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Flying Lotus, Bonobo, and More Will Appear on a 'Star Wars' Comp Curated by Rick Rubin

'Star Wars Headspace' is set for release on February 19.
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A few months after Star Wars'__ imperial march back into public consciousness on the strength of The Force Awakens, Rick Rubin—who's acting as a sage, Yoda-like figure these days—has announced a new compilation inspired by (and sourced from) the sci-fi series, due out in a couple of weeks. The compilation, Star Wars Headspace, is set to feature the best sort of futurists who you'd expect to be involved in a project themed around a galaxy far, far away.

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Flying Lotus, Shlohmo, Rustie, Baauer, Bonobo, and more have all crafted tracks that feature sounds drawn from the Star Wars universe, and if the whole enterprise sounds a little kitschy, the Brainfeeder boss himself took to Apple Music's Beats 1 station today to demonstrate proof of concept. FlyLo dropped off his contribution to the comp "R2 Where R U?," which barrel-rolls and warps with the best of his roiling output, and demonstrates a return to the sort of wobbly beats he hasn't made since the Pattern + Grid World EP.

Baauer also offered his track, the Darth Vader-sampling "Cantina Boys," which is as dizzy and doom-laden as any of his recent compositions. Listen to both below and check out Star Wars Headspace's full track list, which includes a number of oddball inclusions (like Kaskade!) and a Rubin and A-Trak collaborative remix of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Cantina Song for The Force Awakens. It's bound to be interesting, if nothing else.

Star Wars Headspace track list:

1. Kaskade, "C-3P0's Plight"
2. GTA, "Help Me!"
3. TroyBoi, "Force"
4. Baauer, "Cantina Boys"
5. Shag Kava, "Jabba Flow: Rick Rubin Re-Work" [ft. A-Trak]
6. Claude VonStroke, "R2 Knows" [ft. Barry Drift]
7. Rick Rubin, "NR-G7"
8. Bonobo, "Ghomrassen"
9. Röyksopp, "Bounty Hunters"
10. ATTLAS, "Sunset Over Manaan"
11. Flying Lotus, "R2 Where R U?"
12. Shlohmo, "Druid Caravan of Smoke"
13. Rustie, "EWOK PUMPP"
14. Galantis, "Scruffy-Looking Nerfherder"
15. Breakbot, "Star Tripper"

Star Wars Headspace is out February 19 digitally and March 18 physically on Hollywood Records/American Recordings.