With regard to the OP, I think it's fair to conclude that Marty O'Donnel, following the unparalleled success of the Halo franchise, is today likely one the most recognized,
influential and imitated composers alive. I'm guessing Paris is referencing the track from Into the Breach (4m36s, see below)?
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Postscript. Music has always been integral to bungie games. I remember booting up Marathon 2 for the first time and being blown away by the Power of Seven (aka Paul Sebastien + Michael Salvatori) intro. Oddly enough, I still have the
Oni soundtrack by Power of Seven & Marty O'Donnel on my ipod. Power of Seven was also known as psykosonik. They did OSTs for Mortal Kombat games as well, I think.
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The original Marathon OST has been brilliantly remixed by Craig Hardgrove and is
here
I liked the part in the mutator video where the narrator mentioned that Xerox is one of the major sources of modern personal computers (I also liked the reductionist thesis of the film that all ideas are the result of
boolean operations). Because I love this scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
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Bill Gates was incredibly adept at reverse engineering. There's a quote from
this book where Bill basically tells one of the microsoft work groups to "reverse engineer that shit" in reference to the Apple computer OS.