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Actuel Remix mixes music by key artists from the electro scene with music by so-called 'contemporary' composers, for the pleasure of experiencing two current styles of music confront each other and shatter the famously impassable borders between the two worlds. When the fully restored version of the film Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) came out, the group remixed music by Richie Hawtin, a major figure in the techno scene, with work by Iannis Xenakis, a pioneer of 20th century music. Richie Hawtin's powerfully rhythmic and refined sound is the 'driving force', the vital pulsation, of the musical framework of this performance, upon which the richness and modernity of Xenakis's 'material' unfolds with an intensity similar to the film's expressionist style.
