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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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Paul Melancon: Camera Obscura
The Paul Melancon CD Camera Obscura is released, featuring the single “Jeff Lynne”.
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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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Ben Folds: Ben Folds Live
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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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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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Star Trek: Nemesis soundtrack
Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Nemesis is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
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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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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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Pete Yorn: Day I Forgot
The second Pete Yorn album, Day I Forgot, is released.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Steve Winwood: About Time
The Steve Winwood solo album About Time is released via Winwood’s own newly-founded label.
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Me First and the Gimmes: Take A Break
Punk parody supergroup
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Doctor Who: Devils’ Planets soundtrack
Celebrating 40 years of Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Devils’ Planets – The Music Of Tristram Cary is released, including the complete underscores from The Daleks (1963/64), The Daleks’ Masterplan (1965/66) and The Mutants (1972); the marks the release of the earliest episodes of Doctor Who for which the complete music score still exists. The album quickly sells out and becomes a coveted collectors’ item; this is also the final Doctor Who archive music release from the BBC’s in-house label, and the last Doctor Who television soundtrack music to be released prior to the new series soundtracks.
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Symphonic Suite Gatchaman
In Japan, Koichi Sugiyama releases the album Symphonic Suite Gatchaman, though it does not accompany any new Gatchaman anime projects.
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The Strokes: Room On Fire
The Strokes release the album Room On Fire, featuring the single “Reptilia”.
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The Matrix Revolutions soundtrack
The soundtrack from The Matrix Revolutions is released, consisting primarily of Don Davis’ score from the final movie in the trilogy.
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Poe: More Tales Of Mystery & Imagination
The Eric Woolfson concept album, Poe: More Tales Of Mystery & Imagination, is released, based upon the works of Edgar Allan Poe (and forming the musical backbone for a stage musical still in the works).
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Tori Amos: Tales Of A Librarian
The Tori Amos comiplation album Tales Of A Librarian is released, including newly re-recorded versions of previously released songs. The album only covers her material from her years with Atlantic Records.
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Alias: Volume 1 soundtrack
The first volume of Michael Giacchino‘s selections from the soundtrack of the TV series Alias, is released.
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The Mario & Zelda Big Band – Live!
The video game-inspired album The Mario & Zelda Big Band Live CD is released in Japan, featuring live big band renditions of many of the themes from the Super Mario Bros. and Legend Of Zelda game series.
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Battlestar Galactica soundtrack
La-La Land Records releases the soundtrack CD from the two-part Sci-Fi Channel miniseries rebooting Battlestar Galactica, with music by Richard Gibbs and Bear McCreary. The music from the miniseries sets the template for the scoring of the early episodes of the weekly series, though the musical style of the show expands rapidly under the direction of McCreary (Gibbs opts not to return for the series).
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dada: How to Be Found
The dada album How to Be Found is released.