Film-like musical soundtracks, which play occasional bursts of mood music (rather than the continuous techno-din that traditionally accompanies arcade games) are also becoming more common.

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Techno, Detroit techno, dub music, ska music, Afro beats - you know, no songs like the last, really.

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At a show at Joe's Pub in mid-December, five thereminists performed a range of material including ambient and techno music, classical compositions by Alexander Scriabin and Richard Wagner, and pop by the Beatles, Enya, and Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern.

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