Having formed a working relationship with Alex North during the production of the 1960 historical epicas well as providing contributions to, Kubrick turned to North once again to compose and record a complete original score for. Kubrick provided temp pieces as a reference point to North when he was in the early stages of editing. It didn’t take long for Kubrick to realize he in fact preferred the temp pieces of music to what North had turned in, and he ultimately scrapped North’s score at the very last minute. Most unfortunately for North, Kubrick didn’t even bother to notify North his music wasn’t going to be used and he had no idea about it until he attended the film’s 1968 world premiere at the Cinerama in New York City. Kubrick had this to say on the matter, “Why use music which is less good when there is such a multitude of great orchestral music available from the past and from our own time?” Right or wrong, North was devastated by the revelation and concluded “Well, what can I say? It was a great, frustrating experience” Despite not being used in the finished film, Alex North’s indisputably glorious original score, has been released on a limited edition vinyl record set by Mondo with some select platters aptly dubbedcolor tinted to resemble the star gate sequence.