Released only on MCA's vinyl and Compact Cassette(Until 2010), out of sale since ages, it has become a real collection piece.

It contains the bulk of the songs included, among which stands out a special release for the film IN A GADDA DA VIDA by Iron Butterly and leaves out (Kitaro)Seiun ,(Schulze) Freeze and (The Reds)Jogger.

The pieces omitted from the vinyl edition are both rare and hot to be found, unless the luck of downloading them from the web on mp3 file.

Seiun by Kitaro taken from the Queen Millenia album (Geffen records) is used during Will Graham’s(William Petersen) dream.

Freeze  by Klaus Shulze has been included both in the album Angst (Thunderbolt) and in The Essential:72-93 (Caroline) album and it is used during the dialogue in the cell between Will Graham and Dr. Lector.

Jogger (Aka Trapped-Jogger's Steakout) composed by The Reds is used during the night scene in Washington D.C. car park. The piece is recorded on a demo tape and has never been released on whichever selling form until the Intrada Records Release of 2010.

It is also still unknow the incidental music  during the phone call between Dr.Lector and Will Graham(perhaps composed by The Reds) before this latter revisiting Leed’s House looking(feeling) for other evidences.

In the full and controversial music splendour of the ‘80s, Mann proves himself as an eclectic author leaving his close collaboration with the Tangerine Dream for his previous two films, and counting also on such an artists as Klaus Schulze (with the piece Freeze), now soloist but already part and co-operator of the group at their debut with Electronic Meditation (1971). He also enthralls a few other authors who seem to retrace the sonorousness glories of the German group, such as the Japanese Kitaro (Seiun), The Reds, Michel Rubini and Shriekback; these two latter, already composers for the film Band of Hand (1987) produced by Mann and directed by Paul Michael Glaser.  

Strong As I’m by The Prime Movers, in my view, is one of the best blend of music and images in recent times, which highlights how much Francis Dolarhide (Tom Noonan) is dangerously great and unrestrainable, while Coleochant by Shriekback, an English pop-rock group, is perfect during the scene of Reba(Joan Allen) and the tiger, in being beyond and empathetic with the situation.

Finally, it has a remarkable impact the excursus in the late ‘60s, with the piece A Gadda Da Vida by the Iron Butterly, L.A. acid rock group, taken from the namesake album (almost 30 million copies sold); in this soundtrack there is a special edition real gem, released for the film, which end the side B of the, by now, rare album published by MCA and produced by Michael Mann himself.

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MANHUNTER Tracklist INTRADA RECORDS MAF 7108

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01. Strong As I Am (Prime Movers) (4:37)
02. Coelocanth (Shriekback) (4:19)
03. This Big Hush (Shriekback) (6:13)
04. Graham's Theme (Michel Rubini) (4:00)
05. Evaporation (Shriekback) (3:18)

06. Heartbeat (Red 7) (3:52)
07. Lector's Cell (The Reds) (1:48)
08. Jogger's Stakeout (The Reds) (2:05) Not Available  on MCA Vinyl and Tapes
09. Leed's House (The Reds) (4:32)
10. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly) (8:20)