Metropolis is a masterpiece and a great movie to put techno music over the top of.
For a start, it's a silent movie, so the visual element is designed to tell the story by itself. Second, the theme being technology lends itself to techno music. At a party about 5 years ago in Sydney I played a set while Metropolis was projected in front of the crowd. Some tracks that I think go really well together with the movie are: LFO's 'Tied Up' for a really industrial feel in the early scenes with the men working the machines. It's visually very rhythmic. Dopplereffekt's 'I am a scientist' is good during the scenes in Rotwang's laboratory, and 'Pornostar' when the girl dances in front of the men. Drexciya's Bubble Metropolis or Waveriders during the Babel tower scene. In fact, Drexciya with just about any scene in the movie Kraftwerks Numbers in the fathers office high above the city UR's Elimination or Final Frontier during the final scenes of flooding and destruction. 69 Desire in the chase seen to the roof at the conclusion BTW, there are so many similarities between Metropolis and Bladerunner, don't get me started. florian V.II
