Various Artists - The Animatrix OST

Sampling dialogue from a Matrix movie and putting it into a techno song is like cutting words from a comic book and pasting them into a Mad Libs book, only the Mad-Libs book is the same page repeated over and over and over and over… As a proud owner of the Animatrix DVD, I didn’t realize that so few of these songs have enough personality to stand alone without the overwhelming visual accompaniment. With the exception of Juno Reactor, I couldn’t make it more than two minutes into any of these songs without skipping to the next. I don’t have anything against techno, but mind-numbing, amateur techno riding under the guise of The Matrix’s financially driven bandwagon really doesn’t interest me as much as I thought it might. [www.intothematrix.com]