Soundtrack

The Drive soundtrack will finally get its due as one of the best of 2011, as the Cliff Martinez-scored, Kavinsky and Chromatics-featuring set will arrive on the best format still kicking, vinyl, this summer in the U.S.

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Listen closely, and you can hear murmuring in the village. Discontented whispers about the Academy Award nominees. It’s a very hip village, don’t you know.

As in any healthy Oscars race, fans are making much of the various glaring omissions from this year’s nominee list. Nobody wants to give Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, or Steven Spielberg a trophy, despite the fact that they worked their tails off in just about every film released last year. No gracious nods to Mia Wasikowska, Michael Shannon, or Albert Brooks. The lovable Brooks even re-invented himself as a cold-blooded killer, but as Sir Ben Kingsley (of Sexy Beast) should have warned him, that doesn’t always work.

The worlds of rock and roll and film composing have been intertwining for a few decades now. Most people know the history of Danny Elfman who transitioned from Oingo Boingo front man to film music legend, and of course the recent notoriety of Daft Punk and Trent Reznor, have ushered in a whole new generation of film music fans.

Bronx-born/Ohio-raised Cliff Martinez moved to California in 1976 during the middle of the L.A. punk movement. After stints as the drummer for L.A.'s Finest - the Weirdos, Lydia Lunch and Foetus frontman Jim Thirlwell, and the final incarnation of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band ("Ice Cream For Crow"), Martinez joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing on the band’s first two albums (the Andy Gill-produced debut and the George Clinton-produced Freaky Styley) and later the Dickies. It was during his tenure with the Chili Peppers that Cliff began exploring the new technologies of that era, which would eventually guide him towards film music.

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Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with score by Cliff Martinez is just $5.00 at AmazonMP3