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Soundtrack for Life

2000 studio album by A:xus

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ28449220 ↗
Source-derived summary

Soundtrack for Life is the only studio album by Canadian DJ A:xus. It was the first record to be released by Guidance Records, and includes the hit single "When I Fall In Love" by his alias "Abacus", which was a Top 75 hit in the UK. The track "Soundtrack 4 Life" is featured in Rockstar's Smuggler's Run as the main menu music.

Critical reception

The album was met with positive reviews.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Soundtrack for Life” as 2000 studio album by A:xus. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Soundtrack, Life and studio.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 71-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-02-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Soundtrack, Life and studio providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Soundtrack for Life”, the useful work is to connect “2000 studio album by A:xus” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28449220. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Soundtrack for Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.