Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is a futuristic dystopian spectacular with a morally confused plot about class and industry that gave it the dubious honour of being one of Hitler’s favourite films. Angel tech created a live soundtrack for this silent classic built up from minidisc edits of crooning voices, the crack and clank of machinery and the messy electronics of a suitably retro sci-fi laboratory, alongside the usual guitars bass and drums. Other components included mashed-up flurries of the film’s intertitled dialogue - made from recorded performances by Susie Howard, Ray McBride and Dr Gunter Berghaus – and a huge apocalyptic wall of noise to accompany the famous flood sequence. Often playing to wildly varying cuts of the film (which at least kept us on our toes) the soundtrack was performed on a tour around the south of England including the Bath Festival of Arts and the Bloomsbury Theatre, London. Metropolis was also the first music event at the Cube Microplex in Bristol when it opened (and the source of their first ever noise complaint…)

Metropolis on Wikipedia