Star Wars Album to Feature Flying Lotus, Rick Rubin, J.J. Abrams; Listen to New Flying Lotus, Rubin, and Baauer Tracks

Last year, Star Wars re-entered the zeitgeist with The Force Awakens. Now, musical Jedi Master Rick Rubin has curated and produced a compilation, Star Wars Headspace, featuring new songs created using sound elements from Star Wars films. (Yes, that means producers like Flying Lotus, Rustie, A-Trak, Baauer, Röyksopp, Kaskade, Shlohmo, GTA, and others have made dance tracks out of Darth Vader’s breathing, Wookie roars, R2-D2′s bleeps and bloops, and more.) Star Wars Headspace is out February 19 digitally and March 18 in physical formats via Hollywood Records/American Recordings. 

Three tracks premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show today. Listen to Flying Lotus’ “R2 Where R U?” and Baauer’s “Cantina Boys” below. Rubin himself appears twice on Star Wars Headspace: with his original production “NR-G7″ (which can be heard below), as well as a collaborative remix with A-Trak of “Jabba Flow” by Shag Kava (aka J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda) from The Force Awakens.

FlyLo also sat down for an interview with Lowe, in which he talked about how the album came together and his upcoming projects:

Update (2/9, 12:57 p.m.): Lowe premiered GTA’s contribution, “Help Me!”, on his Beats 1 Radio show. Listen to it below.

In addition to Rubin, another major music producer has a Star Wars connection—Nigel Godrich appeared in The Force Awakens.

Star Wars Headspace:

01 Kaskade: “C-3P0′s Plight”
02 GTA: “Help Me!”
03 TroyBoi: “Force”
04 Baauer: “Cantina Boys”
05 Shag Kava: “Jabba Flow: Rick Rubin Re-Work” [ft. A-Trak]
06 Claude VonStroke: “R2 Knows” [ft. Barry Drift]
07 Rick Rubin: “NR-G7″
08 Bonobo: “Ghomrassen”
09 Röyksopp: “Bounty Hunters”
10 ATTLAS: “Sunset Over Manaan”
11 Flying Lotus: “R2 Where R U?”
12 Shlohmo: “Druid Caravan of Smoke”
13 Rustie: “EWOK PUMPP”
14 Galantis: “Scruffy-Looking Nerfherder”
15 Breakbot: “Star Tripper”

Watch Flying Lotus’ episode of “Over/Under”:

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