The Dictator Soundtrack

In celebration of the film’s 80th anniversary, today we are releasing the remastered soundtrack of The Great Dictator on all major digital music platforms.There’s also the deluxe limited-edition vinyl released by [PIAS] earlier this year, accompanied by a 24-page large-format booklet with rare texts and photographs.

Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Netflix original movie 6 Underground. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, His Dark Materials, The Crown, Terminator Genisys). The soundtrack will be released digitally December 13. 6 Underground is directed by Michael Bay and stars Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Corey Hawkins, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Adria Arjona, Ben Hardy and Dave Franco. The movie follows a tech billionaire who fakes his death and recruits a team of international operatives for a mission to take down a brutal dictator.

Here’s a Varèse Encore release of another very early title from our CD Club. Miklós Rózsa’s luminous Fedora was actually just the second title released from the original Varèse CD Club, way back in 1989! It’s been out of print, expensive and hard to get ever since. But now the timing is perfect. We are so excited about making this late-Rózsa classic available once again. As a special bonus, this Encore Edition also retains the Crisis Guitar Suite, performed by Daryl Denning.

The Hitman's Bodyguard is an upcoming American action comedy directed by Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3). The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek. The world’s top protection agent (Ryan Reynolds) is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world's most notorious hitmen (Samuel L. Jackson). The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous 24 hours. During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to The Hague, they encounter high-speed car chases, outlandish boat escapades and a merciless Easter European dictator (Gary Oldman) who is out for blood. Salma Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson’s equally notorious wife. The soundtrack album plays the bromancing card with hits like Hello (Lionel Ritchie), I Want To Know What Love Is (Foreigner), or Dancing In The Moonlight (King Harvest); it also includes a punk version of Black Betty by Spiderbait, a fast-paced car chase track by Aussie composer Dmitri Golovko and a James Bond-esque score by veteran composer Atli Örvarsson (The Mortal Instruments, Babylon A.D.). The highlight of the album is Nobody Gets Out Alice written and performed by Samuel L. Jackson. A killer track!

To celebrate the 130th anniversary of Chaplin’s birth, we are excited to announce our collaboration with [PIAS] on a new double CD set of extracts from the film soundtracks in the Chaplin archives, out on April 12th 2019.
The Charlie Chaplin Film Music Anthology, compiled by the Chaplin Office, retraces many of the milestones in Chaplin’s music-composing career, from City Lights (1931), the first film he released with a score of his own creation, to the 1976 re-release of A Woman of Paris with a new score composed by Chaplin at the age of 86, not to mention extracts from Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Limelight, The Kid and more. The release includes a well-documented 20-page booklet that we scrupulously put together, illustrated with archival photographs.

A lot of bands talk about balance in their songs. The balance of catchy, pop sensible vocal hooks with the raging energy of a rock n roll riot. All bands want it but most don’t have the guts to try. Louisville, Kentucky’s Hot Wires roar back with their second full length release entitled “Dark Energy” on Gubbey Records to deliver fuzzed out guitar rowdiness, high energy grooves, and a solid, pulsating rhythmic core. The album is stacked with sing along anthems inspiring you to raise your beer glass high combined with rampaging energy drenched in Ohio river dirtwater. Hot Wires evoke similarities to Sonic Rendezvous, Radio Birdman, The Rolling Stones, with a good helping of Deep Purple to not only perfect this balance but to charge ahead of the pack.