The soundtrack for Karl Urban starrer “Dredd 3D” will be available for digital download September 3 and will make it to stores September 10. But what if you can’t wait that long? You can listen to a sampler now on Soundcloud.<\/p>\n
The soundtrack, composed by “Limitless” composer Paul Leonard-Morgan, is made to fit the style and culture of the future. Here’s what he had to say about his composing process. <\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a music point of view, I wanted to create a sound which fitted a future set in 100 years time, so traditional orchestra was out of the question. I started off doing some band-based stuff, but it felt too safe and overly-produced, so I ended up going down a really electronic vibe – taking all my 80\u2019s synths and present day sound modules, creating some really screwed up sounds and putting them through countless distortion and fx pedals. I was looking to create a timeless score which couldn\u2019t be placed in any particular era. So it\u2019s ended up being a cross between a modern dance track and evocative soundscapes.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the slo-mo music, I used this incredible new timestretch software called Paul. I composed and recorded new tracks with real instruments, and then slowed them down by thousands of percent to match the vibe of the visuals, adding some realtime score over the top of it. So 1 second of written score could end up lasting 10 minutes. It sounds weird, but it creates some truly beautiful sounds. Really ethereal. It takes you to a completely different world. Getting to do experimental things like this in a film score isn\u2019t something that happens every day, so it was really exciting pushing back the boundaries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can check out the sampler below either on Soundcloud or below this post. “Dredd 3D” also stars Lena Headey and Olivia Thirlby; the film will be in theaters September 21. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe future. America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis of over 400 million citizens living in perpetual fear. The online ones attempting to impose order in the urban chaos are The Judges. Law enforcers, juries, judges and executioners rolled into one. The epitome of these Judges is Dredd. The Chief Judge gives Dredd a mission. To road test a rookie Judge, the powerful Cassandra Anderson. It is to be a training day. The Judges head for a seemingly routine homicide in the notorious Peach Tress mega-block – a 200 story vertical slum run by the pitiless Ma-Ma clan. When the Judges attempt to arrest one of Ma-Ma\u2019s chief henchmen, Ma-Ma shuts down the entire building and orders her clan to hunt the judges down. Our two judges are now caught in a vicious and relentless fight for survival\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n