Man with a Movie Camera (1929) has a link to Syndicate Wars

Dziga Vertov released this silent movie in 1929, and The Alloy Orchestra greatly enhanced it in 1995 with a soundtrack, which is used on the Lobster Films restoration of 2015 (released on Blu Ray).

In a film full of interesting things made more interesting by age, the most interesting thing is at timecode 1:03:44 where the music features the same electronic motif that opens the Syndicate Wars soundtrack from 1996 (pitch shifted).

I asked the composer who worked at Bullfrog at the time if he had intentionally sampled the movie soundtrack, and he said he had not. Perhaps there is a common ancestor in a 90s-era synthesiser.

3/5 - worth watching once for the sheer spectacle of everyday life in antiquity.

Anyway, move along. Keep moving.

https://github.com/swfans/syndwarsfx

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