Broadway Records is set to release 
music from The Effect (World Premiere Recording) digitally March 8 featuring an immersive and cinematic, beat-driven score by Michael “Mikey J” Asante (Criminal Record, Kneecap Movie).
The bold production of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect, directed by Jamie Lloyd (A National Theatre Production in association with The Jamie Lloyd Company), is currently running at The Shed in NYC until March 31, 2024 , following its acclaimed run at the National Theatre , London in 2023. The cast features Michele Austin, Paapa Essiedu, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Taylor Russell.
Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant?
As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors.
Notes Asante: “When asked by Jamie to compose the score, knowing the intimacy and visceral storytelling his shows wish to make, I asked him, ‘Why me?’ I am known for heavy beat-driven sonics and he said he wanted the audience to be enveloped by the music as soon as they entered the building, taking them on a thumping ride that we would see and feel as we journey with our two test subjects. It had to be bold, brash and abrasive at times, forcing the music into the bodies of our audience. I hopefully delivered that!”
Track List
Disc 1:
- Sexy Maths
- This Shiny Thing
- Larks
- If You Say So
- Like You Do
- Protocol
- Who’s In Charge
- The Reason
- Square Yard
- Sometimes I Think I Am
- You’re Sunshine
- Show Me The Damage
- Knowledge Is A Myth
- No Mystery
- Coursing Through You
- Pheromones
- The Repetition
- Dilation
- Anywhere You Want
Disc 2:
- Theme
- Love
- Build
- Crash
- Mono
- Sliding Doors
- Temp Rising
- Sun Has Come Up
- Wasteland
- Racing
- Halo!
- Late Night Talks
- So In Love
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ABOUT MICHAEL “MIKEY J” ASANTE
Michael “Mikey J” Asante is a producer, composer, singer, dancer, and DJ. He is co-founder and co-artistic director of Boy Blue, founded in 2001 with Kenrick “H2O” Sandy. As a music producer, Asante has a diverse catalogue of discography, creating music for films Street Dance 3D and All Stars and enjoying session work and production for major label artists including Delilah, Raleigh Ritchie, Estelle, George the Poet, and Kano.
Asante mentors and delivers master classes in directing, choreography, and music and is a professor of electronic music at Guildhall School of Music where he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship (HonFGS) in 2018.
Theater credits for the National Theatre include The Effect. Other productions include Tree at the Young Vic. On television he collaborated with Brian Eno for the soundtrack on Top Boy and recently the lauded Criminal Record for Apple TV+. In 2022, Asante was awarded an MBE for services to Hip-Hop Dance and Music in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. He also scored the 2024 Sundance Audience Award-winning Kneecap Movie.
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ABOUT THE JAMIE LLOYD COMPANY
The Jamie Lloyd Company is the multi-award-winning West End and Broadway production company led by Artistic Director and Executive Producer Jamie Lloyd. The company creates adventurous productions with the very best acting talent in the world.
The company’s work includes radical reappraisals of Sunset Boulevard, The Effect, A Doll’s House, The Seagull, Cyrano de Bergerac, Betrayal, The Maids and Macbeth, with casts including Uzo Aduba, Zawe Ashton, Hayley Atwell, Gemma Chan, Jessica Chastain, Emilia Clarke, Paapa Essiedu, Claire Foy, Martin Freeman, Kit Harington, Tom Hiddleston, James McAvoy, Arian Moayed, Simon Russell Beale, Taylor Russell and Nicole Scherzinger.
Forthcoming productions include the US transfers of The Effect (The Shed, New York), Romeo & Juliet (West End) and Sunset Boulevard (Broadway).
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