Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow

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Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and Ben Salisbury produced the soundtrack for Alex Garland’s debut feature film ‘Ex Machina’ released in 2015. They had previously co-written the album 'Drokk: Music Inspired By Mega City One'. Geoff Barrow is a founding member of Portishead and producer/label owner of Invada Records UK. Ben Salisbury is a soundtrack composer with over 200 film and TV credits to his name, including David Attenborough’s ‘Life of Mammals’, ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ and ‘Life in Cold Blood’. Barrow and Salisbury met over 10 years ago when they both joined a Bristol football team for old men. After many disastrous games they decided they might be more productive working on a music project together. Other work commitments kept them apart until late 2010, when the pair met up with a screenwriter to discuss some possible work on a feature film project. Although their involvement with this particular film did not continue, a collaborative writing relationship had begun… When Barrow and Salisbury revisited and started expanding upon this early material they decided to continue writing what was essentially soundtrack music. Barrow, along with album designer and long term friend, Marc Bessant, were both avid 2000AD readers from a young age, and the sprawling metropolis and classic stories of Mega-City One seemed the ideal inspiration for this ‘soundtrack’. DROKK was written in a 6 month period between Barrow’s Portishead world tour and Salisbury’s composing jobs for the BBC.

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Ex Machina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Annihilation (Music From the Motion Picture)

Annihilation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Annihilation

Ex_Machina

Ex Machina

Annihilation (Music From the Motion Picture) [iTunes Exclusive]

Black Mirror: Men Against Fire

Ex_Machine (Bonus Disc)

Men (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Civil War (Original Score)

Archive 81 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

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