Released alongside Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece, the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack album (Warner Bros. BS 2573, 1972) departs from traditional film scores. Rather than composing new themes for each scene, Kubrick and Carlos recontextualized existing music — especially Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony — into a violent, ironic soundscape. The album became a cult object, not least because of its unusual track assembly: Side A focuses on Carlos’s Moog synthesizer interpretations, while Side B collects orchestral recordings of Purcell, Rossini, and Beethoven. This paper makes the case that the 1972 LP’s unique mastering and stereo imaging warrant preservation in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) with CUE sheets to retain track boundaries and pregap authenticity.

is a landmark in electronic music history, primarily due to the pioneering work of Wendy Carlos. This specific version of the soundtrack, often found in high-fidelity formats like