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 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, 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!
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