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Hack the planet. This is such a call back and what a nice touch to add the sound to it too. That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into

by bilekas 9mo ago

Hack the planet. This is such a call back and what a nice touch to add the sound to it too. That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists. What a fun movie.

alexjplant 9mo ago
I, too, have such a work playlist entitled "Hack the Mainframe." It's got this type of stuff along with 90s/early 2000s breakbeat songs that ended up shoehorned into car and techno thriller movies at the time. I know a lot of this music was reviled as sellout trash at the time but I was too young to know any better when I first heard it and think it still holds up phenomenally well.
- Spastche 9mo ago
  I was never into this kind of music back in the day, but I had heard A LOT of it from PSX games. going back to it as an adult, I freakin' love it
- GJim 9mo ago
  > sellout trash A trifle offtopic, but..... In the 1990's and for us Gen-X'ers, the worst thing you could do was to sell out; to take the mans money instead of keeping your integrity. Calling people and bands 'sell outs' (sometimes without justification!) was to insult them. With the rise of 'influencers' the opposite appears to be the case; people go out of their way to sell out and are praised for doing so. This is a massive change in the cultural landscape which perhaps many born in the 2000's aren't aware of. (Being aware of this helps give some perspective to Gen-X media and films like hackers).
  - jghn 9mo ago
    In a sense, society sold out
    - BLKNSLVR 9mo ago
      I feel that statement is still hedging too much. Society sold out.
    - throwaway173738 9mo ago
      Everyone’s got to eat, and it started getting a lot harder after 2000 and especially after 2008. Gen X could afford integrity. I’m reminded of the scenes in My Fair Lady where Eliza’s father comes in to money, and he’s lamenting that he can afford “middle-class morality.”
  - riffraff 9mo ago
    This is insightful. But I'm not sure it's completely true, I think people just have shifted their perception of what selling out means. Content creators on YouTube, for example, get criticized when they literally sell their brand to a larger conglomerate. It seems people do not complain if they do sponsorizations tho.
    - GJim 9mo ago
      > Content creators I'd argue the very words creating "content" implies something commercial is already in mind and is a driver, rather than just doing your own thing online and not caring (such showing a video of your band/hobby on YouTube in case anybody is interested). To a Gen-X'er, the former sounds like they are already a sell out :-) I certainly agree with you that perceptions have shifted.
      - the_af 9mo ago
        I agree with you and I find the term "creating content" awful, even though I'm forced to use it because it's something people immediately understand. "Content creator"... what happened to artist, playwright, painter, hobbyist, etc? It makes it seem as if they were making stuff for a corporation to sell.
        idiotsecant 9mo ago
        That is what is happening though. It's an accurate description. These are cases of making content for corporations to sell ads against.
        the_af 9mo ago
        It is what's happening in some cases, not all. Also, language shapes thought, so we encourage this to happen if we frame it as "content creation". It's something to push against. Note it's not even relevant whether something is commercial. Art can be commercial and not be just "content". A musician is not a "content creator" which happens to create content in the shape of music. "Content" implies it doesn't really matters, what matters is engagement and the platform (and advertisers, etc). It's not healthy to think of hobbies, art, and entertainment as exclusively about this. Imagine if Oscar Wilde, Herman Melville, Alan Moore, etc had been thought of merely as "content creators". This is not a new idea. Stallman was already pushing back against this "content" term decades ago.
  - burningChrome 9mo ago
    This is exemplified in Wayne's World product scene. I later found out none of the companies shown in the scene had paid for their products to be in the scene. Its also one of the most iconic scenes from the movie.
- dualogy 9mo ago
  > 90s/early 2000s breakbeat songs Can recommend such a mix, too. Gather select works of The Chemical Brothers, The Dust Brothers, Bassbin Twins, Crystal Method, DJ Krush, Dub Pistols, Lunatic Calm, Meat Katie... and you're Somewhen Else during it. Works for commutes/trips, too.
  - Fluorescence 9mo ago
    > The Chemical Brothers (a), The Dust Brothers (b) I had a couple of Dust Brothers (a) cassettes before they changed their name after getting a call from the other Dust Brothers (b). Still can't believe they knowingly copied another band's name "because it sounded cool". Isn't coming up with a shit name half the fun? "I need a handle man".
Zaskoda 9mo ago
I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is.
- inanutshellus 9mo ago
  I've flipped that switch for book adaptations. I let go of fanboying on what Hollywood "did to" the story and instead just decided to be thankful something I love was given a new medium / audience / interpretation... and voila! now I have two things to love. It's still fun to point out where things could've been done differently, but instead of actually disliking the film(s) because of those things, it's just another mechanism that lets me talk to my friends about something. Much more fun than riding home in silence in any case. ;)
  - BLKNSLVR 9mo ago
    I actually really liked the live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, and was disappointed at it's cancellation. Unpopular opinion amongst those who grew up on the anime, but I was late to the anime so my childhood-integrity isn't dependent upon requiring a faithful one to one retelling (or whatever would satisfy those folks - possibly nothing). I enjoyed the "Hollywood" Ghost in the Shell as a stand-alone 'thing', unrelated to the manga / anime. The ending is quite on the nose; ultra-formulaic where formulaic has no place.
    - Der_Einzige 9mo ago
      The problem with the live action cowboy bebop was poor casting. Spike shouldn’t look in his 40s, he was 27.
  - socalgal2 9mo ago
    I am mixed on that. For me there are 2 issues (1) I read the book. it was awesome. If the movie fails to deliver that awesomeness then it's really upsetting as it's ruining something great for everyone that didn't read the book / see the original. They're unlikely to go check the original. They're more likely to just think "That was dumb". (2) When they change things so much that they arguably should not have used the name. Why choose some existing fictional world/characters just to shit on them and make it something else? If you wanted to make something else, then pick a new name, make your own IP.
RobRivera 9mo ago
Discovered the Hackers ost on a /mu/ thread. So many bangers.
- echelon_musk 9mo ago
  There's another two soundtracks! https://www.discogs.com/release/1423591-Various-Hackers%C2%B2 https://www.discogs.com/release/1423591-Various-Hackers%C2%B... https://www.discogs.com/release/131024-Various-Hackers%C2%B3 https://www.discogs.com/release/131024-Various-Hackers%C2%B3
  - kristianp 9mo ago
    Thanks, what a great resource discogs is. Here's the 1st one for completeness: https://www.discogs.com/release/29127-Various-Hackers-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack https://www.discogs.com/release/29127-Various-Hackers-Origin... It's frustrating that often tracks from soundtracks like this aren't available on Spotify, such as Phoebus Apollo.
- drivers99 9mo ago
  I have this OST and the Mortal Kombat one as well on CD (mentioned together since they both have the same song, "Halcyon + On + On" on them!). When I went to a 2600 meetings in Seattle in 1999, I listened to the Hacker's soundtrack in my car on the way, of course. I gave one of the people I met there a ride and we had a laugh when he saw the case in my car. (I feel like I have a story for every song. Thanks for indulging me.)
  - wredcoll 9mo ago
    Mortal Kombat ost had a ridiculous influence on my childhood music tastes, another absolutely amazing sound track is The Saint, check out the artists involved.
    - drivers99 9mo ago
      Interesting, I wouldn’t have thought of that one since I remember not being impressed by the movie at the time. On Wikipedia, a quote from a review said “on the whole, it's one of the few soundtracks that works better as an album than as a movie.” That tracks!
rsync 9mo ago
"That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists." The best music, in my opinion, in the movie is not on the soundtrack and it is: Guy Pratt - Combination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ
- devinegan 9mo ago
  They did include this track on the 25th anniversary edition of the soundtrack titled "One Combination"
- wrennes 9mo ago
  There are 3 'official' soundtracks with various tracks from the movie and some inspired by. BUT on the 2020 double disk reissue, the second disk carries may of Pratt's tracks, including Combination..
kstrauser 9mo ago
I took my kid to Def Con. We were walking up to the convention center and there were a few hundred people milling around out front. To embarrass my kid, I shouted "hack the planet!" loudly toward the crowd. Probably a good 50% of the bystanders shouted it back at me. My people.
- hoyd 9mo ago
  Sounds like something I would do too. Awesomeness

by bilekas 9mo ago

alexjplant 9mo ago

I, too, have such a work playlist entitled "Hack the Mainframe." It's got this type of stuff along with 90s/early 2000s breakbeat songs that ended up shoehorned into car and techno thriller movies at the time. I know a lot of this music was reviled as sellout trash at the time but I was too young to know any better when I first heard it and think it still holds up phenomenally well.

Spastche 9mo ago
I was never into this kind of music back in the day, but I had heard A LOT of it from PSX games. going back to it as an adult, I freakin' love it
GJim 9mo ago
> sellout trash A trifle offtopic, but..... In the 1990's and for us Gen-X'ers, the worst thing you could do was to sell out; to take the mans money instead of keeping your integrity. Calling people and bands 'sell outs' (sometimes without justification!) was to insult them. With the rise of 'influencers' the opposite appears to be the case; people go out of their way to sell out and are praised for doing so. This is a massive change in the cultural landscape which perhaps many born in the 2000's aren't aware of. (Being aware of this helps give some perspective to Gen-X media and films like hackers).
- jghn 9mo ago
  In a sense, society sold out
  - BLKNSLVR 9mo ago
    I feel that statement is still hedging too much. Society sold out.
  - throwaway173738 9mo ago
    Everyone’s got to eat, and it started getting a lot harder after 2000 and especially after 2008. Gen X could afford integrity. I’m reminded of the scenes in My Fair Lady where Eliza’s father comes in to money, and he’s lamenting that he can afford “middle-class morality.”
- riffraff 9mo ago
  This is insightful. But I'm not sure it's completely true, I think people just have shifted their perception of what selling out means. Content creators on YouTube, for example, get criticized when they literally sell their brand to a larger conglomerate. It seems people do not complain if they do sponsorizations tho.
  - GJim 9mo ago
    > Content creators I'd argue the very words creating "content" implies something commercial is already in mind and is a driver, rather than just doing your own thing online and not caring (such showing a video of your band/hobby on YouTube in case anybody is interested). To a Gen-X'er, the former sounds like they are already a sell out :-) I certainly agree with you that perceptions have shifted.
    - the_af 9mo ago
      I agree with you and I find the term "creating content" awful, even though I'm forced to use it because it's something people immediately understand. "Content creator"... what happened to artist, playwright, painter, hobbyist, etc? It makes it seem as if they were making stuff for a corporation to sell.
      - idiotsecant 9mo ago
        That is what is happening though. It's an accurate description. These are cases of making content for corporations to sell ads against.
        the_af 9mo ago
        It is what's happening in some cases, not all. Also, language shapes thought, so we encourage this to happen if we frame it as "content creation". It's something to push against. Note it's not even relevant whether something is commercial. Art can be commercial and not be just "content". A musician is not a "content creator" which happens to create content in the shape of music. "Content" implies it doesn't really matters, what matters is engagement and the platform (and advertisers, etc). It's not healthy to think of hobbies, art, and entertainment as exclusively about this. Imagine if Oscar Wilde, Herman Melville, Alan Moore, etc had been thought of merely as "content creators". This is not a new idea. Stallman was already pushing back against this "content" term decades ago.
- burningChrome 9mo ago
  This is exemplified in Wayne's World product scene. I later found out none of the companies shown in the scene had paid for their products to be in the scene. Its also one of the most iconic scenes from the movie.
dualogy 9mo ago
> 90s/early 2000s breakbeat songs Can recommend such a mix, too. Gather select works of The Chemical Brothers, The Dust Brothers, Bassbin Twins, Crystal Method, DJ Krush, Dub Pistols, Lunatic Calm, Meat Katie... and you're Somewhen Else during it. Works for commutes/trips, too.
- Fluorescence 9mo ago
  > The Chemical Brothers (a), The Dust Brothers (b) I had a couple of Dust Brothers (a) cassettes before they changed their name after getting a call from the other Dust Brothers (b). Still can't believe they knowingly copied another band's name "because it sounded cool". Isn't coming up with a shit name half the fun? "I need a handle man".

Zaskoda 9mo ago

I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is.

inanutshellus 9mo ago
I've flipped that switch for book adaptations. I let go of fanboying on what Hollywood "did to" the story and instead just decided to be thankful something I love was given a new medium / audience / interpretation... and voila! now I have two things to love. It's still fun to point out where things could've been done differently, but instead of actually disliking the film(s) because of those things, it's just another mechanism that lets me talk to my friends about something. Much more fun than riding home in silence in any case. ;)
- BLKNSLVR 9mo ago
  I actually really liked the live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, and was disappointed at it's cancellation. Unpopular opinion amongst those who grew up on the anime, but I was late to the anime so my childhood-integrity isn't dependent upon requiring a faithful one to one retelling (or whatever would satisfy those folks - possibly nothing). I enjoyed the "Hollywood" Ghost in the Shell as a stand-alone 'thing', unrelated to the manga / anime. The ending is quite on the nose; ultra-formulaic where formulaic has no place.
  - Der_Einzige 9mo ago
    The problem with the live action cowboy bebop was poor casting. Spike shouldn’t look in his 40s, he was 27.
- socalgal2 9mo ago
  I am mixed on that. For me there are 2 issues (1) I read the book. it was awesome. If the movie fails to deliver that awesomeness then it's really upsetting as it's ruining something great for everyone that didn't read the book / see the original. They're unlikely to go check the original. They're more likely to just think "That was dumb". (2) When they change things so much that they arguably should not have used the name. Why choose some existing fictional world/characters just to shit on them and make it something else? If you wanted to make something else, then pick a new name, make your own IP.

RobRivera 9mo ago

Discovered the Hackers ost on a /mu/ thread. So many bangers.

echelon_musk 9mo ago
There's another two soundtracks! https://www.discogs.com/release/1423591-Various-Hackers%C2%B2 https://www.discogs.com/release/1423591-Various-Hackers%C2%B... https://www.discogs.com/release/131024-Various-Hackers%C2%B3 https://www.discogs.com/release/131024-Various-Hackers%C2%B3
- kristianp 9mo ago
  Thanks, what a great resource discogs is. Here's the 1st one for completeness: https://www.discogs.com/release/29127-Various-Hackers-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack https://www.discogs.com/release/29127-Various-Hackers-Origin... It's frustrating that often tracks from soundtracks like this aren't available on Spotify, such as Phoebus Apollo.
drivers99 9mo ago
I have this OST and the Mortal Kombat one as well on CD (mentioned together since they both have the same song, "Halcyon + On + On" on them!). When I went to a 2600 meetings in Seattle in 1999, I listened to the Hacker's soundtrack in my car on the way, of course. I gave one of the people I met there a ride and we had a laugh when he saw the case in my car. (I feel like I have a story for every song. Thanks for indulging me.)
- wredcoll 9mo ago
  Mortal Kombat ost had a ridiculous influence on my childhood music tastes, another absolutely amazing sound track is The Saint, check out the artists involved.
  - drivers99 9mo ago
    Interesting, I wouldn’t have thought of that one since I remember not being impressed by the movie at the time. On Wikipedia, a quote from a review said “on the whole, it's one of the few soundtracks that works better as an album than as a movie.” That tracks!

rsync 9mo ago

"That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists." The best music, in my opinion, in the movie is not on the soundtrack and it is: Guy Pratt - Combination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ

devinegan 9mo ago
They did include this track on the 25th anniversary edition of the soundtrack titled "One Combination"
wrennes 9mo ago
There are 3 'official' soundtracks with various tracks from the movie and some inspired by. BUT on the 2020 double disk reissue, the second disk carries may of Pratt's tracks, including Combination..

kstrauser 9mo ago

I took my kid to Def Con. We were walking up to the convention center and there were a few hundred people milling around out front. To embarrass my kid, I shouted "hack the planet!" loudly toward the crowd. Probably a good 50% of the bystanders shouted it back at me. My people.

hoyd 9mo ago
Sounds like something I would do too. Awesomeness