Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I was just curious about the Signature Edition line, which for a brief while seemed to have stuff coming out very regularly, almost as much as the Special Collection, and now seems to have slowed to a halt. There was only one single Signature title last year, Band's Dragonworld, and I for one thought it was a pretty disappointing title for such a talented composer. This seemed to be a cool way for obscure minor scores to make it out into the world. I've absolutely loved some of the scores in the series, for example Randy Miller's Spartacus.

Also over the past year all of the titles that hadn't sold out were eliminated from the current Intrada catalog with the SOLE exception of Broughton's Glory and Honor:
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/sc.7/category.2160/.f

Are Signature Edition line titles just being folded into the Special Collection? (I always found it somewhat arbitrary what scores ended up in which line, ie. titles by Rosenthal, Broughton, Small, Jarre, heck even older stuff like Les Baxter (!) made it into the signature line whereas other scores by them apparently no more high-profile ended up in the Special Collection) Can we expect more Holdridge, Miller, Plumeri, etc. (Dov Seltzer?) in *any* line now or has Intrada risen to more high profile stuff they're busy with from the Disney, Universal, Paramount, Fox, Warner Bros, MGM vaults?

Yavar

I think (Doug or Roger, correct me if I'm wrong) that the Signature Edition was created at a time when the big studios vaults weren't so much cracked than they are today. So it was easier at that time to produce low profile scores from small or easy studios. Between the rare big releases (at that time) there were those signature editions that permitted to release unknown scores. Now that the Universal/Paramount/Disney vault are cracked, Intrada is just too busy to release the BIG graals instead of the smaller scores. I mean Back to the Future, Alien, Predator, Conan, Robocop, The Black Cauldron, Explorers... so much to do, so little time...

I was afraid that something like this would happen down the line.

Hope Intrada has some obscure releases up their sleve for later this year.

Something by Richard Halligan, Jay Chattaway, William Goldstein or Joel Goldsmith perhaps.

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Most Wanted Unreleased scores:
Howard Shore's AN INNOCENT MAN (1989) Touchstone/Buena Vista
Richard Halligan's THE OCTAGON (1980) American Cinema
Sante Maria Romitelli's GOD'S GUN (1976) MGM/Cannon
Trevor Jones' FREEJACK (1992) Morgan Creek