It was also featured in some of the numerous betas of " Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)" It has been licensed for commercial usage in ad campaigns for National Geographic, AIDS awareness, Miss America, Major League Baseball, HTC, Fox Sports, and many others. "Tick of the Clock" has been used in numerous Hollywood films, including Drive and Taken 2. Īlbum closer "Accelerator" contains an interpolation of chords from the album's title track. The guitar solo in "Healer" contains a musical quotation from Joy Division's " Shadowplay," from their 1979 album, Unknown Pleasures. " Running Up that Hill" is a cover version of the first track from Kate Bush's 1985 album, Hounds of Love. The words of "I Want Your Love" contain a reference to the song " 96 Tears" by ? & The Mysterians Accordingly, these opening two tracks, along with album closer "Accelerator," suggest that the album may be a concept album about a late night drive. It ends with a sample of a car driving off, and then segues into the title track. Opening track "The Telephone Call" contains samples from " Lady Operator" by Mirage and from Chromatics' own tracks "The Killing Spree" and "Let's Make This A Moment To Remember." It sketches out a plot involving a female protagonist who, after spending an evening at a nightclub, is about to drive home to meet her boyfriend. The album's title may be a reference to a 1985 single ("Night Drive"/"Time Space Transmat") by Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins. Guitarist Adam Miller and multi-instrumentalist Johnny Jewel had been featured on the band's previous LPs. It is the first full-length Chromatics album to feature singer Ruth Radelet and drummer Nat Walker. With this album, Chromatics made a drastic departure from their previously punk sound, as they pursued a new direction reminiscent of Italo disco.
The "Deluxe Edition" restores five tracks that had originally constituted Side D of the album, but had been scrapped before the original 2007 release date due to technical problems and time constraints. A limited print run of the double LP was pressed on colored vinyl: blue for Sides A and B, and red for Sides C and D. The label reissued an analogue remaster of the album as a "Deluxe Edition" in 2010, on both CD and double LP formats. His other credits include Pump Up The Volume, Wicker Park, Wonderland, and The Lincoln Lawyer.Night Drive (alternatively known as Original Motion Picture Soundtrack IV) is the third studio album by Chromatics, released on Aug on the Italians Do It Better record label. He also composed the music for Espion(s) and A L’Origine, two French films released in 2009 – the latter earned a Cesar Award nomination for best original score. Martinez has since received compositional credit on many of Steven Soderbergh’s projects including Kafka, The Limey, Solaris, Gray’s Anatomy, Schizopolis, Traffic (which earned four Oscars and earned Martinez a Grammy nomination), and the upcoming film Contagion. He was also the drummer in the final incarnation of legendary iconoclasts Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. He had stints as drummer for the Weirdos, Lydia Lunch and Foetus frontman Jim Thirlwell, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dickies. Martinez moved to California in 1976, just in time for the punk movement. This blending of score and song is the perfect vehicle for Cliff Martinez. I knew that Nicolas was in love with that sound and I saw a way to acknowledge it with vintage synth sounds and cover most of the dramatic food groups while referencing that style.’’ ‘’That helped to create a unified, one-size-fits-all, style of soundtrack… the 80s electronic pop style made a lot of sense to me. ‘’One thing that was unique for me about this project was having songs exert such a strong influence on the score,’’ said Martinez. The soundtrack re-entered the charts in February 2012 when the film was released on DVD. 4 within a week of its digital release and peaking at No.
The Drive soundtrack raced to the top of the iTunes album charts, hitting No. Rolling Stone Magazine named Drive the No. The soundtrack features original music by Cliff Martinez (The Lincoln Lawyer, Traffic) with Eurosynth-styled songs by Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx (’’Nightcall’’), The Chromatics (‘’Tick of the Clock’‘), Desire (’‘Under Your Spell’‘), College featuring Electric Youth (’‘A Real Hero’‘), and Riziero Ortolani featuring Katyna Ranieri (’‘Oh My Love’’). A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. Various Artists with Original Motion Picture Score by Cliff Martinez.
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