Unofficial Star Trek Cassette-audio Album With Warp-Sound Tracks? Warp 8
October 15, 2014 6:52 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for the title of a audio-cassette album I owned sometime in the 1990s, which had the themes of various Star Trek movies and, particularly, tracks of sound effects of the ships warping that I believe were unique to the tape (as opposed to having been taken from the films).
I don't know much about the album itself (performers, etc) but might be able to recognize the cover art if I saw it.
One very memorable track was called, I believe, Warp 8, or possibly Warp Eight, which had the sound of a computer voice narrating as the ship entered warp stages incrementally, "
Accelerating to warp one.... warp two... warp three..." on toward a climactic zapping sound and the calm voice of "warp eight," with an engineer momentarily saying, "We have an exterior visual." The track was very bass-intense and I would test most of my speaker setups with that track to see how good they were based on how crisp the audio would be..
I suspect the themes may have been performed by an in-house orchestra as opposed to being official performances by the composer's film orchestra, but not positive.
I don't know much about the album itself (performers, etc) but might be able to recognize the cover art if I saw it.
One very memorable track was called, I believe, Warp 8, or possibly Warp Eight, which had the sound of a computer voice narrating as the ship entered warp stages incrementally, "
Accelerating to warp one.... warp two... warp three..." on toward a climactic zapping sound and the calm voice of "warp eight," with an engineer momentarily saying, "We have an exterior visual." The track was very bass-intense and I would test most of my speaker setups with that track to see how good they were based on how crisp the audio would be..
I suspect the themes may have been performed by an in-house orchestra as opposed to being official performances by the composer's film orchestra, but not positive.
Best answer: Actually, going off johngoren's info, "Symphonic Star Trek" looks like a pretty good bet.
posted by themanwho at 7:12 PM on October 15, 2014
posted by themanwho at 7:12 PM on October 15, 2014
Seconding Symphonic Star Trek; I'm almost positive that it has the track you're thinking of, having owned this CD myself. I found some samples of the tracks here.
posted by Aleyn at 9:35 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Aleyn at 9:35 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Well done! That's it, precisely. Symphonic Star Trek - Warp-Eight (grooveshark) :-3
posted by Quarter Pincher at 12:15 PM on October 22, 2014
posted by Quarter Pincher at 12:15 PM on October 22, 2014
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posted by johngoren at 7:03 PM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]