Vangelis – Blade Runner (1993)

April 1, 2020

Part of what made Blade Runner such a magical experience for me was how all the visuals and audio meld together to create the (almost) perfect dystopian sci fi feast. A large part of that is, of course, the musical soundtrack – a glorious, epic yet electronic and futuristic exploration by the severely underrated composer Vangelis. Nothing quite conjures the mass industrial, uber-capitalist wastelands that we call cities now like this score does. For when you absolutely have to go searching for attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, throw on this score.

(Trivia: the score released alongside the film and the only one available until 1993 was a re-recording, and not the original Vangelis score. This wasn’t released until 1993. Bizarre!)