Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China is a soundtrack produced by John Carpenter for the movie bearing the same name. With the soundtrack, Carpenter wanted to avoid the usual clichés as he found that “other scores for American movies about Chinese characters are basically rinky tink, chop suey music. [He] didn’t want that for Big Trouble”. Carpenter instead opted for his trademark synthesizer score mixed with rock ‘n’ roll music. A soundtrack album, produced by Carpenter, was released in 1986 on Enigma Records and featured nine tracks for a total of just over 43 minutes. It was re-released on CD in 1992. In 1996, an expanded edition was released by Supercollector. It included two versions of Carpenter and his band, the Coupe De Villes' "Big...