On his Twitter, The Get Down creator and executive producer Baz Luhrmann announced that the soundtrack for The Get Down season 2 would be launching on April 14.
Shaolin’s Theme/Pray by @6LACK & @malayho. #thegetdown pt II soundtrack available April 14th! Full video on @vevo https://t.co/aLOlZ7JML6 pic.twitter.com/vZlNSwGdBX
— Baz Luhrmann (@bazluhrmann) February 28, 2017
This comes a week after The Get Down season 2’s April 7 release date announcement, meaning that fans of The Get Down’s addictive mix of original and period music don’t need to wait long before getting their hands on the part 2 soundtrack.
On Twitter, Luhrmann also posted a video with previously unseen footage of The Get Down part 2. It’s set to one of The Get Down soundtrack’s most haunting original pieces: “Shaolin’s Theme/Pray.” You can check it out below:
The footage includes part 1 footage mixed with new footage of The Get Down season 2. Some of the new footage includes:
0:42 to 0:44: Shaolin Fantastic in an incredible red-and-black outfit, puffing dramatically on a cigarette. They are bad for you and give you cancer, but goddamn, the smoke looks cool.
0:45 to 0:48: Cops racing up Intervale Station to arrest some graffiti artists.
0:49 to 0:54: Sinister shots of guns and drugs (crack specifically). Things are hard and only getting harder in part 2, it seems.
0:55 to 0:56: Cops brutally arresting the graffiti artists.
1:03 to 1:06: An audience in a club environment looking completely ecstatic - seems like someone’s career is taking off.
1:07 to 1:12: Zeke standing alone in front of what I assume is his apartment door, but might be anyone else’s door in the projects. His body language isn’t exactly screaming pride, confidence and joy.
1:13 to 1:17: We see that the audience is screaming in response to Shaolin Fantastic. Well-merited, but the song is so melancholy at this point and all those guns and drugs from earlier, not to mention Zeke’s dejected body language, don’t really point me towards a cheerful feeling here.
1:21 to 1:26: Zeke writing rhymes on a crowded subway.
1:29 to 1:32: Yooooooooo! My mans Shaolin with the legendary red Pumas, rocking a matching helmet and racing down an empty street at night, roaring up on a sick motorcycle looking cool as hell!
1:35 to 1:40: Oh my god, it’s Cadillac grabbing a gun and then rolling out a back door in a full, flowing fur coat, looking dramatic as hell. Probably my favorite new clip from the whole trailer, even if he’s definitely murder-strutting.
2:22 to 2:55: Zeke takes a long, somber stroll down a block that personifies urban blight, smoke from a garbage fire billowing as he passes by graffitied buildings and cracked streets covered in broken furniture and trash.
Are you looking forward to The Get Down season 2 on April 7? Will you be purchasing the soundtrack for part 2 of The Get Down on April 14? What was your favorite part of the trailer? Feel free to let us know in the comments section below.
