Rick Rubin has compiled a compilation album called Star Wars Headspace, an EDM-oriented companion to JJ Abrams’s The Force Awakens. Featuring contributions from the director, as well as Flying Lotus, Rustie, Röyksopp and the producer himself, the album is being released digitally on 19 February.
Zane Lowe premiered tracks from the release on his Beats 1 radio show - including Flying Lotus’s electronic jazz track R2 Where R U?, which features some samples of C-3PO. “The coolest thing [about the project] is having my name near a Star Wars logo, officially,” said Stephen Ellison, AKA Flying Lotus. Rubin teams up with A-Trak for the collaborative remix of the track Jabba Flow by JJ Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda, while his track NR-G7 uses sampled R2-D2 bleeps.
Baauer’s Cantina Boys – a song that samples Darth Vader’s ominous breathing when the beat drops – was also given its debut airing, and is embedded above.
Lowe also shared the album’s full tracklisting:
Today's #WorldRecord @flyinglotus #StarWarsHeadspace pic.twitter.com/CpGUj5cETd
— Zane Lowe (@zanelowe) February 8, 2016
