In 1984, Fangoria Magazine blurbed about a brand new sci-fi, fantasy, adventure movie coming out later in the year starring 13-year-old newcomer Danny “Trig” Mason. The buzzed-about film went way over budget, the studio pulled out and—despite being rumored as the greatest fantasy/adventure script of the 1980s—the completed film never saw the light of day. The soundtrack to the film has become industry legend: artists from Van Halen, to Queen, to one-movie wonders like Mick Smiley and Mark Safan had all signed onto the film, only to see it shelved.

Until now.

World of WardCrap.com is proud to present the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to TIME ROBOTS, heard here, for free, for the first time in over 27 years.

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With this mix—my first non-holiday mix—I tried to capture the goosebumps and adventure that 80s sci-fi and fantasy movie soundtracks gave me when I was a kid: the goofy synths, the semi-futuristic bombast, the movie quotes thrown haphazardly into each track, the VHS grittiness, the story arc…I hope you really enjoy it. It may be my favorite thing I’ve ever done. I originally thought of this concept in my Wizard days, and just now carried it out…spurred on by the success of the Mad Decent Blood Bros. mixes. This is in the same vein, but with a different genre. I ended up with a wealth of material and suggestions from friends…enough for a sequel.

This mix would not have been possible without the LAW Group (in random order of appearance): Fight Director Rickey Purdin, Jesse Thompson, Alex Segura, Rob Bricken, Alejandro Arbona, Sean T. Collins, Zach Oat, TJ Dietsch, Mel Caylo, Jon Gutierrez, Alex Kropinak, Todd Casey, Kiel Phegley, Dave Paggi, Justin Aclin, Adam Tracey and silent partners/homies til the end Andrew Reedman and Matt Powell.

An extra special thanks is in order to Joe Jacobs of Vlantis fame and original mix tape masters Nick Kuzmyn (who discovered “Operator” for me, and more…) and DJ Daymage. And thanks to all those YouTube users who went to the trouble of uploading entire 80s movies that, to most, have no business being uploaded.

Track Listing:

1. Prologue—Electric Light Orchestra

2. Twilight—Electric Light Orchestra

3. Sexcrime—Eurythmics

4. “We Have Our Own Spaceship”—from The Explorers

5.  Dynamo Beat—Shock

6.  “I Don’t Know What Love Is”—from Electric Dreams

7.  Together in Electric Dreams—Philip Oakey

8. 1984—Van Halen/The Grid—Daft Punk ft./Jeff Bridges

9. Yours Truly, 2095—Electric Light Orchestra

10. Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free—Zombie Zombie

11. “We Got You Some Pills, Buck”—from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

12. “You…Are the Navigator”—from Flight of the Navigator

13.  Operator—Midnight Star

14. “Robots Don’t Die”—from D.A.R.Y.L

15. Magic—Mick Smiley

16. “If We Stay Here…We Die”—from Enemy Mine

17. Do You Compute?—Donnie Iris

18. “It’s Us He Can’t Defeat!”—from Krull

19. Win In the End—Mark Safan

20. “We Did It!”—from Ice Pirates

21. The Hero—Queen

22. “I Have To Take That Chance”—from Flight of the Navigator

23. Theme—Flight of the Navigator

24. The Last Flight Home—Vlantis feat. IG88 (lyrics by Chris Ward and IG88)

Every night I spend alone in my wood-paneled basement leads me to the same conclusion: I wish I could play a VCR Mystery Game with self-decapitating robots. Apparently, the purpose of this game is to save the Earth from robots, which kind of goes against Issac Assimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. But a game where you’re just ordering robots around wouldn’t be too fun, I guess. So instead, the game involves a robot ripping it’s own head off and coldly relaying that “you’ve made a mistake” before it, I assume, uses your intestines as a leash for its Robot Dog. Good, clean, terrifying fun for all. “Wanna come over? I’ve got this game where Robot Paul Reiser tears off its own head to prove a point. It’s for up to 4 players? No? Ok, maybe some other time! Just text me if you change your mind! I have no friends LOL.”

Let’s watch the commercial, as I imagine it in my mind. Thanks to Gary Hodges for passing this tape along!

“Within 5 minutes, you’ll be on one of 256 possible courses to save the galaxy.” It’s like the Butterfly Effect, if the fabric of time were limited to 80 minutes of SLP video!