I am not angry or upset upon hearing this news, because I do retain the idea that a movie score should sound like a movie score and I do like both Daft Punk (as you can see) and Hans Zimmer. But in Disney's case, Daft Punk and Tron is the perfect marketing exposure, which provides them with the largest target audience for the film, and perfect hype for the soundtrack (which is the only soundtrack I've ever been excited to listen to before having seen the film). Plus, it sounds better when there is just one composer on a film, rather than two or even five. Of course, you wont see a Hans Zimmer credits anywhere because, well, this kind of thing goes on all the time in Hollywood big studios hire major film composers just to tweek certain film scores and pay them an insurmountable uncredited paycheck. Do you really think Disney would let them just do there own thing? And that would be final?ĭisney has a lot at stake (early reports indicate this movie is pegged at around $170 million, and that's just for it's production costs, not including the marketing) and they really want to make sure this movie hits huge numbers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they brought in a major film composer (who's been in this industry for years) just to tidy things up a bit. It does kinda makes sense though, as Daft Punk has never really done an entire score to a major movie nor worked with an orchestra before. No wonder why some of the trailer sounds a lot like Inception and The Dark Knight. Well, what I heard was that Daft Punk initially turned in a score to Disney but the studio executives thought it was "too much" for a score to their tent pole movie, so they turned to legendary composer Hans Zimmer to, say "mellow it out" a bit. I am just spreading information that I've heard. Since I am not an investigative reporter I am not going to go undercover and get it straight from the source. Now, maybe this is just something that I have overheard (and possibly wrongly), or maybe my sources heard wrong. I am not making this one up, this is information that has been passed down to me from sources within the music and movie world. I like physical media, dammit :) Not sure why Encom Part I and Encom Part II have switched places on the numerical running-order, but obviously you can edit that if you please - that's one advantage of this being a digital download album, I suppose.Those of you who wondered why the Tron Legacy trailer sounds like Hans Zimmer had his hands on it, is because he probably did. The only way I could be happier with this is if the "Complete Edition" was released on Blu-ray audio instead of digital download being your only option. The store-exclusive tracks benefit especially from the upgrade to 24-bit audio, having previously only been available as lossy MP3 files. The "bonus" tracks are on par with anything from the main album and belong with it. A superb soundtrack which benefits from 24-bit presentation and finally collects all of the released tracks (bar the "Reconfigured" album of remixes) together in one place, comprising the main album (22 tracks), plus the 5 tracks which were held back for a second CD in the Special Edition, and the 4 other tracks which were scattered around various digital music storefronts as exclusives.
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