read a spurious and probably unverifiable fact somewhere that Dmitri Shostakovitch had performed a live piano accompaniment at the film's screening in Leningrad, so this was the point I started from. As no record of this score exists in any form, if it ever did, I decided to imagine what a Shostakovitch score for a science fiction film would be like, using cut-up sections of his contemporary work as a basis. Well, that was the plan, anyway.
The other main element was sparked by the mention of Gor and his hidden apparatus(steady), which immediately made me picture immense concealed machinery operating out of site behind these fantastical structures. With this in mind I tried to alter parts of my track to sound like the workings of strange secret machines.
Looking back on my old PMs as I write this is making me a bit melancholy, as Dusty was following me in the chain and I'll never forget how kind he was about my amateur fumblings. Really bloody nice bloke.
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