Hot dang! Awesome release and even great Drew Struzan cover art, as well. Thanks, Intrada!
~ OZ
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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
INTRADA Presents: BORDERLINE Music Composed and Conducted by GIL MELLE INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 194 Composer Gil Mellé wrote highly experimental music for his film projects, melding orchestral writing with jazz, blending electronics with percussion, and utilizing both pleasant and dissonant harmonies. Yet, even with his history of experimentation, Mellé found the 1980 feature Borderline to be an unusual challenge. He composed over an hour of music but considerably less than that was used in the finished picture. And in an unusual turn of events much of his score was actually recorded twice. His initial approach was brazen, with an array of unusual ideas that were symphonic as well as jazz-based. It is rich with intense harmonies, full of percussion activity, and brimming with significant electronic keyboard effects and featuring a plethora of brass. As it turned out, the producers weren’t fully satisfied with this austere approach and Mellé went back to rescore several sequences, bringing in new and more accessible thematic ideas as well as incorporating a slightly more traditional harmonic language performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The final film draws from sizeable portions of both scoring approaches, although many cues are heavily truncated in the film and several appear in places different from where they were intended to go. Intrada's premiere release of Borderline features all the music from the stereo 1/4" masters stored by Denise Mellé. Borderline is the first of the “Mexploitation” films of the early ’80s featuring predatory smugglers who traffic in illegal immigrants. Charles Bronson plays Border Patrol agent Jeb Maynard, in charge of a group understaffed, underpaid and overworked patrolmen on the southern California border. Ed Harris plays a Marine Vietnam veteran who makes money transporting poor undocumented immigrants across the border to work as cheap labor. When Maynard’s senior deputy, Agent Scooter Jackson (Wilford Brimley), stops a tomato truck for a routine inspection, he discovers it is filled with human cargo. Hotchkiss greets the deputy with a shotgun blast, killing him instantly—along with an innocent teenage boy who is standing nearby. After Border Patrol agents discover the bodies, they call in the F.B.I. Assuming the murders resulted from a drug transaction gone wrong, the federal agents begin to work the case only to find evidence that makes Maynard think otherwise. INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 194 Retail Price: $19.99 Available Now For track listing and sound samples, please visit http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7445/.f |
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| Author: | JohnnyUtah [ Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
I've never heaqrd of this movie, but the samples were fantastic so ordered! Thanks Intrada Team! |
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| Author: | TheOzMan [ Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
Hot dang! Awesome release and even great Drew Struzan cover art, as well. Thanks, Intrada! ~ OZ |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
I might actually end up being more fond of this score than The Last Chase. It seems like a fascinating score with a broad range of ideas. |
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| Author: | jedizim [ Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
Listening to the samples of this right now...I have never heard of the movie before, but I am VERY intrigued by this. I do love the 80's music. |
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| Author: | Freejack [ Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:15 pm ] |
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Ordered thisone along with the Lee Holdridge title you guys released a couple of weeks ago. Love these Bronson, Norris, Stallone actioneer scores, hope to see more of them in the future. Now if we only could get the score to that Chuck Norris action title from the same year released.  God I miss these kind of movies.  I think I'm gonna borrow my dad's BORDERLINE DVD tomorrow. |
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| Author: | H TRAIN [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:30 am ] |
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This is a new one to me too You cant beat those old school action scores ORDERED!!! 
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| Author: | chriss [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
I've waited years for this! Ordered!
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| Author: | James Anthony Phillips [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
BELIEVE ME, NO ONE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED BY THIS! There is so much more music on the cd than in the film, and if you get a copy (I used a pretty good VHS in the old clamshell boxes) of the film or the dvd in the Charles Bronson Collection, you can hear much of the score dialed down. Gil Melle also created a new electronic instrument called "the clam." He outdoes both Jerrys -- Goldsmith and Fielding in producing a highly original sound without resorting to "ethnic" musical tropes. Enjoy! James |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:02 am ] |
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| Author: | GloryConan [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Gil Melle's BORDERLINE |
ORDERED! Together with THE LAST VALLEY and UNCOMMON VALOR (BTW I just watched VALOR and it still holds up very well) BODERLINE will be an nice addition to my tw other Melles ANDROMEDA STRAIN and THE ORGANIZATION. Glad you chose the Struzan Artwork! Phil |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:58 pm ] |
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This score makes for great ambiance when getting work done. It is one hour of pure bliss. "Prepare to Siege" and the end credits are the real highlights for me. Now I need to finally see the film. |
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| Author: | GloryConan [ Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:39 pm ] |
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I have received my triple order yesterday (BORDERLINE, LAST VALLEY & UNCOMMON VALOR). Thanks INTRADA for another perfect shipping. Gil Mélles BORDERLINE is terrific! I love "THE CLAM"! Good stuff. Phil |
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| Author: | American Nightmare [ Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:26 pm ] |
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Spinning it right now! It's groovy, gritty, funky, quirky, moody, and downright awesome. Thanks, gents, for this treasure. It'll get a lot of play in our home. |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:02 pm ] |
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