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Longtime readers of this blog are all too aware that I’m a huge fan of Steve Jablonsky, the immensely talented composer responsible for motion picture scores such as Michael Bay’s Transformers series, the television series Desperate Housewives and the last two Gears of War games. Heck, Jablonsky’s work is easily among the most-played on my iPod! Especially the soundtrack for Gears of War 2: it’s perfect for whenever I’m at the dentist.

Anyhoo, it’s a few months old but new to me: Variety has an in-depth article about Steve Jablonsky and his career, including how he got started in film and television composing. I’ll heartily recommend it not just for fellow Jablonsky fans but also for anyone budding composers who want to take a stab at working in the industry.

Big tip o’ the hat to good friend Mike Casteel for the great find!...

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First things first: I have yet to hear any news about a CD release of the score from Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which was once again masterfully composed and orchestrated by Steve Jablonsky. A bunch of readers have been asking me about this for the past several months (and quite often more than once!). No word either on the rumored box set that would have Jablonsky’s complete score from all three Transformers movies, which I would gladly plunk down serious coin for and based on the enthusiasm I’ve been observing, so would many others out there.

Until we have something more substantial to go on (and I tend to believe that it will be coming sooner than later) here’s something ya might wanna check out: Music from the Transformers Trilogy!

Performed by London Music Works, this CD includes 16 tracks from the three movies: six ...

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Ooh-boy, how am I going to handle this?! I mean, Gears of War 3 doesn’t come out until September 20th, this coming Tuesday. And there ain’t no way that I’m gonna get an advance copy of the game itself. Hey, I’ve got connections, sho ’nuff… but they don’t penetrate into the inner sanctum of Epic Games (even if it is just a few miles away in Cary).

But a package arrived in the mail this week: a copy of the CD of Gears of War 3: The Soundtrack, composed by Steve Jablonsky.

Hmmmm. The score CD for the next Gears of War game. Composed by the dude who did the score for Gears of War 2, the Transformers movies and a bunch of other great stuff! Y’all think I’m not gonna review this bad boy?!

The thing is, I can listen to this abundawonderful score all I ...

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When it comes to Transformers: Dark Of The Moon‘s orchestral score, you can’t get much more authoritative a source than the man who composed it! A short while ago Steve Jablonsky sent me an e-mail about the current state of the score album’s CD. In it he not only explains what’s going on with it, he also provides a fascinating insight into the makings of a major summer blockbuster!

So without further ado, here is Mr. Jablonsky…

Hi Chris

Nice to hear from you. As you probably know the score is now up on iTunes. The physical CD situation has been more complicated. I finished the album weeks ago, but we didn’t actually finalize it until a few days ago. Michael Bay is really happy with the score and he wanted to check out the album before it went out. As you might imagine, he’s a busy dude. He’s

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This popped up tonight on Amazon.com’s page for the product listing…

It’s still listed as “Currently unavailable”. But we’ve got the album cover art.

That has to be mean something good, right?

(Incidentally, at this moment I’ve got iTunes playing “Decepticons” from Transformers: The Score. With this one track composer Steve Jablonsky did something that had never adequately been done before in the whole history of the Transformers franchise: conveyed the utterly alien nature of the Transformers. I love this music!!)...

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Hey gang, we are just a few days away from Transformers: Dark of the Moon and, starting to get stoked about this movie in the biggest way! Maybe it’s something to do with having bought the Blu-rays of both the previous films last week and watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for only the second time ever. And oddly enough, two years later I’m much more entertained by that movie. It still has its problems (namely “Car Car Binks” aka the Autobot twins, and I genuinely feel sorry for whoever it was at Industrial Light and Magic who was handed the task of digitally animating Devastator’s ummm… “wrecking ball testicles”) but y’know, I wound up digging it way more than before as a Transformers live-action flick. In fact, as I write this my desktop PC is busy ripping the Blu-ray so I can put both these movies on my iPad!...

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Two years ago, an online petition drive spun out of this very blog and may or may not have convinced The Powers That Be to release a CD of Steve Jablonsky’s amazing score for the motion picture Transformers.

In 2009, Warner Bros./Reprise did release a CD of Jablonsky’s score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And everything was cool this time, right?

Well…

A LOT of folks have written in here over the past few weeks about how much of Jablonsky’s score for the new movie is missing from the current CD release. And we know for certain that there were plans to publish the full score (or a much bigger chunk of it than we have now anyway) but now, those plans have been officially dashed. It’s currently not set to happen.

But now, a warrior has arisen “to light our darkest hour”!

Mike Casteel, a ...

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Praise be the Allspark, we do NOT have to go through this crazy mess a second time…

Good friend of this blog Kartik Kaul has passed along the word that Steve Jablonsky’s score soundtrack CD for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will go on sale June 23rd! Also on the same day will be a “Music From…” CD for the movie. Which is all well and good but uhhh… as most people know it’s the orchestral score that we are mostly interested in on this blog 😛

Here’s the link to the score CD’s page on Amazon.com where you can pre-order it. Which I’ve already done for mine 🙂...

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Our friend Greg at Music4Games.net passed along the terrific news that Gears of War 2 has won “Best Sound in a Video Game Production” at the Third Annual ELAN Awards. ELAN is the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and the Animated Arts.

At the ceremony, hosted by SpongeBob Squarepants‘ Bob Kenny, Gears of War 2 was honored for its audio engineering, which included a full-length score composed by Steve Jablonsky (who has also composed Transformers and its upcoming sequel, Desperate Housewives and many other films, games and television projects).

Congrats to audio director Mike Larson, composer Steve Jablonsky, sound designers Jamey Scott and Joey Kuras, and everyone at Epic Games on your win!

And for a complete list of winners at this year’s ELAN Awards, mash down here....

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