'Robots' Soundtrack Album Set for March 1st Release on Virgin

NEW YORK (Virgin Records) - Virgin Records announces the March 1st release of the Robots film soundtrack. Robots is a major new animated film created by the Academy Award-winning director that brought the Oscar-nominated Ice Age to the screen. The film opens nationally March 11, and will be released by 20th Century Fox in both IMAX and standard versions. Robots features the voices of stars Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Greg Kinnear, Drew Carey and Jamie Kennedy.

The soundtrack features an exciting new song from R&B supergroup Earth, Wind & Fire, called "Love's Dance," a collaboration with superstar producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, from a forthcoming new EWF album. Also contributing original tracks for the soundtrack are Virgin soul star Ricky Fante, with "Shine," and Fountains of Wayne with "Tell Me What You Already Did." Film score composer John Powell is joined by theatrical innovators Blue Man Group for "Robot City."

Several recent hit tunes in the soundtrack will be familiar: "Right Thurr," the hip-hop smash by Chingy; the top 20 single "I Like That" by Houston, featuring Chingy and Nate Dogg; and the recent single by Virgin artist Stacie Orrico, "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life."
New Zealand pop-punkers Steriogram also highlight the soundtrack with the manic "Walkie Talkie Man," nominated for Breakthrough Video in last fall's MTV Video Music Awards, alongside Fatboy Slim's "Wonderful Night," the latest single from his album Palookaville, featuring a rap by Lateef the Truth Speaker. Mercury Music Prize winners Gomez, currently touring the U.S., contribute the song "Silence."

Pop music's legends are also represented in the track list, with War's west coast Latin-funk classic "Low Rider," while James Brown's late-Seventies "Get Up Offa That Thing" appears in a new club remix.