Various Artists - The Matrix--Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (25th Anniversary 2-LP Neo(n) Green Vinyl Edition)

Real Gone Music

£53.53

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: RLGM18641PMI
Barcode: 848064018643
Release Date: 11 Oct 2024
Genre: Soundtrack

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 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 animé, Hong Kong martial arts films, cyperpunk sci-fi, and hacker hero worship inta 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 film’s cinematographic “bullet time” innovations, a doom-laden, neck-snapping blend of stoner metal, hip hop and electronica. Now, on the occasion of the film’s 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. And the pressing is—what else?—neo(n) green!

TRACKS
Record One Side A
01 Marilyn Manson “Rock is dead”
02 Propellerheads “spybreak! (short one)”
03 Ministry “bad blood”
Record One Side B
01 Rob d “clubbed to death (kurayamino mix)”
02 meat beat manifesto “prime Audio soup”
03 Lunatic calm “Leave you Far Behind”
Record Two Side A
01 prodigy “mindfields”
02 Rob zombie “Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix)”
03 deftones “my own summer (shove it)”
04 Hive “ultrasonic sound”
Record Two Side B
01 monster magnet “Look To Your orb
For The warning”
02 Rammstein “du hast”
03 Rage against the machine “wake up”