New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Interscope Records) Experience the soundtrack to a new generation, the next generation with We Are Your Friends:
Music From The Original Motion Picture (Interscope Records). Bringing together the most acclaimed of electronic music's freshest artists/producers from around the globe, from France's
Justice and Tchami to Australia's Will Sparks, Dom Dolla, and Hayden James; from Belgium's critically acclaimed DJ and curator The
Magician to the U.K.'s
Years & Years and AlunaGeorge, to Sweden's
Klingande and Seinabo Sey; to U.S.'s Gryffin, Deorro, Carnage, Bro Safari, and The Americanos, We Are Your
Friends taps into today and tomorrow for a sensational soundtrack album. We Are Your
Friends opens in theaters across the country on August 28th.
The first single, "
Desire" (Gryffin Remix) from U.K. Electronic/Pop trio Years & Years, released on Friday, July 31st. The album will be released in both standard (12 tracks) and deluxe (18 tracks) editions - each in clean and explicit versions - on August 21st.
"We Are Your
Friends is a contemporary coming-of-age movie set against the music of today's world--dance, electronic, festival anthems, pop, trap, hip-hop, and, some EDM as well. We all worked hard to choose tracks that were not only best for the story but also contributed to a balanced mix of the many different genres that fit under the wide umbrella of dance/electronic music. The art of DJing is mixing disparate songs together seamlessly to create an emotional journey that you can dance to and I believe we've done that!," says the film's director Max Joseph.
The artists on We Are Your Friends:
Music From The Original Motion Picture represent the best and the brightest of dance music's future. Years & Years' recent full-length debut album Communion has spun off the No. 1 U.K. hit single "King," that also reached the U.S. Top 40. The song has been remixed by Darkroom artist Gryffin who is on fire; his remixes have amassed over 50 million streams online. Carnage joins Atlanta chillwave-rap cause celebre iLoveMakonnen for the catchy "I Like Tuh." Scenic offers a blissed-out "Another Sky" in a floor-friendly remix by The Magician. Germany's
Oliver $ collaborates with
Swiss DJ Jimi Jules for the Top 20 U.K. "Pushing On." DJ Felli Fel teams with fellow DJs Lex Larson and Louie Rubio to form The Americanos for their debut track, "BlackOut." The duo
AlunaGeorge has become one of the U.K.'s most hailed new artists. In 2014,
Will Sparks was named Australia's No. 1 DJ; MTV Australia labeled Dom Dolla's recent remix of another Go Freeks track one of their Top 10 Mind Blowing Remixes; soul-pop singer
Seinabo Sey scored Swedish newcomer of the year awards; and
Hook N Sling topped the Beatport charts. The only vintage selection is the title track, "We Are Your Friends," Justice's 2006 remix of "
Never Be Alone" by Simian, which NME honored in 2011 in the Top 20 of its "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years" list.
The Album:
Deluxe:
Years & Years 'Desire' (Gryffin Remix)
Hook N Sling 'Break Yourself' featuring
Far East Movement and Pusha T
Scenic 'Another Sky' (The
Magician Remix)
Klingande featuring Broken Back 'RIVA (Restart the Game)'
AlunaGeorge 'You Know You Like It' (Tchami Remix)
Seinabo Sey 'Younger' (Kygo Remix)
Pyramid 'Cole's Memories' (Original Mix)
The
Rapture 'Sister Saviour (DFA Dub)'
Fake Blood 'I Think I Like It'
Bro Safari 'The Drop' (VIP Mix)
Carnage 'I Like Tuh' featuring I LOVE MAKONNEN
Justice Vs. Simian 'We Are Your Friends'
Standard:
Years & Years 'Desire' (Gryffin Remix)
Hook N Sling 'Break Yourself' featuring
Far East Movement and Pusha T
AlunaGeorge 'You Know You Like It' (Tchami Remix)
Pyramid 'Cole's Memories' (Original Mix)
Seinabo Sey 'Younger' (Kygo Remix)
Justice Vs. Simian 'We Are Your Friends'
Bro Safari 'The Drop' (VIP Mix)
The Film:
From Warner Bros.
Pictures and Studiocanal comes the romantic drama We Are Your Friends. The film marks Max Joseph's (MTV's "Catfish: The TV Show") feature film directorial debut, and stars
Zac Efron ("
Neighbors"), Emily Ratajkowski ("Entourage," "Gone Girl"), Jonny Weston ("Insurgent," "Taken 3"),
Shiloh Fernandez ("Evil Dead"), Alex Shaffer ("Win Win"), and Wes Bentley ("Interstellar," "The Hunger Games"). Joseph directs from a screenplay he wrote with Meaghan Oppenheimer, from a story by Richard Silverman. The producers are Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Liza Chasin, with Silverman, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern and Nathan
Kelly executive producing. Randall Poster ("The Wolf of Wall Street," "
Divergent" and "Insurgent," "Spring Breakers") is the film's music supervisor. We Are Your
Friends is a Working Title Films production. It will be distributed in North
America by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
