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Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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On iPad the text appears to be cut off mid-line at the bottom of every page and it's not clearhow many lines are not visible.

Yeah, the authors managed to outdo plain PDF at hostility toward phone users, all for a wall of text interspersed with images.

Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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The 9 year old me didn't know who Vangelis was, but my whole family loved watching Cosmos and loved the music in the early 80's. I loved his music long before I knew who made it. We had the record and played it all the time and was a favorite in the car on long trips (recorded to cassette). That show turned me onto science. And music. Today I listen to it and a flood of memories take over. The Grand Canyon. The Tetons. Yellowstone. Dinosaur Nat'l Park. Mesa Verde. Walley World (jk). All triggered by music; such a beautiful and wondrous thing.

Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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Which is very neatly mixed with (goa) trance by Paul Oakenfold in his 'The Goa Mix' a-side, orig. broadcast in 1994 [1] (other versions exist as well). https://www.discogs.com/release/3016836-Paul-Oakenfold-The-G...

Here is the whole thing: https://soundcloud.com/pauloakenfold/paul-oakenfold-radio-1-...

Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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How does this page implement the horizontal scrolling? How does it decide how to format into columns?

Not too interesting technically - it's just a bunch of divs that are manually filled with text and defined to be a fixed size. I was hoping to see something that would automatically reformat text into columns based on screen and column size, per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29172083.

Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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post #32

The 9 year old me didn't know who Vangelis was, but my whole family loved watching Cosmos and loved the music in the early 80's. I loved his music long before I knew who made it. We had the record and played it all the time and was a favorite in the car on long trips (recorded to cassette). That show turned me onto science. And music. Today I listen to it and a flood of memories take over. The Grand Canyon. The Teton…

> Cosmos

The soundtrack for that comes from Heaven and Hell, one of Vangelis' best.

Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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I'm particularly fond of the soundtrack editions which overlay Vangelis' music with city background noise, bits of dialog, and other atmospherics from the appropriate scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3fz6CC45ok I don't know what this version is properly called; however I used to listen to a similar (but shorter, perhaps one hour long) version called the 'Esper Edition'. Give it a listen, while you read the art…

If you like these, consider also his work in The City (1990). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPpJbgod_k

What a wonderful album. Like "Direct", it features many explorations using new digital synths from the late 80s. Fun fact: the voice-overs were done by Polanski and his wife Emmanuelle Seigner (she acts in the "The Ninth Gate" with Johnny Depp). They used to hang out at Vangelis' studio.

Re: Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

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Which is very neatly mixed with (goa) trance by Paul Oakenfold in his 'The Goa Mix' a-side, orig. broadcast in 1994 [1] (other versions exist as well). https://www.discogs.com/release/3016836-Paul-Oakenfold-The-G...

Wow, it's been ages since I've listened to this. I wrote a ton of code in the late 90s/early 2000s listening to this album. Thank you!
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