BT Music From and Inspired by the Film Monster Music
by BT

About this Music

DTS Entertainment is proud to release a CD/DVD two-disc set with 5.1 Surround Music of BT’s original music from and inspired by the critically acclaimed motion picture Monster, starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. Blending Americana-inspired melodic sensibilities and non-traditional instrumentation, BT conceived and recorded the entire original score for Monster in 5.1 surround sound. This double disc package offers both a stereo CD of original music evolved from BT’s film score, as well as a "bonus" DVD with over two hours of original BT compositions presented in DTS 5.1 surround sound, plus numerous exclusive audio/video extras

Monster was an unflinching movie that took you to the edge of the abyss with Aileen Wournos, a prostitute who murdered seven of her customers in Florida in the 1980s. Director Patty Jenkins' film is a sympathetic portrait of Wournos and BT's (Brian Transeau) score ranges from hopeful to harrowing. Fans of BT's trance music won't find any of his familiar beats and techno strategies here, but a work that is just as immersive. Mixing ambient Americana, melancholic minimalism, and atonal atmospheres, this isn't the kind of score you might expect from a musician more associated with dance, trance, and pop music. But BT pulls out all the emotional stops here from the poignant opening theme, "Childhood Montage," with its haunting keyboard refrain, to the stomping guitar twang rave-up on "Ditch the Car." Instead of the usual soundtrack of truncated cues, BT has fleshed out his themes into extended works that segue through the disc. An additional bonus is a DVD-A 5:1 surround mix that puts you right in the middle of BT's spectral swirl. Adding an additional 9 tracks of music, BT paints a 360 degree sound world that is as enveloping as it is compelling. --John Diliberto