Music in films set in the future

[kalowski]

Was watching The Midnight Sky at the weekend and there was the scene where the astronauts wanted some music to accompany the space walk and chose Sweet Caroline. I guess it is impossible to legitimately create music from the film year (2049?). "Choose some music? How about the biggest hit from 2047!") but it is fascinating, if understandable, that music maker are in thrall to a narrow band of hip tracks. A bit like how in Start Trek they enaly alway go into the holodeck and say, "Computer, create a scene in a ba(r or cafe, timeline: mid 20th Century earth"
Has any film created authentic (or at least good) music set post "now", if you know what I mean?

[shagatha crustie]

Not made specifically for the film, but Aphex Twin's Omgyjya-Switch 7 was convincingly futuristic when Michael Caine was listening to it in Children of Men, I thought.

[Dr Rock]

The singer in that Fifth Element. Space alien opera. Sounds quite a lot like normal opera.

[Magnum Valentino]

I reckon in the future they'll be rappity rappin. Rap rap rap rap rap rap rappin.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Not a film, but Buck Rogers had some groovy space disco.

https://youtu.be/0nIiJIfgDMg

[Hand Solo]

The singer in that Fifth Element. Space alien opera. Sounds quite a lot like normal opera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OzHm6I8T4

[chveik]

jizz thread

[Dr Rock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OzHm6I8T4

Nice one, appreciated that.

[non capisco]

jizz thread

Ahhhhhhh no, I THINK YOU'LL FIND STAR WARS IS SET IN THE PAST!!!!!!!!

[kalowski]

Not a film, but Buck Rogers had some groovy space disco.

https://youtu.be/0nIiJIfgDMg

Hoping this is the "Get down, Buck" scene.
Edit: It's not.

[shagatha crustie]

Is Star Wars set in the future? I suppose not.

Nonetheless

Mos Eisley Cantina

[shagatha crustie]

Ahhhhhhh no, I THINK YOU'LL FIND STAR WARS IS SET IN THE PAST!!!!!!!!

O bollocks

[kalowski]

O bollocks

Laurie Anderson consid...

[studpuppet]

Walter/Wendy Carlos for Clockwork Orange springs to mind.

[lipsink]

A Clockwork Orange? It sounds like future version of the 1970s.

Edit. Ah shit, just saw the post above.

[NoSleep]

Just Imagine (1930) imagines what it will be like in 1980. Everything seems to have been updated apart from the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1672&v=u3pkn2ejmNo&feature=youtu.be

Even when they go to Mars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5269&v=u3pkn2ejmNo&feature=youtu.be

[Sebastian Cobb]

In Until the End of The World Wim Wenders had a load of artists make what they thought they'd be making a decade in the future. Which is now two decades in the past.

A lot of it's forgettable, The Talking Heads' Sax and Violins is good though.

[Blumf]

Worth noting that Blade Runner's soundtrack and ambience was highly influential to a lot of electronic/IDM acts from the late 80's onwards, which in turn influenced later acts. The film sort of made it's future (now our past)

Johnny Mnemonic had some Orbital amongst others in the background.

Not the (disappointing) film, but the original Aeon Flux animated series had a very nice 'futuristic' sound track to it, including diegetic stuff. https://www.discogs.com/Drew-Neumann-%C3%86on-Flux-Music-From-The-Animated-Series/release/10576705
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lO3JXfn2M

Heavy Metal featured DEVO playing in a futuristic dive bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w96_VCwpmC4

Not made specifically for the film, but Aphex Twin's Omgyjya-Switch 7 was convincingly futuristic when Michael Caine was listening to it in Children of Men, I thought.

Wouldn't that just be Caine's character listening to some stuff from his Gen-X teen years?

Michael Caine has put together a chill out compilation album: https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Caine-Cained/release/3341208

[lipsink]

Think the Hans Zimmer soundtrack for Blade Runner 2049 was the best, most recent, example of a futuristic soundtrack. And it was last minute too!

If something can capture a sort of timeless quality then it's usually good: See Under The Skin (I know it's not in the future), Blade Runner, Clockwork Orange etc.

[Dr Rock]

This thread is for diegetic music not flippin' soundtracks. Cheek.

[earl_sleek]

Hoping this is the "Get down, Buck" scene.
Edit: It's not.

Here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcfnRl0Gwcc

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Think the Hans Zimmer soundtrack for Blade Runner 2049 was the best, most recent, example of a futuristic soundtrack. And it was last minute too! the sound of someone farting on a synthesiser.

[lipsink]

Think the Hans Zimmer soundtrack for Blade Runner 2049 was the best, most recent, example of a futuristic soundtrack. And it was last minute too! the sound of someone farting on a synthesiser.

"If you want a sound of future, imagine..."

[Dr Rock]

This is what music will be like in the future I reckon

https://youtu.be/PbB5ShkrVWk

[greenman]

Is Star Wars set in the future? I suppose not.

Nonetheless

Mos Eisley Cantina

The Max Rebo instrumental in Return of the Jedi did I think actually manage to sound a bit "other", catchy but not so obviously of a genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yin9OlgXsZQ

[kalowski]

Here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcfnRl0Gwcc

Even better than I remember.

[Sonny_Jim]

Here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcfnRl0Gwcc

The entire thread exists for this one moment.  It's wonderful.

EDIT:  Oh go on then, check out this funky number from Space Mutiny:

https://youtu.be/M9giA8tRJjQ?t=292

[BlodwynPig]

Not a film, but Buck Rogers had some groovy space disco.

https://youtu.be/0nIiJIfgDMg

ha - I came in to post that

[JesusAndYourBush]

Recently, seeing the film Prospect (2018) I was struck by the music.  After the film ended I went and looked up what the music was on imdb, before looking it up I even thought maybe the maker of the film had commissioned someone to create "alien" music or whatever, because it was so amazing and unusual.

It turned out to be Cambodian psychedelic rock...

Ros Sereysothea - Jam 10 Kai Theit (Wait Ten Months More)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJu5dWFj2Gc

Which led me down a rabbit hole of listening to loads of other Cambodian music from the same period.  Sadly the musicians didn't survive Pol Pot's regime but the music still survives, and it's amazing.

The next two songs in the film are also great!

Rita Chao & the Quests - Crying in the Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjTFkOeusXM

Tenjo Sajiki & Tokyo Kid Brothers - Freedom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlNO3vSkpRk

And for completeness, there's also these two which don't have the same vibe as the others, being from a totally different part of the world, but also interesting too.

Ilona Balina - Dudievins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2iEP-GwAlA

Zorzs Siksna - Pasaulite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYbFkXPTkU

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

Whatever that lil shit is listening to on that one episode of TNG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLEBhX3_1vw

"Alba Ra" was a loud, discordant, electronic form of contemporary, 24th century, Talarian music. The Federation database had this style of music on file.

Jean-Luc Picard discovered Jono listening to it in his quarters during his short stay aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2367. (TNG: "Suddenly Human")