
 
Original cue list discovered online:
 

There is clearly more compression between 1993 and 2018.  I generally prefer less compression in orchestral music of this style.  Compression during the mix/mastering stage means the floor of the volume will be raised so sometimes that can introduce hiss and ambient noises that were previously unnoticed.  Generally speaking, a skilled mixer will use a multi-band compressor so it doesn't just raise all frequencies the same way because that isn't how instruments get loud.  Some frequencies you might not want to raise as much as other frequencies.  I haven't yet listened to any of these yet because Spotify compresses (now talking about the audio fidelity, not the mastering compression) the audio so I don't consider that an audiophile experience and haven't decided if I'm going to get this since I've purchased these damn soundtracks for the umpteenth time every time they come out with a new and improved version only to find out it solves some problems and introduces some new ones.  I am still on the fence about these.

So he thought a guitar solo was the best way to prove his point? Lol.

They are on the previous page, but I'll make it easier for you.
 
Now do you see how you twist things, how you try to diminish what people say?

But, you didn't make it clear, that is why I politely asked you to please make your point  again in a way that I could understand.  But I guess you don't want to.  Oh well.

Huh.  That's really interesting.  Thanks for that!
 
 
 
 
 
I am positive the people in charge of this property know fans want (and will give them money for) expanded editions of all six scores, and they also know MM would be the person to hire (Remember: Kathleen Kennedy runs Lucasfilm, and she produced all those Spielberg films MM has been expanding lately) There's really no reason to reach out to them to tell them what they already know.  I think expanded editions will come, we just have no clue how low we have to wait.... and they probably won't give us a head's up when they are in the works, we'll probably find out when they are about to be releases like we did with these remasters.

They're on Spotify!
 
 
 
 
I'm sure they'll sell well enough whether or not we buy them.
 

The spectral view of the "Asteroid Field" shows the mess they made. It looks like they applied some sort of agressive noise reduction on the right channel, but forgot to apply it on the left channel. Was it Mickey Mouse who mastered this, with the assistance of Pluto and Donald Duck?

Han's Theme? 0:16 on brass.
 
 

She was thinking of Han the whole time she was with Lando and Luke, though.

I get to hear John Powell doing Star Wars in 24 days.
Sweet merciful hades, the wait is going to slaughter me.

Doesn't mean it's not a synth mockup.
 
But this is definitely not Powell.

That's some very obvious digital music.