Beware! La-La Land Expands "The Blob" Remake Score

Beware! La-La Land Expands “The Blob” Remake Score

April 27, 2011 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

It can fill up a room in seconds, gets unexplainably bigger every day and can consume anything it touches. No, not your music collection – The Blob! The ectoplasmic entity – as remade in 1988 – is the latest expanded soundtrack to come from La-La Land Records today.

A remake of the classic 1958 sci-fi/horror flick, The Blob finds the titular monster consuming the helpless population of a California town – but rather than some space creature, this blob is a military bio-weapon gone horribly wrong. With a screenplay written by Frank Darabont and the film’s director Chuck Russell (also the director of Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors) and a cast that includes future stars Kevin Dillon of Entourage and Shawnee Smith of the Saw series, The Blob remains a cult classic today. The score, composed by Michael Hoenig (who at the time had a nice scoring gig on the television show Max Headroom and had also, briefly, been a member of Tangerine Dream), is typical, top-notch horror stuff, with plenty of atmospheric percussion and otherworldly tones. The soundtrack, resequenced and expanded by about 15 minutes from its original 1988 presentation on Filmtrax Records, is limited to 2,000 copies.

The label is also selling a new double-disc set of music from the new video game Crysis 2, featuring a score written by several composers, most notably Oscar winner Hans Zimmer of The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean and Inception fame. Order pages and track listings for each set are after the jump.

Michael Hoenig, The Blob: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Limited Edition (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1166, 2011 – original film released 1988)

Main Title
Brian Jumps Bridge
Arrival
The Axe
They’ll Fix You Up
Taylor Was a Good Kid
Sleeping Pill
Dinner Chat
Blob Grabs George
Killing the Jam
Elkins Grove
Killing Projectionist
Blob in Theatre
Standoff
Command Post
Close the Manhole
Escape to Town Hall
Snowfall

Previously released, in alternately edited presentation, as Filmtrax FUSD-103, 1988

Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Borislav Slavov and Tillman Sillescu, Crysis 2: Original Video Game Soundtrack (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1171, 2011)

Disc 1

Crysis 2 – Intro *
Insertion *
Battery Park **
New York – Aftermath **
No Escape ***
Close Encounter ***
SOS New York **
Chase **
Under Assault ***
Crynet – Shoot Him Down! **
Sneak and Shoot **
Gate Keepers **
Rampage ***
Nanosuit 2 – Crynet Systems **
Rising Spear **
Dead Man Walking ***
Contamination **
Sinister Breed ***
Dystopian Nightmares ***
Catastrophic Beauty ***
Semper Fi ***

Disc 2

Flooded Streets – Aquarium **
In Obscurum ***
Devastation ***
Shadowzone ***
Alien Suite **
Unsafe Haven ***
Terminal Escape **
Under the Clock ***
Morituri ***
Intersection ***
Times Square – Evacuation **
Burning Night **
Resolution (Reprise) **
Eye of the Storm **
New York **
Our Only Hope **
Out of the Ashes ***
Alien Logo ***
The End of the Beginnng **
Walk in the Park ***
Epilogue *
One Way In **
Nano-Catalyst *
Invaders *
Under Siege *

Composed by: * -Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe; ** – Borislav Slavov; *** – Tilman Sillescu

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.