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February 28, 2008: Interview - “Superman: The Music” CD Collection

AintItCool.com has posted an in-depth and lengthy interview with Mike Matessino and Lukas Kendall, the producers of the "blue box" 8-disc CD collection officially known as "Superman: The Music". Here's an excerpt from the interview...

Q: The booklet is very extensive, this time you've combined technical (Star Wars SEs) and the friendlier tone commentary (Rhino release). Bravo, you have achieved the perfect balance. Was that your mandate from the outset?

MM: The only thing we knew we wanted to do from the outset was to document the cores cue-by-cue and have the accompanying notes be as detailed as possible about the music production. Lukas came up with the idea for having sidebars for the composer bios and some other subjects and it really took shape gradually and as a result of collaborating back and forth. It was an organic process more than a calculated one.

The Rhino approach was dictated by the people at the company involved at the time and they were fine for what that project was, but I didn't really go back to that at all. Lukas really set the tone for the book in some of the sections he started writing early in the process and I just followed that lead.

Then came the interviews and it all just started coalescing on its own.

Read the complete interview at AintItCool.com.