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Steve Winwood: About Time
The Steve Winwood solo album About Time is released via Winwood’s own newly-founded label.
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Rob Dougan: Furious Angels
Having been featured on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, Australian remixer Rob Dougan releases his debut album, Furious Angels.
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The Animatrix soundtrack
The soundtrack from the direct-to-video movie The Animatrix is released, consisting primarily of songs with a few selections of Don Davis’ instrumental score.
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Soylent Green / Demon Seed soundtracks
Soundtrack specialty label Film Score Monthly releases a CD with the complete scores to two 1970s science fiction cult classics, 1971’s Soylent Green (music by Fred Myrow) and 1977’s Demon Seed (music by Jerry Fielding).
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Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat
The Weird Al Yankovic album, Poodle Hat, is released, featuring the singles “Ode To A Superhero” and “eBay”.
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The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack
The soundtrack from The Matrix Reloaded is released, featuring songs by various artists on the first CD and Don Davis’ score on the second.
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Blue Man Group: The Complex
The second Blue Man Group album, The Complex, is released, featuring the singles “The Current” and “Up To The Roof”.
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Fleetwood Mac: Say You Will
The first new material from the band in years, the Fleetwood Mac album, Say You Will, is released, featuring the single “Peacekeeper”.
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Pete Yorn: Day I Forgot
The second Pete Yorn album, Day I Forgot, is released.
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Electric Light Orchestra II / The Lost Planet
EMI Records releases a UK-only remastered, expanded edition of the second Electric Light Orchestra album, Electric Light Orchestra II, featuring a bonus CD bearing the 1972 album’s unused work-in-progress title, The Lost Planet. The bonus disc includes numerous previously unissued songs, including demos from a session to test out prospective new lead singers before Jeff Lynne took that mantle as well, following the departure of co-founder Roy Wood. Though a remastered Electric Light Orchestra II is later issued in North America, it does not include the second disc or its contents.
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Afro-Celt Sound System: Seed
The fourth Afro-Celt Sound System album, Seed, is released, featuring the single “Rise Above It”.
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Star Trek: Nemesis soundtrack
Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Nemesis is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
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George Harrison: Brainwashed
The posthumous George Harrison CD Brainwashed is released, almost exactly a year after the ex-Beatle’s death.
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Tori Amos: Scarlet’s Walk
The Tori Amos CD Scarlet’s Walk is released, featuring the single “A Sorta Fairytale”. This is her first album on the Epic label.
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Ben Folds: Ben Folds Live
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Peter Gabriel: Up
The Peter Gabriel album Up is released, featuring the single “The Barry Williams Show”.
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Paul Melancon: Camera Obscura
The Paul Melancon CD Camera Obscura is released, featuring the single “Jeff Lynne”.
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Royksopp – Melody A.M.
The Royksopp CD Melody A.M. is released, featuring the singles “Epie” and “Remind Me”.
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Neil Finn: One All
The Neil Finn album One All is released. This is a revised version of his 2001 album One Nil, altered specifically for the North American market.
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Star Trek: Enterprise soundtrack
Dennis McCarthy‘s soundtrack from the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot movie Broken Bow is released on CD, including the theme song “Faith Of The Heart”, sung by Russell Watson.
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Star Wars Episode II: A Tune Of The Clones
John Williams‘ soundtrack from the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones is released, with four different covers (CD contents do not change from cover to cover).
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Doctor Who: Meglos/Full Circle soundtracks
The soundtracks from the 1980 Doctor Who stories Meglos and Full Circle are released on a CD, including a selection of contemporary sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive soundtrack
Peter Howell‘s soundtrack from the 1980 Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive is released in its entirety on CD, including a selection of contemporary sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Jars Of Clay: The Eleventh Hour
The Jars Of Clay album The Eleventh Hour is released, featuring the single “I Need You”.
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Electric Light Orchestra: First Light
The first Electric Light Orchestra album is re-released in the UK in an expanded, remastered form, featuring numerous previously unreleases mixes and other curiosities. This two-disc edition is a British exclusive, though copies inevitably make their way across the Atlantic to die-hard fans.
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Logan’s Run soundtrack
Film Score Monthly releases, for the first time, the complete Jerry Goldsmith score from the 1976 science fiction movie Logan’s Run. (Portions of the music have been available previously, but this is the first CD of the complete soundtrack.) The release marks the beginning of a close working relationship between the soundtrack specialty label and MGM.
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Tron soundtrack on CD at last
Wendy Carlos‘ much-requested soundtrack from the 1982 movie Tron is released on CD, featuring music not previously issued on the long-out-of-print LP version.
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Jason Falkner: Bedtime With The Beatles
Former Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner releases an instrumental album of lullaby-styled Beatles covers, Bedtime With The Beatles.