Various Artists The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture Music
by Various Artists

About this Music

The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture features the biggest names in electronic dance music and adrenaline-fueled industrial and hard rock, high-lighted by a new song by Ministry, a new remix by Rob Zombie and recent classics from Prodigy, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein and Marilyn Manson. A Warner Bros. film, The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss and was written/directed by brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, whose previous film was 1996's sexy thriller Bound.

If you're going to pitch a movie about cyber-revolutionaries to plugged-in audiences, you'd best mind your MP3s and BPMs when choosing soundtrack selections. The cynical wireheads who flock to such high-tech conspiracy flicks as Brazil and Hackers are thrillseekers of the highest caliber, and The Matrix soundtrack meets this challenge faster than a speeding cyborg. The opener, Marilyn Manson's anti-consumerism rant "Rock Is Dead," paints an aural portrait of urban decay. Ominous sirens permeate the Propellerheads' drum 'n' bass track "Spybreak!"; mournful piano alternates with hard shiny beats on Rob D's "Clubbed to Death"; and Meat Beat Manifesto fills "Prime Audio Soup" with enough bleeps to make one imagine being trapped inside a motherboard in Hell. It may sound dismal, but the friction permeating this compilation of techno, grindcore, and heavy metal is energizing enough to make fans of these genres feel the same unity as a clandestine community of hackers. --Kristy Ojala