Album lore

The Shining (Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) assembles the eerie electronic experiments of Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, culled from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film. This collection foregrounds Carlos’s pioneering use of the Moog synthesizer alongside orchestral and classical elements, crafting an unsettling atmosphere that situates itself at the crossroads of electronic and experimental music. The album is notable for its precise manipulation of timbre and texture, lending a spectral quality to pieces like "Main Title (The Shining)."Issued contemporaneously with the film, the soundtrack distills Kubrick’s eclectic sonic palette into a vinyl artifact prized by crate-diggers attuned to early electronic avant-garde. Carlos, already known for her groundbreaking work on Switched-On Bach, here extends her lineage into cinematic territory, while Elkind’s contributions provide subtle harmonic grounding. This selection remains a signal of the era’s technological and artistic ferment within electronic music’s canon.

Album lore

The Shining (Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) assembles the eerie electronic experiments of Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, culled from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film. This collection foregrounds Carlos’s pioneering use of the Moog synthesizer alongside orchestral and classical elements, crafting an unsettling atmosphere that situates itself at the crossroads of electronic and experimental music. The album is notable for its precise manipulation of timbre and texture, lending a spectral quality to pieces like "Main Title (The Shining)."Issued contemporaneously with the film, the soundtrack distills Kubrick’s eclectic sonic palette into a vinyl artifact prized by crate-diggers attuned to early electronic avant-garde. Carlos, already known for her groundbreaking work on Switched-On Bach, here extends her lineage into cinematic territory, while Elkind’s contributions provide subtle harmonic grounding. This selection remains a signal of the era’s technological and artistic ferment within electronic music’s canon.