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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases one of the most-requested “holy grails” in the history of the hobby of soundtrack collecting, an official CD release of John Barry’s soundtrack from the 1979 Disney science fiction movie The Black Hole. Presented in its entirety for the first time, the release is the product of years of work to recover and copy the original session tapes, which were originally recorded on a now-obscure digital tape format.

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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a second volume of Stu Phillips’ episode soundtracks from the TV Series Battlestar Galactica. The complete scores from the episodes The Lost Planet Of The Gods and The Gun On Ice Planet Zero are included.

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Patrick Doyle’s soundtrack from the movie Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes is released on Varese Sarabande Records.

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Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 3-CD set featuring selections from various Star Trek: The Next Generation episode soundtracks. With the exception of two short tracks, none of the music on this set – which spans the entire seven-year run of the series – has been released before. Music by Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, John Debney, Don Davis and Fred Steiner is included.

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Milan Records releases the soundtrack from the movie Another Earth, with music by electronica group Fall On Your Sword (co-founded by LCD Soundsystem’s Phil Mossman).

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Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol. This is the first time in the revived series that a single episode has gotten an individual soundtrack release; Katherine Jenkins’ song “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)” is inclucded.

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Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label.

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Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 season of Doctor Who. This release continues the double-disc format of the 2009 specials soundtrack, and includes most of the music recorded for the entire fifth season.

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La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD set of Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the Fox action series Human Target.

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Film Score Monthly releases Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project, a mammoth 14-CD box set containing nearly all of the episode scores Ron Jones scored during the first four seasons of the series. The score conspicuous by its absence is the fan favorite The Best Of Both Worlds, originally released by GNP Crescendo in 1991 and contractually locked to that label. Jones’ scores for the computer games Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy are also included, along with unused cues from TNG.

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Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2009 Doctor Who specials. For the first time, a Doctor Who soundtrack from the new series spans two discs, presenting most of the music recorded for David Tennant’s final five special episodes.

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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada issues a new limited edition release of John Williams’ soundtrack from the 1986 movie SpaceCamp. Available for many years only as an incredibly expensive import from a Japanese label, this is the first official US CD pressing, and quickly sells out.

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La-La Land Records releases a CD of selections from Mark Snow’s soundtrack from the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen. Selections from another Chris Carter series, Harsh Realm, are also included.

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La-La Land Records releases a 2-CD set of James Horner’s complete score from the 1984 fantasy movie Krull. The release is timed to coincide with the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con.

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Varese Sarabande releases an expanded 2-CD edition of Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack from the 2009 Star Trek reboot movie, presenting the movie’s full score for the first time.

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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases Australian composer Brian May’s soundtrack from the 1984 movie Cloak & Dagger. This is the movie’s first soundtrack release.

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Film Score Monthly releases an expanded 2-CD edition of James Horner’s soundtrack from Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, presenting the movie’s full score for the first time.

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La-La Land Records releases a 2-CD set of David Arnold’s complete score from the 1996 science fiction blockbuster Independence Day.

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La-La Land Records releases Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the Battlestar Galactica TV movies Razor and The Plan.

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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases Gil Melle’s electronic soundtrack from the 1971 movie The Andromeda Strain. This is the movie’s first soundtrack release on CD.

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Film Score Monthly releases the complete soundtrack from the 1977 thriller Black Sunday, with music by John Williams – the last post-Jaws soundtrack composed by Williams that had never seen an official release. (This was also Williams’ last soundtrack assignment before starting work on George Lucas’ Star Wars.)

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Rupert Gregson-Williams’ soundtrack to the 21st century remake of The Prisoner is released on Varese Sarabande Records.

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La-La Land Records releases Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the 1987 science fiction comedy Innerspace.

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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack from 1985’s hit time travel comedy Back To The Future. This is the first release of the movie’s complete soundtrack, and the second CD includes early drafts of music left on the cutting room floor

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Varese Sarabande releases a limited edition CD of the soundtrack from the 1971 science fiction sequel Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, the third movie in the series and the second to be scored by Jerry Goldsmith (this time in an unexpectedly jazzy style). As it is also the only unreleased score from a Planet Of The Apes movie, it sells out quickly.

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La-La Land Records releases Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the fourth season of Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. The two-disc set covers much of the fourth season’s highlights on the first disc, with the entirety of the second CD containing music from the three-hour series finale, Daybreak.

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Film Score Monthly releases an expanded CD edition of James Horner’s soundtrack from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, presenting the movie’s full score for the first time.

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La-La Land Records releases Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the Battlestar Galactica spinoff pilot Caprica.

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La-La Land Records releases Elmer Bernstein’s soundtrack from the 1980 disaster movie parody Airplane!.

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Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack to the fourth season of Lost is released on Varese Sarabande Records.

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