Music from the future in movies

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Watching the 5th Element with my kids yesterday, it reminded me how fascinated I’ve always been with how composers imagine the future of music when they have to illustrate a sci-fi movie scene where some contemporary music is played.

Here is an “unplugged” version btw ^^

In this area, Star Wars was a bit deceptive

In the contrary, Children of Men is brilliant when Michael Cane switches from Radiohead’s “Living in a Glass House” to Aphex Twin’s “Omgyjya-Switch 7”: AFX’s track mixed with screams seems to be made of kalachnikov sounds and IMO perfectly portrays what a person from this area would create.

What movie scenes with future music in background would you think of?

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:joy:first thing I thought of when I saw the thread

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Whatever it is, its always less futuristic than kraftwerk

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Incredible czech tape loop sample chops from 1963

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Interesting thread. Remember this one. The Music was by Eno and Byrne in the film. Is this how music will be?

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Truly horrendous :joy:

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Looooooove this topic!! Nice one @LyingDalai
One of my favourite movies ever coming up.
The music for the game show on Running Man. Need to watch that again pronto.

Got 80’s written all over it and I’m 99.9% certain it’s been used on a Vaporwave album somewhere.

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That’s amazing! Every so often I remember Ikarie XB1 and remember I’ve still never seen it - need to try and track it down somewhere.

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This one’s music on another world (not strictly ‘future’) but it feels thread-relevant:
Kin-dza-dza (1986)

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What cut of the movie is that? I never saw this scene with this music.

I only know this one:

German 1969 vision of Clubmusic in the future:

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Ah yes, the movie also shows the Yamaha HX1 as a musical instrument of the future.

Check this out:

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Theres a few workprint scenes that never made it to the final cut. But a lot of people felt they should have not been cut. Like this one.

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If parallel universes that take inspiration from dystopian futures count then according to the Super Mario Bros. movie, the future sounds like Was (Not Was) vis-a-vis George Clinton and the Goombas:

Pretty spot on, IMHO.

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Not a movie but in one of the books in William Gibson’s Bridge trilogy called Virtual Light. Rydell is in a club on the bridge and describes the music.

“Then the music changed, these drums coming in, like there were millions of them, ranked backed somehow beyond the walls, and weird waves of static riding in on that, falling back, riding in again, and women’s voices, crying like birds, and none of it natural, the voices dopplering past like sirens on a highway, and the drums, when you listened, made up of little snipped bits of sound that weren’t drums at all.”

The book takes place in the futuristic year 2006. Seems about right.

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