The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Soundtrack Announced

Full track listing revealed below!

The soundtrack to the third installment of The Fast and the Furious film franchise will be released on Tuesday June 20th, 2006, just four days after the film hits theaters.

Like the soundtracks to the previous two The Fast and Furious flicks, Tokyo Drift features a bevy of street savy tunes from artists such as DJ Shadow, N.E.R.D., Don Omar, Juelz Santana, and underground upstars like Evil Nine and Japanese rap crew Teriyaki Boyz (who actually perform the title track).

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Soundtrack - Track Listing:


1 Teriyaki Boyz - "Tokyo Drift (Fast & Furious)"

2 DJ Shadow feat. Mos Def - "Six Days"

3 5,6,7, 8's - "The Barracuda"

4 Evil Nine - "Restless"

5 Far*East Movement - "Round Round"

6 N.E.R.D. - "She Wants To Move (DFA Remix)"

7 Teriyaki Boyz - "Cho Large"

8 Dragon Ash - "Resound"

9 Julez Santana - "There It Go (The Whistle Song)"

10 Don Omar feat. Tego Calderon - "Bandaleros"

11 Don Omar feat. Julez Santana - "Conteo"

12 Brian Tyler feat. Slash - "Mustang Nismo"

Brian Tyler scores The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

For the past two days, composer Brian Tyler has been recording his score to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the latest in the Universal Studios franchise of underground car racing films. Directed by Justin Lin (Annapolis), Tyler's score is a fusion of orchestral music and electronically manipulated tracks, which sets it apart from the previous scores in the series.


Brian Tyler conducts The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

In the film, while living in Japan, Shaun Boswell (Lucas Black) gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing. To emphasize culture clash, Tyler used western instruments to represent Boswell's character. "He's southern rock-and-roll," explained Tyler, "then he meets this digital hard core guy - so we use a lot of taiko drums. We didn't want to make it techno, but rather make it human. Let's have live guitars, live drums - stay away from the computer as much as possible and then chop it all up and crunch it. At the end, the orchestra will be added in 'as is'."

Brian Tyler and the Hollywood Studio Symphony

Keeping with that mindset, Tyler recorded many different drum sets, guitars, and basses - over 140 tracks before the orchestra even came in. "I actually got the error message in ProTools that I ran out of space, so I had to buy a new card to make it go higher. It's been very intricate and time consuming." Originally they had been planning on about 12-minutes of score, but ended up with an hour of music.


Brian Tyler and Joel Iwataki examine a cue as Tiffany Jones from Universal Studios and Technical Score Consultant Keith Power observe.

After all of the pre-records were assembled, the two days of orchestral recording took place at the Todd-AO Studios, with a 70-piece orchestra conducted by Tyler himself. Mixed by Joel Iwataki, the score was orchestrated by Dana Niu, Robert Elhai, and Brad Warner. Music editors Gary Krause, Joe Lisanti were also on hand at the sessions.


Music editor Gary Krause

The score is thematic, something that director Lin insisted on. "We wanted the music for this movie to be something that has its own identity - not just something that's part of a franchise, but something that you could identify as being from Tokyo Drift."


The Hollywood Studio Symphony

A pick-up session is scheduled for later this month. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift opens in theaters on June 16, 2006.

Gettin' Sideways Sweepstakes - Toyo Tires

Toyo Tires(R) announces the "Gettin' Sideways Sweepstakes" to celebrate Universal Pictures' upcoming release "The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift." From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits "The Fast and The Furious" and its sequel, "2 Fast 2 Furious," comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed -- "The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift." Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses in the world. In "The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift," Toyo Tires(R) will have its greatest visibility to date with Toyo tires placed on many of the vehicles featured in the film. Universal Pictures will release "The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift" June 16, 2006 nationwide.

To celebrate "The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift" and Toyo's involvement with the film, the company is holding the national "Gettin' Sideways Sweepstakes." The Grand Prize will be a red Mitsubishi Evo 9 styled after one of the cars featured in the film. This car will turn heads wherever it goes, and of course, runs on super sticky Toyo Proxes 4(TM) ultra-high performance tires. A lucky Second Place winner will lay claim to a one-off movie-themed "Toyo Tires" Les Paul guitar made by Gibson. This glowing red and black electric guitar will surely be a collectible, while its rich, distinctive sound would be coveted by any musician.

During the sweepstakes promotion, which lasts from May 1, 2006 through July 31, 2006, purchasers of any four Toyo tires will receive an assortment of Meguiar's(R) NXT Car Care Products. According to Dana Zamalloa, Senior Marketing Communications Manager, Toyo Tire (U.S.A.) Corporation, "Toyo's association with 'The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift' is big, and we are celebrating by having a sweepstakes promoting the movie, which will be remembered by people for a long time."

For more information on signing up for the "Gettin' Sideways Sweepstakes," go to a tire dealer selling Toyo Tires(R) or log on to toyosweeps.com. During 2006 Toyo Tire (U.S.A.) Corporation celebrates its 40th anniversary. Toyo manufactures and distributes a complete line of high performance and original equipment replacement tires for passenger car, light truck, commercial truck, bus, off-road and construction applications.

Tokyo Drift Sneek Peek on Cars

Wanna get behind the scenes of Tokyo Drift and see some of the hot ass cars that will be used in the movies? Check out these spy pics of the hottest props in the new Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift movie...

Sneek Peek: Tokyo Drift Cars

Tokyo Drift Surprise **SPOILER following the link**

Here's an interesting little story that has just popped up on Aint It Cool News. Now, this is a cunning piece of work on behalf of the writers/ filmmakers involved in the second FAST AND THE FURIOUS sequel, TOKYO DRIFT. As the article states over at AICN, do not read this if you don't want to know what happens at the end of the movie. This will completely mess up your enjoyment of the film if you read on. I'm not even going to duplicate what is posted over at Harry Knowles' site, except but mention, that this is SUPER-COOL, and super-surprising. If you really want to know what the fuss is all about, then click it here, but be warned as major, MAJOR spoilers lie ahead of you.