Intrigue! A male voice choir! String sections! Oh, the strings! You pretty much need only glance at the track titles to get an idea of what the Ninja Assassin soundtrack is going to be like: Training, Mika’s Apartment, Kiriko Runs – personally I’d like to hear the track for Kiriko Has A Sit Down, but then Ninja Assassin isn’t a Mike Leigh film so perhaps I’m clutching at straws.

I literally have no idea what must go through the head of the person who walks into a Virgin Megastore and shells out their hard earned money for the Ninja Assassin soundtrack. I like to imagine a twenty five year old who works in PC World and brings home a slightly over-weight young lady after their first date (a late night screening of The Matrix Reloaded), showing her into his cramped apartment and asking her to wait whilst he boots up his CD player and, knowing it the be the most romantic track on the album, skips to Escape From Safehouse, as he unbuckles his slightly unfashionable hand-me-down Levis and sprays some eau de toilette down his boxer shorts.

Not to be mean to Ilan Eshkeri. The Ninja Assassin soundtrack is a perfectly well executed slab of intrigue, male voice choirs, and of course those string sections. Oh so many strings! Fair play to the man. I mean jeez, what the hell else are you going to do with this? I hope his paycheque helped him move to a bigger house, upgrade his car, and maybe buy a pony. A nice little pony, called Trigger The Pony, who, whenever intrigue-laden string-based soundtracks are played, lowers his pony eyelids half an inch and flicks his eyes from side to side, like a suspicious Hong Kong henchman whose just heard a floorboard creak somewhere behind him.

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Or as mp3s here

Ninja Assassin Soundtrack – Track-Listing
1. Ninja Assasin – Ilan Eshkeri
2. Training – Ilan Eshkeri
3. Kiriko Runs – Ilan Eshkeri
4. Mika’s Apartment – Ilan Eshkeri
5. First Kill – Ilan Eshkeri
6. Skyscraper Rain – Ilan Eshkeri
7. Escape From Safehouse – Ilan Eshkeri
8. Healing – Ilan Eshkeri
9. Soldiers Attack – Ilan Eshkeri
10. Raizo Vs Ozuno/Freedom – Ilan Eshkeri
11. Being Boiled (2003 Digital Remaster) – The Human League
12. ‘Heroes’/'Helden’ (2001 Digital Remaster) – David Bowie
13. Shazam! – Spiderbait
14. The MC Remix – Ryuzo
15. Legacy [Explicit] – Raekwon feat. Xzibit & Murs

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