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The Patriot (Intrada) 3CD Set


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For this presentation, Sony Pictures transferred the Genex digital back-up 8-channel multiple optical disk (MOD) cartridges, which preserved Shawn Murphy’s SDDS mixes. Performance edits were recreated, and the two-channel stereo mix-down process precisely followed what was done for the original soundtrack album. Careful attention was paid to the shortcomings that Murphy had originally noted in 2000,specifically to how SDDS’s two additional front channels could compromise audio clarity and breadth of the stereo mix. The entire presentation was monitored in this regard so that the end result would preserve all of the subtlety and dynamic power of the original recording.

 

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Just spotted on the bottom of the back cover image it shows 2024 and not 2025, wonder if this was originally planned for last year and if so how long was it delayed?

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This part is quite interesting:

 

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Williams wrote his score for The Patriot over the course of about two months, a length of time he described as “fairly generous.” He then recorded the score over eight sessions between May 6 and May 20, 2000.

 

For some reason I thought the recording happened earlier in the year than it actually did. The movie was released on June 30, 2000 and Williams usually records his stuff, like, 4 or 5 months before the release.

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2 hours ago, Chris ChrusherComix said:

...Buried in an on/off Lake Effect affect snowstorm instead :eh:! :D My youngest however keeps blasting 'Wicked' and screaming 'Defying Gravity'...

 

Buried in a snowstorm is a sign that Mother Nature wants you to stay behind that computer and wait for ordering to go live, such is the force of the music of JW.

 

As for your youngest looping "Defying Gravity"... you have my sympathy. It could be worse: at least it's not Baby Shark.

 

PS: Lake Effect affect. I like what you did there. 

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1 hour ago, BrotherSound said:

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8-channel 

multiple optical disk (MOD) cartridges


As I just posted over at FSM, I believe this should read “magneto optical disk”, not “multiple”. I used them heavily back in the mid/late 90s for law enforcement-proprietary audio recording devices.

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46 minutes ago, Trope said:

I've always maintained that 1999-2005 is my favourite John Williams period, and the only two scores I haven't listened to from that era are this and Angela's Ashes. I'm keen to remedy this.

Mine as well! Though I extend the first year to be 1997 so it can include The Lost World and Amistad.

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Meaning they actually made something worse when trying to do more with it.

 

Then again, an Instagram filter would've probably achieved what they wanted without issue.

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aaaaaah 3 disc price

 

So let's see. In a recent Presto sale I bought modern recordings of Shostakovich's 15 symphonies (plus some other pieces included). Not all of the 6 releases were on sale, not all of the ones on sale were discounted very significantly. That was around 60€ for 15 hours of music.

Now I'll buy Patriot and Dark Crystal for 130€ for... 4 hours of actual music. Fuck me.

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2 hours ago, Holko said:

aaaaaah 3 disc price

 

So let's see. In a recent Presto sale I bought modern recordings of Shostakovich's 15 symphonies (plus some other pieces included). That was around 60€ for 15 hours of music.

Now I'll buy Patriot and Dark Crystal for 130€ for... 4 hours of actual music. Fuck me.

 

I guess with Shostakovich it's a case of:

1. dead composer whose music has probably (?) come into the public domain, so no royalties,

 

2. the record company wants to clear their back catalogue inventory,

 

3. less items to license, or less parties who need to be paid a licence e.g. maybe the Patriot could only be released if "our Mel" was on the cover artwork and he was paid,

 

4. paying an art designer to make the cover / booklet, as opposed to using old covers for the Shostakovich CDs,

 

5. the Shosta CDs probably didn't need to be remastered, or other sonic work done.

 

... among other things.

 

But yes, I feel your angst and dismay.

 

As for the last two words in your post: well, only if you ask nicely. 😋

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Ordered at MBR. Got a message that the set is 'on backorder'. Does this mean the batch they had was already sold out when I ordered or does it mean they're treating any orders as pre-orders at this moment? 

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13 minutes ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

This CD set ended up costing me $119.

 

True, or a joke?

 

That's my entire food budget for a month.

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10 minutes ago, That_Bloke said:

 

2. the record company wants to clear their back catalogue inventory,

Oh yeah they were digital downloads, that helped.

3 minutes ago, Sandor said:

does it mean they're treating any order as pre-orders at this moment

Yes, and they'll continue to do so until they actually have stock on site in France in 2 weeks+. No worries.

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13 minutes ago, Thor said:

 

True, or a joke?

 

That's my entire food budget for a month.

 

My PayPal won't let me take screenshots, but yep, $119.52.

 

In US dollars, that's $39.99 for the item, plus $31.00 for shipping.

 

$119.52 AUD = $70.99 USD

 

1 AUD = 0.594 USD

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2 hours ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

In US dollars, that's $39.99 for the item, plus $31.00 for shipping.

 

That's about £25 to ship three CDs. These shipping costs are out of control for non-US buyers.

 

In this case I'm pretty happy with my selections from the OST, and I've never seen the film. The samples I've played have been pleasant but nothing overwhelmingly distinctive, really. Unfortunately I thought The North Star was a statement of a different theme, and I don't generally have any conscious unreleased highlights. Probably a pass for the time being.

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I ordered it along with the John Barry Polydor set and used my $26 loyalty points in the whole order. That Polydor set is expensive. so I'm glad I got it at  nearly half the price. Shipping is another $31. Coming down to $105 in total.

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4 hours ago, Holko said:

aaaaaah 3 disc price

 

So let's see. In a recent Presto sale I bought modern recordings of Shostakovich's 15 symphonies (plus some other pieces included). Not all of the 6 releases were on sale, not all of the ones on sale were discounted very significantly. That was around 60€ for 15 hours of music.

Now I'll buy Patriot and Dark Crystal for 130€ for... 4 hours of actual music. Fuck me.

Which is why I'm passing. These prices are getting ridiculous.

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Haha perfect timing with the parallel discussion of LA unions overpricing themselves and losing work instead of lowering the price but possibly getting more work

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6 hours ago, crumbs said:
7 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Mine as well! Though I extend the first year to be 1997 so it can include The Lost World and Amistad.

 

Don't forget Seven Years in Tibet!

 

Don't forget Rosewood.

 

4 hours ago, Holko said:

So let's see. In a recent Presto sale I bought modern recordings of Shostakovich's 15 symphonies (plus some other pieces included). Not all of the 6 releases were on sale, not all of the ones on sale were discounted very significantly. That was around 60€ for 15 hours of music.

 

That's a lot. 15+ years back, I paid not much more than €20 for the Barshai Shostakovich box set. On CDs.

 

1 hour ago, That_Bloke said:

1. dead composer whose music has probably (?) come into the public domain, so no royalties,

 

He died in 1975, so his works shouldn't be public domain yet.

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Total Extras and Source Music Time: 44:11

 

Can't believe I still see timings like this and can't help thinking 'ah, it'll fit nicely on one side of a C90 cassette'. Must be 20 years since I actually did that.

 

Mark

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2 hours ago, Holko said:

Oh yeah they were digital downloads, that helped.

 I didn't know they were downloads. Because you were comparing the Shosta to the Patriot I thought both of them were the same medium.

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Couldn't justify the import costs from Intrada directly, so I've gone for Music Box. £45.79 inc delivery (according to the current exchange rate, anyway!)

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2 hours ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

 

My PayPal won't let me take screenshots, but yep, $119.52.

 

In US dollars, that's $39.99 for the item, plus $31.00 for shipping.

 

$119.52 AUD = $70.99 USD

 

1 AUD = 0.594 USD

 From which site are you ordering? I've found that when it comes to shipping that SAE is the cheapest to get it to Australia 

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It helps if you have a bank account that refunds international transaction fees too @That_Bloke. From memory I've ordered with my ING account in the past because their exchange rate isn't a ripoff (like Paypal) and they refund the international transaction fee.

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1 hour ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

He died in 1975, so his works shouldn't be public domain yet.

  

Thank you for that data. So, another 20 years to go for those of us whose countries are tied to the "70 year" rule.

 

Nevertheless, I've found in dealing with rights holders that royalty rates decrease the longer the composer has been dead. So I'm making an educated guess that royalties on Shosta's music will be cheaper than a living composer such as Williams. 

17 minutes ago, crumbs said:

My collecting has effectively been cut down to JW expansions only. The whole score expansion hobby is just prohibitively expensive for me now, especially with the horrendous exchange rate (AUD>USD).

 

We are aligned. 

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3 hours ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

 

My PayPal won't let me take screenshots, but yep, $119.52.

 

In US dollars, that's $39.99 for the item, plus $31.00 for shipping.

 

$119.52 AUD = $70.99 USD

 

1 AUD = 0.594 USD

 

It's not a huge difference, but Screen Archives Entertainment charges 'only' US$19 for shipping to Australia (and I paid US$34 for 3 releases combined), and I definitely value having a fee-free card for international purchases (AUD/USD rate was 0.617 this morning). Those things combined would bring it down to US$58.95 = AU$95.47. Still a lot, but the US dollar is just very strong right now.

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7 hours ago, Holko said:

130€

That’s 54.000 HUF with a 1€ = 416 HUF rate. Incredible amount for two CD sets.

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