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Cliff Martinez
American musician and score composer
New York City, United States • b. 1954-02-05
Cliff Martinez is credited on 275 releases across 60 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1981–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
275
Pressings credited
60
Albums
5
Decades active
196
In collections
Biography
Cliff Robert Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers (2012), The Foreigner (2017), and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Solaris (2002), Contagion (2011) and Traffic (2000) and Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), The Neon Demon (2016) and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young (2019). On April 14, 2012, Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Credited work
275 releases · 60 albums · active 1981–2025
- Performance · 446
- Other credits · 35
- Production · 31
Studios: Eldorado Recording Studios · Evergreen Studio · Roli Rox · BC Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2011
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
1987
Freaky Styley
1985
What Hits!?
1992
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
1984
The Abbey Road E.P.
1988
Ice Cream For Crow
1982
Higher Ground
1990
Taste The Pain
1990
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
1988
War Stories
2007
The Big Heat
1986
The Knick (Season 2) (Cinemax Original Series Soundtrack)
2015
13.13
1982
Weird World - Volume One 1977-1981
1991
My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2014
The Knick (Cinemax Original Series Soundtrack)
2014
Only God Forgives (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2013
We Got The Neutron Bomb - Weird World Volume Two 1977 - 1989
2003
Condor
1990
Stinkfist
1988
We Got The Neutron Bomb
1978
Solaris (Original Motion Picture Score)
2002
Frequent collaborators
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Various
- Captain Beefheart
- The Dickies
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Weirdos
- Stan Ridgway
- Lydia Lunch
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