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Ocean's 13 soundtrack

I saw this movie today, and it's quite good, but what stood out for me was the soundtrack, really funky and some great up-front bass playing, and I remembered I liked the previous 2 movies in terms of the backing music, so I just ordered the soundtrack.

Anyone else heard it and got any views on it?
 
half the tracks are 2:00 or more... the longest being 5:51

but yeah, the grooviest stuff needs to be 4 to 6 times longer IMO!

Really? Haven't listened to it for a while, but I didn't think any of the songs were that long! A lot of the best stuff is in the first half of the album (if my memory hasn't completely gone) and I thought they were quite short.
 
how odd, I watched this last Sunday - and thought the soundtrack was amazing, got on a real lounge tip (have been listening to a lot of roy budd, and learnt Get Carter on the cello :bassist:) and made a misplaced posting in the DB forum :smug:

it's a fantastic mix of electric and DB

I see most of the tunes are credited to David Holmes (I have a few of his other albums) - so did he write the tunes and get session guys in? Are they likely to have had their parts written out or did they lay them down?