In the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, director Malik Bendjelloul looks back at two music fans' quest in the ...

The Five Sharks remain one of the absolute best doo wop/ Acappella groups in Rock history, and this collection ...

Benjamin Frankel's music for the movie The Battle of the Bulge was, along with the staging of the combat ...

Track Listing of songs: Interception; Caster Theme; Breaking The Ice; Macon's Magic Wand; Dark Magic; Lena's Magic/The Love Theme; Swamptronica/Voudon; Make ...

Track Listing of songs: Bombshell, Act One: Follow in Their Footsteps; Bombshell, Act One: Let Me Be Your Star; Bombshell, Act ...

Track Listing of songs: Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down; Lizard Dream; Who Done It?; One Overlord; Express; Ceiba; Punishment; O' ...

2011 release, an incredible collection of Bossa Nova tracks from Brazil's infamous Elenco Records, the legendary record label whose ...

Although the film in question is largely forgotten, Jerry Goldsmith's music for the sci-fi opus CAPRICORN ONE looms as ...

If Quentin Tarantino's complete immersion in the schlock of the '60s and '70s no longer seems as surprising as it did in the '90s, there is no denying that his accomplishment at repurposing has only grown over the years. Take the soundtrack for Django Unchained, his "Southern" about a slave out to rescue his wife from an evil plantation owner. Tarantino relies on selections from spaghetti Westerns, including the theme from 1966's exploitation classic Django (quite explicitly the inspiration for QT's titular character), '70s funk and pop, '60s exotica, heaps of quoted film scores, and a hefty dose of new songs that deftly tweak these very sounds. Most previous Tarantino soundtracks relied heavily on the past but here there is a strong dose of the present arriving in the form of hip-hop and R&B, a tacit acknowledgment that he's dealing with tricky racial issues in this film and it's best to cushion the blow with some modern music. Of course, it helps that most of these new additions either directly reference the film's plot -- Rick Ross' "100 Black Coffins" -- or blend the past and the present in a fashion not dissimilar to Tarantino's filmmaking (John Legend's "Who Did That to You?," Anthony Hamilton's "Freedom"). But the true pleasure of Django Unchained ...

Composers: Jack Nitzsche; Krzysztof Penderecki; Mike Oldfield; Harry Bee; Hans Werner Henze; George Crum.

Recording information: EastSide Sound, NYC.

Track Listing of songs: My Favorite Things; Lara's Theme From "Doctor Zhivago"; Sound Of Silence From "The Graduate"; Everybody's Talkin'; Theme From "Bonnie And Clyde"; Theme From "Hotel"; Love Theme From "The Sandpiper"; Good, The Bad And The Ugly; Theme From "A Fistful Of Dollars"; Goldfinger; Love Song From "Mutiny On The Bounty"; More; Can't Help Falling In Love;

Track Listing of songs: Haywire; Upstate NYC; Barcelona; Stakeout; Let's Get Jiang; Delivering Jiang; Dublin; Sniffing Around; Drive Rossbourgh; Looking For Clues; Jiang's Dead; Shot In The Face; Dublin Chase; Against All Odds; Against All Odds Pt. 2; Ship Comes In; No Eye Dear; Where's Kenneth;