- Cast: Anthony Ray Parker | Belinda McClory | Carrie-Anne Moss | David Aston | Gloria Foster | Hugo Weaving | Joe Pantoliano | Julian Arahanga | Keanu Reeves | Laurence Fishburne | Marc Aden Gray | Marcus Chong | Matt Doran | Paul Goddard | Robert Taylor
- Directors: Lana Wachowski
- Contributor:
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- Product Types: Music & Spoken Word Products
- Formats: Vinyl
- Genres: Action | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction
- Studios: Real Gone Music | Warner Bros.
- Original Release Date: March 31, 1999
- Product Release Date: August 4, 2017
- Rating: r
- More: Keanu Reeves | Laurence Fishburne
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 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 film’s cinematographic “bullet time” innovations, a doom-laden, neck-snapping blend of stoner metal, hip hop and electronica.
Now, Real Gone Music presents, for the first time EVER on vinyl, the original soundtrack to The Matrix in a limited (what else?) “red and blue pill” vinyl edition. The 2-LP set comes in a newly-designed gatefold package featuring stills from the original film production. . . like Morpheus says, this is your last chance!
Features
- Limited Red and Blue Pill vinyl edition
- Limited to 1,500 copies
- First time ever released on vinyl
- Newly designed gatefold package featuring production stills from the groundbreaking film
Playlists
- Side 1
- Rock Is Dead by: Marilyn Manson
- Spybreak! (Short One) by: Propellerheads
- Bad Blood by: Ministry
- Side 2
- Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix) by: Rob D
- Prime Audio Soup by: Meat Beat Manifesto
- Leave You Far Behind by: Lunatic Calm
- Side 3
- Mindfields by: Prodigy
- Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix) by: Hot Rod Herman | Rob Zombie
- My Own Summer (Shove It) by: Deftones
- Ultrasonic Sound by: Hive
- Side 4
- Look to Your Orb for Warning by: Monster Magnet
- Du Hast by: Rammstein
- Wake Up by: Rage Against the Machine
Specifications
- Number of Discs:2