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 outside Indonesia was the Boston Village Gamelan, now known as Gamelan Laras Tentrem in Massachusetts, and the first Balinese community group was Gamelan Sekar Jaya in California. Other community Balinese gamelan ensembles are Gamelan Mitra Kusuma in Washington, D.C., Gamelan Dharma Swara at the Indonesian Consulate in New York City, Space City Gamelan in Houston, the Lehigh Valley Gamelan in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Gamelan Tunas Mekar in Denver. Gamelan Sari Raras is an active Javanese ensemble in Berkeley, California; the name was given to the group by Widiyanto (aka Midiyanto), and the instruments, brought to the U.S. from Java in 1971, are