4. Popol VuhNosferatu: The Vampyre (Original Soundtrack)

Hearing this is one of the first and only times that music has really terrified me. There’s a funny story that when I was living with my friend Guy Veale, he woke me up one morning just playing this really loudly in the living room. I woke up in absolute terror. I’ve never felt that scared in my life because of that synth that runs through it, so I just woke up with goosebumps not knowing what’s going on. [Nosferatu] is one of my favourite films of all time as well. I discovered [Popol Vuh] via [Werner] Herzog’s stuff, but I’d been listening to a lot of that German ‘Kraut’ stuff for a while – people like Cluster and Harmonia. I think partly the romanticism of that scene drew me to Berlin as well – that certain era of music. It’s really beautiful, pretty music that sounds like the countryside to me.