{"product_id":"various-artists-decoder-original-soundtrack","title":"Various Artists - Decoder (Original Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003eReleased on standalone CD for the first time in 33 years, this now-complete edition of the ground-breaking cult soundtrack is finally here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cult classic of sci-fi dystopia, \"Decoder\" (1984) saw EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's members working alongside GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (THROBBING GRISTLE \/ PSYCHIC TV) and WILLIAM S.\u003cbr\u003eBURROUGHS.\u003cbr\u003eIt's one of the strangest (and most prescient) films of the decade.\u003cbr\u003eThe film was made in Hamburg and Berlin, and directed by Klaus Maeck 'Muscha' (who directed several punk films).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lead roles are played by Christiane F and FM Einheit from Neubauten, who also contributed to the film's score.\u003cbr\u003eGenesis P-Orridge, the kingpin of the English industrial scene, also appears as a priest of the Black Noise faith.\u003cbr\u003eAuthor William S.\u003cbr\u003eBurroughs portrays an insurrectionist salesman of audio equipment (and contributes spoken word to the soundtrack), and American cult actor Bill Rice plays a detective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOFT CELL contributed their classic 'Seedy Films', while MATT JOHNSON from THE THE wrote a frenetic, deformed song for the film that is both fantastic and painful to listen to, and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's 'Compressed Metal' is sublime.\u003cbr\u003eDave Ball (SOFT CELL), Jon Caffery and Genesis P-Orridge composed the rest of the soundtrack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA futuristic film, and a joyous application of William S.\u003cbr\u003eBurroughs' \"The Electronic Revolution\", which proposes a seditious and rather poetic method of subverting the masses and inciting them to rise up against the forces of order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMUZAK IS MORE THAN MUSIC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"COLD SPRING","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53206518563143,"sku":"TRI-65077","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/3dd809cca797a8a08f19498a68148b4f.jpg?v=1769373221","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/various-artists-decoder-original-soundtrack","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}