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 instruments are indeed included in a complete gamelan orchestra. Musical instruments such as the bamboo flute, bells, drums in various sizes, lute, and bowed and plucked string instruments were identified in this image. However it lacks metallophones and xylophones. Nevertheless, the image of this musical ensemble is suggested to be the ancient form of the gamelan. The instruments developed into their current form during the Majapahit Empire. According to the inscriptions and manuscripts dated from the Majapahit period, the kingdom even had a government office in charge of supervising the performing arts, including the gamelan. The arts office oversaw the