given the delay of an official release of the original recordings, and in 1993 “Off World Music, Ltd.” created a bootleg CD that would prove more comprehensive than Vangelis’ official CD in 1994. A disc from “Gongo Records” features most of the same material, but with slightly better sound quality. In 2003, two other bootlegs surfaced, the “Esper Edition”, closely preceded by “Los Angeles: November 2019”. The double disc “Esper Edition” combined tracks from the official release, the Gongo boot and the film itself. Finally “2019” provided a single disc compilation almost wholly consisting of ambient sound from the film, padded out with some sounds from the Westwood game Blade Runner.
A set with three CDs of Blade Runner-related Vangelis music was released on December 10, 2007. Titled Blade Runner Trilogy, the first CD contains the same tracks as the 1994 official