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2xLP From Motion Picture Sountrack
If Quentin Tarantino’s complete immersion in the schlock of the ’60s and ’70s no longer seems as surprising as it did in the ’90s, there is no denying that his accomplishment at repurposing has only grown over the years. Take the soundtrack for Django Unchained, his “Southern” about a slave out to rescue his wife from an evil plantation owner. Tarantino relies on selections from spaghetti Westerns, including the theme from 1966’s exploitation classic Django (quite explicitly the inspiration for QT’s titular character), ’70s funk and pop, ’60s exotica, heaps of quoted film scores, and a hefty dose of new songs that deftly tweak these very sounds. Most previous Tarantino soundtracks relied heavily on the past but here there is a strong dose of the present arriving in the form of hip-hop and R&B, a tacit acknowledgment that he’s dealing with tricky racial issues in this film and it’s best to cushion the blow with some modern music. Of course, it helps that most of these new