Howard Shore’s Videodrome Score Is Ready to Mess With Your Head

Almost 40 years after its launch, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome nonetheless rings true. A sci-fi horror thriller a few TV channel that may simply be murdering individuals as a technique to corrupt perverted Americans one way or the other now, in an period of streaming, social media, and 24/7 information, feels extra fashionable an ever. And whereas the movie has remained disturbingly timeless, its music has remained oddly absent.

Previous releases of the movie’s rating, written by Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore, weren’t the total, authentic rating—simply remixes. But now, for the primary time ever, the rating has been restored from the unique session masters and supervised by Shore himself. Mondo will launch it on vinyl with art work by Rich Kelly this Wednesday, February 23, however io9 has obtained your unique first look.

And right here’s the within, providing you with a glimpse of extra of Kelly’s artowrk in addition to the vinyl itself.

“As continued fans of the Cronenberg and Shore collaborations over the years, our partnership with HOWE records has proven to be one of the most important in the history of our record label,” Mondo artistic director of music, Mo Shafeek informed io9 by way of e mail. “But sometimes records take a long to make. Not even just the manufacturing process – ever since our first collaboration with HOWE Records (Scanners / The Brood, in 2014) we have been working towards re-issuing Videodrome [for] 8 years!”

“Even at our most optimistic we thought the best we could achieve was a direct re-issue of the original 1983 Videodrome album. We never could have imagined that Howard Shore would be going back to his master tapes to put the album together for the first time ever,” he mentioned.

Pressed on 180 gram shade vinyl, and in addition out there on 180 gram black vinyl, Videodrome can be out there for $30 pre-order straight at MondoShop.com. (In addition to vinyl, it’ll even be out there on CD by way of La-La Land Records, and digitally by way of Back Lot Music.) Here’s the monitor listing:

Side A

1. Cable 83 (0:19)

2. Piercing (3:01)

3. Civc TV (2:21)

4. Got A Cigarette? (1:32)

5. Nicki Inside (1:19)

6. Come To Me (3:12)

7. Samurai Dreams, No. 13 (2:03)

8. Whipping (2:31)

9. In Bed (1:20)

10. The New Flesh (2:04)

Side B

1. Spectacular Optical (0:12)

2. Transformation (3:28)

3. Gun In Gut (2:40)

4. Cathode Ray Mission (0:48)

5. Videodrome Is Death (3:30)

6. Grenade (2:11)

7. Condemned Vessel (5:10)

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