With its combination of world history and the possibilities of peaceful cooperation for a better world through high-tech communications, Spaceship Earth was the thesis statement for all EPCOT Center. And the two Worlds that composed it had their own centerpieces. While The American Adventure, as the embodiment of the diversity of our circle of nations as one, is the prime representative of World Showcase, Future World's many subjects were fully encapsulated in the most grand and complex of all Disney's attractions: HORIZONS.
Among its many wonders was its amazing score written by the great George Wilkins with assistance by his (at the time) apprentice John Debney. Up until now, this soaringly optimistic set of compositions could only be heard as a 6th (to possibly 8th) generation tape recording and digitized in low-quality at the turn of this century when .MP3s had barely been invented. As a result, what I (and many others) have had to work with was filled with artifacts, imperfections and even peaked-out parts taking place painfully at pivotal sections of the score.
A little over a year ago, several individuals came forward to fill in several gaps in my archive, among these was a 1st generation recording of the entire Horizons score taken directly from the original DATs and encoded in the highest possible quality. What was there was absolutely amazing, and yet still in a very raw state. Restoration still had to be carefully performed with the removal of all noise without sacrificing ANY of the finer details.
To this day, I'm still very satisfied with mix/arrangement I did in 2015, and that became the guide to reconstructing this new 40th Anniversary definitive edition of HORIZONS, for the Future World Soundtrack Series. After 50+ hours of remixing, sweetening, painstakingly resyncing, and remastering to bring out all the details here are the results!
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FWSS | HORIZONS — 40th Anniversary Edition
