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No, you're absolutely right, this isn't the first time Stereolab co-leader Tim Gane and highest of the High Llamas Sean O'Hagan have collaborated on an LP: as the one-off Turn On, they released a record some ten-odd years ago.

But when director Marc Fitoussi calls, you brush off a decade's worth of dust and get busy soundtrackin'. Gane and O'Hagan have yet again collaborated on the score for the Fitoussi-helmed French comedy flick La Vie d'Artiste. The film apparently circles around the interconnected lives of three struggling artists, though if it's like any other French movie I've ever seen, at least one of those artists will turn out to be a man in a dress who drinks a lot of vino. Yuk yuk!

The soundtrack album will be released via Too Pure as a double CD and a download September 11. The first disc features music from the film, while the second contains 24 tracks of further collaborative material from the two gents that didn't make it into the film.

La Vie d'Artiste:

Disc one:

01 La Vie d'Artiste (Générique)
02 Ecrivain ou Professeur?
03 Les Prix Littéraires
04 Yoko Johnson
05 La Vie d'Artiste (Sous les Arcades)
06 Métro, Boulot, Hippo
07 Une Nuit Passée à Écrire
08 Dans le Poste de Télévision
09 Le Manuscrit de Frédéric
10 La Vie d’Artiste (l'Autographe)
11 Soudain, Joseph Costals!
12 La Nuit
13 L'audition
14 Champagne!
15 Bertrand Entre Dans un Tunnel
16 En Pyjama
17 Alice sur Scène
18 La Consecration
19 Cora Prend la Fuite
20 C'est Extra
21 Une Star du Manga

Disc two:

01 Cora Prend la Fuite (Alternate Mix)
02 Neutral TV Music 1
03 Fast Train Music 1
04 La Vie d'Artiste (Générique) (Unused Version)
05 Come Melo Music
06 Ecrivain ou Professeur? (Strings)
07 L'audition (Alternate Mix 1)
08 Dans les Jardins du Palais Royal
09 Running Music
10 La Nuit Variation 1
11 Neutral TV Music 2
12 Fast Train Music 2
13 En Pyjama Variation
14 La Nuit (Alternate Version)
15 Street Music
16 La Consécration? (Strings)
17 La Nuit Variation 2
18 L'audition (Alternate Mix 2)
19 Ecrivain ou Professeur? (Brass)
20 Bertrand Entre Dans un Tunnel Variation
21 Métro, Boulot, Hippo (Alternate Mix)
22 La Nuit (Strings)
23 Champagne! (Alternate Mix)
24 Fast Train Moog