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Robocop: Prime Directives by Norman Orenstein
01/12/2006 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
CD: GNP Crescendo GNPD 8070. 14 tracks 73 minutes. Price: $ 6.98 (US- if you buy direct off them). Buy Robocop: Prime Directives in the USA - or Buy Robocop: Prime Directives in the UK  check out website: www.gnpcrescendo.com/ and www.NormanOrenstein.com
Now we come to the music from the four films of 'Robocop: The Prime Directives'. Composer Norman Orenstein's music is very distinctive and dramatic with an orchestral theme for the dramatics. As the music was cut for four films, the CD doesn't really show the joins and is really one enormous composition. Not the kind of music you will be able to go away and hum from memory but great to listen to while at your keyboard. Listening to it again away from the films, the closest to a theme is the touch of spaghetti westerns which comes out occasionally.
A lot of film and TV music these days shy away from having set themes for particular characters but tends to play more on the emotions of the scenes. Whether that's a good thing or not is open for debate. Is the music there for the dramatics or something that can be used to propel the story along? In many respects, by not having individual character themes does allow the composer to come away with a more integrated and varied composition that tends to be more opus than a disorientated mixture. At the end of the day, I guess its down to what the directors and producers want for their films.
Certainly, this CD lives up to this consistency and if you want a companion to the DVD, then get it while its still available.
GF Willmetts
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