Various - Matrix (Music From The Film) [Red / Blue Swirl Vinyl]

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 was 1999's 'The Matrix'. The universally-acclaimed film wove such au courant tropes as Japanese animé, 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.

'The Matrix' 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 film’s cinematographic “bullet time” innovations, a doom-laden, neck-snapping blend of stoner metal, hip hop and electronica.

Limited Edition RED and BLUE PILL inspired SWIRL double vinyl produced by Real Gone Music in 2021. US Import.

TRACKLISTING:

SIDE A

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

SIDE B

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

SIDE C

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

SIDE D

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