The Animatrix: The Album

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For all the people out there who say none of this music is in the Animatrix or for the one guy who said it's all in there.
Most of it is, and 2 or 3 tracks are not featured in the film. That's how it always goes with soundtracks.
(All of these are approximations, don't get too nitpicky, ok?)
1. Peace Orchestra "Who Am I?" (Animatrix Edit) - Kid's Story - This one is heard in the morning whilst the boy eats breakfast and skateboards to school and ends when he closes his locker.
2. Free*Land "Big Wednesday" - The Second Renaissance Part One - This one begins as soon as we see the large overview of the futuristic city at the beginning of the short (after the red and yellow introduction), and ends after the large 'robots toiling tirelessly scene'.
3. Layo & Bushwacka! "Blind Tiger" - Detective Story - This one begins when Mr. Ash 'looks at his bank account balance' and ends when he goes to see the 'one that's left, the crazy one.'...Read more

If you are interested in this album because of Don Davis' amazing score music heard in the Animatrix shorts online and on the dvd, look elsewhere. This CD doesn't contain any of it in that form. The two Davis tracks are remixed with movie dialogue spoken over the music. The end product barely resembles what you hear in the shorts. This CD is just another electronica compilation album with a Matrix name on it, much like the first disc of the Reloaded soundtrack. And, unfortunately, it's not even a very good electronica collection, certainly not on par with the original Matrix soundtrack album. There are a few good tracks, for the die-hard fan/collector, but not much. And, again, none of that beautiful score music heard in The Second Renaissance Part One or Final Flight of the Osiris in its original form. I really hope that a score album containing that music is released in the future. Here is the contents of The Animatrix: The Album:
1. Peace Orchestra "Who Am I?"...Read more

Ok...I'm disappointed.
Many tracks that should have been there, are missing from this CD.
Where are all the beautiful scoring tracks by Don Davis? The opening and ending track in"Second Renessance I and II for instance? Or the finale in Kid's Story?
To all you score lovers out there this CD is a joke.
While on the subject of "Kid's story", one of the best tracks in the entire Animatrix is missing - namely "Masters of the Universe" by Juno Reactor. (Yes, the track when he rides his skate board, escaping from the agents) This awesome track that is so totally "Matrix" in sound and style is NOT on this CD, most probably due to some F-up between record labels or something.
If you want it, it's on Juno Reactor's own album "Shango".

Then what are we left with?
Well, there are a few good tracks on this CD like "Who am I", "Beauty Never Fades" and Super Moves but that's pretty much it.
the rest is a bunch of uninspired techno/electronica tracks...Read more