Limited Control

As of today, the 2CD soundtrack is available through iTunes – "The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" at $9.99 and Bad Rabbit's "Film Music from The Limits of Control" EP at $5.99. The records won't be released to the stores for another fortnight (May 12).

Once again, The Playlist delivers breaking news about the music used in The Limits of Control.

The complete tracklist for the official soundtrack cd, to be released April 28, is as follows:

01. Intro - Bad Rabbit
02. Fuzzy Reactor - Boris with Michio Kurihara
03. Saeta - La Macarena
04. Sea Green Sea - Bad Rabbit
05. Feedbacker (TLOC Edit) - Boris
06. Por Compasión: Malaguenas - Manuel el Sevillano
07. Farewell - Boris
08. N.L.T. - Sunn O))) & Boris
09. El Que Se Tenga Por Grande - Carmen Linares
10. Dawn - Bad Rabbit
11. You On The Run - The Black Angels
12. Omens and Portents 1: The Driver (TLOC Edit) – Earth and Bill Frisell
13. El Que Se Tenga Por Grande - Talegón de Córdoba & Jorge Rodriguez Padilla
14. Blood Swamp (TLOC Edit) - Sunn O))) & Boris
15. Schubert 2. Adagio [String Quintet in C, D.956] (TLOC Edit) - Ensemble Villa Musica
16. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem
17. " " (TLOC Edit) - Boris

The band called Bad Rabbit, providing the tracks "Intro", "Sea Green Sea" and "Dawn" is the band consisting of Carter Logan, Shane Stoneback and Jim Jarmusch himself (as heard in the trailer). Also according to The Playlist, they will apparently be releasing an iTunes-exclusive EP in close proximity to the film's May 1 premiere. 

Sounding like they might have seen a media preview of The Limits of Control, The Playlist lists all the music used in the film:

Boris - "Feedbacker I & IV" (from Feedbacker, on Disk Union Records)
Boris -"Fuzzy Reactor" (from Rainbow, on Disk Union Records)
Schubert - "Adagio - String Quintent In C D.956"
Boris - " " aka Smile (from the Japanese version of Smile, on Disk Union Records)
sunn 0)))/Boris - "N.L.T." (From Altar, on Southern Lord)
Bill Doggett - "Moon Dust"
LCD Soundsystem - "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"
Boris -"Farewell" (From Pink, on Southern Lord)
Manuel El Sevillan0 - "Por Compasión: Malagueñas" (a traditional Flamenco)
Black Angels - "You On The Run"
La Macarena - "Saeta" (an Alan Lomax recording)
sunn 0)))/Boris - "Blood Swamp" (From Altar, on Southern Lord)
Talegon De Cordoba, La Truco and Jorge Rodriguez Padilla - "El Que Tenga Por Grande" (traditional)
Earth - Omens and Portents 1: The Driver (from The Bees Made Honey In The Lions' Skull, on Southern Lord)
Carmen Linares - "El Que Tenga Por Grande" (traditional)

A recent press release from music label Southern Lord reveals they are releasing the OST for The Limits of Control:

Southern Lord is honored to house artists worthy of Jarmusch’s newest work, The Limits of Control. These acts are contemporary musical heavyweights in today’s doom, drone and ambient genres, and should act as an incredible soundtrack for this artistic drama.

Southern Lord artist songs used in Limits of Control:
Boris - " " aka Smile (from the Japanese version of Smile, on Disk Union Records)
Boris - "Feedbacker I & IV" (from Feedbacker, on Disk Union Records)
Boris -"Fuzzy Reactor" (from Rainbow, on Disk Union Records)
Boris -"Farewell" (From Pink, on Southern Lord)
Sunn 0)))/Boris - "N.L.T." (From Altar, on Southern Lord)
Sunn 0)))/Boris - "Blood Swamp" (From Altar, on Southern Lord)
Earth - Omens and Portents 1: The Driver (from The Bees Made Honey In The Lions' Skull, on Southern Lord)

The soundtrack is to be released by Lakeshore Records, and some online retailers are already taking pre-orders, with an April 28 release date.

The Playlist has posted some more info about the soundtrack, quoting "an early graph of the press notes", where Jarmusch talks about his choice of music:

“I have a file of the music that I think is appropriate atmospherically for each film, and that has inspired me even before shooting. I pick the music, so there’s no music supervisor per se…When I was writing 'The Limits of Control,' I was already imagining using some things from Boris and Sunn O))), and Earth and The Black Angels. I made [director of photography] Chris Doyle CDs so he could listen to Boris; you could categorize Boris as a psychedelic/noise/metal band, but they’re just so original.” 

Peter Bowen at Film in Focus shares some light on the music used in the trailer for The Limits of Control – in the blog post "Setting the Soundtrack Straight":

"As soon as the trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s new film The Limits of Control was released, the Internet lit up with questions and excitement. At Yahoo Answers, Dave C. wanted to know about the trailer’s 'grifty music ! anyone knows what it is???Pleez Help !'  Many jumped in to help Dave C.  Some bloggers pointed to the Playlist post which notes 'according to the trailer credits for The Limits Of Control, Japanese all-embracing metal band Boris have written music for the film. Or at least the credit says, 'with music by Boris,' which suggests the film does more than use their old songs, but stops short of saying they wrote the score.'

While the Japanese trip Boris wrote and performed much of the music in the film, the trailer music (which is also in the film) was actually written by the director Jim Jarmusch himself. And it was performed by a band composed of Jarmusch (electric guitars, baritone guitar), Carter Logan (drums, percussion) and Shane Stoneback (carillon, organ)."

In the early 1980's, right before he was a member of the Del-Byzanteens (see two posts below), Jim Jarmusch was tangentially involved in another act, called Dark Day, the brainchild of Robin Crutchfield, following his separation with no wave band DNA. By the time of their first album, "Exterminating Angel" (Lust/Unlust, 1980), the group consisted of Crutchfield, Phil Kline, Barry Friar and a revolving lineup of artists which included Steven Brown and Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, Nina Canal, David Rosenbloom, and Jim Jarmusch:

Our first concert as Dark Day was played at The Mudd Club, with Nina filling in at the last minute on drums. Phil Kline was the guitarist, friend of writer/coworker Luc Sante at the bookstore where I worked. He was also best friends with Jim Jarmusch and was pursuing an interest in film music. David Rosenblum played bass. He was a coworker of mine, interested in pursuing his own musical directions with a band more into jazz-fusion.

Dark Day continued to play a number of gigs locally at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City, Hurrah's, Tier 3, The Mudd Club, and even a gig at Tracks with Jim Jarmusch guesting on synthesizer and Peter Principle (from Tuxedomoon) on bass. Then I became despondent. New songs weren't forthcoming. Phil wanted to continue gigging for the extra income. The only money he and Barry made from Dark Day was what we made doing concerts. I didn't enjoy live gigs and preferred studio work. Phil became involved in his own project, the DelByzanteens, and Barry got more involved in drugs. We drifted apart.

from Robin Crutchfield, "Darker Days As I Recall Them"

The first Dark Day single, "Hands In The Dark/Invisible Man" on the Lust/Unlust label, featured Crutchfield's singing and modified electric piano backed by Nina Canal (of the Gynecologists and more recently, Ut) and Nancy Arlen (of Mars). Give it a listen:

more info at:

http://www.myspace.com/rlcrutchfieldsdarkday
http://robincrutchfield.com/
http://cdbaby.com/all/robincrutchfield