Original ESB 2 album mix

I'm new to this forum and I hope I'm not asking a common question.

I loved the original 2 album mix for ESB so much that I spent many hours making a mix based on an old tape I had. All of the cues are on the ESB:SE CD's. The only place I had to fudge it was the start of Hyperspace where there was a little to much punch on the SE version so I used about 1 sec from the anthology CD. All said and done it takes a little over 74 minutes and fits on 1 CD.

Some of you may be a little young to remember this so here is the tracklist:

Star Wars (Main Theme)
Yoda's Theme
The Training of a Jedi Knight
The Heroics of Luke and Han
The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
Departure of Boba Fett
Han Solo and the Princess
Hyperspace
The Battle in the Snow
The Asteroid Field
The City in the Clouds
Rebels at Bay
Yoda and the Force
The Duel
The Magic Tree
Lando's Palace
Finale

Anyhow, I was wondering if there is a CD out there somewhere with this mix?

 

No, I don't think, that there was a CD version of that mix. The first ESB CD was only one CD.

But I actually work on a movie version mix. TESB Soundtrack has so many tracks that weren't in the film, or in different mixed versions. So I have finished 10 tracks yet (Fox Fanfare doesn't count):

01. 20th Century Fox Fanfare (Okay, nothing to mix here)
02. Main Title (That was a mix of three tracks: Main Title, The Probe Droid and Arrival On Dagobah)
03. Goodbye, Princess (This is actually a "cut-out" from the original Main Title)
04. The Wampa's Lair (It's faded out, where it ends in the movie)
05. The Vision Of Obi-Wan (It's faded in, where it begins in the movie)
06. The Snowspeeders Take Flight - Luke In Bacta (Again a three-track-mix: Hyperspace, Luke's Rescue and The Wampa's Lair)
07. Aboard The Executor (Mix from the original track and Imperial March)
08. Drawing The Battle Lines - Leia's Instructions (There was nothing to mix)
09. The Battle Of Hoth (Some parts were repeated in the movie, so I made it also)
10. The Asteroid Field (I'm glad that there was nothing to mix here (one of the best))
11. Arrival On Dagobah (It's faded out, where it ends in the movie)


I'll mix more in the next weeks...

Greetz
EV

 

I always thought the Anthology Box Set version of Empire Strikes Back WAS the original Double LP mix of the soundtrack.

Peace,
Fatboy

 

I have the anthology version and it is very different.

I have the 2 album version and it came out just before the movie. There is also a cassette tape which I also have. The cover is a picture of Darth Vaders Helmet amid a see of stars. The album contains a picture book with album sized pictures from the movie. I listed the tracks above in my first post. I vividly remember getting this before the movie was released and opening it on the way home in the car as my dad was getting gasoline. Sitting in the back seat of the car I was amazed by the pictures. At that time I was a total Star Wars geek. I think I listened to it hundreds of times when I was young.

I appreciate that they did eventually release more music from the soundtrack but I have always loved the flow of the original 2 album set. In fact, I loved it so much that I recently spent well over 80 hours mixing the cues together to get a very close proximity to it.

 

ah, you are correct sir. I just checked out
http://www.classicalrecordings.com/johnwilliams/swindepth.htm

and noticed the difference. Did you know about this site beforehand? Mighta made the editing a lil easier for you.

peace,
Fatboy