Artist: Gary Numan
Album: Strange Charm (1986) (Also on Babylon 4)
Track: Time to Die
Excerpt from lyrics:
"And I have seen sadness
And I have seen time run out
I've even seen men cry
It's all lost to me now
Like tears in the rain"
Website: http://www.numan.co.uk/
Review: **** This mournful song captures the feel of the movie
very nicely, and is an excellent track on its own. It also has a
more explicit connection to BR than other songs on the list, making
this one of the best on here.
Artists: Front Line Assembly
Single: Plasticity (1996)
Track: Replicant
Features samples of Roy Batty.
Website: http://www.delerium.com/
Artists: Magnesia (formerly Melatonin, formerly Atticus)
Track: A Time To Die (1999)
Song "A Time to Die" obviously inspired by Blade Runner
- starts with Roy's "Tears in Rain" speech.
Website: http://www.jammer.demon.co.uk
Artist: Kent
Album: Isola (1997)
Track: OWC (from "Off-World Colony")
Reportedly, one of the tracks on this Swedish band's album uses
a sample from BR (the piano bit from "Memories of Green").
I don't think it is a sample so much as piano music inspired by
Memories of Green. The song was written after seeing Blade Runner
and is inspired by the blimp adverts inviting people to go to the
Off-World Colonies. The words are a melancholy reflection that it
is time to move on.
Website: http://www.kent-music.co.uk/
Artist: Ian Brown
Album: Music of The Spheres
Track: Northern Lights
His song "Northern Lights" contains a sample from the
flickering light - a sound effect from BR (the one in Leon's Bathroom).
(Ian Brown used to be in The Stone Roses.)
Website: http://www.ianbrown-online.co.uk/
Artists: Blue Floyd
Album: ?
Track: Young Lust
In their adaptation of the Pink Floyd song "Young Lust",
they use a sample from the scene where Roy Batty finally meets Tyrell.
Website: http://www.bluefloyd.com/
Album - Newer Wave 2.0: The New Wave Cover Series
Label - 21st Circuitry
Song - Love Missile F1-11
Artist - New Mind
Original Artist - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
[This version of the song] has two samples from Blade Runner. The
first is a lift of Holden's line about the Voight-Kampff being only
a test designed to evoke an emotional response, and the second is
Leon's line about his mother. Both samples appear several times
throughout the song."
Artist: Hoodlum Priest
Album: Heart of Darkness (1990)
Track: Tyrell
The album contains a track called Tyrell, which uses samples from
Blade Runner.
On the same album, use is also made of samples from lost of other
movies such as Robocop, The Terminator, Total Recall, Dune and Hellraiser
I and II, etc.
Website: http://www.obsolete.com/a60/
But better is: http://www.atdot.demon.co.uk/hoodlum/
Artists: Paul Oakenfold
Album: Perfecto Presents Another World (2000)
Paul is a UK DJ who particularly does Trance remixes. He has done
this with more than one part of Blade Runner (from the soundtrack
album by Vangelis). Notably "Tears In The Rain" and "Rachel's
Song". A few other peoples' trance remixes have also been popularised
in Oakenfold sets, e.g. Andora (although occasionally those "other
people" turn out to be an alias for Paul). Paul helped create
the "Ibiza sound" and is behind the very hip "Swordfish"
soundtrack.
Website: http://www.pauloakenfold.com/
Artists: Sasha + John Digweed
Album: Renaissance (1994)
Track 12 is a trance mix version of the Blade Runner "End
Titles" by these two DJs from the 90s UK trance scene.
Artists: Remake
Album: [found on Loaded records]
Track: Bladerunner / Magic Fly (1995) on Load 27 and C&J Remix
on Load 40
Note: 11 min. long; reportedly the best dance version of the BR
End Titles around.
Loaded Website: http://www.loadedrecords.com/
Artist: Cosmic Baby
Track: A Tribute To Blade Runner (Maxi CD Single, 1995)
3 tracks:
1. A Tribute To Blade Runner - Radio Edit (4:08)
2. A Tribute To Blade Runner - L.A. 2018 Main title (9:15)
3. A Tribute To Blade Runner - Dance Title 1 (6:38)
Dance version of the BR theme tune. Apparently the record company
wanted him to use the name "Cosmic Replicant", but he
didn't like that idea.
Cosmic Baby also created another EP called "L.A. 2018"
1. A Tribute To Blade Runner (Dance Title 2) (7:21)
2. L.A. 2018 - Replicants Requiem (4:07)
3. L.A. 2018 - Rachel And Deckard (7:59)
Website: http://www.cosmic-baby.com/
or check: http://www.franken.de/users/tursa/CosmicBaby_discog.html
Artist: Canibus
Album: "C" True Hollywood Stories (2001)
Canibus aka Germaine Williams. This is rap music. Track 17, Box
Cutter, samples the New American Orchestra rendition of the BR End
Titles.
Artist: Mike Ladd
Album: Easy Listening For Armageddon (1997)
Track: Blade Runner
A variation on hip-hop that could be termed trip-hop music. Seems
to be inspired by and using samples from the movie.
Website: http://www.likemadd.com/
(?)
Artists: Jam & Spoon
Album: Tripomatic Fairytales 2002 (1993)
Track: "V. Angel is Calling" (Get it? Get it? :) )
Jam & Spoon are Jam El Mar & Mark Spoon, "a dance project
from Frankfurt, Germany" - creating ambient music. Note: more
information on whether this is Vangelis/Blade Runner related is
needed. All help is welcome.
Website: http://www.jamandspoon.com/
Artists: Orbital
Track: Bladerunner
According to Orbital's site (http://www.loopz.co.uk/
), the mp3 found on the Web that purports to be "Bladerunner
by Orbital" is not by them.
Artists: Robert Hazard and the Heroes
Album: Wing of Fire (1984)
Track: Interplanetary Private Eye
Hazard was a Philadelphia act that had a hit record with the song
"escalator of life". His second album was called Wing
of Fire, and was dedicated to the makers of Blade Runner. "Interplanetary
Private Eye" was one song that was directly influenced by the
Movie, and he mentions things like "electric sheep" in
others (madmen of the new sci-fi, we count electric sheep). Probably
hard to find today, but it is probably the album most influenced
by the movie out there. [Thanks to Chris for this information]
Website: http://www.roberthazard.com/
Artists: Therapy?
Track: Meat Abstract (1990)
Therapy? recorded a track called Meat Abstract, originally as the
a-side of their first 7" single, and later as the opening track
on their first EP. The beginning of the song features a sample of
the "Wake up, time to die!" speech from BR. They also
had the quote on one of their t-shirts, along with their "angry
face" logo, known to the fans as Gemil. [Thanks to Steve for
this information]
Website: http://therapyquestionmark.co.uk/
Artist: Warren Zevon
Album: Transverse City (1989)
Zevon has numerous rock 'n roll albums. "Transverse City"
is a concept album which, according to interviews with Zevon, is
based in part on "Blade Runner" and the works of cyberpunk
author William Gibson. The lyrics of the title track certainly seem
to be very much about Roy and Pris and their plight.
Website: http://www.warrenzevon.com/
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