Mondo has announced that they will be releasing the soundtracks for 2001: A Space Odyssey and Shaun Of The Dead at this year’s MondoCon, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday in Austin, TX.
The soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey, composed by Alex North, is apparently a rare treat, with Mondo stating:
Stanley Kubrick’s seminal masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is known for its classical musical cues as much as it is for its vivid imagery. What few people realize is that the cues that are now forever associated with the film were a last minute revision on the part of Kubrick. There is an original score, composed for the film by the late Alex North (Spartacus, A Streetcar Named Desire) that was abandoned during post-production. North did not discover this until the film’s premiere screening.
Mondo worked directly with North to release this lost soundtrack for the first time ever. The package design by Jay Shaw, features a glossy Monolithic black, tip-on gatefold, with a holographic foil Interior gatefold, housed in a custom clear plastic slipcase. An online version will be sold in November.
The score for Shaun Of The Dead, composed by Daniel Mudford & Pete Woodhead, is the first time the 2004’s soundtrack will be released on any format.
Mudford states:
We wanted to ‘play a straight bat,’ as the English say, and treat the film as though it was a sincere and genuinely terrifying scenario.
Director Edgar Wright discusses Mudford and Woodhead’s band The Sons Of Silence:
Indeed, many of the doomier, dubbier tracks of from ‘The Sons of Silence’ would blend in perfectly with my playlist, made up of John Carpenter scores, Goblin rock outs and library tracks from Dawn of The Dead. So even before Dan and Pete were definitely scoring the movie, they were already scoring the movie.
An online version will go live October 7th.
