Soundtrack

Boyz N The Hood is the critically acclaimed story of three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of street life where friendship, pain, danger and love combine to form reality. "The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony coexists with adversity, especially for three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitious drug dealer; his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college-bound teenage father; and Ricky's best friend Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond "The Hood." In a world where a trip to the store can end in death, the friends have diverse reactions to their bleak surroundings. Tre's resolve is strengthened by a strong father (Larry Fishburne) who keeps him on the right track. But the lessons Tre learns are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse. The Oscar-nominated 1991 film's gold-certified soundtrack peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and is comprised of '90s hip-hop (Ice Cube, 2 Live Crew) and R&B (Tevin Campbell, Tony! Toni! Toné!) plus a few score pieces from Quincy Jones and Stanley Clarke.

Tracks

LP1

1. Ice Cube - How To Survive In South Central
2. Tevin Campbell - Just Ask Me To
3. Yo-Yo - Mama Don't Take No Mess
4. CMW - Growin' Up In The Hood
5. Main Source - Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball (Remix)
6. Tony! Toni! Toné! - Me & You
7. Monie Love - Work It Out

LP2

1. Kam - Every Single Weekend
2. Hi-Five - Too Young
3. The 2 Live Crew - Hangin' Out
4. Too Short - It's Your Life
5. Force One Network - Spirit (Does Anyone Care?)
6. Quincy Jones - Setembro
7. Stanley Clarke - Black On Black Crime

2014 collector's edition special purple purple vinyl LP pressing reissue. Of the many wonderful blaxpoitation soundtracks to emerge during the early '70s, SHAFT certainly deserves mention as not only one of the most lasting but also one of the most successful. Isaac Hayes was undoubtedly one of the era's most accomplished soul artists, and with 'Theme from Shaft,' he delivered an anthem just as ambitious and revered as the film itself, a song that has only grown more treasured over the years, after having been an enormously popular hit at the time of it's release. Shaft still remains a powerful record; one of Hayes' pinnacle moments for sure.

Tracks

• 1 Theme from Shaft
• 2 Bumpy's Lament
• 3 Walk from Regio's
• 4 Ellie's Love Theme
• 5 Shaft's Cab Ride
• 6 Cafe Regio's
• 7 Early Sunday Morning
• 8 Be Yourself
• 9 A Friend's Place
• 10 Soulsville (Vocal Version)
• 11 No Name Bar
• 12 Bumpy's Blues
• 13 Shaft Strikes Again
• 14 Do Your Thing (Vocal Version)
• 15 The End Theme

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.

On the eve of the franchise's fourth installment, Real Gone Music reissues the equally ahead of its time original soundtrack to The Matrix as a colored vinyl 2LP-set with 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”

CAM Sugar presents Fellini's milestone Amarcord – carefully restored and remastered from the original master tapes and featuring 15 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl. Amarcord won an Academy Award in 1974 as Best Foreign Film and received two nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay. The sweet and evocative music by Nino Rota takes the listener on a journey through the places of Fellini's boyhood in Rimini, creating a combination of music and images that is still appreciated today.

Tracks

LP1
1. Amarcord
2. La Fogaraccia
3. Le Manine di Primavera
4. Lo Struscio/Quel Motivetto che mi piace tanto/Stormy Weather/La Cucaracha
5. L’emiro e le sue Odalische/Salomé - Abat-Jour
6. Gary Cooper
7. La Gradisca e il Principe
8. Siboney
9. Danzando nella nebbia
10. Tutti a vedere il Rex
11. Quanto mi piace la Gradisca
12. La Gradisca si sposa e se ne va

LP2
1. Amarcord (Guitar And Harmonica)
2. Siboney (Accordion) 
3. Amarcord (Grand Hotel)
4. Amarcord (Il barbiere)
5. Amarcord (Tenderness)
6. Amarcord (Dancefloor Pt. 1)
7. Amarcord (Grand Hotel) (Alternate)
8. Salomé: Abat-Jour (Alternate)
9. Danzando nella nebbia (Alternate Mix)
10. Amarcord (Funeral) (Alternate)
11. Amarcord (Theme)
12. La fogaraccia (Film Version)
13. Lo struscio / Quel motivetto che mi piace tanto (Alternate)
14. Amarcord (Dancefloor Pt. 2) (Alternate)
15. Amarcord (Zio matto a vuoto)