All, I have been a fan of Vangelis’ Blade Runner (BR) soundtrack for a decade or more. Having purchased the original soundtrack and the 25th anniversary, Ive always been fascinated with the music in the bootlegs. Back in the napster days i can recall trying to download the various expanded editions and different queues from the laser disk that were out there. Many years ago I actual got my hands on one of the Gongo releases from a seller.

The problem i have with all the editions i have (Esper 2,3, Gongo, 2019, etc etc) is trying to come up with the “one” or the best sounding. For example, the “love theme” is pretty uniform across all the distributions, but the track “I am the Business” sounds different from Esper 2, to 3, and different on 2019 edition and different on “The Sound of Blade Runner”.

I was curious if anyone would like to participate in a discussion (post) to try and collate the various bootlegs and soundtracks and come up with the best sounding, most complete score.

Also if people have some knowledge about the soundtrack and the queues in the bootlegs and know why one version of a tracks sounds one way here and another way there that would be interesting to read.

At any rate if anyone’s interested please feel free to say. Ill reserve the next post to put up what I have.