We Are Your Friends

We Are Your Friends (Music from the Original Motion Picture) is the soundtrack to the 2015 film of the same name. Released by Interscope Records on August 21, 2015, the album featured 12 tracks based on electronic dance music, hip hop, electronic rock and alternative rock. All of the tracks were selected by the music supervisor, Randall Poster, with contributions from DJs producing the album. A deluxe edition of the album featuring six more additional tracks also unveiled on August 28, the same date as the film. Although the film received mixed reviews, the soundtrack topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums selling over 2,000 copies. Background The album featured contributions from rappers and disc jockeys producing the film's music. Director Max Joseph recalled that "the story of the young adult coming into their own and finding their way into the world is always best set to the music of that moment, and I really think that dance music is the soundtrack of right now. We didn’t want to just focus on one genre … We wanted to create a balance of everything." Some of his favourite tracks include The Rapture's "Sister Saviour" which Efron played at the pool party, but its record label DFA Records, which produced the song, "has a very New York, almost European sound to it which didn’t always mesh with the Southern California early-20-something, festival-going vibe which is where these guys are coming from", which wanted him to be really authentic to the world they come from.