Echoes

I've had a fragment of a tune in my head for 16 years. It began with the intro to the PC game Syndicate, in 1993:



Later I learned where they stole it from:

Gustav Holst - Mars, Bringer of War, 1914-16



Turns out everybody's stealing from Holst. Listening to The Planets is like listening to a modern movie soundtrack. Did you hear bits of Star Wars in there? This one is more blatant:

Hans Zimmer - Barbarian Horde, 2000



Hans Zimmer churns out all these aggressive and pompous soundtracks for aggressive and pompous Hollywood movies. I think I dislike him more than I like him, but it's close, and anyone who steals this fragment from Mars has my approval. To me, it'll always be that tune from Syndicate.