Nicolas Roeg’s 1970 film Performance is perhaps best remembered for Mick Jagger’s turn as reclusive junky rockstar Turner, and his team up with Ry Cooder on the malevolent blues of the film’s musical centrepiece “Memo From Turner.” The soundtrack as a whole, however, is a cult classic in itself. Composed largely by Neil Young producer Jack Nitzsche, it mixes heavy narcotic blues rock with more esoteric sounds befitting the film’s surreal atmosphere. Randy Newman’s barnstorming “Gone Dead Train” bleeds into unsettling ambient compositions, baroque instrumentals, spooked middle eastern-inspired incantations and The Last Poet’s still revolutionary Black Power call to action, “Wake Up, Niggers.” With everything tied together by Cooder’s virtuoso slide guitar playing, it’s a dark, strange trip.