VARIOUS – The Matrix – Music From The Motion Picture (25th Anniversary) [Import] – 2LP – Neon Green Vinyl [OCT 11]

2LP – Limited 25th Anniversary Edition Neon Green Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve featuring stills from the original film production (Import).

Every decade or so a science fiction film comes along that captures the Zeitgeist and simultaneously casts a searchlight into the murk of whats to come. Such a film was The Matrix. Released in 1999 to a public already grappling with huge technological change and subject to Y2K hysteria whipped up by the media, The Matrix wove such au courant tropes as Japanese anim, Hong Kong martial arts films, cyperpunk sci-fi, and hacker hero worship into a tale of druggy paranoia whose vision of a grim future marked with universal surveillance and pathological interconnectedness actually looks less paranoid by the day. And its soundtrack was similarly forward-looking. Instead of offering the blues-based, heavy metal rock that might have populated the score had the movie been made a decade before, The Matrix tapped into the new, breakbeat electronic sounds making inroads into popular music. The result was a propulsive audio ride perfectly mated to the films cinematographic bullet time innovations, a doom-laden, neck-snapping blend of stoner metal, hip hop and electronica. Now, on the occasion of the films 25th anniversary, Real Gone Music is proud to present the original soundtrack to The Matrix in a gatefold package featuring stills from the original film production.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Marilyn Manson – Rock Is Dead
2. Propellerheads – Spybreak! (Short One)
3. Ministry – Bad Blood

Side B
1. Rob D – Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix)
2. Meat Beat Manifesto – Prime Audio Soup
3. Lunatic Calm – Leave You Far Behind

Side C
1. Prodigy – Mindfields
2. Rob Zombie – Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix)
3. Deftones – My Own Summer (Shove It)
4. Hive – Ultrasonic Sound

Side D
1. Monster Magnet – Look To Your Orb For The Warning
2. Rammstein – Du Hast
3. Rage Against The Machine – Wake Up