'Robots' Soundtrack Album Set for March Release On Virgin

'Robots' Soundtrack Album Set for March Release On Virgin

Eclectic and Up-To-The Minute Soundtrack Music Spans Genres With Musical Legends and Hot New Names

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Records will release the Robots film soundtrack on March 1, the company announced. Robots is a major new animated film created by the Academy Award-winning director that brought the Oscar-nominated Ice Age to the screen. The film opens nationally March 11, and will be released by 20th Century Fox in both IMAX and standard versions. Among the stars cast as the film voices of Robots are: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Greg Kinnear, Drew Carey and Jamie Kennedy.

Leading off the soundtrack album of Robots is Virgin soul star Ricky Fante, who recorded his new song "Shine," especially for the film. Pop- rockers Fountains of Wayne also appear with a newly-recorded song, "Tell Me What You Already Did." Film score composer John Powell is joined by theatrical innovators Blue Man Group for "Robot City."

Several recent hit tunes will be familiar in the soundtrack: "Right Thurr," the hip-hop smash by Chingy; the top 20 single "I Like That" by Houston, featuring Chingy and Nate Dogg; and the recent single by Virgin artist Stacie Orrico, "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life."

New Zealand pop-punkers Steriogram also highlight the soundtrack with the manic "Walkie Talkie Man," nominated for Breakthrough Video in last fall's MTV Video Music Awards, alongside Fatboy Slim's "Wonderful Night," the latest single from his album Palookaville, featuring a rap by Lateef the Truth Speaker. Mercury Music Prize winners Gomez, currently touring the U.S., contribute the song "Silence."

Pop music's legends are also represented in the track list, with War's west coast Latin-funk classic "Low Rider," while James Brown's late-Seventies "Get Up Offa That Thing" appears in a new club remix. R&B supergroup Earth, Wind and Fire contributes a brand-new track, "Love's Dance," a collaboration with superstar producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, from a forthcoming new EWF album.


Source: Virgin Records

CONTACT: Patti Conte, +1-212-786-8350, patti.conte@virgin-records.com,
Tracy Zamot, +1-212-786-8370, tracy.zamot@virgin-records.com, both of Virgin
Records; Lori Burns, +1-310-369-2312, lori.burns@fox.com

Web site: http://www.virginrecords.com/


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