throw0101aAug 2023Recommends
Worth watching just for the intro theme song, "The Russians Are Coming", a reggae remix of Dave Brubeck's "Take Five": * ▶ this video * [link]
in “Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)” · View on HN
The Russians Are Coming
The Russians Are Coming on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2023–2024.
Val Bennett - Topic
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Val Bennett's reggae cover of Dave Brubeck's Take Five, titled The Russians Are Coming. It was used as the theme tune of The Secret Life of Machines.
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HN mentions it to identify the Secret Life of Machines theme music.
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throw0101dJan 2024Cites it
See also playlist from Tim Hunkin's channel: * [link] * [link] * [link] The theme song is Bennett's "The Russians are Coming" (a reggae cover of "Take Five"): * ▶ this video
in “The Secret Life of Machines (1988)” · View on HN
throw0101bMar 2023Cites it
This is the "Take Five" variant by Val Bennett, "The Russians Are Coming", used in the show Secret Life of Machines (awesome series, now freely/legally posted on YT): * [link] * ▶ this video * [link]
in “Apple Music Classical” · View on HN