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9 hours ago, Tydirium said:

Forgive me if I missed this, but did we already know that Valley of the Dolls is available on streaming services/digital music stores, and in hi-res?

 

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/valley-of-the-dolls-johnny-williams/0060255746470

 

That's interesting... the last thing Mike said about VOTD (in the Disaster box podcast) was the masters were in rough shape and filled with WOW, but it might be salvageable with modern software. He did say all those older scores were transferred regardless.

 

Maybe this high-resolution transfer came from an album master in better condition than the raw scoring masters?

 

I recall one of the recent expansions had an OST remaster appear randomly on streaming services, months before any expansion was announced. Mike later mentioned that anyone paying attention would've suspected an expansion was imminent, as a result of that remastered OST... possibly Towering Inferno or Superman?

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11 hours ago, crumbs said:

I recall one of the recent expansions had an OST remaster appear randomly on streaming services, months before any expansion was announced. Mike later mentioned that anyone paying attention would've suspected an expansion was imminent, as a result of that remastered OST... possibly Towering Inferno or Superman?

 

You might be thinking of MM's ET album remaster releasing with the ET blu ray ahead of the LLL expansion?

 

I don't think any of MM's JW OST rebuilds or remasters are on streaming services

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The Cowboys has no OST.  The LP in stores in the 70s was a bootleg assembled by an unknown bootlegger, and Varese's 1994 album was a Robert Townson creation that had no involvement from Williams.  Matessino's 2018 album is the only Cowboys program Williams ever had any involvement with.

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12 hours ago, crumbs said:

I recall one of the recent expansions had an OST remaster appear randomly on streaming services, months before any expansion was announced. Mike later mentioned that anyone paying attention would've suspected an expansion was imminent, as a result of that remastered OST... possibly Towering Inferno or Superman?

 

I think you refer to Mike's statement about Earthquake. He said on the podcast (here at 1h10) that the film score recording of Earthquake, which had never been released before the LLL set, was used in the special features for the Shout Factory Blu-Ray that came out earlier in 2019. Nobody seems to have noticed it but that would have been a great clue an expanded release was coming out.

 

3 hours ago, Jay said:

I don't think any of MM's JW OST rebuilds or remasters are on streaming services

 

The Dracula OST digital release is definitely the new MM master. We also know that The Fury digital release comes from the same master pressed on the LLL release, but this one wasn't done by Mike iirc. 

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2 hours ago, Chewy said:

I think you refer to Mike's statement about Earthquake. He said on the podcast (here at 1h10) that the film score recording of Earthquake, which had never been released before the LLL set, was used in the special features for the Shout Factory Blu-Ray that came out earlier in 2019. Nobody seems to have noticed it but that would have been a great clue an expanded release was coming out.

 

Aha, good find, that must be it!
 

2 hours ago, Chewy said:

The Dracula OST digital release is definitely the new MM master. We also know that The Fury digital release comes from the same master pressed on the LLL release, but this one wasn't done by Mike iirc. 

 

Woah, I didn't know UMG had put MM's Dracula rebuild on streaming services!

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7jPrbamrjl5fjFYTAVUbED?si=E330QzhmSky3DoQjUhR1mA

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nH6aWFO1-hPZEZPvnZPraedDb5NFqSWKc

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/dracula-john-williams/hk6enf12yvp2b

https://tidal.com/browse/album/117291415

https://music.apple.com/us/album/dracula-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1479255962

https://us.7digital.com/artist/john-williams/release/dracula-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-10261645

 

Was this mentioned on JWFan at all before now?

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1 hour ago, sulix said:

Looks like "Seven Years in Tibet" has also got a mysterious new "Remastered" OST:
https://soundtracks.lnk.to/SevenYearsinTibetAY

Isn't that just the 2012 reissue they did along with Geisha?

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1 hour ago, sulix said:

Looks like "Seven Years in Tibet" has also got a mysterious new "Remastered" OST:
https://soundtracks.lnk.to/SevenYearsinTibetAY

If its remastered then it must be Matessino. Only he is allowed to revisit (JW) remasters. Thats the new law here.

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4 hours ago, Amer said:

If its remastered then it must be Matessino. Only he is allowed to revisit (JW) remasters. Thats the new law here.

 

That's not true at all. He's the only guy who can produce new expansions, but any music label can remaster their own catalog whenever they want without getting composer approval. 

 

For example in 2015, Sony Music reissued their own remaster of the Home Alone OST that was completely different than MM's OST rebuild released by LLL the same year. 

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Yes, ofcourse the labels can. What I meant is that the general understanding now is that every new John Williams expanded project will only be supervised by Matessino himself. Which is exactly whats been hapenning ever since Quartet Records did their TOM SAWYER set which was the last time some one else did the mastering/expansion etc.

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I think it just means they took the album master and changed some EQ settings around

 

I haven't listened to Sony's Geisha or Tibet remasters, but their Home Alone remaster was terrible, they boosted the audio throughout to the point of clipping, losing all dynamic range

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