Gamelan Howard, who composed Disney's 2001 feature film "", chose Gamelan for the musical theme of the Atlanteans. Loops of gamelan music appear in electronic music. An early example is the Texas band Drain's album "Offspeed and In There", which contains two tracks where trip-hop beats are matched with gamelan loops from Java and Bali and recent popular examples include the Sofa Surfers' piece "Gamelan", or "EXEC_PURGER/.#AURICA extracting", a song sung by Haruka Shimotsuki as part of the "" soundtracks. Gamelan influences can also be heard in the 2004 award-winning pop song, "Pulangkan", a theme from the gamelan-cultural related film "Pontianak
Gamelan gamelan styles of Bali, Java, and Sunda resulted from different ways of mixing these elements. Thus, despite the seeming diversity of styles, many of the same theoretical concepts, instruments, and techniques are shared between the styles. A gamelan is a multi-timbre ensemble consisting of metallophones, xylophones, flutes, gongs, voices, as well as bowed and plucked strings. The hand-played drum called "kendhang" controls the tempo and rhythm of pieces as well as transitions from one section to another, while one instrument gives melodic cues to indicate treatment or sections of a piece. Some of the instruments that make up a gamelan