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This crazy pseudo baroque, sax-powered extravaganza was made for The Draughtsman's Contract and much later used in A Cock and Bull Story, Man on Wire and an episode of Top Gear.




Where's the last place you'd expect to hear the soundtrack of a dour and moody cop thriller? That's right: in an AQUARIUM. But I did hear this music at that place last Sunday; I suppose they had on some chillout compilation CD to make the viewing of big pretty fishes an even better experience. Without this playing it would have been a good day out, with it it was fucking awesome.




Kronos Quartet brings me on to probably their most famous outing: Clint Mansell's Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream. This song has expanded itself so far now into pop culture that it's become a cliche, mostly thanks to an absurd but effective application Sky Sports News.




There's only one place to go now that Clint Mansell's name has been mentioned...