Shawn Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Was listening to disc 3 the other day and went looking for a title and it just says "Unreleased Movie - M4" I like this track a lot, it has a slow build up then really takes off sounding all brassy and exciting at the end. I got to thinking what part of the film it might have been composed for. Did Haneda write this watching the movie? Not sure how that part worked in an animated film, but assumed it would be similar to a live action movie, so you could get the beats at the right times. Curious what it might have been timed for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Hmm. Curious indeed. Doesn't sound familiar. I have that set also, but I haven't listened to the complete set in a long time. May have to go watching and listening.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DewPoint Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Feels like an enemy fleet folding in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneWolf Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 I always liked that song! My guess is that it was Haneda's audition piece for DYRL. Perhaps someone in Big West wasn't sure that he could score epic pieces that the movie needed and wanted a sample. Or maybe it was just a bonus track to help flesh out the movie OST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted October 13, 2022 Author Share Posted October 13, 2022 I think I may have figured it out-check my logic The disc 3 unused movie tracks are here. My M-4 is right there at the top, 2m59s. If you look at the BGM used music for the movie, M-4 is the opening battle sequence They reused Fate's Arrow (disc 1,track 2) from the TV series...at 2m56s (3s shorter than the M-4 track from disc 3) So my unreleased disc 3 M-4 was going to be used for the opening battle, but instead they went with the TV version. I'll have to match up the opening scene with this alternate M-4 and look for some timing cues for the sync, could be fun https://archive.org/download/AnaFTheSuperDimensionFortressMACROSSBD720/Extras/Macross OST The Complete/Scans/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneWolf Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 That's some great sleuthing! Just played M-4 alongside the opening battle sequence and it fits like a glove. I personally prefer M-4 over Fate's Arrow in that sequence as it gels with the movie's overall melodramatic score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 It does time out quite well indeed! The drum marching build up in the beginning are the valks heading towards the zentradi forces The build up with the missiles on the valks displays that drum hit when screen flashes white as the pods break through Hikaru launches his missiles right when the music goes epic the high flourish as hikaru and focker's missiles hit their targets and fade out just as the ger's break in With some minor timing/shifting cuts of this scene you could hit some other big cues in the piece as well. We need a Haneda special edition cut 38 years still finding cool things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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