VARÈSE SARABANDE ANNOUNCES

LATEST OFFERINGS FROM FAN-FAVORITE CD CLUB SERIES

DELUXE EXPANDED RELEASES OF CELEBRATED SCORES FROM

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER AND TIMECOP

Available July 10, the CD Club editions feature new liner notes including exclusive interviews,

 plus never-before-released tracks—with expanded editions also available digitally

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Click here to pre-order/pre-save The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Timecop (CD Club / Deluxe Editions)

Los Angeles, CA (May 20, 2026)—Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings announce the latest offerings from the popular CD Club series: deluxe editions of the celebrated film scores for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Timecop. Arriving July 10 and available to pre-order/pre-save today, both titles will be released as CD Club editions featuring exclusive liner notes and newly expanded music, with the expanded albums also available digitally.

The CD Club release of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water offers a new interview with composer John Debney discussing the creation of the film’s energetic and eccentric score, along with never-before-released musical cues. Meanwhile, Timecop features interviews with composer Mark Isham and director Peter Hyams, plus newly unearthed cues from the beloved Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller.

Originally launched in 1989 and revived in 2001, the Varèse Sarabande CD Club was created to give soundtrack collectors access to rare, out-of-print, and long-requested film scores that might not otherwise receive a commercial release. Over the years, the series has become a cornerstone for soundtrack fans seeking a deeper dive into beloved and hard-to-find titles.

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Following the film’s 2015 release, Debney’s score for Sponge Out of Water quickly became one of his most beloved works. Shifting between pirate rhythms and voice-topped epic comic-book action, Debney conveys the cosmic stakes of SpongeBob and his reluctant nemesis, Plankton, as they attempt to recover the Krabby Patty formula stolen by the nefarious, live-action scalawag Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas). Balancing comic lunacy with moments of sweeping heroism—as Super SpongeBob and friends don their capes—Debney enthusiastically captures the screwball spirit of Bikini Bottom with his wildly inventive score for the character he would revisit a decade later in The Search for Squarepants.

An opportunity Debney embraced, the project allowed him to lean into both the quirks and scale of scoring for such a beloved animated property. In the new liner notes for this deluxe edition, the California-born composer reflects on the score’s eclectic influences: “You know me and pirate movies!… I really wanted to reference what Buddy Baker did for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, because I think of that first. Then I think of Erich Wolfgang Korngold and The Sea Wolf. Then Hans Zimmer’s music comes up for his Caribbean movies. You throw it all into a hat, jumble it up, and then come up with a pirate theme. It was really fun, because Sponge Out of Water was a time when orchestras were working a lot more in Los Angeles, and everyone was primed and ready to do a big adventure score – which this really is.”

As for Timecop, the film marked a pivotal collaboration between Jean-Claude Van Damme and multi-hyphenate filmmaker Peter Hyams. Adapted from the Dark Horse comic, the story follows a time-traveling enforcer working to stop a power-hungry politician while unraveling the mystery of his wife’s murder—helping propel Van Damme to a new level of Hollywood stardom. Those suspenseful and emotional stakes carry through in the hard-hitting, percussively pummeling score composed by Mark Isham, who’d previously scored Van Damme’s Nowhere to Run as well as the evocative chase of The Hitcher.

A fan-favorite soundtrack for decades, Timecop is finally available again — expanded musically and featuring exclusive interviews. In his interview, Isham reflects on his unorthodox approach to the score: “I used very traditional and time-proven devices to make Timecop a really emotional piece of work while satisfying Peter’s strong decision that the other part of the score would be completely unpredictable and unemotional”, also noting that “It had a lot of prepared pianos that were recorded very, how shall we say, aggressively – like slamming piano lids and hitting piano strings. That poor piano! So those percussive sounds have a very organic feeling yet sound a little bit alien at the same time.”

Celebrate both Timecop and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water with these new CD Club and Digital Deluxe Editions.

Click here to pre-order/pre-save Timecop and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Tracklist:

1.   Burger Beard On Island Opening*
2.   Burger Beard Starts To Read Story / Burger Beard Continues To Read Story*
3.   Plankton’s Plane* / Plankton Attack
4.   Firing The Ketchup Gun / Tank Defeat / Giant Robot
5.   Plankton’s Wallet Sting* / Trying To Steal Formula
6.   Torturing Plankton / Build To Squidward Opening Door / Refund!
7.   To The Chum Bucket* / Escaping In A Bubble / Bikini Bottom Apocalypse*
8.   The End!
9.   Reporter Attacked* / Book Page Lands On Sandy’s House*
10. He Brings Loyalty* / Get Him / Chase At A Snail’s Pace*
11. Going To Sleep / Inside SpongeBob’s Brain / Rainbow! *
12. Casing The Chum Bucket* / Staking Out The Chum Bucket* / Gimme A Boost*
13. Getting The Key / Plankton Rescues Karen
14. Building Time Machine* / Plankton’s Sappy Goodbye To Karen*
15. Intro Bubbles / Angry Bubbles*
16. Stealing Formula Back / Pirate Ship And Food Truck
17. My Very Own Food Truck / Who Wants Some Hot Wings* / Chasing Seagulls Away*
18. Sandy Proposes Sacrifice / The Sacrifice / Dawn Of Time*
19. Grabbing SpongeBob* / Sacrifice*
20. Bubbles To The Rescue / Beach Search For Krabby Patty’s
21. Beachfront Antics / Bike Path Encounters / Home Of The Krabby Patty
22. Story Rewrites
23. Serious Aft Kicking* / Invincabubble / The Rodent*
24. Chasing Burger Beard / Team Worked
25. Not So Fast Burger Beard / PlankTON / Real Teamwork

*Previously unreleased

Timecop Tracklist:

1.   Time Cop (Main Theme)
2.   Dorsal Fins / Premonition (Suite)*
3.   Lovemaking*
4.   The Beating*
5.   Atwood Jumps / Death Sentence (Suite)*
6.   I Never Quit / Handsome Devil (Suite) *
7.   A Love Lost In The Past*
8.   50,000 Volts*
9.   The Launch*
10. To The Warehouse*
11. Parker’s Punishment*
12. Warehouse Battle (Suite) *
13. Searching For Clues*
14. Manual Launch*
15. Ships In The Night*
16. Blood Test*
17. Menace At The Mall*
18. A Kiss From The Future*
19. It Has To End Tonight*
20. Sturm And Drang (Suite) *
21. Lousy Night To Be Out*
22. Justice In The Rain*
23. Meltdown*
24. A Friend Of The Family*
25. Present Perfect*
26. M10*
27. M18A / M20 (Suite) *

*Previously unreleased

About Varèse Sarabande:

Varèse Sarabande is one of the leading and most prolific producers of film and television soundtracks. The label was formed as a merger between Varèse International Records (named for composer Edgar Varèse) and Sarabande Records (named after a musical dance form). Initially a classical label, Varèse Sarabande has released thousands of soundtracks and new recordings of classic film scores conducted by celebrated composers with the world’s best-known orchestras since 1977. The label upped the ante for fans by creating the Varèse Sarabande CD Club—releasing exclusive limited-edition deluxe soundtracks featuring rare and long-requested titles. The CD Club ran initially from 1989–92 and was restarted in 2001, and Varèse continues to create Deluxe Editions of cherished scores that might otherwise never see a release.  Since joining Concord in 2018, Varèse Sarabande continues its mission to release new scores, high quality vinyl and Deluxe Edition soundtracks.

For more info, visit VareseSarabande.com and follow on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

About Craft Recordings:

Craft Recordings is home to one of the largest and most essential collections of master recordings and compositions in the world. Its storied repertoire includes landmark releases from icons such as Joan Baez, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Isaac Hayes, John Lee Hooker, Little Richard, R.E.M., and Joan Sebastian. Plus, the catalog recordings of celebrated contemporary acts including A Day to Remember, Daddy Yankee, Evanescence, Alison Krauss, Nine Inch Nails, Taking Back Sunday and Violent Femmes, to name just a few. Renowned imprints with catalogs issued under the Craft banner include Fania, Fantasy, Fearless, Musart, Nitro, Panart, Prestige, Riverside, Rounder, Specialty, Stax, Vanguard, Varèse Sarabande, Vee-Jay and Victory, among many others. Craft creates thoughtfully curated packages, with a meticulous devotion to quality and a commitment to preservation—ensuring that these recordings endure for new generations to discover. Craft is also home to the Billie Holiday and Tammy Wynette estates which preserve and protect their respective names, likeness and music through day-to-day legacy management of these cultural trailblazers.

Craft Recordings is the catalog label team for Concord. For more info, visit CraftRecordings.com and follow on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

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