The Beach

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Product Description ------------------- Features new music from Sugar Ray (produced by Brian Eno), All Saints (produced by William Orbit), Blur, Faithless and New Order (1st new since 1993). .co.uk ------ You can always rely on Danny Boyle's movies to have decent music and The Beach doesn't disappoint even if it's unlikely to connect as extensively as the Trainspotting ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002U3P/${0} ) soundtrack. Musical co-ordinator Pete Tong has pulled out all the stops to secure exclusive tracks from major artists, and no less than seven of the numbers here have never been released before, while those that have--including UNKLE's desolate Lonely Soul with Richard Ashcroft, Barry Adamson's paranoiac Vietnam dream sequence Richard, It's Business As Usual ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026ZHE/${0} ) and Moby's beats lullaby "Porcelain" from Play ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JCXD/${0} )--are of the highest class. The new material doesn't disappoint either. Leftfield open up the album with some whiplash drums, Underworld make their customary contribution playing down frantic beats in favour of the jogging mantra "8 Ball", All Saints enjoy their best-ever moment parading along the sunkissed "Pure Shores" with William Orbit, and Sugar Ray rerecord Brian Eno and John Cale's gossamer pop number Spinning Away ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000242KG/${0} ). Elsewhere New Order provide their first new music since the release of Republic ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025L5K/${0} ) with "Brutal", a trademark number with production from Rollo who returns with Faithless on the bubbling, mesmeric standout "Woozy". Orbital close the package with their pumped up interpretation of the Angelo Badalamenti score complete with snippets of Leonardo DiCaprio's dialogue. Life's The Beach, then you die. --Mike Pattenden