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When the announcement comes that my live big beat big dirty bass favs, The Crystal Method, are scoring their first film soundtrack, you can bet I got to the theater early to be first in line to see that film!! Actually, there wasn’t a line because it was an advance screening, and in fact I’m so movie illiterate I don’t even know if the movie actually made it to nationwide release (it should have, I loved it), but the music in the film itself and on the soundtrack CD is exactly the quality and gut rumbling loveliness I’ve come to expect and adore from TCM. Nine of the fourteen tracks are from TCM, one throwing them in with Hyper on “Fire To Me.” The title track “London” is unforgettable as the film (I’ve always had sort of a bathroom paranoia and this really cemented it), and if it makes you feel slightly anxious, that’s no doubt because the film centers around cocaine-driven excess and anxieties at a loft party... mostly inside the aforementioned bathroom. That’s the one downside to this CD, sometimes I found myself skipping some of the more wound up songs! But getting back to the beginning, before that happens, Evil Nine’s sumptuous breakbeats kick in on number two, and then there’s a track a little later on by The Out Crowd which I learned features members of the rock band from one of my favorite all time films, the documentary Dig (the band being Brian Jonestown Massacre). There are no cheesy movie clips to mess up the great TCM music, and the flow from track to track is excellent, maybe the movie’s narrative influenced this movement, and keeps the “London” soundtrack chugging right along to the very end.-- review by Claire Maxwell
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