The soundtrack for Katsuhiro Otomo’s all-time classic film was legendarily composed prior to its production and used as inspiration for its sequences rather than the other way around. Tsutomo Ōhashi (a.k.a. Dr. Shōji Yamashiro) composed and conducted the score and had it performed by a collective of hundreds of people from all walks of life. Instead of the electronic sounds one usually expects from a cyberpunk movie, it’s based around traditional Indonesian and Japanese folk styles, giving it a future primitive feel that lends itself to the movie’s very human Apocalypse.