As has been common with film soundtracks for many years, the Derailed CD features "music from and inspired by" the film, as it's often put (and, indeed, as it appears on the cover of this album.) That's not surprising, since the executive producer of the album is the RZA (who did a great job playing Winston in the actual film) and the CD is released on the Wu Tang Clan's label.

In practical terms, this means that the Derailed soundtrack is made up mostly of hip-hop and r&b tracks, many of which don't even show up in the film itself. But there are indeed two cues from Edward Shearmur's score on the album, both of which have my sonic fingerprints on them.

The first, "Winston's Theme" (track 4 on the CD, 2:18 in length), is the first cue from the movie,heard during the opening credits and the shots of the prisoners at Attica. I show up on this one mainly as a series of eerie bent harmonics which crop up sporadically in the track; not a center-stage placement, but definitely something I can hear as "me."

The second cue from the film, titled "Charles' Theme" on the CD (track 8, 1:29 long), is the cue from the seduction scene in the hotel between Charles and Lucinda (up until LaRoche breaks in), and has my loops much more front and center - aside from some electronic percussion and long string tones in the background, my parts are pretty much the centerpiece of the cue.

Whether or not a curious LaFosse listener wants to pick up a soundtrack album with less than four minutes from the actual film score is a good question. It's definitely cool to squeeze my way onto a Wu Tang Clan - related CD (albiet uncredited), and it's nice to be able to hear the cues strictly as music, without the accompanying visuals and sound effects. By the same token, however, the two scenes these cues come from are not heavy on dialogue or sound, so if you haven't seen Derailed, you might simply wait for the inevitable DVD release. There's much, much more of Edward Shearmur's score in the film than the two bits on the soundtrack album, and my work is heard in numerous spots throughout the film.