Dragon's Domain Records presents the long out-of-print orchestral score to HYPERSPACE, composed by Don Davis. One of the first feature length STAR WARS parodies, HYPERSPACE came out in 1984. Known in England as GREMLOIDS and as GREMLORDS in France and Germany, HYPERSPACE was writer/director Todd Durham's second and last film as director, working with ambitiously cost-conscious low-budget producer Earl Owensby. The movie was released in September 1984, but it wasn't until 1988 that the film received a wider release on home video.
Starring comedians Chris Elliott and Paula Poundstone and filmed in North Carolina, HYPERSPACE imitates STAR WARS in context and execution from its opening text crawl into infinity to its inscrutable helmeted monarch of menace, Lord Buckethead (played by Robert Bloodworth, but voiced by Barry Cooper). Lord Buckethead is hot on the trail of vital radio transmissions stolen from the corrupt Galactic Alliance by members of an allied resistance force. Buckethead intends to get them back, aided by diminutive, Jawa-robed minions known as gremloids. However, unbeknownst to him, he has made a serious navigational error, and rather than reaching his intended destination he lands instead upon the Earth, where he and his gremloid faction march into the closest small town and proceed with their mission.
A purposefully STAR WARS-esque orchestral score was provided by newly-minted composer Don Davis, in his first feature film score. Performed by a live, 56-piece orchestra, Davis's music provided the film with its missing gravitas; and it made enough of an impression among Hollywood film music folk that it led to a lasting and respectful career scoring films and television, including TV's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and SEAQUEST DSV and blockbuster films like THE MATRIX series and JURASSIC PARK III.
“Obviously the movie was a parody of STAR WARS, so the only approach to music I could logically take was similarly a parody of John Williams's work,” said Davis in an exclusive new interview for the album notes. “I got as close to STAR WARS as I could get without it being STAR WARS.” Davis provided the right kind of feeling to the music which gave the score a suitably grandiose dynamic and aided in the film's parodist nature.
The composer's approach to supporting the film's inherent humor was based on “not writing funny music,” but scoring the movie with absolute seriousness, thereby allowing the parody to exist within the film and among its characters in a world where even the most farcical of circumstances are treated with genuine integrity. “The concept of playing it straight, as if the show were not a comedy, was what we wanted to do with our movie,” said Davis. “We treated it as if it really was STAR WARS and everything was completely serious.”
The film came and went without much ado or remembrance, but the music was noticed and that gave Davis an auspicious debut in this, his first opportunity to make the jump into… HYPERSPACE.
The score was first released on an 11-track CD in 1993, paired with another Davis score. This expanded reissue from Dragon's Domain Records includes eight previously-unreleased tracks. HYPERSPACE is a limited edition release of 1000 units.
発売日：2018/1/3の週
トラックリスト
01 HYPERSPACE Main Title/Pin Head 2:22 02 Meet The Mutants/Real Live Munchkins/Dad's Gland/ Basement Snoids 4:23 03 Alien Enzyme 2:00 04 Buckethead's Promenade 2:01 05 Swamp Dog/Mister Ugly/March of the Carrot People/Wild Bill Schwartz/Avoid the Droid/My Favorite Mutant 5:11 06 One Step Forward 0:56 07 Tree Trek 1:21 08 Old MacDonald Had a Farm Dirge 2:26 09 Neurotic Karen/Mutants in Bondage/Terminate The Princess/Zapping Aliens 2:01 10 Ship Witch/Life in Gland Land/Laser Trail 3:04 11 Just Browsing/After the Brain Drain 4:55 12 Max's Coronary/Let's Zap Ed/See You Laser 1:09 13 There She Is 0:45 14 Ding Dong Daddy 1:16 15 Max Incognito/Humanoids From Pacoima 4:27 16 Rugburn/Boiled Snoids 1:49 17 Imbeciles From Uranus 1:06 18 Droid McNoid/Buckethead's Remorse 4:00 19 HYPERSPACE End Credits 3:24 Total Time: 48:31
1984年の「スター・ウォーズ」パロディ映画のオリジナル・サウンドトラック。「マトリックス」シリーズで有名なドン・デイヴィスによる初長編映画担当作品。音楽もパロディのシンフォニック・スコア。今回8曲の未発表曲を追加収録したエクスパンデッド盤。限定1000枚。
トラックリスト“昔々、遥か彼方の銀河系で・・・・・・。
絶対の武力を有する帝国軍は、まさに全宇宙を支配
しようとしていた。一方、反乱軍は帝国軍の重要機密を盗み出し、すべてをセリナ姫に託して最後の抵抗に備えていた。しかし、セリナ姫の行方を突き止めた帝国軍は一隻の追撃艇を発進させた。
トコロガギッチョン！！この追撃艇、間違えて地球に飛来してしまった。その上、思い込みがハナハダしく、勝手にセリナ姫と決め付けて地球人女性を追い回したり、Ｒ２－Ｄ２と間違えて電気掃除機を破壊したり・・・・。大メイワクもいいとこだ。” --- VHSパッケージより
監督：トッド・デュアハム、出演： アラン・マークス、 クリス・エリオット。1984年米。
Dragon's Domain Records presents the long out-of-print orchestral score to HYPERSPACE, composed by Don Davis. One of the first feature length STAR WARS parodies, HYPERSPACE came out in 1984. Known in England as GREMLOIDS and as GREMLORDS in France and Germany, HYPERSPACE was writer/director Todd Durham's second and last film as director, working with ambitiously cost-conscious low-budget producer Earl Owensby. The movie was released in September 1984, but it wasn't until 1988 that the film received a wider release on home video.
Starring comedians Chris Elliott and Paula Poundstone and filmed in North Carolina, HYPERSPACE imitates STAR WARS in context and execution from its opening text crawl into infinity to its inscrutable helmeted monarch of menace, Lord Buckethead (played by Robert Bloodworth, but voiced by Barry Cooper). Lord Buckethead is hot on the trail of vital radio transmissions stolen from the corrupt Galactic Alliance by members of an allied resistance force. Buckethead intends to get them back, aided by diminutive, Jawa-robed minions known as gremloids. However, unbeknownst to him, he has made a serious navigational error, and rather than reaching his intended destination he lands instead upon the Earth, where he and his gremloid faction march into the closest small town and proceed with their mission.
A purposefully STAR WARS-esque orchestral score was provided by newly-minted composer Don Davis, in his first feature film score. Performed by a live, 56-piece orchestra, Davis's music provided the film with its missing gravitas; and it made enough of an impression among Hollywood film music folk that it led to a lasting and respectful career scoring films and television, including TV's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and SEAQUEST DSV and blockbuster films like THE MATRIX series and JURASSIC PARK III.
“Obviously the movie was a parody of STAR WARS, so the only approach to music I could logically take was similarly a parody of John Williams's work,” said Davis in an exclusive new interview for the album notes. “I got as close to STAR WARS as I could get without it being STAR WARS.” Davis provided the right kind of feeling to the music which gave the score a suitably grandiose dynamic and aided in the film's parodist nature.
The composer's approach to supporting the film's inherent humor was based on “not writing funny music,” but scoring the movie with absolute seriousness, thereby allowing the parody to exist within the film and among its characters in a world where even the most farcical of circumstances are treated with genuine integrity. “The concept of playing it straight, as if the show were not a comedy, was what we wanted to do with our movie,” said Davis. “We treated it as if it really was STAR WARS and everything was completely serious.”
The film came and went without much ado or remembrance, but the music was noticed and that gave Davis an auspicious debut in this, his first opportunity to make the jump into… HYPERSPACE.
The score was first released on an 11-track CD in 1993, paired with another Davis score. This expanded reissue from Dragon's Domain Records includes eight previously-unreleased tracks. HYPERSPACE is a limited edition release of 1000 units.
発売日：2018/1/3の週
01 HYPERSPACE Main Title/Pin Head 2:22
02 Meet The Mutants/Real Live Munchkins/Dad's Gland/ Basement Snoids 4:23
03 Alien Enzyme 2:00
04 Buckethead's Promenade 2:01
05 Swamp Dog/Mister Ugly/March of the Carrot People/Wild Bill Schwartz/Avoid the Droid/My Favorite Mutant 5:11
06 One Step Forward 0:56
07 Tree Trek 1:21
08 Old MacDonald Had a Farm Dirge 2:26
09 Neurotic Karen/Mutants in Bondage/Terminate
The Princess/Zapping Aliens 2:01
10 Ship Witch/Life in Gland Land/Laser Trail 3:04
11 Just Browsing/After the Brain Drain 4:55
12 Max's Coronary/Let's Zap Ed/See You Laser 1:09
13 There She Is 0:45
14 Ding Dong Daddy 1:16
15 Max Incognito/Humanoids From Pacoima 4:27
16 Rugburn/Boiled Snoids 1:49
17 Imbeciles From Uranus 1:06
18 Droid McNoid/Buckethead's Remorse 4:00
19 HYPERSPACE End Credits 3:24
Total Time: 48:31