The Thousands

Film buffs put Fritz Lang’s 1927 cult sci-fi classic Metropolis way up there in the ‘greatest films of all time’ stakes. The grandiose orchestral score, however, has not aged so well. But Miles Phillip has sorted it – he’s replacing the Wagner and Strauss inspired composition with his own electro-synth stylings! Phillip’s music fits Lang’s imaginings of a robot inhabited, dystopian future to a tee while his sharp techno beats pull the film firmly into the 21^st century. Can one man replace an entire orchestra? The answer is at the heart of Perth’s own metropolis!