While I think that the other Gas releases are better as a whole, the first track of this one really makes up for this since it is among the best. It takes me somewhere else and makes me think of a long, hot and dark summer. As with the other Gas releases the artwork is wonderful as it is not only beautiful but also perfectly captures the spirit of the music.
As far as I know, though, there are not so many significant differences between the vinyl and the CDs. It doesn't matter that much which version you get as long as you get it.

This was a first at its time, which was a little while ago. Though that shouldn't bother you-the sound is very good. There are no common musical structures to be found on this disc-nothing somebody would call "a song", in fact it sounds like sound effects, but this music possesses a hypnotic power and makes for a great trip-and now that I've learned a few things about electronic music, it seems to me that this is-acid!

Howard Shore has written many fantastic scores, like "The Silence of the Lambs" or "Seven", but his best are the ones for David Cronenberg. Like Videodrome. This is his only purely synthesized score, and it's great. Like the film it is disturbing and extremely dark. And it's unique. The music appears to be rather simple: there's a bassline, there's an organ, there are electronic noises and breathing sounds. This does not explain what it does to me, though. I mean, Shore is a genius, achieving with limited means what others wouldn't get done with three computers, six samplers and twenty synths. This is no easy stuff on the album, it's even abrasive and really noisy at times, but for heaven's sake-check it out!
The first track is a perfect opening for the album-it's a music-and-sound-effects-track and contains some disturbing vocal samples-and it's so deep, very deep, as deep as the whole album. Also check "801 A/B"(oh, what a great name!), the best presentation of the film's main theme. And there's "Pins and Needles", a track that will break your heart. Pain and pleasure, indivisible.

Great record! But...
BR remains an outstanding movie, and the score is an important part of it. Thank God for this album, the sometimes mentioned re-recording is an insult and so unbearable it hurts. But here we have the original tracks, and they are the best I ever heard from Vangelis. Blade Runner(End Titles) is one of my all-time favourites. But-I also must tell you this:
as a representation of the music as heard in the film, it's a lousy album! There exist at least two different bootlegs with lots more stuff on them. There you can find the opening track, the music heard when Batty kills Tyrell, a complete version of the End Titles(over 7:00) and, very important, the music for the Deckard-Batty fight, the truly thunderous "Wounded Animals", a 10:00-track that is an amazing piece of music-it's raw and very powerful, which is probably why it's not on the official release, which seems to be aimed at female fans in need of music they can fall asleep to(just kidding).