Charlie Robbins reveals eight-track guitar role on the Street Fighter soundtrack
The Syncatto guitarist’s selective-picking vocabulary runs through a 39-track film score released by Milan Records.
Credit: Charlie Robbins / Press (via source)
Guitarist Charlie Robbins has revealed that he performed on eight cues for the new Street Fighter film soundtrack. Robbins, who records as Syncatto and plays in Artificial Language, described the assignment as a dream project and said he worked alongside a wider group of musicians across the score.
The 39-track soundtrack was released digitally on October 16 through Milan Records under license from Legendary. Apple Music credits Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson as the main artists and lists Robbins on cues including “World Warriors,” “The Final Awakening” and “The Fight Continues!” The full album runs for one hour and 28 minutes.
Robbins’ contribution brings a distinctly modern electric-guitar vocabulary into the score. Guitar World notes that his selective-picking approach — the precision technique associated with players such as Tosin Abasi — supplies fast, arcade-like motion as well as melodic lead lines. The soundtrack also features bassist Jacob Umansky, while the film’s broader song selection includes HEALTH alongside catalog tracks from Soundgarden, the Offspring and White Zombie.
The credit extends a run of screen and game work for Robbins after contributions connected with Cobra Kai and Star Wars Outlaws. For guitar players, the eight-cue assignment is another sign that highly specialized contemporary techniques are moving beyond instrumental-guitar records and into large-scale scoring work, where texture, articulation and instantly recognizable movement can serve the picture as much as a traditional solo.
Credit: Charlie Robbins (@charlierobbins93) on Instagram (via source)
Credit: Milan Records / Apple Music (via source)
Why it matters
A prominent film score is a rare mainstream platform for modern selective-picking guitar, and Robbins’ eight-track credit shows how a specialist technique can become part of the dramatic language of a major franchise.
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