La-La Land Records is continuing their series of great Star Trek music releases. Today they officially released details for a new 4-CD collection of music from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The set includes selected music from all all seven seasons along with some previously unreleased music. The DS9 music collection comes out next week. We have full details and an image of the cover below.
Star Trek: Deep Space nine Collection Coming Feb 12
La-La Land Records has announced the release of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection,", a limited edition 4-CD soundtrack set that showcases musical highlights from episode scores as heard in all seven original seasons of DS9. This special collection of music features more than five hours of score, selected from some of the most acclaimed episodes from the show. The set is limited to just 3,000 units. It will be released on Feb. 12, 2013, at www.lalalandrecords.com at 1pm (PST). The retail price will be $49.98.
DS9 collection cover (click to enlarge)
Produced by Ford A. Thaxton, James Nelson, Mark Banning and Lukas Kendall, and mastered by James Nelson, this deluxe, limited-edition release chronicles its music on four CDs – The first disc features the music of composer Dennis McCarthy; the second disc features the music of composer Jay Chattaway; the third disc showcases music from “the new recruits,” composers John Debney, Richard Bell, Gregory Smith and Paul Baillargeon; and the fourth disc, entitled “The Lost Album,” contains an album assembly of material that was prepped by music producers and the composers for a soundtrack compilation that was never released. The set is complemented by a 36-page booklet that includes exclusive, in-depth liner notes from film music writer and Trek historian Jeff Bond.
TRACK LISTING:
Disc One
Music by DENNIS McCARTHY
1. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Main Title (Seasons 1–3)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
2. – 4. THE STORYTELLER
5. DUET
6. IN THE HANDS OF THE PROPHETS
7. THE HOMECOMING
8. – 9. THE CIRCLE
10. – 11. CROSSOVER
12. LIFE SUPPORT
13. – 15. THE DIE IS CAST
16. – 18. EXPLORERS
19. THE VISITOR
20. SHATTERED MIRROR
21. ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH
22. FAR BEYOND THE STARS
23. – 24. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
25. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
End Credits (Seasons 1–3)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
Disc One – Total Time: 76:51
Disc Two
Music by JAY CHATTAWAY
1. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Main Title (Seasons 4–7)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
2. – 4. THE SEARCH – PART I
5. – 6. THE SEARCH – PART II
7. – 8. BROKEN LINK
9. – 11. BY INFERNO’S LIGHT
12. – 15. CALL TO ARMS
16. ONE LITTLE SHIP
17. – 18. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
19. – 20. THE CHANGING FACE OF EVIL
21. – 22. OUR MAN BASHIR (Source Cues)
23. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
End Credits (Seasons 4–7)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
Disc Two – Total Time: 76:56
Disc Three
Music by THE NEW RECRUITS
1. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Main Title (Seasons 4–7, Alternate Mix)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
2. THE NAGUS – Music by John Debney
3. – 5. PROGRESS – Music by John Debney
6. THE HOUSE OF QUARK
Music by Richard Bellis
7. THE SWORD OF KAHLESS
Music by David Bell
8. – 9. THE ASCENT – Music by David Bell
10. SOLDIERS OF THE EMPIRE
Music by David Bell
11. – 13. SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
Music by David Bell
14. – 15. IN THE PALE MOONLIGHT
Music by David Bell
16. TAKE ME OUT TO THE HOLOSUITE
Music by David Bell
17. COVENANT – Music by David Bell
18. TACKING INTO THE WIND
Music by David Bell
19. THE ASSIGNMENT
Music by Gregory Smith
20. – 21. FIELD OF FIRE – Music by Gregory Smith
22. LITTLE GREEN MEN
Music by Paul Baillargeon
23. CHILDREN OF TIME
Music by Paul Baillargeon
24. – 25. THE SIEGE OF AR-558
Music by Paul Baillargeon
26. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
End Credits (Seasons 4–7, Alternate Mix)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
Disc Three – Total Time: 79:09
Disc FOUR
THE LOST ALBUM
1. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Main Title (Seasons 1 – 3, Without Effects)
Music by Dennis McCarthy
2. – 7. OUR MAN BASHIR
Music by Jay Chattaway
8. – 15. TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS
Music by Dennis McCarthy
16. – 24. WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND
Music by Dennis McCarthy
25. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
(After 3:00 A.M. At Quark’s Mix)
Main Theme for Solo Piano
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
Disc Four – Total Time: 76:51
Total Time – All Discs: 5:09:47
La-La Land Records will be attending the GRAND SLAM – STAR TREK SCI-FI SUMMIT on Feb 15-17, 2013 in Burbank, CA. Come visit us and check out the DS9 soundtrack release, our TOS Original Series Box Set and more!
Want it for sure!
Dennis McCarthy gave me some good info onc on roblems composing for DS9
#1. Eliasj – February 6, 2013
congrats on first post.
#2.
onc=once
roblems=problems
I’m not picking this up, mostly because DS9 isn’t a fave series of mine, but I do want to vouch for the quality La-La puts into their releases. The TOS set is epic and such a labor of love, as are many of their other releases, Trek or otherwise.
If you dig this music, rest assured they’ll do an amazing job on it.
This concludes my unsolicited endorsement…
Bleech!! “Sonic wallpaper”!!
Aside from the Main Title, I couldn’t hum a single cue from this series (or TNG seasons 4-7, Voyager or Enterprise) if you held a fully charged phaser to my head.
Pass.
5 – Do we all get a chance to hold a fully charged phaser to your head to test this theory!?
I’ll be getting it. I saw the Visitor and Call to Arms and made the decision. Some great music in both. I agree that pre-season 5 TNG is when the real theatrical style composing ended, but after that there are still some pretty good pieces scattered throughout. I think they were limited by how Berman wanted things done.
*breaths in the smell of it*
Ah, to be a dirt poor college student!
#5. Uberbot – February 6, 2013
I can’t speak for the other composers but McCarthy explained to me in the chat forum of an online interview about why his music sounded like that. TPTB purposely ordered his stuff to bland. When they commissioned him to do the second version of the theme (because of the Dominion War?) he had a dickens of a time with them constantly requesting that he make it less “interesting” and redo it. He said this in response to a question of mine as to why it feels like his music is missing something. Answer: because it was. TPTB remixed it themselves. He sent me to a source of his last submission to compare. They butchered it.
I think you described it best TPTB wanted sonic wallpaper.
#4. Ensign RedShirt – February 6, 2013
I would be more interested in a collection that included the composers desired mixes of their compositions and the ones that aired.
#6 — HAHAHA!! You funny!!
It’s a shame really. Look at the work done on shows like Stargate, Lost, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, etc. The music is so much a part of those shows. It adds character. Even the older Babylon 5 did a better job with music than Trek did. Wish I could go back in time and knock some sense into TPTB re: music – imagine how much better even the worst episodes we got towards the end of Voygaer/Enterprise might have been if it had a soundtrack like Lost, Stargate or Battlestar.
#9 — I sure don’t hold McCarthy responsible. I know he’s a great composer. He did some excellent work during the first year of TNG and his work on Generations is admirable.
I totally believe what he said about TPTB because that’s why Ron Jones lost his job on Trek. It’s really unfortunate that the composers were not allowed to do what their musical intuition told them rather than these people who knew nothing about dramatic TV scoring.
They had a great thing with these talented composers and they basically “drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa”!
Sad.
Well, we have three to four great years of TNG Trek music — then it went pot…
#12 — Great TV scores certainly do add character. I guess that’s one reason why I like sci fi series from the 60s and 70s…those shows had that character you speak of.
Cool! I thought the collection would include Dennis McCarthy’s score to the DS9 pilot movie. Oh, well, c’est la vie. In other words: that’s life.
#12. Browncoat1984 – February 6, 2013 , 14. Uberbot – February 6, 2013
Agree with you both.
One thing I dream about is that since CBS seems interested in remastering things for Blu-ray that they might decided DS9 doesn’t need new FX and take the money they would have spent on that and remix the music back to the original composers mixes. Heck even the more interesting scores. It’s not like they never rerecorded the music on their other releases.
I mean do we really care? TM> sneak in to Paramount and find out who the hell John Harrison is.That is a story.
Why would you want to know who Harrison is? Do you open all your Christmas presents a week before Christmas too? Lol!
#16 — I wish!!
Yea… NOT worth 50 bucks in my opinion.
Love DS9. Hate the music.
TBTB (incl. Berman) were ignorant IDOTS. They knew nothing, NOTHING about the power of film scoring and its impact on narrative.
Morons.
And they made good composers suffer.
@#20 – but apparently worth posting your opinion on :rolleyes:
I’m really looking forward to this set and hope my favorite cues from the episodes listed are there.
I’ll be getting it, I’m an obsessive collector of Sci Fi Film scores.
Can’t tell the missus, I’ll be spending $50 on it!!!!
OH S**T!!!! Here She Comes ” Da….Da….Da…Dum…Da,Da…Dum…Da,Da” (Mrs. Vader’s Theme)
@18 I knew Anikin was Darth Vader before I saw Episode I.
@ 24 Anakin
@5
LOL. I hear ya! Those producers from 1991 onward…. I will never understand their annoyance when it came to music that actually would have made their shows even more memorable.
DS9 is probably my favorite SF show but I can’t see my self listening to the soundtrack, other than the season 4 opening credit theme. After Ron Jones was fired from TNG the music became really bland.
Sad how lackluster the music was, DS9 was one of the better TNG spin-offs…although it really got on my nerves that these people lived right next to a gateway to an entire unexplored quadrant and too often it seemed all they wanted to explore was Worf’s romances or boring Bajoran politics.
There could have been a Jem Hadar theme, a Dominion theme…a Bajir theme, etc. all that was pissed away because TPTB didn’t understand how to use the talent of their composers!
Sad that we lost that opportunity.
Hmmm….interesting in that I did not know that the blandness of later Trek music was forced by TPTB :( . Were they just trying to save money or something?
Comparing DS9 music (which I barely remember despite watching every episode) with some other music/scores of favorite TV shows of the same time can certainly be striking. Babylon 5 and the Bruce Timm/Paul Dini Warner Bros. animated superhero fare of the 90s (Batman and Superman animated series) are shining examples of how important good music is to a show…I still remember these scores to this day even though I haven’t watched either in awhile…
But Trek in general became blander and blander as the 90s progressed thanks to TPTB…and I guess the music was just another symptom…
I’d also go as far as to say that much of today’s TV shows suffer badly from a lack of good music…take CSI for example…all they do is use an already-long-ago-composed song from The Who as their theme song. Nothing wrong with the song, mind you, but it seems to me to be a very lazy choice rather then come up with a new theme unique to said show.
Or look at the theme songs to shows from the 60s through the 80s…most of us can remember these in a heartbeat (think Speed Racer, Gilligan’s Island, TOS (of course), Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, $6 Million Dollar Man, Different Strokes, Facts of Life, The Jeffersons…the list could go on and on), but for today’s shows? Not so much…in fact, they often don’t even bother with a theme song anymore and just skip right over it (due to wanted to squeeze in more commercials no doubt)…
Yeah, most of the music for today’s shows are pretty bland. I guess Rick Berman was ahead of the curve in that regard! :-)
Though Michael Giaccino’s “Lost” score is absolutely briliant and beautiful. A rare sound these days, though Bear McCreary has done some good music too, such as “The Walking Dead”, “Battlestar Galactica”, and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”.
It would be cool to have a “composer’s cut,” like we sometimes get “director’s cuts” for video.
#30. Jon
If memory serves, as in right now I’m getting a flash that it was an electronic interaction with one of the producers of SLIDERS when it was on FOX that I got my McCarthy connection and not a chat session, he said that the person making the decree was obsessed with the writing and absolutely afeared that ANY sound that was too interesting or above a certain level would destract and detract from the words being spoken by the actors.
I remember thinking “Why would they appear to be implementing the same restrictions on the new theme?” Then it hit me: they were afraid if the theme was too anything that the viewer might linger in musical enjoyment not changing focus fast enough to appreciate how magnificent and artfully they had set the opening scene.
I remember something from McCarthy about the people running the show coming only from an experience of writing and not having a clue about the collaborative process.
@#4: “mostly because DS9 isn’t a fave series of mine, ”
YOUR LOSS: DS9 is the best of the Treks, and one of the very best sci-fi shows ever.
It kills me to know that there are still people out there who don’t recognize DS9 for going beyond what any of the other Treks, before or after DS9, did. They took the characters deeper, took more chances in the plotting and storytelling, and weren’t afraid to really tackle societal issues in a way none of the other Treks since TOS did.
The “dark” Trek also did comedy more, and better, than any of the other casts. DS9 makes the relative blandness and perfection of the TNG crew almost unwatchable now, and VOY and ENT were tame pretenders by comparison.
Now we just need DS9 to get the same restoration TNG got, and released on Blu-Ray soon.
I’m sooo looking forward for this one. :D
3,
Thank you!
I find DS9 soundtracks more ”Battle ready” that the TNG one. Don’t get me wrong, I love TNG music especially the one written by Ron Jones!
I agree with those who find nothing distinctive in the soundtracks of TNG or DS9 or Voyager. I’ve seen those shows all the way through several times, but I couldn’t hum a note from any of them.
I seem to recall the score composers complaining that they weren’t allowed to write any music, just synth tones – melodic wallpaper without any actual melodies. I recall an interview wherein one of DS9’s composers complained that even in the Tribbles episode, the producers would not allow tunes from the original Trouble with Tribbles mixed in. God forbid that something recognizable as a tune would be allowed in any Trek other than TOS.
But, clearly, others disagree and find something they like in this music. I wish I did.
#15: The soundtrack of the DS9 pilot, “Emissary”, was edited by GNP Crescendo back in 1993. It’s out there if want to check it out.
#30: Berman, according to Ron Jones, wanted “sonic wallpaper”. That decree was somewhat broken on the last seasons of DS9 (“Call to Arms” comes to mind). And no, it had nothing to do with saving money, in fact the music was taped from a large (for TV at least) orchestra.