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Pi (Symbol)
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$17.98
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Manufacturer: Thrive
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0651249050624
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Thrive
Manufacturer: Thrive
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Thrive
Release Date: 1998-07-21
Studio: Thrive
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The soundtrack to the cyberthriller Pi stands on its own as a fine compilation, and fans of the artists featured on this soundtrack will be delighted to hear solid offerings from the likes of Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Spacetime Continuum, David Holmes, Orbital, and a mix of Roni Size's "Watching Windows" by Ed Rush and Optical. Those who have seen the film but are unfamiliar with the artists will be happily exposed to great music and should enjoy this incredibly cohesive, thematic piece. Even artists like Gus Gus and Banco De Gaia fit perfectly into this mix. The music is as complicatedly paranoid as the film's protagonist, Max Cohen, and as rhythmic and precise as the film's antagonist--the numeric system. Cohen's dialogue is interspersed through the soundtrack for a nice touch. --Aaron Tassano
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Summary: Brilliant work by the main man from Pop Will Eat Itself, Mr. Clint Mansell
Comment: An album that so thoroughly completes the movie, that listening to the album brings your right back to the tense, edgy, agitated, gripping story that is Pi. A great album on it's own, but far more powerful once the movie has been seen. In fact... I doubt the movie would have had such a striking impact without this soundtrack. Watch the movie, then do it with the sound off and you'll see what I mean. Enjoy!
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Summary: Impressive!!!!!,,,(thoughts from an independent film director)
Comment: The folks out here giving this soundtrack a 1 star should get christina anguilera and be happy with that less imaginative lifestyle.
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Summary: eh...i thought it was going to be better than expected.
Comment: Well first off the CD did not come in a case (not even a CD sleeve) but thats the least of problems. The CD was not impressive as a whole. There was only 2 good songs on that CD, which sadly (I think) were the ones they kept playing on the movie I guess, because thats the reason I bought it. Anyways.......you win some, you lose some....I consider this one a loss.
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Summary: The best IDM sampler soundtrack CD ever made.
Comment: The movie was a "low budget" production, but certainly not a "low budget appeal" film. I loved this dark surrealistic film. I love films when the main character is narrating throughout the film. Max Cohen is sharing the madness of the mental processing of information going on in his mind. Forcing his brain to come up with absolute answers involving numbers and patterns. And he suffers serious migraine headaches, as a result from it. So what do you get from a film which combines super intelligence with insanity? A soundtrack of IDM music.
All this music represents intelligence and madness. It may not impress alot of kids because it does have some softer, but yet nerving instrumental passages that build up to a more intense outcome. I think this movie and soundtrack is for older people to understand. Perhaps a "college nerd" may relate to the concept here. On this concept, perhaps those 30 years old or younger may appreciate the techno intelligence of the three "Hackers" soundtracks (artists like Prodigy, Leftfield, and Moby may be more what they could relate to.)
Dark ambient electronica. I guess that's what I would call this soundtrack of "Pi". This CD is a great introduction to the IDM artists available here.
Since I've seen this movie, and bought this (hard to find) CD, I've bought some other CD's from some artists here. I have become an "Autechre" fanatic. I have everything that they've possibly done. I've bought alot of Aphex Twin, and I have investigated other works from the other artists on this album soundtrack.
I think this soundtrack is out of print. I can't even find it "used" anywhere. When you can't find a CD "used" at a used CD store, you know it's got to be really good. People are holding on to it.
Using my own typical deductions, I have learned that, if you wanna see if a new album is any good, see how many copies of that particular album is available in the "used" bin at a used CD store. If there are many, you will know that it's proven to be undesirable. Each copy that you see in the "used" bin, is like seeing a negative review.
"Pi" is a classic! It may take a couple of listenings before you truly embrace the message behind this collection. Even I didn't take to it right away when I first heard it, but that was because I was totally unfamiliar with this kind of music. Now, I absolutely love it! It is, in fact, my favorite soundtrack CD. Only, "The City of Lost Children", "Cat People", Midnight Express", "A Clockwork Orange", "Escape From New York", and maybe "Phantasm", could be a close second, and third, etc. I love "horror" soundtracks. "Pi" is horror through intelligence. If it's dark and disturbing, I will embrace the darkness that it conjures.
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Summary: Stands the test of time: does musical justice to the movie
Comment: Well over six years after its original release, the soundtrack of the movie "Pi" has stood the (initial) test of time. This in itself, considering the genre it lives in, is quite a feat. Most of tracks come from the world of beats, electronica, trance, ambient, drum-and-bass and the like, which -as we know- are extra-prone to becoming obsolete in no time. But perhaps the careful selection of the lineup of artists that delivered the music to the movie allows the album to continue to offer something now that electronica has somewhat passed its prime.
As for my favorite tracks, there's not one I dislike among the first six tracks. As for Clint Mansell's tracks (check out his soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream" too -you'll enjoy it), which lie at the core of the movie's musical spirit, they connect the listener with the movie better than any other tracks. As a whole, the soundtrack is less than perfect (tracks by Roni Size, Aphex Twins and Autechre I can live without), but it does musical justice to a movie that has already become a cult indie film classic.
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