ChainsawAsh said:
If you have the ability to release the complete soundtrack, why not do it yourself instead of bitching about someone else taking too long? Especially when you claim to have better source material ...
Dear ChainsawAsh,
first I must say that I was very surprised that my first post on this topic was deleted. And I must state it here clearly again: I'm not bitching about Focuspullers project for taking too long - I was simply wondering about the fact that somebody announces a project two years ago which seemed to be disappeared somewhere in the belt of Orion..., that's all. About your question for better source material: I have no idea what sources Focuspuller uses, so I'm not in the position of claiming to have better ones. I simply told that I worked for Warner Bros.Germany when the Blade Runner DVD Box Set was prepared, so I was able to get a private copy of the music track which was used for the final mix - and that's not the tape Focuspuller wanted to use, simply most tracks were cut, delayed etc. The pure music (without sound effects which were created in part by Vangelis himself) which ended up in the film is about 65 minutes - and that's all...everything you hear on the bootlegs etc. are, in most parts, longer versions (On The Trail Of Nexus 6, Memories Of Green etc.), so the work of Focuspuller is still very interesting. And: I loose my job on Warner cause I made private copies of some film soundtracks for myself, so you must understand that I'm not really willing to share it somewhere in the net where it can be part of a legal action (and it seems that to Focuspuller exactly this happened last September, as he wrote).
I was wondering about another thing: that criticism seems not to be allowed here. I found it very interesting what Yotsuya posted here, cause it sums up a little bit what Focuspuller works on: to use every possible source to get the best sounding and longest version of what Vangelis has composed for Blade Runner. But it is, simply, just another bootleg - only the best sounding and longest, and Focuspuller stated a few times before that he uses bootleg sources as well as others. I can't see why this shows disrespect to his work ? You can't only call it otherwise until it's released on a regular record label - so I don't see why Yotsuya said something wrong...
And the reason why I don't think that his project will be finished: it simply takes too long, that was all...and that is simply my personal opinion. After re-reading all posts on this topic (and I wished others would do so !) it's simply a work in progress which has come to a standstill a few months ago. After announcing it two years ago, Focuspuller still asked weeks and months later for music, logos, pictures...a year ago he released a tracklist for the first three discs which seemed nearly completed (see page 1), and again - nothing happened...on Oct.2008 he wrote: "I am trying to get this project completed between the next two months...", on May 6th 2009 and in Sept.2009 he announced a kind of "workprint" or pre-release which never happened...and I read all this posts with a kind of amusement. It would be wonderful if Focuspuller's work sees the light of the day in the future, and I would be one of the first ones to congratulate him for this amount of work...but his reactions on some posts here (for the ones of Yotsuya, f.e.) is a little bit strange and hard to understand for me cause they are a little bit rude and harsh, a little bit like "huh, somebody catched me...", so I lost my believe in a release...
My best wishes for Focuspuller for his work, and I hope he can bring it to an end before November 2012...
