The Matrix (Music From the Motion Picture) (Clear w/ Red & Blue Swirl Vinyl)

Description

Every decade or so a science fiction film comes along that captures the Zeitgeist and simultaneously casts a searchlight into the murk of what’s to come. Such a film wasThe Matrix. Released in 1999 to a public already grappling with huge technological change and subject to Y2K hysteria whipped up by the media,The Matrixwove 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 Matrixtapped into the new, breakbeat electronic sounds making inroads into popular music. The result was a propulsive audio ride perfectly mated to the film’s cinematographic “bullet time” innovations, a doom-laden, neck-snapping blend of stoner metal, hip hop, and electronica.

On the eve of the franchise’s fourth installment, Real Gone Music reissues the equally ahead of its timeoriginal soundtracktoThe Matrixas acolored vinyl 2LP-setwith gatefold packaging featuring stills from the original film production.

LP1
1. Marilyn Manson Rock Is Dead
2. Propellerheads Spybreak! (Shortone)
3. Ministry Badblood
4. Robd Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino mix)
5. Meatbeat Manifesto Prime Audio Soup
6. Lunatic Calm Leave You Far Behind

LP2
1. Prodigy Mindfields
2. Rob Zombie Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix)
3. Deftones My Own Summer (Shoveit)
4. Hive Ultrasonic Sound
5. Monster Magnet Look To Your Orb For The Warning
6. Rammstein Duhast
7. Rage Against The Machine Wakeup