Intrada Preps Pouledoris and Exciting New Series on the Horizon

Intrada has two very interesting catalogue soundtrack titles up for order today - but it's their plans for later in the month that have film score fans dizzy with anticipation.

Today brings another set of scores from Basil Pouledoris in Cherry 2000 (1987), a sci-fi cult classic with Melanie Griffith as a sexy automaton of the future, and The House of God (1984), a barely-seen 1984 adaptation of the satirical medical novel of the same name. While Cherry 2000 will be familiar to fans of Pouledoris, having been released by Prometheus Records some years back (Intrada retains the same mastering in a slightly different running order), its return to print - and pairing with a short but intriguing score from the same composer - is most welcome.

The other release is a synthesizer-heavy score to Prison, a 1988 film (one of the first by Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger director Renny Harlin) starring Viggo Mortenson as the ghost of a wrongfully-executed inmate who returns to wreak havoc on his old town. The soundtrack album was released by Varese Sarabande at the time of release, but the masters were lost soon after; fortunately, the composers kept their original 1/2" session masters to provide a recreation of the original LP program with some unreleased material added here and there.

But what has Intrada got planned for their next batch? Read on and find out.In teasing this week's releases over the weekend, Intrada honcho Roger Fiegelson also hinted to the next batch of releases on June 28, noting that one title would be the first in a brand-new series of scores "co-branded with the studio bringing some stuff to light we frankly never thought we'd see happen." Immediately, fan speculation pinned Disney as the studio in question, to which Fiegelson replied that one of the titles released on that day (not necessarily from the new series) was licensed from Touchstone Pictures, one of Disney's live-action arms.

Then label head Douglass Fake chimed in and got fans justifiably more excited, promising "a new series of projects from a famous studio that has licensed goodies to us over the years but has always kept their "signature" stuff off the table... until now." (Disney has licensed scores to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Something Wicked This Way Comes in recent years to the label.) Fake further promised that the first entry in the series would prove that "nothing's beyond imagination" as far as titles were concerned.

The evidence would indicate Disney is Intrada's new suitor, which is beyond exciting (we've consistently advised the Mouse to be mindful of their catalogue) - but whoever it is, film score fans are due for some great things as the month ends. In the meantime, the Pouledoris set is limited to 1,500 copies while Prison stays at 1,000. Full details are below.

Basil Pouledoris, Cherry 2000 / The House of God: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtracks (Intrada Special Collection Volume 174, 2011 - original films released 1987 and 1984)

Main Title
Cherry Shorts Out
Movietone
Drive to Glory Hole
E Flips
The Barricades
Flashback #2
Photo Grab
Magneto
Pipeline
Waterslide
Jake’s Jukebox
Lights Out
Lester Heads South
Trashin Sky Ranch
Drive/Car Crash
Hooded Love
Truck Fight
Lester Follows
Drop ‘Em
Randa Mic
Jake Shot
Plane Flies Into Vegas
Cherry Awakens
Lights On
Lester’s Demise
End Title
Photo Grab (Alternate Mix)
Lights On (Alternate Mix)
Lester Heads South (Alternate Mix)
Corridors
Corridors II
Angel of Mercy
Chief Resident
Medicine/Dr. Leggio
Death of Potts
Turf of Jo
Roy & Molly

Tracks 1-30 from Cherry 2000 and released on Prometheus PCD155, 2004. All other tracks from The House of God and previously unreleased.

Richard Band and Christopher L. Stone, Prison: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Intrada Signature Edition ISE-1045, 2011 - original film released 1988)