It Is The Year 2014… and I’m Listening To New Vince DiCola Music

Sure, it’s been almost 30 years since the original animated The Transformers: The Movie appeared in theaters, and it’s been almost 30 years since the Transformers fandom was introduced to the music of Vince DiCola.

It’s nice to know that even now, well past the future of 2005, we can still get new Transformers music from Vince.  He announced a few months ago that Sony/Intrada would be releasing a new version of the score from the movie (the first time it would be available in full outside of the BotCon CDs), due out sometime this month.  But what if you wanted to listen to new versions of some of his most familiar Transformers themes?

Well, now you can!  In case you didn’t know, the old Commodore 64 version of the “Turrican” game used the song “Escape” as the title theme.  As part of the Kickstarter for a new “Turrican Anthology” CD set, Chris Huelsbeck asked Vince to contribute something extra, and so he (with the help of Kenny Meriedeth) did – a new medley of the movie themes, updated for 2013.  And now you can get that piece even if you didn’t contribute to the Kickstarter!

You can go to Chris’s Bandcamp site and download an MP3/FLAC/whatever format of the song for as little as $1!  How can you go wrong?  Just go here and buy it!  http://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/album/turrican-soundtrack-anthology-vol-1

You can listen to a preview here:

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I just listened to the full song. Oh, man.  For a Vince DiCola fan like me, this is awesome.  I love being able to still here new Vince music every so often.  To hear familar songs such as “Escape” and “Death of Optimus Prime” redone is fantastic.  It’s still classic Vince, but it’s not totally 1980’s music, either.

I’d love to here more of the TF:TM score redone like this.  Heck, I’d love to hear more of it done in the vein of “Classical Transformations”.  Vince, if you read this, hit me up if you need another piano player….  :)