This is a double vinyl LP pressing of La Planete Sauvage by Stealing Sheep & The Radiophonic Workshop. “Om or Draag?” That’s the question overheating the water cooler as René Laloux’s celebrated sci-fi animation ‘La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)’ from 1973 is overhauled with a re-imagined soundtrack by electronic modernists Stealing Sheep and legendary sound innovators The Radiophonic Workshop. ‘La Planète Sauvage’ follows the relationship between the small human-like Oms and their much larger blue-skinned oppressors, the Draags, who rule the planet of Ygam.

It’s a real pre-Avatar conundrum that Stealing Sheep, with the help of Bob Earland, Dick Mills and Roger Limb from the Radiophonic Workshop, unravel creating an ethereal excursion that’s narrated by Roger Limb; like a futuristic Martin Denny, or Dr Who gone ambient techno, with a hint of Forbidden Planet 50 years on. It’s an analogue swirl set in an off-world paradise; a field recording from the future.

Blending the formidable psych-rock and pop of Stealing Sheep with the pioneering electronic experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop, ‘La Planète Sauvage’ is a thing of ambient beauty punctuated with electronic earworms that switches from intensely ominous to otherworldly dream like moments.

Label: Fire Records

Release Year: 2022

Track List: 

1. Opening Credits
2. The Chase
3. Saved/Captured
4. The Bracelet
5. Council Of Draags Pt. I
6. Terr & Tiwa
7. The Knowledge Pt. I
8. The Fight
9. The Knowledge Pt. II
10. The Initiation
11. Escape
12. The Big Tree
13. The Ritual
14. The Duel
15. Theft/Zarek
16. The Bird
17. The Free Oms
18. The Purge
19. The Journey To Ygam
20. Council Of Draags Pt. II
21. The City Of Free Oms
22. Robot Attack
23. The Fantastic Planet
24. The Final Battle
25. Terr
26. End Credits