# Origin of a short piece of tune from the early Matrix previews.

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**Created:** [February 9, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-short-piece-of-tune-from-the-early-matrix-previews/289298 "2005-02-09T23:41:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-short-piece-of-tune-from-the-early-matrix-previews/289298/1 "2005-02-09T23:41:19Z")

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Inspired by reading the Sacred music thread in this forum I dug out one of the Enigma CDs I have “the cross of changes”.

I’m playing it now, and I only just realized, that track two contains a short sequence of fairly abstract voice tune that I first heard on a preview for the first Matrix film. It’s played while neo and trinity are doing their stuff in the lobby of a building (at least I think it’s that bit. It’s in the preview only. It doesn’t occur at all in the main film)

Since I have it there’s no point requesting a song containing it. What I was wondering though is where it originated as it is (no offence Enigma) far too good to have originated from a not terribly well known band/group/whatever they/he/she/it is as Enigma. If it is their creation I’ll eat my hat. I hope someone know what I am refering to as, for a fairly basic ‘composition’ it sounds amazing.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-short-piece-of-tune-from-the-early-matrix-previews/289298/2 "2005-02-10T01:13:27Z")

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Enigma are all original, as far as I know. They were one of the first to include Gregorian Chant into their music, with their runaway hit _Sadeness_. This was back in the early 90s, sort of following in the footsteps of similarly unique sounds from bands like Yello or Clannad.