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Well I don't know your goal, are you just trying to hear the music or
are you collecting bootlegs and the official releases?

I guess showing the deficiencies in Wikipedia's listing...

First off why stop with the 1994 Atlantic (actually EastWest is the
label though that's part of WEA) release today when you can buy the
"Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary" 3 CD set? Maybe you don't
approve of the new Vangelis material but it still contains a disc of
old material not on the bootlegs. (p.s. I have the 1994 EastWest
album on Brazilian LP for what it's worth... ahem... and no, it's not
for sale)

The Gongo "Romanian" bootleg was made from the "Off-World" bootleg. I
haven't A/B-ed them but you aren't going to hear any satisfying
differences, it's 94% the same thing and even more the same if it's
only Vangelis you are interested in. There may be some cleanup or fix-
up but it's not really apparent. The Gongo might have been made by
the same or some of the same people. It was probably an idea to make
more money off the "Off-World" bootleg before someone else did since
that one was a numbered edition. Sort of a quasi-bootleg of a
bootleg? You can just as soon get the Gongo if you don't want to pay
a collector's price for the "Off World" though for listening that's a
moot point given the Esper.

The Esper 2CD set incorporates the same material though perhaps
played around with slightly again, so really that should cover nearly
all of any bootleg material you might want. It contains some more
bootleg tracks than the other pair. Unless of course you are
collection the physical discs, and then there are a lot more boots
than those than the ones you've mentioned. I guess there are supposed
to be only 10 original copies of the Esper set so it's most likely
you'd get a rip of that one since it's a whole different league than
say the "Off World" which is an actual manufactured CD made in
quantities not impossible to pay collector's money for. On the other
hand without reference of a known original, if for some reason you
need an original Esper CD-R(?) it would be tough to prove you have
one of the 10 "genuine" copies.

Nick
waiting and crossing my fingers for my Lexicon 224 v4.4 to arrive