Apparently this was on Anders Breivik's iPod on repeat when he killed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLpJtvzlEI
Nigel Mansell - Lux Aeterna
More about it here.
Somehow this reminds me of Hitler's soft spot for Wagner. An epic soundtrack performed by a classical orchestra with the unintelligible singing of a huge choir in the background. The title refers to the demand of eternal light for the dead in the requiem (mass for the dead). How sick. In this context I also have to think of Stockhausen's first commentary on 911 being the greatest piece of art ever. Now this music will always sound like the score to a mass slaughter in my ears. And I think that is somehow justified as there is something inhuman and cold in this kind of grandiose, pompous music. Even before it happened. Or am I hallucinating in retrospect?

I'm just shocked to find out that this guy http://www.broadstreetbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/portrait1.jpg is a composer.

alex, do you know if it is true, as i remember stockhausen saying (in his criticisms of the rhythmic reguarity of the minimalists) that in the immediate postwar period, it was illegal to play music with a repititive 'martial' rhythmic in public lest it remind the public of prewar rallies etc

this = sky sports news advert break music = rupert murdoch all-seeing eye = news international did utoeya

you are right nv, he is called clint, not nigel, sorry about that, didn't want to offend anyone. that was a freudian lapsus.

i got the info on stockhausen from his german wikipedia page, later on he tried to change the wording, i think. there it says: "Also was da geschehen ist, ist natürlich - jetzt müssen Sie alle Ihr Gehirn umstellen - das größte Kunstwerk, was es je gegeben hat" -> What happened there is of course - and now you have to switch your brain - the greatest piece of art of all times.

Now this music will always sound like the score to a mass slaughterthe degradation of Jennifer Connelly in my ears.

The reality that the composer was the singer of Pop Will Eat Itself is not much weirder than if it were Nigel Mansell tbh

Anders Grebo Breivik

The reality that the composer was the singer of Pop Will Eat Itself is not much weirder than if it were Nigel Mansell tbh

It's funny... Looking back, I can sort of see the roots of it in a track like "The Fuses Have Been Lit".

Clint Mansell? WTF? The guy must be disTRAUGHT to hear about this. Wonder if Brevik was also a fan of 'Ich Bin Ein Auslander'?

alex, do you know if it is true, as i remember stockhausen saying (in his criticisms of the rhythmic reguarity of the minimalists) that in the immediate postwar period, it was illegal to play music with a repititive 'martial' rhythmic in public lest it remind the public of prewar rallies etc

Think he said it reminded him of prewar rallies etc, ergo he didn't like it... that and other reasons like possibly the fact that he didn't think of it first.

I blame this song for the cultural adulation of anything 'epic' in america atm