Good news for anyone who collects soundtracks. La-La Land Records announced that they're going to issue a new soundtrack release of TMP's score. Details so far.
- While using the same mixes as the last release, some changes were made that Mike Matessino described as "esoteric in character". He did note however that there is one distinction about the new edition that will be noted when it becomes available.
- The album is being released as a direct tie-in to the Director's Edition and one of the changes being made is having the full version of Ilia's theme open the film score presentation instead of the trimmed down version that opened the previous release.
- The third disc from the previous set is being dropped in favor of this release being geared towards the finished score. The original album program will be featured and will be "re-created from the remixed first generation master".
- Other material outside of the film presentation and original album will be the early score cues.
- The 'Inner Workings' track on this set will feature the more pronounced 'wind machine' noise that was significantly toned down in their original release. The 50th Anniversary Collection was the only time this track featured the wind machine at levels matching what was heard in the film.
So if you already have the 3-Disc set, you've got a tough choice to make. While this set does stem from the same mix that were used for the 3-Disc set, further work was done to make the listening experience a bit better and will likely include the film version of 'Inner Workings' that is not on the previous set.