Description

Mondo is pleased to present the soundtrack to the science fiction cult classic Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), for the first time ever on vinyl. Over 50 years before Matt Damon was labelled The Martian, there was the story of lone astronaut Christopher Kit Draper and his struggle to survive on the red planet after being marooned by his ships near miss with a meteor. For a significant portion of the film as Kit explores the terrain with no other life to communicate with (except for his monkey, Mona) Nathan Van Cleaves music takes centre stage. Van Cleaves themes are simultaneously foreboding and triumphant. Only a few short years before Planet of the Apes took science fiction to its inevitable dystopian ends, the soundtrack to Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a pure patriotic time capsule; the sounds of a retro-future when science fiction films were still produced with true optimistic sincerity.

Featuring original artwork by We Buy Your Kids, and pressed on 180 Gram Black Vinyl.