Track Listing

1. Who Am I? [Anamatrix Edit] - Peace Orchestra
2. Big Wednesday
3. Blind Tiger - Layo & Bushwacka!
4. Under the Gun - Supreme Beings of Leisure
5. Martenot Waves - Meat Beat Manifesto
6. Ren 2 - Photek
7. Hands Around My Throat - Death in Vegas
8. Beauty Never Fades [Animatrix Edit] - Junkie XL, Saffron
9. Supermoves [Animatrix Remix] - Overseer
10. Conga Fury [Animatrix Edit] - Juno Reactor
11. Red Pill, Blue Pill [*] - Junkie XL
12. Real [*] - Tech Itch

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118482 in Music
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2003-06-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Soundtrack
• Original language: Japanese
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Warning: Doesn't contain Don Davis' Animatrix score music!
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?" (Animatrix Edit)
2. Free*Land "Big Wednesday"
3. Layo & Bushwacka! "Blind Tiger"
4. Supreme Beings of Leisure "Under the Gun"
5. Meat Beat Manifesto "Martenot Waves"
6. Photek "Ren 2"
7. Death In Vegas "Hands Around My Throat"
8. Junkie XL "Beauty Never Fades" (Animatrix Edit)
9. Overseer "Supermoves" (Animatrix Remix)
10. Juno Reactor "Conga Fury" (Animatrix Mix)
11. Junkie XL/Don Davis "Red Pill, Blue Pill"
(featuring dialogue from The Matrix)
12. Tech Itch/Don Davis "The Real"
(featuring dialogue from The Matrix Reloaded)

What I expected, not what I wanted
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 with cheesy sampled quotes from the Matrix movies. Some of them are flat out embarrasing and sound like they're made by total amateurs.

SO unless you are a total Matrix fanatic who has to have EVERYTHING made in the name of the Matrix franchize - stay away from this CD.

Listing of what the tracks are, you fools.
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.' But is spliced up a bit, so any voice in the actual song isn't in the film.
4. Supreme Beings of Leisure "Under the Gun" - Detective Story - This one begins when Ash rushes out the door to catch the train, and ends when he enters Trinity's train compartment. Again, it's spliced up to use the good bits without any singing.
5. Meat Beat Manifesto "Martenot Waves" - The Second Renaissance Part One - This one begins after the Versitran ad, and runs for a short 25 or so seconds during the news clips before the UN scene.

6. Photek "Ren 2" - The Second Renaissance Part One - This one plays during the news clips of the robots being (partly) wiped out after the B166ER trial.
7. Death In Vegas "Hands Around My Throat" - Beyond - This one is heard in the background of the teenaged girl's phone conversation.
8. Junkie XL "Beauty Never Fades" (Animatrix Edit) - I don't think this one appears in the Animatrix at all, unless.. just maybe it plays during the robots advancing outward in all directions after Zero-One is bombed (in 2nd Renaissance Part2).. if it is, it plays for about 7 seconds, so I can't tell.
9. Overseer "Supermoves" (Animatrix Remix) - The Second Renaissance Part Two - The battle scene.
10. Juno Reactor "Conga Fury" (Animatrix Mix) - The Final Flight of the Osiris - The opening sword fight.

11. Junkie XL/Don Davis "Red Pill, Blue Pill"
(featuring dialogue from The Matrix)
AND
12. Tech Itch/Don Davis "The Real"
(featuring dialogue from The Matrix Reloaded)
Are NOT featured, as far as I know. And by the way, you labeling fools, the quote from the Merovingian in Track 12, "You are ready to die..? (..for this man)" Actually appears in The Matrix Revolutions, but was in a preview for both the 2nd and 3rd Matrix films, so I can understand the confusion. And it might be in the trailer at the end of the 2nd film's credits too.

Anyway, I hope this clears up any confusion you might have.